{"id":1153,"date":"2009-05-15T05:29:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T11:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2009-05-15T05:56:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T11:56:40","slug":"ready-to-diminish-and-sail-into-the-west-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/05\/ready-to-diminish-and-sail-into-the-west-now.html","title":{"rendered":"“Ready to diminish and sail into the West now”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching Margie play LotRO last night<\/a> during the stress test<\/a> reminded me of everything I loved and didn’t love about the game. (The comment above was hers, by the way, playing her “hot elf ranger chick with a bow” Frellian<\/strong> as I headed upstairs for bed.)<\/p>\n

Big plus: the setting is still stunning, a beautiful and thoughtful rendering of Middle Earth. If you were going to make a LotRO MMO, it would be hard to craft it better than this.<\/p>\n

Biggest minus: a lot of running around; still a lot of mining (harvesting, pruning, digging, skinning) resources; a lot of wild animals killed to get “a scrap of dirty hide,” “a tongue,” “a claw,” etc. Grand and epic, not so much.<\/p>\n

Margie did show me some of the new mapping functions that make it a lot easier to find where your quest is located.  I’m sure there are other QoL improvements, from what Doyce has written. But as I watched Margie, after hours of playing, still stopping by each bush, struggled to make sure she had her axe active vs. her hoe, and harvest off some wood for this and that, it still felt more like Starcraft<\/em> than LotRO.<\/p>\n

Not feeling any great compulsion to re-up. I dinged Molly Morningstar <\/strong>up to 24 on CoH and had a blast with it (literally, as I grabbed a pretty nasty Mental cone power to go with all of her Fire AoE attacks). We had a very good team, led by an excellent tank, which is just what Molly needs (keep the aggro off of me and gather all the baddies in one spot).<\/p>\n

The LotRO stress test, btw, appears to have been pretty stressful, as both Margie and Avocet complained of major lag, especially earlier in the evening. That’s what they were trying to test for, of course, so I guess it was successful. No fabulous prize awarded to Margie, alas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watching Margie play LotRO last night during the stress test reminded me of everything I loved and didn’t love about the game. (The comment above was hers, by the way, playing her “hot elf ranger chick with a bow” Frellian as I headed upstairs for bed.) Big plus: the setting is still stunning, a beautiful and … Continue reading ““Ready to diminish and sail into the West now””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay","category-lotro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}