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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
LotRO Journal - 1-May-2007
The first of May is a public holiday over here, so I took yesterday off and have a 4-day weekend. Lots of time to play LotRO, and still get some other Real Life ® things done. I played all afternoon yesterday, on an increasingly empty server, because the logon server was down from 3 pm to nearly midnight. The European side of LotRO has more technical problems than the US side, this is the second half-day of outage since release day here.
I don't know if Codemasters is giving out extra days as compensation, like Blizzard does, for outages like this. But one of the curious problems of a lifetime subscription is that you can't get compensated. Lifetime plus x days? On the plus side they decided to move the patch from today to tomorrow, so I'm gaining at least half a day of non-maintenance on this holiday. And while other people don't like the regular 9-12 am Tuesday maintenance window, I actually prefer this to the earlier WoW maintenance, because in LotRO I can still check the auction house before going to work.
My minstrel is level 18 now, and has finished all accomplishments in the Shire, except for the advanced slug-slayer one. The slugs are easy enough to kill, there just aren't all that many spawn points for them in the bog, and the respawn rate isn't high. As much as I love the Shire, I'm afraid I'll be forced to move on. Now I could follow the traditional route of going into Bree-land. But I'm also considering visiting the elf/dwarf low-level area first, and doing the accomplishments there, at least those with traits that I want to equip. Some of the mobs I would need to kill for that might still give xp at my level.
I also advanced my cooking and tailoring. For cooking I needed to climb the Weathertop in the Lone Lands to pick a herb, which was easy enough without a fight. For tailoring I needed to kill a level 20 signature aurochs, grazing in the middle of level 25ish elite orcs, which wasn't that easy. Fortunately a level 20 guild mate helped me. So now I can do expert level recipes for both cooking and tailoring. I just need to level up now, because I can't use these crafted goods before level 20.
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You won't find much to do at your level in Ered Luin, the Elf/Dwarf starting area. Throg pretty much ran out of mobs and quests in the region at level 15. There are a number of accomplishments that will give you +1 to your traits but you will probably have to kill a lot of no-experience mobs to get them. That said it is certainly worth visiting as a tourist. It is not as pretty as the Shire but it has its own rugged beauty. Thorin's Hall is a much easier "City" to navigate than Bree everything is closer together and easier to find. It feels very like Ironforge from WOW only smaller, less crowded and with less lag.
Oh and by the way when I told Throg, my dwarf adventurer friend of your desire to visit Erid Luin he laughed and counselled: "Tell your hobbit friend that it is not all pie and ale in Erid Luin. There are beasts and brigands at every turn and the mountainous slopes can be treacherous to the un-initiated." He advises caution and that if you must stray off the road you take a stout dwarf companion to defend you.
Oh and by the way when I told Throg, my dwarf adventurer friend of your desire to visit Erid Luin he laughed and counselled: "Tell your hobbit friend that it is not all pie and ale in Erid Luin. There are beasts and brigands at every turn and the mountainous slopes can be treacherous to the un-initiated." He advises caution and that if you must stray off the road you take a stout dwarf companion to defend you.
Sorry to hear about the connection issues the folks "across the pond" are having. Here in the US, downtime has been minimal.
If you haven't been to Ered Luin, go for it. One of the things I enjoy is exploring places I haven't been before whether there's xp to be had or not.
At 18, what you may also want to do, if you're not a fan of Bree Lands, is head out to the Forsaken Inn in the Lone Lands. Lots to do there too. That's where I've been the past couple of days and I'm enjoying it a lot. Seems like there's stuff to explore just over every hill. Only problem is: most of the rest of my server is also in that zone.
With regard to accomplishments / traits: for the most part, I have only felt compelled to grind for the "Man of the 4th Age"* one. Other than that, I seem to just stumble into them and have managed to make out ok.
*Actual name may vary :)
If you haven't been to Ered Luin, go for it. One of the things I enjoy is exploring places I haven't been before whether there's xp to be had or not.
At 18, what you may also want to do, if you're not a fan of Bree Lands, is head out to the Forsaken Inn in the Lone Lands. Lots to do there too. That's where I've been the past couple of days and I'm enjoying it a lot. Seems like there's stuff to explore just over every hill. Only problem is: most of the rest of my server is also in that zone.
With regard to accomplishments / traits: for the most part, I have only felt compelled to grind for the "Man of the 4th Age"* one. Other than that, I seem to just stumble into them and have managed to make out ok.
*Actual name may vary :)
# posted by 
: 1/5/07 15:27
: 1/5/07 15:27
Another post complaining that Tobold is writing about what he's always written about - the MMOG he is playing.
sigh...
:P :P
sigh...
:P :P
I haven't been out of bree (and a little bit in the shire) for the most part but have also done the starting dwarf lands. Not sure there would be anything to net you experience there but like others said exploring is pretty fun in this game and the detail of the different lands are very nice. One quick note on picking up interesting traits and something you could do if you wanted:
Go to Barrow downs and kill 50 of the undead whights there. Gets you a skill called uppercut (unless its for humans only)? Kind of looks like the attack from Ryu/Ken in street fighter two. I would rarely actually use it as the dmg is low but the graphic for it is fun enough that it was worth spending the money to equip it for now :-)
Go to Barrow downs and kill 50 of the undead whights there. Gets you a skill called uppercut (unless its for humans only)? Kind of looks like the attack from Ryu/Ken in street fighter two. I would rarely actually use it as the dmg is low but the graphic for it is fun enough that it was worth spending the money to equip it for now :-)
# posted by : 1/5/07 18:25
: 1/5/07 18:25
I would much rather read about lotro than WoW; been there done that, have the Malchazeen to prove it. Bring on new stuff, fun times & I'm glad to read it Tobold, esp since I'm on a MMOG hiatus...
Maybe you could post a new pic every 5 lvs or so, would like to see the difference in your character.
Maybe you could post a new pic every 5 lvs or so, would like to see the difference in your character.
Tobold, one of the devs has been posting about the farming changes..
Essentialy everything becomes really cheep.. Should help farm stuff become more easy to sell.
oh..and therell be BEER!
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=553506#post553506
Essentialy everything becomes really cheep.. Should help farm stuff become more easy to sell.
oh..and therell be BEER!
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=553506#post553506
# posted by : 1/5/07 18:42
: 1/5/07 18:42
Beer! Woooo!!
*cough*
Uppercut is a racial for humans. Not sure what the Hobbit equivalent is. The + might / stature thing maybe? I also highly recommend the human will trait from killing wargs in the Lone Lands. That + to will is pretty good.
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Uppercut is a racial for humans. Not sure what the Hobbit equivalent is. The + might / stature thing maybe? I also highly recommend the human will trait from killing wargs in the Lone Lands. That + to will is pretty good.
# posted by : 1/5/07 19:33
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