LOTRO Book 10 released

[lupi]

I haven't played LOTRO in about 2 weeks due to some boardgaming and playing some other comp titles that I started and didn't finish (KOTOR being one) so I can pack them away while doing some house renovation. So I was much surprised when I clicked over to the LOTRO site and saw Book 10 patch notes up. Mega kudos to the group from just reading the first couple pages of notes. Huge improvements to PvP, making it so you can change your mount choice with no cost, just doing a quest (something Blizz hasn't and has refused to implement ) and others. I wanted to pump in some more time tonight in KOTOR to get it done, but the new patch notes are making me weak (BTW, I love being a founder and not worrying if I played enough to justify my monthly bill)

 

[lupi]

Link to main discussion thread.


Texthttp://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=84349

 

[Modelworks]

I stopped playing lotro about 2 months ago.
I've been following the patch notes since then, considering returning.
My only concern with lotro is the server populations, they seem to be going down.
I already had a hard time finding groups months ago, is it any better now ?

 

[lupi]

It's not that there isn't enough players, it's that most players dislike the way they have the group quest set up (as I've said before). You can spend hours trying to get a group for Dol Dinen with no success but head back into the ranger outpost and see 50 people standing around. With the way you must form a group, go into the area and do those quest, only to come out and get quest to go right back has many people just avoiding those quest. A classic example would be the great barrows; if not for being part of the epic quest line you'd never see so many groups forming for it.
 
 
I've read all the notes by now and must say except for all the classes not having been post release reviewed yet that these are some real good fixes. (yeah, reduce quantities required for scholars and add scholar node tracking - although there are some initial reports of node spawn times being reduced)