LOTRO Just Changed MMOs Forever

LOTRO just introduced a new feature to its MMO that is changing the way that players are experiencing Middle Earth. Specifically, it's called the Adventure Mode system - one where players are able to scale the difficulty of the open world to their liking, earning currency and rewards. And the best part is, if you want to explore Middle Earth in a group - you can. Create your own Fellowship and wander through Lord of the Rings Online with your friends, braving the challenges that lie ahead.
Before the Shadow will send players into two new regions, Swanfleet and Cardolan, as Boromir makes his way north to Rivendell ahead of the meeting of what will eventually become the Fellowship of the Ring while the Nazgûl search for “Baggins” in the peaceful land of the Shire. Players will discover the threat rising from Mordor and Saruman's Uruks as they explore the far history of Middle-earth! Before the Shadow features questing from levels 1 to 32 in addition to four new Books for new characters. Higher level characters will see a new six-person Instance, in addition to a new Skirmish, and a Delving difficulty system that will offer new rewards and challenges!
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[@gamershow5944]

EverQuest 1 has made you group for years. its an old concept. Boosting or being powered leveled in mmos now day is better imo because old content isnt polished. Better battlegrounds, more Timewalking all levels, more amazing looking raids at all levels, heroics all levels, adding better graphics and spells is also better idea imo. I did the slow grinding mmos and I dont ever think about that as my best mmo memories. They should make wow scale from lvl1 to 70 in any zone and add more loot, more quest, interesting quest that are easy plus fun and faster leveling bonuses for having max level characters. Redo all zones like dragonflight daily's and keep vanilla wow on classic. Redo older zones except on classic servers. This will allow you to quest for gear on multiple expansions all the way to 70 - accentually playing at any level with end game features. Hire more developers.

[@marterion80]

I remember Age of Conan had a similar mode. I remember long time ago i turned on something, and all normal NPCs suddenly was all elites. That system was called epic mode. I always told my friends that MMORPGs needs such system. Make the entire world a dungeon difficulty.

[@r13hd22]

Some unnecessary lies told in this video. LotRO did not do anything special or genre changing. All they did was add a way to make current content harder. Their early game was not changed. It remains the exact same thing it was when it was first made with a few timed events and a couple adventure packs that added a few more quests added in since then. So, all that stuff that was there 15 years ago, having to kill x amount of y for a mission can instead take you longer and if like to cut yourself, you can make it so each and every single thing you come across can kill you in one or two hits and be a major task to kill...which you will quit after noticing just how many mobs are in many places you need to go to, if you play alone that is. It basically makes the open world group content for you. Also. This change did not bring players back/in in droves. The games population is still very low though should not be because the level 1-105 game is amazing but does start to go down-hill fast once you enter Mordor and beyond. SSG taking over from Turbine takes the game in a really bad direction focusing heavily on end game grind with each expansion.

[@artsveiman7776]

So basically they are doing something similar to what Guild Wars 2 has already been doing for 10 years, and apparently other games as well, from what I read in the comments. This isnt changing MMOs forever, this is putting another coat of paint on an outdated MMO I loved LOTRO but it has become stale and outdated, and just putting a new coat of paint is not going to bring me back, specially not when I have to pay sub, if I want a proper experience of the game.

[@artsveiman7776]

What would change MMOs forever if LOTRO applied it, is to create LOTRO 2 AND have a way to transfer your character and his items or at least the skins of those items into LOTRO2 that way they could create a new LOTRO every 7-10 years, update it with new gaming advances, graphics, etc, and players would not loose their thousands of hours of progress. THAT would be the gamechanger in the MMO world.

[@everlonggaming1966]

This is the first time I have seen a developer do something that benefits both casual and more hardcore players. Well Done LoTRo well done!

[@DarkScreamGames]

I guess you don't play a lot of MMORPGs? The difficulty system for quests and a separate currency is not new, City of Heroes was doing this in 2004. D&D Online does it too. So if it's the first time you've seen it, you've not been looking too hard!

[@socklips7655]

@@DarkScreamGames CoH has been legit dead and gone for years, DDO is incredibly obscure, more than lotro. If these are the only examples you can pull out of your arse, the original point stands.

