Merric posted this on February 6th, 2010.
Categorized as Guide, Guides, Rewards, Skirmish Guides, Skirmishes, how-to, new player.
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In this section, we take a look at the new Cosmetic Items for sale through the Cosmetic vendors that are located in the Bullroarer Skirmish camps. In order to find them, set the “Filter by Profile” drop-down menu to read “Rift Cosmetic Clothing”. These new items include a cloak, a top hat, a fisherman’s backpack and the Rift helms! All of these items are wearable by all classes (even the Rift Helms) but are not purchasable with the existing Campaign Marks. It looks like with the new skirmish “Rift Rescue” we will also be obtaining a new Campaign, and along with it a new Campaign Mark, the Lefnuilan Campaign Mark. This campaign currently only contains “Rift Rescue”, but I would assume that there will be future Skirmishes that will fall into this campaign released as Volume 3’s books are released.
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Merric posted this on January 18th, 2010.
Categorized as Barter, Dungeon Guides, Guide, Guides, Rewards, Skirmishes, how-to, new player.
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This week we take a look at the Hobbit-lass Soldier cosmetic items. I would like to thank both Pericles of The House of Blackrock on Windfola and Goldenstar for helping with the gathering of these photos. It is very much appreciated! Remember, that each cosmetic costs 1 specific Campaign Mark and 77 Skirmish Marks and can be purchased from a Cosmetics vendor at any of the Skirmish Camps.
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Merric posted this on January 11th, 2010.
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Today’s guide is the Woman Skirmish Soldier race’s cosmetic traits. Again, I would like to thank Kaelin from my kinship, The Council of the Secret Fire for all of his help with this post. He actually had all of the cosmetics available for the Elf-maiden (as well as others which will be seen in future posts) and was gracious enough to allow me to take screenshots of all the cosmetics despite the cost of constantly switching traits; not to mention all the Skirmish and Campaign marks it cost him. Thanks Kaelin!
Also, if you would like to help with this project, I am currently looking for screenshots of the following Hobbit-lass outfits for next week:
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Merric posted this on January 5th, 2010.
Categorized as Guide, New Player Advice, Rewards, Skirmishes, new player.
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It was brought up in a previous post’s comments by Korrath that if you did not want to purchase cosmetic items you could go ahead and redeem them for Skirmish Marks, which is completely true. In order to do this, go to the Curiosities Vendor and set the “Filter by Profile” dropdown menu to “Redeem Marks”. You will be then be presented with the following filtered list of items which can be in turn be redeemed for more Skirmish Marks.
However, before you go bartering away all your different marks there are some things that you should be aware of first:
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Merric posted this on January 4th, 2010.
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Skirmish Soldiers are a very customizable component of skirmishes. They have quite a few skills, traits, and other components that can be increased, swapped, and customized to create a very viable and reliable companion. However, they are also quite customizable when it comes to their looks as well. There are a total of seven different “races” that you can choose your soldier to become, and each race has 19 to 20 different cosmetic traits can be used to change the soldier’s hair style, hair color, and clothes. Each cosmetic costs 1 specific Campaign Mark and 77 Skirmish Marks and can be purchased from a Cosmetics vendor at any of the Skirmish Camps.
The following table consists of the different cosmetics available for the Elf-maiden soldier race. I would like to thank Kaelin from my kinship, The Council of the Secret Fire for all of his help with this post. He actually had all of the cosmetics available for the Elf-maiden (as well as others which will be seen in future posts) and was gracious enough to allow me to take screenshots of all the cosmetics despite the cost of constantly switching traits; not to mention all the Skirmish and Campaign marks it cost him. Thanks Kaelin!
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Merric posted this on December 29th, 2009.
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In this section, we take a look at the Cosmetic Items for sale through the Cosmetic vendors that are located in the Skirmish camps. In order to find them, set the “Filter by Profile” drop-down menu to read “Cosmetic Items”. These items include cloaks, hats, backpacks and a shovel! Personally, these are the items that I’m excited about. The backpacks and the hats seem a lot more exciting in my opinion. Especially the Makeshift Ranger Mask, which I think we’ll see a ton of people running around with in the future. I personally am in love with the cosmetic items and I think that they will offer a great way for me to start customizing all my different characters.
