After a few days of play in LotRO I have to say I am still not sure what I think about it. Honestly, I still think DDO might be the superior game (go go Diablo style MMO!) but LotRO is fun for all of the interesting cameos and places to see.
So far my highest level is a level 16 elven Rune-Keeper, also have a level 14 human Warden that has been a lot of fun. Both of them are still on the way to the deeds for reaching level 20 without dying. My Hunter and Lore-Master both bit it already not long after getting out of the intro chapter, most annoying for me was the Hunter death as if I’d headed right back to the trainer after hitting level 10 and training for Medium Armor and Dual Wielding instead of trying to finish the mission I was on at the time I probably would have lived through the fight that killed me.
Champions Online is still fun, though some of the Monster Island quests got a little stale. Several of the new quest lines were truly irritating in that they basically meant going to a map, exploring it, going back to your contact, and then heading back to the exact same map again and basically doing it over again with maybe a couple new glowies to click. The old existing content is still good, but the new content is… Meh.
The Blood Moon event coming up in CO is a bit… Hrmph… Tried it on the test server and the best thing I can say about it is that I am glad the event has at least a week left to be worked on before it goes Live.
Still looking forward to the STO (Star Trek Online) beta starting, been watching a lot of Deep Space 9 in the last couple of weeks to get back up to speed on my Trek-fu. Watching “You Are Cordially Invited” in season 6 right now, the marriage of Worf and Dax, where the male members of the cast take part in a Klingon bachelor party which turns out to be less of a bachelor party and more of a four day torture session.
Looking forward to “In The Pale Moonlight” which is several discs further into this season and which was always one of my favorite episodes.
Mid-term for the class I am taking is on Tuesday. Been sick for the last couple of days so not studied as much as I would like, also missed my Thursday class which was supposed to have been the review before the mid-term. So at this point not expecting to do as well on the test as I would like to do. Blegh.