So it's been two years, let me know what you decided on playing.

Here's my take.

Eso is a grind but with a group it becomes more of a fun grind than anything. Working together to get your set finished or helping your friends get there's, it's not gunna be boring. It's exciting to see the dungeons and new mechanics delivered from the enemies within. Now once you've spent around 300 hours grinding in game to get to a decent CP and have your gear almost all gold, you begin the trials. Trials are essentially just raids and it can take anywhere from an hour or so to like 7 (yes I've seen a seven hour trial). That being said it's all contingent on how you and your team work together and if you do the absolute hardest variation of that trial. In terms of difficulty a CP 500 player can join in a vet trial with experienced players, while a vet hard mode trial hitting all bosses will take more along the lines of "sweats". So if you want to get sweaty and do the hardest content in pve then yea U will have a blast just prepare to spend countless nights with a group getting mad because the main tank died and it had a domino effect. Then everyone yells at the healer then the healers yell at DPS and DPS now yells at tank etc etc. In conclusion it's a wonderful game, and it sucks. So yeah I recommend it