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The Lord of the Rings Online |OT| F2P lets everyone simply walk into Mordor
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VoteForPedro
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Oh God, I just realized! I'm in Europe and playing on US servers. I bought Moria from a European store! SHIT, I'm fucked aren't I :'(
ToddG15 said:
Skirmishes are small instances, that scale with your level and the amount of fellowship members. They can be done solo, 3-man, 6-man and 12-man. Each skirmish also has semi-random encounters.
When you start the Skirmish tutorial, you'll be introduced to your Ally, which is a NPC that follows you around the skirmish. Your Ally has a class and skills - the classes are the typical stuff like DPS, tank or healer. You can change your Ally's class between Skirmishes, so you can pretty much customize how you want it to play.
Each skirmish grants Skirmish Marks, which are a different currency, used to buy class upgrades, as well as skills for your Ally. You can also use your Marks to buy gear for your character - typically the gear is slightly below what crafted gear would give you, but better than random items, making them a nice source of gear if you can't craft your own or don't have enough money to scour the AH.
You can also get a bunch of nice crafting recipes with Skirmish Marks - for example, gathering professions get recipes that do conversions in bulk - 25 at a time. So instead of spending a ton of time smelting 25 pieces of ore, you can just use the bulk recipe and do 25 at a time with a single craft, saving a TON of time.
To be honest, I love the skirmishes so much that I have a hard time concentrating on doing quests (mainly for rep) instead of doing skirmishes all day. They're a TON of fun, diverse, offer quite a challenge - when I hit 24, the basic skirmish I'd been doing a few times a day got quite harder and I needed to approach fights differently than I'd been doing. I used to just focus on lieutenant mobs and let my ally kill the others, but now if I do that my ally typically dies and I have 3 even level mobs, including one that is MUCH stronger than the others, focus on me.
So now I have to coordinate with my Ally to kill off the adds then focus on the lieutenant. Each Lieutenant also has special abilities starting at a certain point, so you need actual strategy to defeat them instead of standard brute force. For example, I've encountered huge trolls that had a weird aura that made them completely invulnerable for 20 seconds (and those bastards hit hard!) so I had to start kiting them around a little bit while before their aura goes down so that I can kick their ass later.Seriously.. I love em.
ChoklitReign
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Put me on the list and see if anyone wants to join me:
Snorluggis
Level 11 Dwarf Champion
Riddermark
Snorluggis
Level 11 Dwarf Champion
Riddermark
bloodforge
Member
Created a Burglar on Brandywine, names Lorylii.
notworksafe
Member
Not enough surly dwarves! Also this game looks pretty good for running in emulation on a Mac (even in this shrunk down shot).
bloodydrake
Cool Smoke Luke
Cool Rainbow in the Shire
doing a little fishin
Cruisin around Weathertop
doing a little fishin
Cruisin around Weathertop
No town. There are a couple of small enemy outposts of a few buildings, but those are further out than the building and generally hidden behind hills. The only real town is the one in the previous pic.Borgnine said:
Well, there's one more, but I think that one's kind of supposed to be a surprise.
Enedwaith is pretty empty. It's mostly just grasslands, though there is a sizable swamp area to the southwest (not visible from where I was standing) and an area to the west with some rocky red terrain, but mostly it's just rolling hills and grass. Still there are some fantastic quest lines down there. Good story stuff in the main "epic" quest and several other quest areas.
ElJuice said:
Lone-Lands and Evendim would do you right (including the quests you get for free, these would get you into the upper 30's, plus they're very well done). After that, things kind of spread out, so I don't know. Forochel and Eregion are amazing questing zones, but they're lvl 45 and up. I'd probably just buy Lone-Lands and Evendim and if you're still into the game by that point, consider buying a few more.
notworksafe
Member
Glad I went into farming! Pipe-weed is surprisingly cool. And it sells very well too.
Also I ran into a slightly off mount bug. In case you can't tell, I'm smoking a pipe under there. :lol
Also I ran into a slightly off mount bug. In case you can't tell, I'm smoking a pipe under there. :lol
notworksafe
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Clearly a poor choice of words. :lol
ChoklitReign
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Look what I found
Falathlorn was where I say, "Now this is Lord of the Rings."
Now I'm in the Shire
Falathlorn was where I say, "Now this is Lord of the Rings."
Now I'm in the Shire
Got my elven hunter up to level 15 or 16 last night. The game has now become a lot more fun because I managed to find a cool new bow that also looks different (that's something that never happened in WoW at such a low level - there all the bows looked exactly the same).
