Inventory damage. WTF is the point of this? Am I clubbing the mob with my backpack of loot? Nothing is more fun than hitting the Auction House, attempting to post your Slippers of Hipness and getting a "This item needs to be repaired" message. Wait, I thought of something more fun -- paying 5sp to repair an item you might get 10sp for in the AH. Or getting 88cp from the vendor for it.
Repair costs in general. I know it's being looked into but costs to repair jewelry and weapons is obscene. A +3 Vitality Ring isn't worth 4sp to repair every couple of days. Earrings are worse. I've spent probably over 50sp repairing my quested Halberd. And this is selective repairing, not "repair all".
Itemization on mobs is a joke. The Tarkrip orcs north of Bree drop yellow items like candy from the sky. In Weathered Hills, there's a fort of half-orcs, lvl 17-19. A couple hours of killing them netted me one yellow item, a receipe and a bunch of vendor crap. I only stayed on the perverse belief that one of them had to drop something worthwhile.
Map roads that lead nowhere. The map says this is a road to Happytown. There's a road to Happytown. But, wait! An unopenable gate! An invisible wall in the river! I understand wanting to expand content later but don't put it on the map and waste my time investigating if it's just going to be a wall.
God damn bears and pigs. I suppose this is in all MMORPGs but, Christ almighty, can we please come up with some new mobs? "Baby pig", "Small pig", "Medium pig", "Large pig", "Disease large pig", "Festering diseased large pig", "Enraged festering diseased large pig with friggin' LASERS on its head"... etc. Somewhere out there is an average sized pig who can single-handedly destroy the Shires. I mean, c'mon, there's frogs out there the size of a large dog who can kill a well-armed man?
Another day, another ruin. One thing LoTRO is missing is any feel of epic-ness. I remember being in awe of the giant bridge in Eastern Karana, the massive spires in the Dreadlands, the fun of the subway in WoW and giant forge, etc. LoTRO seems to be endless rolling landscape punctuated by occassional ruins which all look pretty much the same. I've traveled in areas deep purple to me and it's still the same landscape and same ruins, only meaner pigs, bigger bears and the occassional new humanoid.
Customer service. No, not Turbine's. Why is it, when I click on a vendor, they tell me some variant of "***** off and leave me alone"? Nothing adds to the comfort and homeiness of a hobbit town like being told "Please leave me to my misery" when I ask to buy some coal. Maybe he should have just stayed home. Emo *******.
Ok, enough ******** for now! I still enjoy the game but it's the little things, you know?
Edited, Apr 17th 2007 8:17am by Jophiel
