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Captain Backslap posted:Also, I checked my free range deeds and it includes a trip to Angmar! Don't forget that you aren't just talking to the same guys over again, either. You have to find three stones in each zone as well. Oh, well crap. That makes it way worse... now to see where the other two are... EDIT: Oh, you can use Chicken Nests to teleport almost all the way to Rivendell when you're in Free Range. That's WAY easier. Might just give it a go tomorrow. Fuzz fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Jan 20, 2013 |
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Captain Backslap posted:http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Chicken_Session_Guide#Creature_and_Stone_locations_by_Region This whole guide is pretty good, but here are the details on stone locations. Yeah, that's what I was just looking at. Sucks that that GoogleMap totally doesn't work.
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Coming back to this for awhile after years away. I'd like a guild invite for Cuervo, my new Captain at some point. (edit): got in, thanks! StarkRavingMad fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Jan 20, 2013 |
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Jan 20, 2013 10:08
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gently caress the Narsil/The Tomb of Elendil/The Blade That Was Broken questline in Evendim. gently caress it. We just spent the last 2+ hours bouncing around hazy quest objectives in Evendim (and with only one of us having boat access, thank gently caress for the acorn whistle-summon ability level 39 guardians get) so we could get to the fellowship instance at the end of it. Frustration, death, and a lot of time wasted loving swimming across the lake, and at the end the three of us (44 guard, 40 RK, 39 guard) couldn't complete the Tomb of Elendil instance. In the end we just gave up because gently caress it. We checked out the wiki halfway through the quest chain during one of our many swims across the lake and saw that the quest rewards us with absolutely nothing we can use in terms of loot, useless faction points (since you get Kindred with Annuminas anyway like halfway through the zone if you've done it right), and barely any money. In the end the cost of taking boats across the map fifteen times (and still having to do a poo poo-ton of swimming and needless backtracking) was far greater than the rewards of actually finishing the chain of quests. The quest chain doesn't even start in Evendim, it starts in Rivendell. Who, when starting up questing in the Evendim zone, is going to say, "why yes, I'd love to take a half-hour side trip to Rivendell for this one quest instead of starting a new and exciting zone"? And if you're a f2p player, how are you going to even get to Rivendell? The only other time you go there before this one is when Gandalf teleports you there against your will at an early epic quest, and then teleports you right back. So have fun walking through the Trollshaws and not dying, I guess. Not that it matters much where the chain starts anyway, since the chain also doesn't line up at all with the rest of the quest hubs in the Evendim zone, so in the end you're still forced to bounce across the map for no reason. And let's not even get started on Turbine making boats VIP-only. When you buy the Evendim zone, you should have total access to that zone. Period. It's bullshit. In short, for new people: don't do this loving quest. Drone fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Jan 20, 2013 |
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Jan 20, 2013 18:46
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Back in the day, there wasn't even any boats to access... Also with Tomb, just get an 85...problem solved.
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Holy poo poo, I've done a handful of steps to the Narsil quest because I thought "gently caress yeah Narsil quest!" but now I think I'll just skip it. I've already had to swim a few times over the lake doing other crap.  To Rivendell I got on horse (I got the steam starter pack and the mithril edition so I have stuff), I rode through the Trollshaws just to check out what it looks like.
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I was the 44 guard who stood around for an hour or so while they caught up on the quest. It's slightly less painful if you started it off before heading to Evendim, and in fact it was the reason I bought Evendim in the first place, and works as a good framework for the first half of the area. When it gets out of sync though you're going to be swimming across the lake to talk to someone, then swim right back. Multiple times. I went to Rivendell early because I could, and it's Rivendell! Why wouldn't you try to go there? Oh yeah, because there's no quests apart from the Evendim starter and you almost get killed by a badger, but the mining is good. It was probably a bit ambitious to try a full fellowship instance with 3, none of us particularly overlevelled.
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Rarity posted:Are there any quests in the Shire that don't involve trekking halfway across the map? That's been my sole gripe so far about the Shire. It's managed to be up there with WoW's Exodar and Teldrassil for areas I absolutely loathe having to get around in.
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Drone posted:gently caress the Narsil/The Tomb of Elendil/The Blade That Was Broken questline in Evendim. gently caress it. Hah, I just started that one earlier today (then went to do family poo poo). I'll finish it anyways! ALL QUESTS MUST BE FINISHED! However, yeah, I can't help but think "welcome to WoW circa 2005" with the quest flow in most of the zones so far. I'm an elf hunter, so I have it way the gently caress easier than the rest of you (I can port to all sorts of places, including Evendim and Rivendell), and I find a lot of areas annoying. I still have tons of North Downs quests (mostly fellowship ones that I'm waiting to gray out honestly, yes I'm that dumb about quests), but I'm to the point where most chains have me just running all over the drat place.
