Thread: New player (Mithril edition) riding skill and mount question

I'm new to LOTR...

My first toon is level 13, and I want to purchase the riding skill, however, the LOTR Store says this is not available for my character. I read that this skill can be obtained as early as level 5, so what gives?

Also, how and where do I find the mount that comes with the Mithril edition?

Cheers!

In order to get the Mithril edition mount, you must buy the mithril edition, and that specific mount does not need the riding skill, and anyway you need 500 silver to buy your fist horse, or 200 silver if you're a VIP.

Check and see if you already have it. That's usually what it means when it's not available to your character. Either that or you're VIP so certain things that are available to VIPs are not purchasable. I thought the riding skill was purchasable for everyone unless they already had it though.

Originally Posted by Borngal

In order to get the Mithril edition mount, you must buy the mithril edition, and that specific mount does not need the riding skill, and anyway you need 500 silver to buy your fist horse, or 200 silver if you're a VIP.

Thanks for the reply.

I am playing the Mithril edition, but did not know that the riding skill was not necessary for this mount!

So, where do I find this mount?
I am playing an elf, and currently in the Celondim - Duillond area. Is there a farm I must go to?

Cheers

go to your character tab (press c) then go to mounts or skills, or something like that, and there you will find your mount

Originally Posted by kmcferrin

Check and see if you already have it. That's usually what it means when it's not available to your character. Either that or you're VIP so certain things that are available to VIPs are not purchasable. I thought the riding skill was purchasable for everyone unless they already had it though.

Thanks! I just checked in my skill/mounts and there is was!
However, I do need the riding skill, and finally found the correct section of the LOTR to purchase it...

Cheers!

Piggybacking a thread but no need to start a new thread. My frien has te Mithril Edition of the game, he has thespecial mount that comes with it. He can't ride it as he doesn't have the riding skill. He's level 8 now, has he missed picking up the riding skill from somewhere? Can he buy the riding skill from the LOTRO Store? I bought a steed from the store which gave me the skill so I did it differently. Thanks.

Premium and F2P players have to buy the riding skill from the store for 95TP. VIPs can buy it from the store or go to Hengstacer Farm at level 20 and do a quest to obtain the skill. You have to have completed the Intro quests and obtained the Novice characteristic at the end of them (once you emerge into the game proper) before you can see it in the store.

Thanks for the reply. My friend chose an elf hunter character so he started in the west somewhere. How far does he need to go before leaving the 'beginner area'?

Actually, the completing the Novice trait bit is outdated. I recently rolled a new character and well after she was out of the novice intro section and had the Novice trait, she couldn't buy Riding. I can't recall, though, at which level it became available.

(The novice intro part depends not on level but on progress. You start out in an intro quest bit, and after that, you get dropped into a novice area, either Archet (for men and hobbits) or Thorin's Gate (for elves and dwarves), but this isn't the "real" Archet or Thorin's Hall; it's sort of a bubble that only has novices in it. You do a few quests and eventually you get offered a quest that will end the novice section, and when you finish it, you get kicked out into the "real world" for the first time -- in Archet for men, Thorin's Hall for dwarves, Little Delving for hobbits, or Celondim for elves. At that point, you get the Novice trait, and your Milestone skill, and if you go back to Archet or Thorin's Hall, you will find it's different because of the consequences of what you did in that last quest. That is the point that the poster upthread refers to -- whether you have the Novice trait is what determines whether you're in the "real world", whether you can join kinships, etc., though what players typically notice is whether they have their Milestone skill.)

Originally Posted by Emyr_Thy_King

Thanks for the reply. My friend chose an elf hunter character so he started in the west somewhere. How far does he need to go before leaving the 'beginner area'?

Characters typically leave the "beginner area" around level 6. If your friend has completed the quest that moves his character from the Thorin's Gate area to the town of Celondim, then he has left the "beginner area" and is now in the real world. He can use the stablemaster in Celondim to join your character, or you can travel to Celondim to meet his.