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Yeah, definitely bind a milestone to Rivendell when the storyline takes you there. The Middle-Earth equivalent of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" is "If You Deliver Elrond's Message", except the mouse changes what it wants and Elrond just wants to keep sending messages.
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Babe Magnet posted:beats the other kind of lotro quest: guy in location A tells you to talk to guy in location B on the other side of the zone, who tells you go to back to guy in location A, who teleports you to location B but then makes you walk back to location A only to tell you to go to location B (because location B is near the exit to the zone). 
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May 11, 2021 14:21
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There is a reason I have often referred to LOTRO as a Middle Earth travel simulator.
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May 11, 2021 15:47
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I'm lurking around twitch to see who is streaming lotro, and I happened to notice this amazing quickbar layout: At first I thought it was smart for the hotkey aspect, but he's clicking the buttons so the benefit is lost
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May 11, 2021 15:50
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fenix down posted:I'm lurking around twitch to see who is streaming lotro, and I happened to notice this amazing quickbar layout: Wait, how do you do that? I only saw options for vertical or horizontal. Would love to set up two quick bars that were shaped like my mouse’s side buttons (3x4).
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May 11, 2021 20:02
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Pretty sure it's 5 extra rows, just most of the spots are empty.
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May 11, 2021 20:14
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Babe Magnet posted:beats the other kind of lotro quest: guy in location A tells you to talk to guy in location B on the other side of the zone, who tells you go to back to guy in location A, who teleports you to location B but then makes you walk back to location A only to tell you to go to location B (because location B is near the exit to the zone). lol yeah i'd never do the epic questline on a class that doesn't have instant fast travel options
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May 11, 2021 20:24
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HPanda posted:Wait, how do you do that? I only saw options for vertical or horizontal.
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May 11, 2021 20:48
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fenix down posted:If you hit ctrl+\ you can move the quickbars around to wherever you want them. I’ve done that a bit, but no way to change their shape that I can see. Just vertical/horizontal and placement for the whole bar line.
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May 11, 2021 20:55
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HPanda posted:I’ve done that a bit, but no way to change their shape that I can see. Just vertical/horizontal and placement for the whole bar line. Look in the toolbar options and you have to check something like "quickbar 1/2/3/4/5" or something, then you can change their layout. I hated those Evendim hobbit quests so much. They're worth a couple of levels, though, and getting out of Evendim at the highest level possible is a definite good thing to quickly get into Moria
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May 11, 2021 21:04
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HPanda posted:I’ve done that a bit, but no way to change their shape that I can see. Just vertical/horizontal and placement for the whole bar line.
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May 11, 2021 21:15
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Level 50 is the highest I can get without buying the little expansion packs, yeah? I'm approaching that on one character, might level another before I buy in.
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May 12, 2021 07:28
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Babe Magnet posted:Level 50 is the highest I can get without buying the little expansion packs, yeah? I'm approaching that on one character, might level another before I buy in. There’s no F2P-specific level cap, so theoretically you could go all the way to 130 without buying anything at all.
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May 12, 2021 07:37
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oh dope
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May 12, 2021 08:27
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I assume they still occasionally put the region bundles on sale, too, so you might try out another class's early levels or grind crafts or something and wait for a sale to buy more regional quest content.
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May 12, 2021 12:48
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if/when you decide to move on to actual expansion content, this is still a pretty good deal. $17 gets you the first four expansions and enough poo poo to do to keep you busy until lvl85 (at least).
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May 12, 2021 13:22
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The anniversary token outfits looked a little too aggressive for my minstrel, so i went with one of the older ones
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Comrade Koba posted:if/when you decide to move on to actual expansion content, this is still a pretty good deal. $17 gets you the first four expansions and enough poo poo to do to keep you busy until lvl85 (at least). is this a steam key? I might go ahead and grab it now lol
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Was digging through old screenshots and figured I would post an album of some Nazgun shenanigans. https://imgur.com/a/WAUGAPL
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fenix down posted:Was digging through old screenshots and figured I would post an album of some Nazgun shenanigans. Some of those names bring back memories, Moria was a pretty fun time for Nazgun.
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May 13, 2021 05:52
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fenix down posted:Was digging through old screenshots and figured I would post an album of some Nazgun shenanigans. drat there’s a lot of old names on there. One thing I’ll probably always remember is Oswolf getting killed in a town area by a GM. Kitsune I believe?
