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Shadow of War has me getting back into this. It's been a while since I've played but I was a VIP in the past. Are there any must haves to spend my ~2500 points on as a Premium player? Or am I better served resubscribing?
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SettingSun posted:Shadow of War has me getting back into this. It's been a while since I've played but I was a VIP in the past. Are there any must haves to spend my ~2500 points on as a Premium player? Or am I better served resubscribing? Welcome back, you'd have to let us know your level(s) and which content you already own: Generally the cheapest thing to do is to buy a month (or three) of VIP, get every class you want to consider maining up to level 48-50 because expansion packs don't come with VIP, so you can let it run out then buy Moria or (name of next expansion pack you're missing) with points, or for 5 or 10 bucks during a summer or winter sale.
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Oct 14, 2017 17:52
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Holy loving poo poo, The expansion is now MORDOR? Wow, I remember buying this thing at launch, subscription and all.
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Oct 14, 2017 20:06
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 Code MORDORMITHRIL for free 50 mithril coins. Good until the 22nd.
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Oct 14, 2017 20:11
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Still waiting on that expansion sale because there's no way I'm paying full price for something released four years ago.
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Oct 16, 2017 20:59
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M_Sinistrari posted:
Thanks for the post! This will come in handy. UPDATE: I used it and it worked. Thanks again! Pugzilla fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Oct 18, 2017 |
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Oct 17, 2017 20:25
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https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?659472-Update-21-2-3-Release-Notes Patch notes, nothing too exciting but a bump. And the raid was on the test server with only 1 or 2 bosses ready for testing, but still that means it's coming. On bullroarer you needed 200 Light of Earendil to run it safely.
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Nov 2, 2017 12:43
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Is Guardian hideously slow to solo right now? I know it's been both bad and good at various points in the game's history. Been ages since I played this and kinda feel like playing a tanky dwarf in a glorious dress.
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Nov 6, 2017 20:05
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Hello Sailor posted:Is Guardian hideously slow to solo right now? I know it's been both bad and good at various points in the game's history. Been ages since I played this and kinda feel like playing a tanky dwarf in a glorious dress. It's not hideous (Captain is definitely hideous) but it's slower than hunter/loremaster Probably the best heavy armor class to solo level up since Champions aren't that survivable (at least in my experience). Red-line spec and stick your axe in people.
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Nov 6, 2017 20:09
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Lum_ posted:It's not hideous (Captain is definitely hideous) You jerks should try being a burglar.
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Nov 6, 2017 20:34
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Re-reactivated for my nth year of "WinterMMO addiction". Durdling around as 73 LM Osrandir.
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Nov 9, 2017 09:46
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How do the classes stack up? Been looking at trying this out lately, game looks real cozy, but any advice on characters would be nice.
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Yardbomb posted:How do the classes stack up? Been looking at trying this out lately, game looks real cozy, but any advice on characters would be nice. My experience: Hunter - pro: great class for new players, can do absolutely ridiculous amounts of single target damage, has lots of abilities that make it easy to travel and escape from battle con: not great armor, kind of a glass cannon (though has some self-heals that mitigate this to a large degree), most popular class so everyone will assume you're an idiot Beorning - pro: you turn into a giant bear and kill things, you can do some healing, you can make your own honey con: not a free class, playstyle takes some getting used to since you have to balance your going bear-crazed with being a not-bear Loremaster - pro: Literally Gandalf, pets have been buffed to almost play the entire game for you, best crowd control by far in the game, your own damage is not shabby con: tons of abilities make the class hard to learn to play effectively and pets make you not bother to Guardian - pro: you're a walking tank and can't be killed, easy to learn compared to many other classes con: it takes forever to kill anything compared to many other classes Champion - pro: a damage class that wears heavy armor, probably the best AOE damage in the game, playstyle encourages just running into things and killing con: not a lot of self-healing ability means if you don't kill everything you're probably dead, not a lot of utility Burglar - pro: Literally Bilbo, stealth, lots of fun tricks con: no armor and little survivability makes the class very slow to progress despite stealth Warden: pro: you can do anything. Tank like a guardian! DPS like a champion! Teleport around the world like a hunter! con: not a free class, ridiculously hard to learn (class plays like a fighting game with combos you need to memorize) Captain: (never really played) pro: I dunno con: no one really likes it Minstrel: (never really played) pro: you move fast, do damage, best healer in the game con: you yell at people all day, this is not nearly as fun as it sounds Runekeeper: (never really played) pro: standard MMO wizard class, lots of damage, can heal con: Not a free class, standard MMO wizard class
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Nov 14, 2017 16:21
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I always raised an eyebrow at the class inspiration of the guardian being Sam. I mean, it was clearly actually Boromir. Wore a shield, their class items are belts, etc. Same with the lore-master being obviously Gandalf and the captain is Aragorn during Return of the King.