*Note: To see where there specific Campaign (Special) marks drop, see the previous post on cosmetic rewards.
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Merric posted this on December 28th, 2009.
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One of the more fun rewards (or as Goldenstar says, the only rewards worth having) are the Cosmetic Clothing items that can be obtained from running Skirmishes. The rewards covered in this post can be purchased from the Cosmetics vendors located in all the Skirmish camps and vary from hauberks, to boots, to dresses, to tunic and pant combinations. In order to find them, set the “Filter by Profile” drop-down menu to read “Cosmetic Clothing” as seen in the picture above.
Each reward requires a combination of both regular Skirmish Marks and Campaign Marks. Campaign Marks, by design, drop off of both bosses and Lieutenants; however it has been stated that encounters “…are your primary source of campaign marks, though they won’t drop every time.” Also, only certain Skirmish instances drop certain Campaign Marks, so if you are going after a certain item it’s important that you are running the correct Skirmishes.
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Merric posted this on December 21st, 2009.
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OK…. So I’m not really sure if this counts as being “Outside LOTRO” or not, but it seems to qualify in my mind, because even though it’s something that’s used within LOTRO it’s something that’s created outside of the game. In my mind, this sounds like a rational enough justification to write an article about it!
So what are User Interfaces? Well, they are “skins” that can be used to customize the user interface within LOTRO. For those of you who have played World of Warcraft and have use “mods”, these may seem somewhat familiar in their nature, but they do not add functionality; just personality using aesthetics. In their most technical of terms, they are image files tied together and positioned by an XML file (SkinDefinition.xml) which will override the game’s default settings once selected in the User Interface section of the Options Menu.
In order to better explain them I have created two videos to show how to install and manage User Interfaces. If you have any questions, feel free to post them here and either I or someone else will be happy to answer them.
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Merric posted this on December 18th, 2009.
Categorized as General, moria, new player.
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Upon our return to Lord of the Rings Online Goldenstar and myself plunged straight into the expansion. We found ourselves plunged into both a delightful and wonderful world once again. Fortunately for us we have had time to play through a large portion of the content concerning the mines themselves, including some of the dungeons thanks to our wonderful guild on Landroval, The Council of the Secret Fire. And I thought that I would give an overview of what I think of our time spent in one of the most dangerous areas of Middle-Earth.
Although there is a part of us that is focused on leveling (and gaining faction) to get to out of Moria, into Lothlórien and eventually into Mirkwood ; I think we’ve been getting a good view of what Moria (the zone)has to offer.
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Goldenstar posted this on December 15th, 2009.
Categorized as Events, Guide, Yule, costume, festival, mount, new player, quest, walkthrough.
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Yule is here and 2009 brings a brand new set of events and games to enjoy. This guide is here to help you discover all the fun to be had and help you get your seasonal goodies!
The main bartering item for this event are Yule Festival Tokens. The quests to earn these tokens are repeatable so you can in fact earn enough tokens to get all the goodies the festival offers (granted you have enough time).
The quests are mostly broken up into four major regions in Middle Earth:
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In this section, we take a look at the new Cosmetic Items for sale through the Cosmetic vendors that are located in the Bullroarer Skirmish camps. In order to find them, set the “Filter by Profile” drop-down menu to read “Rift Cosmetic Clothing”. These new items include a cloak, a top hat, a fisherman’s backpack and the Rift helms! All of these items are wearable by all classes (even the Rift Helms) but are not purchasable with the existing Campaign Marks. It looks like with the new skirmish “Rift Rescue” we will also be obtaining a new Campaign, and along with it a new Campaign Mark, the Lefnuilan Campaign Mark. This campaign currently only contains “Rift Rescue”, but I would assume that there will be future Skirmishes that will fall into this campaign released as Volume 3’s books are released.
