I have just about had it with Isengard and I am only through the second quest hub. Sounds like I'm a lazy ez-mode quitter? Two quests hubs had over fifty "kill 10 mobX" quests. Every quest hub is 20-30 "kill 10 mobX" quests with the feeble storyline excuse of helping the men if Dunland so they will like you and let the Grey Host through. Whats worse is they only give you a few quests at a time. Kill 10 pigs over there, come back and I get a quest to kill 10 pigs somewhere else. I'd rather have five kill 50 quests so I could go out and grind than 25 layered run out and back kill 10 quests.

LotRO has always been a game about following epic storyline and side quest chains. In this Isengard release they simply skipped the storyline and gave you chained quests. So far there has been one interesting storyline with a child's toy ball stolen by a bird leading to a confrontation with a mad wizard's apprentice. It was a series of 2 "walk and talk" and 4 "kill 10 mobx" quests but the story made it interesting. The rest of quests seem to have been created by a random quest generator.

Epic storyline quests are the main story of you character following around all the major lore characters and doing things in the background to hide their path, diffuse evil plots that might have affected the fellowship, etc. Please tell me what is "epic" or even "story" about my current epic storyline quest. It says simply "help the villagers of <podunk town x> before moving on to <podunk town y>". An "epic story" quest that point blank tells me to grind out all the non-story quests before going to the next quest hub. I can't find [polite] words for how I feel about this expansion's content.

I wish I could get a refund on my lifetime subscription and wash my hands of this game.

If anyone has some good things to say about LotRO that could convince me I am wrong, I would love to hear them.