The following items are on sale from May 18th – 24th. Below you will find the sale listings as well as our recommendation on purchasing.
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Goldenstar posted this on May 17th, 2012.
Categorized as crafting, legacy, legendary items, LotRO store, Weekly Sale.
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Full link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cstmfeed/~3/Yp0_Idh5jWg/
Spear-shaker
Cosmetic Lotro posted this on May 16th, 2012.
Categorized as - Battle & Fight, Blue and Turquoise, Hobbit male, Spear-shaker's Jacket, Town-saver's, Trapper's Bandana, Warden, Warden's Pack.
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Full link: http://cosmeticlotro.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/spear-shaker/
Easy come, easy go, but I just had to spend some medallions to dress up my warden. It started out with finding a good match for the Epic version of the Spear-shaker’s Jacket, which is bright blue and cannot be … Continue reading 
Spear-shaker
Cosmetic Lotro posted this on May 16th, 2012.
Categorized as - Battle & Fight, Blue and Turquoise, Hobbit male, Town-saver's, Trapper's Bandana, Warden, Warden's Pack.
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Full link: http://cosmeticlotro.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/spear-shaker/
Easy come, easy go, but I just had to spend some medallions to dress up my warden. It started out with finding a good match for the Epic version of the Spear-shaker’s Jacket, which is bright blue and cannot be … Continue reading
Watcher of Roads
The Starry Mantle posted this on May 16th, 2012.
Categorized as Black, cloak, cosmetic, crafted, festival, grey, medallion, medium armour, outfits, quest, rascal, Woman, world drop.
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Full link: http://starrymantle.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/watcher-of-roads/
Two important roads intersected at the village of Bree. The East-West Road was a Dwarf-built highway of great ancientry: it had been built in the twilight of the First Age before the rising of the Sun and Moon. The other was the North-South Road, which in the Second Age had linked the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor. At the end of the Third Age, the North-South Road had grown grassy with disuse and was referred to by the Bree-landers as the Greenway. Despite the Greenway’s long neglect, it has been seeing increased use lately, in the autumn of IIIA 3018. Ruffians and highwaymen from the south have been seen coming up along the road and passing into the Bree-land. What their business is none can say, but there are some who sense something sinister afoot…
Recommended Reading: MiddleEarthInitiative
Goldenstar posted this on May 16th, 2012.
Categorized as blog, Community, MiddleEarthInitiative, NBI, newbie blogger initiative.
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I love it when I get to introduce our audience to new LOTRO themed blogs and here is one by a man named Ben called “MiddleEarthInitiative”.
The primary topic of the blog is to reach the new player and provide content that will help those new or just getting started with LOTRO.
Read the rest of this entry »Some of our New Outfits: Gilforniel
thekhazadguard posted this on May 16th, 2012.
Categorized as cosmetics, Non Dwarf Characters.
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Full link: http://thekhazadguard.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/some-of-our-new-outfits/
(Emma) While we have taken a small break from blogging, we have still been more or less active on LoTRO, and I have been taking a little time to work on some of my outfits. I bought some extra wardrobe slots when they were on sale, and have been playing around with it. One thing I have noticed is that it is very hard to be a girl who primarily plays a Dwarf. My three main characters are all Dwarves, and as such I think I have missed out on some pretty sweet quest reward cosmetics, because a lot of stuff just looks downright hideous on a Dwarf but very nice on an Elf maiden. So my wardrobe has to cater for a load of Dwarves and some ladies. Some cosmetics change in appearance completely depending on the gender of the character, but I’m pretty pleased with what I have so far, and have an idea of what quest rewards to get next time round.
Gilforniel had been having a little extra playtime recently, As Adam has been using her to help me level my Cappy Barandis, on our second account. Having been taken off the shelf, albeit temporarily most likely, she has had a bit of a makeover.
Read the rest of this entry »In praise of F2P
PB posted this on May 15th, 2012.
Categorized as F2P, lotro, Subscription, swtor.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2012/05/15/in-praise-of-f2p/
DocHoliday's MMO Saloon DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View
My SWTOR subscription expired last week and I don’t intend to renew it. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the game, on the contrary I had a lot of fun playing it and would like to continue playing it. As a long time single player RPG gamer, starting with Might and Magic in the early 90s and going through to just about every Interplay/BioWare game after that (along with a smattering of Euro RPGs like Gothic and The Witcher) and SWTOR really stood up as a solid single player RPG game with the MMO trappings to add that extra dimension. In addition to the obvious benefits of being able to group up for heroic quests and the occasional flasphoint or warzone, MMOs for whatever reason seem to do combat mechanics, class/skill balance and loot progression a lot better than single player RPGs. On the RPG and story side of things, SWTOR was a huge cut above what I’ve experienced of the MMO world. Questing in LOTRO unfortunately is just so bland in comparison, I’m looking forward even less to the level 75-85 grind now.
