After seeing Neverwinter's high rating on mmorpg.com and Lizette's screenies I gave this game a try and I have to say I'm really impressed so far. I'll give some thoughts on it.

1) Graphics are awesome, on par with or exceeding Scarlet Blade (and therefore better than Rappelz, Aion, AoC or Vanguard), provided you disable bloom of course. Fuckin' bloom...





2) It seems to be a hardcore MMO in the same way that Vanguard is, meaning you are unlikely to ever run out of content.

3) Lots of little new or uncommon things for MMOs. Like my character's weapon is an orb that floats above his body and flies into his hand for attacks. I have a sweet attack that freezes the enemy and the animation actually shows the enemy being frozen from the feet up, its movement speed reducing as it freezes.
Another thing I liked is that it sets you up with skills on both the mouse buttons and the keys surrounding WASD. For example my freeze skill is bound to my right mouse button, while my AoE that causes ice pillars to shoot out from the ground all around me is bound to Q. This is often what FPS players do to minimize the movement of the hand and therefore quicken reflexive actions.
It also brings back a feature of old games like Age of Empires and Warcraft that I miss, which is it lightens the map when you have physically seen the area. It makes it easy to re-trace your steps and it's another example of a cool little feature that seeks to set the game apart.

So anyway I'm still new to the game so I'll reserve judgement for now but it is promising.