Hello community, Cordovan and Raninia !
For a about a month now I have been playing multiple characters with different levels and collecting various feedbacks from in-game chat (kin, LFF, world) and I finally found some time for this thread.
From what I read, most people don't like the new system, however it is not bad enough to push more people to complain about it in official forum.
So let's compare LI 3 with the old LI 2:
1. GUI
Needs to be reworked (Speaking as a software-developer with 15 year experience in programming end user software)
* Readability
- Too much empty space between stats which makes you scroll a lot, can't imagine how people with small resolution screens handle this.
- way too many secondary stats make it difficult to find the important things that make a LI unique.
- you cannot see tracery level unless you drag and drop the LI in character panel
* advancing the item takes too much effort (why not use right click menu?):
- open inventory
- open character panel
- drag and drop LI
- scroll to find your desired tracery
- drag and drop enhancement rune on the slot
- choose how many runes to use
compared to the old system (about 3-4 seconds):
- open inventory
- right click scroll
- choose LI
- choose stat
2. Stats
This is a topic where we can argue back and forth, however:
* Tracery main stats are always the same and you make us grind those again and again with every update??? where is the benefit in that?
* grinding runes to level up the new LI took about the same time as I put in to max out my old LI over the last years...so the point from Raninia's interview to make it easier for new players to reach endgame LI really did not work out.
* the only benefit in maxxing the LI now are secondary stats. Please leave them on gear, as mentioned above it is just a lot more to read until you find your important stats.
3. "legendary feeling"
The "legendary" feeling is completely gone - LI 2.0 stats increased by a small amount with every update which felt great. It was my "one and only" weapon that got more powerful along the way and I was proud of it...now it is an empty shell and you have to grind traceries with every update to get THE SAME MAIN STATS.
Personally I don't understand WHY there had to be a new LI system...the old one was just great. A few tweaks like dps increase and you could have used those developer hours for other things.
I love lotro and have been playing it for 12 years now so I really hope we can get back on the "legendary feeling" track!
Jenifer / Hunter 140