New Lord of the Rings Online In-Depth Look at How New Legendaries Will Work | MMORPG.com

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New Lord of the Rings Online In-Depth Look at How New Legendaries Will Work | MMORPG.com

Lord of the Rings Online announced a brand new Legendaries system, and the team has now published a very in-depth look at the entire process of obtaining the items, the Tracery system, slotting those new Traceries, and more.

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Lithuanian

And by in info so far - very tiny difference between Orc-thrown third age LI and fully powered imbued first age LI.
Who would compensate >200 Anfalas scrolls? tens of Anfalas crystals? First/second age symbols? Rare shards? Tens of deconstructed LIs to extract right legacies? Money not being the last, every indentify/reforge costs. Correct answer: nobody. "Screw you, ***holes" - SSG says - "screw you and your stuff, go and buy for cash".
SSG could have made right decision. Kind of simple: system evaluates age - 1, 2, 3. Then counts if any scrolls/crystals were added, if yes - how many. And then player is given *exactly* the same number of stuff to make weapon as powerfull, as previous was. I guess any kid could code this.
Instead we are getting system that prefers trash LIs to quality ones. Old players are once again treated like trash. How typicall for $$G.

angerbeaver

Hated the old Legendry Item system. Seemed okay on release, but they made it so convoluted. This won't be any better.

FrodoFragins

Torval said:

From a lore perspective this revamp seems more sensible. From a "reset the grind" and make me do it all over again while invalidating a decade of game play with my LIs, I'm not sold on this at all.

I really want to click with LotRO again. I have nearly 15 years with the game, but this sort of thing doesn't go a long way to making that happen. $130 "xpacs" with huge PvE "P2W" pieces doesn't either.

Change is hard and I'm not really sure where I'm at with the game anymore. Breaking up is hard to do.

The biggest red flag all of these years is that they never once explained EXACTLY what they thought people wanted to get fixed with LIs.  All they ever said was they knew it needed a rework.  They never posted a detailed initial draft to get player feedback.  they just reimplemented it in secret.

It takes serious balls to invalidate that massive grind AND in many cases store purchases to level LI's.  Sadly, the whales will just shrug it off and buy more stuff.

I'm so glad I quit early on in the First Age upgrading process.  I hope this company goes out of business.

Abimor

I don't know man from the lore in perspective it is better but the cap being account wide and not being able to see what my first ages since their crafted will give me when I consume them the red flags are up for me. I was excited at first and I really don't mind a grind but for the people who spent cash this process needs to make them whole and right now it doesn't just from consuming regular legendaries I can tell that.

Scorchien

I told yas weeks ago there are rumbles among the longest most loyal and those that have spent the most , very unhappy with this system , SSG ,may be driving a nail in the LOTRO coffin here by pissing this group off..

  I was one of the first 50 testers for LOTRO way back and have invested alot of time and money into this game and LIs .. I WILL NOT  be logging into this system as is , i also am not alone in this approach ..

Abimor

Scorchien said:

I told yas weeks ago there are rumbles among the longest most loyal and those that have spent the most , very unhappy with this system , SSG ,may be driving a nail in the LOTRO coffin here by pissing this group off..

  I was one of the first 50 testers for LOTRO way back and have invested alot of time and money into this game and LIs .. I WILL NOT  be logging into this system as is , i also am not alone in this approach ..

My wife and I have been playing since 2007 we played almost every day until Morrowind came out for ESO she played at least every week after that. I came back when the first legendary servers launched I hope this doesn't kill the game because we do have a lot of fun together and with our kin.

Dharkarai49

Why do people think they are entitled to compensation in MMOs when developers change systems ?

FrodoFragins

Dharkarai49 said:

Why do people think they are entitled to compensation in MMOs when developers change systems ?

I dunno, maybe because many spent quite a bit of money on them?

ircaddicts

Lithuanian said:

And by in info so far - very tiny difference between Orc-thrown third age LI and fully powered imbued first age LI.

Who would compensate >200 Anfalas scrolls? tens of Anfalas crystals? First/second age symbols? Rare shards? Tens of deconstructed LIs to extract right legacies? Money not being the last, every indentify/reforge costs. Correct answer: nobody. "Screw you, ***holes" - SSG says - "screw you and your stuff, go and buy for cash".

SSG could have made right decision. Kind of simple: system evaluates age - 1, 2, 3. Then counts if any scrolls/crystals were added, if yes - how many. And then player is given *exactly* the same number of stuff to make weapon as powerfull, as previous was. I guess any kid could code this.

Instead we are getting system that prefers trash LIs to quality ones. Old players are once again treated like trash. How typicall for $$G.

You forgot to mention how with the latest xpack if you get the basic version you do NOT even get the level cap increase. You HAVE to buy one three time the price to get that. This was the final nail in the coffin. I had been playing on and off since day one but this is the end f*uk $$G

ircaddicts

FrodoFragins said:

Dharkarai49 said:

Why do people think they are entitled to compensation in MMOs when developers change systems ?

I dunno, maybe because many spent quite a bit of money on them?

Not to mention YEARS or even DECADES of time

borghive49

Glad I quit this game this year. It's way too grindy and expensive for a game this old. Just switch to ESO and stop listening to those trolls that say the combat sucks, you won't be sorry. 

Scot

This does just seem like an excuse to give players a reason to go back to the cash store. 

Abimor

ircaddicts said:

Lithuanian said:

And by in info so far - very tiny difference between Orc-thrown third age LI and fully powered imbued first age LI.


Who would compensate >200 Anfalas scrolls? tens of Anfalas crystals? First/second age symbols? Rare shards? Tens of deconstructed LIs to extract right legacies? Money not being the last, every indentify/reforge costs. Correct answer: nobody. "Screw you, ***holes" - SSG says - "screw you and your stuff, go and buy for cash".


SSG could have made right decision. Kind of simple: system evaluates age - 1, 2, 3. Then counts if any scrolls/crystals were added, if yes - how many. And then player is given *exactly* the same number of stuff to make weapon as powerfull, as previous was. I guess any kid could code this.


Instead we are getting system that prefers trash LIs to quality ones. Old players are once again treated like trash. How typicall for $$G.

You forgot to mention how with the latest xpack if you get the basic version you do NOT even get the level cap increase. You HAVE to buy one three time the price to get that. This was the final nail in the coffin. I had been playing on and off since day one but this is the end f*uk $$G

I don't understand your level increase comment I see nothing where it says the 39.99 version doesnt include the level increase it doesnt come with the level boost item to make you 130 instantly.

Warlyx

this system uses the worst UI i have seen , i was confused by 30 min in how to make it "WORK" , have to see some video in order to understand that u need to DRAG the items to the weapon (no right clicking or anything doesnt work )

the system is better? yes but anything is better than OLD LI 

Abimor

Warlyx said:

this system uses the worst UI i have seen , i was confused by 30 min in how to make it "WORK" , have to see some video in order to understand that u need to DRAG the items to the weapon (no right clicking or anything doesnt work )

the system is better? yes but anything is better than OLD LI 

I agree the ui is terrible and it took me a little while to figure it out also. the other thing that was weird and maybe they fixed it you couldn't equip a new one if you still had a old one equipped. Then there was crafted weapons disappearing I just do not think it is ready to roll out on the 13th nine days from now. Maybe im wrong but i do not understand why it has to be out now.