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The Lord of the Rings Online |OT| F2P lets everyone simply walk into Mordor
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Schrade
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If it's a virtue, then it will only be automatically implemented if you have equipped that trait at a Bard in a city. i.e. if you have equipped Determination and then you finish a deed that gives you an additional point to Determination, you don't have to do anything. But if you finish a deed that gives you Valour and you never had it equipped you'd have to go to the Bard and equip it.Wrayfield said:
DiscoJer
Member
Ken said:
It's baffling that Turbine chose that company (which is apparently plagued with problems like that) as the sole method of selling the expansion.
Other than using Turbine points, where it will cost twice as much (6000 points vs $30).
Anyway, anyone still playing? I'll probably log in to see the changes, but I won't be buying the expansion until it goes on sale in the store (as I only have about 3000 points anyway...not even enough to get the quest pack)
DiscoJer
Member
Well, I couldn't even connect to the patching server on the two occasions I tried.
I guess it's being overloaded by people trying to get in/get patched. (You'd think they'd have a pre-load option)
edit: Ugh. There are already people who have done all the quests and are complaining they've only reached 74 1/2 doing so
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?422833-ROI-Feedback
I guess it's being overloaded by people trying to get in/get patched. (You'd think they'd have a pre-load option)
edit: Ugh. There are already people who have done all the quests and are complaining they've only reached 74 1/2 doing so
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?422833-ROI-Feedback
DiscoJer
Member
Looks like Turbine is having a security breach of their own via the forums
The first story on their Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/LOTRO
The first story on their Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/LOTRO
Schrade
Member
Yep. That sucks :-/ Just can't get away from these database hacks.
I've been really enjoying the expansion though. Made it to 75 the Saturday after RoI released. The jump in DPS is huuuuge. It was so hard giving up my old armor but once I did it really helped out a bunch. Once you get to level 75 you can get some really nice things to beef up morale and power again, too.
Loving the outfits. Here's a picture of my outfit (I'm on the right, standing next to a Rohirrim buddy)
I've been really enjoying the expansion though. Made it to 75 the Saturday after RoI released. The jump in DPS is huuuuge. It was so hard giving up my old armor but once I did it really helped out a bunch. Once you get to level 75 you can get some really nice things to beef up morale and power again, too.
Loving the outfits. Here's a picture of my outfit (I'm on the right, standing next to a Rohirrim buddy)
DiscoJer
Member
And it looks like they've escalated things a little bit, telling people to change their passwords.
http://www.lotro.com/news/latestnews/1497
Hopefully they will go back to the old style forums, where you had a different login than from the game itself. That just makes sense, even if you aren't talking about someone hacking the forum database (or whatever).
http://www.lotro.com/news/latestnews/1497
Hopefully they will go back to the old style forums, where you had a different login than from the game itself. That just makes sense, even if you aren't talking about someone hacking the forum database (or whatever).
cartoon_soldier
Member
Just cancelled my Account (yea I was subscribed to it).
Rise of Isengard is just plain bad to me.
Re-starting the Legendary Grind all over again. First 3rd age 65, then 2nd age 65 and if you get lucky 1st age 65 again. Just bad:
- Decons only give max tier 2 legacy
- Only 3 legacies on items now instead of before where 2nd/1st age used to have 4
- Lucky if any of those legacies is a T4 (max) legacy you actually want
- Scrolls are either from skirms or LOTRO store. Nothing from normal questing.
- No scroll of delving available apart form the store. So spend money.
Crafting gear grind again, UNLESS you have got a shit load of gold:
- Sigil = new Mithril Flake, or even worse.
- Use it for your crafted level 75 gear. Oh, those only have like a 62% max chance to crit. So if it doesn't crit, grind some more.
- Either have a shit load of gold to buy them of AH, or just PURE damn luck and hope they drop while grinding.
- In my leveling to 75 only had 3 drop, my fellow guild made had 3 drop by the time he leveled to 66.
Just ONE new Raid. No new dungeons/instances.
Run 12 man skirms (and god forbid you fail) and School/Lib. The same instances you were running since like ever.
Don't have rested XP? Don't want to use LOTRO Store XP Bonus? Be prepared to be out of quests before reaching level 75.
