My LotRO Rants!Follow

I like ranting. I'm famous for it.

*takes a deep breath*


My first rant has to do with me. I wish that I could get over the healer mode I'm (apparently) used to having. Don't get me wrong, I'm LIKING the fact that my minstrel needs a group to do the simplest of things. I just wish that I could *remember* that this is the case rather then dying 2-3 times before I notice a problem! Damn you easy MMO's that have spoiled me into thinking it's my right as every class to accomplish the same thing, in the same way, at the same level, with every class! It doesn't help I play 2-3 MMO's at a time. So I have trouble remembering how each works right away.

Thank you LotRO for not making it so. This is good!!! Now for a complete and total re-adjustment of my head! Apparently my learning curve is 2-3 deaths, a shot of tequila (for the "I don't WANT to throw my monitor through my back door" effect), and at least 30 minutes of playing an alt! My hunter whom I abandoned for my minstrel is moving up faster then my poor minstrel! I feel like a betrayer!
My second rant will be taken a little more personally then the first. So be it.

DAMN YOU PEOPLE OF AZEROTH! STOP HITTING MY MOBS WHILE I'M BEATING DOWN UPON IT MERRILY ON MY OWN! *wipes the perspiration off her forehead* While this may not be directly attributable to Azeroth, you will have a hard time convincing me otherwise. It is was the utter height of rudeness in an MMO to attack a mob that was being handled just fine. It was a difficult judgement. He's almost dead, do I assist? Do I heal? OH NO! There went another 10% of his life in one hit. HEAL HEAL! And then he was dead. And then you sent him a message! "My friend, I am sorry for your death, I was not quick enough!" And he responded "No problem, can you help me clear the path back in?" And you did, and you had a friend for life.

Since the creation of the "easy button" of Azeroth people feel they are helping you by "taking" your mob. So here goes the true rant. Knock it off azzhat's! (OH! First time I've EVER used that in any FORM that wasn't derogatory towards the person actually using it!) MY MOB! MINE! MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE! Okay. I feel better!!


My 3rd rant will be towards my guild. Who are a *wonderful* bunch of folks.

If our guild drama consists of someone bashing someone elses MMO, that someone saying "I don't like that, please stop" and then 45 minutes of profuse apologizing and a 5 paragraph forum apology, you people need to go back to guild drama school!!! Where are the days of:

ME: (accidentally in guild chat) "Suzy sux! She can't pull a single mob without killing off our group, and she smells funny"
Guildchat: .....
ME: "MT!"
Guild: General how I am a no good backstabbing *insert expletive* and this always ends with being kicked out of the guild, 2 weeks of trying to get back in (cause ya know, they're my FRIENDS!) and then repeating it accidently.

Oh and of course, this always occurs during a raid, after Suzy has killed us off 12 times, and gone afk for 45 minutes at least twice after being 90 minutes late to the roll call! But she's the GM's wife, so whatcha gonna do?!

No my friends....you are all a little crazy, and I pledge the rest of my MMO days to our fine community, because you guys are truly gonna blow up and go nutso one day, and I wouldn't miss it for the world.


I hope that you have all enjoyed my ranting. If not, at least I feel better!

See you in game!

T

[EDIT: I forgot 2 important rants!!!]

LOtRO auction house: What MMO in this day in age doesn't let me click on an item and have it auto enter into the search box for me?! How hard can this possibly be? (If a developer of something comes up and starts giving me code, I will slap you!)

How is it that every micro-play wanna be 200 people playing MMO has figured out how to make an item pop up its own stats PLUS the stats of what I'm currently wearing but Turbine hasn't? Seriously. IT is *retarded* for an MMO in this day in age not to offer it. It's like playing UO on patch day (year one) every time I need to switch armor. THE MOST PAINFUL THING IN THE WORLD! *cries* Someone! Help me!!

oki, done now!

*breaths a sigh of relief and heads off to play her minstr....hunter*

[Damn forum software won't let me use unordered lists for the first 3 rants, so you're stuck trying to separate them yourselves! I spent more time trying to format this sucker then I did writing it!]

Edited, Nov 17th 2007 10:50am by tovin

Why would I no rate you for explaining to me how to do my #1 pet peeve of the game?! It's not your fault I'm a moron! You're my hero! You're the hero of a moron! *grins*

WOO!

