Guild Wars?

[Thecla]

I am hoping that the feeling of character building will be more pronounced in the final release.

I could well be wrong, but my impression of GWs is that it's based on the idea of not having much character building, with success being more dependent on how you handle what you have, rather than on how much leveling you've done or what equipment you've acquired. After what I assume will be a pretty quick start-up period of building up your character, I don't know how much room will be left for the character building part. Nothing wrong with that -- it's a different kind of game (and one that seem fairly unique among RPGs in concept).