Got to 57 over the weekend pushing to 58. As a tip to any wardens, DO NOT USE A SPEAR! For some reason the weapon anims on them are screwed up and they go really slow, I switched to a sword for the look and even though it was .2 slower than the spear I was using I pulled off gambits and moves in general a lot faster. So until they fix spear anims go with another weap.
Also picked up my final class quest item from the Ah snagged the horn on a 4 gold bid and couldn't sleep so nailed out the rest of my quest and now I have way of the warden don't know if I'll use that, but nice to have.
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So basically what I want from you guys right now is to convince me that it's a terrible idea to go back to playing EVE, and that I should return to LOTRO instead.
So basically what I want from you guys right now is to convince me that it's a terrible idea to go back to playing EVE, and that I should return to LOTRO instead.
So basically what I want from you guys right now is to convince me that it's a terrible idea to go back to playing EVE, and that I should return to LOTRO instead.
Go play Eve, why play something people have to convince you to keep playing? That sounds destructive.
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So basically what I want from you guys right now is to convince me that it's a terrible idea to go back to playing EVE, and that I should return to LOTRO instead.
Be like me and play both! Though, to be fair I've been kind of neglecting my Eve character while he's training up T2 large lasers. Just leaves more time for lotro, I guess.
edit - also, this may or may not offer some form of encouragement... I've been running some dungeons the past few days with Macoin (he's from the kin 'The Council', but I think he hangs out here too). He's a guardian, and has been teaching my mini to heal. We can usually get one or two folk from his kin, but noone from TBS has been around to play with us. So, if you did play a bit more, you could always come die horribly with us.
You could also get a case of altitis, and enjoy screwing around the world with us. Eve is fun, but lotro is fun AND beautiful.
Got to 57 over the weekend pushing to 58. As a tip to any wardens, DO NOT USE A SPEAR! For some reason the weapon anims on them are screwed up and they go really slow, I switched to a sword for the look and even though it was .2 slower than the spear I was using I pulled off gambits and moves in general a lot faster. So until they fix spear anims go with another weap.
Also picked up my final class quest item from the Ah snagged the horn on a 4 gold bid and couldn't sleep so nailed out the rest of my quest and now I have way of the warden don't know if I'll use that, but nice to have.
What? Really? Fuck. Gonna go grab myself a sword right the fuck away now.
Got to 57 over the weekend pushing to 58. As a tip to any wardens, DO NOT USE A SPEAR! For some reason the weapon anims on them are screwed up and they go really slow, I switched to a sword for the look and even though it was .2 slower than the spear I was using I pulled off gambits and moves in general a lot faster. So until they fix spear anims go with another weap.
Also picked up my final class quest item from the Ah snagged the horn on a 4 gold bid and couldn't sleep so nailed out the rest of my quest and now I have way of the warden don't know if I'll use that, but nice to have.
What? Really? Fuck. Gonna go grab myself a sword right the fuck away now.
Well any other weapon will work honestly, just not spear, hell you could try it with a tablet turn in weapon and run the armory to see if you notice it, for me it was immediate and I was like "The fuck? Screw spears!" Also helps that I'm an elf (the tard warden) and I get a bonus to swords from a racial and picked up a sweet 60 2nd age sword for later.
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Oh god. oh fuck. I noticed it happening before but thought it worked as intended.
jesus fuck
I'd seen posts on the forum about it, but thought it was mostly theorycrafters bitching about an unoticeable thing (that board is great but fuck people have spread sheets and shit). Its not theorycrafting and its really god damn noticeable. I don't know if it extends to spears in general or not, but damn its horrid for wardens especially moves like Wall of Steel or hell even mighty blow. The worst part is the morale drains are also noticeably slower with a spear and the spear part is just you sticking it up in the air!
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
So basically what I want from you guys right now is to convince me that it's a terrible idea to go back to playing EVE, and that I should return to LOTRO instead.
... I've been running some dungeons the past few days with Macoin (he's from the kin 'The Council', but I think he hangs out here too). He's a guardian, and has been teaching my mini to heal. We can usually get one or two folk from his kin, but noone from TBS has been around to play with us. So, if you did play a bit more, you could always come die horribly with us.
