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ILL Machina posted:Seen this one pop up Thanks for this. It looks useful, though I see a bunch of their links on the page just don't work since they seem to be setup incorrectly.  Comrade Koba posted:Everyone should get in the goon guild, maybe we can even get enough people to run dungeons some day. I'd be down for this. I'm just playing catch up on my Captain when I have time to log in and they're just going on 102. Since I did a month of VIP I'll probably dump a bunch of my destiny into xp boosts since the combat boost stuff doesn't seem remotely worth the cost for a short buff. Even in the past I remember it being a "you can use it to help in raids or you can just play slightly better." Minas Tirith's layout is awful from a gameplay perspective and I hope the game doesn't make you run around there too much, though fast travel between circles is a thing at least.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Minas Tirith's layout is awful from a gameplay perspective and I hope the game doesn't make you run around there too much, though fast travel between circles is a thing at least.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I'd be down for this. I'm just playing catch up on my Captain when I have time to log in and they're just going on 102. Since I did a month of VIP I'll probably dump a bunch of my destiny into xp boosts since the combat boost stuff doesn't seem remotely worth the cost for a short buff. Even in the past I remember it being a "you can use it to help in raids or you can just play slightly better." I could be wrong but I seen to remember the most useful destiny effects were the cleanse at the very bottom and the hope buffs, but yeah do whatever really.
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The servers seem to be struggling under the current load of players. I had been tolerating a fair bit of latency due to being based in the UK but I've had a couple of nights now where the rubberbanding and delayed actions make the game literally unplayable. Kind of a kick in the teeth after buying VIP. At least Square gave out free gametime after the login issues for Endwalker - I can't really see SSG doing anything like this! I don't think they should be charging premium MMO prices without the infrastructure to back it up but I guess they just don't have the expertise or investment to do anything about it.
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Oh dear, what the hell am I doing reinstalling this game? Haven't played since 2010ish I think. Guess I have to start a new character since my old Silverlode characters can't be transferred off right now...
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I think I'm going to just level my Captain up to 130 or whatever and then eventually decide who to use the 120 and 105 boosts on. Probably Champ and Beorning but who knows. Beorning does seem neat but yellow line looks like it has a bunch of form and buff juggling.Natsuumi posted:Oh dear, what the hell am I doing reinstalling this game? Haven't played since 2010ish I think. At least you'll be able to make your new character level 120, and another can be 105, and another can be 50.
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Oh dang natsuumi's back! Should we start taking bets on whether fran is next? 
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I friended people who said they wanted an invite the other day. I'll be on after 5pst if anyone needs invites on Landroval. Everyone's trying to figure out what new LIs do and either anxious about who to valar boost or sad they did it on accident lol
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fenix down posted:Oh dang natsuumi's back! Should we start taking bets on whether fran is next? Aaaaah poo poo I've been trying to remember Fran's name forever Well Nat's got her toes back in the waters, this time as a rune-keeper. If I gotta start over at least I can be something useful to a group. Not gonna use a level boost though, I wanna do it all over again (which I've already done too many times, having had every class maxed back when the level cap was 60). Any way to know when they're gonna enable closed server character transfers? I'd rather not consider those characters lost.
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my guess is never since they haven't done it in years and probably have no one around who knows how to read from the old server files
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Disappointing. I had a lot of neat stuff. I guess I'll have to live without my front yard tentacle.
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Natsuumi posted:Disappointing. I had a lot of neat stuff. I guess I'll have to live without my front yard tentacle.
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I can only assume that if it's from the watcher in Moria anyone can solo it in about 30 seconds using a level 120 character, with 29 of those seconds being fight load time and walking into range of the mob. e: fighting the turtle used to be so fun when Moria and Mirkwood were the endgame. Sure, a lvl 65 party had an advantage vs a lvl 60 fight but you'd still see groups screw up and lose. It was such a basic but fun dps race of a fight.
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Getting back into this with my 14 year old account and dragged my boyfriend along for the ride. Have a few questions after getting to the early 20s. How do you deal with power draining monsters? I don't seem to notice it happening until my power is at 0, and I don't feel like it's from spamming abilities. First time it happened was in the Great Barrow. How does skipping the story quests work? I notice that there is a zone to the North of Bree being advertised by questgivers, but the Story quests are pointing me east to the Lone-Lands. Is is something you can pick up later if you wanted to try the Northern zone instead?
