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Is LotrO worth leaving WoW for?
Hello people 
I've played WoW since...March/April 2008, so coming up for 1 year. But now, after levelling a Paladin to Lv80, and numerous other characters to the 60-70's, WoW is starting to feel a bit...old. End-Game content for me wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the only thing to do is: Farm gold, 'Heroic' dungeons, Raids and 'daily' quests. Daily quests aren't that interesting for me, Heroics get very repetetive(sp?), farming gold is well...kind of boring and Raids can only really be done if you have alot of time.
I've also been a roleplaying kind of person, and you can only really role-play in WoW if you find a good guild, which on most 'RP' servers are hard to come by.
So i'm thinking about cancelling my WoW subscription for a LotrO one. I've heard good things about LotrO and from what i've gathered, the community is much friendlier. Also from reading the LotrO forums, i've come to the descision that role-playing is much better and stronger than the odd spot of it you receive in WoW.
Do you think it's worth it, to leave WoW for LotrO? How's the combat and levelling speeds? Are the quests good and worth it? How is the end-game content? How are the proffesions/trade-skills?
Also I will probably try the free trial to get a taster of the game, which will obviously greatly influence my final descision.
Thanks for any help 
List of what I want: (More may be added)
Good community. Good Role-playing. Good Quests/Levelling. Nice combat system. Nice end-game content. Good proffesions. Not Boring!
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While its impossible to say if its "worth" leaving a game for another but its always worth to try the trial if you are curiuose of a game
Seem like LotrO will fit you so I think you should give it a try. The combat can feel a bit slow and sluggish if you are coming from WoW but you will probably get used to it. If you want to RP choose the Landroval server if you are in US or Laurelin if you are in EU.
If WoW = The Beatles
and WAR = Led Zeppelin
Then LotrO = Pink Floyd
Great Community ... Great RP (opportunity at least, not everyone participates - but lore is there to back this up MUCH more than WoW, IMO) ... Good quests / leveling - I think the quests in this game are top notch - take the time to read them, they give you a much better sense of things going on in the world... Nice combat system: pretty much the same as WoW - little slower - same type of mechanics though - I like it - each class has different features that make it interesting to play. End Game might be dissapointing you to you - not much raiding - some smaller instances - Moria is HUGE and worth just exploring the whole place - if you are just starting it will take you a while to get up to end game, by then there may be more - but this isnt an "end-game" type game, if you know what i mean - the enjoyment comes from the journey - not the end.
I left WoW about 2 years ago - havent regretted it at all since - although i still do miss Charge on my warrior - best move ever.
Thanks
I will wait until Friday for the trial, because Monday-Thursday i'm quite busy. I'll take the advice for the RP servers and get a (hopefully) nice experience of LotrO
Also i was never really into Raiding and more into small groups, so LotrO sounds good yet again, and yes Charge was a cool move
I would suggest Landroval as well. Nice population and it is the unofficial RP server. I've played WoW on and off since the end of beta. I finally quit for good last summer. I bought the LOTRO lifetime sub when it launched just because I thought it was a great offer. I leveled a few different toons to the 20 level range and ended up going back to WoW for some reason. When I did finally decide to check out LOTRO again, I wished I hadn't left. The community is so much different. The quest are actually worthwhile to read. It was almost like a breathe of fresh air.
I will state one thing though. The free trial seems to have plagued the Advice channel with "Barrens" style chat. I'm sure it will calm down and go back to it's intended use in time.
Thanks Cernan, i'll definately check that server out, and try to ignore the Barrens-style chat as best I can
I left WoW for LOTRO last week myself. After leveling to 80 WoW had nothing left for me. I don't do raids and PVP is only interesting for about an hour. I thought I'd give LOTRO another try, haven't played since Dec 07. It's come a long way since then! So much more polished and so much more to do. It's too bad my characters were wiped.
Did you create a new account when you came back? I find it sort of hard to believe that characters from Dec 07 would have been wiped. There's been no news of a character wipe since the game launched.