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

Diablo 3 ..Torment lvls .. changes entire game's difficulty all over ... so no .. not first time we see this.

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

@@socklips7655 it doesn matter if those games are dead ... the point was it has been done before !

[@everlonggaming1966]

@@UltraSuperDuperFreak not the same but ok enjoy.

[@82automan]

It puts a smile on my face that LOTRO is still going strong after all this time

[@dannynelson8930]

It keeps me coming back. Just no other world like it! Especially if you’re a LoTR fan.

[@CrizzyEyes]

It's very comfy and the player housing is unmatched. It suffers very heavily from a lack of players in the early game though but this might have fixed that problem.

[@RavenTheBlackheart]

every time i go back i just end up trying to take over the pipe weed market =/

[@artsveiman7776]

Personally it feels like just another coat of paint that does nothing to address the real problem that, this game is just too old. They need to create an LOTRO2 and allow for players to be able to transfer their existing characters into the new one. I love this game but the sub fee does not justify it. either make it entirely free to play or make an LOTRO2

[@ethanchen4504]

What early game they've had 3+ codes that gave you lvl skips to 60 80 and 100 or something. I like it though. Those notorious fetch quests were so terrible. Gandalf wants to talk to Radaghast? Go travel across two entire regions 4000m+ just for one line from each and again!

[@Hurbster2112]

As much as I love ESO, it needs something like this so badly.

[@gabenwatching2746]

Truest true that has ever been trued

[@Sportskiduhuh]

I gave up on that shit game, everything you do feels meaningless.

[@Kapuska1916]

Preach brother

[@keldor8302]

Yeah, the progression system after hitting lvl50 on your first character. Makes the One Tamriel scaling a joke on subsequent characters. It would be interesting to implement an option like this which ALSO turns off all of those bonuses. Doing Dolmens, Dragons, and Public Dungeons without someone uber geared and maxed out on champion point progression facerolling it for you. Would make the game feel so much better. I'd still have trouble staying in that game though. The combat bothers me. It feels "floaty" and a bit janky to me. And the bar-swapping stuff is annoying. And I don't want to grind and go through a special mini-game progression to unlock the ring that buffs you to use a single bar. Locking that as an option to play the game behind barriers was a mistake.

[@jak1165]

This seems like a better version of One Tamriel

[@jazzyjeph4143]

I'm in for a LotR Online leveling series. That'd be neat!

[@yamashi82]

Glad to see Lotro content. It has been my comfort MMO for 11 years and counting.

[@nickunnerved]

SSG's other title Dungeons and Dragons Online has a similar thing called reaper mode which was released in 2017 ... each quest you do has the option to choose difficulty settings Casual, normal, hard, and elite and then you can choose Reaper mode which has 10 additional levels of difficulty above elite. Reaper mode also adds mobs called reapers to the quests that are not in the casual through elite settings.

[@dr.philphilsphil5795]

I played both thousands of hours but I’ll always go back to lotro, you can solo all the way to cap but not with ddo. And pvp in ddo died 10+ years ago, pvp is still alive in lotro

[@cavetroll666]

Lotro is doing amazing things these days and they have a new expansion coming out soon to bring us to the port city of Umbar :)

[@theCombatWombat-1]

This sounds a lot like Reaper mode implemented in 2017 in DDO (another SSG title). Big difference here is that it applies to the open world, not just dungeons in LOTRO. It was implemented in DDO to promote group play as well. Reaper difficulty is 1 through 10. Most people solo content on R1 these days (due to XP boosts), but there are some of the endgame people that solo content on R10 as well.

[@Jibcutter]

Watched this and came here to say this. Brother and I went back to DDO recently, me on a 2 year hiatus, him on 15 year hiatus. Having a blast 2 manning Reaper 2-4 difficultly as lowbies. Cool to see SSG did this on their open world in LOTRO. Imagine if they did reincarnation in LotRO like in DDO on top of this?

[@TrentSLucas]

That is how it used to be in SoA. When the game first started there were areas, even low level areas that it was dangerous to walk around without a small fellowship. This is pretty cool.

