Tell the Community Team - New and Revamped Systems - 4/8/10

[Alderwren]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Housing. More hooks, even if it means limiting the number in use (a la AC1). Permissions by chest. Housing decorations should be bound to the house owner once placed on a hook.

2. Chat. /1 is Alliance chat on some characters; a private channel on others. I invariably send comments to the wrong channel. When I type /1 it should show the name of the channel, just as /r converts to the recipient's name. And try sending a tell to Eohguenixchemythani -- why must I type a full name instead of just enough to uniquely identify the intended recipient?

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

The ability to set your effective level lower than your actual level. Rather than scale content up to my level, make it possible for me to scale myself down. That way I can take a bunch of newbs on a Rift run without trivializing the content.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. Inn League stuff
2. Crafting

Both because they take gobs of time relative to the outcome.

[Ouchiewawa]

1. a) Housing - expand the kin houses and make more room for trophies add stables/crafting areas for kins - add some relay race areas for kin competitions - add some quests that allow kin to better their kin houses.

b) Hobbies - add something new to fishing (new deeds, new trophies, new fish) add other types of hobbies ie: rare rock collecting/painting/bug collecting it would be amazing to be able to add a "butterfly conservatory" to your home or kin house.

2. Inter Kin Competition - This would be amazing - servers could set up competitions between kins - you would submit a group of 3, 4, 6, 12 or 24 from the same kin and match times against other kins for various instances. etc...

3. There is so much I want to do and never fin d the time to but I figure I will get to it eventually. Right now I would say skirmishes dont get enough attention and music

[Southpa]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Itemization. Bring back rare unique world drops. Make high level group content such as BG offer better rewards and incentive. Challenge mode chests should guarantee something beyond a T4-6 relic, 50-100K IXP an armor token and a (typically) useless purple item. Why does non-radiance armor drop in radiance instances? Why do main-hand weapons such as spears drop at all? Things like this serve zero purpose other than armor for cosmetics (and man, that helm is ugly anyway.

2. Conjunctions. They need some love. They need to scale to our level. They need to be more relevant in raids. This was such a cool and unique part of the game that has accumulated a real thick layer of dust. Give us some new ones as well. New functions could be related to corruption removal, certain debuffs.....lots of things.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Deed/quest-related gating. Ditch Radiance. Gate with difficulty. The system that existed in the Rift was so much better than anything since, but I can understand why gating is deemed "necessary". Please stop doing it with armor. It might also help the itemization issue, bring back crafting, etc... Radiance put 2 professions at a real disadvantage (metalworkers, tailors)

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

Sadly, there is nothing I don't have enough time for. I'm already taking my 6th alt past level 60. I'm not a completionist, though. I get what I need and the rest is pretty moot.

I would like to spend more time exploring a larger number of level-cap instances....if they were available. Next time, please make sure there is enough level-cap content waiting for us before raising the cap. You invalidated a whole lot of content with the 60 to 65 jump. You should have left us at 60 through Mirkwood. I have little desire to plow through the old 60 instances - even if there might be a decent piece of teal jewelry waiting for me. It's a mindless grind with no real challenge.

[Jocoson]

Q1:
- LFF: turn the panel into a useful system
- make player models more realistic and customizable

Q2: Mentoring system (a la CoH sidekicks).

Q3: Inn League, Chicken Play

[DeeArr]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Hobbies - Expanding to things other than just fishing
2. The Volume II Epics - Revised to use the Inspired Greatness mechanic applied in Volume I.
side note: I get slightly annoyed by you all asking for input on everything but what a lot of people consider really important [myself included]. I do hope you do this because you are already working on solutions, not because you don't care.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
A mentoring or scaling mechanic that would allow you to go back and play through lower level quests/instances at the level they are meant to be played, especially with someone new or their alt.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. PvMP
2. Building Rep with pre-Moria factions.

[macdadg]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Other than LI and Radiance gear, I am very happy with the game and wouldn't recommend expanding/changing any other areas of the game.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

I think current mechanics in place are fine. I cant think of any I want to add right now. Although I would like to request mounted combat NOT ever to be added into the game.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

I am currently content with my play time experiences, and I have time to do everything I like.

[Odin_of_Freyr]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. If I have to exclude PvMP, then Hobbies is my number 1. I'd like to see something like fishing implemented, just don't know what.
2. Revise crafting. Make the best/highest recipes drop from mobs, not barterable.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Nothing. I would rather see more time and effort put into other aspects we currently have. Such as designing a loot table for Barad Guldur that suits its level of difficulty.
Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. PvMP, its the last truly fun part of end-game content, since BG's loot table leaves us very little to look forward to seeing.

