I got it with the free code and after making my new more powerful LIs I thought I start it. I'm questing for a few days now and I just have to stop. Better LI, yes. I can even at times one shot mobs. But the mob density is insane. I attack 2 mobs end up with 4 or 5. Just today I died 4 times. Twice because I had to go afk for a few minutes and thought I had found a "safe" place, once falling off a cliff kiting a troll. The fall didn't kill me but the signatures I fell into. And then in the warg cave getting unexpected extra mobs. This seems even worse than Elderslade. It was kind of fun the first day but the constant "rush" just makes it unenjoyable. And looking at a hunter nerf coming next week, I think I wait until the zone is nerfed.
I know you want to present these wars as real as you can but never finding a way around the enemy, having to pass through them because of the mountainous area and then having to deal with more then attacked, it's very nerving. Might be that my quest gear from Elderslade is not good enough or my essences. My virtues are near maxed and the new LIs are better. I will not get any other then my main through there because they only have rank 30-40 in slotted virtues and that is a small percentage of extra stats compared to 70. If Gundabad is even half as bad, I'm glad I didn't buy. I hope it's not a second Mordor.
Actually, it is so damned tedious, I am going to wait to overlevel it so I can just walk through it the way I do a lot of this #### now(mordor black book). So lame.