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I hung out for a couple hours on Brandywine and if world chat is anything to go by, there's a lot more instance groups going over there. With a more populated world and a lot more instance groups running, this will be a much more fun game than it has been.The Dregs posted:Looking at two months of stay at home vacation. I am downloading this now. If it isn't too grindy I may just get into it for awhile. I like support classes, but I am pretty casual. Are they fun to play while leveling up? Captains are pretty fun to level, but are one of the slowest levelers. I wouldn't call the game grindy at all anymore, and they have xp acceleration tokens available to speed things up considerably. ruffz fucked around with this message at 22:43 on May 21, 2015 |
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The Dregs posted:Looking at two months of stay at home vacation. I am downloading this now. If it isn't too grindy I may just get into it for awhile. I like support classes, but I am pretty casual. Are they fun to play while leveling up? What would support be? Runekeeper, Minstrel are the main healing classes and both are fun to solo, I've heard for Minstrel anyway. I brought a RK to 25 and that was fun. Then you have Captain who're buffers and Loremasters who are pet-keepers and debuffers. I don't know about the former but the latter is pretty neat. You have a beast that'll generally ruin everyone's day and you use semi-magical attacks from a distance. Pretty easy to solo due to overpowered pets. Maybe it's changed? Also I have a question. If you've been invited into an instance, say Sambrog, and you close that invitation window, how do you actually travel to the instance?
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Minstrels and Lore-Masters are a lot of fun, but Captains bore me. Minstrels tap into the power of the Valar to nuke orcs with bagpipe music. Lore-Masters are basically wizards and can conjure animals that live only to kill. Captains swing a sword around and bully an underling with low self-esteem.
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xZAOx posted:Yeah, I'm a bow man hehe. The problem is I don't think I'll have a "oh I'm back now" type of moment. Just squeezing in 30 minutes when I can, where I can (which LOTRO supports pretty well!), but doesn't really give me time to do group content unfortunately. And it's going to be that way for the next six months or so at least (chemo treatments). I'd totally take a bow from ya, but don't feel that you have to use your symbol on me! It's not like this gold has any other use at the moment The Dregs posted:Looking at two months of stay at home vacation. I am downloading this now. If it isn't too grindy I may just get into it for awhile. I like support classes, but I am pretty casual. Are they fun to play while leveling up? bombhand fucked around with this message at 01:01 on May 22, 2015 |
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ArchWizard posted:Captains swing a sword around and bully an underling with low self-esteem. There's a reason my Captain's herald is named Patsy.
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Excuse me but Captains can use Halberds too and maybe big axes or clubs. 
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Did they end up nerfing Minstrels a bit? I played one up to about level 45 and was killing poo poo in 1-2 hits. It was amusing but became ridiculous.
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Yeah that was my experience coming back to the game - from 25 through 75 I was just shouting things dead. Slows down a lot in Rohan though.
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ruffz posted:Did they end up nerfing Minstrels a bit? I played one up to about level 45 and was killing poo poo in 1-2 hits. It was amusing but became ridiculous. That is probably because you had a legendary weapon every class does that at that point. The level scaling around there didn't level out until you actually were inside moria.
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Sprawl posted:That is probably because you had a legendary weapon every class does that at that point. The level scaling around there didn't level out until you actually were inside moria. Nah I hadn't gone to get a legendary yet. I was doing that all the way from 1 to 45.
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ruffz posted:Nah I hadn't gone to get a legendary yet. I was doing that all the way from 1 to 45. Oh well i'm sure it levels out eventually are you talking full red spec with that ah what's it called turn on damage mode with no healing? If so that's about what other characters do as well. They did some very bad pre level 50 balancing because of all the stat changes post moria and scaling that they added but then never touched told world monster health pools.
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Yeah I got into West Rohan and all of a sudden I could no longer pull whole groups while watching Netflix. Jarring!
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ruffz posted:Did they end up nerfing Minstrels a bit? I played one up to about level 45 and was killing poo poo in 1-2 hits. It was amusing but became ridiculous. The Dol Amroth dailies were the most frustrating for me at first because it's sometimes pretty hard to pick off one mob at a time since most of the roaming mobs are linked to one another. I started out having to approach it with like "as long as I kill one before I die, then I'll have fewer to deal with when I run back." Until I started getting pieces of level 100 gear I was having to retreat three or four times a run. I'm glad I ended up going with a guardian as my other main toon; they couldn't be more different in solo play.
