text: Posts 8,679	Re: Session play - Why, WHy, WHY!!!
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  Posts 253	A session play (ok, exclude the slug one, I think we all agree turbine made a mistake there) is very easy and can be finished as fast or slow as you like. For those who dislike them; run through, chop chop hack hack, get a drink while Gandalf talks, wham bam, Done.
  Posts 8,343	Originally Posted by Geindir
  Posts 543	The why is so that Turbine can offer some variety in what we're doing. I agree that some are pretty silly. Some of the ones in early Vol III where you play as a Ranger killing a few worms or trolls seem to be stuck in just to give those who get cranky if they're not busy killing things something to keep them amused. I disliked the one where you play that idiot Laerdan in the Ring Forge area, but then I dislike Laerdan anyway. (Really, locking up his daughter for years on end is going to cure her?)
  Posts 8,679	Originally Posted by Chris2
  Posts 8,343	Originally Posted by Leonide
  Posts 321	I am very hot and cold on the epic storyline as a whole. I really enjoy a few parts but find most of it tedious or poorly conceived. Certain elements raise my hackles, including session play, for reasons mostly touched upon in this thread.
  Posts 8,679	Originally Posted by Vexendynamus
  Posts 156	I kind of enjoy session play. I do wish my toons UI settings carried over. I have to remember to go into the options at the start and set things to my liking and one needs mouse over each skill of the toon they will using and get an understanding of what they do or the combat can be frustrating, or even a failed experience.
  Posts 8,679	Originally Posted by VGN-LarryMac
  Posts 375	I definitely disagree with removing session play past, present or future. For the most part I love them at least the first time through with some exceptions like the Angmarim slug killing. I wouldn't even mind that session play if it wasn't for killing the slugs. I enjoyed going around and kicking the orcs awake; especially the text on the progress bar as you were kicking them. There are a lot of little gems like that in the session plays. Sometimes it's a phrase in the progress bar, sometimes it's the name of a skill or the description of a skill. As for doing them more than once, don't even get me started on that. I'd be surprised to find out that I'm not one of the more prolific epic quest storyline people around. I currently have seven level 75s and every single one of them has completed all of Volume I. That's the volume most people do not complete since it's very long and has some really annoying aspects to it. Going along with that, all of those characters have finished all of the epic quests we have so far with the exception of one or maybe two. My latest to 75 has not completed the Lothlorien epics which take place in Moria after 2.6.8. That's mostly because when I originally leveled him to 65 I skipped a lot of stuff to get the last several levels quickly and this was something I skipped since it was in no way necessary. By the way, that doesn't count some other characters I have which are above 50 and not 75. I have a couple more who have finished all of Vol I.