Cefrog encounter in the Skirmish: Rescue in Nûrz Ghâshu. Skirmish ran solo, Tier 1, as a Guardian with an Herbalist soldier.
Skirmish Encounter: Rescue in Nûrz Ghâshu – Cefrog
Goldenstar posted this on March 11th, 2010.
Categorized as Encounters, Skirmishes, video, Videos.
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Volume 3 Point Done
Merric posted this on March 11th, 2010.
Categorized as General, Hobbit Rage, Opinion, quests, volume III.
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It wasn’t too long ago that Volume 3.1 (or Volume III Book 1) came out and surprise, surprise; I’ve already finished the Epic Storyline part. I’m sure it comes as no surprise to most of the others who have already completed this Book just how quickly I was able to complete this; especially if you took the rewards that allow you to travel quickly to the next Ranger (the only ones I took were to Forochel and Angmar). If you haven’t done it, don’t worry about this being a “hate” rant, at least it’s not meant to be. I think most of all it was just a surprise. I’ll do my best not ruin anything with spoilers.
My main surprise at this comes in just how easy it was to complete. I guess maybe I’ve just forgotten how it was when I was on the other first books of the Volumes, or that I’m used to something that seems a bit harder and maybe a bit more visually “epic”. However, it’s only in retrospect that I realize the “epic” quality of this quest is not in the visuals, but in the lore. You talk with several “high profile” characters in the Lord of the Rings novels, you re-visit most of the Rangers that you meet throughout Volume 1, and you also run into several other surprises along the way. However, if you have not finished Book 1 or at least gone through the majority of the Angmar books, you might be a little bit lost. I strongly suggest that you do those before heading into this.
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DocHoliday posted this on March 11th, 2010.
Categorized as Book 9, epic line, lotro, Minstral, Minstrel, Mirkwood, Raids and End-game, Rift, Skirmishes, video, volume 3, Warden.
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Since there are a few skirmish barter items I want from the Rift, I figured I’d go through a couple of test runs and capture them via Fraps and CStats to do some comparisons. I wanted to not only compare the archer to the sage to see how they rank for DPS but also see how things had changed with the new tier 2 drop rates.
A few notes first concerning my soldiers as they are a bit different, which will skew the numbers a bit unfortunately. My Archer (my Warden’s soldier) is only level 60 with mainly level 54 skills available. And my Minstrel has a 63 Sage with primarily level 56 skills.
I ran it first on my Warden and as the following 2 videos will show I really didn’t have too many issues. I was a bit rusty, but for the most part it was rather smooth.
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Misdventures in LOTRO posted this on March 11th, 2010.
Categorized as lotro-regional-variations.
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I was prompted by a recent article on "A Casual Stroll to Mordor" to look into the different regional variations there are to LOTRO, at present. The obvious difference that most of us are familiar with are between the US and European servers. Also that the two different official forums require you to use your user account as your log on. Thus, those with European Codemaster accounts cannot post on the US forums and vice versa.
The aforementioned article highlighted that there is a LOTRO community in Russia, who I thought simply accessed the European servers. They obviously do not and it would also seem that their bespoke servers also offer features not open to us or even the US. The "Creep Raid" in Forochel is one example of this which raises the question, what others are there?
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almazar posted this on March 11th, 2010.
Categorized as announcements, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter.
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Please check us out at our new site: lotroreporter.com!
You DO NOT have to change the feed for the podcast, but please also change your RSS feed for the blog to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LordOfTheRingsOnlineReporter
[Lore-Master] Resistance Changes & Testing
Adarel posted this on March 11th, 2010.
Categorized as combat, CStats, General, LM, Lore-Master, loremaster, lotro, miss chance, physical resist, resistance, tactical resist, testing, theorycrafting, vol3 book1.
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In the latest book update, Turbine made some changes to the levels of resistance that mobs have. They seem to think that a 10% miss chance is perfectly acceptable before resistance reduction stats and legacies are taken into account. I don’t necessarily disagree if we are able to make up the difference with gear and maybe virtues or traits. However, I’m not sure that is quite possible.
The LM community on the official NA forums are rather perturbed by the fact that Turbine really gave us no warning about this and seemed to be unaware of the “resistance bug” for ~2 months (the bug being that resistances were much lower than they had intended). I would think some very simple combat parsing would have shown this problem immediately. I truly wish the LOTRO community had more tools at their disposal for judging DPS, misses, resistances, and various other variables. If so, it would have been obvious at least to us even if the developers were out picking wildflowers.
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