It’s not like Aragorn leveled from 1 to 70 (or whatever) and was exponentially more powerful when he finished the storyline. His story was more about how his character developed. I’d love to see a game try to illustrate that by developing character in storytelling and even asking players to develop their own character via tough moral choices.

Sidenote: I have tried creating an account, but I keep getting an error. I submitted a query, and hopefully they will have it sorted out in “3-5 business days”.

I wondered if I would rather like Rohan or whatever is next zone by zone or wait longer and get a ton of new areas and quests at once.

I had some very cool quests (the “Wild Hunt”) and a lot of kill 10x and collect 10x crap (crap is to be taken literally this time) quests, much more of them than before were repeatable but IMO fell back in quality behind the Lothlorien and Mirkwood quests of that type, as they are rather uninspired. What I really liked were the “find the rune marker and the treasure” quests.

I wonder what is “next” after the November update. Will we progress to Mordor one area every X months? The formula can become a little tiring, +/-1 stat on every item, little true progression and every new area has 1-2 new factions with new barter tokens. The good thing is that the new factions are easily maxed through normal questing and gameplay, I am already ally of the Grey Company and almost the same with the savage men of the Enedwaith after a few days. The thing is, even without raiding Dol Guldur and not having done an instance besides skirmishes for ages the only thing I care for are the faction horses. Plus Mirkwood, Lothlorien and Eregion quests and zones are now dead, very much like Azeroth pre-Cataclysm. Some people are still running the school of Tham Mirdain, probably for the crafting relics.

They also apparently revamped the old raids, upped the old gear looks with new level 65 stats – Helegrod/Thorog and the Annuminas dungeon instances are quite popular at the moment. It always takes me a while to find out in LOTRO where I can do what for what and where to exchange tokens for what and all that. I think they can improve that. I am always so lost at the Skirmish vendors, especially when one was away for a while.

P.S. got the Inn League Steed, a horse carrying four beer kegs that automatically turns you drunk when riding it. What more can a man, elf, dwarf or hobbit wish for?