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[063 Abra]

For the past few weeks I have enjoyed the game Lord of the Rings: Online and although I loved it for the past month or so it is beginning to become bland. I paid for the full version of the game, a $20 investment, and bought my first month after having loved the trial. After playing for a few weeks I decided to start a new character to find out that no matter what race or class you choose you have to do all of the same quests, not to mention that the quest and class system sucks.

I played a WoW trial for 20 minutes and thought it was much better than LotRO, the graphics weren't as nice but had a different attitude, and the gameplay was much better (more classes and races available, and I read reviews stating that gameplay in general is much better.)

So tomorrow I'm getting the WoW and Burning Crusade discs from my friend so I can play my 10 day free trial and see if this is the game for me.

I have been led to believe WoW is a better game, am I wrong? Should I even bother with WoW?

[ollieollie]

Having played both i preferred lotro but i know a lot of people will say WoW is better. I think it all comes down to personal preferences in the end. If your gonna give WoW a try get ready to loose your life. It will take hold of you as it does to most people that have played it

[serial_]

WoW is one of the funnest games i've ever played. I was one that got jaded by the expansion, as i feel that it took away from the classic gameplay of the core game.

However, 70 introduced a lot of new skills and talents that are a lot more fun to play around with, resulting in many more viable builds, and therefore causing each class to become more fun to play.

There's just a larger gear gap than before they released The Burning Crusade.

Still hella fun to play. The quests are repetetive tho, standard MMO get x and report / kill x and report. Good game though, i'd recommend it^^

[Jaylew]

Having played both i preferred lotro but i know a lot of people will say WoW is better. I think it all comes down to personal preferences in the end. If your gonna give WoW a try get ready to loose your life. It will take hold of you as it does to most people that have played it

Y'know, I'm really getting sick of this whole "If you play WoW you lose your life"
bullshit that people keep throwing around. I work, have an actively running comic
strip in the local paper, play 3 other games frequently, and go to school. ALL while
playing WoW, my life has not suffered, I have lost none of it, and I'm still getting
my recommended nookie twice a week, so srsly, just because some people are
n00bs at RL and cant manage their game time doesn't mean it's a constant thing.

Frankly, EQ hooked my life way more then WoW ever has, I'm still not "allowed"
to play it.

[frostyfuzion101]

Its a great game, but unless you're used to the leveling of old MMOs and RPGs, you'll probably get bored around 40-60. If you make it past there, the game gets awesome again. Compared to other games though, (I'm not a big MMO player, just from what I've heard) WoW's leveling "treadmill" is pretty small. The quests are kind of repetitive, and start to get boring around 20-30... After that, (at least before 2.3) the game got REALLY boring for me. I made it past that though, and around 50 if you're into wc lore, its pretty cool because you go to a lot of places in the RTS and such. 58-70 is significantly more fun. It gets a little boring near 70, but the sudden explosion of colors in outland, the awesome quests (that end up turning back into grinds at like 63), and the much more interesting atmosphere and faster zone switching/instances make 60-70 actually pretty fun. At 70, theres a lot of stuff to do, but I find that PvP is better for people who play "randomly" (like I'm bored and feel like playing for 7 hours today, but I might not play for like a week), and PvE is better for people who like a more teamwork friendly game, and take games too seriously sometimes. (You kind of have to schedule stuff around raids sometimes )

The whole wow ruins your life thing is bullshit. While I don't really go outside, and only go over to other people's houses like once every 2 weeks, I didn't really do much IRL to begin with. ( I think I started really playing video games when i was like 8 and never really liked anything else.) Its just like any other hobby that you really care about. The only change that I've noticed since I've started playing WoW is that I sleep like 2-3 hours less than I used to.


lol you have one of my quotes in your sig

[otaku_4_life]

Rofl, 2 of our GMs just quit WoW for LoTR Online.

[DarkKitchen]

LOTR PvP was really fun but I didn't like anything else about it

[Is this Battle Toads?]

