Sharing power
Cosmetic Lotro posted this on January 28th, 2012.
Categorized as - Dress & Robe, Blue and Turquoise, Circlet of the Seven Stars, Long-sleeved Dwarf-make Dress, loremaster, Race of Man female, Songmaster's shoulders.
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Full link: http://cosmeticlotro.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/sharing-power/
This week my fellow blogster Devonna from Lotro Stylist, posted the most amazing guide about taking screenshots I have ever read. Her guide is very clear and complete, and was an eye opener for me as I had never thought … Continue reading
Lore-mastery: Year’s end
PB posted this on December 12th, 2011.
Categorized as crowd control, DPS, End Game, Instance, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, Raid, screenshot, soloing, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/12/12/lore-mastery-years-end/
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 feedback. I hope you’ll also forgive me a little indulgence too, I thought I’d go back through my screenshots and give a bit of a slideshow of my lore-master over the past year or so.
Lore-mastery: Two is the lonliest number
PB posted this on December 5th, 2011.
Categorized as cc, Debuff, DPS, End Game, group, instances, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, Raid, Rise Of Isengard, Traits.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/12/05/lore-mastery-two-is-the-lonliest-number/
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, especially raids. While most other classes can quite happily stack with each other up to a point, a number of features of the lore-master class mean that it’s almost always less than ideal to take more than one lore-master along for a tough large fellowship instance or raid.
I want to be really clear here that what I’m talking about in this post is tougher large group content. In 3-person instances lore-masters play together wonderfully well, being able to simultaneously fill DPS and healing roles is really nice. Some of the best small group runs I’ve done have been with, like, 2 lore-masters and a hunter – stuff just melts and you’re still really survivable. And in easier large group content, including skirmish raids and Draigoch, there’s no harm in taking along a second or third lore-master – the content will get done, absolute efficiency in class makeup is not required.
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PB posted this on November 28th, 2011.
Categorized as cc, healing, legendary items, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, soloing.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/11/28/lore-mastery-soloing-old-content-for-fun-and-profit-pt-2/
Urugath (final bosses, through Lhugrien)
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PB posted this on November 21st, 2011.
Categorized as Armies of Isengard, Armour, cc, DPS, gear, healing, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, Raid, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/11/21/lore-mastery-update-5-armour-sets/
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, take a look at the new raid and get some early tips on it, have a chance to play with some players from other servers and mix around a bit. So I downloaded the client as soon as it was available, hit the character copy, copied my LM over and waited for the “in progress” message to finish. And I waited. And waited. And waited. And then I went to bed and when I woke up…
Lore-mastery: 5 questions about Update 5
PB posted this on November 15th, 2011.
Categorized as cc, Debuff, DPS, gear, group, healing, instance finder, isengard, legendary items, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, pet, Raid, tactical damage, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/11/15/lore-mastery-5-questions-about-update-5/
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 got a few questions about the update from the lore-master’s perspective
1) How will lore-masters fit into the raid finder?
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PB posted this on November 7th, 2011.
Categorized as cc, Debuff, gear, healing, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, pet, solo, Traits.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/11/07/lore-mastery-soloing-old-content-for-fun-and-profit/
One of the things I’ve been enjoying doing with the new level cap increase is going back and soloing old group content. The lore-master has always been a strong soloing class, with its toolbox of cc, debuffs, healing (both self and pet) and pets themselves and some of the changes in the expansion have made us an even stronger soloing class. This article goes through some of the basics about preparing for soloing this type of content and I’ll share some of my early experiences. Soloing group content might not be for everyone, but personally I find the challenge pretty exciting in and of itself, and the rewards can be surprisingly good too in terms of deeds, crafting materials, gold and, for the later instances, IXP runes and relic boxes.
Lore-mastery: Tackling Draigoch
PB posted this on October 31st, 2011.
Categorized as cc, conjunction, Debuff, DPS, Draigoch, fellowship maneuver, gear, healing, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, Raid, Virtues.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/10/31/lore-mastery-tackling-draigoch-2/
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 got enough of an impression of the fight from what I’ve seen and reading other guides that I think I can offer some useful tips. This guide will mainly be focussed on preparation and characacter build, because quite frankly the fight itself is pretty boring mechanically. As long as you can follow your DPS group positioning leader and can hit FM buttons correctly, there’s really not much you need to be doing outside of your standard debuff/DPS/spot-heal/power-share role.
Class traits
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PB posted this on October 24th, 2011.
Categorized as crafting, Draigoch, gear, instances, isengard, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, Minstrel, Raid, reputation, Rune-keeper, skirmish, stats.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/10/24/lore-mastery-level-75-non-armour-gear/
The end-game gear treadmill has started anew, so it’s time to start sitting down and working out what pieces you should be shooting for. I won’t be talking about armour in this post, both because I’ve discussed the raid armour set in a previous post, and because I haven’t yet had the time to work out the best way of mixing and matching set pieces with random drops. I’ll probably do a later post updating this one when I get the chance, but for now I’m focussing on non-armour pieces. Also, while the discussion here is specifically aimed at lore-masters, most of the stat priorities are the same for each of the 3 tactical classes so the gear discussed here should be basically the same as for minstrels and rune-keepers.
Where to get loot
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PB posted this on October 9th, 2011.
Categorized as crowd control, Debuff, DPS, End Game, gear, healing, instances, legacy, legendary items, Lore-Master, loremaster, lotro, Raid, Rise Of Isengard.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/10/09/lore-mastery-lore-master-legendary-items-in-isengard/
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 that I think it’s worth putting together an updated guide to lore-master legacies. And while I’m here, I’ll also cover some of the basic information on when and why to upgrade your LIs, because there’s been some confusion about this on the forums recently.
When and why to upgrade your LIs
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