So why did I quit? The fact that I only had one character which was just level 43 after four months of subscription might give you some idea. The basic fact was I don’t have enough time to play it. I raid in LOTRO typically two nights a week (if I’m free) which leaves me with not that much other solid gaming time in between family, work and social commitments. I’d end up playing SWTOR maybe one night a week, and in April I think I played maybe a total of four hours. 
But SWTOR is very consciously not devoted to people like me. All of their content updates, from end game instances/raids to the all-pervasive legacy system (which seems to assume that the player base has multiple level cap characters of different classes and factions), are devoted to someone that plays SWTOR exclusively and has a lot of time to do so. I realised that I was paying US$15/month to support the constant production of content which I was never likely to experience, because even if I ever hit level cap then half the content they’d shipped would already be obsolete by their more newly released content. It wasn’t so much the financial cost either, it was simply the fact that I don’t like paying for something that I don’t use, it just doesn’t sit well with me. Which brings me to the actual point of this post.
Contains Moderate Peril Episode 59: MMO Monogamy
Roger Edwards posted this on May 15th, 2012.
Categorized as gaming, lotro, podcast.
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Full link: http://www.containsmoderateperil.com/contains-moderate-peril-episode-59-mmo-monogamy/
Welcome to the 59th Contains Moderate Peril podcast. I’ll try to get the schedule back on track next week, so that the shows get posted on Mondays. In the meantime Brian and I discuss why we didn’t participate in a recent high profile beta event, whether or not there are too many MMOs on the market, are gamers guilty of saying one thing and doing another and why the pair of us started blogging.
- The Secret World Beta: Turns out this was a beta test too far for the pair of us. We weren’t fortunate enough to get free beta keys and we didn’t feel the need to pre-purchase the game. Are betas really relevant tests anymore or simply an extension of the marketing campaign? [Starts at 02:07]
Newbie Blogger Initiative – Stats
Roger Edwards posted this on May 15th, 2012.
Categorized as editorial, lotro, Newbie Blogger Initiative Stats.
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Full link: http://www.containsmoderateperil.com/newbie-blogger-initiative-stats/
One of the first subjects to come up for discussion on the NBI forums was the issue of statistics and web traffic. All bloggers have a natural curiosity about their readership and exactly how many people are visiting their site. There is nothing wrong with this and it is perfectly reasonable to want to know about your audience. Blogging is after all a two way process. However, in my experience this thirst for statistical knowledge can be a double edge sword. It is therefore important to ensure that it doesn’t become the focal point of your writing endeavours.
Unless you are starting from a position of already being a known quantity online, all newbie bloggers will have to simply work at building up an audience. There are no real shortcuts with regard to this. Just simply write as often as you can, so that you create up a body of work. Google likes this approach by the way. Publicise your posts using social media. Comment on other blogs. If possible write guest posts for other established sites. This process is similar to gaming and is a bit of a grind at times.
Read the rest of this entry »Newbie Blogger Initiative – Stats
Roger Edwards posted this on May 15th, 2012.
Categorized as editorial, lotro.
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Full link: http://www.containsmoderateperil.com/newbie-blogger-initiative-stats/
One of the first subjects to come up for discussion on the NBI forums was the issue of statistics and web traffic. All bloggers have a natural curiosity about their readership and exactly how many people are visiting their site. There is nothing wrong with this and it is perfectly reasonable to want to know about your audience. Blogging is after all a two way process. However, in my experience this thirst for statistical knowledge can be a double edge sword. It is therefore important to ensure that it doesn’t become the focal point of your writing endeavours.
Unless you are starting from a position of already being a known quantity online, all newbie bloggers will have to simply work at building up an audience. There are no real shortcuts with regard to this. Just simply write as often as you can, so that you create up a body of work. Google likes this approach by the way. Publicise your posts using social media. Comment on other blogs. If possible write guest posts for other established sites. This process is similar to gaming and is a bit of a grind at times.
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