You could also get a case of altitis, and enjoy screwing around the world with us. Eve is fun, but lotro is fun AND beautiful.
<---- Macoin.
Been getting a lot of practice in on GS, Forges, FG. FG last night was actually extremely easy, now that I realize what the heck the trick actually is. Screw you General and your god forsaken Shield of Invulnerability! How's this for incentive? Come back, and we can start grouping up without worrying about drama kings pulling the jerk routine? Also, Kass has radiance boots, so technically that means Kassamir is ahead of you in gear. Are you really gonna let that stand?!
Regarding altitis: EVE may be large and expansive... but how much of that 'space' is just... space? Come to Middle Earth, we have fields of flowers! Sadly everyone who has played knows that argument isn't entirely a joke. Oh how I wish it were. Pretty flowers...
Also LOTRO doesn't have Barrens style conversations outside glff most of the time. Isn't that worth the price of admission alone?
Oh god. oh fuck. I noticed it happening before but thought it worked as intended.
jesus fuck
I'd seen posts on the forum about it, but thought it was mostly theorycrafters bitching about an unoticeable thing (that board is great but fuck people have spread sheets and shit). Its not theorycrafting and its really god damn noticeable. I don't know if it extends to spears in general or not, but damn its horrid for wardens especially moves like Wall of Steel or hell even mighty blow. The worst part is the morale drains are also noticeably slower with a spear and the spear part is just you sticking it up in the air!
My kin doesn't really have any high-lev wardens, so you're practically my only source for warden info. Cheers.
My kin doesn't really have any high-lev wardens, so you're practically my only source for warden info. Cheers.
Well I'm not yet to 60 (only got to 57) but I want to be the best so I ask questions on the official warden forum, and in this case tried it out for myself. There will be those that say the spears bleed makes up for the slower attacks, but the bigger issue is that the spears slower attack pattern makes it harder to get off more gambits (for threat gen) and even swapping to your jav for ranged is delayed by a spear.
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edited August 2009
I think i just convinced myself not to play EVE.
I downloaded the trial, and was bored beyond tears within 5 minutes of opening the game. Wow. I must've had some seriously thick rose-colored glasses for that one. o_O
I heard eve takes like weeks for you to upgrade your character, weeks of mind numbing tedium, I don't know why anyone who isn't a maschocist likes that.
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Depends on what you're doing. If you're staying in Empire space grinding on missions or mining.. yah... that's true. The trick is to get into a good corp that let's you have fun right off the bat while you're training your character (I think a new character in Merchi (the PA corp) can fly a tackler (a small, cheap ship that keeps other ships from running away) and be useful and fun in less than a day).
It's a very different game though, and doesn't appeal to everyone. Back to LOTRO, though... how about them flowers?
Sooooo, can any of you more experienced players give me the low down on a good spot to farm up some ruby shards? I have 3 currently, and I just got level 32 and want to start making some sweet Metalsmith guild armor for myself.
I really hate the throwback to EQ mob camping that the shard mobs are in this, but I don't complain too much about it because even the non shard requiring armor I can make myself is good as long as I'm critting it. But, I just figured somebody might know of a particularly good mob to farm for them? I killed some orc in Lone-Lands and got one the other day just having my guy sit in the middle of the camp and just kill the placeholders whenever they spawned while I was doing something else away from the computer.
However, he only spawned once in about 3 hours, and that's just not worth it. I'm a Dwarf Guardian, so I figure I'm at somewhat of a disadvantage against the legions of Hunters running around 15% faster and tracking stuff, but alas.
There are no flowers in Moria, only death and goblins. It's fun working back through the book quests with my wife, though we just got to book 4 also known as "Run around and go all over moria helping ass holes). Though it's funny I remember one quest for book 6 was to orc and goblin slayer titles to prove yourself a friend. At 57, just getting to book 4, I have both advanced traits already done.
