Still pretty new to the game, but I didn't figure out how to equip traits till about level 28. Also didn't realize I could num lock to run automatically until a couple of days ago.
I have a burglar that got to level 57. I was fellowing with a kinmate who was also a burglar. She said I needed to set a stance, and I replied that I had no idea burglars had stances. D'oh, they have three stances to choose from!!
As soon as they idiot proof something, the others send in some slack-jawed, drooling stooge to gum up the works.
I just figured out on the craft vendors you can use the drop down to only look for craft materials instead of scrolling htrough miles of recipes to get to that one lump of coal you want.
Like a few people apparently I didn't know you could use alt to select the number of items you buy from a vendor. I thought it was a full stack or you had to individually buy. I figured it out around lvl 40.
The dumbest thing I did when starting this game was that I didn't understand that 'morale' is how far you are from defeat. I just assumed the green bar was called 'health' so I couldn't figure out what morale pots were for. So I vendored them. I played up to about lvl 15 without access to morale pots before finally cluing in there MUST be some kind of way to heal during a fight.
That's also around when I figured out that pots for curing 'wounds' were not the ones that do it.
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I don't know how dumb it is, but I also spent a fair bit of time looking for my mount after I bought it. I think given the questions in the advice channel they really should have a little tutorial or some clear indication where to look for it. The whole buying-riding-skill AND buying-a-mount-only-to-find-it-as-a-skill-instead-of-an-item thing is counter-intuitive, especially when you get that mount whistle at the beginning. You just naturally assume your permanent mount will also have a whistle.
For the longest time I didn't realize that there was a another entrance at the back of Esteldin that led to Nan Amlug East. So when I was questing there I always had to take the long way (exit Esteldin to Kingsfell and go north around the mountains into Nan Amlug East) and since I was there on-level, it involved fighting my way through boars and wolves every time I had to head back after turning in a quest (I did set my milestone at Esteldin so that helped). It wasn't until after I moved on to Angmar and one day used the Stable Master from Esteldin to Aughaire that I found out you could head out the back of Esteldin! D'OH!
Heh heh heh, the I had this very same thing going on when I was leveling Took me a while to realize there was indeed another way there.
I don't know how dumb it is, but I also spent a fair bit of time looking for my mount after I bought it. I think given the questions in the advice channel they really should have a little tutorial or some clear indication where to look for it. The whole buying-riding-skill AND buying-a-mount-only-to-find-it-as-a-skill-instead-of-an-item thing is counter-intuitive, especially when you get that mount whistle at the beginning. You just naturally assume your permanent mount will also have a whistle.
This is actually not that dumb. The mounts used to be an icon in your inbentory when the game started. It was also the time that the riding skill needed to be obtained at level 35 and mounts were 4 gold and 220 silver to purchase. The only problem was that this mount could also be sold. I have seen an enormous amounts of reports from players that accidently sold their 4G220S mount for 1 gold again (Talk about a rip-off). After enough of these reports were made, the icon was then made into a skill.
The above was a very good reason to teach yourself to lock the items you don't wanted to sell in your inventory with ALT+click (left-mouse button) and then pressing CTRL+T. It locks the item immidiately and you cannot sell it that way. It's more easy then going to a vendor, open the selling screen and manually clicking lock for each item.
Stupidest thing that happened to me: I was running Carn Dum with some people from the swedish kinship Trail of Kings (abbrevated ToK which, as they told me, also means something like crazy). Back in those days, Carn Dum and Urugarth were the end-game content; not even Helegrod existed yet as a raid. I was running on my hunter and we were doing great; no wipes, few deaths, no bugs. Then we come up to the sleeping lady (forgot her name). It's in the room where you first need to clear the side-rooms in order to attack this girl. We were fighting some mobs near the entrence and there is one last mob left. I target it and decide to execute Quick Shot as the mob was almost dead. There is an option called "Special attacks trigger auto-attack" in the combat section of the options panel. I hit Quick Shot, but just before I hit it, that last mob goes down. This makes the hitting of Quick Shot auto target the nearest target in sight; this was the sleeping lady in the center of the room. I see that arrow flying and think "WTH!?!?!?" Needless to say we didn't survive the entire room of mobs comming down on us. But as one of the guys from Trail of Kings said: "That was a hell of a pull! :-P"
While skirming in a PUG, my archer soldier was refilling her power even though the fight had just begun and her bar was full. I complained into my mic and said I was going to unslot the skill and just go with 3 skills on her.
Someone then pointed out that if you go to the skirmish camp, instead of training skills, you can buy ULTIMATE soldier skills by choosing the 'barter' option. Re-focus out, Ultimate critical shot in. What an improvement in soldier DPS, a super shot replacing a skill that took her out of combat for a few seconds.
I have to start paying better attention!