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The storyline quests will take you to North Downs after Lone Lands, if that's the zone you're talking about. If you're talking about the forest area to the northwest (Wildwood, iirc), that was added much later and I don't think the story quests ever go there.
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Most of the main story quest is skippable if you don't want to do it, and yeah you can go back and do them later if you want. I think most of the chapters unlock with levels rather than with the quest progress so it won't be long before you find yourself with multiple chapters active. Do the Bingo Boffin quests too! They're real fun imo and there's some pieces of home decor you can get through it.
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Vadun posted:How do you deal with power draining monsters? I don't seem to notice it happening until my power is at 0, and I don't feel like it's from spamming abilities. First time it happened was in the Great Barrow.
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Thanks for the advice. Looks like Intro to Trestlebridge was what I was thinking of. Must have confused myself due to 'North Barrow" and "North Downs" being similar. The disease makes sense, we both have a disease removal so we'll need to pay more attention. Just need to be able to find people to run instances with now, but I know that's a lot to ask in a 15 year old game with no incentives for old content
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Vadun posted:Thanks for the advice. Looks like Intro to Trestlebridge was what I was thinking of. Join the discord! There's more people on now than usual and you can probably find someone down to clown. https://discord.gg/ynTWY3Rj
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Finally made it out of Moria. Lothlorien is really nice after 10 levels of caves.
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I'm doing the epic quests in Minas Tirith and... wow this sure is a lot of "here's an Epic quest that tells you to go do fetch quests for other NPCs" nonsense isn't it?
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Evil Fluffy posted:I'm doing the epic quests in Minas Tirith and... wow this sure is a lot of "here's an Epic quest that tells you to go do fetch quests for other NPCs" nonsense isn't it? Is that a complaint? Sounds like someone needs to go check in with Lord Elrond again
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Hello Sailor posted:Is that a complaint? Sounds like someone needs to go check in with Lord Elrond again I'd skip ahead but I'm not sure if I'd miss anything of interest, like the actual battles at Minas Tirith. I mainly play for the story but "spend hours running documents as an errand boy" is a waste of time tbh. I'm not worried about missing out on XP since I'm already halfway to 103 and even if I ended p short, the alt account I made has a 120 beorning on it who could carry my Captain through whatever xp I'd need to get caught up with. I used it to see how it'd do against the lvl 100 raid-tier warband south of Osgiliath and it tore through the thing in no time at all and I imagine it can solo up to 110-115 3man stuff too, if not lvl 120 stuff like warg pens and sword halls. e: Looked on the wiki and saw that 3-4 quests ahead of where I am give class trait points so I guess I'm sticking with it.
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does the lore-master end game yellow rotation actually involve summoning and de-summoning four pets constantly to keep all their debuffs up? that's what lotrohq suggests and i get it but  e: ^^ yes, stick with the minas tirith quests to do all the badass poo poo there. it's a bummer that there's so much filler but the set pieces are worth it (plus class pointz)
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Kaysette posted:does the lore-master end game yellow rotation actually involve summoning and de-summoning four pets constantly to keep all their debuffs up? that's what lotrohq suggests and i get it but
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A dev has commented on one of the many threads regarding lag here. I'm not really a server toucher but those words seem to be in the right order. I hope "Soon" means actually soon rather than in a year or two because it's quite difficult to play at peak times these days."Raninia posted:Lag continues to be a problem, and we continue to work on it. I understand it's frustrating that it continues to happen, but I can honestly say, I don't enjoy us having to constantly deal with this problem any more than y'all enjoy experiencing it.
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That post just reminded me that this game's so old it was originally coded in an era where 64-bit programs just weren't really a thing and by the time it started to matter on a sufficient scale the game was already into its F2P lifecycle. "LotRO still has to run with 32-bit limitations" would explain a lot. I guess a similar example would be how FFXIV ARR had a bunch of limitations due to having to be able to run on a PS3 and as soon as that was no longer a thing they were able to make bigger areas and do stuff that the PS3 simply could not do period.
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Where do I find slugs to kill for deeds in yondershire google is not helping at all. Edit: found them in the northwest most swamp in the shire not in yondershire they really should separate those in the deed list Also man Yondershire is so chill I can legit say it is worth the points for it a its just a super comfy zone Haruharuharuko fucked around with this message at 07:39 on May 6, 2022 |
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Are there any indications of when the next level cap rise may happen?
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