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Every game has a few choke-points where leveling is slowed
down, where players have to decide betwen moving on to a new, more
challenging area for faster experience gain or remaining where they are
and gamely facing a long, sweaty haul through tough, less-fun content.
While fun is a completely subjective thing, there's no denying that
some areas in the Lord
of the Rings Online have a definite slog-and-grind
factor: areas full of tough elites coupled with mediocre quest rewards,
irritating maps, fast respawns and a few other criteria that work
together to make a place at once dull and more difficult than it's
worth. 

So, do you gotta do it, or can you skip it? Is the risk and/or tedium worth the reward? Forge bravely ahead to learn more about Quests and Areas That Can Be Avoided.