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However, the effect of stats overlap and differ based on character class, making them difficult to understand. Instead, your equipment and traits are the primary determiners for your stats. For LotRO, you don't customize your stats at character creation.

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DDO is much simpler to understand the effects of each stat, but they must be customized well from the very beginning to be effective (though you get a free 'heart of wood' to allow a one-time rebuild of the character). However, slayer deeds and crafting resource gathering can be a bit more difficult if the area has several solo people or groups active.Ĥ) STATS: Stats are very different between the two games. Note that if someone else picks up an item that is required for a quest or kills the named enemy required for a quest completion, there is a short respawn time. This can be a little frustrating, particularly in the lower-level areas that have more players active in them. This means that others may be trying to do the same things you are in the same area.

LotRO is primarily public wilderness areas and not necessarily safe. Only the people you are grouped up with are in your instance. By the end of the intro quests, a LotRO character is typically level 6, while a DDO character can leave at level 1 or stay until level 2 or 3 (but if they leave, can still return to do the quests).ģ) PUBLIC/PRIVATE AREAS: DDO quests and wildernesses are always private instances. And, depending on what race your character is, you might not be able to interact with others that are just starting out (LotRO has 2 different starting areas one for dwarves/elves, and another for humans/hobbits).

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However, LotRO has its short intro to teach you how to interact with the game, but then has a series of quests that you must complete before joining the general population. Once you finish that, you have the option to leave Korthos Island immediately and join the general population. In DDO, you start with 'The Grotto' quest.

LotRO has you right-click to use items or talk to people and pushing both left and right buttons simultaneously is an alternative way to move forward (but keys w/s/a/d work the same in both games).Ģ) INTRO QUESTS: The intros work a bit differently. Also note that the mouse works a little differently. I recommend remapping them to what you know, first thing.

The 'run' key, the 'select' key, and the 'use' key are different between the games. So, here are some important differences to know if you are switching from either game to the other one.ġ) KEYBOARD: The keyboard defaults are similar, but have some important differences. I made some assumptions about LotRO being like DDO because both games are developed by SSG. I started as a DDO player, and years later started playing LotRO, which I have now played for more than a year.

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