Well I played LotRO all day today, still playing it, though I need to go to bed I have a class tomorrow.

This MMO is completely awesome, shaping up to be my favorite MMO if it keeps this up

My character Taul - Dwarf Guardian
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The whole "grind" that people complain about in MMOs is much improved in LotRO. For one thing killing 100000 boars outside the city for xp isn't encouraged in this game, most of the xp comes from quests and there is a lot of quests. What I like about them is the dialogue in them is top notch and makes the quests feel more important and you seem to care more about the quests, especially the storyline quests. Which is another thing. Warcraft had a lot of lore to fall back on, but it's almost nothing compared to the lore and nostalgia to be found in LotRO.

Any grinding you do, do doesn't seem as annoyiing, probably because on top of the all the nice questing you have these deeds to earn titles, almost like Xbox Live achievements So going out and killing a bunch of Goblins might earn you a nice little title to sport around, all these nice little rewards/titles break up any tedium I might have while leveling. The character models look like they could come from WoW but the environments are absolutely gorgeous.

I haven't encountered anything that's given me a negative vibe yet. Granted I've only just begun (one full days play in a MMO is absolutely nothing in the scheme of things) But considering I just came off of quiting WoW just a few months back I would think any annoying traits in the game would irritate me rather quickly.