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victrix posted:Is there a list of what's worth grabbing from the shop to make the play experience smoother? I'll have VIP. Not interested in level skips or the like, just convenience/speed/travel/inventory fixers. - Wallet is a necessity. Getting a task item carryall can be pricey but will fix many of your inventory issues - Grab the quest packs for free while you can, along with expansions which are almost free (99 points each, I think) - Get the horse skill pack that makes all mounts max speed on all your characters - If you do any crafting get the universal toolkit (not the more expensive version, it's not necessary) - Create a character of every class while you have VIP, that will unlock a number of things on them you'd otherwise have to buy. After a month you can let VIP expire. Lum_ fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Jul 7, 2020 |
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Jul 7, 2020 15:25
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Another vote for the wallet. A month of VIP and the wallet are probably the two must-have QoL purchases. There's a list of things that are good to do before your VIP expires in order to get the most of the time you have. Off the top of my head, you'll want to earn the Riding skill on all the toons you're planning to use in the future, unless you buy a package that gives you account-wide Riding. You'll also want to choose carefully what items you want to have in your wardrobe slots because your capacity will drop by 20 when VIP expires. Any stuff that's in there stays, but if you want to add something new you'll have to either take a bunch of stuff out, or buy 20 slots back.
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Jul 8, 2020 05:24
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At this point, the game itself should have a popup that says "I see you want to spend money and you do not have the wallet upgrade yet. Do you want to buy that first? Yes / Yes"
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Jul 8, 2020 05:47
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So I'm jumping in on a fresh dwarf guardian, I got the free quests as well. Should I do the story in the normal order or is there a better quest line to hit up? I noticed DDO had a new and better starting area, so I was wondering if that was true here too, or are all the free quests just for higher levels?
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Jul 12, 2020 05:48
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Elblanco posted:So I'm jumping in on a fresh dwarf guardian, I got the free quests as well. Should I do the story in the normal order or is there a better quest line to hit up? I noticed DDO had a new and better starting area, so I was wondering if that was true here too, or are all the free quests just for higher levels? Do the story in the normal order following the epic quest, it does a pretty good job of guiding you around the world roughly to where you should need to be. There are PLENTY of quests, you won't run out at all and in fact if you do all the quests you will be far overlevelled for most areas. Plus there's areas of former level cap (Gondor at level 100, Erebor/Anduin at level 120, etc.) that you will go well beyond the intended level. If you REALLY get lost this page has a good roadmap of what quests are what level where: https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Category:Regional_Quests Generally new content these days gets added at the level cap with some exceptions (like the Bingo Boffin quest line if you like escorting a clueless hobbit around middle earth). There aren't any areas that really stick out as being avoidably bad save Angmar and Rohan. Lum_ fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Jul 12, 2020 |
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Jul 12, 2020 06:45
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Elblanco posted:So I'm jumping in on a fresh dwarf guardian, I got the free quests as well. Should I do the story in the normal order or is there a better quest line to hit up? I noticed DDO had a new and better starting area, so I was wondering if that was true here too, or are all the free quests just for higher levels? The first three zones are free to all players (although the starting area varies with which race you’re playing so it’s really the first five zones). As a Dwarf you’ll go from Ered Luin (1-10) to Bree-lands (10-20) to the Lonelands (20-30). If you’ve entered the code for the free quest packs, you’ve also got every zone from that point to level 50 (which is where the original game ended).
