LOTRO - Anyone Planning To Play Moria?

I like the new (beta) Quest Guide option in the UI settings. Puts an arrow to quest locations, and a bar that tells you when something you need is nearby. You can choose to use it or not.

They nerfed a game that didn't need nerfing. :/

Oh well. I'll keep playing it because I pretty much have no other choice as LOTRO is my girl's game of choice.

I'm rolling with a lvl 47 warden right now and the class is really pretty interesting. She plays a lvl 47 Runekeeper and together we have pretty much owned all the content up to this point. Now they are making it easier. *sigh*

Robear wrote:

I like the new (beta) Quest Guide option in the UI settings. Puts an arrow to quest locations, and a bar that tells you when something you need is nearby. You can choose to use it or not.

Thank the Lord for that - just spent an hour running round that forest near Meluinen looking for that berk who gets surrounded by trolls...and then after you've killed the 3 trolls round him, decides he'd rather fight some more on the way out. Another useful pointer would have been on the lvl 30 Captain mission, looking for flagpoles to run your standards up - felt more like Tomb Raider trying to work out how to get up to the last one. Now I know why Lara Croft doesn't wear full metal armour and encumber herself with a halbard

The quest tracker is almost too handy, tbh.

You go to a town, pick up all the quests, and then just wander around following the arrows until you've finished them all.

One of the niftier aspects of LOTRO is the exploration. It is a very fun world to explore. The quest arrow is a very handy tool mechanics-wise but it streamlines things almost too much in my opinion.

I don't think it takes away the need for exploration, but it does nullify those frustrating quests that were so general in their descriptions that i had to resort to a quest guide. I dig the new tracker, just what we needed.

Yeah, there's only been a few quests I've had to seek help for online, and I'll use the quest tracker in those rare times where I'm at the point of getting angry with the game. Usually I'm quite content to explore until I find stuff.

I'm actually pretty happy to hear about the new quest guide. My main gripe about LOTRO was the lack of a high quality site like wowhead. The site I use (lotro.mmodb.com) is ok, but a bit clunky.

So, good news in my book.

I'm also looking foward to jumping from L27 to 29ish. That will be a nice boost.

TheArtOfScience wrote:

The quest tracker is almost too handy, tbh.

You go to a town, pick up all the quests, and then just wander around following the arrows until you've finished them all.

One of the niftier aspects of LOTRO is the exploration. It is a very fun world to explore. The quest arrow is a very handy tool mechanics-wise but it streamlines things almost too much in my opinion.

Well, if you do it that way, by the time you get to lvl 30 your traits are going to be fairly poor, as you won't hit a lot of the explore traits, let alone the kills traits.. My latest toon is only lvl 31, yet has traits at 6-5-4-4-4, as opposed to one lvl 38 cap i saw today with 4-4-2-2-2. Those are the sort of things that keep you alive, and for which many flies, spiders, wargs and orcs had to die

I've been playing this again recently. Have a lvl 28 Warden named Thothamir on Landroval (I believe that's where the GWJ presence is?). If there is a GWJ guild, I'd love to get an invite. I am enjoying the Warden class quite a bit.

Yea thanks to good ole Jake I picked up the expansion as well today and will be rolling on Landroval. Haven't decided on a class or name yet but looking forward to checking out all the new goodies.

TheArtOfScience wrote:

They nerfed a game that didn't need nerfing. :/

Oh well. I'll keep playing it because I pretty much have no other choice as LOTRO is my girl's game of choice.

I'm rolling with a lvl 47 warden right now and the class is really pretty interesting. She plays a lvl 47 Runekeeper and together we have pretty much owned all the content up to this point. Now they are making it easier. *sigh*

It was never a particularily hard game... I wouldn't say they nerfed it that much...

The DPS was quite insane with vanilla Moria...

Turbine usually makes advancement faster as they add higher level content. I view this as a good sign.

If you are going to abuse the quest arrows, just turn them off. Makes no sense to play the game in a way that's not enjoyable to you.

Well I have rolled a champ I know alot of people play them but it's the class the has offered the most fun to me so far. If any officers in the GWJ guild are active could I get an invite as well please. In game name is Muerta.

If you want in the guild:

LoTRO

Server: Landroval
Guilds: The GWJ guild is Emyn Ien, contact Devilstick via PM here to make arrangements to join up there.

