Any of the old schoolers still out there?

[Vanyaerunanethiel]

Vedui everyone,Yes. My Join-date might be Miss-leading. I am Ancient as the Stars.I recall the Ancient days ,Old Elf camp,the era before Audacity, Legendary weapons and even Orc Defiler class,Countless battles,Green dots,Nostalgia and so on. It will need a 150 page Guide to write all the changes which followed since the Moria release. The Current End gearing process for Free Peoples of Middle-Earth is absolutely absurd and I shan't subject myself to super-massive grind. I have recently executed World Character Transfer on my Primary Character Valainantiel. She was known as Vanyalanthiriel before. I was an active in PvMP on server Arkenstone from July - September. It took me months to gear her up and latest update completely messed up our values. Time ~ Money, Multiple builds shall consume enormous amount of time and as Guardian is not simple at all. One will need Special tanking setup. One handed weapon+Shield plus the special gear which is required for Tier II or Tier III instances and Semi DPS or Full Glass Canon Destroyer setup for PvMP,add it as double grind,Well the grind was always existent,Naturally for MMO,but comparing old and the current grind is simply ludicrous ~ with essences only dropping from boxes/Landscape and buying keys is possible only with real money. Huge majority will never know how "easy" wasy to enter the old days without need of grind,audacity,legendary weapons and so on and majority of creep player-base is under illusion thinking Freeps can simply walk into Ettenmoors. If you wish to duel with high ranked creeps or take a part in any serious conflict you will to embrace absurd amount of daily repetition which I simply cannot accept ,Not for now. I would rather enjoy RP,Level alternative characters or dozen other things than mindlessly grinding to get better gear.

I have 8 characters on Landroval at the moment. I do not know of the action and overall population. It is not about being terrible,average,over-powered. or the "best" Tis about constant re-grinding which is laughable to compare with Vanilla/Moria Mirkwood days. To be sincere before Essence gear and imbued legendary weapons. The grind and gearing system in general is wearisome and superbly annoying with inability of acquiring Keys from landscape anymore. My class has transformed completely. Every single stats went down and even players who currently participate in PvMP have at least one of the primary stats diminshed, be that Mastery,Mitigations,Morale,Cri tical Defence. I am going to wait a bit before I eventually Enter PvMP area.