OVERALL: This xpack should be filled with many, many good things. It should be entertaining for a wide variety of players for at least a period of time. The community should expect to have to alter their active play style or mental approach to a class in order to gain the most enjoyment and benefit. Save for the minstrel (which it cannot be possible for them to correct the massive number of problems in time for launch, especially given the multi-month ignoring of feedback before now), this looks to be a solid xpack, though there may be a little roughness with the big battles immediately after launch until they are tweaked and patched (this last statement could change in time for launch if they focus on getting it right, so it's a tentative assessment). Ultimately I'm looking forward to HD, but I'll be playing my hunter and captain from now on as primary characters instead of secondary ones and my minstrel will get shelved.
This is my feeling exactly. It's too bad, because I rejoined Lotro after a fairly long haitus and leveled a minstrel to 85 from scratch in the last year just to experience the Orion build. It was/is a joy to play. After trying the minstrel in betas 4 and 5, I have absolutely nothing to look forward to, no incentive to play that class in HD. I guess it's back to captain, which is cool because that was my original main and I still enjoy the class tremendously. I also look forward to burg and hunter, they look like they have some good changes going.
I'm just perplexed/confounded at the poor showing on minstrel and warden development during the beta period. I'm sure the dev in question is a wonderful person and a skilled programmer, but they really should have asked for help.
Originally Posted by chrohandhaivey
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