The system is still odd, what’s the point of making 2nd/1st age weapons level slower after level 30 or what was it again. People have decided whether to keep them or sell them at this point anyways.

I also got fairly lucky with a 3rd Age Axe, max rank Crit Multiplier/Area Skills/Relentless Strikes, no Wild Attack (or is it called Wild Strikes in English, don’t remember) legacy unfortunately.

You will now experience the new grind – getting the +10 levels scroll and the legacy upgrade scrolls. The 1950 Skirmish marks or 75 Medallions of Dol Guldur, the first one is much more reasonable than the latter.

The real bomb is the new incentive to maximize crafting and crafting guild rep: +600 to attack and some 400 to crit rating x2 on your two legendaries are almost like combining the bonus stats of four +X rings. Needless to say, I finally bothered to max my reputation with the tailor’s guild, as both crafted relics are bound to the crafter, unfortunately.

Rather than releasing an expansion with bugs in the instances like they did with Moria, it seems that Turbine released an expansion with bugs in the LI and Skirmish systems. People are finding ways to get back more legacy points than they should with the new scrolls, and other legacies are only giving a fraction of the bonus they should. They are also some strange bugs with Minstrel healing that are most likely due to the switch from tactical skills doing a static amount of damage or healing to them doing a range.

The problem with legacy upgrades isn’t going to be fixed until the next Book update because they want to do it “right”. In the meantime players are going to be frustrated over the next month or two as they grind through skirmishes to get their LI legacies maxed out and find that the scrolls do nothing.

I don’t mind complexity, Especially at later levels. Confusion however is something LotRO has at Level 1.
I tried out LotRO about 1 to 1.5 years ago. I found the icons for the skills/spells were horrible. They seemed tiny, they all kind of looked similar, didn’t really seem to go well with the skill itself.
That combined with the same old system of ‘Get a million ‘quests’ that you don’t care about, finish them as quickly as you can, and get a million more’ really turned me off from the game.

I feel justified in my decision when I read about how each expansion just raises the levels and obsoletes all the old gear you worked so hard to get, just like WoW.

I really think an MMO should focus more on enhancing your character’s skills and your existing items for each expansion.

Oh, by the way, Congo rats on your bow!

I’m sure when you feel pretty awesome now when your killing things with it :)

I’m probably most happy that I know sooner whether the LI will be any good (level 30 isn’t that hard to get too) but the randomness in both the ID/reforge process and in rune deconstruction is a bit rough. SoM is better as there are more ways to earn relics but they still are both pretty painful grinds. But at least there are some grinds that are clearly defined – the upgrade scrolls aren’t terribly expensive if you either like skirmishes or raid.

I really like the LI concept and hope it can be resurrected so here’s hoping Volume 3 is the LI re-work ;)