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Also, LOTRO has stages to play through as a free player to think about: level 1-20: play completely for free, by level 20 you KIND of have a basic idea of the class (some classes like Loremaster don't really take off until around this level) level 20-50: Wait, I have to buy things? Yes, you're going to have to buy some quest packs to progress, or just buy a month's subscription (it's recommended you do this at least once on a character, it saves you money by unlocking a lot of things for the life of the character). Note that you'll still need to buy expansions even if subscribing. If buying quest packs you'll want Lone-Lands, Evendim, and then some combination of Forochel, Eregion, and buying XP boosters (levels 40-45 in particular are hard to get through). Note that once you buy a quest pack you never have to buy it for another character, ever. level 50-60: get Moria, it's some of the best content in the game and will take you into the early 60s level 60-65: finish out Moria unless you're tired of being underground helping derpy dwarves, the Mirkwood pack is great, Enedwaith pack is kind of meh level 65-75: Isengard pack, Dunland pack, Great River pack (pick two) level 75-95: "enjoy" the Rohan and Helms Deep expansions, it's your only choice. level 95-105: Finally out of Rohan, YAY. Gondor is MUCH better. Packs in order are West Gondor, Central Gondor, East Gondor, Old Anorien (aka Minas Tirith). By that time you should be at 105 and can safely skip the last two (March of the King, Battle of the Black Gate), you get the story content for free regardless. level 105-115: Mordor, where the monsters that will kick your butt lie (seriously, the difficulty level in Mordor jumps significantly, picking up a level or two beforehand is recommended) Lum_ fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Nov 14, 2017 |
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Nov 14, 2017 16:45
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SettingSun posted:I always raised an eyebrow at the class inspiration of the guardian being Sam. I mean, it was clearly actually Boromir. Wore a shield, their class items are belts, etc. Same with the lore-master being obviously Gandalf and the captain is Aragorn during Return of the King. clearly you missed the scene in Return of the King where Sam strapped on full plate and tanked 50 orcs while Frodo stealthed around back to turn in the One Ring quest.
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Nov 14, 2017 16:48
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Lum_ posted:
Warden is the first class I leveled up to 100, at first the gambit system seems hard but I found it easier than playing other classes because 90% of the time I'm only using 4 buttons on my toolbar. The gambits have a logical pattern to them and once you recognize that pattern it all flows naturally. The great thing about warden is all the stacking AOE bleeds and lifetaps; if you have a quest to kill 8 orcs you can just run into the orc camp, stack up 8 orcs and melee them all down at once. Wardens also get a out of combat run speed buff and can unlock fast travel to other zones via reputation skills. Lum_ posted:
You can mute combat sounds or even use the filter panel (Ctrl-R I think) to filter out just your scream sounds. Captains, wardens and minstrels are all very screamy and that filter panel makes the game much more enjoyable.
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Hot drat, thanks for the write-ups, guess I might try out a champion or minstrel first and see how all that goes.
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I still haven't came back for Mordor. Now that it's had some patches, and people have had time... After you get past the initial level or two, is it still overtuned? Or it more "normal"? I don't need faceroll like a lot of previous content, but I don't want every 1v1 to be a life-and-death battle when I have to get past 15 trash enemiesto click a thing, then past respawns again. The landscape content, is it any better/worse than the past few years? Just doing the landscape stuff (not the dailies or anything else, just the 1-time quests) - how long would you guesstimate? 10 hours? 20? Are the new instances in yet? People running them in PUGs regularly or need to join an active guild? I'm still in the goon guild, never cared enough to leave. Thanks guys. Starting to get the itch again. I usually do all the landscape stuff, then do dailies for a few weeks until I round out a set of gear from daily featured instances and dailies, then take a break again.
