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[Nebu]

There has been some iffy exit placements as of late after zoneing.

Looks like I can log on any toon except my Burglar.  Guess that's Turbine's way of telling me to take a break.

[Cheddar]

No, its a sign from God to play your Warden.

[squirrel]

Well I logged in and discovered I have a 23 Warden and a 21 Hunter. Haven't tried the Hunter but checked out the Warden and managed to accidentally drop fellowship (I was confused.) Who do I bug for a re-invite to RoME?

[Tarami]

No, its a sign from God to play your Warden.

Proof that He is a cruel god.

[Nebu]

No, its a sign from God to play your Warden.

I thought about leveling a RK, but don't think I can bear the trip through Moria again. 

[Mrbloodworth]

With the way they have been adding alternate zones for that level band, I suspect it will become optional at some point (EPIC quest line the exception, but its optional itself), they still have the red pass to open. Once you get out, Moria is somewhat like a giant hub for dungeons (it has many) and Legendary item resources. Similarly, Lothlórien, is mostly and optional rep-grind, if you don't need the recipes or other novel items they sell, there isn't much of a point in doing that rep.

[rattran]

There's certainly enough content to get to 54 before entering moria, and should be an easy couple levels on fast quests, then head to outside moria at 56. +3/4 mobs should be doable on an RK, and I helped a pug of 54/55/56s in Nanduhirion before I left, they all had the quests but were having trouble with the mobs so I ran from camp to camp with them grabbing up mobs and dragging them away from objectives. Big puppy pile was pretty good at killing things I had pulled. A few deaths when someone boomed too hard.

So I think Moria is almost entirely skippable.

[edit] I just can't face the 18-28 bit, that's where things always seem to bog down for me. Will likely try leveling up the Mini more in a couple weeks if anyone wants to help. And Cheddar is always good for a reroll.

[caladein]

You still need to spend some time in Moria I think.  You can push Eregion up to 54 or so and bring down Lothlorien to 58 without much hassle.

Those four levels can easily be spent in the "good" zones of Great Delving, Durin's Way, Water Works, Redhorn Lodes, and possibly Flaming Deeps (although that may be a bit high at 57) especially if you mix in skirmishes and the odd Forgotten Treasury/Grand Stairs.

[caladein]

[edit] I just can't face the 18-28 bit, that's where things always seem to bog down for me. Will likely try leveling up the Mini more in a couple weeks if anyone wants to help. And Cheddar is always good for a reroll.

My RK's gone from 20-28 almost entirely through GB/Skirmishes, mostly before the skirmish dailies were fixed.

[Zetor]

Anecdote: My guildies were complaining about Moria (especially silvertine lodes... friends don't let friends quest in silvertine lodes) a lot, but in the end it was the introduction to Lothlorien quests that broke the camel's back. Ask me about the quest design for the 4 orc camps just outside Moria.  

However, you always have the option to skirmish it up instead of doing regular questing (or just to switch things up), which is really nice.

I've also been considering giving LOTRO a whirl again (solo this time, with a bunch of TP stored up) -- how often are dungeons pugged? Is it feasible to pug them on a smaller server like Silverlode at say, level 49 (captain) or 60 (LM)? Thanks!

[Nebu]

Anecdote: My guildies were complaining about Moria (especially silvertine lodes... friends don't let friends quest in silvertine lodes) a lot, but in the end it was the introduction to Lothlorien quests that broke the camel's back. Ask me about the quest design for the 4 orc camps just outside Moria.  

I found those orc camps to be brutal solo on my undergeared burglar.  If it weren't for all of the escape tricks, I would have repeatedly died to all the adds in those camps.

I also enjoyed leveling and rep grinding in Lothlorien.  I got some wonderful food recipes and a white horsie!

[Yegolev]

I have just completed (almost) the lv41 Westernesse heavy armor set for Fatwing.  I forgot about the shield, though, so I made that instead and I'm short an adamant shard and some dwarf iron to make the shoulders.

By the way, that's ten levels of almost nothing but skirmishes.  Currently in South Trollshaws digging up more dwarf iron ore.

[Cheddar]

There's certainly enough content to get to 54 before entering moria, and should be an easy couple levels on fast quests, then head to outside moria at 56. +3/4 mobs should be doable on an RK, and I helped a pug of 54/55/56s in Nanduhirion before I left, they all had the quests but were having trouble with the mobs so I ran from camp to camp with them grabbing up mobs and dragging them away from objectives. Big puppy pile was pretty good at killing things I had pulled. A few deaths when someone boomed too hard.

So I think Moria is almost entirely skippable.

[edit] I just can't face the 18-28 bit, that's where things always seem to bog down for me. Will likely try leveling up the Mini more in a couple weeks if anyone wants to help. And Cheddar is always good for a reroll.

God made skirms and maze runs to fly past those levels.

[Cheddar]

I have just completed (almost) the lv41 Westernesse heavy armor set for Fatwing.  I forgot about the shield, though, so I made that instead and I'm short an adamant shard and some dwarf iron to make the shoulders.

By the way, that's ten levels of almost nothing but skirmishes.  Currently in South Trollshaws digging up more dwarf iron ore.

Sorry to double post.  I have shards if you need them, just let me know in game.  They tend to gather dust in my house.

[Soln]

this just in: Vol. Chp 13 Bk 10 (?) Icereave Mines in Forochel (where you have to get a book through an instance, then another instance) is still impossible to solo.  Film at 11.

