Thread: Why do you play the Minstrel?

Originally Posted by Fortinobrand

Oh my, I wish we could fellow cross-server, you and I could have a tonne of fun in a raid

Gotta love playing personal-best Limbo with the main tank's health pool <3

Minstrels are sorely undermined form what I heard and I have a favoring for underdogs.

Plus I wanted to rock the battlefield elf-style.

But I LOVE the heals. I haven't even been defeated yet. /Pride/

Everyone else wanted to pew pew, nuke, hide or play the hero (tanks sheesh). Someone has to do the dirty work of keeping everyone alive...

Because mini's have satellite lasers. And war drums.

Just started mine, and I was quite surprised how much I love it! I made it to Lvl 20 in one day, lol. Was also my first toon to make it to 20 without dying! Yay Lunabelle the Undying! Gonna rock that title for a long time

Actually I didn't plan to play a minstrel but then I made it to level 10 and after I got War-speech I absolutely fell in love with the minstrel class! Oh... and because of the screams... screaming is fun...

Because I feel like Will Ferrell with a cowbell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evA-R9OS-Vo&t=11m43s

Some people may hate me for that, but I rolled minstrel caus they are ******* overpower in pvp. ><

Originally Posted by Fortinobrand

Chicks dig musicians, man!

Seriously -- I've always played a mini. D&D, I dabbled with casters, but I always returned to the Bard. I published a few pieces in Dragon Magazine related to the class. I just feel it.

Way back when the pixels were larger and load times were measured in minutes rather than femtoseconds, and I was still a developer (lol a lowly jr. dev at the time), I remember being outraged that Wizardry didn't include a bard class. A couple of years later I took a job with a company that knew the Bard belonged right in the middle of the story. The sounds were of course so non-epic, but it didn't matter

I take a break and focus on another class now and then, but I always return to the mini.

The Bard's Tale. It was a Wizardry inspired fantastic dungeon crawler and I loved it. You actually played the whole party, but the Bard was essential and that definitely made for good story.

To made me feel pro also i'm a noob because mins is op!

I like healing.


Am I weird?

Here's a funny one for you.... I have not yet played my Mini with the sounds turned on. So I guess I'm a deaf Minstrel. I just like to blow stuff up. What that other guy said about Laser Satelites from Space? Awesome!
My guy in Warspeach, drum in hand, and all the fear and self heal goodies tha go with it...Love it...Oh yeah, and We get Satellite Lasers from Space!

I rolled my mini for the satellite lasers from space, too. Also, my first roll was a burglar, and I was always jealous of the guys that got to make noise. I want to yell and bang on things. Call it the 2-year-old in me.

Originally Posted by Charlesdp

Some people may hate me for that, but I rolled minstrel caus they are ******* overpower in pvp. ><

You and hundred others. At least you're honest.

Originally Posted by Slowdoc

I rolled my mini for the satellite lasers from space, too. Also, my first roll was a burglar, and I was always jealous of the guys that got to make noise. I want to yell and bang on things. Call it the 2-year-old in me.

>:3 me too

The minstrel was my first chosen class, it appealed to me to be a healer, and one who uses music as their means. The game developers did something unique by choosing to make you "health" morale rather than HP. So you don't die, you simply become so overridden with the feeling of hopelessness and dread that you give up and "die" for lack of better term. So you aren't necessarily a healer as much as one who encourages with their sweet songs and tales of brave acts.

I have only begun playing recently and i am given to believe that the buffs have improved and i love being able to support the group as well. My original intentions for choosing this was because i knew everyone wants to have a healer. A well rounded group has to consist of damage support healing and tank, healing being the most wanted. IN addition ot playing in a group though you have the ability to use war speech and deal some nice damage solo.

