I bought LOTRO, and may someday come back to it. Its a decent game. IMO, a major fault is that the classes aren't unique enough. Another is that people mainly solo. I think I leveled a champion 22 and a minstrel to 15 before I called it quits. I really enjoyed thet first 10 levels of both. LOTRO has great newbie areas.
The sentiments of chain quests which required groups are spot on, but they have recently got rid of elite mobs and replaced them with Signatures instead. You don't really need to do Dol Dinen anymore either, because you can just go straight to Evendim and solo or group.
As for the "lvl 20 is where it starts" comments, i disagree with that. I was having a blast doing the lvl 1 intro quests. In the game's later stages, it started to go downhill, around the high 30s, but that's because there wasn't any solo content. As i already said though, Evendim alleviated that problem a long time ago.
edit: I also agree about the classes, compared to other games, they are pretty underwhelming.
Hmmmm... Well the game sticks pretty closely with the lore of the books and i guess that they dictate somewhat the classes and races available. That said they are introducing 2 new classes in the Mines of Moria installement due out in Sept.
OP you are a casual MMO gamer as you have admitted in your post. LOTR is a casual MMO, seems like a perfect fit to me. If you enjoy the game don't worry about what other people say in the forums.
Originally posted by kitsunegirl Lotro the game is fun, I really enjoy it when I play it... the classes however, are snore-worthy. The only class that I was ever able to enjoy long enough to play the game was the healer. Im really hoping the two new classes in Moria will fix that.
I have to agree that the classes in LOTRO = boring. Just my opinion though. The game itself is nice but I need a class that grabs me and none of the LOTRO classes do anything for me.
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I bought LOTRO, and may someday come back to it. Its a decent game. IMO, a major fault is that the classes aren't unique enough. Another is that people mainly solo. I think I leveled a champion 22 and a minstrel to 15 before I called it quits. I really enjoyed thet first 10 levels of both. LOTRO has great newbie areas.
The sentiments of chain quests which required groups are spot on, but they have recently got rid of elite mobs and replaced them with Signatures instead. You don't really need to do Dol Dinen anymore either, because you can just go straight to Evendim and solo or group.
As for the "lvl 20 is where it starts" comments, i disagree with that. I was having a blast doing the lvl 1 intro quests. In the game's later stages, it started to go downhill, around the high 30s, but that's because there wasn't any solo content. As i already said though, Evendim alleviated that problem a long time ago.
edit: I also agree about the classes, compared to other games, they are pretty underwhelming.
Hmmmm... Well the game sticks pretty closely with the lore of the books and i guess that they dictate somewhat the classes and races available. That said they are introducing 2 new classes in the Mines of Moria installement due out in Sept.
there is always hope
OP you are a casual MMO gamer as you have admitted in your post. LOTR is a casual MMO, seems like a perfect fit to me. If you enjoy the game don't worry about what other people say in the forums.
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I have to agree that the classes in LOTRO = boring. Just my opinion though. The game itself is nice but I need a class that grabs me and none of the LOTRO classes do anything for me.