Rise of Isengard is just plain bad to me.
Re-starting the Legendary Grind all over again. First 3rd age 65, then 2nd age 65 and if you get lucky 1st age 65 again. Just bad:
- Decons only give max tier 2 legacy
- Only 3 legacies on items now instead of before where 2nd/1st age used to have 4
- Lucky if any of those legacies is a T4 (max) legacy you actually want
- Scrolls are either from skirms or LOTRO store. Nothing from normal questing.
- No scroll of delving available apart form the store. So spend money.
Crafting gear grind again, UNLESS you have got a shit load of gold:
- Sigil = new Mithril Flake, or even worse.
- Use it for your crafted level 75 gear. Oh, those only have like a 62% max chance to crit. So if it doesn't crit, grind some more.
- Either have a shit load of gold to buy them of AH, or just PURE damn luck and hope they drop while grinding.
- In my leveling to 75 only had 3 drop, my fellow guild made had 3 drop by the time he leveled to 66.
Just ONE new Raid. No new dungeons/instances.
Run 12 man skirms (and god forbid you fail) and School/Lib. The same instances you were running since like ever.
Don't have rested XP? Don't want to use LOTRO Store XP Bonus? Be prepared to be out of quests before reaching level 75.
DiscoJer
Member
And they just announced a new expansion, "Riders of Rohan", which if you are a long time player, was rumored to be the expansion after Moria. So nice to finally see it.
http://www.lotro.com/news/pressrele...f-the-rings-online-riders-of-rohan?lang=en_US
Also supposedly you'll be able to take our your skirmish solider on the landscape (not just skirmishes) a la SWTOR
http://www.lotro.com/news/pressrele...f-the-rings-online-riders-of-rohan?lang=en_US
Also supposedly you'll be able to take our your skirmish solider on the landscape (not just skirmishes) a la SWTOR
I should probably do the same, but I hate my main (human guardian, lvl 70ish) and my alts are all in the 20s. I would like to have a high lvl Rune Keeper, but I don't have the energy for these kind of MMOs anymore. Also, I agree completely with cartoon_soldier's post.
They have no fucking clue what to do with some stuff to make it interesting, and the more interesting stuff already in is being held behind the pay wall, like not being able to craft the top items even if you bought the fucking expansion. You have to unlock access in each guild on top of that. I only got the expansion because I had a shitload of TPs, but I didn't realize at the time they were selling it by pieces basically (so $30 from the site store, $60 buying it with points; ridiculous) and people are not even running the new raid that much anyways, from what I've heard at least.
I kinda wish my friends didn't like playing this game, so I could finally drop it for good.
They have no fucking clue what to do with some stuff to make it interesting, and the more interesting stuff already in is being held behind the pay wall, like not being able to craft the top items even if you bought the fucking expansion. You have to unlock access in each guild on top of that. I only got the expansion because I had a shitload of TPs, but I didn't realize at the time they were selling it by pieces basically (so $30 from the site store, $60 buying it with points; ridiculous) and people are not even running the new raid that much anyways, from what I've heard at least.
I kinda wish my friends didn't like playing this game, so I could finally drop it for good.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/29/see-the-shores-of-the-anduin-in-lotros-update-6/
Some pics and videos of the next update.
Caustiously optimistic, the world builders seems to have done a good job and corrected some mistakes of the last updates where they crammed every type of terrain into a zone; this time around it seems more cohesive.
I log into this game mostly for the exploration nowadays, so I hope the Argonath will be in .
Some pics and videos of the next update.
Caustiously optimistic, the world builders seems to have done a good job and corrected some mistakes of the last updates where they crammed every type of terrain into a zone; this time around it seems more cohesive.
I log into this game mostly for the exploration nowadays, so I hope the Argonath will be in .
GF just bought us the Mithril edition and it's pretty good just for the Path of the Fellowship quest pack and the 2500TP (500 from Gamestop pre-order). Found out about the Rise of Isengard expansion and it sounds good if you want to spend $20 more for a more complete package. If someone just wants to level straight up and use the TP for a quest pack later for level 60+, just get the Mithril edition.
Though we're not close to the endgame yet, seems to be dissapointing after reading cartoon_soldier and inky's posts.
