The Wheel of Time is a great ride, I always love hearing new readers' thoughts!
The Great Hunt is, maybe weirdly, one of my favorites in the series. Everything is still new and innocent, and the characters (and the reader!) are just discovering the wider world. Glad to hear you're enjoying the series!
I like the idea of instances, but would like to see the development of more "themed" servers. So maybe one instance is a cluster of related topics (science, arts, LGBT, whatever), or one that caters to a specific country/local area, or particular users (IT professionals, students, mechanics, librarians, etc).
Currently everything seems a bit slapdash, with larger instances each having a bit of everything. It will be interesting to watch the cultures here develop.