Mike over at Under the Ban­ner wrote a great post on some­thing some of us LotRO blog­gers (there’s more and more of us lately!) thought deserved more atten­tion: the Lore­book.

As you likely already know, LotRO lacks a great third party data­base akin to WoW’s Wow­head. Sure, there’s Allak­hazam and LotRODB, but nei­ther are con­sis­tently updated or easy to use. Tur­bine offers very lit­tle in the way of web­mas­ter sup­port com­pared to Bliz­zard, which is likely a good part of the reason.

On the flip­side, Tur­bine offers its own inclu­sive Lore­book wiki sys­tem that is meant to pick up the slack. Unfor­tu­nately, this sys­tem is only as good as what play­ers put into it. As of late, it has seemed like there’s been less and less moti­va­tion for many to add to it. I cer­tainly under­stand that sen­ti­ment and am not out to blame peo­ple for it (it’s not like I’ve been a force in that regard ).

How­ever, many of us seem to be in agree­ment that we have to work with what we have. The Lore­book des­per­ately needs atten­tion. Any player out there likely has some­thing to add, whether its addi­tional details, images of equip­ment or updates on skills. Many things that have been added through the Mines of Moria expan­sion are still not present in the Lore­book and with the upcom­ing release of Book 7, things are just going to get worse.

Mike had some basic rec­om­men­da­tions that I wanted to also post here: Read the rest of this entry »