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[LOTRO] I got your "mounted combat" RIGHT HERE. Riders of Rohan out now.
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Aldo is correct about champs, hunters, and guards. That said, should you be interested in utilizing the power of rock 'n' roll to kill motherfuckers, you may consider rolling a minstrel. They are the tiny gods of Middle Earth, always handy in a pinch, and you'll be very popular. Rune Keepers are also a lot of fun if you're into pewpew and force lightning while also having the ability to serve as a party's main healer.
With burglar, for a long time it was my least favorite class, but some of the cc abilities have been upgraded to be effective against additional foes, which helps against multiple foes. Still, burglar doesn't become really fun until you get your legendary skills, around mid 40s. Coincidentally, this is around the level warden started becoming less fun (or more accurately, started failing to keep up with other classes getting better).
If you want a simpler tank class, take guardian; if you want a simpler dps class, take hunter or champ. Or, unless they gimped it in the last update, minstrel in warspeech mode is pretty badass dps, and can drop out of warspeech to be a healer. My favorite two classes are captain and LM, but if you find warden complicated, you probably won't like these, either -- at least not at lower levels.
Edit: I wrote the above before seeing Aldo's, Trip's and Ent's replies; looks like I agree with all three on different points. Also, see my updated sig... only two left at 53 (RK will be task mule until he hits 54), and I might even play again before next weekend...
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Basically, we are now more on par with guardians than before. Wardens and cockroaches worldwide: rejoice.
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Once I figured out the the masteries thing, it became a lot easier to keep up a HoT and shield buff if necessary. Easily handling 3 even-level signatures right now, just takes a while to burn them down. Spent yesterday grinding class skills and spent the turbine points on to unlock class deed grinding. Worth it, as I now have all the class deeds available at level 26 accomplished. Now to figure out which class traits to slot.
Wait, what? No more surfing the 50? Holy crap, Wardens soloing errthing errday.
EDIT (hours later)
Well I beat one of them solo.... I cant beat the second one due to my endurance of stone cooldown.
I only beat the first one due to buying perks.
I feel so DIRTY.
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If i try to create an account on the turbine page they ask for a product key, but I dont have one because its free to play and you need to buy the game to get one?
I tried to look up a pile of other games and decided to download this.
It was fun immediately!
@GaryO I had the same problem last night and eventually it said "processing"
Apparently it could be a traffic issue or what have you, just keep trying every 10 minutes
So 2 days of trying to create an acount and nothing. I make one forum post about not being able to and then bingo, its working, typical!
Yeah basically, I finally got my account at like 3 am, then I stayed up waaaaaay too late playing
It was good to see a few people on line too. Hope to see you around more often guys!
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Runekeeper survivability went up exponentially with the ability to use writ of health at any attunement. That one change alone made the class so much better.
My warden went to a trainer and all I can do is say zomg buttons. I like that he's much more survivable than he used to be in combat but I'm not sure what anything really does at this point. Big thumbs up.
Yeah I went out with a group that are using alts and are family people etc
I have said it and cant say it enough: The LOTRO community rocks.
I want to start doing cool stuff soon though, green fields and bandits are getting a little dull
Been to Great Barrows instance yet? Are you following the main story line?
Both of these have plenty of opponents that are more interesting than the Common Bandit.
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My winnings in the lottery dictate my play-time at the moment. Even though the new area is a huge improvement, I can't be arsed to play lotro over guild wars...
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The recent update to writs have made them incredibly hearty. Before the change I had some difficulty on my RK but after the change I barely have many situations I even have to drop my healing rock. Writ of Health just takes care of it for me.
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With my hunter I can only lay traps when out of battle... at least it looks like they grey out after I am in battle. That means I would have to use on use traps and kiting which makes it a little meh in my book. My guardian is mid 40s and is plugging along at a good pace but I was going to try out some of the other classes to see if I could find a class that truly excites me. I may just end up returning to my Guard but so far RK is fun. I have pretty much all classes other than RK and Burg up into the 30s or so.
i stopped playing my hunter because it got impossible to solo most areas. i started feeling the pressure of it around level 40, but managed to press through (mostly with skirms) to 45, which let me work on the legendary items, but that (and the erigion quests) only took me to about 52/53 before it was impossible to solo again, and i havent played since.
i wanted to try moria, but i heard it was even worse for soloing, and so i seriously just lost all motivation to play that character (and by extension, the game)
Still, yeah... Hunter and RK are a little fragile, but you should still be able to at least get through the first few areas in Moria okay. It might be a good idea to pack on an extra level or two, either by skirms (which I haven't done) or playing through some neglected areas, as I've been doing with my Champ in Forochel -- after all that time underground (even my house is in the dwarven caves), it's kind of fun to play outside in the snow.
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I had an RK at 16 before but it was an Elf and I wanted him to be a Dwarf so I made him new. I just did the first class quest which I had tons of problems with pre last fix but I just flew through it this time.
I thought it was my connection at first but I had no packet loss, ping in the 100ms. Ok graphics maybe.. quit the game, updated my video card drivers (GTX460, windows 7 64, 8gb of RAM)
didn't make a difference, bumped down the settings to low, no change.
I hit the forums to see if anyone else had this problem, and I found stuff from back in 2009, 2010 but not a whole lot recent. Finally just uninstalled the game and I will redownload the whole thing and reinstall. Very strange as I only played it last in December (right before SWTOR came out) and everything was fine, never had a problem with the game ever.
Hopefully the full reinstall will correct the issue as I still have this Lotro itch to scratch.