Lord of the Rings Online

[EverBlue]

As I've seen no thread about it.. Although there probably is one, because I'm blind when it comes to make double threads..

Anyways, I picked this up yesterday because I've heard good things.. And I recently stopped playing WoW because I hate the grind. I hate the grind so much.

LotRO uses the same interface and gameplay as WoW (Almost) so it's really easy to figure things out.
The game looks pretty good.
I wish I could say I'm enjoying it, but I'm only level 7 at the moment, and there still seems to be a bit of a grind.. Although, less so, because getting XP from monsters isn't as easy as in WoW. On WoW I got to level 11 off of the intro/tutorial by mostly killing.. In this? I got out of the intro as a level 5. Questing gets you most of your XP, unfortunately quests like "Kill X amount of X, and collect X amount of X from them."
For example.. Bears, and bear pelts.. Why, oh why, do only a few bears of the dozen you kill have pelts?
I've also discovered Bears like Hobbits as much as honey.

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[Exile]

So, its annother one of those games where you cant move without a single " lol " or " roflcopter!!?1!?11!?1?!!?1 ah is teh 7331 h4x" dropping?

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[EverBlue]

Not quite.
I've only ever seen that happen on crappy free MMOs.
So far I've had a blast on this one. People are friendly and helpful, and there's quite a bit of RP that goes on.

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[Exile]

Excellent.
So, hows the graphics there? Graphic card killing, normal, below normal, ect ect?

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[EverBlue]

Minimum requirements for a video card are a 64 MB NVIDIA GeForce 3, orrr An ATI Radeon 8500.

I use an ATI Radeon X1650 Pro. I got 4 gigs of RAM, dual core 1.8 ghz processor and I run this game on ultra high no problem.
It's apparently not too bad on less powerful machines, but I've only heard that from various sites.

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[Exile]

And the pvp/RP, hows it?

Yes, before i go and actually buy a game, id like to know alot about it:P

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[EverBlue]

This is more of a PvE game.
TONS of RP. I see roleplayers EVERYWHERE.

For the PvP.. There's a PvMP mode or something, when at level 40 players can take the form of monsters and fight other players? I dunno. I was never big into PvP and never really looked into that portion of the game.

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