Razgon
4122
Nice - thanks!
I’ve made a new character (again!) at the new legendary server Treebeard, which is a server with slowed down levelling. It seems fairly full, which is interesting to me, and the legendary servers start out with only the base game, and progresses slowly over time to add expansions, meaning people aren’t as spread out as on a normal server.
milspec
4123
I like Treebeard. I like to read the quest text and take it slow. The normal leveling speed zooms you through the zones too quickly.
I started a new character in the past week on Arkenstone for no particular reason, but now I’m thinking of paying to move him over to Landroval. I have 7 other toons there, and the shared wallet has tons of stuff.
Razgon
4125
Aye - I really enjoy it as well. With the difficulty set to hard as well, it feels more like LOTRO of old, where there was some resistance from monsters as well - its a good time.
And the soundtrack, and the voiceactors, and the views…its just such a good time!
milspec
4126
Yes the increased world difficulty is essential. Recommend anyone who likes LOTRO try it out.
Unfortunately you have to be VIP to play on those servers. I forget how they changed the difficult of the game and increased leveling speed.
I do remember the dread mechanics were a bigger deal and more dangerous and you got some if you died.
Xanatos
4128
I bought the horse permission for 95 Lotro Points.
Should I next try to get enough points for the money upgrade?
It cost 395.
Or should I buy the expansions for 99 each?
Not sure where you are at.
The riding skill is free for VIP at level 20 via a quest, in addition to the wallet, and some other things. Not the premium wallet. In essence if you go VIP for 1 month you can unlock a bunch of stuff for all characters after login, but most importantly the premium member travel routes which become permanent for your account after a single VIP (only way to get it AFAIK). For the riding skill though each of your toons still need to complete the level 20 riding quests during the VIP period.
Everyone has to buy expansions. (VIP or not) So buying expansions at 99 points is a steal.
I just recently tried getting back into Lotro since I owned a lifetime account, but customer support is telling me the account is lost, which is a tragedy.
At this point I’ll have to just keep pestering support until they do something or try to buy someone else’s lifetime account :\
First, welcome to Qt3!
Second, that’s bizarre. Do you still control the email account to which the Lotro account was attached?
So I’m back in. I took a break to give Final Fantasy XIV a try, and while I do love it, I began playing LOTRO during the Yule festival several years ago and now, in my brain, it’s become something of a holiday tradition. Glad to be back, there’s something comforting about this game.
I’m also back in after three years away.
Wow three years, how are you faring?
Just doing Yule for now, then my main will go back to Mordor. Also have another alt at Mordor level. And two close to Moria so I need to decide if I’m going to commit to one or dabble.
I went back in, VIP level, as of a week or so ago. Currently pushing a new Champ through Moria.
I do NOT like what SSG did with the LI system. Not sure what the idea is here - make dropped weapons valuable again? - but I literally used my first LI weapon for one level, then tossed it for a quest reward that was far superior.
Legendary items. They’re severely different now.
I sincerely hope you didn’t actually discard it.
Uh oh. Yeah, I did. I mean, it was a level 52 LI, it had a couple of meh tracers I couldn’t upgrade anymore on it, so I ditched it.
Was this a bad idea?
Yeah. Every few levels you can take it to Rivendell and reforge it. And while you’re there you slap your choice of stats and buffs and skill bonuses. My level 115 ones are so ridiculous that I have to scroll down them in 1440p.
I think you can go get another though. I’d have a look at them on the wiki. Actually I need to deep dive into the new system on the wiki myself.
