Tony posted this on December 11th, 2008. It has 2 Comments »
Categorized as Guides.
Tagged as Guide, Holiday, Yule Festival, Yule Festival Tokens.
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Yule Festival began today in LotRO. You can gather up Yule Festival Tokens for gifts, earn a new mount type and get a Yule Tree housing item if you like.
As usual, you’ll want to see your local Town Crier for explanations of all the things going on. I’ll split these tasks up by area for you below. If I’ve missed any, just let me know.
Tony posted this on November 17th, 2008. It has No Comments »
Categorized as Guides, Loremaster.
Tagged as Guide, Lore-master, Non-combat Pets.
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Many MMORPGs allow characters to have so called “non-combat” pets. They serve no real purpose and simply follow your character around once they’re summoned. A lot of people enjoy this little extra, however, and the practice has become extremely common. World of Warcraft, for example, seemingly has dozens of the things. Some of them can be purchased, while others are far more rare. Either way, they’re quite popular and some Korean developed MMORPGs revolve around them.
Many people don’t know that there are non-combat pets in LotRO. The most likely reason why people don’t know is that the ability is restricted to only one class in the game: Lore–masters. The other reason is that this ability wasn’t added until Book 11, a while after the launch of the game.
In LotRO a Lore–master can only have one pet out at a time, regardless as to whether or not it’s combat or non-combat. Don’t expect your little snake friend to dish out any damage .… Their sole goal in life is to be cute and impress your friends.
Tony posted this on October 13th, 2008. It has 4 Comments »
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Tagged as Guide, Traits, Traits and Virtues, Valour, Virtues.
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I’ve run into a surprising amount of people who don’t know about traits in LotRO. They’re an important part of the game and can make your life much easier.
Edit: I restructured this article to give a better idea of where you can find the deeds you need.
Traits are essentially statistical and ability boosts you can gain and apply to your character. Some are race and class specific, but most fall into a category known as Virtues (there is table of all of these in the Lorebook). Each virtue contains a few stat upgrades and can be raised as high as Rank 10. As you may imagine, a Rank 1 Virtue will be notably weaker than a Rank 10 Virtue. Of course, getting Virtues to Rank 10 is not an easy thing. Many people have Virtues all over the spectrum because of this.
Typically gaining these involves fulfilling specific deeds (you can quickly check your Deed Log by pressing Shift+L). Virtue deeds are location based (such as killing so many mobs in Bree-land) are divided into two parts: the first unlocks a title, while the second unlocks a Trait increase. So for example, killing 30 goblins might net you a title and killing 60 more would unlock the Trait. Others are unlocked by exploring; finding all of the local ruins, for example.
With enemy-based traits, many require what is seemingly a ridiculous amount of kills to unlock. Due to the more “grind” heavy nature of this, typically people will group up and take on a Trait together. As long as your in each other’s general vicinity, each kill your group makes will count. This will speed things up significantly.
Just remember that unlocking a Trait isn’t enough. A bard must apply it for you. Bards reside in every town of importance. Changing your Traits costs money, but it’s unlikely you’ll be doing it so often that it will bankrupt you. How many you can equip depends on your level, but even at Level 50 you have to make choices. Some will fit your class or race better than others.
This article will be the first of several detailing the Virtues in the game, which ones your class or race should use and how you unlock them. I hope people find them useful. Just keep in mind they won’t all have this super long introduction 
.
Read on to find out more about the Valour Virtue.
Tony posted this on September 26th, 2008. It has 12 Comments »
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Tagged as Fall Festival, Fall Festival Tokens, Guide, Mask Tokens.
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I’ve already posted that the Harvest Festival has started. I always found it kind of odd that the Summer and Fall festivals are so close to one another considering nothing else goes on the rest of the year … but that’s another point entirely.
Anyway, I figured it would be nice to write up a little guide concerning where to go and what to do for the Festival. There’s quite a bit going on and it can be a bit overwhelming. If you’d rather find out for yourself, I suggest at least talking to the Town Criers. They’re a more recent addition to the game and they give some very useful information as to where to go for events.
I’ve divided these up by area so you can more easily follow along. I’ve also listed all of the Bartering options at the end. Update: I got Caderly’s OK to post his coordinates for each Troves and Trickery NPC as well.
