Champions, Minstrels and Rune-keepers Beyond Level 50

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Tur­bine has updated with another batch of devel­oper diaries detail­ing what’s in store for classes beyond level 50. Sur­pris­ingly, one is about the Rune-keeper.  Check them out: Cham­pion, Min­strel, and Rune-keeper. I’ve detailed a bit about each below.

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Creating Characters

Tony posted this on July 28th, 2008. It has No Comments »
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Dwarfing it up at Thorin\'s Hall

To say I play The Lord of the Rings Online slowly is prob­a­bly being gen­er­ous. I’ve been play­ing the same char­ac­ter with no atten­tion given to alts since June 2007. That would be my Man Cham­pion (my sec­ond char­ac­ter after an Elf), who only recently hit level 48. Get­ting to 50 in a cou­ple of weeks obvi­ously isn’t my thing.

I’ve never hit the level cap in a MMORPG. Typ­i­cally I get bored around halfway there. With LotRO the issue is more due to my amount of free time and what I actu­ally choose to do in the game. I just take my time.

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