Oh man, that sucks dude. :(
I downloaded a million gigs of files today, only to find out that I can’t transfer my old EU character over to the US. [sadface]
Trump didn’t even take over yet!
I have a cool stuffed white wolf, a couple of nice bookcases, and two cave troll heads (don’t ask) available for kinship housing spruce up. I do not own my own house anymore, too much effort.
Yeah, I saw you online and tried to message you, but I figured you were busy.
I went ahead and bought a nice big hobbit hole kinship house…it cost somewhere around 25g with the 7 months of upkeep (donations welcome!). I set the permissions for any kin-members to decorate, get into storage, whatever. I also bunged as much stuff from the escrow into the house storage as I could carry, but there’s more I’ll get in there later. Go crazy.
Demorve
3085
I think somebody will need to send me an invite, unless there is another way to join.
instant0
3086
I thought everything was in the same datacentre now anyway?
Guess Turbine scaled back (or more likely WB Scaled Turbine back :( ) so there wont be any support options available to fix this.
It really is about time that MMOs get rid of the notion of server/regional locking and lets your character exist anywhere and everywhere.
This sounds like fun! I’m going to poke my head in and see what I think.
I’m transferring all my guys to Arkenstone, but I have no idea what level they are, how well-equipped they are, or even probably how to play them. Maybe when I get on I will just reroll. As they say, the journey is the reward.
So after transferring, I find out that all my characters are between level 10 and 20, so it’s no big deal to reroll. The only question is what class. My original character was a Burglar, which I recall loving, but I also liked the Captain and the Warden… and the Minstrel from what I remember. I’ve been following the discussion above but I’ll have to consider what I want to create.
Dropped from the pretty much defunct kinship I was in last night (last time anyone else from the kinship logged in was 60 days ago, and most folks are 1 year or longer no shows). I’ll try to message someone currently in Knights of the QT3 for the invite next time I am on at same time.
Last night was more fun in Goblin Town. I would like to find the person(s) at Turbine (probably long gone by now) responsible for the design of Goblin Town and kick them in the shin. Even that pain would pale in comparison to the frustration of this stupid region. I’ve had to boot up my Surface alongside my PC and use the LOTRO wiki for maps and quest help as the entire place is nothing but a winding warren of multi-level pathways, bridges and tunnels that all look exactly the same. It’s also heavily populated, mostly by trash mobs, but even the trash is still light blue to me, so EVERYTHING aggros as I walk around. That makes it oh so lovely when a quest takes you from the bottom of the Slave Pens back up and through half of Golbin Town’s main areas, then immediately wants you to return to the bottom of the Slave Pens, while meanwhile every single mob along the way has now respawned.
Anyway, I’m loaded up with the final quests to kill the Goblin King and some named minions in the Throne Room. I didn’t realize the Throne Room is an instanced zone, so when I zoned in I was by myself (outside of it I’d been working in tandem with a Warden to clear the way through, but we weren’t grouped). I was able to get into the Throne Room proper, but promptly got my ass handed to me as there are large groups of trash mobs and they all wander, so I accidentally triggered two large groups at once.
If anyone else needs quests in Goblin Town, I’d welcome some company to try and finish this out.
peterb
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Joined last night, got on Knights of Qt3, and arrived at Minas Tirith for the very first time.
Can someone who understands clarify what’s needed in terms of expansions and/or quest packs? According to my account page, I have two items:
- Mines of Moria Standard
- Shadows of Angmar Standard
I purchased some sort of Moria combo pack a few years ago so that’s why I have that. Angmar is the basic game, right? And I read that Moria is level 50-60 content. I read that when you hit roughly 25 you need to think about quest packs. Do I need to get quest packs to get from 25ish to 50? Is this stuff you get when you subscribe (so would it be smarter to subscribe for a couple of months if I was still invested after playing a bit)?
Any help in figuring this out would be appreciated.
I’m going to assume you’re not a lifetime subscription person and are playing F2P and not planning to subscribe…
If that’s the case, you may find some answers in my post to Brian Rubin above. It lays out the region/quest packs you will need to advance past Lone Lands (level 25 or so) until you reach Moria. Since you purchased Mines of Moria, all of the content within should be unlocked for you already. Once you exit Moria, you’ll need to begin planning region/quest/expansion purchases again.
It helps to know the order of the base editions and expansions:
- Shadows of Angmar (the base game, with free content for F2P up to Lone Lands, Levels 1-25.)
- Eriador Quest Packs (all the regions between F2P content and Moria, Levels 25-50+)
- Mines of Moria (purchase of this expansion unlocks all content, takes you to Level 60)
- Siege of Mirkwood (where you will emerge post-Moria, content to level 65)
- Rise of Isengard (content up to Level 75)
- Riders of Rohan (content up to Level 85 plus mounted combat)
- Helms Deep (will get you to Level 90+, contains Epic Battles)
- Gondor Content (multiple region quest packs sold individually, will take you from 90-105)
A nice rundown of Expansions and pre-Moria Quest Packs can be found here.
