Lord of the Rings Online

It worked fine for me a few days ago.

Worked for me.

Made it through Mordor, Mirkwood, Dale, and starting Erebor. They're getting a lot out of this old engine. I love it.
Soundtrack continues to be great. They reused some Moria tracks in Erebor, which I don't mind, since Moria is one of my favorite MMO expansions of all time when it comes to atmosphere.

What's the community like these days? I haven't played this game in like 12 years but absolutely loved it back in the day. Is it worth getting into now? And how are the lower level zones to level up in now?

I'm up to 26 on Brandywine. I see people all over and world chat is quite active. Lots of LFG for end game stuff happening too.

Compared to the early years the lower levels are a breeze for leveling. You'll outlevel most every zone long before finishing deeds. The group steps of the epic quest are, I think, all soloable now too either with solo instances or super buffs. I'm also on brandywine and second what Brikker said about the community there. There's been at least a handful of people in every zone since I came back, although some places feel empty due to the way the game phases locations as you finish quests. The main hubs feel as busy as they ever have. Very little competition for resource nodes or mob tapping though.

I believe they are both bind on equip. I still have some of the older level capped heirlooms and they're bound to the characters that have them.

The only powerlevel item that I can think of off the top of my head that you can share between characters is the Universal Toolkit.

Being it's FTP, naturally you would have to buy them for each character. Also I think only the cloak-slot one gives quest exp. The pocket ones are only crafting and monster exp?

There is currently a buff being given to VIPs:

Recognition: +100% exp gain on monster kills, quests, crafting, legendary items, and mounted combat. Earned crafting experience +25%. +25% mark acquisition.

Active through Aug 13th.

Are there discounts in the store that are going away at the end of August? Such as, should I forgot ridding skill purchase, with currency, for buying anything first?

The expansion quest packs up through Helm's Deep are 99 points until the end of the month. Normally go for 1495.

Leveling is fast as fuck right now with the 100% subscriber exp boost. Wish it was permanent. Up to 38 playing casually. Combat doesn't seem as slow as I remember it but I'm playing a Guardian with 2h and can AE pull shit.

Blitz said:

A friend and I are debating on jumping into this for the Legendary server release. How were the previous Legendary servers? Are they worth hopping into for someone who maybe played the first 30 or so levels when LOTRO first released? How is the exp rate nowadays, faster than it originally was? I remember the thing that turned me off about the game originally was that the combat was very "meh" and the progression was a bit too slow with the combat.

If it's worth it, what are the most fun classes to play?

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I played it for a couple months, super casually, last year on the normal servers (paid for one month sub, felt like I got my monies worth). It was good enough for 80+ hours and it was better playing with a friend. We got to Angmar (mid 40s & part of the base game) before he lost interest (after about a month). I went on to reach ~70 before moving on. I think they got the world down pretty well, and it made me want to go watch the movies again, every time I played it. I really liked Moria.

The game's FTP model is alright, I guess, and you can grind out points (you get from achievement type things) to spend on xpac unlocks, otherwise they are an additional cost, on top of the monthly sub (mostly). There are guides on how to spend this currency wisely, to get the most bang for your time spent, if you do some searching.

It's probably best to look up opinions from current players on the classes, but I didn't see what they are going to do it with the Legendary server balance. I got the impression that the power of some of the classes swung wildly, xpac to xpac.

"Low level" class opinions (1 to 40ish) during my two months:
I thought I was going to be playing solo, so I picked the Captain (Cappy) at first, as I read they can solo anything, but their kill speed is slower (and that seemed to be the case, when I played). The Captain also has good party buffs, decent heals, and a pet (that becomes just a buff bot at higher levels).

I also played around with every class that I had unlocked (so no experience with Warden and Rune-Keeper). Hunter was the best DPS, followed by Champ. Beorning was slower DPS than Champ, but much better at tanking and can heal while speced for DPS. I guess Minstrel was OP for a while, but nerfed a few years ago (same with Rune- Keeper). Lore-Master and Burglar were different, and not bad.