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As another posted alluded to, LOTRO made this problem worse by not only not giving any rewards to a person who helped you kill a monster, it actually penalized *you* by taking half of your xp. That resulted in a lot of watching someone struggling with a monster and trying to decide if they...

LOTRO has the "Challenge" modes(often referred to as Hard Mode)where you get extra rewards for completing an instance in a specific way. Interestingly, sometimes it's a reward for playing strategically better(Forges of Khazad Dum, Fil Gashan, Halls of Crafting), but more often it's a reward for...

This was also parodied in the first Gamer's movie.

Very different games. As someone else said, DDO is much more action-oriented. Personally, I also found it *very* repetitive and dull shortly after I left the starter island. The game mechanics aren't remotely similar either. I think LOTRO has moved more *towards* DDO with the recent ideas of...

That is the Lalia questline. Most people don't even bother with it anymore because the rewards are good, but the quest is annoying. Sara Oakheart quests are frustrating for different reasons, but one of them is the fact that you are supposed to "protect" her. It should be impossible for her to...

Yeah, but the part where she(or Mordirith) ALWAYS gets to someplace just *right* before you do gets old.

Well, I haven't figured out the Ered Luin or GA quests yet, but in the main quests in which you escort her, she is actively thwarting you. In this bandit quest, she is basically distracting you from interfering with Amdir. Later, in Fornost, she encourages you to rescue a bunch of elves who all...

I think the point of the article is starting the game to waking up to imminent danger, not just waking up to start the game.

Later on(level 50+), it seems insane how much people are willing to pay you to do the most trivial things. At level 5, people were paying you 90 copper to risk your life, and at the higher levels they'll pay you 30 silver to deliver a message to a person on the other side of the town, of not closer.

Well, some of the Escort quests are better as you go along. Usually that just means "less" sucky. Only a few are rather decent, where the NPC actually helps you out. There's another bad escort quest just a few levels ahead in the Lonelands, where you rescue a guy at a goblin camp. It's one of...

And then some of the book quests wreck this all to pieces by requiring you to travel back and forth between these lands umpteen million times. Quests that suggest you make multiple trips back and forth between Rivendell and Forochel are ridiculous.

For all who might think that the character of Mundo Sacksville-Baggins is ridiculous, at least this time the humor is intentional. The Sacksville-Baggins(sp?) are depicted in the game the same way that Tolkien viewed them- as absolutely worthless, conniving ne'er do wells who think the whole...

He's actually playing a Minstrel, not a Bard(believe it or not, there's actually a difference in the game). A Minstrel is the purest "healing" class, much like Clerics are on other games. The reason for this is that instead of Hit Points, you have "Morale", which means that after a certain point...

Ah, this is the article I've been waiting for for awhile, as I've been bitching about this issue nearly since I started playing LOTRO in Beta. They tried an alternate solution to the problem- give players rewards to helping other people complete their quests. However, I think the manner in which...

Spiders and boars. Later, they even lampshade the latter by having a timed boar hunting quest that results in you not finding any boars, as it seems like it's the first area up to that point not to have tons of boars. Moosehowl- My thought the first time going through this instance was that...