WoW has two quests in the entire game. Kill X amount of those or collect Y amount of these. It does have the occasional "Talk to him!" quest.

[Sir Kyle Aziz]

It has ferrying quests too.

So what about killing monsters? WoW isn't good until level cap anyways. If you can survive the grind and enjoy it with friends then 70 is where it's at. Doing PvP or doing raiding (Lore ftw.)

[Senor_Hat]

So what about killing monsters? WoW isn't good until level cap anyways. If you can survive the grind and enjoy it with friends then 70 is where it's at. Doing PvP or doing raiding (Lore ftw.)

True that.

I have a warrior in the making, and I forgot how much it sucks doing the 40-60 portion of it.

Hate Tanaris so much.

[Defiled]

Indeed Tanaris is hell.

Like people have said, if you're used to MMO's you probably already know this. Prepare to devote some time to it, if you dont i think the game is a waste of money and it not as fun. You'll be paying £9 a month to do little.

Also like other's have said, get ready for a lot kill x and get y. I personally found leveling hard and annoying after a while (the 40-60 era) however if you have friends then it sure is a hell of a lot funner!

WoW has probably given me some of my golden moments in gaming, its an amazing game especially if you're on a great server and have friends on there.

[serial_]

WoW has two quests in the entire game. Kill X amount of those or collect Y amount of these. It does have the occasional "Talk to him!" quest.

This is true. However as the rogue i just recently leveled in 3 days =) =) =) i thouroughly enjoyed the "You must kill X person for crimes against The Forsaken" type quests. I really felt like an assassin, juxtapose my shaman who felt like an orcish battle mage crashing down the door and slaughtering everything, which is much less ninja and much more mafia.

I like leveling. I think the worst isn't 40-60, cause felwood is one of my favorite zones... but the 50-58 grind is the pits. The quests become slim pickins and most of them become world-wide quests taking you around the world and back again. THOSE quests suck muh big big big da balls.

WoW's leveling IS NOT BAD. Honestly it's one of the easiest MMO's to level in. The ONLY MMO i've found easier is Guild Wars, and it's hardly an MMO as there's little to no PvE end-game. I mean raids^^

The only thing that sucks is the fact that blizzard just keeps upping the level cap by 10x at a time. It's not that gaining a level takes oh so much time, it's that you have to do it 70 times and it becomes a broken record. WTB AA plz yahkthxbai.

[063 Abra]

WoW has two quests in the entire game. Kill X amount of those or collect Y amount of these. It does have the occasional "Talk to him!" quest.

That's what LotRO's quests are like except no matter what class or race you are you have to do all of the exact same quests, really gay. They could vary it.

[Defiled]

Well i never played LotrO so i did'nt know, however if that is the case...

Then you should like WoW tbh. Just hope you can get on a good server with some good people on it.

[otaku_4_life]

That's what LotRO's quests are like except no matter what class or race you are you have to do all of the exact same quests, really gay. They could vary it.

It's like that in WoW, too, except the quests you do from like 1-40 depend on what zone you start in (what race you pick) usually. Also, you get class quests at certain levels that are specific to your class and will give you neat rewards (some are required rewards like the Warrior Stance quests and Paladin rez quest).

[frostyfuzion101]

It's like that in WoW, too, except the quests you do from like 1-40 depend on what zone you start in (what race you pick) usually. Also, you get class quests at certain levels that are specific to your class and will give you neat rewards (some are required rewards like the Warrior Stance quests and Paladin rez quest).

fail. "everything is the exact same"
"its like that in wow too!"
"except for half the game"

WoW's quests get kind of repetitive too, but they mix it up with some really interesting questlines, and some quests that are actually really fun. (that random fish thing in theramore, people's militia, bombing etc.)

[Tree_]

Neither, play Runescape.

[063 Abra]

Neither, play Runescape.

They killed RuneScape.

I'm playing my trial, kick ass so far.

[Squ1nty]

Compare LOTRO to WOW? That makes me laugh.