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Babe Magnet posted:is this a steam key? I might go ahead and grab it now lol no, you redeem it through the in-game store. no idea if it works on steam-installed versions.
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May 13, 2021 08:47
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extra stout posted:Nazgun Discord Link: https://discord.gg/ewTckTs
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May 13, 2021 12:07
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I forgot how much the elves in Rivendell hate all living things. Every animal in the Trollshaws is up for a hunting quest. So many bear asses
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Probably because they're a race of spirits given flesh or whatever the exact deal is in the lore. Sailing to the west is what they do when they can't deal with being around biology anymore. Though that raises the question of why they decided to take a couple of hobbits with them. I assume Frodo and Bilbo were unceremoniously shoved overboard at some point on the way.
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May 21, 2021 18:32
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Frodo et al just get to spend some time in heaven before they die and go to real heaven
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Hm, is the LOTRO Store supposed to work? I'm clicking the button in-game, but it only opens a 404 in my browser. https://www.lotro.com/LOTROStore
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Zam Wesell posted:Hm, is the LOTRO Store supposed to work? I'm clicking the button in-game, but it only opens a 404 in my browser. I think you need to be logged in with your account. I can always get to it in-game, but not just directly from a browser.
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Weird. I’m def logged in, I can see my 10 coins and account name in the top right, but get an error message in the middle of the screen. Tried blocking all Firefox addons on the domain as well… After playing a few hours, what strikes me is how peaceful and just nice it is to run around in this game. Not a constant mess of sound and particle effects and constantly instancing in and out of «epic moments». I think the calmness of old school MMOs is something I’ve been missing. Also, the super active World chat makes it seem like there’re loads more playing this game than most other MMOs where no one is talking. Not feeling the combat though. I quite like tab target and hotkeys in games like WoW and SWTOR, and to a lesser extent FF14 (it’s so slow). This game seems slow and unresponsive so far, maybe that’ll change. Edit: Figured out why the store didn't work. Turns out my Firefox settings were a bit too strict with regards to the tracking settings. Zam Wesell fucked around with this message at 10:31 on May 24, 2021 |
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Do you use "activate on key press" in WoW or "activate on key depress"? That would be my first guess as to why LOTRO feels slower to you; a lot of early MMOs use on-depress, but WoW had a popular mod that they eventually built into the client to allow on-press. However, LOTRO also has something like 4 different ways skills can interact with GCD. Your go-to skills might be ones with longer delays.
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Zam Wesell posted:Not feeling the combat though. I quite like tab target and hotkeys in games like WoW and SWTOR, and to a lesser extent FF14 (it’s so slow). This game seems slow and unresponsive so far, maybe that’ll change.
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I also found that some classes just feel less impactful, at least at the early stages. Weirdly, Minstrel feels like their attacks have some actual impact to them, moreso to me than something like Champion or Hunter. Minstrels are definitely glass cannons, but they at least seem to have the cannon part at the proper level to be fun to play. Bear is also fun. Bears throw bees at orcs. I have a bear scholar. She throws bees at people when they interrupt her studying an ancient ruin.
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Started out with hunter, but switched over to champion. It's okay, maybe I'll give minstrel a shot? Also, I have this rental mount thing for another 8 hrs or something. There's no way I'm going back to not having a mount. What's the easiest/cheapeast way of acquiring a mount in this game? e: Another thing, is this a game where I should be doing sidequests? Or is following the main quest enough? Everything is really easy so far, but I'm only level 11 so. Zam Wesell fucked around with this message at 15:14 on May 24, 2021 |
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Zam Wesell posted:Started out with hunter, but switched over to champion. It's okay, maybe I'll give minstrel a shot? As far as sidequests, you won't need that many to stay on-level with the main story. I've been doing a bunch of them, and now I'm 5 levels above the requirement for the story quests I'm on.
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there are so many quests, overleveling entire zones is definitely a thing and you will have to skip a bunch of it, so try not to worry too much
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fenix down posted:You can unlock the riding skill for 95 lotro coins, but I'm not sure the easiest way to get a horse. You may be able to just buy one outright from the farm north of Bree. If you need cash and are on Landroval I could send you some. as VIP, you get a quest at level 20 to unlock riding. As non-VIP, the only way is to buy the riding skill with LOTRO points.
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I forgot, is there any way to unlock account-wide riding for all your characters aside from that Samwise Gamgee pack for  ?
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Comrade Koba posted:I forgot, is there any way to unlock account-wide riding for all your characters aside from that Samwise Gamgee pack for Seems like it? 
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