Level Up!

Turbine released Book 7 for Lord of the Rings Online this past Tuesday. Following Blizzard's lead in WoW, Turbine changed the experience requirements for leveling in this latest patch. As a result, my lower level toons saw a 2-3 level increase when I logged in. Kammris and Lukenbach both earned only 1 level, but both are more of the way towards the next.

A brief scan of the boards tells me that hunters got nerfed. The fix is receiving mixed reviews, with a surprising number of hunter players applauding the change, flat-out admitting their toons were over-powered.

It will be interesting to see how Lukenbach, my minstrel plays after the patch. To be perfectly honest, I stopped playing him for a time because the Mines are freaking brutal. It's really tough to soloing stuff, even more so as a minstrel. And forget about trying to take on more than one mob at a time; space is so tight in the Mines, one almost invariably draws unwanted mobs, leading to frequent fleeing or death.