However, usually the rewards for killing these mobs are iffy at best and the race to spawn camp or kill steal makes them no fun. Any seasoned MMO player has felt the earth shake as a large raid-level world mob is storming the countryside or has found that rare monster in LOTRO who with the help of some friends or strangers, you defeated. Generally they serve as rare mobs or spoilers that you need to stay far away from. In The Lord of the Rings Online and other MMOs, world mobs have been a pretty constant thing. Gather friends or passing strangers and fight these beasts solo or together. A pack of Easterlings or a man and his Crebain pets, these long-ranging patrols will be throughout Rohan, ready to spoil your day or fill your bags with spoils. With danger imminent, do you engage or flee? Or do you gather some nearby heroes to help? We wanted to ride over the distant hill only to find a pack of Warg-riders cresting the hill across from us.
One of the moments we wanted to capture was the idea of roving packs of monsters travelling across the massive rolling plains of Rohan.
We knew also that we had to do it right and look at as many aspects of our game as possible.
With the Riders of Rohan, we knew that we had a major update that you have been anticipating for quite some time. Riders of Rohan Developer Diary: Warbands