[khanmoras]

hi, i think the virtue system needs looking at, sort of like if you have 10 in valour and 10 in zeal you could go to a new lvl of traits with most of both of them, or valour and mercy, etc. wisdom and zeal, wisdom and mercy, something like that. but you would need 10 in each virtue to be able to combine them to an inner circle of virtues. if there are multi to pick from ppl would still be diff and not all alike in there virtues.

would be nice when making a 2nd age lvl 60 or 65 ledgendary weapon to be able to choose 1 or 2 MAX legacies to put on it when its made

[Mykkul]

Question 1: Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Housing ---center the hooks, update the system to make it more universal (let you put small and large furniture in special slots, small furniture in large spots, etc)
2. The user interface....add in more quickslots if desired, scaling mouse pointer sizes for those with higher resolutions, etc.

Question 2: If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Stat customization without traits and items. Throw everyone a bone, and let us from level 51+ add 5 points per level to whichever baseline stat we want Adds more customization, which is good, and lets us further individualize our characters.

Question 3: Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. PVMP
2. Raiding the end game

[Majesto]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Hobbies - Still only have fishing...
2. Virtues - Need to expand them beyond a cap of 10...

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Bind to Account (for barter items, housing items, etc.) - There is way too much Bind on Acquire in LotRO.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. PvMP - It *should* be the ultimate endgame in my opinion, and it used to be, but now it just doesn't seem worth the trouble.
2. Raiding - Almost always fun, but doing it for a slim chance at purple armor that's not that great and not necessarily required for future raids seems kind of ridiculous.

[geoboy]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Housing: There is a big problem with housing, in that most of the houses are vacant, but can't be moved into. I know some players return, but the vast majority do not. We just keep creating new housing instances. My suggestion is a revamped housing system based around kinship communities. A kinship can establish a community with a large one time purchase of a kinship house and X number of Houses. As a kinship achieves higher ranks, they can purchase NPCs like vault keeper, provisioner, healer, and potentially crafting facilities.
2. Grouping - create a simple toggle on your quest tracker and in quest journal. Integrate LFF tools into the quest journal (ie show others working on this quest in your area, or anyone online). An announcement in the chat window when someone in your zone meets your criteria would also be useful.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
I'm changing my answer! What I want is a WTB section in the Auction house. Integrate the AH with the lorebook database. Let people drag an item they want, and potentially set a quantity. A player wishing to sell can click something like "Fill Order", they now will have one hour to craft the item and put it in the auction house. The crafter will receive their pay as soon as the order has been filled.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
It used to be PvP, but I've started doing that. I think this is my question from a few weeks ago
1. Music System. I've always meant to learn how to do it, but never seem to find the time. (I've also been interested in pipe-weed farming or brewing, but these remain somewhat unclear to me as to how to get started).
2. Completing under-level content, I've still not faced all the bosses in the rift, helegrod, and I've never stepped inside the old BG.

[semjaza]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. I think sparring should be expanded dramatically. I would love for there to be some sort of official duel/tournament system, for example.

2. Expand housing dramatically. Improve hook system; currently even full of items, houses just seem barren. I love that we get it at all, but improvements would go a long way. I'd like more reasons to visit your home and have others visit as well. Maybe a small buff or something? Or how about you can craft and send invites for people to visit your house... they could use these to quick travel to your home (or kinship home, if they're not in your kinship) so you can have player-run events or RP stuff, etc.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Options for mounted combat. I'd even be fine if there was a new horse rider class and all other classes only got basic combat additions in that regard.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. Inn league quests

2. Fishing. For me, I think more fishing based quests would make me put more time into this one.

[Jadzi]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. H-O-U-S-I-N-G. There are not NEARLY enough hooks in any given house, but it's far more egregious in the Duillond houses. There's a table here, then ten feet away there's a chair. The chandelier is so high up you can't even see it.

Go into any furnished player house and look at how spread-out everything is. Then go into any NPC house (Bag End, Lowbanks estate, hell the Cat Lady's house) and see how full and cozy it is. There's something wrong when Calder Cob has better furnishings than the vaunted Saviour of the tri-county Eriador/Moria/Lorien area.