[@theenigma7685]

I love exploring in lotro im currently a lvl25 hunter, i like fishing in the game and just admiring the scenery in hobbiton,michel delving, rivindel.

[@morrowoblivion13]

Did you get a house yet?

[@jacobbradshaw7801]

LotR Online leveling series!!! PLEASE I NEED THIS!

[@morrowoblivion13]

Heck yeah and make sure they bring a captain with them if they can't find a healer or a tank to level with. 😁

[@HuxleyBun]

Now they just gotta make the animations and combat more fluid and it would be a top tier game.

[@Illthallion]

Yes, exactly. The pita is the engine that needs to be updated. I feel that if that could be accomplished this MMO would be reawakened.

[@booksnbooze7796]

100% I'd play if the graphics / gameplay was modernized.

[@Paul-ng3xn]

Not very likely to happen, the dev team is not as big as the Blizzard WoW team. But I guess you never know, it could happen. I'm already glad they still update and make new content/expansions.

[@LightS_bRight]

Be careful what your asking, maybe you'll never be satisfied and eventually gets to a point where it loses what made the game great.

[@generalsdragons6952]

This was the first MMO I played, didn't play for more than 2 months. Going to have to give it a try again.

[@yunishot]

When you have a guy who's been watching your videos for 10 years, you know you're doing something right. Hesitated a lot to play lotto, now it's downloading. Ty Nixxiom 😉

[@xKiNx]

Played on Riddermark ( long dead server ) for years. Really makes me smile to see the game given love. Gonna try really hard to make myself play again. Runkeeper and Guardian love!!❤

[@taylemgames2652]

More LOTRO from you, Nix. Be the Mouth of LOTRO for us. :)

[@ArticLover]

I set my captain to Fearless +1 and where I used to own the playfield in POE on the élite mobs I had to use my herald as a tank. I felt like I was playing a pet class. It took much time and I could not do more than 2 mobs at a time. Who needs a turtle stone now. I had to turn it off when I would solo skirmishes at a higher level. It was just too difficult. It really makes you think about teaming up to progress. Very cool and fun. I used to out level zones without doing much of the zone content and this is a game changer indeed. Nicely done SSG. At +1 I was getting alot of H Tokens. On Heroic setting I cannot imagine trying to solo that.

[@bladerunner2006]

Great video! This has been on my mind forever. I get that devs don't want to waste too much precious time on old content. All the veterans want new stuff to do. But something like this is such a relatively easy fix, that gives us alt-players much needed challenge. Sounds awesome.

[@mathewlang5749]

They did this with special servers in Lotro over a year ago and it was great. I added some personal challenges which enhanced the fun for myself. In addition to increasing the difficulty I also hid all of the health bars (now every hit from any NPC could be my last), hid the compass (I would use the sun and mood) and the map (I read the quest descriptions and used the clues to find my way around the world). It took a little bit of work to adjust the UI to hide everything but it really opened up the world for me. Also, no chat, though I could talk to anyone I could see in the world.

[@Travybear1989]

As a 43 year-old casual LOTRO regular (since it came out) I doubt I'll ever try this but it's nice to see as an option for people interested in challenging themselves. I just can't get into challenging games anymore as a husband and father of two kids with a 50-60 hour a week job as life is challenging enough as it is so when I get time to play video games on Friday and Saturday night after the kids are in bed for 2-3 hours after dinner but before lovemaking time. If I were a teenager/young adult I'd probably give this a whirl though, I used to play all-nighters on video games back in the day.

[@ASwabbie]

A system like this could make so many games worth playing again.. Oh how I both hate and miss WoW.

[@alextimis3771]

i love the way you use actual footage from the movies for the naration and dialogue 😍

[@Oliver_the_place]

Awh, I love LOTRo...played it up until roham expansion. It's such a beautifully crafted world and you can tell the developers put love it. The party combo system, the warden class.. they had some really intuitive ideas. Makes me want to return!!

