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sassassin posted:I've been trekking around the lone lands for the past few hours and haven't seen anything different. The Bree lands on the road there is mostly copper and tin. http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Resources#Ore You should start seeing gold once you get into the swamps that are in the eastern third of the Lonelands. I've seen a lot of gold in the hills east of Tinnudir in Evendim. kzin602 fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Jan 2, 2013 |
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Epi Lepi posted:So the Hobbit gave me the bug to come give this a try. I haven't played this game since about 2009, not too long after Mines of Moria came out. I think I had an elf hunter in the 40s and I stopped because the grind just got too much. Which was kind of lame as I had bought Moria and never played any of the content from it. I'm reinstalling through Steam,is that dumb if I originally got everything through physical discs? Will I not be able to install Mines of Moria without rebuying through steam? Should I just dig up all my discs now? What content you have unlocked is bound to your account at turbine, not your client version. So if you had MoM, you will still have it via steam. I deleted my old school client a couple months ago and moved over to steam.. other than having to redownload everything and reset my keybindings, nothing was lost. Here's the f2p FAQ : http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?351353-Free-2-Play-F-A-Q And a chart of what you would have:  .Your existing characters will be grandfathered in and will have all the inventory bags. You also get the ** at the bottom as a MoM purchaser.
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Jan 15, 2013 02:47
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Fuzz posted:How the hell do your textures look that good? I have everything maxed to Ultra on 1920x1200 and it still doesn't look that nice. Turbine put alot of love into the best piece of endgame equipment. The Cloak of the Cluck just has really awesome textures.
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Jan 16, 2013 19:04
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sassassin posted:Think I must've been the only one entering the level 30-40 lotteries. I have a probably better than 50% win rate for the level 65ish lotteries. I think the routine lotteries for level ranges just have a good win rate. It's an easy source of mithril shards for me.
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Thanks for the chickenrun. Even though I died in Evendim after taking an unfortunate detour, I enjoyed escorting the stragglers once I logged my hunter on. x-post from Mechwarrior online: 
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I have an alt that started Moria a few days ago for the 1st time since the revamp. It's nice not getting a bazillion quests that all send you in a different direction all at once. Getting a slow goat pretty early is nice too. It's too bad that I am too low level to use any of the task boards; those things really should be level 45 minimum. Is it just me or did they add more color emphasis to the lighting and extend the view distance? It seems easier to find my way around then it did my first and second time through. Moria seems less black and oppressive but the color makes it seem more of a foreign, mysterious place. As a data point, I went in as a Captain at level 45 after doing enough of the epic to get my two freebie legendary items, I have had only one death and that was due to a really unlucky multi pull with a signature that roamed onto me.
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Jan 24, 2013 17:36
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Epi Lepi posted:Does LOTRO tend to go with the books or the movies when they cover somewhere that they conflict? I'm just wondering whether to expect Lorien Elves at Helm's Deep or not cause that was my favorite change that Jackson made. Well, favorite change that I'm aware of since I've never read the whole trilogy. Lotro is based on a license to use the literary works, originally only having access to the LotR trilogy (and the appendices contained within), so it will go with the books. Warner Brothers had made a hobbit game based on the book about the same time as the LotR movies came out. I don't know if that means Turbine now has access to The Hobbit book following their purchase by WB. It must be a pain in the butt working at Turbine's art department. Making sure that your designs, although based on the same source, don't step on the toes of the movies and open yourself to a lawsuit. EA has/had a license to make games based on the movies, so the EA LotR games have the same visual style as the movies, can use the actors likeness, can have monsters that look like the movie version and so forth.
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xZAOx posted:Not even mildly inconvenienced. Just made their internet numbers marginally less special. If anything, LotRO needs more accessible raids. I shouldn't have to know the arcane secret name/password of a special chat channel to do end game content. I don't know if things are still like this, but back when OD was the endgame; you could only do raids by participating in a tryhard circlejerk, where you were expected to know exactly what to do the very 1st time by people who would offer absolutely no guidance. I don't mean basic things like aggro management or keeping trash adds under CC, that's a given... I mean things like what special place in the room to stand or what to do when the boss says a certain thing. kzin602 fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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the panacea posted:At which Level is getting Rohan worth it? You get the RoR vector quest at 75, but you could technically start the content at 70. So, no earlier than 70 unless you want the (non warsteed) mount or something.
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Cultisto posted:I've decided to get back into this game after a very long period (almost 3 years) away, I started downloading the streaming client while I was home at lunch & just did the process of getting my username mailed to me and reset my password. When I look at my account details, it shows me as a Premium player (I'm guessing because I played back when there was a subscription?) but beneath that it shows the following: You bought those expansions at some point. SoA was the basic game, MoM was the 1st expansion and SoM was the second. That's enough content to take you to your early 60's.
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Cultisto posted:Yeah between long work hours and having a toddler the amount of uninterrupted game time I get is very limited, so I'll join the Nazgun & play with goons when I can but having the ability to solo is important for me. I don't like being 'that guy' who has to tell everyone to wait for 5-10 minutes when I have to run off and do something. Those are not spambots, those are goons selling designer handbags, go ahead and post a link to your Russian blog. Posting here is fine, just message a nazgun in game and say you posted in the thread along with your SA name.
