LOTRO

[Jon]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering what were your views on the game Lord Of The Rings Online, and how they opened the Lotr world to 24/7 gamers and people who only appreciate the game for killing monsters and leveling, instead of appreciating the chance to walk around a digital Middle-Earth and live an adventure. Also if any of you play it, what are your characters like and what do they do, do they try and reflect your ranger persona? I have a lvl 17 champion man and a lvl 8 hunter hobbit.

[Eledhwen]

I cannot stand computer games.

Except LOTRO.

Best game I have ever played. Amazing still.



Eledhwen

[Ernildir]

I love the game. I'm fine with how it's open to everyone.

I have a 65 dwarf champion, 43 man burglar, 33 dwarf runekeeper, 30 hobbit burglar, and 24(?) man hunter.

My two human characters represent Rangers... I'm mostly playing my 43 burglar nowadays. It's unfortunate that my Ranger Burglar can't use a bow, but I can really emphasize stealth, daggers, and knife-throwing with the burglar class, so it's fine.

[Willrett]

I love the game but have not had much of a chance to play lately. I'm a big big fan of Guild Wars also.

[Eledhwen]

I have just two characters: Findiriel just shy of 27th level Huntress, and Silivrien a 10th level Elven Champion. I may try an Elven Huntress...we will see.

Findiriel is on course to become a Huntress...in the Hunter class there are two routes one can sort out via traits; the Bowmaster and the Huntsman/Huntress. I am on track for the latter.

My son plays as does my lass..although she has not played much due to other commitments.

Eledhwen

[Elleth]

I tried it briefly when it first came out, but didn't last a month. Like you Dirhael, I got it for the sight seeing - and it was beautiful! But the whole "go ten feet, get attacked, go ten feet, get attacked" MMORPG setup made it so blasted frustrating and dull it just wasn't worth the bother to me.

But then, I'm not a computer gamer.

Personally, I'd have liked to have had an "invisible" option that let you just explore the scenery and talk to the NPCs without all the missions and hack-and-loot level grinding..... but I can see how the real gamers - at least the unscrupulous ones - would abuse that option for scouting. So - oh well.


(Nice little touches in the scenery though. Whoever built the environment sure dug deep through the books. )

[Eledhwen]

I do not do much grinding or level chasing at all. Mostly I explore the world; it is delightfully well done. I have been able to avoid fighting much fairly easily. Guess everyone's experience is different. I have done the Volume quests..am doing them. Talking to Elrond, Dwalin, Strider and others is entirely too cool.

Eledhwen, who is not a computer gamer either...with this sole exception.

[E.MacKermak]

Just got started on it last night. A nice layout with good graphics. It has been fun to do some basic explorations of the world as I play. I have played several MMORPGs and this one is pretty nice.

[Kiriana]

yep he loves the game.... guess I am a gaming widow yet again!! LOL

[Eric C]

It will take days- literally- for me to download, so I don't play it.

[Jon]

It will take days- literally- for me to download, so I don't play it.

With our old computer it took three days.. so I put the graphics on lowest quality and the game ran fine, only crashing very occasionally. If you have space on your computer, I'd try it if I were you.

[Willrett]

You can buy the main game and some of the expansions for about 20 or less at most game stores. I seen it in the bargin bin the other day

[Jon]

Or take a look on ebay..

[Ranger of Arthedain]

Hey guys Am new here and was searching through the threads and found this one.

I play when I can on the Silverlode server with my female hunter whom I usually roleplay on there as a Ranger . I quite enjoy playing it when I can, doing the epic volume quests and such and attempting to get kindred standing with the wardens of Annuminas and rangers of Esteldin. The former of the two being a bit more harder than I expected, but I really do adore the faction mount you get. I, too, am not into MMOs as big as the next person, but I made an exception for this game.

[Ernildir]

Hey guys Am new here and was searching through the threads and found this one.

I play when I can on the Silverlode server with my female hunter whom I usually roleplay on there as a Ranger . I quite enjoy playing it when I can, doing the epic volume quests and such and attempting to get kindred standing with the wardens of Annuminas and rangers of Esteldin. The former of the two being a bit more harder than I expected, but I really do adore the faction mount you get. I, too, am not into MMOs as big as the next person, but I made an exception for this game.

Complete the instance Volume 1: Book 10: Chapter 10: The Eye of Angmar. Kill everything in there and you should easily loot a great number of Bands of Numenor and Black Badges... just from running the instance one time you can get 7-10k rep from all the items you turn in. After you complete it, you can use the reflecting pool in Tinnudir to repeat the instance as often as you like, getting 7-10k rep per run. This will bring you to kindred standing very quickly.