Lord of the Rings Online

Salut people of mmorpg.com 07

Without big words i will try to tell you about my actual expirience with Lotro. I know it wasnt called for but i think many people can agree and gamers considering this game may get some info the are looking for :

-Lotro got a vast seemless world, most is woods

swamps and wasteland, some nice snowy areas

-Lotro got one of the nicest dynamic skies of mmos

- it got few classes, but the classes play very different

-lotro got grinds for  *deeds*  and those are a bit like

EQs and EQII customation paths,  the only way to

make your char different from the next .

-Lotro got long travel times for many quests

-it got some of the best *storyteller* quests

and those questline(called Books) can get you from low level to  max level, but you need a group here and there to complete.

-it got many emotes and rp tools, more will come like hobbies. Housing is aready in.

Its an instance of a village on its own(but noone there if you dont rp a party whith you Guild)

- it got some  pvp if you agree to pvp within an arena, but this will be inproved, still it feels like a xtra not a feature..on the other hand many resorted to play only like that, and it seems to be good fun.

- the weaponary and the armor wont go far out of the blend, but thats okay it is within the lore, no flashy pink shoulderparts or oversized Swords of

*offshowing*, still some nice models here and there, some have the *glow when enemy off that type near*..pretty nice ;)

-it got some nice customation for your appearance, you can wear what you want  for stats, but appear in what you want.

-Hide helmets,cloak,gloves is in

-many quests are bland, i mean the old* fetch me 20 of this, collect 10 of that*

-many quests have a good storyline, but few voiceovers, you have to read the text.

-faces of npcs are textures..nice detail but no live

-but you have npc conversations in hubs so thats a plus for immersion

-you´ll be finding yourself running out of space to store items you wanna keep

- you can buy  a house to store some more *unbound* equipment

-youll fight bears at lvl 1 and at lvl 30, many models are seen again

- the enemies in this game are kept to the lore

no fancy/wierd things

-the crafting is no minigame but less tideous

once you collected or bought your materials you can advance to next tier by crafting afk .like -> got 50 hides to make 25 boiled hides *klick* ..go and make a soup or open a beer.

Once you made enough you  will have to do a quest to get to the next tier.

-crafted gear is good and enough to compare,

most raids will welcome you with only crafted gear

- animations are bad but you have many emotes

- battle animations are mediocre *why the heck do i stab with my mace??*

-instanced dungeons are well made, still many lack change on the advance.. like kill 3 types of mobs over and over  to get to the endboss where you need new tacticts

- endboss fights are good, and need some interaction of classes to succeed

- sometimes the mobs feel like placed there

to be killed

- enemy forts and mob placing on the other hand are nicely made

- you will find fluff like a swarm of birds flying by, rain, day/night circle, a fox running from you etc

-most chat channels are area bound, subjectiv i always felt more lone in lotro than in any other mmorpg game

-lotro lives more from*i know how to play my class* over * i have uber gear*

- tactic is much more present here then in games like wow((imho))as an slightly trained group excells far over a *just* good PU group

I find myself playing this game on and off,  still like it & there are some good rp servers..cause i came from PnP gaming to mmorpg gaming.

Now 3 points why i come back and 3 points i log off.

- i hate the loong traveltimes and the sometimes vague quest description..you can enjoy the tour one time,twice, but soon it becomes a bore

to ride to rivendel.

- i hate the zone related chat channels, sometimes a server may feel dead noones hearing you, but there are hundreds on would helping you in the quest you cant do alone

-the recycling of the mobs, you see so many mobs reapear..it´s the OMG *this crow could waste my starter vilaage* feeling

i like:

-the very well written quests, all even the easy collect 23 bear testicels quests have some nice

background or flare

-i like the scenerey ..no time to have a walk out there RL?Lotros sound + view makes  feels very alike

-i like how turbine/codemasters make this game better and deeper every step.

-i like the *not so gear dependend* approach

if you have quest gear your level its fine

-and for most i like the comunity, i play on an eu server so sorry for all my misspellings.

I hope i didnt tell to much wrong,  just wanted to write down what anoys me and what i enjoy

from the view of a gamer that have seen many mmorpgs.

Please add or correct me

*bow

I agree, but you should learn to spell.

Originally posted by MaGicBush

I agree, but you should learn to spell.

Is it really necessary to tell a person who appologizes for their spelling that they should learn how to spell?

"i play on an eu server so sorry for all my misspellings." (in case you may have missed it)

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Originally posted by MaGicBush
I agree, but you should learn to spell.

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You failed.

Originally posted by MaGicBush

I agree, but you should learn to spell.

First you kept telling us how awesome AoC was, and now you are knocking this guys spelling..

Geez

-1 dude

So, tried to edit it for spelling

A lot of good points, thanks for sharing. Mspeli all you wnt. Bugger people who care, English isn't everyone's first language.