When I first came back to playing some but before I reactivated my account I created a few toons on Freedom. I can't comment on their iTrial competency since I haven't done any with them yet, but I was able to level up two toons to 50 just running radio missions and tfs with pugs in 3 to 4 weeks of play. Half the groups I joined half the groups I led but only ever ran in to one dumb fire tank on a Sister Psyche tf that thought he could solo all the freaks groups.
I also went to test out zone pvp since that was something freedom was known for, and I was pleasantly surprised with it. At my time of play RV almost always had 4-5 of each hero and villain going at it. That made it so my not-very-pvpish toons were able to at least contribute even if they weren't able to kill anything. So PVP there definitely gets the plus...not for smart players, just for players that actually go to the zones and play.
As for coordination or harder content, it's all about finding the right group. The Freedom TF global channel is decent for finding better than super incompetent PUG groups, and the Starkindred alliance SG/VG does a really good job at working the content and organizing events. @Starkindred is the leader but they have multiple sgs/vgs they run with:
http://sba.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx .
What's nice about liberty for this part is that we don't have the influx of bad players you have to sift through, most of them stand out (like me when I super lag and can't do a thing on a LAM) and you know to avoid them. It's a much harder job to hand pick from a large group that you don't know anything about than to tell someone you know to switch to something else to make the team work.
