isanni posted this on November 24th, 2010.
Categorized as destiny points, Did you know, dp, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter.
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As listeners of the LOTRO Reporter podcast may know, I am well and truly hooked on PvMP. My warg feels like an extension of myself, and whenever a coworker is starting to bother me, I wish I could run behind a tree, pop into Stealth Mode, dash out and Pounce them to shut them up, Maul them to really get my point across, and then Disappear to confuse and annoy them…..
Anyway, this post is not all about my confusion between the game and reality! I am here to talk about the Destiny Points system, a system that may be underused by a large population of players. Destiny Points (DP) are gained on the Free Peoples side (that’s dwarves, elves, men, and hobbits) by gaining levels for your characters. So, if you are an alt-a-holic and are leveling many characters, your DP will go up fairly quickly. DP is very useful before a big fight to gain temporary buffs, such as increased speed, morale, or power. I once cashed in a bunch of DP on increased speed so that I could run into the Trollshaws and Rivendell at an insanely low level, leaving my enemy pursuers in the dust. (That’s not to say that I didn’t squeal in terror like a little girl as gigantic bears tried to chase me down!)
On the Monster Player side (that’s wargs, spiders, orcs, and uruks), the DP is more liberally doled out. All quests completed as a creep gain DP, since DP is the main source of currency for gaining new skills and abilities for your creep. Again, DP can also be used to gain temporary buffs to speed, morale, power, and so on.
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isanni posted this on October 11th, 2010.
Categorized as Did you know, lord of the rings on line reporter, lord of the rings online, lotro, lotro reporter, Minstrel, selection's target, skill target forwarding.
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I have a confession to make: I am a good little healing minstrel who also loves to *thump* the heads of baddies!
Now obviously, when I am playing in a fellowship, and my fellows are counting on me to be the dividing line between glorious victory and head-hanging, foot-shuffling defeat, my main focus must be on strumming my theorbo for all it is worth, keeping those morale bars nice and fat.
So, what’s a mini to do when they really, really just want to sneak in a Ballad of Resonance or a Piercing Cry? First of all, I recommend that you not — I repeat, not — give in to this urge if you are pounding those heals as fast as you can till your fingers are bleeding. However, if the pace is a little more leisurely and you are able to throw a few damaging spells in between keeping your companions enheartened, using the following options might help to streamline the process for you.
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isanni posted this on September 21st, 2010.
Categorized as Did you know, friends, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, note, social.
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A very handy little feature I discovered today while chatting with a brand new player to LOTRO is the option to add a “note” beside someone’s name when you add them as a friend. To add a friend, go to your Social panel –> Friends –> Add, type in their name, and presto! To add a note, simply select their name, click ‘Note’, and type in something weird and wonderful to remind yourself why the heck you added that person’s name in the first place!
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isanni posted this on September 6th, 2010.
Categorized as blood effects, Did you know, elf, General, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter.
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Here is a bit of interesting random trivia: Did you ever notice, when playing an Elf character, that wild animals, such as foxes and hares, do not run away from you the way they run from Dwarves, Men, and Hobbits? Also, Elves are unable to harm those innocent creatures, while the other races may (if they desire to be so cranky and mean!) I thought that was a cool testiment to the lore of Tolkien’s world, where Elves are basically a peace-loving people, thoroughly at harmony with nature and the creatures of field and forest.
Speaking of harmony and peace, did you realize that if you do not want to see blood and guts during gameplay, you can turn that function off? Go to Options –> UI Options –> and uncheck “Enable Blood Effects”. I don’t need to see all that messy stuff!
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isanni posted this on August 31st, 2010.
Categorized as Did you know, General, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, stacks, vendor.
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After a brief hiatus from posting — due to the demands of the dreaded “REAL LIFE” — I am back with another installment of “Did You Know”! Don’t worry, you can be well assured that I was appropriately pummelled with wet noodles for my prolonged absense, and it won’t happen again!
So….. “did you know” that when you are buying items from a vendor, there are different options for choosing the amount that you buy? What I mean is, with a simple press of a button, you can indicate the quantity you’d like:
- Press Shift if you would like to buy a stack (usually 100)
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isanni posted this on March 6th, 2010.