[@aerdraiochta]

You should!! ^^

[@Travybear1989]

The game is better now than it was then IMO. I've played LOTRO off-and-on since 2010 and it's never left my hard drive(s) since it came out. I like to play many games but when I get bored of everything else I always go back to LOTRO, not even classic WoW holds my attention as much as LOTRO. I think it has to be the well-crafted world, friendly and helpful community, player housing, and the epic story that make the game what it is. Sure, the graphics have aged but the game still looks pretty good.

[@snonyabeeswax]

nice to know the option is there when i feel ready for such a challenge

[@alondaar]

Phantasy Star Online (1) did this, although most don't classify it as an MMO, its online functionality was similar to Guild Wars (1). Lots of games in the co-op genre do this too as you're probably aware, like Deep Rock Galactic or Remnant, where difficulty is easily swapped or "opt-in." I think its a really good feature that lends greatly to the success of co-op games, which we can see apparent in even older games such as Left 4 Dead 2, and extending it in an innovative way to MMOs is a good idea.

[@griggins]

I've never had a good experience on LotRO. I've tried the game numerous times over multiple PC's, and it always ran like shit. This does make me wanna give it another go, though.

[@mattp2557]

It's best when you have someone to play with, I've found some areas/ quest lines can be a little boring but it has some that are great

[@Miloascape]

lag is a real thing in raids, but it has gotten much much better for landscaping. There is now no more rubber banding when you run through the landscape.

[@griggins]

@@Miloascape That's good, I remember rubber banding being a huge issue. Thanks

[@rockyjetproject1345]

This is awesome. I just joined the lotto community and mmo and I don’t regret it. Great stuff.

[@ArdynSol]

This sounds great. Once I finish with BG3 maybe I’ll check this out

[@andykure1525]

FFXIV has a similar system where whatever old content you do syncs your class level and iLvL back to whatever level the content is capped at. This also locks of some abilities in your rotation.

[@snaccc]

Seems essentially like world-levels from ARPGs, which I don't think is a bad thing. The problem with scaling is when it happens automatically and not at the player's discretion (also if they don't offer incentives that's annoying too). I like the idea of the world being scalable based on the player's preference similar to how mythic+ currently works - so if you want a really challenging experience or to get some unique rewards you have that option.

[@Carriesue1982]

This is literally what I’ve been wanting in retail WoW forever. I don’t do end game anymore and just level alts. But retail is so easy to level in it’s not fun at all. If I could up the difficulty I’d actually play retail

[@Part-Time-Pope]

If you combine this with the friendly community and great roleplayers...man I could nerd out to this.

[@brennanpomeroy4753]

You still playing LOTRO? just started playing it for the first time ever and it is so enjoyable!!! I really am having a ton of fun. Wish I had some buds to do the leveling difficulty upgrade.

[@SavithTV]

A scaling questing experience is something I never knew I wanted in an MMO. I enjoyed it in games like Diablo 3 which is the only thing I can compare it to, so I hope it comes to other games, too!

[@Loreignss]

I tried LOTRO 3 weeks ago, my only other time playing it was around a decade ago and I really didn't love it back then. I don't know what changed but I've been on everyday I'm not at work for like 10 hours a day. I saw this difficulty thing and assumed it was some end game mechanic, going to jack everything up to A MILLION tonight and get smoked by a pig. Community has been really great, still don't have any friends or know what I'm actually doing but just hit 70 hunter/40 rune keeper

[@SeretheDarkraven]

DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online), also owned by Standing Stone Games, had varying difficulty in both their "regular" dungeons ranging from solo to elite difficulty and then at Update 34 which was in 2017 they also introduced Reaper difficulties ranging from 1-10. Admittedly little changed as far as general monsters went, but new monsters were added to zones and overall monster difficulty screamed upwards. Completing reaper difficulty objectives also rewarded points which could be used to help your character. So, in general this system has actually been around for a while; it's just that for some reason LOTRO seems to be the first people are noticing it. But yeah, it'd be nice if more games allowed this kind of option.

[@insanemang9983]

That is one cool thing about GW2 is the multiple path story choices that change the early game story.

[@DeadintheDark]

Every time I hear The House of Tom Bombadil, it fills me with such joy.