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Sooooo, can any of you more experienced players give me the low down on a good spot to farm up some ruby shards? I have 3 currently, and I just got level 32 and want to start making some sweet Metalsmith guild armor for myself.
I really hate the throwback to EQ mob camping that the shard mobs are in this, but I don't complain too much about it because even the non shard requiring armor I can make myself is good as long as I'm critting it. But, I just figured somebody might know of a particularly good mob to farm for them? I killed some orc in Lone-Lands and got one the other day just having my guy sit in the middle of the camp and just kill the placeholders whenever they spawned while I was doing something else away from the computer.
However, he only spawned once in about 3 hours, and that's just not worth it. I'm a Dwarf Guardian, so I figure I'm at somewhat of a disadvantage against the legions of Hunters running around 15% faster and tracking stuff, but alas.
There is a named warg in the lone lands that spawns in the warg area near the first goblin camp. I'd really recommend just moving on or buying one off the AH, gear is not the end all in this game.
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Sooooo, can any of you more experienced players give me the low down on a good spot to farm up some ruby shards? I have 3 currently, and I just got level 32 and want to start making some sweet Metalsmith guild armor for myself.
I really hate the throwback to EQ mob camping that the shard mobs are in this, but I don't complain too much about it because even the non shard requiring armor I can make myself is good as long as I'm critting it. But, I just figured somebody might know of a particularly good mob to farm for them? I killed some orc in Lone-Lands and got one the other day just having my guy sit in the middle of the camp and just kill the placeholders whenever they spawned while I was doing something else away from the computer.
However, he only spawned once in about 3 hours, and that's just not worth it. I'm a Dwarf Guardian, so I figure I'm at somewhat of a disadvantage against the legions of Hunters running around 15% faster and tracking stuff, but alas.
There is a named warg in the lone lands that spawns in the warg area near the first goblin camp. I'd really recommend just moving on or buying one off the AH, gear is not the end all in this game.
Yeah, I'm not going to go out of my way to stop levelling and farm shards in order to make single use gear. However, part of what I enjoy about this game is having my Dwarf Guardian keep his Metalsmithing equal level to his adventuring. I just love making my own gear that I wear, and I just figured I'd see if there was a particularly easy place to get some shards along the way.
Whenever I'm playing without my wife, I'm either on an alt or working on my crafting, so I have some free time I'm never sure what I'm going to do with in the game.
You know, the bounder's cap you get in shire for doing a shitton of quests? Doesn't that have 20 radiance? I wish I would have saved that. It's like radiance>any other stat ever.
Well at the end and only for a couple raids, for the most part you can coast on quest and the occaisional crafter crit. LOTRO definately relies more on player skill than just gearing someone up and steam rolling. That's why people in full radiance still get smoked helping someone with 5.5 or something.
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You know, the bounder's cap you get in shire for doing a shitton of quests? Doesn't that have 20 radiance? I wish I would have saved that. It's like radiance>any other stat ever.
Get some tokens, and for regular instance runs they will suffice. Especially the supreme ones jewelers can make.
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Radiance is only truly needed on the two high end raids. I think it is something they are looking into at the moment judging by Orion's post on the official forums. They want to make it easier for casual players to get radiance gear. At this point in LOTRO, if you do not have a kin that is willing to help gear you out for raids, you wont get it. Pugging is very rare and when it does happen, it can be pretty frustrating.
Side note: I think it is funny to see more spam for watcher and DN than I do for the rad runs. It is funny because you need to do the rad runs to go on the before mentioned raids. At least we have turtle runs?
I can try and make you some sometime, though I'm not sure how much bronze I have on me (though if your 20 you should be close to being able to use tier 2 stuff).
Shoot a message to Rokgrimlar the next time you see him on!
Cool, thanks. I've got bronze piling up as well, so thats not an issue.
Radiance is only truly needed on the two high end raids. I think it is something they are looking into at the moment judging by Orion's post on the official forums. They want to make it easier for casual players to get radiance gear. At this point in LOTRO, if you do not have a kin that is willing to help gear you out for raids, you wont get it. Pugging is very rare and when it does happen, it can be pretty frustrating.
