My controller stopped working after I used a ini tweak guide that supposedly improved FPS issues, but I'm kind of happy that I started using the keyboard. I could never get used to hitting buttons 1-0 and F1 - what ever other F# button during combat on keyboards. So what I do is change all hotkeys to q - r +f, z - v, then add in Shift + those buttons including wasd now that I can without having to find other buttons to move around.
Anyway, I'm really enjoying the game, I noticed they changed around the quest line and it's more simple. For example the first area used to have you going to some other camp surrounded by some 2 headed panther things, this area had the male castanic NPC with the opened turquoise shirt. You later had to climb a tall hill to fight a boss with a lot of adds. Now that Castanic just happens to be around the other NPCs at the middle of the steps.
I really need to try joining a party, but it feels like I don't need to so I just don't bother. I do the same thing in FFXIV, but I really hate FFXIV's party dungeons. I have no clue how the party stuff would be in this. I did solo a dungeon when I played a long time ago not realizing it was a group quest until I started having problems (Mystic). I noticed people asking others why no one wanted to do BOL. I asked what BOL was, level 20 group dungeon apparently. My priest is now over that level with easy solo abilities and I didn't have a clue.
My Priest is doing better solo killing enemies than my Berserker, it's crazy. Berserker have these slow swings though, it kinda locks you in a animation and you just can't move if you started a ability and have to take the hit unless the animation is block cancelable.