While I am waiting for the game to update (18.2) I'm just going to share some feelings that I have on the current state of The Moors as it occurs on Crick. I have been back in The Moors for only a week now, took a break for almost a year, and I am half-way to rank 9. BTW I came from Windfola prior to Crick. I play a Warden and in PVE I know what I am doing, but in The Moors I can take Lugz, TR, LC, and the Mines solo, but against a group of creeps I am meat popsicle. I can solo kill most creeps but I am mostly down on health at the end of the fight or sometimes I die. It has been fun to work on my gear and add what mits I need as well as resistance and have many kbs lately in a raid. I wish that more freeps would come out and challenge themselves because I feel that creeps are more coordinated and they know what they are doing. I will not give out names but a few defilers really earned my respect recently(I hate defilers - cannot kill) as they attack entire raids solo and stay up non-stop. I thought I carried plenty of mastery into battle as a tank/dps Warden -around 85k, but something has to be fixed as filers can withstand my attacks repeatedly and I carry plenty of finesse. Freep heals seem sub-par compared to creeps but maybe it's the freeps I have been running with.
Another thing is the the passion of these creeps. I can tell who has skill and who does not. They have no where else to go to level up or to get a break. They cannot leave The Moors, (OSG - which has an awful map and I vow never to go there again), so they continue to group up or attack us when we least expect it. For me I am hooked on The Moors again because of the creeps that have frustrated me so much recently. The PVE game is so darn boring again and I have been playing LOTRO since the beginning.
I hope that more freeps come out and do like me and swallow their pride - you are going to die, your gear sucks, and creeps have too many ways to disarm/stun us and their morale be damned, I really like the current state of The Moors again. My little 30k-38k morale compared to their 108k does not seem right, but I am not here to point out that a balance needs to happen. No I am here to say I am being challenged again and I hope to improve on my skills, to figure out how creeps are killing me, and to work on my rotations which I thought were spot on and to ultimately have some fun. Please come on out to The Moors...I will help you level anytime I am on!
Withholding my Warden name since it may make me a target, but I like that.