[Ingmar]

this just in: Vol. Chp 13 Bk 10 (?) Icereave Mines in Forochel (where you have to get a book through an instance, then another instance) is still impossible to solo.  Film at 11.

I am stuck on that step, we could probably duo it some time.

[Soln]

love too if I was on Brandywine.  Ridiculously hard even at 55 with great gear.

[Nebu]

God made skirms and maze runs to fly past those levels.

Skirms get old fast.

Just saying.

[rattran]

Well I logged in and discovered I have a 23 Warden and a 21 Hunter. Haven't tried the Hunter but checked out the Warden and managed to accidentally drop fellowship (I was confused.) Who do I bug for a re-invite to RoME?

Whoops, somehow missed this. There's been officers on most of the time for the last few weeks, and you can search in the /who on guild name reliably now. Otherwise I'm mostly on Eeso and Bressig, or bug Chedd on Ardelo.

As for stuck login on a toon, each time I've got stuck logging, alt-f4 and reattempting has gotten me right in.

[Nebu]

If you're on at night, Nebu can also invite.  

Rhyme time!

[squirrel]

Well I logged in and discovered I have a 23 Warden and a 21 Hunter. Haven't tried the Hunter but checked out the Warden and managed to accidentally drop fellowship (I was confused.) Who do I bug for a re-invite to RoME?

Whoops, somehow missed this. There's been officers on most of the time for the last few weeks, and you can search in the /who on guild name reliably now. Otherwise I'm mostly on Eeso and Bressig, or bug Chedd on Ardelo.

As for stuck login on a toon, each time I've got stuck logging, alt-f4 and reattempting has gotten me right in.

Cool, will do. I'll be on Sat/Sun so will look for these or bug in /who guild.

[Nebu]

As for stuck login on a toon, each time I've got stuck logging, alt-f4 and reattempting has gotten me right in.

What does alt+f4 do? 

[Rasix]

As for stuck login on a toon, each time I've got stuck logging, alt-f4 and reattempting has gotten me right in.

What does alt+f4 do? 

Closes an application.

Or the WoW trade channel description: "Alt F4 will bring up the option for a free timerless port to Dalaran". 

[Nebu]

I guess I do things the hard way.  I use the task manager to stop the game and then relog.  In my case, that didn't help at all. 

My toon had zoned onto a bad sector.  When the game tried to find my toon, it was located in a place that didn't exist and caused some type of crash loop.  I had to follow a sequence of instructions to get my toon out of that loop.

[Azazel]

God made skirms and maze runs to fly past those levels.

Skirms get old fast.
Just saying.

Yeah, this is an issue. What I enjoyed about the game when I was actively playing was doing quests in, you know, Middle Earth. Skirmishes are a nice side dish, but the quests are what made this game fun for me. Level cap doesn't really hold a lot of interest for me, either. It seems similar to WoW's in some sense, but with less to do.

[FatuousTwat]

Evendim, Lone-Lands and North Downs 75% off, today only.

[Stormwaltz]

Money drops have skyrocketed compared to my memories, particularly on the Barrows. I'm just a bit over 26 on my new character, and I have 1.3 gold. That's after dropping 500s on a horse, and without selling a single blessed thing on BreeBay.

EDIT: I suspect the ability to stack craploads of drop trophies has helped quite a bit.

[Mrbloodworth]

lol breebay. 

[Rishathra]

Yeah, good one.

[Nebu]

If people are still on the fence about this game, the next month may be a fun time to give it another look.  The Fall festival event is going on and it's a lot of fun.  The quest that has you do the Shire pub crawl is worth the laughs alone.

[Mrbloodworth]

There is also a new item, haunted house thing in the shire.

[Nebu]

The Haunted House is a fun maze... don't go into it unless you have time to kill.

[Nebu]

Update: Game is starting to feel like WoW's endgame to me, at least from the perspective of a solo player.  I log on, do dailies, a skirm or two, and decide if I want to do some deed/rep grinding.  I contemplate rolling an alt, but am filled with dread at the notion of grinding the same rep/deed stuff that I hated doing the first time. 

I'm going to hold on until enough people are around to start running through instances.  I think that might be entertaining enough to hold my interest until the next content update.  Are there even enough people at or near endgame in the kin to give me hope that dungeon runs might take place?

[Hutch]

A friend/co-worker of mine started playing LotRO earlier this year, and played for a while, and then mostly quit. I asked him what was up, and he told me that he'd gotten burned out trying to finish off his deed list. And I had one of those "doh!" moments, because I could have told him not to do that :)

What deeds I've finished on my toons have been just those I've acquired through normal exploring and questing. If I manage to kill X orcs in Y zone, it's because they were between me and the mcguffin, or I had a quest to defeat them directly, or something along those lines. Grinding deeds ranks up there with rep grinds as some of the most dick-punching bad-MMO aspects of LotRO, in my opinion.

[Yegolev]

I generally only grind deeds on my "main", and only if I feel like it.  For Fatwing, I realized I had to kill a lot of wargs to gain the Man/Bree Teleport and so I did that, but it was tedious.  She's really anemic on the deeds but I can't say I have noticed the loss in most cases.  With Dwuli being my second, he's not 100% on some things just because of the been-there-done-that factor.  I still don't notice the missing bits.  The only one I think is really and truly necessary is the home-town teleport.