[@fel385]

Bro this is just content farm. Scaling up the numbers in the world? Wow, absolutely groundbreaking. A feature I'd like to see for sure, though it's not new or novel. Lots of warcraft private servers already offer leveling challenges that include simple unga bunga numbers tuning alongside other, more interested changes. And the notion that it's so deep and community building to just have stuff tuned so hard that you NEED a group is so bland it might as well be british cuisine. Every MMO under the sun has content meant for groups in the form of dungeons and harder quests.

[@mr.rainbowlovescoffee]

I got this game back in 2007 and loved it, but there were a lot of bugs downloading the game. Me and my friends didn't care about all the bugs. We love the game and we continue playing for many years. About 8 years ago I decided not to play anymore. 3 weeks ago from today I started up the game to start a new player new account. Now I'm back playing my favorite game I ever played. My first MMO game was Star wars galaxies, what time is the game.

[@WyMustIGo]

Main content starts at 3:45

[@Valaran1]

I feel like ARPGs have been doing this for awhile, Grim Dawn for instance allows you to start in "Veteran" mode (but change it if you're getting your ass kicked) but you're right, MMOs have been hesitant to bring it in.

[@vladromanov8380]

Incredible, people have been asking for "Classic WoW" and additional content of that same nature and someone finally listened.

[@thedanish5523]

ESO needs this feature so desperately

[@DonnieDGaming]

More challenge and group play that isn't pointless. Yes, please!!

[@yesteryearr]

ESO NEEDS this feature so much. The Overworld is so boringly easy

[@Grawwler]

If I could do +2 hard mode mmo lvling I would be so happy. Very nice lotro! Retail wow lvling even would be fun if the difficulty was 2-5 times higher

[@Bongwater33]

If anyone wants a hardcore leveling experience Anarchy Online is still around - over 300 levels of non scaled leveling! wander into a higher zone and be decimated - Random 80 levels higher giant mob strolling through "noob zone" to pound the spacers!Beware of Ran Roth Ur!

[@erikdahlborg]

Elder scrolls do have great stories in all quest and side quests and they do give you both xp and instant skillpoint and even some great sets to use in endgame, so it feels like eso still have an reason to play all the quests.

[@SkyrimHelpChannel]

I just downloaded the game for the first time and I chose a Man Captain. I'm looking forward to it and would love to see you upload on this game more!

[@Alucard9692010]

Man the early game for this video was so long and painful until you got to the point and finally talking about the story.

[@MariusThePaladin]

2 Things I really like about this: 1. It's entirely optional, not like forced level scaling that ruined ESO and SWTOR years ago for me. 2. It let you grind virtue exp. Previously it's really hard to get virtue EXP as they only comes in the form of one time quest reward or time gated daily quests.

[@xavier9319]

Level scaling on eso killed it for me too

[@LeviBallou]

You gained a new subscriber dawg, excellent, entertaining, and very informative. I am downloading lotro now. I appreciate your content.

[@alamataus]

Such a simple thing to add difficulty slider to overworld game yet so good.

[@ryangallegos3218]

With the landscape difficulty options Lotro is the best single player mmorpg there is. I say that because leveling to max you will likely be questing by yourself the entire time. Love lotro bit it feels like a really good single player game most of the time.

[@humandisaster18]

Thank you for this video! I saw the NPC offering this and I kind of guessed maybe this was the intention of it, but wasn't sure so I didn't click on anything lol. As a SWTOR veteran I WOULD LOVE if they implemented a system like this!

[@samhardwell1712]

Lotro is my childhood game . Stands more closer to me compared to wow. Im glad people dive into this game ,old engine or not,trust me,this game deserves the attention :)

[@XxDruidmancerxX]

One quesrion though: even though the leveling becomes harder/more challenging, with the XP bonus, don't you end up overleveling for the areas you're in? Gotta keep increasing difficulty all the time as you level up?

[@secretweapon7764]

with LOTRO I've never been that interested in end game. I'm happy to spend most time in the Shire, Bree, and Rivendell ;)

[@SnumpQuest]

Amazing. This gives me hope for the future of MMOs and makes me want to jump back into LOTRO. Thank you for the news update!

