Comments on: A tale of two expansions

By: Acronymicon: MGORPG « Tish Tosh Tesh

Acronymicon: MGORPG « Tish Tosh Tesh — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:11:01 +0000

[...] with the whole “SWTOR companions are solo friendly, and LOTRO Skirmishes are solo friendly and FUN“, the “MMOs are for grouping only” zealots are tunneling out of the [...]

By: /AFK – Expansion Madness Edition « Bio Break

/AFK – Expansion Madness Edition « Bio Break — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:12:01 +0000

[...] Spinksville re: WoW/LOTRO – “The most successful expansions are accessible to a wide variety of players, with something new for low level characters as well as the hardcore endgame crowd.” [...]

By: Brian 'Psychochild' Green

Brian 'Psychochild' Green — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:43:49 +0000

If you’re not having fun, time to switch games. Take a long, hard look. As a former WoW player, I found LotRO both familiar yet different in good ways. You might like it.

By: Thallian

Thallian — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:38:28 +0000

Skirmishes don’t “replace” dungeons or raids though so don’t worry that people won’t need your leet healing skills ever. And the companion healer is a poor substitute for a minstrel any day.

By: spinks

spinks — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:32:01 +0000

This is where I have to admit I haven’t checked it for months. But looks to be working fine for me. You won’t be able to log in and see the stats for this site but the stat counter itself is working.

By: Callan

Callan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:16:33 +0000

Also your stat counter doesn’t seem to be working – or isn’t for me, anyway

By: Callan

Callan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:47:10 +0000

Thanks for the info – I’d heard about skirmishes, but didn’t realise this was trying to provide some group action for those who like an ability to solo (ie, the ability to flip the bird to jerks in a PUG since you can have fun without them, rather than flipping them the bird then…sitting around, basically in a worse off situation).

By: uzbeck

uzbeck — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:33:05 +0000

Call me in-secure

I actualy quite like the way LoTR is focusing in on smaller groups and scaleable content. As Spinks well knows i’ve been bitching and whining and generally QQing about the lack of this in WoW for some time.

The rigid limit of 5/10/25 is causing me personal pain grief in WoW and one of the reasons I log only to raid, AH and the odd bit of alting currently. So mebbe LoTR would be better for me. Hard to give up on 80 levels of 210+ levels of ‘investment’ right now of course. The ‘seeker’ in me does love the idea of exploring Middle Earth though

By: Pete S

Pete S — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:56:39 +0000

Oh, and huge props to Spinks for the ctrl-D backspace nostalgia; thanks for starting my day with a chuckle.

By: Pete S

Pete S — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:55:05 +0000

I probably should have mentioned at some point that Skirmish Companions aren’t full pets, in that you don’t really control them in any but the broadest ways. You set up their skills before the battle (but changing those costs coin) and can set a target for them during the battle, but that’s that.

So I think a real person is always going to be better than a companion.