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• • New Minesof Moria article

  • Originally posted by Tyranix
    

    Thought Durins Bane had a Sword and Whip but maybe he doesnt equip them until after the release lol. They couldnt have made him better than that. They outdid themselves

    
     

    Durin's bane sword and whip are made of fire and with it being a Maia wich is essentially an angel. He can produce them at anytime he wants too. Unlike gandalf and the other wizards his powers were not dimished and restricted by the valar.

  • Posted: 10/04/08 2:57 PM
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• • I may come back after my disappointment in war

  • Originally posted by WaryJanus
    

     Well I guess my problem with the Lotro classes is the fact that there isn't that many of them. Also they seem very... strict? I mean a guardian is a straight tank, champion aoe dps, etc... and they don't seem to (or be able to) deviat much from their role. I mean the nice thing about WAR is that there's so many classes, and yeah you may say all the tanks are really the same, which is maybe a valid point, but even if their differently strictly in flavor, they *feel* different. Lotro's classes seem like their sorta.. ok here's your role, now go do that, and nothing else. That's why I'm looking forward to the expansion the new classes seem a little more hybrid to me, which will be nice, to have classes that are capable of different playstyles.

    
     

    I have seen and used a chapion to tank, not as good as a guardian but able to do so. I have also seen a captian off tank. The classes are able to do other jobs they all have a secondary job that they can be used in but not excel at to the point they replace another classes primary job.

    With MOM will also come a rework of the combat system. Wich will change the way the classes play to a certain degree.

    I don't see the classes bein g as strict as you make them out to be. I have been playing this game since closed beta started and i have tried all the classes to some degree. Not all of them were my cup of tea and that is what i expected cause not everyone plays the same.

  • Posted: 10/03/08 6:35 PM
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• • Population woes.

  • Originally posted by vala2008
    

    Originally posted by Grindalyx
    

    Originally posted by vala2008
    

    As nice as LOTRO is and the company it fails for delivering good pvp. I was playing ettenmoors (both sides) a lot and it was fun but very limited. This is Lord Of The Rings....big, huge battles, but you will only find that in WAR. Same reason a lot of the pvpers from AoC have gone over to war too.

    
     

    Do you really find that LOTRO PVP is lacking compared to WAR PVP when LOTRO was never billed as a PVP game. They have said from the start that the game was a story driven PVE game. So it is not surprising that WAR has better PVP.

    And for the record if you ever read the books wich this game is bases on. The huge wars your talking about make up maybe 10% of the books in total. The battles were huge but were a small part of the books. The majority of the books deal with frodos journey and the trials and tribulations he goes thru in his battle against the power of the ring. What happens to the fellowship when it splits up at the end of the fellowship of the ring.

    In the movies the war aspect of the books was brought out more to intise the audience into watching. Wich makes sense considering people are not going to pay that amount of money to watch frodo, sam, pippen and merry take two weeks to get from the shire to bree. Or watch tom bombadil skip around like a flamer singing his songs. Or sit thru the days it takes the fellowship to get thru moria.

    Personally i love the game the way it is and i don't need huge wars to enjoy myself in a game. One of the reasons i won't be playing WAR. The playstyle doesn't interest me like the playstyle of LOTRO does. I say each to their owne.

    
     

    Well yes i have read the entire set twice in my time and the additional booksm in addition to playing the old tabletop game for a few years many years ago and in all the contense the threat of war or war itself is an important aspect of the genre. I wasnt, however, talking about lore at all nor did i suggest that the game was built for pvp as we all know it wasnt, I stated an observation that pvp isnt good in that game its as simple as that take it for as its written and not as you assume i have written.

    
     

    And i was pointing out that the war aspect of the books is just a small part of what the books are actually about. Yes the threat of war is there but it never materializes in a huge dominate way like in the movies. I have read the books more times than i care to remember over the last 25+ years. I was asking you a simple question cause to me it appeared you were very dissapionted in the fact PVP isn't a major part of the game.

    If i miss understood you i am sorry but it is awfully hard to get a persons meening on a forum unless they come right out and tell you what they meen.  Thanks for clarifying your stance on this as i hope i have also clarified mine.

  • Posted: 9/29/08 8:24 PM
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• • Population woes.

  • Originally posted by vala2008
    

    As nice as LOTRO is and the company it fails for delivering good pvp. I was playing ettenmoors (both sides) a lot and it was fun but very limited. This is Lord Of The Rings....big, huge battles, but you will only find that in WAR. Same reason a lot of the pvpers from AoC have gone over to war too.

    
     

    Do you really find that LOTRO PVP is lacking compared to WAR PVP when LOTRO was never billed as a PVP game. They have said from the start that the game was a story driven PVE game. So it is not surprising that WAR has better PVP.

    And for the record if you ever read the books wich this game is bases on. The huge wars your talking about make up maybe 10% of the books in total. The battles were huge but were a small part of the books. The majority of the books deal with frodos journey and the trials and tribulations he goes thru in his battle against the power of the ring. What happens to the fellowship when it splits up at the end of the fellowship of the ring.

    In the movies the war aspect of the books was brought out more to intise the audience into watching. Wich makes sense considering people are not going to pay that amount of money to watch frodo, sam, pippen and merry take two weeks to get from the shire to bree. Or watch tom bombadil skip around like a flamer singing his songs. Or sit thru the days it takes the fellowship to get thru moria.

    Personally i love the game the way it is and i don't need huge wars to enjoy myself in a game. One of the reasons i won't be playing WAR. The playstyle doesn't interest me like the playstyle of LOTRO does. I say each to their owne.

  • Posted: 9/27/08 12:54 PM
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• • Population woes.

  • From the sounds of MOM the legendary weapons will be a big end game activity. These weapons will have to be lvl'd up and you can always find one better than you got and have to start lvling it too. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

  • Posted: 9/26/08 9:55 AM
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