[@yatesie90]

And just like that I now feel the need to play lotro again

[@madhijz-spacewhale240]

that leveling series would be sick.

[@omuky1196]

i alwasy love LOTRO specially the fact that you can go and solo m+ dungeons. This new lvl system sounds amazing and one of the best i seen in mmos

[@akhlives2385]

The leveling was the biggest issue I had in lotro. There is so much story to see and I was easily able to over level things and it became so tedious. This sounds so awesome I might have to re-download this game.

[@Mr.Boomer717]

I've been doing (Difficulty 3) Fearless solo and find its just about right for me.

[@TheeZulu]

Excellent video - very well done and worth watching!

[@doramas1079]

Well, they talked about this several years ago on eso forums and its always bringed back. Zenimax just don't wanna do this and nerf sets to oblivion. And you know... the nature of the beast (the franchise) it is a solo game, essentially. 99% of the players just solo all the adventure since the start. Broken sharable quest system... Some time ago they even released companions... now i don't even need a tank, healer or another dps friend to tackle those dungeons, since my tank companion or healer can, with some adjustments, do just fine. (Most of the base game dungeons can be solo as well and some dlc dungeons).

[@soundaddiktion2006]

I have autism so I always did things different from the rest of the majority of players. My best WoW experience was actually playing on a Private server called Kronos III before classic released. My goal was to wear all the best in slot items at every level. And so I had to make a guild on Horde and Alliance to farm low level PvP. The great thing about Kronos was it was a 1.12 server but it let you freeze your xp. So you had the really cool low level areas of Vanilla WoW, but you could turn off xp and not out level the content. I tanked SFK on my Warrior, Choga, at level 19. Early game WoW has a really different vibe and it was great being able to turn off xp gain. I'd be fishing in STV at 11+ and Tanaris at 20+. At 29 I had run so many dungeons for people that were levelling up ASAP that they were already 60 and so I had lots of friends at level 60 to help me get my librams and stuff. I would sell level 60s free action potions and stonescale eels and the like for gold. I always argued that this race to end game was really bad and how Cataclysm basically ruined WoW because the low level content was stream lined. The race to end game is good, if a player wants to do it. But being real with you, its not fun playing as a warrior with no gear because you are speed leveling. Its also bad for the culture when everyone thinks that is the only way the game should be played. and it encourages the devs to be very lazy and just focus on the end game. As such WoW felt less and less like WORLD of Warcraft and more and more like Raids of Warcraft. Where the only focus of the player base was end game. I believe this culture came into being because levelling up was forced onto the player in the Official wow. And players who did wanna chill and collect cool items on the way got burned by the fact the stuff they were collecting would become subpar very quickly. So no one bothered getting the best loot as they leveled. I was the first 29 on my server to wear Arathi Basin reputation items. But.. then Classic came and yeah. The community was too divided etc to be running a level 29 pvp guild reliably on the private server. I was spending easily 60hours a week just spamming chat to pop BGs by the end of it. So I stopped. But that experience of being able to just stay low level was so fun.

[@StarFlorge]

If I'm right, this is essentially what the wow private server ascension had. They have taken it from that, and good. Learn from what these small places do, and put it in the main game.

[@triatrianta6462]

i really enjoyed your video its my first time seeing your channel great job!

[@myrdana]

Actually it's possible to solo the highest tier, it requires a lot of crafting. Gather on you main funnel it to the character an just craft for days.

[@morrowoblivion13]

That is true especially that the crafting tools are scaling like yellow to blue to red. And with crafting events 😀

[@springsteenwow]

Stars wars the old republic already did this with the Knights of the Fallen Empire DLC years and years ago.

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

One concern I have about this system is what it's going to be like when player numbers starts to go down.

[@Bad_Moon_Rising]

Ive been saying for a while that MMOs need to be completely soloable but made in a way that its more beneficial the more people you play with . This is a good thing.

[@PrinceArtemis]

I honestly tried to play it, I loved the landscape challenge for leveling but when you level solo.... with no group dungeons to do cause they don't have a level sync for high levels to do dungeons with low levels, it takes the fun out of the game. Its a shame they can't get a dungeon finder similar to FFxiv level sync or ESO to get dungeons popping for the small pop they have.

