LOTRO free to play going ahead.

Sleepery · 3 Jul 2013 at 10:25

LOTRO's big problem is that it gets distinctly 'meh' for a good 10 levels after Moria. I believe Rohan is pretty awesome, but I just haven't had the endurance to grind my way through the intervening levels, the design and quests just seemed really lazy compared to the early game.

Sleepery · 3 Jul 2013 at 17:02

I gave up in Mirkwood, the Ashenslades. It was one of those times where they tell you to go to a spot and kill a dozen wargs, and the follow up quest is to go back and kill a dozen more. Just in case it didn't get bored the first time around

Sleepery · 8 Sep 2013 at 21:30

The bounders token totals really showed up which servers were dead, sad to see Evernight so far behind, I started on that server. Laurelin is buzzing though, it's great

Sleepery · 9 Sep 2013 at 17:43

They all solo pretty well, but I've found the minstrel to be seriously op once you get warspeech. I believe wardens can be amazing too, but I can't be arsed remembering combinations

Edit - mind you, if you're a minnie that solos his way to the top in warspeech mode, you're going to get shouted at a lot once you have to start healing in instances and raids

Sleepery · 14 Sep 2013 at 11:03

You have to make dwarfish variants of Cat, Lister, Rimmer and Holly if you do that

Edit - and Flash, naturally

Sleepery · 27 Oct 2013 at 12:09

kieves1 said:
I have Moria, mirkwood and ISengard and have seen a copy of rohan for £13 delivered.

Where??

Sleepery · 27 Oct 2013 at 18:45

Star, ty

Sleepery · 21 Jan 2014 at 13:43

You can buy them with Turbine points too, so might be cheaper to pick up the points somewhere rather than pay cash for the expansions. Think Helm's Deep is 4,500 points.

Sleepery · 21 Jan 2014 at 15:22

Apparently the license is due for renewal at the end of 2014, and there's a lot of speculation that it's not going to be renewed with Turbine. That's why they're not planning to invest in it to any great degree over the year.

No idea if it's true or not, it's all rumour at the moment. But I'm bloody well going to get at least one toon to 85 or 90 or whatever it is now, to see all the content, just in case

Sleepery · 13 Feb 2014 at 15:49

I can't quite believe how easy-mode it's gotten since the talent tree update. There's no challenge at all, it just makes it all incredibly boring. Actually considering selling my lifetimeaccount, which I never thought I'd do for lotro.

Sleepery · 10 Jul 2014 at 18:52

Laurelin is pretty lively, as it's the old European RP server.

Sleepery · 11 Jul 2014 at 12:23

I've been trying to find up to date server stats actually, but not having much luck. Bree is still full of RPer's on Laurelin, but I think the addition of new zones (about to go all the way up to 100) has people spread out all over the place. The 21st hall is just another stop on the way now, no longer the high level hub it used to be.

Sleepery · 11 Jul 2014 at 15:54

That's why I've been looking for stats - according to this thread, Snowbourne, Withywindle, Evernight and Brandywine are all the the busiest servers

I know for a fact Evernight is a tomb, I stopped levelling on it because it was so empty

Sleepery · 3 Sep 2014 at 14:54

They've limited the story quests iirc with the Helm's Deep expansion, so you need to buy it to continue the epic story.

Sleepery · 3 Sep 2014 at 16:57

My highest toon is only 74, so I've no idea yet. Been dragging myself through Isengard, which is only ok so far. I think the 'big battles' feature of Helm's Deep turned out to be a bit of a flop though.

Sleepery · 19 Nov 2014 at 09:21

It really goes to hell after Moria, I don't know if they lost some decent designers or what, but while I can play 1-55 over and over, I've only managed to grind one toon up to 69, and that bored the bejeesus out of me.

I think it's partly that a lot of the post-moria areas aren't directly from the books, so there's nothing to relate too. One of these days I'll make it to Rohan

Sleepery · 19 Nov 2014 at 19:28

nin9abadga said:
Has it got easier?

Yes, to the point that everything's a complete faceroll. I can't understand the logic behind it at all, it's like having a cheat mode on all the time.