arbitrary posted this on March 12th, 2010.
Categorized as MMOs, Updates, birthdays, bored of raiding, casual play, friends, lotro, personal, random, status, turning 40, warcraft, world of warcraft, wow.
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So blogging has fallen a bit by the wayside. I went to London/Reading to visit family and haven’t really got back into a schedule yet.
Add to that a bit of a turn from LotRO – I’ve been there, done that. I have 750 Dol Guldur medallions now and no weapon or emblem decent enough to spend any of them on. I can run through Sammath Gul without standing on a bone pile with my eyes closed. Volume 3, Book 1, was a small distraction – but didn’t do what I wanted it to. We’re raiding Barad Guldur, and making good progress, but raiding has diminished for me somewhat, and I think in the future I won’t be quite so gung ho to go twice a week. Ah yes, the casual vibe has started to catch me…
…I still log onto LotRO almost daily and do some of the daily quests to level up yet another emblem. They’re all rubbish. I feel, as I do it, as if I’m wasting my life. I really hate the LI lottery these days. And then I realise I’m raiding with what I consider rubbish and no-one cares, so why should I struggle to upgrade? Why pursue the Symbol for crafted 2nd Age items, when it may just be a wasted piece of crafting that someone else craves a lot more than I do?
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Goldenstar posted this on November 7th, 2009.
Categorized as Burglar, Classes, General, Hunter, Minstrel, Warden, captain, champion, guardian, loremaster, runekeeper, warcraft, wow.
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So you used to play World of Warcraft and now are interested in this amazing game called Lord of the Rings Online. You loved your character in WoW and would like to play something similar to that, if possible. This post is to try to help you find that similar class in LOTRO.
I’m not going to go over every little minute detail of abilities and comparisons. This is more of a high-level comparison of LOTRO features but put in a WoW perspective you should be able to quickly grasp. These two games are unique and there really isn’t a one-to-one comparison available to these characters (so don’t expect things to be a perfect match). Hopefully, the descriptions are enough to help you make that leap into LOTRO a more comfortable one.
Below is a list of the nine available LOTRO classes and what WoW class(es) I believe they are the most similar to. I welcome your feedback and discussions as I obviously have not played every class in both games. My goal is simply to help the WoW convert find the type of play style they previously enjoyed.
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