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xZAOx posted:Hah, I just started that one earlier today (then went to do family poo poo). I'll finish it anyways! ALL QUESTS MUST BE FINISHED! This is just like me. I'm still doing Shire quests even though I'm finished with the quest deed (Hey, that Mathom rep is important!). Yesterday I broke the Olwir instance by killing the stone troll before getting that part of the quest and now it will never be complete 
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xZAOx posted:Hah, I just started that one earlier today (then went to do family poo poo). I'll finish it anyways! ALL QUESTS MUST BE FINISHED! Wait til you get to the latter half of Vol. 1! "Hey go talk to this dude in Rivendell. Now go to Angmar. Now Evendim. Now Angmar again. North Downs. Rivendell." Guuuuuuuuuuh. Rarity posted:This is just like me. I'm still doing Shire quests even though I'm finished with the quest deed (Hey, that Mathom rep is important!). There's an instance in the Misty Mountains that drops Mathom rep like crazy and is way easier to do than a billion Shire quests. I'm blanking on the name/whether or not it's VIP, but I'm sure someone knows. It's not in Helegrod, I know that.
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In as Fleshcage! need an invite to nazgun army.  edit: RECRUITED as covert spy. 
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Looks like I get to go on an ore farming adventure tomorrow since the weaponsmith crafting guild recipes need crap tons of ore that is either too expensive on the AH or not even up there at all. If I were to just use the ore I already have I'd only be able to make like 5 of the emblems each time they're off cooldown and it'd take like 2 months to max out the rep.
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Radio! posted:There's an instance in the Misty Mountains that drops Mathom rep like crazy and is way easier to do than a billion Shire quests. I'm blanking on the name/whether or not it's VIP, but I'm sure someone knows. It's not in Helegrod, I know that. By the time I'd done half of Evendim it'd given me enough items to rise through half the ranks of wardens and mathom society. Mathoms drop everywhere.
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I'm torn... just looking at Update 9, it's very obvious they're cashing in the movie by featuring all those same areas, so I get the feeling the next big expansion/update will be North Mirkwood and the Dalelands, maybe even the Lonely Mountain. Thing is, I'd really like them to do West Rohan/Helm's Deep/Fangorn/Gap of Rohan, that way it could link up to Isengard and that whole area of the map would be "complete." If I ere to buy the Rohan expansion but not the Triple Pack with Isengard and Moria and all that... could I even get to Rohan, since I can't go through Moria? If I did go out there, could I just buy a warhorse (assuming you can below level 60 or whatever) and then just ride back to Eriador and keep doing my thing, or would that just be retarded? Guessing the latter. Goddammit, Steam, have another sale already!
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Fuzz posted:I'm torn... just looking at Update 9, it's very obvious they're cashing in the movie by featuring all those same areas, so I get the feeling the next big expansion/update will be North Mirkwood and the Dalelands, maybe even the Lonely Mountain. Thing is, I'd really like them to do West Rohan/Helm's Deep/Fangorn/Gap of Rohan, that way it could link up to Isengard and that whole area of the map would be "complete." You technically could kill a bunch of orcs for a bunch of years, or just repeat skirmishes, but I think it would be best to make an alt if you're not sure you're ready to buy the expansion packs in between.
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Radio! posted:There's an instance in the Misty Mountains that drops Mathom rep like crazy and is way easier to do than a billion Shire quests. I'm blanking on the name/whether or not it's VIP, but I'm sure someone knows. It's not in Helegrod, I know that. Is it Goblin Town? I remember getting a retarded amount of rep items there long ago. They could've been for Rivendell, but whomever it was I maxxed out due to spending a few hours in there. Fuzz posted:I'm torn... just looking at Update 9, it's very obvious they're cashing in the movie by featuring all those same areas, so I get the feeling the next big expansion/update will be North Mirkwood and the Dalelands, maybe even the Lonely Mountain. Thing is, I'd really like them to do West Rohan/Helm's Deep/Fangorn/Gap of Rohan, that way it could link up to Isengard and that whole area of the map would be "complete." If they do North Mirkwood and the Vale they could introduce Beorn and a new class: shapeshifter  e: Evil Fluffy fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Jan 21, 2013 |
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Fuzz posted:I'm torn... just looking at Update 9, it's very obvious they're cashing in the movie by featuring all those same areas, so I get the feeling the next big expansion/update will be North Mirkwood and the Dalelands, maybe even the Lonely Mountain. Thing is, I'd really like them to do West Rohan/Helm's Deep/Fangorn/Gap of Rohan, that way it could link up to Isengard and that whole area of the map would be "complete." You can go through areas you don't own, you just can't do any quests in them (except epic).