T
[Edit: And what is no-rating?! *blushes and runs off to find Word!*]

Edited, Nov 17th 2007 11:06am by tovin

I have the ability to ban, no-rate, mute and karma slap someone into negativity. I simply use them only when warranted :)

Tovin, get with me in our lotro channel some time and I will show you how to use those tools and whatnot.

i think the reason why every new mmorpg doesn't have all the things you liked from other ones is that, they dont want to seem like they're just copying.

eg, why not use huge birds to fly us around? they showed up in the LOTR movie, and it fits in with the theme. oh yea, because it would be similar to WoW, and LOTR would not be able to live it down how they're just trying to duplicate WoW (and other predecessors) because, well, after all, aren't all good games having some of the same things at least, but they try not to be so blatant about it. eg, a horse is a horse, there aren't too many ways you can add that to a humanoid fantasy/medieval rpg and not look like you took some idea, but that kind of mount idea isn't something that is hugely in just one game.

this would be the reason why we don't have some of the things that are already available in other fun and interesting mmorpgs.

Edited, Nov 20th 2007 5:44pm by bluegayle

Here is my et-a-cat 'list'...

1. Gold selling scumbags can go to H. E. double hockey sticks.

2. If someone is fighting within 20m of a node, wait until they are done and ASK if they want the node.

3. High levels characters doing deeds, or whatever, in low-level areas: Low level characters have the right-of-way. Just because you can one-shot every mob in the area doesn't give you the right to do it.

4. Don't jump past an active group (or even a solo) to do a boss, it is just like node stealing. Ask first.

5. Don't help anyone kill a mob who 1.) doesn't ask for help, or 2.) isn't about to die. The 'about to die' is a judgement though. Stay out of the way if you really want to help.

If you think you might be acting like a dink, you probably are --Kitca

Any other complaints are minor hehe...

Edited, Nov 20th 2007 4:39pm by Dottiel

Darth says 'Good' about 5 different times in various scenes in that movie.

The 'good' characters say 'I've got a BAD feeling' an equal number of times.

Well only Turbine would know who the buyers are. One can hope they are dealt with severely.

Everyone knows who the scumbag spammers are (albeit briefly).

I have one small problem now, I have 4 days off because i'm lucky but now I have got to the later levels all the quests are group quests and so i have to wait for a 2 hour time zone to actually do my quests. Now I can't play this game fully on my days off. And when i was playing with my minstrel soloing was easier then my hunter because i could heal every 30 seconds.

*licks Tueval*

HI!! *waves like a madwoman!*

Mal, I kind of felt the same way, but at 21 (and a minstrel to boot...guess it depends on what you consider low levels heh) I'm going strong on the solo quests. I found quite a few at the Foresaken Inn in the Lone Lands and in the next city over. I save my fellowship quests call in some guildies and we *race* through the quests.

I have found the exorbitant amount of fellowship quests both Vanguard like *yips* and very very welcoming. Of course, the fact that I have an awesome guild who's always trying to do stuff for me has saved my frustration.

Good luck!

Damn it, now I'm irked too!

This has been a particularly horrendous weekend for really really rude node jumpers. You know who you are. Quit being an ***.

Okay, gold sellers are an irritant. A rash on my butt inducing irritant. I report them and pop them on my ignore list. Problem solved? No, because they keep showing up. Why? Because of you flipping gold buyers!

Gold buyers, I blame you directly and personally for the entire gold seller problem in MMOs.

Ever heard of delayed gratification? Yes, sometimes that means you'll have to work and save for something you want now, but will get later. Try it sometime. MMO players everywhere will appreciate it.

Every time I want to play lately they have to bring the servers down for some hardware problem. Agh, someone please feed the gerbils.

I was only in for a minute and servers go down until 5pm.

It's my Birthday and there should be no downtime today.

while my hunter doesn't seem as good as other random hunters i see, i am not having any trouble with soloing. by the time the monster gets to melee range, he is about 25% HP left...that rest of that goes fast with the melee skills or the instant bow shots.

one thing i learned about my hunter after many levels was to start a fight with full focus. prior to that, i probably could do about 1 skill during a fight before i have to stand there and take a few hits while i build up focus again.

but with the full focus at the start, i'm doing about 4 special moves during one fight. in fact, many times the monster is dead already before i can do the 3rd one because of the cool-downs.

as for my minstrel, with some increases in Fate and other stats (from deeds or yellow gear that focuses better on certain stats), i actually think she kills faster than the hunter! that shout ability that i usually do as the opener really can crit very high. sometimes i even get to use it 2x in one fight since i open with it.

someone said before that purple gear, even at these levels, helps. i think it does, but probably mainly if it has the other stats, like Fate, Agi, Might. Morale/Vit and Power/Will doesn't seem too much of an issue so far. Generally in 1v1, I can kill stuff before it is a danger to me. i say this because while i try to get some VIT in there, i see many others who have 100 to 200 less HP than I do (roughly +33 or +66 VIT or Morale combo). They certainly don't seem to be any more dead than I am when fighting the same things.