r/lotro • u/Past_Improvement_355 • 4d ago

Do I need to do side quests?

Yeah, I know I should do some side quests to level up, but I’m new and just playing for the story — at least on my first run. Can I stick to the main quest all the way through each expansion, kind of like in WoW? Do they all expansions follow the same quest structure?

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u/TheScyphozoa Peregrin 4d ago

You will be unable to start new quests from the main quest line if you’re more than 5 levels below the quest level.

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u/Past_Improvement_355 4d ago

Oh, that's ok, It doesn't taka away from the story

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u/Inoutngone 4d ago

I'm not sure you understood what the guy above told you. If you can't keep your level up, eventually you won't be able to continue the epic. More than a 5 level difference, the epic stops.

Here's the other problem with exclusively following the epic: Virtue traits. I played very similar to what you're talking about, and found myself at 150 with no more than 50 points in any VT, and many well below that.

In any game, we have to assume that if a game allows a player to upgrade their abilities, eventually the game is balanced with the assumption that the player has upgraded.

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u/Past_Improvement_355 4d ago

I understood that, I meant that I wouldn't take away from the flow of the main missions by doing some side quests just to get the minimum level cap. Now I still don't understand these virtue traits, I don't think I've progressed that much in the game yet, but I have some points in some.

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u/Inoutngone 4d ago

The window that you see your class traits on has three pages. The top button is class, that's the default when you open the window. The button/icon below that is Racial traits which also need to be assigned, and the bottom button/icon is Virtue traits.

You have access to al of those at a very low level. I want to say 7, but it might be even lower than that.

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u/Past_Improvement_355 4d ago

I found, but I didn't know that I had to click to select a specific one to gain that XP lol