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Fuzz posted:I'm torn... just looking at Update 9, it's very obvious they're cashing in the movie by featuring all those same areas, so I get the feeling the next big expansion/update will be North Mirkwood and the Dalelands, maybe even the Lonely Mountain. Thing is, I'd really like them to do West Rohan/Helm's Deep/Fangorn/Gap of Rohan, that way it could link up to Isengard and that whole area of the map would be "complete." From the last dev chat on twitter: Q4: Do you have any plans to make a new zone for Dale and Erebor or is it just going to be the Instaces? A4: Just the instances. #LOTRO #DEVCHAT In that same interview they stated that the next region would come in update 11. I doubt it will be all of West Rohan though, I think Helm's Deep will be a good enough selling point to make it maybe a mini-expansion like Mirkwood.
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grumbster posted:From the last dev chat on twitter: That's kind of a shame. I would have liked to have the Lonely Mountain as some sort of huge dungeon area like Moria, with maybe a few cool raids or something. Maybe like a Spawn of Smaug thing where apparently Smaug had a mate lay a bunch of eggs and they've now hatched and are terrorizing everyone or something. I just want to see what they do with Osgiliath... that has the potential to be one of the badassiest areas in the game.
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Who needs Smaug when you've got Draigoch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc_cRmn6qok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtpWV6cHMQI Captain Candiru fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Jan 21, 2013 |
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Captain Backslap posted:Who needs Smaug when you've got Draigoch. Speaking of, do you guys raid much anymore? Last few nights on kinchat it doesn't really seem like it... has it gone out of style, or are the raids bad, or what?
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Raids are formed in glff pretty regularly, which stands for global looking for fellowship. /joinchannel glff There's no level 85 raids right now, though. Not even instances other than the scaled Erebor instances added recently that I'm aware of. And until the recent boom in population there wasn't much Nazgun activity to speak of, I imagine. Also: Look how lovely your first trip into The Maze went with two randoms from GLFF/LFF vs people who know what they're doing and can forumlate or follow plans. Imagine 12-24 sized groups like that. Captain Candiru fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jan 21, 2013 |
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Captain Backslap posted:Also: Look how lovely your first trip into The Maze went with two randoms from GLFF/LFF vs people who know what they're doing and can forumlate or follow plans. Imagine 12-24 sized groups like that. Good point. Only other modern MMORPG I've played is SWTOR, and that game's content in general was easy as poo poo compared to LOTRO's group stuff. Flashpoints were a joke for the most part, and even the Raids weren't particularly hard if your people knew what to do.
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Fuzz posted:I'm torn... just looking at Update 9, it's very obvious they're cashing in the movie by featuring all those same areas, so I get the feeling the next big expansion/update will be North Mirkwood and the Dalelands, maybe even the Lonely Mountain. Thing is, I'd really like them to do West Rohan/Helm's Deep/Fangorn/Gap of Rohan, that way it could link up to Isengard and that whole area of the map would be "complete." North Mirkwood and Fangorn are excellent candidates for the spring update, which if history repeats itself should come around April. It sounds like update 10 with the East Rohan raids is coming in February. I get the feeling a September/October expansion will bring at least West Rohan. grumbster posted:From the last dev chat on twitter: That's weird because I remember someone from Turbine saying they wanted to eventually have the entirety of middle-earth represented in the game. They probably realized that with the rate at which they're releasing new areas of the world, it would take them another 10 years to get it all in.
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ruffz posted:That's weird because I remember someone from Turbine saying they wanted to eventually have the entirety of middle-earth represented in the game. They probably realized that with the rate at which they're releasing new areas of the world, it would take them another 10 years to get it all in. Ehh... The only things left are Mirkwood/Dalelands/Lonely Mountain, Gondor, and Mordor... I mean, you could do the Iron and Grey Mountains, Rhun,, and Harad, but yeah... who cares? Eriador is huge compared to the rest of the provinces... look at the map:  So Mordor and Gondor would be the biggest ones.
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Fuzz posted:Speaking of, do you guys raid much anymore? Last few nights on kinchat it doesn't really seem like it... has it gone out of style, or are the raids bad, or what? Most people either have raid groups outside the kin or small groups that they play with regularly. When people start hitting 85, we can probably start running things as a kin, provided most people play to that point. Raids / groups are lots of fun at 85.
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Goddamn, I'm sitting around at work, REALLY wanting to start a Warden. gently caress this game and it's SIREN DEVIL poo poo. EDIT: I'm really tempted to grab the Legendary Edition of Rohan and a hardcopy of Moria new off of eBay for like $15, then use the 2500 points to buy the other two expansions or something. Ughh... Fuzz fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Jan 21, 2013 |
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ruffz posted:That's weird because I remember someone from Turbine saying they wanted to eventually have the entirety of middle-earth represented in the game. They probably realized that with the rate at which they're releasing new areas of the world, it would take them another 10 years to get it all in. Maybe they just mean they don't have any plans to do Dale right now? It does seem weird that they wouldn't put that in, especially since it's one of the places Race of Man characters can be from.
