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The Orion Minstrel is still the best designed MMO healing / buffing class I've ever played. It died with LOTRO Trait Trees and has been more corrupted since, but many, those few years it was alive...

Very sorry to read this. By all accounts Graalx2 was a brilliant developer. The Warden is certainly the most unique and interesting class design I've discovered in MMOs. Godspeed, Graalx2.

I always thought that Bukot (Shadow boss in the Tower of Orthanc) was the best designed raid encounter. It wasn't overly complicated but it did require every element of gameplay to be effectively...

I think it's cool for a couple of gear slots to be relevant many item levels later. All it means is that there are really cool bonuses on that gear that transcend the mundane linear gear grind. If...

Minstrels used to have a true de-taunt, but that was eliminated when they simplified skills and introduced trees. That left "flop" as the only de-taunt. Now that is gone. It can be rough when...

I found it humorous.

Game companies have to make money somehow. As a subscriber I'd prefer that be through subscriptions. But most gamers have been trained to not pay subscriptions anymore as FTP games have become so...

Not that the Devs are reading this, but I agree: fix classes first and don't release raid until it is bug free.

I want more Space Gems. Remember the Erebor Space Gems?

Sev, just curious. Have you ever played Lotro?

For the people that don't subscribe, is there any way the game could be changed to prompt you to subscribe?

I suspect that we simply have two different classes of gamers, and the game has to...

It's a really interesting issue. I doubt that SSG's design will be considered gambling. The boxes aren't sold. The keys are acquirable in multiple ways only one of which includes real money. ...

WOW!

I don't know Araphorn personally, but he's been a long-time and valued contributor to the game and to the community. He's made countless players better. I really hope SSG is listening. ...

The really need to move Rend out of Yellow and make it a general skill.

Other systems abandoned include...

1. Inspection - you can't see someone's traits on inspection anymore - that's pretty critical for pugging PVE content
2. Online Character information - I can't...

Crit is useless on a Red RK. Your crit multipliers aren't high enough to offset typical crit defense to be meaningful. Don't build every class the same way. Hunters need crit. Fire RK is a...

Final Verdict: a whole lot of work for very little gain. Resources would have been better utilized elsewhere.

The huge stat shift at 115 rendered meaningless a lot of skills and legacies. Bear tanks are the only means of completing the 6-man. The effectiveness of new relics is imbalanced at best and bugged...

Yes, that's what I was talking about- game systems. And this is a good list. And of course Conjunctions! You could also add...

1. Kinships - no new functionality in years, and really just a very...

It seems to me that LoTRO has a very large number of abandoned systems. I probably can't even name them all. I've dabbled in a number of MMOs but have really only played this one extensively and at...

A surprisingly fairly graded review. In the old days, the reviews were all puff pieces because the studios were funding the review sites.

I guess my primary exception would be to downgrade the...

Durchest at a minimum was bear-tanked on-level. Not sure about other bosses. The bear wasn't even as OP back then.

Pretty cool / terrifying new patent which if implemented will surely make gaming worse / more profitable.

In most PVP games the matchmaking system is used to create balanced matches. These guys...

I'm actually pretty surprised that such a tangential issue to pop culture generally has landed on Rolling Stones radar. Sadly, no specific Lotro mention...

Rolling Stone on Loot Boxes

Loot-boxes are here to stay it seems. The war against P2W has been lost. The only hope that remains is of a small band of brothers- a fellowship or maybe even a rebel alliance, which might rise up...