I love Lotro, I love the fidelity to the Tolkien lore, I love that it feels like what I imagine Middle-Earth would, I love that it’s one of the few MMOs that feels like a virtual world and I just love the well-rendered environments… I even love their F2P model.
But if you ask me whether I’m playing or not my answer is no. Not because of anything on the game’s part but rather because I feel that to do the game justice I need to invest enough time in it, time I feel I don’t have between playing WoW, playing single player games, playing some world of tanks and all life’s normal requirements.
But lately the itch has been growing stronger and I’m trying to figure out a plan to tackle Lotro. I know what my goal is, to explore the game and do most if not all of the single player content to see the storyline but how to do it eludes me. I’ve thought about playing it like a single player game but the time commitment I fear would be too much. So that why I’m asking you guys today for ideas. How would you tackle a game like Lotro and if you already did, how did you do it?
I play lotro as my main game but I have a real hankering to play Vanguard however, like you, its time away from RL commitments or lotro… What I’ve decided to do is to play VG one evening a week to explore and quest. I’m not sure if that’s often enough but hopefully it’ll work out
with regards to lotro, I think if you’re willing to miss the group instances, you could easily treat it as a solo game and play maybe in regular small chunks. The overland quest areas and epic storyline are all soloable up to cap, quest reward gear (& esp gear available from rep merchants) will do you just fine, tradeskilling is pretty easy (although that will lead you into the danger of alts
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anyway, hope you find some time and get to enjoy it
I don’t know if that helped or answered your question – now wondering if you meant an order to levelling through the zones…
You’re right on it, don’t worry
The dedicated small chunk of time has crossed my mind for sure… I need to see how I can fit it in.
I too manage LOTRO in small chunks but do suffer from frustration when do not have the time to really explore in depth..mainly due to RL
All the best with your endeavor.