Candace posted this on August 24th, 2010.
Categorized as Free to Play, General, LOTR, Virtues, crafting, editorial, leveling, lotro, lotro reporter, suggestion.
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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.
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on August 16th, 2010.
Categorized as End Game, Free to Play, Minstral, Minstrel, Traits, Virtues, Warden, alts, blog, champion, champions, legacy, legendary items, lotro, podcast, threat.
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Just a quick update this Monday morning, but I should have another post out today with some new goodies on the Skirmish vendors over on Bullroarer.
I posted a new version of my traits discussion over on the LOTRO Reporter which took a slightly different approach from the post I did here a while back. The one over on LOTRO Reporter is a bit more high-level while the post on this blog is more detail oriented.
I also joined @Theobor on his latest episode of the Gondor Awaits Podcast chatting about Minstrels, so if you’re interested in my take on that class head on over there.
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on July 24th, 2010.
Categorized as End Game, Equipment, Raids and End-game, Traits, Virtues, gear, group, lotro, podcast, radiance.
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In case you missed the notification, you can catch me as a guest on episode 47 of the LOTRO Reporter podcast. We focus mainly on the End-game content as we go through what you should do to prepare and run the various instances and raids. I’m going to follow that up with a more detailed post on Radiance gear either tomorrow or Monday.
DocHoliday posted this on July 24th, 2010.
Categorized as End Game, Enedwaith, Equipment, Free to Play, Mirkwood, Raids and End-game, Skirmishes, Traits, Virtues, epic line, expansion, gear, group, hard-mode, legendary items, lore, lotro, screenshots, volume 3.
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This past week has been quite busy on the news front for LOTRO and I will admit I’ve been quite behind. This has just been a pretty long week for me with my job and as such I’ve barely been able to keep up on the news, let alone comment on it. However, I wanted to touch on a few of the releases as there’s some good (and not so good) updates of late.
First up is the HUGE Developer Diary covering the new region Enedwaith which covers pretty well the new zones, their history and influences, their general storylines, and some of the kinds of enemies you’ll face. I’m looking forward to not only exploring all of the new spaces, but I really like the idea of pulling from Medieval Welsh and Briton influences. I’m also very impressed by the size (bigger and more quests then the North Downs) and all the new artwork as I will admit I’m getting a little tired of not only the darkness of Mirkwood but goblins and orcs 
There are lots of new screenshots in the diary, but these were 2 of my favorites:
DocHoliday posted this on July 16th, 2010.
Categorized as End Game, Equipment, Mirkwood, Raid, Skirmishes, Traits, Virtues, captain, gear, group, legacy, legendary items, lotro, moors, podcast, pvp, radiance, threat.
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If you missed it live (or want to listen to it again), a Casual Stroll to Mordor’s Captain Roundtable is now posted both on their site and on iTunes. I participated but definitely Elb and Geiri really do know their stuff and they do play their captains slightly different. If you have a captain or want to learn more about the class, it is certainly well worth the listen. It is a little long (a shade over 2 hours) but we do also cover a bunch of other group related topics as well. The build-up and recording of it certainly has gotten me more fired up about the class and I’m actually working on my captain again as well as working on his radiance. I did finally hit 65 and realized that I really do miss the class I’m not saying he’s going to become my main again, but certainly not banished to the Thorin’s Hall Homestead either.
DocHoliday posted this on July 14th, 2010.
Categorized as End Game, Enedwaith, Free to Play, Raid, Traits, Virtues, beta, epic line, expansion, gear, group, lore, lotro, screenshots, volume 3.
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There’s been a rush of news lately with quite a few putting out updates on the beta, new zone, and Turbine Store. Folks have covered some of these already but I will include my take on them as well.
First up is the interview Mordor of Bust conducted with Kate Paiz, LOTRO’s new Executive Producer who was also part of DDO’s transition to the Free to play model. A couple things that jumped out at me but certainly take a read for yourself:
DocHoliday posted this on July 9th, 2010.
Categorized as Free to Play, Traits, Virtues, expansion, festival, lotro, reputation.
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So part 2 of Massively’s coverage of the new fall content and F2P switch (Part 1) was posted this morning and it covers both the new festival and the store.
The haunted cellar sounds really cool and very fall-like I’m actually quite intrigued about not only how it will look but the themed decorations that will be available with the token rewards Hopefully they’ll use the fear logic from BG such that you can be feared and randomly run around and trigger more fun!
The meat of what I wanted to write about was the info on the store. Now I realize this is all subject to change as we’re still in the beta, but I’m sure there will be LOTS of upset folks over the addition of items to reduce the in-game grind. In certain cases I’m all for it, but I see them handling it two separate ways, one I like and the other I don’t.
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on July 8th, 2010.
Categorized as BG, End Game, Equipment, Mirkwood, Raid, Raids and End-game, Traits, Virtues, captain, crafting, epic line, gear, group, legacy, legendary items, lotro, moors, podcast, radiance, threat.
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In case you missed the post from a Casual Stroll to Mordor I will be participating in another roundtable tonight, this time focusing on Captains. If you can join us live at 9pm Eastern (-5GMT) there will be a live chat room where you can participate. The link for the chat room information is either on CStM’s live page or on the LOTRO Network. Or you can feel free to post questions here or on their thread, or email one of us if you have specific questions or topics you’d like us to cover. It will be a similar format to the Warden roundtable.
And if you can’t make it live, we’ll both be posting when it it released.
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on July 1st, 2010.
Categorized as Equipment, Minstral, Minstrel, Mirkwood, Raids and End-game, Traits, Virtues, legendary items, lotro, video.
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After reading this thread over on Casual Stroll to Mordor I figured that not only would I run this to make sure I still could do it, but record it, and post about it.
For those of you who haven’t run this instance, it is a solo quest out of the later Mirkwood quest zones Thangulhad. One of the draws of this quest is that it is one of the few (I mainly just do 2 of the dailies) that rewards the Gold Star Emblems. Check out Chordian.net for what you can use these for, but mainly the Horse, Port, and Legendary item stuff including the Scroll of Delving which adds 10 levels to your legendary item. I actually will grab this quest and the one for the black badges of dishonor as I find usually I can get the 5 badges I need while finishing up the instance. That way I can get my 2 Gold Star Emblems and Item XP all in one shot.
In this quest you are proceeding with 2 dwarves trying to seal up an area that the goblins are using to possibly penetrate and harass the various Mirkwood camps. And of course, both of these dwarves need to survive in order for you to complete the quest. Because of the escorts and the number of mobs, this is usually viewed as on of the tougher solo instances in the game and pretty darn hard on certain classes.
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on June 30th, 2010.
Categorized as End Game, Equipment, Mirkwood, Raids and End-game, Skirmishes, Traits, Virtues, Warden, gambits, gear, group, legacy, legendary items, lotro, moors, podcast, pvp, radiance, threat.
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As I mentioned a week or so ago I participated on the Casual Stroll to Mordor’s podcast as part of their class roundtables, this one focused on the Warden class. I will admit it is a bit of a long episode (tad over 2 hours) but it was fun to not only have my thoughts but a couple other very good Wardens as well. Both Azz and Ryodor play the class slightly differently then me and have different experiences so it is a nice diversion from my ramblings.
For those of you looking to pick up additional tricks or are just starting out with the class I’d strongly suggest taking a listen.
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