Too bad barely anyone else plays on Riddermark =\
Though we're not close to the endgame yet, seems to be dissapointing after reading cartoon_soldier and inky's posts.
Too bad barely anyone else plays on Riddermark =\
http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/the-lord-of-the-rings-online-mithril-edition/97978
Trying to decide if that's worth it if I'm level 14 and took a break for a while but I'm interested in playing again. Normally I'd go for it with no hesitation but I'm broke so I'm trying to decide if I'll stick with it enough.
Trying to decide if that's worth it if I'm level 14 and took a break for a while but I'm interested in playing again. Normally I'd go for it with no hesitation but I'm broke so I'm trying to decide if I'll stick with it enough.
If you are going to really play it for $15 it's a no brainer. It'll last you a while.
Riders of Rohan preorders have started. looks like it will launch in only 3 months! 
http://rohan.lotro.com/
http://rohan.lotro.com/
Riders of Rohan preorders have started. looks like it will launch in only 3 months!
http://rohan.lotro.com/
I saw the video for mounted combat.. it looks atrocious honestly.. And the pricing for legendary edition is too high ... I play semi regularly the game and was almost sure to preorder Riders of Rohan but now I have doubts :/
Confusatron
Member
Mounted combat is going to be great with my burglar! I'll just stealth my horse and... oh wait... never mind.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I'm starting to play this, but my PC's on my tv. I can find a way to scale everything in the UI up except the quest dialogs, is there any way to make those boxes of text bigger?
Huevos de Oro
Member
Now that the game's available on Steam I thought of giving it a fair try. I'm still lost in regards to almost everything that doesn't involve killing easy mobs, mainly because of my inexperience with MMOs. However, I'll see where the road leads me.
To Mordor.
Yeah I just grabbed it this afternoon to blow some of my bandwidth out before the rollover period (also grabbed Dungeons and Dragons Online). 2hrs of downloading to go.
How have you found it so far?
DimmuBurgerKing
Member
Coming back to this game is like meeting an old friend again.
Anybody on Laurelin?
Anybody on Laurelin?
OgTheClever
Member
Nah, Withywindle is where it's at
After being dead for the last year and finally becoming the recommended server
I must be missing something about the appeal of this game, even though I am a big LOTR fan...the hobbit intro/tutorial has left me thinking I should just uninstall and try D and D online instead...why? I have graphics setting on Ultra High and it still looks like Everquest 1...the way the geometry of hills are textured etc. I am a little kidding but also not really, the art in WoW looks much nicer.
I don't know why I expected it to be fancier instead of very traditional MMORPG, but the way the quests are triggered literally feels like a late 90s game...oh no! I will be attacked by spiders please protect me! (10 seconds later a single spider comes down as slow as a slug)
I don't know why I expected it to be fancier instead of very traditional MMORPG, but the way the quests are triggered literally feels like a late 90s game...oh no! I will be attacked by spiders please protect me! (10 seconds later a single spider comes down as slow as a slug)
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Deleted member 10571
Unconfirmed Member
The landscapes should look beautiful if you really play on full details, double-check the options again. At least miles ahead of other older MMOs.
The gameplay itself by now is pretty much WoW all over again, yes.
D&D does look way worse, so you might just skip that one, too
I have Star Trek Online downloading right now...I dont really want to get addicted to MMORPG but I kind of want to see what I have missed these few years since I played WoW...
I also have some sort of unrealistic expectations of my Kepler graphics card...like it will make any game look like Skyrim, which obviously is not the case...
I also have some sort of unrealistic expectations of my Kepler graphics card...like it will make any game look like Skyrim, which obviously is not the case...
Anton668
Member
if you were disappointed with LOTRO dont waste your time with STO.
worse graphics with barely any content. and thats fed side. if you roll a klingon toon....
i hope you love pvp
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Deleted member 10571
Unconfirmed Member
Well if he's disappointed with the Hobbit starting area of all things, he basically could just stop downloading any F2P MMOs IMO
That's as good as it gets for first impressions.Doublesith
Member
Nothing get added to the quest log; the quests in those regions are simply unlocked. And yes, the mount is account wide.