[@adamramsey5787]

One of the things that has been an issue for me, getting into a lot of MMOs, is leaving the starting area, and getting hit by a wall of currency systems, and other things. Maybe it is just me.

[@croncastle3028]

Took this man 10 minutes to tell us they added difficulty options with proportionate xp gains

[@derangedhermit7981]

I've been wanting this in wow forever. We already have the ability for everything to scale, and so many people get tired of going back and doing things like lore master or farming transmogs by one shotting mobs. In wow I wouldn't mind an increased chance for transmog gear to drop from ramped up mobs. I would love to see some new emotes as well.

[@solidghost4525]

Been searching for my next mmo to dive into. I actually do like neverwinter but yeah the early game is basically a 12 hour tutorial to max level. Now I’m playing Everquest 1.

[@Bronzedrag0n_Gaming]

So, in other words, we are going back to old school "normal."

[@Sir_Loin_Tippe]

This seems interesting. I'm not sure why this video got recommended to me but I used to play this game back in high school. I stopped around the gap of Rohan (lvl 75) my main was a rank 9 Warden and I had a rank 6 cappy. The game was so much more engaging and group oriented when it first came out. I went back to see what changed maybe 6 years ago and all my characters were gimped/ removed tons of their abilities. Anyone played recently and can give me their recommendation to try it again or not"?

[@DaMcGamer]

It's the game I still kick myself for not buying the lifetime sub way back when. Glad to see this change, may have to dive back in!

[@Simkets]

3:59 Here's a time stamp for those who just want to know why and not listen to "am gonna tell you why" streched into 4 minutes ;)

[@rebeljedaii2571]

I had no idea! I've been busy just charging my hobbit through Rohan 🤔 I wonder if you need a new character. I have a beorn and elf who I haven't played outside festivals for ages too.

[@kevinj834]

It’s interesting that they’re still adding to this game even though there’s a new LOTR MMO in the works. But I’m glad to see it

[@70mavgr]

SWTOR did something similar when KotFE expansion launched back in 2015.

[@dante93nero]

This is actually a super simple way of fixing one of the biggest issues with MMO's....with WoW specifically it feels like Blizzard went to the extreme were even low level dungeons feel soloable which doesn't make any sense... I would even go as far as reducing XP and making the world more challenging would be the best approach.

[@nordicpush1452]

Meanwhile Bli$$ is adding tendris to cash shopXD.

[@Evenstar213]

Did they provide multi CPU core support? Back in when I played, it was laggy cos the game was only using 1 core. Thanks a lot!

[@Xariann]

Star Trek Online did this but it wasn't as fleshed out.

[@Obliticus]

Nice addition, but the biggest problem I always had with LOTRO was the lag and rubber banding. Its nearly unplayable once you get to Minas Tirith and Gondor in general, and it wasn't just during peak hours. And don't even get me started on War Horses... lol

[@Alexcv215]

Question: Is this Any zone that has implemented the new difficulty system or only the before the Shadow Zones?

[@morrowoblivion13]

Lotro player here. You can access the difficulty system in all of the major cities/towns of the game. Like I saw the difficulty system guy in archet(first town if you're in the race of man and archet was there even back in the day) (yes each race has a different intro and starting town)

[@bz3854]

Guild Wars 2 does something similar with their level scaling world content, though not nearly to this extent. It is fascinating!

[@jt6455]

LOTRO ♥ The MMO with the most wonderful people I've ever played, nowdays half the people you see in newer MMO servers feel like complete idiots but playing on LOTRO RP-servers in the 2010s felt like an actual genuine community.

[@jamesdavidson7495]

+1 Vote for a LOTRO leveling series. I am back in the game and I think there are more people here than 5 years ago.

[@ellypsis603]

"What About Side by Side with a Friend?"

[@Wrynnblade]

"Only a small part is played in great deeds by any hero" -Gandalf This is what I'm looking for! Let's go LotRO!!! 🎉

[@daviddavidson2834]

this sound so great! other devs hopefully draw some inspiration from this

[@Recoil1808]

...Suddenly I feel the urge to remake my old warden.