Every couple of months Turbine runs a big sale on all Expansions. Usually it’s 75% off, so something like Siege of Mirkwood would be $5, and Helm’s Deep $10. Given that it sounds like you’re not even past the free content yet, I’d recommend waiting for the sale to pick up the expansions. For now you should focus on obtaining the next Regional Quest Pack via Turbine Points. The next three Regions (in order) you should purchase are North Downs, Evendim and Trollshaws. Each costs 595 Turbine Points at full price.
RIGHT NOW though they are all 25% off in the LOTRO Store, making them 446 TP each. This sale ends Dec. 15th, so if you have enough TP to purchase North Downs (and maybe the others too) it’s a great time to buy. Turbine Points are earned in game by completing deeds. You can rack up just over 900 TP doing ALL the deeds for the free content, and you can repeat the process with additional characters to earn even more, but it’s tedious. Any way to shave the cost of quest packs down (buying during sales, buying an expansion that comes with 500 or 1000 TP when it’s on sale) will translate to hours of your time saved.
So that was long and probably really confusing, but hopefully it helps. Bottom line, grab at least North Downs from the LOTRO Store before Friday if you can, and you should be set to get a character to level 30+ before you need to make any additional purchases.
Gladguy
3092
Before you reroll, take note of the F2P/VIP rules. Any characters created when the account was “premium” (i.e. paying real $$ to Turbine) will not have the F2P restrictions. Most egregious is the gold cap. If you aren’t VIP, any new toons will have restrictions on riding skill, gold cap and some others.
More details are here: https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Account_Types
Good point. If your old characters were created during the monthly subscription years, they’ll be “Premium”, which means they will have gold cap and other annoying restrictions removed, and if they had already reached Level 20 and had a mount, they will have Riding skill for free.
Any characters created while in F2P will face all the restrictions and have to pay Turbine Points to have them lifted. The F2P restrictions aren’t too annoying until it’s time to learn Riding and you start earning more gold than the cap allows you to keep. Most people find it’s best to create a couple of new characters with classes you’re interested in, play then to level 15 or so on F2P, then subscribe for a single month. This will make those new characters “Premium”, removing all the caps and restrictions, and if you learn Riding for each character during that month (while it’s free), the characters will retain it after you cancel and return to F2P Premium.
Hey, I just reached the Lone-Lands with my level 21 hunter, so it sounds like I subscribed just in time. ;)
Thanks for that detailed writeup - I didn’t see the original post but I guess I didn’t look carefully!
From your description it sounds like if I purchase the Eriador Quest packs I should be set all the way through Moria and level 60. Right? And I can worry about 60+ later!
Yes, the Eriador regions will give you access to all quests and deeds (and a bunch of instances and a couple of raids) in those regions, then you already own Moria, so you’d be all set to level 60.
Note that there is an “Eriador Bundle” available from the store which gives you all 8 regions (including 13 instances and 2 raids) for 3995 TP. That’s a 24% reduction over buying them all up individually at full price. I’m not sure if it counts in the 25% off sale happening now, but if so then it would be 2996 TP, which is a hell of a deal for everything.
Moria is awesome.
One thing I would recomend, depending on your video card, you might have some audio balance / boost. Like how my old motherboard had some DTS magic, which would boost a bunch of the barely audible sounds in the game and soften some of the others, the result was a lot more atmospheric travel inside Moria. I probably spent several months in there playing and doing everything.
The WorldLFG Channel should ensure you can find a party to do some of the harder stuff in Moria that requires a group, course, with the Kin seeming to have enough people you can probably do -everything- with the guys you are on with.
My LOTRO EU kin has had people most people offline from between 800 to 1900+ days or thereabouts. :(
Thanks again for the advice @SlainteMhath - turns out I had over 5k points, so I was able to get the Eriador bundle with no problems!
edit to add: I created a new Minstrel named Tromboneshorty, can I get invited to the Kinship, assuming it’s up and running?
Wow, at this rate, you guys will have the guild back together and leveled up and ready to go to Mordor when it gets added next year. I’m tempted to rejoin for that reason too.
MMOs are too big of a time sink though. If I did join, I’d first have to give up two genres first.
It’s so cool that this game will get Mordor after all.
Wow! 5K TP is quite a hoard! Smaug would be jealous.
I also saw last night that the Eriador bundle is included in the 25% off sale, so you got a fantastic deal on it. Combined with what you already owned you’ve now got every single region and many of the skirmishes and instances unlocked for the entire Shadows of Angmar and Moria content, which means you’re all set to level characters from 1-60+ without missing a single quest, deed or anything. If you choose to finish every single deed in all the regions through Moria you’ll earn just over 2700 TP total, pretty much nearly refunding your purchase.
Let us know what your transferred character names are (if you plan to play them) or if you make a new character so we can add to friends list. Welcome back!!
