Alphaman posted this on September 7th, 2011.
Categorized as Guide, LEAD, leveling, LOTRO Epic a Day, moria, new player.
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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.
Great Delving Quest Hubs
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Elborigorn posted this on March 2nd, 2011.
Categorized as leveling, opinions, Power Leveling.
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A little background information for those who don’t know what a “Champ Herald” is or where the term is coming from:
A couple weeks ago, for whatever reason, I managed to convince Ketani to come level a captain on Elendilmir so she could come check out the Elendilmir raiding scene and perhaps polish her captaining skills under the tutelage of the master. After she showed a real drive to get her captain, Ehefkae (2.0), to level cap by plowing out 21 levels in her first 24 hours I felt compelled to help speed the process up by using my champion, Elkeeligorn, to help her “Power level”. She soon started giving me orders and the term “champ herald” was soon after coined.
The Champ Herald’s day begins with the resounding sound sounding from Ehefkae’s finely carved rallying horn. This dreadful note means it’s time to start working. The typical work session usually includes a few hundred orcs, goblins, dourhands, spiders and wargs. However, the killing does not stop at things that are clearly evil and therefore ripe for the killing, no… 
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Halibrand posted this on December 28th, 2010.
Categorized as festival, General, leveling, Yule Festival.
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Today while cleaning, cooking, eating, and watching Restaurant Makeover, I took a level 6 character, fresh from the new player tutorial, partway into level 17. I did this entirely at the Eating Contest “The Biggest Stomach of them All” in Winter-home!
I discovered that from level 6 through level 12 every step of the Eating Contest awards 344 experience. That’s 1720 experience for all five tables! Also, if you complete the fifth table, it adds one to your Honoured Yule Friend deed. And you can benefit from this as many times a day as you want.
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DocHoliday posted this on October 22nd, 2010.
Categorized as General, leveling, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, Mirkwood, siege of mirkwood, skirmish, Skirmishes, soldier, Warden.
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The primary role of the Warden is tanking, but if you haven’t done it before you may be wondering how to learn and practice tanking. Now there’s the obvious “go get in a group” answer that while true, isn’t always possible nor is it always the best option. Luckily over the past few updates and expansions, there have been a number of additions that make learning how to tank an easier process.
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DocHoliday posted this on September 23rd, 2010.
Categorized as champion, General, leveling, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, LOTR, lotro, lotro reporter.
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I wanted to give a quick introduction on why I’m writing this column and my perspective on the Champion class. Some of you may know me from my Warden posts and blog and might be puzzled by why I’m writing about champions. Honestly I’ll admit I struggled with the Champion class for a long while, until I realized that Champions and Wardens both fit my playstyle very well. Check out my initial Champion post on my blog for a further comparison. These articles will be slanted towards that playstyle but I will also try to keep them broad as well. I’m not going to try and claim I’m the best Champion out there, but I wanted to try and help people learn about the class.
The playstyle I’m referring to is the arrogant “I’m gonna run into this group and see what happens” kind of attitude. On the Warden this works rather well with all the self-heals, and on the Champion this works as you can kill things so quickly. However, having both a tank and healer that I play at max level, doing this much damage can cause problems for grouping. Early on, the worst thing that happens is you’ll die, which I’ll admit I’ve done my fair share of. However, in groups, this can be very annoying so I’m going to offer my suggestions on how to best balance your DPS. I’m not going to cover this quite yet, but don’t worry that’s something I will get to. If you’re a DPS class (Champion, Hunter, Runekeeper, etc.) while soloing you certainly can go all out, but when in groups you really need to be careful and toe that line.
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Candace posted this on August 24th, 2010.
Categorized as crafting, editorial, Free to Play, General, leveling, LOTR, lotro, lotro reporter, suggestion, Virtues.
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LotRO’s free to play is launching September 10th. Beta participants, current and past subscribers will be getting a headstart on September 8th. For the time being, there is a noticeable lull in LotRO. Players are taking a little break in anticipation of new content and changes coming. Some are wandering around bored with nothing to do in their favorite game.
Here are 5 things you can do while you wait for free to play to launch.
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Veneration posted this on July 6th, 2010.
Categorized as Enedwaith, General, leveling, Region.
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This week while playing on my new Rune-Keeper, I decided to quest in a few areas I hadn’t done in the past. Low levels in the Shire and some quests in the odd quest off near Thorin’s hall helped to break up the scenery nicely. But this got me thinking about zone alternatives for level ranges and how the map of Middle Earth is progressing.
Turbine currently has the game moving in a path following key points and characters as they progress in the War of the Ring. This can lead us in many directions, but more often than not, players find themselves moving East. Up until now! This pattern of moving east has been broken with Enedwaith, where we find ourselves traveling south of Eregion.
But geography only plays a part in this story of progression and gameplay. Level range and quest content also plays a huge role in how a region fits into the world of LOTRO. Recent news and information from Enedwaith suggests that it is a zone from level 60 – 65! Meaning players will have an alternative to leveling in Mirkwood! So where does this talk of geography and leveling zones fit together? Why the title Enough is never enough?
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Merric posted this on February 23rd, 2010.
Categorized as General, Hobbit Rage, leveling, Opinion.
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Ferrel of Epic Slant has a good article summarizing his thoughts on the use of raising the level cap of their games and how it is unnecessary tactic to add value to a game that is past its prime. Ferrel makes some very good points, and operates off of the opinion that level caps are used for two reasons:
- “… to increase the length of time a player will take to consume a new expansion.”
- “… to allow head room for developers and create what is believed to be a clear progression.“
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Goldenstar posted this on February 15th, 2010.
Categorized as dev diary, episode, Episodes, leveling, podcast, quests.
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This week’s CStM we talk about alts mostly. Goldenstar hasn’t played her minstrel much and has been mostly doing skirmishes with her Burglar. Goldenstar has also realized the awesome that is the runekeeper and plans to keep leveling this alt.
Merric tried using Overpower on his guardian in skirmishes and started using Legendary Weapons again. He realized he can actually kill things!
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Goldenstar posted this on January 31st, 2010.
Categorized as episode, Episodes, leveling, Patch, podcast, Skirmishes, volume III.
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In this episode of CStM, we talk about how we leveled close to 65 without dinging so we could do it together in a Skirmish with some kinnies. Merric now has all his alts up to level 20 and is planning on moving them all to Lone Lands to run through the revamped zone and try the changes to Volume I Book 2.
Our main topic this week is discussing what we plan on doing now that we are 65. Things like working on gear, completing deeds for traits, finishing crafting, playing alts. If you have any ideas of what we should be working on now that we are 65 please let us know!
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