As everybody knows, the two end-game 12-man instances at the moment are gated – that is, you need a certain minimum level of radiance in order to even enter them. Personally, I think this is a poor design approach, and it’s no secret that most players feel the same way. However, we’re stuck with this situation for the foreseeable future.
Fortunately, Book 8 introduced some new paths to achieving the minimum requirements, which are currently +50 radiance for the Vile Maw (the Watcher), and +70 radiance for Dar Narbugud. What follows are some suggestions as to how this can be achieved as expeditiously as possible. Keep in mind that raiding is a cooperative affair, and that in order to get anywhere you’ll need to join a Kinship, or at least find a reasonably steady group of players - solo play doesn't enter into the debate at all.
To quickest way of achieving the +50 radiance necessary for the Vile Maw is to complete the first two (and easiest) of the 6-man instances which drop a single BoA coin when completed in Hard Mode. These are the Grand Stairs (dropping a Platinum Coin of Courage, exchangeable for Boots) and Forges (Platinum Coin of Strength, for Chest). Each of these armour items gives +10 radiance, for a total of +20.
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ACHIEVING MINIMUM RADIANCE IN BOOK 8
Kairos posted this on July 22nd, 2009.
Categorized as Dar Narbugud, design, Filikul, gating, Glistening Elf-stone, gurvand, Mirror Halls of Lumul-Nar, Nalad-Dum, Nornúan, radiant armour, raiding, Vile Maw, Watcher.
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Full link: http://lotro-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/07/achieving-minimum-radiance-in-book-8.html
Campaigns work
arbitrary posted this on June 29th, 2009.
Categorized as bio break, captains, dark delvings, gurvand, hard-mode, Instance, links, lotro, random, syp, sypster, twitter.
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Full link: http://nerfthecat.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/campaigns-work/
First, go welcome @Sypster to the Twitter world. Mwahaha. I hoped he wouldn’t be able to resist. (That’s Syp from Bio Break, as if you didn’t know!)
Then hope we have the same success with our anti-Elf campaign (which isn’t so much a campaign as a hatred for elves!).
Um, second.. I will be blogging this week. But in the meantime go read unwize’s write-up of our success in Dark Delvings (if you play LotRO, don’t mind spoilers and are interested in Moria instances that got harder in Book 7). It was odd to spec a very hybrid Captain with actual proper DPS and to return to having a herald… but it worked remarkably well. More on respeccing sometime!