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Lum_ posted:Also, LOTRO has stages to play through as a free player to think about : F2P actually gets you up to 32-35ish. You want to start Moria's intro the second you hit 45 so you can unlock your first Legendary weapon. Moria is fuckin' awesome. Run the 6-mans at least once so you can see how LotRO used to hold it's own vs WoW. Mirkwood has an instance type called Skirmishes. They're kinda fun, IMO. Dunland really sucks. Skip straight to Great River if at all possible. That said, Orthanc's dungeons & raids were the last good group content prior to Gondor/Mordor. Run them if you get the chance. Riders of Rohan itself is simply mediocre. Helm's Derp is awful. Many people find Warsteeds to be a letdown. YMMV. Epic Battles are an abomination. Intermingled with the 2 Rohan expacs are Wildermore & Fangorn. Sadly, both suck really badly. In between Rohan & Gondor lies The Paths of the Dead. It sucks. Gondor is really good compared to Rohan, but Minas Tirith has issues in regards to quest flow and PC performance. Even my high end gaming rig crashes frequently there. Lum_ posted:My experience: I agree 100% about Lore Masters. The class has tons of depth, but the pets make learning everything unnecessary. You need to roll a Captain.  They have things in common with Wardens, Guardians & LMs. Like a Warden, they can do a little bit of everything. Like a Lore Master, they have a pet & tons of buttons(pet is more of a sidekick than a tank though). A common complaint is that they're slow levelers like Guardians. YMMV. They're a super useful class for groups and not at all unfun. You need to roll a Minstrel. Super fun, super fast levelers. Rune Keepers are really good at DPS & Healing. worth checking out.
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How flexible is pet choice in levelling a loremaster? Back at launch I loved the concept of just running around with a raven buddy but as new pets unlocked of course it kind of went by the wayside.
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Trebuchet King posted:How flexible is pet choice in levelling a loremaster? Back at launch I loved the concept of just running around with a raven buddy but as new pets unlocked of course it kind of went by the wayside. Eh, they are mostly situational. Bear has a huge HP pool and defense stats and generates quite a bit of single-target threat, so it can be used to tank elites etc for long periods of time. The lynx does a lot of burst DPS including some AOE and is useful for taking down small groups of normal mobs. The Raven procs flanks like crazy and has some decent debuffs and buffs your tactical mitigation (i.e. good in boss fights in 6-man content). The sabertooth cat has an aoe normal attack that is really good for farming low-level (grey'd out) stuff. The healing spirit is semi-useful if you're in a 3-man group that doesn't have a dedicated healing class. The bog-guardian is the only ranged one, so it can be very useful at times where you do not want your pet running around pulling agro. The eagle has a self-revive and a power-regen buff, I usually would only bother using it if I specifically need the self-revive or if there is another loremaster already using a raven in a 6-man group. They all have their uses. Most of the time running around doing landscape content I just use the bear or the lynx depending on whether I need more ability to keep stuff off of me or burst dps.
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Nov 15, 2017 02:07
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Bear is a LOT more useful in Mordor where multiple pulls can kill a lynx and losing aggro can kill you. Prior to that I just used lynx or bog guardian. I've heard the eagle's resurrect ability doesn't always go off.
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Lum_ posted:Bear is a LOT more useful in Mordor where multiple pulls can kill a lynx and losing aggro can kill you. Prior to that I just used lynx or bog guardian. I've heard the eagle's resurrect ability doesn't always go off. Yeah the eagle res can be unreliable to be sure. And I 100% agree with the Bear being more useful in Mordor. Especially in some of the areas where you are forced to push down long corridors with mobs at every turn. You can actually use the bear to lead ahead of you pulling a chain of mobs and then run them off whenever you finally get to your destination, thus avoiding having to kill like 50 mobs in the process. The bear is stout enough to tank about 10 roughly even-leveled mobs for several minutes. You just have to be reaaaaaly careful not to heal the bear (or yourself if you are in close proximity) because you'll end up pulling agro on all that stuff at once which obviously has very deadly consequences.
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SettingSun posted:I always raised an eyebrow at the class inspiration of the guardian being Sam. I mean, it was clearly actually Boromir. The in-game reason is that someone misheard "gardener".
