What is the Current State of the Game?

[Reg]

Which is why I said "Some people wouldn't feel that way and I wish them the very best of luck."

[Yegolev]

Besides Fallia, I also have Uluphant and Fatwing, but I'm not an officer so I can't get you in myself.  Also Cheddar is Arzo and he is an officer.

[Arthur_Parker]

I signed up, haven't played since beta.  Strange that if I hadn't tried WAR I probably wouldn't be playing this again.  Turbine always make a nice engine, love the water effects.

[Cheddar]

I will be back soon - been working 14 hour days. 

[tmp]

Hmm. That was a short sighted decision on Turbine's part. Or was the vast majority of their subscribers past and present really at max level?

Not sure about it; legendary weapons just seem to be placed as carrot for later part of the game. Without spoiling too much, your intial lack of legendary weapon is used as part of the plot, so it wouldn't make much sense if you had one from the beginning.

Keep on mind they also introduce two new classes in the expansion, and these new characters also have to go through usual 1-50 levelling experience without getting their legendary weapon from the start. So it just makes that gear something to look forward to.

[Mr_PeaCH]

Just wanted to jump back in the thread to ask a question and give a brief report.

Do we (Riders) have any sort of guild site outside of this forum here or anything that I should know about?

So far I am absolutely loving this game and I wish I had stumbled on in a long time ago.  I always have been a bit of a LOTR nerd but for whatever reason I haven't been much into MMOing the past couple of years.  Anyways, they have really nailed the atmosphere and lore; it's just fun to walk around and see what the townspeople have to say sometimes.  Getting groups to get certain quests done has been easy and overall the whole community seems to be at a higher maturity level than most (which isn't necessarily saying much but still).

Thanks to the Kinship as well; I've gotten a full set of heavy armor for my Guardian who just hit 15.  I'm doing the Explorer trade and concentrating on gathering and refining ore, wood and leather.  Anything you need (first two tiers so far) let me know.

[Cheddar]

Just wanted to jump back in the thread to ask a question and give a brief report.

Do we (Riders) have any sort of guild site outside of this forum here or anything that I should know about?

So far I am absolutely loving this game and I wish I had stumbled on in a long time ago.  I always have been a bit of a LOTR nerd but for whatever reason I haven't been much into MMOing the past couple of years.  Anyways, they have really nailed the atmosphere and lore; it's just fun to walk around and see what the townspeople have to say sometimes.  Getting groups to get certain quests done has been easy and overall the whole community seems to be at a higher maturity level than most (which isn't necessarily saying much but still).

Thanks to the Kinship as well; I've gotten a full set of heavy armor for my Guardian who just hit 15.  I'm doing the Explorer trade and concentrating on gathering and refining ore, wood and leather.  Anything you need (first two tiers so far) let me know.

No.  We pretty much use this forum as our defacto kin forum; since almost all the Rider members are f13 related anyhow it works well enough for us.  Plus its really a loosely formed guild.  If you ever need help with anything let Marween or myself know.

[Yegolev]

Anything you need (first two tiers so far) let me know.

If you want to mail Fallia about four bronze ingots, it would save me about thirty minutes.

[Riggswolfe]

Are the new epic weapons available to characters lower than level 50? I'm still looking for reasons (aside from rolling up one of the new classes) to resubscribe with my mid 30s burglar.

Theoretically you might be able to pick up and do Volume 2 Book 1 of the epic storyline at lvl.45, and you get the 'starter' epic weapon at about middle point of it. That's still quite a few levels away from 30-something, though.

Regular legendary wepons drop with requirement of lvl.51+ and you can't use them anyway until you have that Book 1 thing completed.

Just thought I'd chime in with "correct". You can do Book 1 at 45 and solo it if you know your class well. I was able to do it and the expedition quests (to do the Fall of Moria session play) with only a little help from a random burglar in the half-orc caves.