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Redo: Screenshot Blog for LOTRO

Tony posted this on April 5th, 2010. It has 1 Comment »
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It’s Time to Say Farewell

Tony posted this on January 28th, 2010. It has 14 Comments »
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This may come as a bit of sur­prise, but I’ve decided to close up MMeOw.

I felt this way a few months ago and was encour­aged by sup­port from fel­low LOTRO blog­gers and pod­cast­ers. I stuck it out and, in many ways, I was happy I did.

Still, I know what it is that I’d like to do … unfor­tu­nately, that means let­ting go of this site. There are too many other things I need to do and wish to accom­plish, things I want to learn, places I want to go. True, MMeOw in and of itself is not pre­vent­ing those things nec­es­sar­ily, but I spend a sig­nif­i­cant amount of time, money and energy on it. While I still love the game and plan on con­tin­u­ing to play it reg­u­larly (it’s almost all I play it seems!), my pas­sion for writ­ing about it and main­tain­ing this site has dwindled.

I’ve really loved writ­ing here and I hope other peo­ple have enjoyed it as well. The LOTRO and extended MMORPG com­mu­nity have really been won­der­ful toward me and this site. I’ve appre­ci­ated the kind words and help along the way. I’m prob­a­bly most sorry that it’ll dis­ap­point some peo­ple in doing this, but I think you’ll for­give me :) .

MMeOw was some­thing I wanted to do because, at the time, there were rel­a­tively few LOTRO blogs out there. Now there’s quite a few of excel­lent ones out there, headed up by some really great peo­ple. I think this makes it a lit­tle eas­ier to move on (please don’t read this wrong, as I don’t want to over­state my impor­tance). I encour­age any­one who vis­its here to check out the LOTRO Combo Blog, which links to quite a few of them. As of right now, I plan on leav­ing that run­ning indef­i­nitely; how­ever, if any­one wants to pick up the reins on that, let me know.

If you still want to know what I’m up to, you can visit my more per­sonal site, radish​.me, or fol­low my non-MMeOw twit­ter.

Thanks!


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Clarification on Barad Guldur Gate Issues

Tony posted this on January 27th, 2010. It has No Comments »
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Return to Moria: Day 3

Tony posted this on January 26th, 2010. It has No Comments »
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The dwarves of the Deep Descent seemed pleased with what Elu­veril had accom­plished. A few of them told her she should move on to the Cham­ber of the Cross­roads. This proved to be pretty sim­ple as she’d been there before; a quick pay­ment to the local sta­ble keeper and she was on her way.

The Cham­ber of the Cross­roads itself is a rel­a­tively small area on the far east­ern side of Durin’s Way. The sur­round­ing area turned out to be sur­pris­ingly con­fus­ing, with rises and falls and a mul­ti­tude of dead ends. It didn’t help that the ene­mies that prowled the area, par­tic­u­larly to the north and the east, were still par­tic­u­larly strong. It turned out that the dwarves were sim­ply ask­ing too much of her. While she could take on a sin­gle Mer­roval, she never was able to make it to their actual roost­ing grounds. Sim­i­larly, while she could take on most lone gob­lins in the area, they tended to form groups around the drums she was asked to destroy. It was a los­ing game.

Some time was also spent help­ing Bori, who had me run­ning what appeared to be a fool’s errand: find­ing a leg­endary mithril axe. She’s not had too much luck yet, unfortunately.

It was decided that more time should be spent build­ing her skills and strength. Elu­veril killed a good many gob­lins, bats and wargs. She even man­aged to gather some leg­endary weapons, all of which were quickly iden­ti­fied and decon­structed. While the Frost Rune-stone she cur­rently uses isn’t ideal, a Lightning-based one has yet to pop up.

Moria has offered a nice assort­ment of met­als and ores as well, but in order to refine and smelt, Elu­veril has to find a forge. So far, she’s not had much luck, but the Twenty-first Hall is said to con­tain one. This area is even fur­ther east, but the route so far has been sur­pris­ingly quiet. The halls that lead there are immense, open and bright … Not some­thing orcs and gob­lins seem to pre­fer. Hope­fully she’ll reach her des­ti­na­tion soon.

Next time, Elu­veril keeps help­ing Bori and advances to the Twenty-first Hall.

(My apolo­gies for the short update and lack of images… My com­puter crapped out on me. All is good now!)

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Upcoming Changes to the Dastardly “Hounding Fear”

Tony posted this on January 22nd, 2010. It has No Comments »
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