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Sprawl posted:That is probably because you had a legendary weapon every class does that at that point. The level scaling around there didn't level out until you actually were inside moria. The basic LI's stats completely blow away every single pre-moria weapon. Even the really good level 50 teal stuff is a a couple levels below the start LI's max damage IIRC. The only other time such gaps really exist is if you get a full set of purple crafted gear immediately after the tutorial and unlocking mounted combat for certain classes. Especially Captains because they get a ridiculously big AOE on a short cooldown and you can use that skill alone to clear out entire camps of enemies at no risk to yourself and you end up being able to kill poo poo faster via AOE than you could take down single targets on foot.
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Did a couple of Mirkwood pug skraids last night, and a BB with Bomb. Game is still fun if you can find people to play with. C'mon server transfers. Also, anyone around who can make me a second age 100 sword? Bomb being awesome as she is tossed me a spare symbol.
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Executive Producer's letter came out a few days ago: https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?569037-Summer-LOTRO-Executive-Producer%E2%80%99s-Letter quote:Hello again residents of Middle-earth!
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I don't think they said that. Just a kin leader can recreate and keep things unlocked. He'd still have to reinvite as people transferred over. Still though, 2015 is shaping up to be a big year for our favorite dying MMO. New instances, new PvMP, server transfers...all things I didn't think we'd see again. If they could get a working group finder we'd really be set.
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With all those changes, maybe one day I'll come back and continue the slow grind of my Captain towards cap. One day. One day. 
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xZAOx posted:Executive Producer's letter came out a few days ago: Sounds pretty good to me. A new PvP map plus server transfers creating heavily populated servers should give life to the game. The Bingo Boffin episodes may end up being pretty fun. I really hope updated character models is one of the things they're working on but can't talk about yet. That would do wonders for reviving LOTRO.
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If anyone who is on hiatus still has DA tokens they don't want (except Library of course, hah), I'd love to take them off your hands. Especially Warehouse, Bank, Swan-knights, and Docks.
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Some juicy bits from 16.1: https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?569321-Update-16-1-Release-Notes-PRELIMINARY-AND-NON-FINAL-BULLROARER-ONLY quote:Add the ability to use multiple rep items at once: Shift-right-click on a stack of rep items to get a dialog which allows you to choose how many items you want to use. You can remap the mouse button/modifier for this action through the options/key mapping panel.
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That Dol Amroth bit will be a welcome thing - people who are returning to the game will be able to get their initial level 100 gear much more quickly to move into the Osgiliath instances. I wonder if they'll remove or reduce the cooldowns/daily limits on the rep quests too.
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bombhand posted:That Dol Amroth bit will be a welcome thing - people who are returning to the game will be able to get their initial level 100 gear much more quickly to move into the Osgiliath instances. I wonder if they'll remove or reduce the cooldowns/daily limits on the rep quests too. Why, the daily limits have been removed! You only need to purchase some mithril coins, conveniently located in the LOTRO store!
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I hope Turbine stays ok with their WB overlords. In a move that surprised no one, they just announced that they'll be shutting down Infinite Crisis in a few months
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Yeah just saw that about Infinite crisis, could be a good thing for LOTRO if they put some of that team back on it. Could be bad too if WB decides to just cut funding for Turbine.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/07/19/world-of-warcraft-still-a-1b-powerhouse-even-as-subscription-mmos-decline/ I'm still skeptical as all gently caress about the numbers in that article, but if Lotro brought in 104 million in 2014 there's not enough cocaine in the world to make WB want to shut down Lotro. If Lotro's operating expenses are more than 20 million I'd be completely shocked. If the MMO brought in even 50 million last year and made 'only' ten million or so in profit there'd need to be a really compelling thing to get execs to even think of shutting it down. It apparently made more money than EVE Online did and that's a game with several hundred thousand subscribers. Infinite Crisis always looked awful though and it was either that or Guardians of Middle Earth that was the really big resource stealer for Lotro. In an ideal world IC's shutdown was followed with "...and we're allocating as many of those people to Lotro as is feasible to do" but this is the gaming industry so pretty much everyone involved was probably fired in a big office wide meeting while IT locked them out of everything the night before. However unless the revenue for Lotro that came out last year is completely made up, there's no way WB would get rid of it. A F2P with an understaffed crew bringing in 100 million dollars? That's margins that most games will never come close to seeing.
