I have a lifetime sub and I gave up playing about 3 months after launch because I found leveling to be too slow. I began playing again recently and have leveled 3 characters to 17, 18, and 21. After hitting 18 on my newest guy I checked my /played time it was 17 hours.

So far I don't feel like its a drag to level. I know it will begin to take longer to level but just so long as I see some progress after 2-3 hours of play I'll be happy. It's when it starts to take 5+ hours of steady doing quests and I still haven't leveled that I begin to lose intrest.

Originally posted by Sanguinelust

I have a lifetime sub and I gave up playing about 3 months after launch because I found leveling to be too slow. I began playing again recently and have leveled 3 characters to 17, 18, and 21. After hitting 18 on my newest guy I checked my /played time it was 17 hours.

So far I don't feel like its a drag to level. I know it will begin to take longer to level but just so long as I see some progress after 2-3 hours of play I'll be happy. It's when it starts to take 5+ hours of steady doing quests and I still haven't leveled that I begin to lose intrest.

It's a lot more paying off if you are actually listening to the storyline(s) while questing.

I recently started a new alt, and was playing only to read the quests and enjoying myself. I never even realized that I levelled to 18 in barely more than 2 playing sessions.

It all depends on what you are concentrating on. Concentrating on leveling only could mean you are missing the best parts of the game. It is definitely not the right aim to try to level up asap in this game. I have a lvl 60, trust me :)

DB

I'm only at level 31, but I think leveling is TOO FAST!  My son (lvl 35) and I both took a break because even though I read the storyplots (as that's the part I really like) I found I was blowing through quests way too fast to really enjoy it (not sure about my son and the reading, but he felt the same way).

It wasn't that we were rushing through or anything, just that you get so caught up, you find you've burned through 6 - 10 quests in just 4 hours or so.  We're not hardcore, must play X hours a night types.  Generally 2 - 3 hours, 2 to 3 times a week, plus Saturday.

Neither of us have any real desire to level cap and want to enjoy the journey not end it too soon.

It really depends on how you play.

Me and the wife just recently got into Lotro. We started off a Warden and Minstrel combo. Initially we did every quest, deed, task we could find. I'd say it took us about 2 months to hit 60 (we do play a fair bit tho).

I decided the Warden was'ent for me and rolled a Captain. Took me about 5 days (RL days not played) to power it through to 60. Of course I skipped deeds and whole quest lines just burning through content to "Catch-up" with the wife's Minstrel.

So in short you can level slow or fast depending on how much of the game you want to experiance.

I will say that leveling is very little of the game though, people say there is no content at 60 and i disagree. Once you get to 60 your gonna spend ALOT of time rounding out deeds (for virtue traits) running and re-running instances (for LIXP and gear) your gonna be working reps (Iron garrison and Gala) .. not to mention the amount of time your gonna spend leveling and releveling LI's to get the perfect ones.

Does this become a little grindy? Sure .. but thats the nature of MMORPGS. Theres plenty to do at all levels of the game and the level of your character is a very small aspect of the game.

Originally posted by DonnieBrasco

Originally posted by Sanguinelust

I have a lifetime sub and I gave up playing about 3 months after launch because I found leveling to be too slow. I began playing again recently and have leveled 3 characters to 17, 18, and 21. After hitting 18 on my newest guy I checked my /played time it was 17 hours.

So far I don't feel like its a drag to level. I know it will begin to take longer to level but just so long as I see some progress after 2-3 hours of play I'll be happy. It's when it starts to take 5+ hours of steady doing quests and I still haven't leveled that I begin to lose intrest.

 

It's a lot more paying off if you are actually listening to the storyline(s) while questing.

I recently started a new alt, and was playing only to read the quests and enjoying myself. I never even realized that I levelled to 18 in barely more than 2 playing sessions.

It all depends on what you are concentrating on. Concentrating on leveling only could mean you are missing the best parts of the game. It is definitely not the right aim to try to level up asap in this game. I have a lvl 60, trust me :)

DB

Well I suppose in the end it's all about your play style. Some people like to power their way to endgame and some like to take in the entire game. I'm a little bit of both you could say. I don't worry about missing out on too much of the story lines because I find I really enjoy taking my time leveling another class after I've hit cap with my first one. This way I already know where to go and what to do but now I can take my time and see what I missed running there the first time out. I'm not too worried about endgame, I'll get there eventually and if it's not exciting then there is an even better reason to take my time with the alt.

 Relatively its one of the fastest leveling of any MMO <_<

But really its by a zone by zone basis.  Some zones you can do chains in less than an hour and others where its a snail crawl back & forth.  So overally its faster than normally, but every dozen levels or so you hit some slow spots.

Also it depends on your play style, but most of the repliers have it stated well :)

This is a funny thread hehe.

LOTRO's leveling was too fast in the beginning and if it became faster that only means it is worse now.

Someone mentioned with the new added content it got even faster, which is typical but also a weird contradiction: If you level faster you miss out on content designed for a certain level range or you have to do it without exp reward and no risk. (doing grey quests anyone?) So adding content means missing content lol.

Thats the typical brainless design concept of modern MMO's.

Anyway: to the OP:

Compared to which game do you think LOTRO leveling is too fast?

What would be the right time for you to level to the top? And how many houers / week do you play?

just intrested.

Snorf

I'm on the 10-day trial myself right now.  Only 2 days left on it, but I've really only played a total of about 8 hours.  I'm level 12, still in Bree-land, doing quests in Combe.  I've really taken my time with it as I want to get a feel for the storyline and side quests, and after reading all this I'm glad I did.  I'm one of those ultra-casuals - married, kids, full-time job, no time to do anything really - but considering all there is to do, the leveling speed feels about right to me.  I typically hate level-based games, but quite frankly, the ambience of the game (mostly the background music, but the rolling hills and horizons too) really feels like the Ultima IX that should have been.  As a much bigger fan of the Ultima series than LOTR, they kind of got me with that.  While I'll never do a lifetime sub to ANYTHING Turbine produces simply on principal, as they destroyed all that was good and holy with their ungodly rendition of D&D, best I can tell at this point, they did a good job with this game within the confines of the IP.