The zoom range is adjustable.

Actually, you move pretty fast in the game (unless you had walk enabled), and I could get where I was going on foot pretty quickly. The fastest way to get someplace, though, is to glide. Many people would zoom past me because they knew all the little ledges to use to give you the height you need.

As for the mini-map, chalk one more up to realism. Really, I'm not sure why this is a huge issue, considering that most MMORPGs don't even show all the monsters on your mini-map.

Overall, the gameplay is fun. Gameplay is more important than graphics. If I cared more about graphics than gameplay, I would have quit WAR and went back to WoW (because at the settings that you ultimately end up playing WAR on due to RvR performance, it looks worse than WoW).