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Jul 12, 2020 06:45
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Elblanco posted:So I'm jumping in on a fresh dwarf guardian, I got the free quests as well. Should I do the story in the normal order or is there a better quest line to hit up? I noticed DDO had a new and better starting area, so I was wondering if that was true here too, or are all the free quests just for higher levels? Nope, LOTRO's starting areas are unchanged. They made new ones for the new races, but when they finish the instance, it just dumps you in one of the regular open world newbie zones. You get storyline quests for free, plus zone quests for the newbie zones. Zone quests for later zones require you to either pay points to unlock the zone or subscribe. You won't be able to level up exclusively from storyline quests; if you do all the zone quests before moving on, you'll be overlevelled for the next zone. I don't consider that a problem, but your mileage may vary. e:f,b
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Also once you get close to level 50, you'll want to get the expansions which aren't free but are close enough to it. It will take at least a month or so to get to 50 on your first character. The following expansions cost 99 points each in the online store now which is about as close to free as you can get (buying $8 worth of points will get you enough for them all and change). Moria: level 50-60 content, best content by far in the game. Moria is awesome. Mirkwood: unlocks Lorien and Mirkwood and takes you from level 60-65. Still pretty good. Isengard: Eh. Level 65-75. You may not even need it if you level intelligently (though Dunland is probably worth buying it) Riders of Rohan: level 75-85, and it's almost impossible to level without it. Also the content quality took a nose dive. Introduced mounted combat which is really bad. Helms Deep: level 85-95, literally Rohan Part Two. Introduced Epic Battles which are also pretty underwhelming. (95-105 is taken up with Gondor, part of the free quest packs and when the game got good again) The following two expansions are still full price since they're pretty recent. Mordor: level 105-115. When released it was kick-in-the-balls hard, it's easier now that you can go over the intended level and I think it was also nerfed several times. Pretty good. (115-120 is taken up with Erebor and neighboring areas, which are all now in the free quest pack) Minas Morgul: level 120-130. 130 is the current cap and there's been one level 130 quest pack that came out since. Also pretty good! Basically you can blow $8 on expansions and a wallet and play for free for a year easy. Mordor and Minas Morgul are $20 each but if you get to that point it's probably worth it! Lum_ fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Jul 12, 2020 |
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Jul 12, 2020 07:08
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Isn’t Lothlorien part of the Moria expansion? Mirkwood was just southern Mirkwood. That was the only expansion launch I was actively playing during.
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Jul 12, 2020 13:05
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Kaysette posted:Isn’t Lothlorien part of the Moria expansion? Mirkwood was just southern Mirkwood. That was the only expansion launch I was actively playing during. Nope, Lorien was a quest pack zone that didn't change the level cap from 60. The equivalent of Enedwaith/Great River/Wildermore/etc.
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Jul 12, 2020 13:48
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jalapeno_dude posted:Nope, Lorien was a quest pack zone that didn't change the level cap from 60. The equivalent of Enedwaith/Great River/Wildermore/etc. Oh cool. It was really awesome going there after being underground for so long.
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Jul 12, 2020 13:51
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Kaysette posted:Oh cool. It was really awesome going there after being underground for so long. Hah. You’re in for a surprise when you hit the Lothlorien epic quests though.
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They did just introduce a streamlined option for the Helm's Deep battles which I haven't done, but personally after the slog of Rohan hitting the epic battles caused me to quit the game for a long time. So it's nice you don't have to slam into that brick wall quite as hard now. I'd be real interested to see data around how many players were playing through zones at a steady pace only to hit Rohan and quit. Seems like a good player retention strategy would be a complete revamp of that xpac (why is Rohan so bad anyway? Did they switch devs?). At least now it's only ~$1 so you don't have to grumble about how much you paid for this crap as you play it. Anyway, as others have mentioned if you can power through Rohan once you get to Gondor things are great and stay that way. Also Mordor is almost guaranteed to be heavily discounted on Black Friday, so if you think you'll get that far within the next year it's a good time to pick it up.
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gyrf posted:Hah. You’re in for a surprise when you hit the Lothlorien epic quests though. Can you elaborate a bit? I got friendly with Lothlórien just to access the city but then jumped into Mirkwood as the rep rewards seem better. I’ve spent a day there and upgraded a lot of my jewelry already. Lothlórien seemed to have a bunch of junk repeatable quests that I figured I could skip.