Categorized as arch nemesis, Did you know, difficulty, difficulty level, elite, elite master, enemy difficulty rating, eye of sauron, level of peril, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, mob difficulty rating, nemesis, portrait, portrait circle, portrait picture, portrait screenshot, swarm.
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You have no doubt noticed that enemies in this game come in a variety of difficulty levels. There are seven difficulty levels, and each is identified by a different kind of coloured circle around the enemy’s portrait.
(In addition to the seven difficulty levels described below, there are also ‘rare’ enemies whose portrait circles will be green at the top blending into their normal colour at the bottom. These rare enemies drop special loot, such as shards.)
If you are fighting enemies at your level, the following information should generally be true:
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isanni posted this on February 11th, 2010.
Categorized as attunement, Did you know, enamel, healing, inlay, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, rk, rune stone, Rune-keeper.
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I have a level 24 Rune-Keeper that I have been focusing a bit of energy on lately. I have been struggling to figure out the balancing act in switching from doing damage to healing. Since I usually play a minstrel, I am used to having large heals available at any moment they are needed. I find that with my RK I am not being proactive enough in changing my attunement from DPS to healing BEFORE my morale drops too far, and when I finally realize that things are getting dire, the initial heals (before the attunement is built up enough) are pretty puny and “too little too late”. Well, purely by chance, I “overheard” in the /advice channel on the Brandywine server something that made my elvish ears perk up. Apparently there are some items, crafted by Scholars (player characters, not the NPC type), called Enamels and Inlays that can be quickly applied to a rune-stone.
Enamels brighten the colour of a rune-stone, making it attune +3 further in whatever direction it is already moving.
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isanni posted this on February 3rd, 2010.
Categorized as ancient-dwarf, beleriand, damage, Did you know, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, type of damage, weapon damage type, westernesse.
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Have you ever noticed that on certain weapons there is an indication that they do a specific type of damage? I began to wonder — as I am wont to do — what exactly those different types of damage do. Apparently, in the lore, different races/factions made weapons that would be most effective against their worst enemies, so the type of damage on weapons in the game indicate what type of enemy will be most damaged by that weapon. Here is a quick synopsis of the information I found at this link in the Lorebook: http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Mechanics:Damage_Types.
Westernesse damage is most harmful to the Dead and the Unseen.
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isanni posted this on January 19th, 2010.
Categorized as crafting, crafting recipe, crafting tier, Did you know, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter.
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The other day I was working on building up some reputation with the Woodworkers’ Guild and then wanted to buy some specialty recipes from them. (For those who don’t know, you can choose to join a guild based on your character’s profession. You then craft special reputation items which you then turn in to the guid for increased reputation. As your reputation grows, you gain access to buy specialty recipes only available through that guild’s vendor.) I suddenly realized that there is something about the recipes that I never understood before. Specifically, when you are looking at the icon for a recipe, there is a tiny, coloured symbol on the lower right side of the picture.
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isanni posted this on January 8th, 2010.
Categorized as auto-attack, deed, Did you know, Key Mapping, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter.
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I have been working on my class/race deeds a lot recently. In a bit of a ‘duh’ moment, I finally realized that completing them can actually yield quite beneficial traits, so I started using my deed-increasing abilities/songs like crazy.
One problem. The mobs kept dying too quickly for me to use some of my gated abilities, because I kept smacking them with my mace on auto-attack. I really wanted to figure out how to turn off auto-attack, so I could use my songs only. If you too would like to pound on bad guys for just a little bit longer before they kick off, you are in luck! Go to Options, Key Mapping, Miscellaneous. The first option under Misc is “Toggle Auto-Attack”. Click it to select a key combination to use to toggle auto-run on and off. I chose Alt-A.
You have to attack a mob first, and then toggle Auto-Attack off. However, this option is a bit quirky in that as soon as you hit the mob with a ability, song, or attack, Auto-Attack reenables itself, so you have to keep toggling it back off during the fight. Therefore, it’s not as useful an option as it could be (or as I’d like it to be!), but if a mob is just about dead and you are just waiting a few more seconds for a cooldown to end on an ability that you really want to use, and if you can afford to get bashed on for those few moments while you wait, it can be quite useful. I guess you just need to use this option strategically and intelligently.
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