You should give the trial a spin. I am not typically attracted to pve games, playing war as my main mmo at the moment, but the quests and graphics are so nice in this game, that even as a non pve player i was really impressed by this game.
Did you create a new account when you came back? I find it sort of hard to believe that characters from Dec 07 would have been wiped. There's been no news of a character wipe since the game launched.
Ha! I figured it out. Wrong server. My old toon is on Gladden, for some reason I was fixated on Brandywine (i guess because that was the Beta server). Now I got two alts on separate servers
Always worth a try but I do not see a major difference here. They both play pretty much the same. The only difference is that Lotro has better graphics and pvmp.
Apologies to the OP for any derail here but that's because both are fantasy based DIKU games. Most MMORPG's are level based DIKU design. Degree of polish, art style and secondary features are all the really seperate game such as LoTRO, EQII, AoC, nad Vanguard. At the core level they are all the same.
Myself I loved EQII and LOTRO but the graphic style of WoW just never appealed. I say give the free trial a shot. You may liek it you may hate it but you won't know till you try it.
I miss DAoC
Pacman is worth leaving WoW for..heh, nah. Lotro is good if you like your lore in mmo's as it apparently leak lore out of every freaking orifice it got
Else it's a pve grinder aka WoW, just not with the retarded cartoon look.
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Grammar nazi's. This one is for you.
I liked the battle grounds alot more than monster play but other than that I thought LoTRO was just more of the same but with different lore....... The UI feels the same and LoTRO is even more quest driven (yeah i know hard to believe) than WoW.......If youre bored with WOW and need a change then go for it but I doubt LoTRO will be a long eterm solution for ya.
LOTRO has a great atmosphere and i really like the scenery.
As for professions, the thing that really got me was that anything you make is usually of better quality than what most of the drops are... at least for the first 20 or so levels... i had a lot of fun being a weaponsmith.
A comment on the quest system in LotRO that is different from WoW: there is an epic storyline separated into books that you can participate in. Some of these quests are instanced (either soloable or group-based) and the instances quite often play like a movie.
The lore is more prevalent and obvious in LotRO than in WoW because it is a game based on the books. Most of your actions are woven into the Tolkeinesque world. For example, quite a few of the item name's are related to the Tolkeinesque mythology (influenced heavily by Anglo-Saxon mythology and folklore), the deeds and traits are all related as well to your character and how people might perceive it in the game world. That's why you end up with deeds related to the overall storyline and world view, and you get traits with names like Empathy, Loyalty, etc instead of Improved Vitality.
Though LotRO has solo elements in it, it has a lot of fellowship elements as well, and Turbine seems to encourage people to play in fellowships for a lot of the interesting content. Don't be afraid to call out for groups and/or form your own, people are pretty friendly from what I've seen though some people take themselves far too seriously too.
Back in EvE. Started with BatMUD. Main MMOs have been EvE and DAoC.
I play both WOW and Lotro I left WOW for Lotro but I still play both I just sub unsub WOW depending on mood but I like Lotro more probably because I like the community more.
i left wow for lotro but switched again because my wife wouldnt go with me. i have to say i loved the community in lotro. very nice and helpful. we all know how they are in wow. honestly, i would be playing lotro if my wife would make the change with me.
Sorry for smiling
but I know how you feel been there :XD my GF does that to me lots :XD
I wholeheartedly agree with the atmosphere. The scenery reminds of an upgraded version of EQ. Or more to the point a 'realistic' as opposed to a highly stylistic with WoW.
To comment on gear, the made items are often better than drops or quest items. I estimate 90% of my armor is mastery made (think critical success). Other slots such as jewelry or weapons are quest items with a few made items. My high amount of armor mastery items could be just sheer amount of armor slots compared to weapon slots.