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Demon Of The Fall posted:Can you elaborate a bit? I got friendly with Lothlórien just to access the city but then jumped into Mirkwood as the rep rewards seem better. I’ve spent a day there and upgraded a lot of my jewelry already. Lothlórien seemed to have a bunch of junk repeatable quests that I figured I could skip. Lothlórien is fine but the epic quest line in the last part of the Moria expansion and all throughout Mirkwood isn’t very well written, maybe that’s what they’re referring to? SURPRISE! You’re going back into Moria again! Let’s kidnap some random orc chief and drag his rear end all the way through the hostile territory we’re invading so we can maybe cut a deal with the servants of Sauron, that won’t ever go horribly wrong!
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Comrade Koba posted:Lothlórien is fine but the epic quest line in the last part of the Moria expansion and all throughout Mirkwood isn’t very well written, maybe that’s what they’re referring to? The Mirkwood portion of the Epic is one of the story highlights of the game for me, personally--it's the first time you've really gotten to travel with a group of characters who aren't in the source material for an extended period of time, and it keeps paying off in spades. Volume III does it better with the Grey Company and Horn and Nona, but this part of Volume II is where it started. And of course it goes horribly wrong, that was obvious from the start. This is pretty much true of all of Volume II, though they're still paying off some of those threads (pay close attention to the Mordor Erebor Allegiance quests when you get there). jalapeno_dude fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Jul 13, 2020 |
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Everybody keeps talking about how terrible Rohan content is, so I'd resolved myself to skipping from Mirkwood to Gondor with a level skip. Is it worth going back and doing? Assuming all I really care about is story content (I'm playing this like a single-player ARPG, so I don't necessarily care about missing trait points from Rohan, etc.).
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VanillaGorilla posted:Everybody keeps talking about how terrible Rohan content is, so I'd resolved myself to skipping from Mirkwood to Gondor with a level skip. Is it worth going back and doing? Assuming all I really care about is story content (I'm playing this like a single-player ARPG, so I don't necessarily care about missing trait points from Rohan, etc.). While the mounted combat portions suck, the atmosphere is pretty cool, and some of the quest lines are cool.
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Jul 14, 2020 23:12
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Doing Rohan overleveled will reduce the pain a lot. It's worth doing the epic quest at least once.
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One thing I've noticed as a very very early game player is that each of the zones seems to have a deed that grants 2000 virtue points for doing most of the quests there. Does that hold up throughout the rest of the game, and are those deeds particularly worth pursuing?
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Jul 15, 2020 16:54
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100 degrees Calcium posted:One thing I've noticed as a very very early game player is that each of the zones seems to have a deed that grants 2000 virtue points for doing most of the quests there. Does that hold up throughout the rest of the game, and are those deeds particularly worth pursuing? Seems to be the case, I'm uhh I forgot which expansion/zone I'm in but I'm level 85 and it is still true.
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Jul 15, 2020 20:20
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I actually went in with the intent of being fairly completionist about quests, because my initial impression is that the questing is very good for me, a nerd that likes to just be immersed in middle earth bullshit. But I'm getting the impression that some zones are like, really bad.
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Jul 15, 2020 20:43
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The storyline quests are pretty good about dragging you through most of the quest hubs in a given zone and there are far more quests available than you need for the regional metadeeds. If you do 2-3 side quests per story quest, that should be enough to get it for most zones. If not, you can always come back later and breeze through a few more if you find yourself wanting more virtue xp or cash shop points. I generally do the quest metadeed while I'm following the storyline, then revisit zones as I feel like it to knock out a few of the slayer/exploration deeds and quests I might have passed up the first time through. Coming back to early slayer deeds is great for working class deeds that use abilities which aren't part of your normal combat routine.
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Jul 15, 2020 23:05
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Sounds like a bunch of servers are having issues based on social media postings about unplanned downtime. Landy went down once yesterday then has been fine?
