But, yeah, travel is a pain in the ass in LotRO for no good reason. The restrictions on travel for the higher level zones is frustrating, too. Getting up to Himbar just wears on me, and I have to do a lot of faction grinding before I can get the automated horse up there. Blah. And, I’ve bitched about the level 50 class quests enough for now, why is it still group based?

As for guilds, I created my own small guild for my and my GF’s alts so we could have a max level guild if our friends decided we wanted our own guild. I think EQ2′s guild system is much better since it allows people to level up the guild by earning points. Perhaps a blend of both worlds where you slowly get points over time so that even a small guild can gain some ability over the long haul? That’d be interesting.

I’m extremely impressed with Moria. I’ll be writing a long article about legendary weapons sooner or later.

Then there is this: http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Trait:Upper-cut — take a close look at the icon. Does that not remind you of: http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/pix/schiavo_terri050318.jpg — some Dev has a twisted sense of humor, which isn’t a bad thing. I remember in WAR, one of the PQs in Altdorf used the terminology “Hot Karls” to refer to stolen Karls, the currency of the Empire. Yes, ‘hot’ is another term for stolen, but that term is too iconic to be anything but a twisted joke.

As far as things I dislike:

- Yeah, travel can get annoying.
- My biggest pet peeve is that the Shadows of Angmar storyline quests are not soloable since the direction is now on Mines of Moria. IMO, content should be trivialized in the old game and made challenging in the new parts, if only because grouping up for stuff when you are leveling up 2 years post launch kinda sucks to wait around on group quests.