This is what Lotro calls an "Epic Battle" There are 6 of them in the game (and about 100 instances). It has its own skill tree & you basically play a support role in one of the epic battles. You character scales from whatever its current level is up/down to level 100. Gear is converted to level 100 gear (temporarily) with whatever your gears current level advantage/disadvantage being scaled into the level 100 gear. There is also a level scaling so level 10 characters will find actual fighting harder & level 150 characters will find actual fighting easier than it was when the character was level 100. So you can sway a fight in your advantage by being an engineer in early levels, being a commander of men in mid levels, and a straight up fighter at high levels... Eventually you get up to 200 points to spend on your skills but to get that far you need to move up from the one/two player versions of the Epic battle & onto the 6 or 12 player versions. Each increase in players increases the number of specialists character roles required to complete the epic battle successfully. Battle rewards are scaled back to your characters original level when you leave the epic battle so you can get some good on-level gear/jewelry if you ever feel the need to improve it. XP is mainly from completing side quests in the battle & a big chunk of the XP reward comes from completing the instance successfully. All in all a good change of pace from the traditional (but still available in Lotro) questing & instances/dungeon gameplay. Anyway, thanks for watching!
Game looks great, cool battle
This is what Lotro calls an "Epic Battle" There are 6 of them in the game (and about 100 instances). It has its own skill tree & you basically play a support role in one of the epic battles. You character scales from whatever its current level is up/down to level 100. Gear is converted to level 100 gear (temporarily) with whatever your gears current level advantage/disadvantage being scaled into the level 100 gear. There is also a level scaling so level 10 characters will find actual fighting harder & level 150 characters will find actual fighting easier than it was when the character was level 100.
So you can sway a fight in your advantage by being an engineer in early levels, being a commander of men in mid levels, and a straight up fighter at high levels...
Eventually you get up to 200 points to spend on your skills but to get that far you need to move up from the one/two player versions of the Epic battle & onto the 6 or 12 player versions. Each increase in players increases the number of specialists character roles required to complete the epic battle successfully.
Battle rewards are scaled back to your characters original level when you leave the epic battle so you can get some good on-level gear/jewelry if you ever feel the need to improve it. XP is mainly from completing side quests in the battle & a big chunk of the XP reward comes from completing the instance successfully.
All in all a good change of pace from the traditional (but still available in Lotro) questing & instances/dungeon gameplay.
Anyway, thanks for watching!