Side note: I think it is funny to see more spam for watcher and DN than I do for the rad runs. It is funny because you need to do the rad runs to go on the before mentioned raids. At least we have turtle runs?
I dunno on my server I still see a lot of runs for radiance in the old instances, the new 3 mans and 4.7, 5.5, and 6.8 speaking of anyone know a good guide for those fights? I remember them vaguely but would like a refresher.
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Yeah, I'm not going to go out of my way to stop levelling and farm shards in order to make single use gear. However, part of what I enjoy about this game is having my Dwarf Guardian keep his Metalsmithing equal level to his adventuring. I just love making my own gear that I wear, and I just figured I'd see if there was a particularly easy place to get some shards along the way.
Whenever I'm playing without my wife, I'm either on an alt or working on my crafting, so I have some free time I'm never sure what I'm going to do with in the game.
You can find a full list of who drops what at Lotro-Rares (not sure how well it's kept up to date). I hear you on the crafting. I've got a 35 Dwarf Guardian and I love the fact that he can craft his own armour. The Metalsmithing armour is great, way better than anything I've picked up questing.
Yeah, I'm not going to go out of my way to stop levelling and farm shards in order to make single use gear. However, part of what I enjoy about this game is having my Dwarf Guardian keep his Metalsmithing equal level to his adventuring. I just love making my own gear that I wear, and I just figured I'd see if there was a particularly easy place to get some shards along the way.
Whenever I'm playing without my wife, I'm either on an alt or working on my crafting, so I have some free time I'm never sure what I'm going to do with in the game.
You can find a full list of who drops what at Lotro-Rares (not sure how well it's kept up to date). I hear you on the crafting. I've got a 35 Dwarf Guardian and I love the fact that he can craft his own armour. The Metalsmithing armour is great, way better than anything I've picked up questing.
You know, I have to say that this is one of the more disappointing things about LotRO: finding accurate and current information about the game is just hard to do.
Most of the resources out there are horribly incomplete or out of date (e.g. the Lorebook, LotRO Wiki, the official forums) or just have a tiny bit of useful information (e.g. LotRO Life).
Even the game's own skill descriptions are frequently awful. Take the Captain's Defy Corruption ability, for example. It reads "Your Escape From Darkness ability is greatly improved." No numbers, no specifics. That's it. Turns out that it chops some time off the skill's recharge, but it'd be nice if the bloody game told you that before you spent a fortune on a book, then ran all over Eriador grinding mobs to get pages, and then went to the bard and tried to equip it.
And that's not out of the ordinary. Glancing at a few other Captain traits, you get things like Captain's Hope ("The Morale-enhancing effects provided by your Herald of Hope are more effective."), which completely fails to mention the +10 radiance it gives, which is the #1 reason most Captains run it. Or Words of Courage ("Your Words of Courage greatly increase the morale of your allies."), which not only fails to live up to the description, but neglects to mention it's only like a 10-15% enhancement on an already meager heal.
Yeah, I'm not going to go out of my way to stop levelling and farm shards in order to make single use gear. However, part of what I enjoy about this game is having my Dwarf Guardian keep his Metalsmithing equal level to his adventuring. I just love making my own gear that I wear, and I just figured I'd see if there was a particularly easy place to get some shards along the way.
Whenever I'm playing without my wife, I'm either on an alt or working on my crafting, so I have some free time I'm never sure what I'm going to do with in the game.
You can find a full list of who drops what at Lotro-Rares (not sure how well it's kept up to date). I hear you on the crafting. I've got a 35 Dwarf Guardian and I love the fact that he can craft his own armour. The Metalsmithing armour is great, way better than anything I've picked up questing.
You know, I have to say that this is one of the more disappointing things about LotRO: finding accurate and current information about the game is just hard to do.
Most of the resources out there are horribly incomplete or out of date (e.g. the Lorebook, LotRO Wiki, the official forums) or just have a tiny bit of useful information (e.g. LotRO Life).
