Docholiday, the Warden’s Warden

Hobbit and Redhead posted this on November 2nd, 2009. It has 1 Comment »
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His blog has been men­tioned before but bears repeat­ing. If you play a War­den, you should be read­ing Docholiday’s blog.

Today’s install­ment on tank­ing gam­bits is pure gold — Auc­tion House gold, the best kind.

Cheers,
Hobbit

Tips: Help for Hall of Mirrors

Hobbit and Redhead posted this on September 21st, 2009. It has No Comments »
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I’m glad 2 High Road posted Con­quer­ing the Hall of Mir­rors!

The only time Hob­bit attempted Hall of Mir­rors was dur­ing an inter­minable rota­tion with 1 per­son anchor­ing the 3-man, and 5 of the rest of us tak­ing turns as the other 2 play­ers in the instance.

We were all Defend­ers of Amon Sul, so it was not as trau­matic as a PUG, but it was no fun walk in the park either.

By the time my 60 War­den joined, every­thing was cleared out and it was just the final boss lady.  And, wow, is she mean!  After 4 wipes, we finally gave up the ghost.  2 High Road’s guide is much appreciated.

Watch Out for the Swamp Thing

Tony posted this on January 8th, 2009. It has No Comments »
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Swamped One

RGilthanas has a post on the offi­cial LotRO forums about an encounter with “The Swamped One”. This creepy, violet-colored crea­ture is both Elite and Level 60 and was (under­stand­ably) pretty much imper­vi­ous to all of RGilthanas’s Level 51 abilities.

It turns out that The Swamped One is actu­ally a spe­cial mob for the War­den’s class quests. He’s sup­posed to spawn in the Foun­da­tions of Stone in Moria, but appar­ently has been pop­ping up else­where. It might be a bit of fun to take him out if you’re capa­ble, but every­one else should just avoid him entirely.

Patience says as dev looked into this and said the fol­low­ing:

The logic gov­ern­ing his spawn­ing was flawed, result­ing in some rather unfair behav­ior towards low level char­ac­ters. I’ve made and sub­mit­ted fixes for this that will go in the next build inter­nally and will ulti­mately end up on the live worlds.

Until then, that place is evil, don’t go near it =)

Should be fixed soon. In the mean­time, I thought it was pretty amus­ing.

Rune-keeper and Warden Developer Diary Video

Tony posted this on October 31st, 2008. It has 1 Comment »
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MMORPG​.com posted a new Devel­oper Diary Video today. I can’t seem to fig­ure out where they got it and unfor­tu­nately they don’t allow you to embed their videos elsewhere.

The video gives some gen­eral details on the new War­den and Rune-keeper classes, nar­rated by Cardell Kerr, Cre­ative Direc­tor, and Ryan Bed­nar, Lead Game Sys­tems Designer. While it doesn’t offer any new infor­ma­tion, it is a nice way to see both of the classes in action.

Captains, Guardians and Wardens Beyond Level 50

Tony posted this on October 20th, 2008. It has No Comments »
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Another group of three Devel­oper Diaries have appeared on the offi­cial LotRO Web site. This time around, they cover the Guardian, Cap­tain and War­den’s advance­ment beyond Level 50. As with the other classes, each diary dis­cusses equip­ment options, skill adjust­ments, new skills and three new Trait Sets.

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