The Daily Grind: What MMO holiday event are you looking forward to?

@DarkWalker

This will be the 2nd time they offer the christmas village quests where you can do such awesome tasks as clean up garbage and tell homeless people to move along..

The stage play was cool though, I will admit.

@SwarlesBarkley

What I really liked about previous LotRO seasonal events is that anyone aiming to have all deeds and mounts could be done in an hour or two, without having to ever repeat a quest; after that, it was just picking whatever events you fancied, or even ignoring the whole thing if you didn't really like the event.

From your example, I could quickly do all the quests I didn't really like just once, get my deeds, and for the rest of the event just do whatever activity picked my fancy. A little work, no repetition, and we had the deed and mounts and were free to do anything we wanted (and, most importantly, ignore anything we disliked) for the rest of the event.

The introduction of the new consumable deeds changed this for any completist like me, though. Now anyone who wants to get all deeds needs to complete a huge amount of seasonal repeatable quests (up to 60 for each deed, and the autumn fest had 7 of those), which means we don't have the luxury of choosing and picking anymore; instead, to "complete" the event, we need to endlessly grind all available quests, and even the hourly cooldowns. Instead of being a fun and relaxing time, the events with the new deeds became a stressful grindfest.

@DarkWalker This is evident of lotro in general. Went from fun to grind - fast. Everything after moria is a horrendous grindfest.

@Stanimir

Yeah the grind in Lotro has grown exponentially worse. Instead of being more creative or giving more content Turbine has found ways to become the ultimate milkmaids... Milking anything and everything under the sun.

@koolaroo
Same, although it seems right now all we've got is Zilloween on a rotating calendar schedule. Can we get Cosmas Eve or something? D: