Lord of the Rings Online - Review @ Gameplay Monthly

Also at Gameplay Monthly today, a review of Lord of the Rings Online.

Grinding is almost completely gone as well. LotRO focuses much more heavily on the Story than World of Warcraft, meaning that your quests will often mean something. Being that they are so important to do, they end up giving you much more experience than just killing monsters. You'll find that, should you be desperate to reach that next level, you'll end up doing all the quests you can instead of killing monsters nonstop. However, for those that do enjoy the grind, LotRO has implemented Deeds. These will require you to kill that obscene number of Bears or use that skill an obscene number of times, and you are rewarded with Traits, which will increase your stats by a bit.