LotRO or Lord of the Rings Online
They have it set up in LotRO for casual players to get experience bonus points. So the longer you are gone the more points you get. That doesn't mean you will automatically level if you are gone a week. How these points work is as you defeat enemies you gain some extra points from this bonus point pool. This allows for much faster leveling. Another thing that makes LotRO a casual friendly game is almost all the characters can heal themselves in some way. May not be the best heals but at least you can so this shortens down time or allows you to continue fighting a bit longer before you have to wait on the downtime. Most missions or quest have a tracking system as well as a guide letting you know how your doing. The guide only gets you into the general area from there you need to find what ever it is that you are looking for. This is nice because you get to do some exploring like in most other Online games but not be as frustrated with trying to locate the area. Have you ever had someone kill your mob stealing the xp and more importantly the loot? well guess what not in this game. the first person to hit the mob gets the xp and the loot. So who cares if someone accidentally or purposely does it your the one who lucks out.
There plenty of achievements to obtain, even these can help your character out in different ways. It is a definite plus to gain a few of these early on. Ok you Power gamers I know your thinking geeze sounds like a pretty lame game. Well I thought so at first as well but its not. All the above just allows other players to keep up in level with you . Yes the quest gear is decent but the drops is were you will have the advantage. There is also a unique PvP system. Where you play as mordor minions. Be a spider, a warg , or how about a goblin or orc. You don't start out all that powerful but as you play and gain destiny points you will be a force to deal with. With 9 classes to choose from there is definitely a character you will like from a stealth Burglar to a high armored Captain, to a magic slinging Lore Master and many more. Now as much great stuff as there is about this game 2 things I found extremely annoying about LotRO. 1 downloading and installing the game was a pain in the tail. This may be do to me getting a new computer with a new OS which I'm still working out all the kinks with. it took there Tech support 2-3 days to get it all sorted out and working properly. But must say they were pretty quick about trying to get me on so I give there Tech support a great 2 thumbs up. Ok 2nd thing that was annoying and continues to be annoying is when you play the game there are times when you can not do any damage to a mob it goes into a anti exploit mode. Ok now before you think you were exploiting I wasn't. I am fighting mobs in a open area right next to them when this takes effect. Then when you finally give up waiting and switch to another mob it then does same thing. Worst part of this is if you then switch again you may end up getting the 2 you attacked that went into the exploit mode and here they come to eat you. GREAT!! ok but that being said you can reset this problem by logging out and back in. Do not do this in a instance or you have to start all over. So who should play this game? anyone who is a big fan of Tolkien s books. LotRO follows the story very well with you being the side story, seeing what happened to those trying to help frodo and sam. while not always being in direct contact with them. Who have I seen and talked to in the game. How about Strider (Arragon) and Gandolf. Yes pretty cool interacting with characters from the book and they give quests to do.Your a intricate part of what happens in the book. So what are you waiting for your story has yet to be told. This is one game I will suggest players get because of how well done it is. If your just going to test out 1 mmorpg this year this should be it. As Always
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