Comments on: The Eregion Chapters

By: mbp

mbp — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:50:14 +0000

Loving MoM myself and I am taking the scenic route – I did almost every quest in Eregion before moving on. Moria itself never ceases to amaze me. Sure it has dark dingy tunnels but it has lots of surprises too. I just stumbled across a beautiful garden tonight!

MoM is certainly a lot more solo friendly than SoA was – most of the group quests seem to be confined to instances. Yet I have to say that I loved SoA’s quest chains with a fellowship quest at the end. For me Bree, The Lone Lands, The North Downs and the Trollshaws were some of the best parts of the game. I just worked away on the soloable early quests while keeping an eye on the LFF channel. I eventually pugged my way through nearly all the fellowship quests that way. I guess I was lucky enough to have joined with the bulge of new players but I do think it trained folks into grouping and added to the generally friendly atmosphere of the game. Sadly the original Angmar was a mess with fellowship quests blocking access to solo quests. It was almost impossible to get groups in West Angmar because everyone was stuck at a different point in the quests. At least that has been fixed now.

By: arbitrary

arbitrary — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:23:52 +0000

Yay for captains! Mine’s 59 now, I guess you could say I’m loving Moria and Eregion (is it a spoiler to note that there are no quests to kill boars in a region covered in them – love Turbine). I love the pacing of LotRO and the fact it demands groups for some things, but in the expansion they’ve actually put in some 3-man instances alongside the larger ones.

It’s severely under-rated

By: Oz

Oz — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:40:26 +0000

To me, the only expansion that has outshone Moria is Kunark for old EQ1. The amount of work that people put into Kunark made it the quality it was, and there was never an expansion as polished as that again, but Moria sure has come close to me.

I can only /salute the devs for the fantastic job. My kin, mostly composed of casual, mature players (agewise at least), is enjoying the fact we no longer are constantly chasing, and the few powergamers we have are enjoying themselves like children in an unsupervised candy store.

By: Jaggins

Jaggins — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:00:06 +0000

I am also really loving LOTRO MOM! I agree that the questing has really been refined in the new content. As for henchmen, my prediction is that they will smooth out the AI and code in DDO and roll out henchmen in the next paid expansion for LOTRO…

By: Ethic

Ethic — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:28:36 +0000

My hunter is 38 now, still plugging away and eagerly looking forward. Lots of good things coming down the road. I’m intentionally taking my time with this game. I have no fear of it going away, and each patch only makes it better and better.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:24:29 +0000

If you’re liking Eregion, you’re going to love Moria – especially the first few Chapters of Vol 2′s story. You can get about mid-way through Chapt 3 before you need to group up, and most of the other quests are soloable if you’re careful. Getting around is also surprisingly easy, especially for the first few quest hubs, including the ‘capital’ of Moria (the 21st Hall).

By: Tide

Tide — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:25:11 +0000

Not much to say other than “Yes” — LotRO seems to be one of the most underrated MMO’s out there. It’s up there with Eve for polish and good design for what it does well. I’m also looking forward to getting into Moria. Cheers.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:18:50 +0000

By all means, don’t skip Eregion. Most of my kinmates rushed into the Mines then realized some of the benefits Eregion offered — especially the swift travel points and regretted leveling so fast within the Mines themselves.

Eregion seemed to me a culmination of everything in the Volume I game. Even the soundtrack is a rotation of the more memorable tracks in other zones. Sort of a final farewell to the Volume I way of things, then entering Walls of Moria and the Mines we move to the Volume II game, which is a little tweaked and more streamlined perhaps.