2. Kinships. For serious. Add more rank levels, add an option to cluster kinships into Alliances, or to be able to see kinship members on the map, or any number of other things. There's so much kinships could be.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Mounted combat. Think of the implications: tailors can make blankets and barding, smiths can make shoes and armor, or even mounted-only weapons. Just as we can get (or even make!) our own Anduril or Glamdring, where's our Firefoot or Shadowfax?

There's many suggestions on implementation floating about, they're good reads.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. Skirmishes. They take too long to complete individually to really do them in between other content, so I end up having to devote the better part of an hour just to that to get anything done. Granted, it's something to do when there's nothing else of interest (which is good, and the more options like that we have, the more things we can cycle, even if it's just vastly different forms or locations of skirmishes), but it rarely fits well into the schedule with other things.

2. Raiding. It takes so long to organize a PUG, mostly from lack of interest. Most people that raid are in a raiding kin or its allies, so anyone lacking such connections is out of luck if they want to do the Watcher or the like.

[Angadan]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. New zones! Expand the world!
2. None, just new zones and revamping the LI system. Tell the bosses of any Turbine team mate who says they need something to work on that they need to be shifted to the "new zones" and "fix LIs" teams. heehee, only half-kidding!

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be? None, tell the bosses of those Turbine teammates who asked for this question that they need to be moved to the "new zones" and "fix LIs" teams! Not kidding at all this time lol!

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. None, I have time to do it all, and I have!

[nimrodblack]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1.Crafting. Delete Vocations. Allow any 1 harvesting to be combined with any combination of crafting or harvesting professions. Add a skill-adds-bonus mechanic so that crafters can mini-game their way to a critical item. Add deconstructions so that a crafter can finally do something to all that vendor trash.

2.Factions - Should be tied less to level/tier. I would like to see skirmishes leverage faction to open up more skirmishes and delve into the struggles in each faction area. Would love to skirmish at LevelCap for forochel or eglain and get skirmish marks and rep items for those groups instead of doing lots of turn ins.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Positional advantages. Combat should take into account flanking and rear attacks for everyone as well as a bonus for surrounding an mob. Any character should get a bonus if they are standing behind a mob. It promotes good tanking and removes some of the blind standing and button mashing that goes on in all mmos

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. Exploring. Lots of the newer areas have become very narrow and pipe characters through from level x to level y. With near zero free space to explore and hunt when not leveling.
2. Meeting new people. Not sure how you can solve this one but I never meet anyone new. I game with the same old folks or I log on and log out when i don't see them. Very little incentive to mix it up with new players. Perhaps Social games? Or Turbine players that are out in the open to socialize and bring folks together? No idea really but its the truth.

[StarScaper]

Question 1
1. Housing! More models, more space for the small houses, and allow us to place furniture in it more realistically. Maybe even let us place in our house one superior crafting table/oven/study or a forge in our yard, according to the guild we're in, once we reach kinship standing. (How cool would it be for cooks to be able to make a meal at their house to invite their fiends over for.) This would definitely give us more of a reason to spend time there instead of just for extra storage and neighborhood vendor discounts. In any case, we should also be allowed to sell or upgrade our houses, and let more than one character have a house. Also, it would be great if new housing neighborhoods for higher level characters were introduced: Rivendell, Moria, a northern Shire location, eventually Rohan, Gondor, or Lake-Town, etc.

2. UI - specifically, please add more quickslot bars!

Question 2
Not sure if this qualifies as "gameplay mechanics", but maybe changing the mount system to where we can speed up our horses for a time, maybe with food, or with better horseshoes (a new metalsmith recipe maybe?). And being able to fight, even at least range fighting while mounted. And being able to give our mounts buffs, also with food maybe (oats or hey, etc), to take more hits before getting dismounted. Also, I'd still like to see the prices of mounts go down a little more, they are crazy expensive.


Question 3
1. Fishing. I know it got improved, but it feels "hit or miss" when fishing for specific fish for cooking recipes. If there is certain bodies of water where certain fish are found, when we get the fishing hobby started, we should get a fishing guide that states where certain fish can be found. I really liked the concept of using bait for critical success fishing - I wish that could be returned if it would work right. And with all these "trophy" fish or grand catches, it would be great if they were worth a lot more coin, so that spending tons of time catching boat loads of unnecessary fish would at least pay off. Also I loved the idea of fishing competitions in festivals, I'd like to see more of that.

