Join the discord channel! Even if you don't end up playing it's fun to talk to old players and even immortals that are in the discord. There's a handful of people who do that, they don't play but still talk about the game.
The character challenges from the past few years have been awesome! Time travelers and other very cool stuff. Had a lot of fun interacting with other players in them.
You already listed some of the stuff that has changed. Yes hell is closed but it's not permanent. It's the same as always, he'll open it when he finds the time to make the changes he wants to make. The problem is he needs to figure out what changes he wants to make. The last two times hell was closed everyone said it was permanent, but it wasn't. My advice is not to think about it and hope for the best.
The new saurian race is cool as hell.
Ohh thanks for reminding me I still need to completely explore the ruined keep. They revamped it and it's not called that anymore. To answer your likely questions about it, yes they kept all the items that area had to offer, but they're all of course re-written with new descriptions and heads up I heard there's a hidden mob with one of the keys you need to navigate the area. It's generally tougher than it was before, more dangerous mobs and such.
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