Making my first char... Burglar :DFollow

1- Stats: There are only base stats in the game. You dont get points when you level, your attributes are raised automatically. However, you can do deeds such as kill X amount of this mob in a certain area...then you get a trait, which can be slotted to your character at a bard. You can change these as often as you like for a fee.

2- There is no weapon upgrades. You either buy them in the Auction Hall, have a friend craft them, get them from quests, or a nice dropped loot.

3- Landroval is the main RP server. Meneldor is the main PvP server. All servers should have a good player base though. For added information, the official Allakhazam Kinship is on Meneldor, There Is No Fifth Star.

4- There is no difference, other then the fact that they are seperate servers. People in Europe can play on the US servers but they have to order the US copy of the game, and vice versa.

5- To my knowledge the trial doesnt come with the high resolution textures, and it doesnt come with the movies. When you complete storyline quests (commonly called Books) there is a scenematic that plays after its done. Trial accounts are considered the full game, but wont contain those files...so you may want to reinstall, or just look on the Official forums because they have a file that you can download for those scenes.

Welcome to Lotro! I hope you enjoy it.

Way to step up and correct someone who's only helping . Incidentally its only recently that they include those in the trial download, just to clear that up. It wasnt always available to download.

The U.S. collectors edition comes with: A lame paper map, that is printed on tissue paper. You can 2 exclusive in game items, a ring with +1 Agility, and a cloak with 2 ooc morale regen...both of these items will be replaced before you hit level 15.

Yes they are. Apparently you have a different site then we do too...so I dont know any of the names of the servers you have. But if its set up the same, each server forum should have a small detailing of the contents.