But another fun aspect is dropped items often look very good. I tend to keep dropped items if they look well with other items. That leads to the appearance tabs. You can have two sets of gear for appearance. How it works is that you drag an item to the appropriate slot, and now it's only for cosmetic purposes. Then you can sell/destroy the item if you want. Also you can control if certain parts show, like shoulder armor or cloaks. Or even feet if you are of the hobbit variety and prefer to go barefoot. I don't as they will wear boots if necessary like going out in to the mud or wading in pools of blood. (Yes this is in lore as I have been rereading the books again).
There is one more point. The lore. I highly recommend to read The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. It enhances the journey. When I was reading The Hobbit, there was mention about a hobbit that killed a goblin by basically playing golf. The goblin head was the golf ball btw. And in Bywater in the Shire, there is a statue of a hobbit about to wack the head off a goblin. That's detail and lore for you. My hats off to Turbine for inferring so much lore out of the books and making a wonderful world.
Enjoy the trial.
Thanks people
I have a feeling i'm going to like LotrO...for a while at least, but I really hope for a long time!
As I said, i'm going to try LotrO free trial (or just buy the game, if I decide i'm going just to go straight into it with the free 30 days) on Friday
Thanks for the comments
And yes, I can see from screenshots/videos the Lore in it is very nice (I have read all the books, including the Hobbit + The Silmarilion[sp?])
I always say give it a try yourself for the month and see how it goes. Diifernt strokes for differnt folks.
As they say, give it a try and check out Landroval -- the unofficial RP server. There's something you can see on this server you'll never see in WoW and I've literally stoped just to watch a show.
I saw 3 hobbits synchronized dancing to a band playing a tune that their kinmates had written. Original song being played by players and danced to by other players. The game has the ability to play music with instruments available in the game and some of the folks here set up little shows like that from time to time and it's a bit entertaining to just see a few characters dancing to music their friends are playing like that.
As most say, the player base is one of the biggest selling points in the game. You may notice one "oddity" about the posts in the games forums and most frequently in the game -- COMPLETE SENTENCES! It's kind of shocking to see that all over the place in the game as you run around and the "attitude" of those who are willing to type out sentences vs l2p and QQ more... It makes for a much more friendly environment to play in.
Oh yeah, and if you get to evendim area and find that hobbit that asks you to go find boars in the zone and gives you 30m to find them -- don't freak out. There are NO boars in the zone. For a while, right before that released free expansion, some folks had griped a bit about how many "kill 20 boars. get me 10 boar flank" quests there were so the devs put that quest guy in just to show "see... we heard you. No boars!" but many newer players don't understand it and some go "I'm failing the quest 'cause I can't find the boars!!!" and a few even dump the quest to try again when the timer gets short... *snicker*
Thanks Eleazaros.
As it happens i'm downloading the trial right now, it's almost finished
See you in Middle Earth!
EDIT: Finished, well Character Creation has anyway
(Ha, I accidentally downloaded the US version with the Turbine Download Manager...)Waiting to enter the Tutorial with my Level 1 Elf Champion 
Leave now. Don't think twice about it. I came to LotRO from being a casual WoW player and I'm totally addicted and amazed about how much better LotRO is. I love RP and am on the Laurelin server in the EU and everyone, I mean everyone RP's and if they dont they use the proper channels. The community is apparentley not full of kids but people who care about their game, enjoy it and have fun roleplaying.
You won't regret it at all.
Its a trick...get an axe!
I've recently started playing on the Eldar (EU) server. I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I gave up on WoW, as I've long disliked the lack of imersion and challenge from it. Lord of the Rings has a lot more challenge to it, though not so much that it feels impossible or anything. The imersion is great too, the community helps a lot here, but even without taking that into account, just the feeling that you're a part of a real world is so much better. You interact with members of the fellowship and people they encountered, and it feels like you're really making a difference in helping the fellowship, and helping Middle-earth in general.
Overall, can't fault it so far, just wish I'd left wow earlier.
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Currently playing: Rift
former player of: DAoC, Everquest 2, Guild Wars, SWG (pre-NGE), WoW, Warhammer online, LotR:O