movin from WoW to LOTROFollow

I did the move and don't regret it. I completely understand your logic and reasoning for looking for something else. This community seems very nice and helpful.

Lag has gotten a lot better of late, although you still run into issues during "prime time" and in cities. Gold farmers are still trying to make a toe hold in the game but Turbine has been extremely aggressive in dealing with them.

Overall, I would say that the game has had some really good improvements and fixes that are making it a lot more fun to play.

I too am thinking of coming to this. I mainly only play WoW for the raids. that is only 2 days a week for kara since my guild aint that far. I currently got a 27 dwarf champ. I love this game its alot more mature. Everyone is helpful. I even hang out with my manager from work. >.> But anyway the game is real simular controls etc. there is a raiding if you wanna do the raids. The lore of the game is also awesome. Well i hope this helps. send me a private message if you play on gladden if you got any questions i can try to help ya out.

Some of the jumpiness can be adjusted in the engine settings. Hit the <esc> key then choose options. Go to the troubleshooting tab on the bottom right. In here, scale your framerate back to 30 FPS and set engine speed to medium, that sometimes helps with the jerking around.

I'm making the move also..well as soon as my 3.9gb download is finished. I'm an older player and this looks more my speed. Tired of the lil kids, fart jokes, raids for uber leet gear, and the cartoon graphics.

I too am starting to drift to lotro from WoW. Things are a little more complicated for me than just unsubscribing from WoW, a 60+ player guild who I happen to be GM of brings into account some other conciderations but so far I'm 80% sure I'll make the switch.

I'm tired of WoW playing for so long, have 2 70's and numerous alts lvl 40-60. Not progressing at all in the last few weeks in regards to raiding and the 'been there bought the t-shirt' feeling has worn me down, I may go back for the expansion but for now I'm loving Lotro.

A level 16 minstrel I'm finding a challenge though but the learning process makes it all worthwhile. I'm not part of any kinship yet, I wanted to be sure I wasn't going to just put the game down after a week and waste peoples time before joining one but now I think I really should, I miss the friendship of a kinship/guild/clan and besides, there's got to be a lot I'll learn the hard way if i don't 'join the community'. Loving it so far :)

If he's on US Version. . .

I've still not met many other Brits on the US Servers, but unless OldHolborn's committed to EU version, I'd recommend Wordaen's suggestion and roll a US account. (Not straightforward but can be done legitimately - Send a PM if you're interested)

It's sometimes frustrating when the Septics in the Kinship are starting raids just as I'm heading for my mug of cocoa and the midnight news, but it's kewl being able to farm and grind deeds when all the Yanqui's are safe abed :-)

LOTRO is a great way to take a break from WoW. I play LOTRO for a month at a time about twice a year. It's nice and relaxing, like a walk through a garden. After awhile, though, I can't help going back to WoW for more exciting quests and leveling.

Only the UI is like WoW...please dont say such nasty things.

Everygame is going to be a WoW clone though...its a game that sold millions, why wouldnt other companies use the same idea?

Of course there are boars in this game...its not like they can make up fantasy creatures like WoW...they have RULES to follow...if you've read LOTR you know this.

Boars being in both games is not a good example either...if thats the case I played a WoW clone on my grandparents farm when they butchered the pigs.

Just started myself over the weekend, just wanted to know what you expected?

The fact that leveling is mostly quests and not grinding away is a big plus, but this brings into focus the problem with making many unique and also fun quests is that you need fluff (gather/kill quests) since the unique / fun quests take a lot of design and testing time and are typically missions/storyline in most games.

When you do get involved in the Epic line of quests you'll love those for sure if you prize storyline involvement and progression.

Since I just started I find the game refreshing and new as is expected, the UI is easily modified and the quest descriptions are frequently good enough to get you pointed in the right direction but requiring "exploring" almost all the time.

So if a prospective player is the type to like to look up everything on wowhead this might not be your cup of tea

The leveling pace so far is pretty fast imo but I can't speak for later levels. I can't speak for Gold issues since I don't currently use it but seem to be managing just fine thanks to some generous Kinship folks donating some bows (rolled a hunter for a change of pace from my normally critical tank/healer roles in the ffxi and wow to R&R here).

What does speak volumes about the game is that I spent nearly the entire weekend playing (fiancee was working =P ) it when I'm at a point in my life where I rarely spend more than 4-5 hours a day on weekends on FFXI or WoW.

The world is absolutely gorgeous if you can crank the settings to High and beyond.

The difference between LoTRO and the other games is that it is a real invitation to spend some money on a good system rewarding you tangibly for upgrading instead of just being slightly different or smoother.

FFXI looks basically the same and WoW isn't much different in my experience if you play at 1280x1024 on a ATI 9800pro or 1920x1200 on a 8800 Ultra short of using 3rd party tools to increase draw distance in FFXI's case which is at best a minor improvement since you are still saddled with textures so low resolution it's sad considering the excellent artistic/design value it has.

WoW I won't comment on too much because I have trouble "getting into" the graphics.

EQ2 is a exercise in frustration with regards to stable(ish) framerates, one minute you'll be zipping along the next you'll be a slideshow. The textures are of great quality but the environment can potentially be very monotonous/repetitive. A major step up from FFXI in the texture department but hamstringed by a generally poor environment design.

So now for downsides from my n00b perspective:

The HUD/Map is nearly useless in a Wooded area and only moderately useful otherwise but on the otherhand in dungeon's it's a draw as you explore type deal which is very much welcome vs. quest/buy to obtain.

The in game map other than for cities is useless

On Vista64 I get fairly frequent crashes (about once per hour), I know lolvista but this game actually does some nice graphical enhancements that are DX10 based.

Finding groups for non-soloable quests can be hard (personally if I have trouble I just carry on leveling until I'm capable of soloing them anyway).

Anyway that's enough from me since I'm already at risk for getting TL;DR's

I've been involved with Lotro since the beta, but since I've been in pretty deep with WoW for the past year, I had never gotten very far in Lotro. Now that my next WoW 70 is just around the corner WoW is becoming old for me and I've just about reached the "meh, been there, done that" syndrome. Now I'm starting to get back into playing Lotro again and I've found it to be a very refreshing change. Someone mentioned that the UI operates like WoW and that's pretty accurate, but the similarity ends there. So if you're like me, getting bored with WoW and looking for something different, Lotro is a good place to start.