While there are several maps to choose from the most popular is to sit in Orgimar or Stormwind and wait for the magical faeries to whisk you away to the loot pinata you queued up for.

This would be a great idea. I understand the inclusion of Custom channels that users can take the initiative for but way too often do people not join, forget to add the channel on an alt or what have you. And not to nitpick but should it not be a "Galactic Channel";)?

You go through a mental dialogue wheel when talking to your boss

Under Options use Operation Frames as Party Frames and you can make them larger. Make sure you turn off the lock on them too.

I start posting in the Fleet General at 5:30 and make my way there. Then I post in general when I get to Belsavis. I estimate the World Boss would be dead by about 6:07:42.784521754 PM EDIT: Or I go to the Server Group Forums and start a thread [sERVER NAME] Belsavis World Boss scheduled to die Saturday 6:00 PM {Insert Date/ Time Zone}

Server restarts, spray canned air in the server fans, and of course make the weekly sacrifice of 25 Jawas, 10 Ewoks, and 1 Tauntaun to George Lucas.

There is not enough evag either!

Cookie Crisp...its all about Cookie Crisp! No, but the 'difficulty' (or lack of) argument seems to be more about everything being inclusive rather than exclusive. In which who cares what the other guy is doing?

I compare them in their current state and the mere fact that I play TOR now makes it the clear winner for me. In terms of the 'amount' of content argument how many are running even the previous raids/dungeons weekly. I would love to see how long it takes to get an on level group for Karazhan or Ahn'Qhirij. Those are the real numbers and stats people should be clamoring for. Adding a faction for each planet/zone for rep grinding is just death by a thousand cuts to keep the subscription active. We already have a codex, I go from planet to planet trying to fill each one out.

Its in the Bonus Series 1 area. It has you going through the Imperial Camp and kill snipers I think.

Hobbit Tanks FTW. Those fights had you actually bring CC, Debuffs, and Buffs to the table. One tank, 4 champs, and 1 healer usually led to disaster not victory. My favorite fights were Balrog (yes in its original 50 min glory), Thrang, Rogmul in Barad Gularan, Mordirith (original iteration), and Remmanaeg (Fornost). Interesting thing about Hard modes in Moria were that you had to run the instance a particular way. Easiest and most overplayed example would be the Grand Stairs. You had 15 minutes after fighting the first miniboss to clear the way to the final boss to preserve hard mode. Similarly in the Forges you had 30 minutes after the first boss to clear the instance. If you failed you did not get the hard mode loot; it gave lesser gear, no chance of the rare drops. Conversely you had something like Warg Pens which was more about endurance than a speed run. The current setup with enrage timers is actually very punitive. In fact with reports of people wiping on adds and then being locked out is in my eyes not working as intended. I don't think anybody here is arguing about the difficulty of enrage timers. We are arguing about the lack of choice enrage timers force people and groups into. I loved my captain in LOTRO from day 1. They could were a veritable swiss army knife (back before Trait Lines forced us into healing). I leveled my Commando as a hybrid in Combat Medic and Gunnery Trees. The enrage timer says no build experimentation for you - pick 1 tree and max it. This is also why I don't think dual spec really solves anything - different rant for a different thread;). That is just one example but I am sure there are many similar stories being realized as more and more are hitting 50 and trying hard modes. Which is why in the last couple of weeks you are seeing more of these threads pop-up.

I logged in to LoTRO the other day to pay my housing and kinhouse upkeep. I stepped behind the house (in the Shire) to overlook the fields. That poor hobbit has been pulling the same weed for at least 2+ years. I swung by the Combe lumber camp and some lumberjack is still trying to split the same log...

umm 92 down to 78 is not 25 its 14

This is an excellent question. I too agree that dev needs to stop taking cues from PVP. Rather than buff everybody to 50 make them all level 1s and let God (maybe the Force) sort it out.

Just bumping this topic as it is becoming more prevalent as more people are doing these 50 HMs. Boarding Party is rectified (awaiting confirmation from the Imp Side), this needs to be applied to all FPs.