Most folks who play fairly often have moved on to Eldain a Firimoin, which is still on Landroval.

So after perusing the LotRO: Moria thread, apparently there's a new hang out on Landroval: Arcane Heroes

wow, just came back with a friend and got 2 characters to level 10 very quickly, I'm excited, I was always having altahitis with Lotro and never got a character up high enough to feel invested in him, now I think I'll get one up there. The tough decision is Lore Master or Guardian.

LM gives you the chance to play lots of roles; Guardian is not as flexible but excels at it's task.

MaverickDago wrote:

wow, just came back with a friend and got 2 characters to level 10 very quickly, I'm excited, I was always having altahitis with Lotro and never got a character up high enough to feel invested in him, now I think I'll get one up there. The tough decision is Lore Master or Guardian.

LM is a lot trickier for a new player just getting used to the game. More things to keep track of where as the guard is much easier to play as it is a strait up melee class.

LM's tend to be more welcome later in the game, but most raids CANNOT function without a good guard.

MaverickDago wrote:

wow, just came back with a friend and got 2 characters to level 10 very quickly, I'm excited, I was always having altahitis with Lotro and never got a character up high enough to feel invested in him, now I think I'll get one up there. The tough decision is Lore Master or Guardian.

My main is a guardian (lvl 51) and my favourite alt is an LM (lvl 27). A guardian is very resilient and with its block and parry reactions is very good at taking on multiple opponents of the same level. When soloing as a guard my chief concern is getting multiple adds toward the end of a fight when my morale is depleted and my defence boosting and self-heal skills are on cooldown. As an LM I'm only concerned about making a mistake and losing control of a fight.

When in small groups my guard is often saving overly aggressive champs and hunters from themselves and even without a healer is often, but not usually, in the best shape post-fight. OTOH I would argue the LM is at its best in a small group. Mezzing, healing, giving and drawing power, and nerfing opponents all go much more smoothly when you don't have to get your hands dirty.

Large groups are different again. Playing as an LM I often feel like a passenger. Mezzes generally last for less than a second before someone breaks them, healing generates a lot of aggro, and opponents are usually dropped so quickly that nerfs seem to be of little point. For the 'epic' set-piece encounters against a very powerful opponent and its adds then an LM can play a crucial role. Of course such encounters a few and far between. A guardian does very well in such groups. Just hope you've got a healer that knows what he or she is doing.

They are very different classes but I've enjoyed playing both. The guard is probably the toughest thing going around, but an LM played well is a dominating presence.

garion333 wrote:

If you want in the guild:

LoTRO

Server: Landroval
Guilds: The GWJ guild is Emyn Ien, contact Devilstick via PM here to make arrangements to join up there.

Most folks who play fairly often have moved on to Eldain a Firimoin, which is still on Landroval.

So after perusing the LotRO: Moria thread, apparently there's a new hang out on Landroval: Arcane Heroes

Anyone know the contact for Arcane Heroes?

jakeleg wrote:
garion333 wrote:

If you want in the guild:

LoTRO

Server: Landroval
Guilds: The GWJ guild is Emyn Ien, contact Devilstick via PM here to make arrangements to join up there.

Most folks who play fairly often have moved on to Eldain a Firimoin, which is still on Landroval.

So after perusing the LotRO: Moria thread, apparently there's a new hang out on Landroval: Arcane Heroes

Anyone know the contact for Arcane Heroes?

http://www.arcaneheroes.net/forums/i...

Welcome back weekend, all accounts activated through the end of the month.

http://www.lotro.com/component/conte...

I will log on and say high to any of the old guildies running around, and maybe jump onto my spider for a bit.

There's a GWJ channel you can join too - "/joinchannel GWJ" I think. If no one is on it, that will create it.

Cool good to know Robear about the channels. Whenever I am on will join up or start it.

After you join it once you'll reconnect to it every time you sign in until you "/leavechannel gwj".

You also may need to select it in your channel list (from right-clicking the general chat tab) so that what you and others write, shows up.

Ok thanks guys appreciate all the info

Man, had a great weekend, got Arhad up to 56 with the xp bonus.

Had to work all weekend, so tonight is LotRO night, got to take advantage of that XP buff!

Very little LotRO time for me lately, I barely even touched it for bonus xp weekend.

Between the bonus levels from the last patch, and some extra LOTRO time, I popped from 26 up to 31 over the weekend.