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Feb 27, 2013 20:37
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SeaTard posted:Or it'll fail hilariously, and Turbine will be out of business in 18 months. The rumors about turbines situation are only rumors. Turbine has continued to run Asheron's Call, spun up the Asheron's Call 2 servers and is part of Warner Brother's Game division. The best way to tell the state of a company is to look a their now hiring page, I bet Turbine is deep in a dev cycle and is hiring a bunch of people! http://www.turbine.com/en/careers ... Oh  Then again I could be wrong and Turbine is busy with some awesome new project... Right? xZAOx posted:
This game has way too many class skills... the three classes I play most are Hunter, Runekeeper and Captain. They all have several clustering of 2-3 skills that could be merged or perhaps gated. Quick shot would become merciful shot if you have enough focus and the current target is below 50%; as an off the cuff example. kzin602 fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Mar 26, 2013 |
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Nhilist posted:You are...one breathtaking dwarf. Just look at the way those guns are almost bursting the seams on the shoulders of your dress. The way your beard almost swallows up one quarter of your bagpipes. What makes you think that Dwarf is a male? Everybody knows that Dwarves don't have set gender, like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, also they eat live goats whole and lay eggs.
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xZAOx posted:Yeah, it was just a brain fart on my part. I have a billion MMO accounts, and all but two are generated. One is my Blizzard account, which isn't generated (because I can't copy/paste or auto-type into D3/WoW) but is so complex that it might as well be, and then this one, which I admittedly just got lazy about (and used a weak password for what brute force can crack these days). While 'simple' passwords can be brute forced, most account systems have some kind of throttle that makes it impractical to attempt a brute force. Experience with users at my company indicates that what usually happens is people using the same username and password (simple or complex) across multiple sites. If you registered on some random guild or warez forum five years ago and their sql database got hacked (or the site owner decided to give it away), there will be an automated web crawler that will attempt to use that username/pass combo on a ton of other sites. Extracting a password from most website's databases is trivial and the complexity of your password does not make the process any easier or harder, brute forcing even a simple password through turbine's login page would be too time intensive, but if you have the same 26 character long super complex password on your turbine account that you had on randoml33ttorrentsexclusiveforum.shadyfreehosting.ru ... your account will be stolen.
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I can't put down exactly what it is about lotro that makes me feel so apathetic towards it, but logging in over the last feew months is too much  I recently upgraded my computer from a Quad Core P4 (from right before the first gen intel core processors came out) to an i5 and re-installed lotro to pay housing upkeep. The game still takes forever to load, so whomever said the bottleneck was more on the server database side was probably right. I cruised around rohan on my mount to see if there was any change in performance and the game was a bit smoother framerate wise but it was already pretty good on my old machine, however the smoothness just made the strange floaty networking issues in mounted combat even more apparent. I have a lifetime subscription from back in the founder days of beta and I really want to love lotro but the engine limitations are really starting to show; it's amazing how far the game came if you look back on it from the days of launch, when the water was just animated textures, rain was just an overlay, stencil shadows and no ambient occlusion, I know that some people in the forums are crying about wanting an engine overhaul but the engine has already had major feature additions several times over the years. Lotro is the only MMO that made me want to read the quest text beyond the * Collect 10 bear butts line and I really hope that Turbine can turn this around but I'm wondering if they should just bite the bullet and make a whole new game... I will keep checking on from time to time but lately logging in to lotro just feels like a chore and it's age is showing (not really graphically, the game is still beautiful in a realistic way that other major MMO's have not matched) in game play and mechanics... or maybe i'm just being ADD about the whole thing. In many other games I can log on, join a queue and accomplish something in an hour, I just languish in the group finder in lotro it seems and I'm lucky to get a two or three man skirm (and it's always loving trouble in tuckburrow). A revamp of their f2p system might help if they moved to a all content free system, like STO or Rift; but I'm suspect that somebody at WB has them tied down in that regard.
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Lantan / Thond checking in. I've got a bunch of other alts, but if we need to make room that's fine.
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Hey, Ox, if you want to get rid of my ugly class images you can rehost the stuff from https://www.lotro.com/en/content/revitalize-your-role for the op. They are transparent pngs so they blend in with the forum backgrounds. Check it:    I remember they added some neat Hobbit related skirmishes after the movie was released, and then they got pulled because of some kind of exploit, did they ever get put back up? Turbine seems determined to shoot themselves in the foot at every turn. kzin602 fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Sep 18, 2013 |
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loquacius posted:Vol 1 of the epic goes on forever; I suspect it's because they kept making more books and chapters of it as placeholders before Moria dropped. I've only managed to finish the entire thing once; that character ended up being something like level 55 before setting one foot in Moria. (Moria is better; just go to Moria.) They added a few books to volume one as a denouement after Moria was released, since volume two has a different story focus.
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