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I still play this quite often and am on the Windfola server if anyone cares to venture with me. In fact I just started my 4th toon a Captain - and loving it! If you come to my server you can catch me as Makali, Emeryl, Celess, or Allegretto. Can't wait to see more neowinians.

  • 2 weeks later...
Man things have been wierd here. I should be in today though. (Wednesday.)

Hope to see you there! I'll try to get in earlier today since I saw you'd been in before me last time.

Plus, I see Turbine is testing a .net 2.0 launcher. Nice.

Where did you read that they are testing a new launcher?

I won't be starting another character very soon, but when I do I will check you up.

I am actually doing a Man Captain right now on the Firefoot server!

what is your characters name on firefoot, i have been inactive on there for about a month but i am going to try to start playing again with my measily lvl 26 elf champion

Where did you read that they are testing a new launcher?

It's on the official forums, Turbine Download Manager, apparently will cover both LOTRO and DDO, and should be a lot faster.

They're using it for the test server right now, but no idea when it'll go live on the main servers.

I noticed that bman, I hope we can get some gaming in sometime. I don't keep the client on my home machine anymore as it became pretty hopeless.

  • 2 weeks later...

So bman! You haven't logged in for quite some time it seems!

I have two characters having a go at that server now.

The launcher might already be live with book 14, but I can't tell. There's little direct info on that so it seems unlikely. All I could find was that the trial downloader uses it...

Yea I haven't been logged in for awhile, been working on AoC and a few other games, and waiting for my Lifetime Membership to start next month, then I will be back at it like normal. So hold your horses lol, I will be able to quest and **** with ya soon!

  • 3 weeks later...

No addons is not all bad. Think of the addons that are borderline cheating. Pre BC in WoW there was one that would use your anti-fear trinket for you whenever you got feared. Decursive gave healers near invulnerability to DoTs. Don't get me wrong, I like the addons I have. But I was reaching for a positive side of things.

I haven't touched LotRO since I was in the beta. Is there anywhere I can get a summary of info regarding what's changed since then? My biggest issue with the game was the fact that it felt like just another fantasy MMO. You start the game killing bears and giant spiders... oh boy. Where's the feel of Middle Earth in that?

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