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Lore-mastery: Update 5 instances guide – Pits of Isengard

PB — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:29:21 +0000

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I was tossing up whether to do a Riders of Rohan wishlist post this week or continue with the update 5 instance guides, but I figure that the longer I take on these guides the less relevant they become so into the Pits of Isengard it is… Pits of Isengard Diseases/wounds? First boss has a DoT wound [...]

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Lore-mastery: Year’s end

PB — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:58:19 +0000

DocHoliday's MMO Saloon

Given the christmas season and upcoming holidays, this will be my last column for the year. I’ll aim to return to posting in approximately mid-January. I was going to use this post as an opportunity to link some of my past posts for people who might be new to the column, and also solicit some [...]

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Lore-mastery: Two is the lonliest number

PB — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:00:50 +0000

DocHoliday's MMO Saloon

As you should know by now, I really like the lore-master class and I think it’s well designed and very useful in both group and solo situations. Today’s column, however, focuses on one of its weaknesses – lore-masters don’t play particularly well with other lore-masters in tougher group content, [...]

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Lore-mastery: Update 5 armour sets

PB — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:57:24 +0000

DocHoliday's MMO Saloon

Lore-mastery is a weekly column by Psychobabble of Imladris, focussing on lore-master news and end game play. I was so looking forward to jumping on Bullroarer and trying out the new stuff. I wanted to actually get to play some new end game content, get a bit of an insight into the new gear system, [...]

Lore-mastery: 5 questions about Update 5

PB — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:26:44 +0000

DocHoliday's MMO Saloon

I’m sure Doc will be along with a post of his own on this, but as you might have seen the Bullroarer update 5 (Armies of Isengard) patch notes are now up! This looks like an exciting update and I can’t wait to jump on Bullroarer and test it out. In the meantime though, I’ve [...]

Lore-mastery: Tackling Draigoch

PB — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:02:21 +0000

DocHoliday's MMO Saloon

Well, Draigoch seems to be the topic of the week so I thought I’d chime in with a guide to the fight from a lore-master’s perspective. While my raid group hasn’t managed to get beyond phase 2 yet, mainly because we haven’t really been able to put much time into it with organisational difficulties, I’ve [...]

Lore-mastery: Lore-master legendary items in Isengard

PB — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:59:00 +0000

A while back, in fact quite a long while back as it was before update 2, I wrote a guide to lore-master LI legacies on the official forum. While the info in there still stacks up fairly well, with Isengard and various patches, there’s been enough changes to the LI system and to class mechanics Related posts:

Lore-mastery: How to do damage as a lore-master

PB — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:43:50 +0000

One of the biggest misconceptions about the lore-master class is that they are a ranged tactical nuking class, like a fire mage or archetypical magician in other fantasy games. However, while it’s true that lore-masters can put out fantastic burst tactical damage with some flashy skills, especially in AOE situations, due to the fact that Related posts:

Overpower Guardian Guide

Haakon Stormbrow — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:00:00 +0000

I have found that a Guardian in Overpower can be a very exciting way to play. They have an excellent mix of DPS and survivability. In fact I would call it the perfect mix for tanking much of the “end-game” content.

Basic DPS Champion Guide

Haakon Stormbrow — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:00:00 +0000

The Champions role is melee DPS, both Area of Effect (AOE) and Single Target (ST). This guide will focus on that role, for that reason I will focus on the Fervour stance.