Furthermore this is a class that all races can play making it nice and versatile. Although i chose an elf (as i always do because of prefrance) i think hobbits would have been better for mini. Nonetheless i prefer to have the fair elvish singer keeping his allies from succumbing to the forces of evil. I have never played as healer and i find it no9w to be very attractive, especially when you know the group depends on you. You are the more essential to them. Don't take this &&& mini is hte best, far from it. THey are all equal, but to the group you are a key component, but to the battle you are in the background. This happens to also be another personal perk. The fact i don't have to worry about trapping enemies or defeating them but simply keep my friends alive to do that job. Making them your workers (jk) :P.

Originally Posted by Slowdoc

I rolled my mini for the satellite lasers from space, too. Also, my first roll was a burglar, and I was always jealous of the guys that got to make noise. I want to yell and bang on things. Call it the 2-year-old in me.

This is why I love the mini as well! Leveling it is great fun. Although once I get to 85, I'm not sure what I'll do since healing constantly doesn't really appeal to me.

As a professional musician for many years, when I first tried Lotro and found I could be a Minstrel, I thought why not and rolled it as my first character and fell in love with it. Played it consistently until the Minstrel was revamped and hated the changes, so deleted my beloved Minstrel. Started a new Minstrel recently to try and get the love back and am enjoying playing it again, but still not as much as the old style minstrel (still dislike the new ballad system).

I want to be a rockstar, and dwarven minstrels are the rockstars of middle-earth.

Also, I like being needed. And when you do your job well people often notice it.
I levelled my minstrel to 65 using the old minstrel system and loved the challenge. from RoI on I loved the challenge of finding groupstuff to solo .
A minstrel has everything in his own hands. A true survivor a bit like the warden, but in light armour.

Having played all of the previous video games of The Lord of the Rings, I can safely say that I've seen my fair share of hacking and slashing. I thought it would be a nice change to play the Dwarf minstrel and experience the happier side of Middle Earth that wasn't available to me in those old games by EA. The instruments and all of those groovy spells were too good to pass up. Although I'm a terrible healer, I've continued advancing my little minstrel and things have worked out pretty good so far

To help my friends to succeed.

At first I rolled a Mini because as a Kin we were short on healers. Got her to level 75 and did some basic foundry and roots runs and 3-mans. Healing them was ok, fairly fun. Did my first real raid healing last night on Saruman T1 and that is such an epic fight to heal. Keeping everyone alive in the absolutely crazy Saruman fight, it's healing in those moments that makes me want to play a Mini.

1. Power shortage.
2. WS with having all red traits equipped.
3. ^^ (Best solo class ever)

I just realised I should be a healer, not a DPS :L

Because watching green bars fill up is addictive. Also becuase I want to be a support class. Then I soloed my way up through the levels and instances. Fornost (old Fornost), Uru, CD, BG, FT, GS, NCF, SH... Great fun. I once killed some one 25 above me, good times. (Before the RoI update too)

Because i'm a pretty lazy person and healing allows me do less work. When running instances and raid, as mini, you only have to pay attention to 2 things. Your own power and everyones health/buffs. In general its really only a random dps champ/hunter that needs to do less work. But as random dps, you will often have to take the role as RAT, also help out with CC and corruption removal, making it very non-lazy in the end.

At the same time people actually think that you're doing so much work, because you keep them alive and buffed up. They are very grateful, specially those that never played a mini. But truthfully you might even be watching a television show, while tapping a few hotkeys to keep the rotation up. So not only can you be lazy, you also get rewarded and praised while being lazy.

Obviously you do get those dumb dps-classes that refuses to position themselves properly and therefor dies in a reign of AoE, fire, acid or in the smelly crutch of a troll. Than they blame you, the hardworking minnie (that's watching TV or eating Pringles) for not keeping them alive and calls you out for not having bad heals. But that doesn't matter, because the rest of the party will always side with the healer and call the dps bad for getting himself killed. Its awesome being a minstrel.

I picked minstrel because it seemed thematic and different for the usual. Granted my experience with MMORPGS is rather limited. It just seemed Tolkeinesque.

Come to find out it is a lot of fun to play solo, which I mainly do given my work and other offline commitments. It's nice to be able to long in and play a bit without needing to group.mits also nice that I can join a group and be useful.