The game is getting to be more fun now, I have a set of nice melee skills and three staple ranged skills that can bring down most foes quite quickly. Fighting multiple enemies of the same level is still complicated and when there are three mobs, taking down the last one can be really close HP-wise.
At level 15 the game told me that I can now go and get a hobby, but I had learned and trained fishing already before that. So it kind of seemed redundant.
Still questing around the beginning elf areas, slowly clearing my way to go and continue the tailoring trade skill quest far away in Bree or somewhere.
The game is getting to be more fun now, I have a set of nice melee skills and three staple ranged skills that can bring down most foes quite quickly. Fighting multiple enemies of the same level is still complicated and when there are three mobs, taking down the last one can be really close HP-wise.
At level 15 the game told me that I can now go and get a hobby, but I had learned and trained fishing already before that. So it kind of seemed redundant.
Still questing around the beginning elf areas, slowly clearing my way to go and continue the tailoring trade skill quest far away in Bree or somewhere.
ToddG15 said:
Not that I know of, and I don't think it's possible right now anyway - the API doesn't allow looking at AH results, nor does it allow stuff like it.
Maybe in the future.. who knows?
In the meantime, just look at how much things are worth, and balance accordingly. Or price to sell.
Everything I get that isn't vendor trash goes there, priced to sell. I make money
Yah, that's what I did yesterday, just took what prices were listed and pro-rated the price, but I'm not sure if it will actually sell or not. That's why I was hoping for some kind of program/interface that could track all that stuff for me.TimeKillr said:Not that I know of, and I don't think it's possible right now anyway - the API doesn't allow looking at AH results, nor does it allow stuff like it.
Maybe in the future.. who knows?
In the meantime, just look at how much things are worth, and balance accordingly. Or price to sell.
Everything I get that isn't vendor trash goes there, priced to sell. I make money
ToddG15 said:Yah, that's what I did yesterday, just took what prices were listed and pro-rated the price, but I'm not sure if it will actually sell or not. That's why I was hoping for some kind of program/interface that could track all that stuff for me.
If you want to be sure it sells, seriously, price cut.
It always works in WoW and stuff, and typically if it's stuff you gathered/looted, it's almost pure profit.
Of course, it's generally not good for the market in the long term (it'll drive prices down) but for the moment it's good because there are SOOO many f2pers that it doesn't matter.
notworksafe
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Takes about a day or two for it to hit.
Nolimit_SS
Banned
After upgrading to MoM do I have to download it too? Got 10gb+ client now, installer is called MirkwoodSetup, I assume it has everything or?
bloodydrake
Cool Smoke Luke
BTW CTRL+F brings up the in game fps counteraidan said:
bloodydrake
Cool Smoke Luke
little bit of advice for new players
everytime you get a new deed that asks to kill some monsters there is gonna be an advanced version when you finish it you will want to do.
For example wolf slayer in shire kill 30 wolfs.. advanced kill 60 wolfs
these are unique to the region your in so killing wolfs in bree doesn't count towards shire ect.
However the final rewards all stack if the advanced reward is Zeal +1 that adds to the total for your Virtues.
I've been backtracking clearing out all the old deeds i skipped while i was leveling..and wish i had just did them while i got exp for the mobs
everytime you get a new deed that asks to kill some monsters there is gonna be an advanced version when you finish it you will want to do.
For example wolf slayer in shire kill 30 wolfs.. advanced kill 60 wolfs
these are unique to the region your in so killing wolfs in bree doesn't count towards shire ect.
However the final rewards all stack if the advanced reward is Zeal +1 that adds to the total for your Virtues.
I've been backtracking clearing out all the old deeds i skipped while i was leveling..and wish i had just did them while i got exp for the mobs
Dr. Acid Avatar
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Will the DDO cards that give Turbine Points work on this game as well? I've read somewhere recently that they worked. Can anyone confirm that?
notworksafe
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They will not. DDO Turbine points only work with DDO, and LotRO points only work with LotRO.
VoteForPedro
Member
Can anyone recommend a site where I can buy a US Mines of Moria key?
I've found some myself but all these sites look kind of dodgy so I'd like Gaf input.
I've found some myself but all these sites look kind of dodgy so I'd like Gaf input.
VoteForPedro
Member
But was it a box or a key? Cause I'm in Europe and I would rather not pay for shipping (I don't know if Amazon ships to Europe either)
Nolimit_SS
Banned
http://gamersloot.net/ man, I'm buying from there all the time and they only send you key.VoteForPedro said:
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Who's the one that had to pay 200 Silver for gear repair? That made lol hard