Even the game's own skill descriptions are frequently awful. Take the Captain's Defy Corruption ability, for example. It reads "Your Escape From Darkness ability is greatly improved." No numbers, no specifics. That's it. Turns out that it chops some time off the skill's recharge, but it'd be nice if the bloody game told you that before you spent a fortune on a book, then ran all over Eriador grinding mobs to get pages, and then went to the bard and tried to equip it.
And that's not out of the ordinary. Glancing at a few other Captain traits, you get things like Captain's Hope ("The Morale-enhancing effects provided by your Herald of Hope are more effective."), which completely fails to mention the +10 radiance it gives, which is the #1 reason most Captains run it. Or Words of Courage ("Your Words of Courage greatly increase the morale of your allies."), which not only fails to live up to the description, but neglects to mention it's only like a 10-15% enhancement on an already meager heal.
I feel like I'm stuck in the dark in LotRO.
Hey! You forget Hand of Healing: "Reduces cooldown of Hands of Healing by 30 seconds." It is supposed to be Valiant Strike cooldown.
I am amazed that the community sites for LOTRO are so horrible. Outdated info and in many cases, incorrect info that no one has bothered to update or fix. I guess they still get their ad revenue because Google directs us to them. So why fix it?
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Other games have tools like WarDB, WoWwiki, City of Data, Thottbot, and the Hero Designer; character builders, strategy discussions, travel guides, quest guides, class guides, and gobs of hard data on everything from mob drops to skill numbers to resource gathering locations.
LotRO just doesn't have anything that even vaguely compares.
WoW's got a gazillion players, so I guess it's to be expected that it will have the most metagaming data. But City of Heroes and WAR are certainly comparable population-wise, and they have significantly better data sources, too.
It's just weird. I don't know what causes it.
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I don't understand. The LOTRO-related tools that have been available to me have always served me well. I'm not sure why so many are having a problem with this.
My biggest complaint is that a lot of the sites use some horrible Google map representation of Middle Earth. mmodb is probably the better site of all of them, which really doesn't say too much. For example, try looking up Valour. Scroll to the bottom of the list and you will find the traits. In the traits you get things like this:
No map included. This is a common problem on a ton of mmodb entries I have encountered. Yes, I know. I am part of the problem because I neglect to upload a map as well, but surely thousands of people a year ago had done this deed. So that makes you search out other sources like say, burgzerg.com. Great site. The problem is TONS of deeds are missing. It doesn't seem to be user submitted either.
Lets say I want to learn more about radiance gear. It is pretty much the gateway to the current end game in Lotro. Search radiance on mmodb yields no results and there isn't a decent menu option for gear. (it is a giant mess) So you go back to google to find your information after checking a few links. The official lorebook is chalk full of outdated data.
TLDR;
That is the problem. In short... the information is spread all over multiple sites. Each site has holes that need to be filled in from other sites. It isn't that the data is not out there, but it is just not as easily accessible as most active MMORPGS (Yes, I would say LOTRO is active) and it strikes me as odd.
mmodb (quest/item info), dynmap (finding where shit is that isnt in the quest tracker), thebrasse (decent maps of shoddily mapped places (most notably: Foundations of Stone and Old Forest) and burgzerg (deeds/virtues) serve my needs well enough most of the time. Doesn't help me with other stuff, though. Especially crafting is an exercise in 'figuring it out yourself'. On the other hand, you won't be playing LOTRO by alt-tabbing to thottbot every 5 minutes, which is refreshing.
mmodb (quest/item info), dynmap (finding where shit is that isnt in the quest tracker), thebrasse (decent maps of shoddily mapped places (most notably: Foundations of Stone and Old Forest) and burgzerg (deeds/virtues) serve my needs well enough most of the time. Doesn't help me with other stuff, though. Especially crafting is an exercise in 'figuring it out yourself'. On the other hand, you won't be playing LOTRO by alt-tabbing to thottbot every 5 minutes, which is refreshing.
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Also picked up my final class quest item from the Ah snagged the horn on a 4 gold bid and couldn't sleep so nailed out the rest of my quest and now I have way of the warden don't know if I'll use that, but nice to have.
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LOTRO has trees.