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ruffz posted:That's weird because I remember someone from Turbine saying they wanted to eventually have the entirety of middle-earth represented in the game. They probably realized that with the rate at which they're releasing new areas of the world, it would take them another 10 years to get it all in. I really just wanna tool around in Minas Tirith, is that too much to ask?
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Rode through Eregion yesterday to mine and pick up stables, and it seems really dull. Talked to a few quest givers and nothing much grabbed me so I might end up skipping it and save my points for something else down the line. The Moria stuff starts at level 50, right? So I should be good to go at around 47/48? 44 now, with some Trollshaws stuff left to do. Even if I go grind some racial/class skill deeds I'm probably going to fall a little short aren't I. And I don't own much group content before the expansion stuff (that I know of).
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Fuzz posted:Goddamn, I'm sitting around at work, REALLY wanting to start a Warden. Yeah, I have the same evil Winter-MMO addiction thing going. For a F2P game, I've already spend quite a fair amount of money on content I'm not even at yet.
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The determination virtue deeds are a deliberate pisstake, right?
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sassassin posted:Rode through Eregion yesterday to mine and pick up stables, and it seems really dull. Talked to a few quest givers and nothing much grabbed me so I might end up skipping it and save my points for something else down the line. Eregion is like a breath of fresh air after 35-45. And you can go start the legendary quest at 45 which also unlocks the beginning of Moria.
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Sheep posted:Eregion is like a breath of fresh air after 35-45. And you can go start the legendary quest at 45 which also unlocks the beginning of Moria. 30-40 for me was pretty good (mostly Evendim), 40-(almost)45 hasn't been too bad (mostly Trollshaws). Gained a lot of levels recently getting stuck into combat area like Annuminas, looking down and oh I've filled half the bar already. Haven't even used any of the enhanced xp things I got in a lottery, though I did sell a couple for 5 gold apiece. The ones I have left might get me in shape for Moria. There's no real hook atm to get me into Eregion. The lore is sparse and unlike Angmar or the Misty Mountains there haven't been any quests sending me in to see what's what. I hear it's good, and exploring the lands of the old elven smiths sounds neat, but it's just a some fields and ditches and orcs. Is there a questline as cool sounding as 'reforge the sword that was broken for me'? sassassin fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Jan 21, 2013 |
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Holy crap, lots of posts last night!Radio! posted:Wait til you get to the latter half of Vol. 1! "Hey go talk to this dude in Rivendell. Now go to Angmar. Now Evendim. Now Angmar again. North Downs. Rivendell." Guuuuuuuuuuh. Hooray for ports and cheap traveling rations! Although this news further cements my "never going to play an alt", because I can't imagine playing the game and not being a hunter at this point. Radio! posted:There's an instance in the Misty Mountains that drops Mathom rep like crazy and is way easier to do than a billion Shire quests. I'm blanking on the name/whether or not it's VIP, but I'm sure someone knows. It's not in Helegrod, I know that. It's not about the rep, it's about doing all the quests! At some point I'm going to go back and do Shire, Archet, etc. Whatever zones will talk to me. In WoW, I had Loremaster back before they revamped everything for Cataclysm, and made it a lot easier. Anyone else who's familiar with that achievement knows the hell I went through .ruffz posted:Looks like I get to go on an ore farming adventure tomorrow since the weaponsmith crafting guild recipes need crap tons of ore that is either too expensive on the AH or not even up there at all. If I were to just use the ore I already have I'd only be able to make like 5 of the emblems each time they're off cooldown and it'd take like 2 months to max out the rep. I feel lost - are you saying there's another way to get guild rep than making the patterns and consuming them? I've only been in the crafting guild for a few days. Fuzz posted:If I ere to buy the Rohan expansion but not the Triple Pack with Isengard and Moria and all that... could I even get to Rohan, since I can't go through Moria? My understanding was that the entire world map is open. If you don't own the content, you'll have no quests, and can't do the deeds, so it'd pretty drat pointless, but you could still travel around. Also a hunter could port you I'd assume. Fuzz posted:Goddammit, Steam, have another sale already! I feel ya. We both joined in right as all the awesome sales ended (Mithril pack $10, triple-pack $20, Rohan $20). Fuzz posted:Only other modern MMORPG I've played is SWTOR, and that game's content in general was easy as poo poo compared to LOTRO's group stuff. Flashpoints were a joke for the most part, and even the Raids weren't particularly hard if your people knew what to do. FWIW, I've found that goes for drat near all MMOs. Most of the time pubbies are horrible, guild groups are decent because people are less impatient and more willing to listen. I did a Flashpoint in SWTOR during beta, and we got our asses handed to us on two or three attempts, then everyone bailed. And I think it goes without saying that "content is easier if people know what's going on". Except for that first dude in GB, good lord. It's totally a DPS check.
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