Aye ram was one of my main concerns. Problem is that I think my Motherboard is real crappy. I know it only has 2 slots for ram and I don\'t know if its compatible with other video cards, or at least thats what i\'ve been told before. How do I find out the name of my motherboard?
As for LOTRO, visually its really amazing for an MMO. The story line is as rich as you would expect from a Tolkien universe and they do a great job of making the player feel like a part of the main story line throughout the game. As opposed to WoW where story tends to sit on the back burner while players go mad for gear and loot. Unlike any other MMO that i\'ve played, LOTRO definately makes you feel like your part of an epic story.
A massive flaw in LOTR tho is the quest design. Almost every quest you do has 3 or more quests after it so your log is always full. Thats not a bad thing, the bad part is that a ton of these quests are fellowship quests (need a group). So couple that in with the massive amounts of quests that are available you have a very very tough time finding a group. Thats to be expected with any MMO but in LOTR you can literally spend a day or 2 looking for a group to do the quest and then you need to hope that the group is compitent enough to actually finish it.
The quests can be quite hard, not all but some of them are. Definately the dungeons too. Elites in LOTRO are just that, elite. You can\'t solo a same level elite like in WoW.
That being said, LOTRO is only a couple months old and doesn\'t have the 3+ years of tweaks and patches that WoW does so things like the questing i\'m sure will be made more managable in the future as more patches come out but at the moment it can be a real pain sometimes.
Also if your a fan of PvP (thats why i\'m so pumped for Warhammer
) LOTRO PvP is very lacking to say the least. At level 10 you can go to a major city and find a scrying pool which lets you enter the PvP battleground Ettenmoors. You can select an orc and various other monsters to fight against heros. Max level in the game is 50 and your new monster will start at max level. Heros are your main characters and can only PvP against the monsters when your character has reached level 40. The way it is designed is that if you want to play a monster you can play one early on in the game and if you want to play as your main character you gotta level up to 40 and then you can enter.
The idea is that the monsters will always outnumber the heros because monsters are much weaker than a hero character, monsters don\'t get gear unlike your main character. Monsters have to work in raids because it takes 2 or more to kill 1 hero. Thats not really my style of PvP, the action is slow compared to WoW it involves a lot of waiting because you need big raids (weather your a hero or monster) to take out the enemy controlled keeps.
Overall, I do enjoy LOTRO but it definately still needs work.
