Comments on: Losing Sight of the Carrot

By: Tesh

Tesh — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:27:40 +0000

Agreed, Openedge1. When a game tells me (either directly or by punishing mechanics) that I am required to group up with others, I’m likewise annoyed. I like the option of grouping, but I detest being forced to in order to experience interesting content.

By: Openedge1

Openedge1 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:01:22 +0000

The carrot is a lie!

I am now of the mind that if I am totally aware of my leveling progress, then the game has an inherent issue.

Why must I “Watch the clock” instead of thinking about the fun?

“You can’t go there due to your level…”

“You need a group for that instance…”

Bah. Once a game makes me forget my levels, then I know I am having fun. Otherwise, it is just another job. I have one of those.

Guess that explains my current run of single player games that are more fun as I am NOT worried when I will get my next “level”.

By: Chris F

Chris F — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:57:41 +0000

Enjoy the 1.5 – 2 awesome hours as a Death Knight in the DK starting area. Then you get dropped right back at Burning Crusade, grinding solo (or with other Death Knights only) on 2 year old content before you get to see the new, shiny content.

Dumbest carrot Blizzard ever planted. Would have made much more sense to start at 65, finish the DK area at 68, and go straight into Northrend.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:37:59 +0000

Tal Bruinen is another one of those ‘speed leveling’ areas. I think I first travelled there at level 41, and managed to gain 2-3 levels on the quests there (and incidental grinding from all the super-aggro bucks and frogs).

What I would really like the LotRO developers to put out is content for the late teens to early twenties which doesn’t rely on running back and forward (and back and forward, ad nauseum) in the Lonelands. One of the reasons I haven’t gotten more than one character past level 20 is because of that dang zone.

By: Ravious

Ravious — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:41:10 +0000

I don’t lose sight of the carrot so much as slam in to a demoralizing wall of slow leveling. I still want to level to get to the end game stuff that MMO devs load up on… it just hurts sometimes getting there.

By: Merimet

Merimet — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:19:34 +0000

My LM solo’d the salamanders last night at lvl 39. If I recall, my burglar and guardian required a group

By: bonedead

bonedead — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:57:48 +0000

Grats on the shortly lived newfound carrots mane

By: Zubon

Zubon — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:43:07 +0000

Those Trollshaws trolls are threateners. You can ride right over them, just don’t stop.

Kiting the Salamander parents apart is not trivial, but it is Hunter-soloable. Minstrel-soloable too. I have not taken any other classes far enough to test them.

Evendim, for all its travel problems, is good for clumped quests. You will find two or three at each point to which you are sent, like the whole mess in the southern desert when you first get there.