2. The music! I think playing music should be added to Hobbies. This gives us a goal of levels to achieve, and keeps us practicing! This is such an awesome part of LOTRO and I think it deserves more attention given to it. It also fosters RPing and interaction in the inns, the festivals, and in the party places in housing neighborhoods. People could perform on stages for points, or do a certain number of songs, or get a certain number of people to clap for them, or whatever.

[TheOwl]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Banking system. I have opened all 6 bags on my main, and i still dont have enough space.
2. Auction house. Trade is virtually non-existent. I think it is mostly because of the 2 day time limit and inability to buy just a part of the offered stack.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Kin house upgrades. I would like the kin houses to be more then just trophy storage. It would be nice to be able to add a work bench or a forge. Additionally it would be nice to have a kin bank with different levels of access (ie. these items are free for all, these items are for members and up, and to take theses items you need to put in a request to be approved by an officer)

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. haven't done any pvmp
2. chicken play

[Robeauch]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Virtues. I'd like to see some meta-virtues that could act as set bonus for certain combinations of virtues. Example: You slot Honor, Valour, and Loyalty, all at rank 6 or above, and you get "Chivalry" as a bonus trait, adding ... something, I don't know what. Also, let's please raise the virtue cap. Ten is sooo 2007! I'd add 1 to the cap for every 5 levels above 50, making the current cap 13 for level 65 players. This will add an incentive to do more of the new deeds that get added with each expansion.
2. Hobbies. Sorry, I don't have any specific suggestions, but it'd be nice to have more than just fishing.

[dreadlegion84]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Definitely the housing system. we need more housing servers on my realm, as almost every deluxe house it taken. also the amount of stuff i can put in a deluxe house is very small compared to the size of it. Also the hooks where everything MUST BE PLACED needs to be movable or something. I want some chairs at my breakfast table.

2. Trait grinding, who doesnt hate hate HATE having to kill like 500 mobs for 1 trait. maybe we could tone it down a bit.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Cross-Server Instance Que. Yes, i know WoW did it, but it works. The problem i have had with all my characters since i started playing is finding groups for lower level content like GB the red marshes etc. If you could just que up for an instance, and get matched with a tank healer and dps for the same instance, and go, that would be freakin awesome. The old content would really see a lot more use then. Also it would be nice not to spend days looking for a fellowship for 2.5.5 etc. Maybe you could also include epic fellowship quests into the ques too?

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. Hobbies, fishing is boring. Also you could use more then one hobby...
2. Delving of Fror, come on guys, pve in a pvp zone? nobody really ever goes there anymore.

[jrusty]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1.i think chicken ball is far over due to make its comeback to the festivals
2.how about making skirmishes usefull and more in demand by letting them drop some teal items on 6 man up like some jewelery pls make the jewelry class specific and make one desirable for each class.
Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
n/a
Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1.the epic books it is time consuming trying to get a fellowship for vol2 so lets try and make some of it solable especially the moria stuff and the loth instances or duo would work just fine.
2. like to see the delving of fror be use for something like making a symbol drop off the main boss guy in the middle.

[yar987]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Would love to see more instances in end-game like CD and URU. nothing with terribly fancy tricks and scripting. Just a good ol' instance


Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Mounted combat I suppose

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. being max level... stop raising the level cap so quickly!

[coolnerd]

[B]Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Echo the previous posts about housing and hooks. At the very least, houses should have many more hooks, and all houses should have every kind of hook (What? I need a deluxe house to lay down a large rug or hang a chandelier?).
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2. Cosmetic options for crafted items upon item creation. If I like the way the Bright Steel Sword looks, I should be able to craft a Forged Elven-Steel Sword that looks like a Bright Steel Sword. And don't even get me started on those hideous tier 4 Dwarf-Shields! Basically, you should be able to make a crafted item look like any other crafted item of the same type but lower level (i.e. A Tier 5 2-Handed Axe can be made to look like a Tier 1,2,3,4, or 5 2-Handed Axe; Tier 4 Elven Medium Leggings can be made to look like Tier 4 or lower Elven Medium Leggings; etc).

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

MOUNTED COMBAT. If a #$*!~=@& goblin can fight mounted, I ought to be able to, as well. If the game moves to Rohan and we're still Infantry, my brain will likely explode. Do you want that on your conscience?

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. Playing Music. This is a good thing, since I would cause windows to shatter and crops to fail.

