Comments on: Evendim and Hengstacer

By: Illthirst

Illthirst — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:41:21 +0000

Evendim was a fantastic addition to the game’s content, with great quests, countless options and easy levelling. You find many nice solo adventures on a well-built landscape with various enemies and you have one of the best group quests we had those days (Helping the Ent against corrupted wood-trolls)!

If you think about it, Evendim made leveling from 32-37 quick and enjoyable, but if we take Forochel for example, I can remember nothing but hundreds of people racing for the same deer. Never done that map on any of my chars, simply becoz you dont need to, at all.. After Evendim the Trollshaws is more exciting then you continue jumping levels easilly in Angmar.

To the Horse-Fields issue: what’s the point putting stable there, when your mission is to deliver the fresh steed FROM the fields TO the stables of Bree, MD and the poor dorfs..?

By: Blue Kae

Blue Kae — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:07:14 +0000

Turbine has been expanding the soloableness (real word?) of the game since Evendim was released, so the revamps are just applying the later design philosophy to earlier zones.

Personally I prefer to have as many options as possible. I can solo if I need to or find a group if I want, but I’m not forced to do either. There’s nothing more frustrating than getting one or two hours to sit down and play, only to spend half of that time putting a group together.

By: Syncaine

Syncaine — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:52:45 +0000

Removing elites… that sounds familiar. Off to single player MMO land we go!

By: Blue Kae

Blue Kae — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:55:27 +0000

Not a total revamp, but at least in Ered Luin they did shift some quests around a bit and some of the early fellowship quests were converted to soloable (Elites converted to Signatures). There’s less traveling as some of the quest givers that were out in the wilderness have been rearranged to make small quest hubs.

By: Syncaine

Syncaine — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:09:32 +0000

Total revamp, or did they just make everyone level faster? I really liked the 1-15 experience the three times I did it (beta, launch, and again a year or so ago)

Both times right at 35 is when my fiance and I hit a wall, although it was a combo of LotRO destroying videocards and the grind becoming noticeable that did it.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:02:39 +0000

Syncaine: the level 1-15 experience got a revamp. That takes you to Bree-town. The rest of Bree-land and the early Lone Lands are next.

By: Ethic

Ethic — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:59:23 +0000

They should make it so that after you do the mount dance one time you can just purchase one on any alts when you get to 35.

By: Syncaine

Syncaine — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:18:53 +0000

The riding was pointless, but the course itself is decent enough (especially since it’s the first time you have a mount)

I have not been following LotRO that closely, what zones have they revamped so far?

By: Zubon

Zubon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:35:14 +0000

Yeah, there’s nothing to it. 35 minutes of nothing. And then the course.

By: Ethic

Ethic — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:33:20 +0000

It wasn’t that bad really. First mount to Bree. Take horse to Trestlebridge and hop off by horse farm. Second mount to Michel Delving. Swift travel to Bree, horse to Trestlebridge, hop off at farm. Third mount to Othrikar, map recall to Bree, horse to Trestlebridge and hop off. Run race.