hehe, as a hunter i hate most other hunters because they all roll for massive agility, despite it doing next to nothing, and ignoring other stats. i've been able to offtank elites, 1-2 elites often in multiple instances since lvl 30. thing is a lot of people add me as friend after instances and realise i MEAN to take some aggro, and choose exactly how much aggro i cna deal with. but at first glance if i take a mob off a tank they scream havoc and call you crap and generally have a go at not knowing what you are doing.
I solo'd much of the game, i don't prefer it, just didn't bump into that right group that i liked, joined a few kins but found few people playing as i like to.
the main and only issue with the game so far as for lvl 40-50, a heck of a lot of content is group stuff, they've made the class's almost too narrow. to a degree wow is better in that respect as you could focus on 1/2/3 area's of skills, specialise in one, or be basic but wide ranged. with lotro everyone has the same skills, and only play skill really affects how you are, but if 90% hunters suck, the otehr 10% have no chance
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Other problems i have with it, i don't mind minstrels, but their attacks, its just silly. overall playing a lute to heal is, a bold choice shall we say, it really gets on my nads making a bunch of noise constantly. but also, unlike other class's who can grab better weapons every few levels/quests, mincers can't really upgrade the damage they do. which makes them spectacularly boring to play.
saying all that, its great, the quests are often very fun to play, it HAS a main story line which WOW really doesn't even have tbh, and it has a lot more instances in general than wow(from what i remember of wow).
i also really get irritated when people say Eve doesn't have grind purely because skills, are time based and learn in/out of game. firstly, that means that past the first month every new "skill" which isn't a flat out attack, its the ability to use a certain classes of stuff, which are things you still have to buy, but the new "skills" take days, weeks to learn. you will NEVER ever be able to use high game level stuff for half a year, or a year after you start playing, maybe even longer no idea how long the late skills take tbh.
you also DO have to grind, you don't get good quest rewards, the quests are completely inane and the grinding is for money, be it sitting in a ship not decked out for battle, going and mining crappy ore in safe zones and running at the first sign of pvp for weeks on end to afford decent ships. no grind, jesus.
at least in wow/lotro/most others quest rewards all throughout the game do actually increase your stats/usefulness and there is never a "need" to grind for gold and buy the very best weapons.
I tried going back to Wow but it feels like such a huge grind I decided to do a test and ran a bot for hours on end just to see how long it took to get banned, never did even though I abused it silly over my 10 day free "come back and try" trial. I was blatant about using it too, shocking that they didn't ban my account. I'd link to the story I posted on my site about it but don't want to encourage people