2. Vices. Brewing (and drinking) strong beverages. Growing (and smoking) pipeweed. Characters in the books gained real benefits from these activities, not just blurred vision and cool smoke-rings. These things were reminders of home and good times and what they were fighting for. Perhaps a morale buff? Extra xp for a while? Using Destiny buffs at (greatly)reduced cost? It's a royal pain to craft booze and 'weed, throw me a bone!

Good questions. Thanks, guys.

[Pumpernickle]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

Hmmm, besides those big three?

1. Housing

- more freedom and customization in hook placement.
- storage containers for specific items. A coat hook for my 2 dozen or so cloaks, a crafting trunk for crafting ingredients, etc.

2. Inventory management - there are some serious issues. I have tons and tons of stuff for everything, and it's quite ridiculous, and it keeps getting worse.

- implement a ui element that displays all our tokens acquired.
- see housing idea for storage of some other items.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Nothing, IMPROVE and expand what you have in place already.
(i.e. more end-game armor variety, better LI system, expanded trait system, etc etc)

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)


I don't feel rushed or pressured into doing one thing (what I love about LOTRO) so I take time to do everything. Whether it be enjoying the festivals, crafting, end game instance, etc.

[Spacmanbobr]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1.Crafting and its effect on the economy. Crafted gear in general needs to be better, comparable to radiance gear and drops from instances. The existing sets should be made as good as the 15 radiance and 25 radiance pieces, and then a new set that is hard to acquire should be added. It should take a whole new crit item to make a piece of this gear, like a pure Mithril flake or something, that is very rare, as rare as shards were back in SoA. Do the same for jewelery.
2. This may count as Radiance gear but... most of the gear in Dol Guldur, the 30+ radiance sets, need to be made better. None of the Moria radiance gear should not be better, and the same goes for jewelery. There needs to be new jewelery drops, preferably in Dungeons, Warg Pens, and Barad Guldur that surpass jewelery from raids like Dar Narbugud and Watcher.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Random Events at locations where people go a lot. We "sortave" had this before with Amarthiel, but not really with NPCs. I think occansionally there should be things like attacks on the 21st hall by orcs and goblins and attacks on Ost Galadh by forces from Dol Guldur, maybe including the Lieutenant on his fell beast. There should also be rare raid-boss mobs that spawn and drop loot you may acquire from an instance or the really rare crafted drop I listed above. All of these would be announced like festival events and keep takes out in the moors are.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. Housing.
2. Crafting.

[Graythandor]

Question 1
[COLOR=Orange]Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

DO NOT update, expand, or revise ANYTHING in the game until you fix Legendary Items. LIs should be PRIORITY #1.

With that said......

1. Expand the Reflecting Pool system to include more instances/raids, and make them level-scalable. I would like to be able to enter instances such as The Rift, Great Barrows, Carn Dum, etc via the Reflecting Pool and have it scale to my & my group's level. This could be easily accomplished by combining the existing Reflecting Pool mechanic for accessing instances and the existing skirmish mechanic for level-scaling and would re-open a world of content to level-capped players. A Reflecting Pool linked barter/rep system (much like the Marks system already in place) could be easily developed into an ambition-line for grinding content or even just make Reflecting Pool accessed instances give skirmish marks.

2. Itemization. This sort of overlaps with the Radiance system, but is worth its own byline. Once Radiance is un-linked from specific raid barter items only (i.e. a Radiance scroll that could be applied, or trait-based radiance, or whatever) I would really like to see rare items & recipes re-introduced as they were in SoA. I miss the thrill of finding an Etched Beryl Ring recipe on an Angmarim corpse or an Auroch's Helm on an ornery ND auroch. The fact that 99% of lvl 50+ drops in the game, even in raids (!), are either so useless or so overly-abundant that they are vendor trash really just makes the grind all that much less compelling. Bring back the well-honed variety of gear that we once loved you for!

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Open-world sieges. Remember when Amarthiel would show up with her minions and attack Aughaire...an A.P.B. would show up in glff and legions of heroes would drop what they were doing and show up to defend the free people's settlement. This was GLORIOUS! It wouldn't have to be led by a player-based character like Amarthiel (although that was brilliant!), but a system where a real open-world settlement could be attacked by pve forces and would have to be defended would add a really immersive element to the game. There could be specific benefits to the free people keeping control of their base, and specific penalties when it falls into the hands of the enemy. I'm envisioning something akin to "Defense of the Prancing Pony", but in the real world (not confined to the skirmish "sandbox") with real consequences.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

I don't really have an answer for this. I devote time/energy/attention to aspects of the game that I enjoy, and ignore those that I don't.