The Raid
Go play Eve, why play something people have to convince you to keep playing? That sounds destructive.
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Be like me and play both! Though, to be fair I've been kind of neglecting my Eve character while he's training up T2 large lasers. Just leaves more time for lotro, I guess.
edit - also, this may or may not offer some form of encouragement... I've been running some dungeons the past few days with Macoin (he's from the kin 'The Council', but I think he hangs out here too). He's a guardian, and has been teaching my mini to heal. We can usually get one or two folk from his kin, but noone from TBS has been around to play with us. So, if you did play a bit more, you could always come die horribly with us.
You could also get a case of altitis, and enjoy screwing around the world with us. Eve is fun, but lotro is fun AND beautiful.
Well any other weapon will work honestly, just not spear, hell you could try it with a tablet turn in weapon and run the armory to see if you notice it, for me it was immediate and I was like "The fuck? Screw spears!" Also helps that I'm an elf (the tard warden) and I get a bonus to swords from a racial and picked up a sweet 60 2nd age sword for later.
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jesus fuck
I'd seen posts on the forum about it, but thought it was mostly theorycrafters bitching about an unoticeable thing (that board is great but fuck people have spread sheets and shit). Its not theorycrafting and its really god damn noticeable. I don't know if it extends to spears in general or not, but damn its horrid for wardens especially moves like Wall of Steel or hell even mighty blow. The worst part is the morale drains are also noticeably slower with a spear and the spear part is just you sticking it up in the air!
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<---- Macoin.
Been getting a lot of practice in on GS, Forges, FG. FG last night was actually extremely easy, now that I realize what the heck the trick actually is. Screw you General and your god forsaken Shield of Invulnerability! How's this for incentive? Come back, and we can start grouping up without worrying about drama kings pulling the jerk routine? Also, Kass has radiance boots, so technically that means Kassamir is ahead of you in gear. Are you really gonna let that stand?!
Regarding altitis: EVE may be large and expansive... but how much of that 'space' is just... space? Come to Middle Earth, we have fields of flowers! Sadly everyone who has played knows that argument isn't entirely a joke. Oh how I wish it were. Pretty flowers...
Also LOTRO doesn't have Barrens style conversations outside glff most of the time. Isn't that worth the price of admission alone?
My kin doesn't really have any high-lev wardens, so you're practically my only source for warden info. Cheers.
Well I'm not yet to 60 (only got to 57) but I want to be the best so I ask questions on the official warden forum, and in this case tried it out for myself. There will be those that say the spears bleed makes up for the slower attacks, but the bigger issue is that the spears slower attack pattern makes it harder to get off more gambits (for threat gen) and even swapping to your jav for ranged is delayed by a spear.
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I downloaded the trial, and was bored beyond tears within 5 minutes of opening the game. Wow. I must've had some seriously thick rose-colored glasses for that one. o_O
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It's a very different game though, and doesn't appeal to everyone. Back to LOTRO, though... how about them flowers?
I really hate the throwback to EQ mob camping that the shard mobs are in this, but I don't complain too much about it because even the non shard requiring armor I can make myself is good as long as I'm critting it. But, I just figured somebody might know of a particularly good mob to farm for them? I killed some orc in Lone-Lands and got one the other day just having my guy sit in the middle of the camp and just kill the placeholders whenever they spawned while I was doing something else away from the computer.
However, he only spawned once in about 3 hours, and that's just not worth it. I'm a Dwarf Guardian, so I figure I'm at somewhat of a disadvantage against the legions of Hunters running around 15% faster and tracking stuff, but alas.
pleasepaypreacher.net
There is a named warg in the lone lands that spawns in the warg area near the first goblin camp. I'd really recommend just moving on or buying one off the AH, gear is not the end all in this game.
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+ to radiance would like to have a word with you.
Whenever I'm playing without my wife, I'm either on an alt or working on my crafting, so I have some free time I'm never sure what I'm going to do with in the game.
