So it’s just 5 slots total added to Bag 1 and then you can move them to any bag you want. Seems a little pricey, but in an inventory sim like LOTRO you can never have too much bag space.
Yea. I’d probably play a lot more LOTRO if I didn’t have full bags. :)
Ha!
I did hear that the extra inventory slots are applied at the account level, not the character level, so there’s that at least.
The lotro forums, as ever, are an endless source on unintentional comedy. All of the people who have been bitching about combat being too easy since Helm’s Deep dropped are now complaining that they are too squishy. Which is to say, efforts to balance combat continued with this update so long term players may find a degree of challenge has finally been returned.
I’m responding to myself here but, out of curiosity, I ran The Forges of Isengard instance in Galtrev with my level 75 Champion last night. I’ve run this instance several times before the update, grinding rep and compendiums of Middle Earth so I figured it would be a good comparison.
Granted, my Champion is well geared but I had no trouble at all taking on four mobs at a time while traited yellow. I did have to use my healing skills and my morale got down near 25% but I still flew through the instance without trouble. I would say that balance has been restored and folks will now be forced to actually pay attention to their class’s skills and tactics again. People were bitching that they could not solo Limlight Gorge anymore to which I say, “Good.” Prior to Helm’s Deep, I could not solo Limlight Gorge. After I finished equipping my Champ with all of his shiny new lvl 75 gear, (but before update 13) I took him their and tested his mettle against a troll and a tree. Both were touch and go but I was able to solo them. That seemed out of whack to me as these are elite mobs intended for a small fellowship.
Anyway, I’m glad the balance is restored.
I did not notice any 5 extra slots? Where do you get this from.
It’s a store item I believe.
Also in the store with this update is the ability to add up to 20 more quest slots. (I.e., increasing the maximum number of active quests you can have going at once.) I can’t see ever buying that myself but it might be worth it for some people.
So update 14 “Paths of the Dead” dropped a few days ago. New region, new epic story chapters, level cap goes to 100, new crafting system that will presumably make the limited inventory issues even worse. There’s some new “City Watch” system that I confess I don’t really understand.
I’m not really playing regularly anymore, but I’ll probably log on and check it out for a while.
Yeah it’s tempting me to go back to the game.
rei
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Their last paid expansion bombed right?
It’s hard to say. Turbine doesn’t release any kind of data on subs that I know of. On a personal level, I hated many things about it yeah. Probably what made me stop playing (that and the fact my still fairly strong PC would stutter and crash every.single.time in Rohan)
Shrug. They don’t release sales figures, AFAIK. Apparently it did well enough to keep updating regularly.
biosc1
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I have been playing this again over the last couple of days. Having not played for 8-10 months, I was totally lost with all the new systems / changes. So, I’m just going through and slowly relearning/ learning things. I’m hooked again :)
LOTRO Store has expansions on sale for 50% off and quest packs, instances and skirmishes on sale for 20% off through the weekend.
http://www.lotro.com/en/lotrostoresale
I patched today (a lengthy process) to check out the sale from within the store. I picked up Rohan for around 1250 TP, leaving me with around 500TP left in my account. I had been saving up my TP for quite some time in an effort to pay for the next expansion I needed (Rohan), and now I own it plus have a head start on the only one left that I am missing, Helm’s Deep, which I won’t be high enough level to play for another year or more anyway (at the rate I play).
Quest Packs, Instance packs and Skirmishes are all 20% off, as are many tokens, marks and misc. items. If you play LOTRO off and on (like me), now would be a good time to login and check the store to see if you can pick up some additional expansion content, quest packs for zones you are missing, or additional skirmishes and instances on the cheap!
Serendipity. I just logged in an hour or so ago for the first time in a couple of months to grab the new West Gondor quest pack while it’s 25% off.
I picked up the West Gondor quest pack, too. I’m in Wildemore - with Helm’s Deep on the horizon - but I figure I’ll make it to Gondor this winter.
I am in this boat as well. I logged in over the weekend to take advantage of the sale, and logged in my main character, only to discover about 3000 marks waiting for me, a crapton of stuff missing from my UI, a bunch of new quests and other tidbits yammering for my attention and enough overall changes to completely overwhelm me. I didn’t even play, I just sort of looked around at everything for 30 minutes or so, moved myself to a safer place in the zone, and logged out.
Is there anywhere on the internet where a player who hasn’t played significantly in the past 24 months can find comprehensive guides and tutorials to everything that has changed? What are marks and why do I suddenly have a bazillion of them. What changed about deeds? I remember skirmishes vaguely, but why would I want to do them again? Where do I find information on the character progression of my Champion/Guardian/Hunter now that everything is different and skills are all revamped/revised/removed?
Basically, how the hell do I play this game now that it’s completely different from what I remember?
I don’t have specific advice on LOTRO, but I can tell you what I do with just about any MMO that I’ve been away from for a while…start a new character. I usually find that a few hours of new-toon play gets me back into the swing of things enough to go back to my higher-level guys. There will still be missing pieces that you’ll have to search out in the wilds of the Interwebs, but at least the basics will be covered, and you’ll be back in tune with how combat works too.
peterb
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I wouldn’t stress about it. Usually I’d say just go to an area somewhere a little below your current level and practice with your skills for a bit. You can read the forums obsessively, but really, that’s a losing game because they’ll just change it again the next time you’re logged off for 6 months.
In answer to your specific questions:
(1) Marks are a currency used largely by the skirmish system, which is itself sort of interesting and worth trying out. You can spend marks on all sorts of stuff, some useful, some cosmetic, at the “Skirmish camps” near most major cities. Hit ctrl-J to open the skirmish panel to try it out. http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/12/04/getting-started-with-the-lotro-skirmish-system/
(2) For Champion, trait in the yellow line, which is (or was last time i checked) massively overpowered. Blue is very good for survivability. Red was not good (except for 2 skills in the first 2 tiers, one which increases crits and one which reduces attack time).
(3) For Hunter, the biggest change would be the Blue tree, which basically lets you attack while moving. Check it out.
No clue about guardians.
The biggest change might be the mounted combat (if you didn’t know about Skirmishes, I assume you haven’t seen the mounted combat stuff either). The important thing to know about mounted combat is except for a few mandatory quests and the slog through rohan you can MOSTLY ignore it, which is good, because it’s completely terrible in every way.
Thanks peterb, that link to the skirmish system guide is very helpful. It looks like TenTonHammer has a bunch of LOTRO Guides as well, including Class guides that talk about traits (and seem to agree with you on the Champion and Hunter lines). Hopefully those are fairly up to date and I can glean some good info on the newer systems I am unfamiliar with.
The problem with starting a new character in LOTRO is that I am a F2P player grandfathered in for a bunch of stuff. Any new character I make won’t have access to everything my existing characters do, and I’d need to spend TP to get a new character up to speed on a lot of stuff. I’d rather just read about the new systems and features online, then try to muddle an existing character through them until I’m comfortable again.
