Two months left...

hadnt really played since february came back in november, noticed immediately some major things that many folks have been pushing for:

Food system revised and drastically improved
Consumables made more useful
Mounts
More loot drops
Better loot drop rates (better gold drop in the fall, holy cow.)
Better loot able to be crafted into even better loot
Better community service
Ability to make more realistic quests (And apparently provide unique rewards for completion)
New continent
Scenes with scaling difficulty
Better armor set bonuses

And actively seeing useless loot being written down to be utilized in crafting in the future, as well as talk of upcomming crafting changes.

Theres still old broken things but theyy are fixing bugs now that have been around for years which is cool. Finally spider poison is worth it!

But thats all i've noticed off the top of my head. I dunno if it's because i get around more rather than seekign the most overpowered build i can find and bashign the same monster for 40 hours a week (Boooriiing) but i see all the folks who's lot in life is to grind XP and minmax noticing the difference too.