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Evil Fluffy posted:http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/07/19/world-of-warcraft-still-a-1b-powerhouse-even-as-subscription-mmos-decline/ Almost cried bullshit on that list until I realized FFXIV hadn't relaunched by then. I loved playing this game with you guys and I hope it does well. It could use an engine revamp real bad, but otherwise I had a good time clowning around with goons as a Warden. If I had patience for MMOs still I'd probably still be playing. If those numbers are legit I'm glad it still has (tiny bird) legs to stand on.
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Fried Sushi posted:Yeah just saw that about Infinite crisis, could be a good thing for LOTRO if they put some of that team back on it. Could be bad too if WB decides to just cut funding for Turbine. "LOTRO" is a really weird way to spell "Asheron's Call 3."
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Those were 2013 numbers in that report. I wonder if there's any 2014 numbers yet. I have no clue how they obtain their data, and if it's even legitimate. But if LOTRO is actually doing better than EVE (which is considered a financially successful MMO), things aren't as bleak as they seem. Things seem to be on a good track for this year, but man does this game ever need an update to character models. The game world still looks pretty to me after 8 years. It used to be they'd upgrade the graphics a bit with each expansion, but I'm not sure they do that anymore. Hurry up with account server transfers, Turbine 
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Quest packs and such on sale this week (https://www.lotro.com/en/lotrostoresale). Good time to pick those up if you were close to needing one.
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So is the Nazgun still on silverlode? I ask because the OP hasn't been updated in a year and a half, the membership spreadsheet is in the owner's trashcan, and I've never seen anyone on.
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Azhais posted:So is the Nazgun still on silverlode? I ask because the OP hasn't been updated in a year and a half, the membership spreadsheet is in the owner's trashcan, and I've never seen anyone on. Yeah, just Silverlode is pretty dead and Nazgun isn't far behind. Right now me (Bruman) and Bombhand (various) are the only really active people (for US evening time, at least). Findraen just showed back up too though (not sure of their SA name). i think we might have a person or two who is online during the day. I think there's also a fair amount of Nazgun folk who keep an eye on the thread and are waiting for server transfers (end of September was their last estimate, I think?) to make their triumphant returns.
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I've been crashing to desktop since yesterday's patch after about a few minutes of gameplay. I didn't have to search far to find others with the same problem. Seems connected to the radar smoothing animations (transitioning between zones and using maps seems to induce crashes, and maps can get really distorted), turning those off decreases the amount of crashes (but does not necessarily remove them). The developers are "working on a solution". Edit: shrinking the radar to the tiniest possible size and disabling its animations seems the best workaround until a hotfix is available. Meatgrinder fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Jun 9, 2015 |
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xZAOx posted:Yeah, just Silverlode is pretty dead and Nazgun isn't far behind. Right now me (Bruman) and Bombhand (various) are the only really active people (for US evening time, at least). Findraen just showed back up too though (not sure of their SA name). i think we might have a person or two who is online during the day. I've been online a bit on Ithoran weekday mornings/afternoons and there's generally nobody else online in the Nazgun. I'm actually seeing several other players in Dol Amroth, however that's the only place I encounter any other players in West Gondor right now. The server is super dead, but I'm just playing it like a single player game right now and trying to finish all of the solo content.
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ruffz posted:I've been online a bit on Ithoran weekday mornings/afternoons and there's generally nobody else online in the Nazgun. I'm actually seeing several other players in Dol Amroth, however that's the only place I encounter any other players in West Gondor right now. The server is super dead, but I'm just playing it like a single player game right now and trying to finish all of the solo content. There's generally 3-4 other players in the lone lands with me the past couple days, so there's at least a few people here and there, but yes, its pretty quiet overall other than the few usual suspects in /world chat
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I check in about once a week to see who is on and what's changed...but mostly I'm waiting for kin server transfers.
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