LotRo combat was atrocious, so bad I almost risked to punch my monitor once. As a minstrel, I had (morale) heals with a casting time, but there was pushback if you were attacked, basically each hit slowed the cast by 0,5 seconds without diminishing returns, so with 3 mobs on the caster, it was simply impossible to finish any ability "induction" as it was called in that game. This was true even if mobs were several levels below the caster.
Melee hits were disconnected from reality, they happened somewhere because health bars were moving, but certainly not there during the fight.
Animations were ugly, so bad I can't unsee them even today. The world was very beatiful, even if npcs were very static. The grind was horrible at the game launch.