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Posted: May 3rd 2009 8:30PM (Unverified) said

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So... why do people still play that game? Maybe this will make finally move away from that crack-game... The raids in LOTRO are amazing compared to WoW's...

Seems as if blizzard is starting to treat their customers like the darkfail people...
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Posted: May 3rd 2009 9:20PM Halldorr said

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"The raids in LOTRO are amazing compared to WoW"

Really? Like how so? I genuinely ask as I never got past level 30 in LOTRO and am curious.
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Posted: May 3rd 2009 10:09PM johnnliu said

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I stopped playing LOTRO ages ago because I thought the raiding end game was lacking.
Since I'm not playing LOTRO now, I can't speak for other's experiences, but this is what someone on my blog list says, as recent as 1 week ago:

http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/04/27/strategic-class-selection/

Sounds a bit odd when you need to stack 6 hunters in a 12 man raid group... using only 5 out of the total 9 classes available. That speaks to me to be lacking in proper raid design.
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Posted: May 3rd 2009 10:09PM Jesspiper said

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It's a matter of opinion. I also prefer LOTRO's raid content to WoW's but I'm not actually sure if it's "better", aside from the obvious and vast graphical superiority of LOTRO of course.
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Posted: May 3rd 2009 10:21PM Holgranth said

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Your trolling makes me laugh and pity you.....greatly.
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Posted: May 3rd 2009 10:53PM (Unverified) said

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actually they changed that instance design as it wasn't doing what it was supposed to be doing, there were other ways of doing it

I've played both games and prefer LOTRO, but even then I have to admit that if you like raiding, stick with WoW. LOTRO's end game content is either 1 main fight a week(watcher) or an upcoming Rift-like dungeon with multiple mobs(once a week also, 1 to 2 days to finish). So if you're used to logging in WoW every single night and really like raiding every moment, I wouldn't touch LOTRO.

If you like to do other things(like housing, collecting trophies, tradeskilling, etc etc) than raiding, then try LOTRO, its much more diverse in gameplay.
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