How long are the epic questlines?

[Alleix]

How long does it take to complete the volumes? how long are they compared to each other?

[oreyos]

Well... I never tried to only do epic quests. I just did them when I was in the area. How long it takes to complete the volumes depends more on how fast/slow you run through the game doing quests & leveling up.

[76561198077869228]

It also depends upon what you mean by "Epic Qustlines?"
There is only ONE Epic Questline, which so far has been provided in three Volumes.
However, the Epic Questline itself has not yet reached its conclusion (i.e. Frodo and the Ring reaching Mordor, and Aragorn becoming King.) The overall conttent of LOTRO has just begun what, in the hard-bound books, is Book III - Return of the King. It is not anticipated that we will reach Mordor for another year or possibly two.

Each Volume of the current quest line contains multiple Books. Eack Book contains multiple quests. How quidkly you complete each book depends entirely on your level relative to the level of the Quests in that book.
A sumary of the Epic Quest line can be found here:
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Volume I is oriented toward characters under level 50.
Volume II - Mines of Moria is oriented around 50-65.
Volume III - Allies of the King is oriented towards levels 65-95
Volume IV - The Strength of Saruron begins a level 95.
Yes, the quest levels mirror the Level-caps which the game has had over the years. The current Level-cap is 100.

Note: Prior to Vol. III, Book 11 all epic quests are free to all players. Access to Books 11-14 requires the purchase of the Helm's Deep expansion.

Most of the individual quests are fairly "short" -- however, there are individual quests which can be "literally" -- all over the map. I.e. you are taksked to go from one end of Middle Earth to the other and back again -- which can take quite a while in travel time alone. The end of Volume I and the beginning of Volume II are like that. As is the beginning of Volume III.

Most of Volume III takes place in Rohan, which is physically huge -- as large, or larger, that the entire area of Middle Earth you have encountered up to that point. Your War Steed moves much faster than your previous mounts, and you need that speed! And yes, the War Steed navigates like a real horse. If you have ever ridden a horse in real-life, you will discover that your War Steed, does not start or stop instantly the way your old mount did and does not turn on a dime. Learning to ride a War Steed and to fight effetively from horseback is a true skill far surpassing any PvP combat you might have ever encountered -- which is why PvP Players and Raiders HATE Mounted Combat.

[76561198077869228]

I should add... Volume III, books 11-14 culminate with "Epic Battles," also called "Big Battles" which are a series of quests at the Battle for Helm's Deep. These Epic Battles are a new game mechanic, much more like Warhammer style combat -- where you manipulate groups of other "defenders," not just your own character. Like Mounted Combat, Epic Battles require very different skills compared to a "classic" solo character. While you can complete them with basic "sword and board" tactics, that is NOT how you "Win" those battles, where Win means maximizing your rewards from them.

While Turbine has not said so, it is assumed that we will see more of the Epic Battles style combat as we deal with the Corsair Fleet in Update 15 or 16, and then again later in the Battle for Pelinor fields.

[Alleix]

okay, I understand. Though if u compared the volumes to each other would you say that volume I is longer then the other volumes? and volume 2 is the shortest one?

[Auren]

Originally posted by Allevu:

okay, I understand. Though if u compared the volumes to each other would you say that volume I is longer then the other volumes? and volume 2 is the shortest one?

IIn my opinion, yes, Vol I which takes place all over Eriador is the longest out of the 3, Vol III which is kind of like the Rohirric line comes next, the Moria and Mirkwood driven Vol II is the shortest, although now we have Vol IV which takes place in Gondor and that only has 1 book so far so that could be considered the shortest at the moment.

As others have said, how long it takes you to finish depends on how fast your style of play is, personally I went from 1-95 in around 3 months or so, only doing the Epics when it suited me, ie entry to Moria, Caras Galadhon and access to the war steed, since capping my character I have went back and completed the quests that I'd previously skipped, doing so took me another month or so with a laid-back kind of play style