While I'm not a big Tolkien fan myself, has anyone looked
at the PvP in LOTR ? If so, what was the consensus on it ?

You take control of wild animals and attack people that are questing ::yawns::

Actually, I talked about this with a friend of mine today.

Apparently there are two sides. One of them requires leveling
to fifty where the real PvP begins. Otherwise known as the
free side. Dwarves, elves, humans, etc.

The other side is unique in that you can elect to play a
level fifty critter without the grind to get them to fifty.
My understanding is the free side is more powerful, but
the numbers of the evil side have a tendency to balance it
out a bit.

It's been shown that co-ordinated / organized groups have
a tendency to wreak havoc on the battlefield against the
pick up raids. We all have known this for years, but
apparently it's new information to some. . . .

It has some things going for it in that the
PvP is NOT centered around items. Thus, there is no epic
armor set of doom that makes you a God on the field. The
best gear in the game is not that much better than the
average gear.

The down side is there are PvP ranks. Even though both
combatants are level fifty, if one is higher ranked on
the PvP scale, they will have the advantage in a fight.
From what I'm told, the higher ranked veteran player will
dodge / evade attacks from the unskilled player much more
which gives them a bigger advantage.

It is also my understanding that there is some kind of
kill ratio tally in the form of stars. Kill a lot more
than you die and you get flagged with stars. Somewhat of
a bragging rights kind of thing. The downside to this is
this really pisses off the other side a lot, so they will
focus fire your a$$ to make sure those stars don't inflate
your ego too much

I'm debating giving the game a shot due to the absence of
anything worthwhile to play atm.

I'm bored as well, but looks like AOC beta starting up right after x-mas break.

what up DC !! lol remember you were always asking for a heal in VG.. "HEAL" lolz you always died !!

I know you did that on purpose! I'll make a healer in AOC and turn the tables next time

hey dcengr have you tried PerfectWorld, it's free and pretty kewl to just mess around on..

i beta'ed this and there was no pvp other then the monster play they were very adamant against pvp so it seems they actually have real pvp now that is intresting.
the game was incredibly boring until about lvl 10 which took forever to obtain. They start elves in a dwarf town which makes no sense with the lotr lore
very pretty game and by the time i was in beta it was really smooth just not very enriching or give me the middle earth feel.

Havn't seen you guys in awhile, what games you guys in? AoC's still in march so you've got time.

Hello Syloc we are all over in many games. Some are playing DAOC and others are playing some kartrider and things like that. We are hoping for the beta in january.

It's funny, those games are never as good as I remember them, maybe I'm just used to daoc and SB being more populated than they are now.

If you can find a good guild to run around with then it's alot of fun and not so bad. The classic servers are rather populated but the lands in daoc are so large even a server that has over 2k ppl on average can feel lonely.