Well at the end and only for a couple raids, for the most part you can coast on quest and the occaisional crafter crit. LOTRO definately relies more on player skill than just gearing someone up and steam rolling. That's why people in full radiance still get smoked helping someone with 5.5 or something.
pleasepaypreacher.net
Get some tokens, and for regular instance runs they will suffice. Especially the supreme ones jewelers can make.
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Side note: I think it is funny to see more spam for watcher and DN than I do for the rad runs. It is funny because you need to do the rad runs to go on the before mentioned raids. At least we have turtle runs?
Cool, thanks. I've got bronze piling up as well, so thats not an issue.
I dunno on my server I still see a lot of runs for radiance in the old instances, the new 3 mans and 4.7, 5.5, and 6.8 speaking of anyone know a good guide for those fights? I remember them vaguely but would like a refresher.
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You can find a full list of who drops what at Lotro-Rares (not sure how well it's kept up to date). I hear you on the crafting. I've got a 35 Dwarf Guardian and I love the fact that he can craft his own armour. The Metalsmithing armour is great, way better than anything I've picked up questing.
You know, I have to say that this is one of the more disappointing things about LotRO: finding accurate and current information about the game is just hard to do.
Most of the resources out there are horribly incomplete or out of date (e.g. the Lorebook, LotRO Wiki, the official forums) or just have a tiny bit of useful information (e.g. LotRO Life).
Even the game's own skill descriptions are frequently awful. Take the Captain's Defy Corruption ability, for example. It reads "Your Escape From Darkness ability is greatly improved." No numbers, no specifics. That's it. Turns out that it chops some time off the skill's recharge, but it'd be nice if the bloody game told you that before you spent a fortune on a book, then ran all over Eriador grinding mobs to get pages, and then went to the bard and tried to equip it.
And that's not out of the ordinary. Glancing at a few other Captain traits, you get things like Captain's Hope ("The Morale-enhancing effects provided by your Herald of Hope are more effective."), which completely fails to mention the +10 radiance it gives, which is the #1 reason most Captains run it. Or Words of Courage ("Your Words of Courage greatly increase the morale of your allies."), which not only fails to live up to the description, but neglects to mention it's only like a 10-15% enhancement on an already meager heal.
I feel like I'm stuck in the dark in LotRO.
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Hey! You forget Hand of Healing: "Reduces cooldown of Hands of Healing by 30 seconds." It is supposed to be Valiant Strike cooldown.
I am amazed that the community sites for LOTRO are so horrible. Outdated info and in many cases, incorrect info that no one has bothered to update or fix. I guess they still get their ad revenue because Google directs us to them. So why fix it?
lotro.mmodb.com
Other games have tools like WarDB, WoWwiki, City of Data, Thottbot, and the Hero Designer; character builders, strategy discussions, travel guides, quest guides, class guides, and gobs of hard data on everything from mob drops to skill numbers to resource gathering locations.
LotRO just doesn't have anything that even vaguely compares.
WoW's got a gazillion players, so I guess it's to be expected that it will have the most metagaming data. But City of Heroes and WAR are certainly comparable population-wise, and they have significantly better data sources, too.
It's just weird. I don't know what causes it.
http://lotro.mmodb.com/accomplishments/goblin-slayer-lone-lands-173.php
No map included. This is a common problem on a ton of mmodb entries I have encountered. Yes, I know. I am part of the problem because I neglect to upload a map as well, but surely thousands of people a year ago had done this deed. So that makes you search out other sources like say, burgzerg.com. Great site. The problem is TONS of deeds are missing. It doesn't seem to be user submitted either.
Lets say I want to learn more about radiance gear. It is pretty much the gateway to the current end game in Lotro. Search radiance on mmodb yields no results and there isn't a decent menu option for gear. (it is a giant mess) So you go back to google to find your information after checking a few links. The official lorebook is chalk full of outdated data.
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That is the problem. In short... the information is spread all over multiple sites. Each site has holes that need to be filled in from other sites. It isn't that the data is not out there, but it is just not as easily accessible as most active MMORPGS (Yes, I would say LOTRO is active) and it strikes me as odd.
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Wow, those thebrasse Moria and Lothlorien maps are great. Thanks Aldo.