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Nov 18, 2017 23:07
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Consider the raid on Cirith Ungol, where he alone causes enough trouble that the Orcs think he's an Elf, a raid of Men, or both together. Consider the desperate fight against Shelob. These are their reasonings.
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Nov 19, 2017 05:07
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Runekeeper from when I played has a really cool dps/healing balance meter mechanic, if you go too far into dps you heal for poo poo but explode assholes and vice versa. I remember really enjoying it in groups, but that's back when they added it so it is probably a bit different these days. Plus like you bash monsters faces in with magical rocks, which is pretty great.
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Nov 19, 2017 12:44
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I re-installed this for the first time in months, then ran up and down minas tirith for an hour doing stupid errands on the legendary quest, then uninstalled. I forgot how, unlike Shadow of War where you're a badass half-wraith orc-slaughtering hero, here you're the Middle Earth equivalent of an UberEats driver for Pippin.
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Nov 19, 2017 20:52
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Are you saying delivering the mail isn't heroic?
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Nov 19, 2017 23:55
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I always loved playing a captain. A good captain can really save everyone’s rear end.
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http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/letter-executive-producer-rob-ciccolini-look-ahead After they finish the raid sometime this end of the year they'll begin working on taking us into Northern Mirkwood through Thranduil's Court, Dale, Laketown and Erebor. I imagine that'll take a good chunk of 2018 to finish. Update 21.3 will feature new Housing Items, some of which will be found in the raid, others will be available through the Quartermaster in-game, and a few will be available in Gorgoroth Lootboxes. Speaking of new stuff, the Yule Festival will see new cosmetics, including a woodland crown, a new Winter dress, and a new Yule-themed cloak. Additionally, we have long heard players request the ability to have an Elk mount which will be offered in addition to two new cosmetic pets. 2018 also includes avatar updates for hobbit and dwarf but they'll probably be worse than the old ones so I'm skipping this. For our musicians in LOTRO, we're excited to announce that a new instrument is being added to the music system: The fiddle! We expect this new instrument to debut in Update 22. Looking beyond Update 22, we know you have been asking to see even more classic moments from the trilogy. We have a way to go before we see Aragorn and Arwen's wedding, but we intend to bring you other well-known parts of the book. In Update 23, we intend to visit Minas Morgul, and say a fearful hello to Shelob herself. Also included is a vague promise of class balancing and bug fixing, updates to festivals yada yada. So it'll be a great Yule festival, a 3 boss raid, then eventually loving Erebor. All great in theory.
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Did they already update models for humans and elves? I updated my graphics card since the last time I played, cranked all the settings to max, and was so appalled at how rubbish my new dwarf looked that I gave up. But I could give Warden another go.
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Nov 21, 2017 20:39
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ehhhh would have rather gone south into umbar/harad. We've had enough Hobbit callbacks and there could be interesting gameplay in dealing with the southrons vs. gondorHello Sailor posted:Did they already update models for humans and elves? I updated my graphics card since the last time I played, cranked all the settings to max, and was so appalled at how rubbish my new dwarf looked that I gave up. But I could give Warden another go. yeah and just humans/elves, your dwarf is still the same. The update is really very very minor.
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Nov 21, 2017 20:43
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I haven't really played in a few months now, but logging in my toons a few weeks back was quite a shock. Do you guys agree that the new models look like absolute poo poo, or are their a few goons that actually like them or are just straight up ambivalent about it? They're really, really bad IMO.
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Nov 22, 2017 07:17
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When I was making my couple characters recently I liked the updated elf faces over the old ones. 
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Nov 22, 2017 07:43
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I think if you saw the difference between the avatar upgrades in WoW and expected something similar, you were bound to be disappointed. I could barely tell the difference, myself.
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Nov 22, 2017 08:48
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The elves are slightly better, the humans are virtually unchanged. 
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Nov 22, 2017 14:49
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When can you buy the new expansion stuff with the turbine (or whatever it is now) money?
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Nov 22, 2017 17:04
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While I'm still updating and can't confirm, according to the launcher the in-game store is allowing you to buy it starting today.
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You can now buy Mordor with Gandalf Funbucks. Also, the expansions are now on sale as well as a bunch of other stuff! https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/lotro-beacon-issue-36 
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