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Eluveril looks into the distance in Rivendell. Click for the full-sized image.
Today’s Random Screenshot features my main character, an Elven Rune-keeper named Eluveril. Her name translates to “blue rose”, although I’ve not decided on a surname yet. This is on the main road in Rivendell, overlooking a waterfall. One touch I love about this area are the little seed pods that float around. You can see a couple riding the air currents behind her.
Right now she’s clearing up some bad guys in Eregion, getting ready for her excursion into Moria. My old main, Branson (on Gladden), made it there long ago. This is only the second character that I’ve brought to the area, so I’m planning on writing up a bit about my experience. I’m excited!
Regardless as to how you may feel about the current state of the Old Forest, the place still looks extremely foreboding. If you look closely, you can make out a bear starting to stalk me down.
Screen shots rarely do this game justice, in my opinion. This is especially true of the Old Forest, which is full of fog, lighting effects and (in Direct X 10, at least) tons of shadow effects.
You can click the image above for a full-sized version.
I’ve not done a Random Screenshot in a while. If you’d like to contribute your own shot along with a little bit of information, I’d be more than happy to show it off.
With Mines of Moria officially out, you were probably expecting a screenshot from one of the new areas. Sorry!
I actually spent my time playing in Forochel yesterday. My brother has a Guardian he’d really like to get caught up and he isn’t getting Mines of Moria until later today. I figured the least I could do is help him out. Plus, in the meantime, I get some rep points with the Lossoth.
I’ve not done a Random Screenshots in quite a while, so I figured what the heck. I managed to get a nicely angled shot of Evendim here. As always, click on the image above for the full resolution shot.
I find it kind of unbelievable, but the area didn’t even exist upon launch and was added as a free content update. Turbine has really been exceptional as far as that stuff goes.
Not too much in the way of news flowing out of Turbine today. Still, with Mines of Moria only two weeks away as of today it’s hard to not be excited (and I imagine news frequency will continue to increase as we get closer; last week was almost too much at once). I’ve not been able to provide much in the way of exclusive coverage of the expansion, unfortunately, but I would definitely suggest checking out LotRO Life for that.
They have some exclusive screen shots from the game, guides to classes, images of equipment sets and so forth. Obviously this stuff is beyond spoilerish, but if you don’t mind that go ahead and check it out. They’ve been doing a very nice job covering these aspects of the game so far.
My reputation with the Men of Bree is fairly low. I’m not sure why that is, but I figured I might as well try running around in Haudh Iarchith again. I had not been there in quite a while and the last time I bothered it was quite difficult. There’s just a ton of wights and spiders in the area.
This time around I was able to get through the area with wights that have Great Protection. While I didn’t come across any bosses, I still did pretty well in the reptuation department and saw a few monsters I had never seen before.
I also came across an odd anvil deep in the area. Wonder what the deal with that is? Wouldn’t it be interesting if forging Legendary Weapons required equally legendary crafting areas such as this?
Probably, but it’s also likely that it would mostly be a pain in the butt.
Rune-keeper Rumination: Volume 3:
Much to my chagrin, I've not had a lot of time to play LotRO in recent months. At least not as much time as I used to ...
