I have a tendancy to walk off cliffs in LotRO. Most of this time this on accident, like when I don’t realize the ground is suddenly going to give out under me and turn into a 90 degree drop. Angmar!!!
I’m very familiar with the nasty “snap!” sound and walking debuff, unfortunately.
Every so often, though, it’s on purpose. There are reasons. A handful of them are arguably good. There’s that gold node you just need to get to before you sign off. Or maybe it’s a gigantic time saver compared to running down the side of a mountain and enraging four hundred wargs.
If you’ve done this, you’re likely also aware that there’s a point where you’re just going to die instead of just messing up your leg. Dying in this case is still not so great; you get Dread just like you would if an enemy kills you.
I’ve slowly developed ways to minimize this.
- Avoid charging a drop head-on at full speed. I tend to take a few smaller steps. It makes it easier to see what you should do next.
- Avoid slightly angled drops. These tend to be impossible to get any footing on. Your momentum will send you sliding and you’ll be launched off an edge, sending you too far from any platforms. You’re screwed in this case.
- Run parallel to the cliff once you start falling. More than likely if you hug a cliff side, you’ll slide down it. Walking parallel to the cliff at this point seems to heighten the chance that you’ll actually get some footing on a platform on the way.
- Do your best to hit smaller platforms on the way down. Even if you don’t stop on these entirely, they can slow you down and decrease the chance that you’ll die.
Is this helpful or sad? I report, you decide.
Hahahaha. This is so us.
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Moria is a great place to practice falling. ;-p
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My problem isn’t typically falling myself; it’s because I decided it’d be great to /follow Merric and browse a bit or check twitter while he taxi’s me to where I need to go.
Merric’s notoriously bad at finding places to fall. Any hole large enough for his little hobbit body to find, he’ll find it and plummet to his death and I have to slam on the breaks to prevent me following behind him.
I do however like to jump off tall things. If left standing idle at a cliff long enough, I will jump. I blame the others for not occuping my time properly. When my brother played MMOs with me, we used to dare each other to jump off things just to see where you land. The others in the fellowship didn’t really appreciate it as much as we did though. Mostly Merric would be annoyed while we were laughing our bums off.
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I still chuckle when I think about a kinship group a couple of years back that set off to do the circle of despair deed in Barad Gularan. Follow me I know the way shouted one of us as he mounted quickly and headed off … right over a cliff. The rest of us dutifully followed to our doom and general merriment all round.
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