Kiarane posted this on August 6th, 2010.
Categorized as New Player Advice, decorations, housing, new player.
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Here’s a short video explaining the decoration system of Lotro housing. While most present players will not find this video useful, new players may find it handy to understand how to use decorations before purchasing a house.
Stay tune for How to manage and abandon a house soon!
Read the rest of this entry »Punggo posted this on August 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as Community, Deeds, General, helping, new player.
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It has been said many times (and I agree) that LOTRO has the greatest community of any MMO out there. Players are by and large respectful towards each other in their in-game interactions, and new players are not insulted when they ask basic questions about game play in the chat channel. I think our community is one of our greatest strengths.
Having said that, I felt like I should take a brief break from my lore posts to point out a bit of a problem that I have seen repeatedly over the last few weeks.
Many players do not like deed grinding, and they tend to put off building up their 
virtue traits in particular until they start seriously contemplating doing a lot of dungeon runs (somewhere between levels 50 and 65). So what happens is that these high-level characters go back to lower-level zones to grab the deeds for the traits they want to build up. (Anybody want to help me grind Forochel?)
Goldenstar posted this on June 21st, 2010.
Categorized as Guide, Guides, New Player Advice, emotes, new player.
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A feature in LOTRO that doesn’t get much attention but that I do use quite often is using the built in emote animations with your own emote text. It’s a wonderful option that can bring just a little extra life to your role-play or even just goofing around.
It really is that simple! Let me show you an example of how it would work.
Read the rest of this entry »Merric posted this on April 14th, 2010.
Categorized as General, Hobbit Rage, new player, quest.
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So, the other night Goldenstar and I are waiting to do the dreaded escort quest and we happen to see a number of people in this area of the Lone-lands running around killing goblins. Sure enough as we actually get close to the NPC to turn in the pendant and start the quest a hobbit runs up and starts the quest. He and several others follow him and off they go. No sweat, they were there first I don’t mind that they took him, just that I’m going to be sitting there for 10 minutes or so waiting for him to re-spawn; but that’s not their fault. That’s just how long it takes.
Now interestingly enough as we’re waiting there a hunter from the previous group runs back to us and starts standing around. “Interesting,” I think to myself and I start to get a little agitated. A minute or so goes by and another hunter shows up. Then another. I call out to Goldenstar in the other room and I tell her that she should just turn in the quest (I was able to turn mine in before the Hobbit got there) and start it off. But then I start thinking. Is this really what I want to do? Do I really want to be that kind of guy?
Read the rest of this entry »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.
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.
| Cosmetic | Picture | Campaign Mark |
| White Hair |  |
Naillan Campaign Mark |
| Blonde Hair |  |
Cannuilan Campaign Mark |
| Red Hair |  |
Adlan Campaign Mark |
| Black Hair |  |
Eruilan Campaign Mark |
| Medium Hair – Tight Bun |  |
Cannuilan Campaign Mark |
| Long Hair – Pulled Back |  |
Eruilan Campaign Mark |
| Medium Hair – Pigtails |  |
Naillan Campaign Mark |
| Blue Commoner Outfit |  |
Adlan Campaign Mark |
| Green Commoner Outfit |  |
Cannuilan Campaign Mark |
| Red Commoner Outfit |  |
Adlan Campaign Mark |
| Fancy Blue Outfit |  |
Naillan Campaign Mark |
| Chain Guard Outfit |  |
Cannuilan Campaign Mark |
| Leather Guard Outfit |  |
Eruilan Campaign Mark |
| Scale Guard Outfit |  |
Eruilan Campaign Mark |
| Dress and Coat |  |
Naillan Campaign Mark |
| Dwarf Surcoat |  |
Adlan Campaign Mark |
| Elven Surcoat |  |
Cannuilan Campaign Mark |
| Hobbit Surcoat |  |
Naillan Campaign Mark |
| Man Surcoat |  |
Adlan Campaign Mark |
| Default |  |
None |
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:
Read the rest of this entry »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:
Read the rest of this entry »Merric posted this on January 4th, 2010.
Categorized as Dungeon Guides, Guide, Rewards, Skirmishes, new player.
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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!
Read the rest of this entry »Merric posted this on December 29th, 2009.
Categorized as Dungeon Guides, Guide, New Player Advice, Rewards, Skirmishes, new player.
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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.
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