This week’s poll was suggested by Fey who wanted to know which of CSTM’s guides folks find the most useful.
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From Fey’s email:
“For me, i have to say i found the site by looking for either festival information or housing item pictures years ago, and the festival info is always great, but the one which made a huge difference to me was the warden guide. I feel i know my mini well, i am very comfortable in her skin, and i thought i was close to the same with my warden, despite not having the length of time on her. The guide however opened my eyes bigtime and made it possible to look at my gambits totally differently, reorganise and i can say i am a much better warden now “
Through my years in football (American) I came to the understanding that you can have the greatest plays in the known universe but that mattered little without the proper players. A football team needs players, and players need coaches and coaches need players. A Kinship is fairly similar to a football team. Without any members, there is no kin, and just like any team, these players need proper management.
“Without you guys I wouldn’t be here,” is what my coach would always say during a bad performance on our part, normally followed by an intense criticism session, and like with many things, he was right. A kinship is one in the same, without members there is no kin. The questions arises then: How do we get members? The answer is far more complicated, and really depends on what you want, and where you want to go and the attitude you want your kin to have.
Welcome to LOTRO Epic A Day, where I guide you on an epic journey through Middle-Earth, one day at a time. Each Book of the Epic quest is separated into its own Day, with Side-Days for leveling up to the next book. Gather up your belongings and hit the road, a new Day awaits!
Entering Moria, we pass through Hollin Gate and emerge in the Great Delving. This region features the Durin’s Threshold entrance area and Dolvien-view (a quest hub that serves as a central location until reaching the 21st Hall) and exits into both deeper and higher parts of the mine. There are also plenty of enemies to fight here; gredbyg bugs and deep-claws roam the region and goblins have set up several camps. We’ll encounter corruptions for the first time, buffs that can be removed with different skills for each class, and new rewards for defeating enemies: ixp runes to add experience to your Legendary Items, Rusted Dwarf Tools to trade in for new LIs, and even the occasional raw, un-identified LI found obtained from humanoid enemies (like the goblins). Before entering Moria and the Great Delving, I highly recommend gaining Kindred rank with Thorin’s Hall and purchasing a goat; horses can’t be used in Moria and the distances are rather long to be traveled on foot.
A couple of months ago we sent out a post on Facebook and Twitter asking people what plugins they found to be a must, and without doubt Mouse Cursor Highlighter Advanced was one of the most popular ones that was listed. And although I had personally never used it before this, I was aware of the plugin and decided to give it a try.
As your warden starts getting into the higher levels and you finally start to get a feel for how to build your gambits, it all gets shaken up once you earn your “Masteries” (Master of the Spear, Master of the Shield and Master of the Fist).
The Mastery traits give you access to gambit builders that apply two icons (spear, shield, fist) for the price of one. These skills will allow you to build gambits much faster once you learn to use them and get comfortable with them. In a lot of ways, learning to use your masteries is like learning every gambit all over again.
In this episode we take a look at Lyrical by Astleigh. This plugin allows you to write and store poems, lyrics, speeches, or whatever text you’d like and recite them back into the last chat channel you spoke in. If you wish to change chat channels, you merely need to change your chat channel per the normal way and your text will go into it as well. It is a very intuitive interface with saving, editing and deleting being very easy to accomplish. It also is able to be used with the German and French locales; making it a universally available plugin.
Hi everyone! This is Iinferno of Elendilmir (or Don if you’d rather call me that). I’m a huge moors addict, and love writing, so when I stumbled upon CSTM a while back I noticed a distinct lack in moors related content. More recently I wrote CSTM asking if they had need of a new writer and when they let me in I thought this would be a great time to fill in the gap in pvp content.
Welcome to LOTRO Epic A Day, where I guide you on an epic journey through Middle-Earth, one day at a time. Each Book of the Epic quest is separated into its own Day, with Side-Days for leveling up to the next book. Gather up your belongings and hit the road, a new Day awaits!
The 20-30s leveling range is encompassed by the Lone-Lands and the North Downs, while the 30s-40s includes the North Downs, Trollshaws, and newly revamped Evendim. LEAD will be covering each region in separate Side-Day posts; each is worth visiting and makes for a credible choice for leveling. Whether leveling to 35 in the North Downs or elsewhere you will unlock access to a few new skirmishes and instances (available with VIP or purchase in the LOTRO store). These include the Inn of the Forsaken instance at level 20, theAttack at Dawn skirmish at level 30, the Garth Agarwen instance at level 32 (which, being included with Lone-lands, is free) and the Defense of the Prancing Pony skirmish at level35. The Fornost instance is accessible at level 39 and serves as the location to work on fellowship quests from the nearby Free People’s Camp.
This week we talked about the instance dev diaries released this week, lag issues, stores sales and more!
Goldenstar is having issues finding a questing area for her level inside of Moria. Merric’s Lore-master is level 48 and he did get his Eagle pet. We ran the new Lost Temple instance on Bullroarer and had a video of our live run available to watch.
Many Guardians like to tank using a shield, as do I from time to time. It is great fun to see the bosses and mobs hopelessly trying to penetrate your defenses as you jeer and taunt at them. And winning the aggro war with those hunters and champions is its own sweet victory.
But 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. The fact that they have about 1200 extra morale due to the 5 morale per vitality, as well as having almost full parry and evade means they are much hardier than Champions. And they have a lot more emergency skills for when things do go bad.
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