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Chairchucker posted:Get the wallet The Midsummer Festival runs through July 26th! LOTRO Bonus Days bring you +25% Crafting XP, now through July 19th! Summer Sales Continue! Week 3 brings you: 35% off Account Wide Mounts 50% off High Elf and Beorning 75% off Premium Wallet Now through July 23rd! Weekly Coupon Tactical Mitigation Tome x25 (90min) Coupon Code TACTMIT25 Now through July 23rd! extra stout fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Jul 18, 2020 |
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Jul 18, 2020 15:36
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I got the premium wallet last night when the servers came back up. Can’t beat that discount.
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Jul 18, 2020 16:56
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That’s a really good deal, but it sounds like the servers are turbofucked right now. I wish they’d mentioned that the wedding was the actual end of the game.
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Jul 19, 2020 00:34
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Pretty sure you'll get to play through at least another year's worth of trudging through orcs and dwarves holed up in Gundabad, with side trips down to Rhun to poke around judging what a lot of the Dale-land Easterling NPCs alluded to, the nuclear fallout. Plus there's still the Scouring of the Shire!
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Is this wedding event going away after a limited time or can I still do the quests when I’m at the appropriate point in the epic quest line?
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Jul 19, 2020 09:46
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Comrade Koba posted:Is this wedding event going away after a limited time or can I still do the quests when I’m at the appropriate point in the epic quest line? You'll still be able to do the epic quests, including the big wedding instance, and run around Minas Tirith (Midsummer). For the festival quests you'll have to wait until next summer. Most of them are generic and forgettable but there's one series (the Banquet quests) that you'll want to make sure to pick up at that point.
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Jul 19, 2020 12:13
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I would expect midsummer to get extended as a result of the downtime. And holidays generally get an encore later in the year, not sure about this one though. The last time they were down for several days they gave everyone a gift package on their next login, so maybe there will be that, too.
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Jul 19, 2020 21:51
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Lum_ posted:Pretty sure you'll get to play through at least another year's worth of trudging through orcs and dwarves holed up in Gundabad, with side trips down to Rhun to poke around judging what a lot of the Dale-land Easterling NPCs alluded to, the nuclear fallout. I was just goofing about the servers dying but I’m very stoked to potentially poke around Rhun. I remember wondering about that inland sea the first time I really studied the map at the front of LotR. It’d be sweet to get more blue wizard content.
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Jul 19, 2020 22:15
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Servers back up except for Arkenstone which sounds like something extra was wrong with it. World chat disabled for now. Supposed to have a formal update with event rescheduling soon. Can only imagine how tangled the spaghetti is at this point, but also am not surprised at the issues given the sudden increase in population with the free quest packs.
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Jul 21, 2020 03:45
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I don’t think we know what the hell is up with the servers. Saying it’s because of more people isn’t for sure. It could be the new wedding update broke a bunch of poo poo. The servers being up and down for 5 days tells me even SSG doesn’t really know what’s wrong either.
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Demon Of The Fall posted:I don’t think we know what the hell is up with the servers. Saying it’s because of more people isn’t for sure. It could be the new wedding update broke a bunch of poo poo. The servers being up and down for 5 days tells me even SSG doesn’t really know what’s wrong either. I think DDO is having issues too? Assuming it's data center issues in general, not related to the LOTRO codebase.
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Jul 21, 2020 05:46
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played on landroval for a bit after lunch but lagged out twice. things are still hosed.
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Jul 21, 2020 18:36
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What kind of issue at a data center could lead to sustained issues like this? I would think that data center issues could be resolved rather quickly Of course the lack of transparency isn’t helping either
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idk anything about data centers but i do want to say for the record that the sounds cave-claws make are amazing, 10/10
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As a newer player of LOTRO, an mmo that's already well past being old, this server stuff really makes me worry for the game's future and I was already worrying due to Amazon and such. Hopefully there are people quietly working away on an emulator. it'd be a shame if this game didn't outlive its developer(s). Sankis fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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