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I would say a lot depends on the route and how high-level the character is. Some routes go fairly straight some don't. From what I've seen the roads are fairly clear of mobs and staying on the road does tend to reduce encounters. Cutting across country can be difficult in some areas unless everything is grey because of your character level. For example, I can't imagine trying to get up to Rivendell from Ost Guruth without taking a stable horse, unless everything is Grey to you. It would just take too long fighting every damn mob from the Ford to Rivendell.
Maybe. Horses sure seem a lot faster. Try playing without a horse with friends on a horse and tell me if you think it's only a minor speed improvement.
That is the part that really sucked with one of the book quests (I think volume 1 book 3) to finish you have to fucking go to rivendell when all the monsters are just about purple. Oh god that is pain.
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I don't consider it a minor improvement at all. It's a hell of an improvement, and you'll never find me arguing that it doesn't beat the shit out of walking everywhere. Even as a hunter, my 15% run speed buff feels nonexistent when a horse gallops by.
Roll an elf and grind the Return to Rivendell deed.
I know the perfect horse for this.
I was wondering how long it would take for this to be posted.
I've been playing a Warden (Aultar) together with my fiancee and have really been enjoying it. I tried starting up another hobbit alt (a hunter, his name is Sintango) but the thought of going through the Shire again so soon gave me a headache (I really like the Shire but it's kind of a one shot deal, the whole area takes so god damn long to complete it's insane). So instead of that I rolled a Dwarf Champion named Rokgrimlar.
So I've now tried 3 of the 4 starting areas (I had a Human minstrel a long time ago the first time I played the game) and I must say I like the Dwarven one best. Besides the Vale of Thrain it's very compact, there isn't a whole lot of running. I was able to get leveled up pretty damn quickly.
I'm really enjoying being a Champion too. I'm up to 17 and I love AoEing down groups. I can't wait to start doing actual group content. If there are any other Champions around, I do have a quick question: is it worth it to by the ability to use shields and invest in a decent one? Would doing so make me viable off tank, or a primary tank if we couldn't get a Guardian/Warden?
Which classes don't have annoying fucking yell attacks?
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My champ doesnt yell, but does use a horn sometimes.
I really like the Dwarf starting area too. The Shire is fun also. The Elvish starting area is IMO pretty weak. There's really not much there, although I suppose you can argue that some of the quests down in the Eastern end of the Dwarf starting valley (say North and East of Tharsi's Lodge) are actually both Elvish and Dwarvish in nature, with some of the quest givers being Elves.
The problem I ran into the first time I played through as an Elf was I ran quest Northward from Celondim (the Elvish starting city) and then I ran into Kheldul (the Dourhand port) which was way out of my league. I wasn't sure what to do after that since the mobs were way out of my league, so I ended up going into the Shire. Turns out if I had tended eastward, instead of westward, after finishing the Celondim/Duillond quest area I would have been in more level appropriate territory.
Well I can tell you that you absolutely do not want to play a Warden. My Warden yells pretty much constantly, say every 3rd sword stroke. I don't think you want to play a Guardian either. I think my Guardian probably yells a couple times a fight, and he would probably yell even more if he was tanking (I usually play solo).
AoE drains are fucking awesome, by the way.
Also: Mount>forced march. If only because you can get clubbed in the face a few times before being reduced to walking speed.
I'm kind of annoyed at my minstrel's yelling skills (there are one or two when I'm dpsing). I much rather kill things with my funky drum beat of doom pounding out the deadly ballads.
Burglars don't yell. Hunters don't yell either, and I want to say loremasters are not yellers, though you will probably find yourself yelling YOU SHALL NOT PASS, but that goes away in time.
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I haven't had the will to yell about anything since they started retardifying the look of staves... :x
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Well I don't worry about 8 so much since its new, I'd worry more about getting to 8. Though I was surprised I managed to get up to 7 previously without too many problems. I guess I have to be patient. And it sounds like burgs and specifically gambles got buffed.
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Um. What?
Do they have server transfers in LOTRO? Maybe he swapped servers or deleted his guy?
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They do have Server Transfers.
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Sounds like something an account thief would say.
That sounds like something account thieves would joke about.
As an aside, this game is absolutely terrific. I feel like they snatched little things I've loved about games ranging from EQ to WoW and added their own flavor to make a near perfect PvE experience. I'm a pretty jaded MMOer, and this game is still giving me a lot of wow factor.
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The Radiance Set for Guardians looks awesome, though:
"Hard" mode of the radiance instances, I think the helm comes from the watcher raid fight? There is a radiance boosting helm from another instance that is non set based.
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1) Good idea switching?
2) What class combo should we do?
Lotro is more about the questing, and story of the quests then wow, you can skip the story and just follow the directions but you miss out on a good chunk of the game. The end game is a lighter form of wow, without the requirement of min maxing, more based on skill.
LOTRO is a bit more grindy, doing deeds can be tedious if you want to maximise your skills you'll end up doing it from time to time.
Class combo is entirely up to you, one thing thats nice about the classes is they tend to duo well for the most part (just don't combine like warden and guardian). You don't need to adhere to a strict healer tank duo.
Captain and any other class would work well, captains are sort of the LOTRO paladin with a pet.
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Pfft, I ran from Ost Guruth to Rivendell on my Hunter and never had to engage in combat. Of course, being able to scare away bears and wolves helped.
I wonder if anyone's taken the name "Account" for a burglar yet.