General Discussion

Recently, Managing Editor Jon Wood had the opprotunity to sit down and talk to Jeffrey Steefel, the Executive Producer of Turbine's Lord of the Rings Online. During the interview, the two talked about reaction to the release of Book 12, the addition of new features and even a few random facts.

Right now, a number of the staff over at Turbine are probably on planes and headed over to England for the Connect ‘08 event that is being held by Codemasters, Codemasters being Turbine‘s European publisher. There, they have promised that they will be making a big announcement. What that announcement is, how it will effect the game, and whether or not North American players will be effected are all questions that I would like to have answers to, but we’re going to have to wait until the end of the week to find out. Fortunately, our own Donna Desborough will be attending the event so we shouldn’t have to wait too long to put an end to our curiosity.

Still, late last week I had a interview with Jeffrey Steefel, the Executive Producer of Lord of the Rings Online. While we obviously couldn’t talk about the announcement, there was still plenty to talk about. Our conversation began, as any conversation between manly-men should, on the subject of outfits.

Read it all here.

The clothing addition has great possibilities  the only complaint ive heard is they want more diverse clothing

for me,, for instance the dresses and robes are quite boring and conservative  I know this is LOTR but they can still loosen up some  from the  shue length dresses and buttoned up collars and full length sleeves

I would like to see some knee length skirts/kilts

furry clothing

lots of different hats turbins berrets

gloves and clothing with imbedded jewlery for fancy parties

silk slothing

guild specialty clothing   cloaks  banners tabards

From the article: In terms of the races that people play, the number one race is Human, followed by Elf, with the Hobbit winning out by a slim margin over the sturdy Dwarf.

Why people choose to play the most boring race in a MMO is always far beyond me. Humans?

And don't get me started on Elves...

Originally posted by Leary

From the article: In terms of the races that people play, the number one race is Human, followed by Elf, with the Hobbit winning out by a slim margin over the sturdy Dwarf.

Why people choose to play the most boring race in a MMO is always far beyond me. Humans?

And don't get me started on Elves...

While I agree humans are the most boring race, the LotRo devs (due to canon) decided that Loremasters and Captains can only be humans which accounts for some of it. There's also a racial trait gained later in the game that allows human players a pretty hefty 3000 point in-combat heal. For PvP that's pretty hard to turn down. 

Originally posted by woalCE

 

Originally posted by Leary

From the article: In terms of the races that people play, the number one race is Human, followed by Elf, with the Hobbit winning out by a slim margin over the sturdy Dwarf.

Why people choose to play the most boring race in a MMO is always far beyond me. Humans?

And don't get me started on Elves...

 

While I agree humans are the most boring race, the LotRo devs (due to canon) decided that Loremasters and Captains can only be humans which accounts for some of it. There's also a racial trait gained later in the game that allows human players a pretty hefty 3000 point in-combat heal. For PvP that's pretty hard to turn down. 

For one humans are not the only race that can be lore-masters. Secondly, LOTRO is a PvE game, anyone that picks a class because of monster play in the game should rethink why they are playing LOTRO.

Originally posted by qombi

 

Originally posted by woalCE

 

Originally posted by Leary

From the article: In terms of the races that people play, the number one race is Human, followed by Elf, with the Hobbit winning out by a slim margin over the sturdy Dwarf.

Why people choose to play the most boring race in a MMO is always far beyond me. Humans?

And don't get me started on Elves...

 

While I agree humans are the most boring race, the LotRo devs (due to canon) decided that Loremasters and Captains can only be humans which accounts for some of it. There's also a racial trait gained later in the game that allows human players a pretty hefty 3000 point in-combat heal. For PvP that's pretty hard to turn down. 

 

For one humans are not the only race that can be lore-masters. Secondly, LOTRO is a PvE game, anyone that picks a class because of monster play in the game should rethink why they are playing LOTRO.

 

Ok, so elves can be lrm's too. As far as picking a class for PvP, haven't you ever heard of an Alt? For those of us who've been playing for almost two years (including alpha and beta testing) having a PvE and a PvP character build is a great way to get to see some of the newer content. Heck, they just made everything a heck of a lot easier with book 12 so going back through the game is even easier. Picking a race based on bonuses is far from crazy like you portray it.

They really need to add more styles of clothing/armor to the game.  It's great they added the outfit system but it's too bad they are still ugly as hell.  The only exception is a few of the heavy armor sets.  Everything else looks like a clothes hamper exploded. 

Originally posted by qombi

 

 

For one humans are not the only race that can be lore-masters. Secondly, LOTRO is a PvE game, anyone that picks a class because of monster play in the game should rethink why they are playing LOTRO.

Its a valid point why there are more humans.. so elves can be LM's too, oh look what race is #2.  So somebody should rethink why they're playing LOTRO because you say so?  Yea, good one.

Originally posted by pfloydguy84
humans are almost always the most popular race in any game.Most people are so boring its sad :P

Because too many folks play/outfit characters based on good looks rather than stats or roleplaying reasons.

Should be interesting to find out what the big announcement is this week though