A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
I've been here for over 5 years and just last night I found a hidden lake in the Bree Fields in a canyon that I knew nothing about. It even had some little islands in it and led out to a river that passes the giant that you have to get the lost backpack from. Not the one just south of Esteldin, this is another lake all together.
I spent a lot of time wandering around the Bree area when I started out. That little lake has always been one of my favourite spots
There are a lot of things the game doesn't explain, and they aren't all that intuitive. I'll share some that took me a long time to discover...
Set pet or herald to use some or all of their skills automatically by right-clicking on those skills in the companion toolbar. I didn't know about this until my LM was well into the level 50s, and I was deriving so much satisfaction from being able to micromanage my pets manually all the time before that.
Create static tooltips by pressing 'H'. Mouse over a target, be it a CC target in a raid pull, or different jewelry pieces for stat comparison from the crafting panel, etc, and press 'H' once the tooltip appears. This creates a separate window that can be used as a quick way to select the target (just click on the window). I didn't know about this until I wiped several raids by failing to reselect my CC target quickly among all the other trash during my early raiding days.
Add text macros to the quickslots by entering '/shortcut <number> <text>' into the chat window. The <number> represents the quickslot the macro goes into, and the <text> is the desired text. So, e.g., to add a /dance1 emote to the first quickslot, type '/shortcut 1 /dance1' sans the quotation marks. This can be used to create shortcuts to launch plugins, to quickly execute emotes, to repeat raid instructions, etc. The first few times I did those festival dance quests, I was manually selecting the emotes from the menu, and that didn't go very well as you can probably imagine.
I too have been playing since beta. I have had a couple. Similar to the person above regarding pots, I used to sell them, well i kep the green and blues (from COH, I just guessed those were important.) The others, I had no idea what the hell they did. I joined a kin when I was 50 (end game then) and started raiding with them. They asked on the first raid, did I have full stacks of hope tokens, food, scrolls, and pots. I said yes. By that time, I had begun using food, both trail and cooked, tokens, etc, but the only pots I ever botherd with were moraland power. First time they said pop a wound pot during a fight, I had no clue, and got killed. They had to explain to me what all those pots were, was embarrasing as I told them I understood raiding (from a coh standpoint, I did.
Second one was recent. I have a battle mini I waltz around with, loveplaying it, lots of fun. Decided to try human one. Doued with my roommate in skirms, we were doing awesome, and I was noticing I was wiping out groups. Didnt make since, as far as I knew, Call to Orome was my only aoe. Learned that night that Wizards Fire and another power (cant rem name right now) were both aoes. Now i understood why my battle mini would grab agro somtimes
I have now told myself to make sure and read every tooltip After my raid experiences, I understood so much more, and I am still finding things out. I love finding them before my roommate, soI can tell him how to do things hehe
Then we come up to the sleeping lady (forgot her name).
We were in a kin run at level 65(?) I think. Everything was easy and we were collecting class items. We decide to keep going up the castle and run across her. I tell everyone to avoid the center. Then the kin leader goes to the center and wakes her up! Immediately everything wake up in the room and attacks! Even though most of us are near level 65 they are seriously hurting us. Running down the stairs and out to the entrance, only to find that we can't open the door to leave since we're in combat. Then the group of 30 or so elites catch up to us (great screenshot) and wipes us out. Maybe we're higher level but there are enough stuns that we can't do much. Meanwhile players back in the original room who were defeated decide to release and revive, and they pop up in the middle of the fight at the entrance and die again immediately. The kin leader later says he was just making a joke and honestly though we could leave out the front door.
With some people though if you tell them not to push the flashing red button they will go ahead and push it to see what happens...
(Anyway I think they may have changed it as I remember her with a short opening speech now so you can't accidentally shoot her before waking her up.)
This is actually not that dumb. The mounts used to be an icon in your inbentory when the game started. It was also the time that the riding skill needed to be obtained at level 35 and mounts were 4 gold and 220 silver to purchase. The only problem was that this mount could also be sold. I have seen an enormous amounts of reports from players that accidently sold their 4G220S mount for 1 gold again (Talk about a rip-off). After enough of these reports were made, the icon was then made into a skill.
The above was a very good reason to teach yourself to lock the items you don't wanted to sell in your inventory with ALT+click (left-mouse button) and then pressing CTRL+T. It locks the item immidiately and you cannot sell it that way. It's more easy then going to a vendor, open the selling screen and manually clicking lock for each item.
Stupidest thing that happened to me: I was running Carn Dum with some people from the swedish kinship Trail of Kings (abbrevated ToK which, as they told me, also means something like crazy). Back in those days, Carn Dum and Urugarth were the end-game content; not even Helegrod existed yet as a raid. I was running on my hunter and we were doing great; no wipes, few deaths, no bugs. Then we come up to the sleeping lady (forgot her name). It's in the room where you first need to clear the side-rooms in order to attack this girl. We were fighting some mobs near the entrence and there is one last mob left. I target it and decide to execute Quick Shot as the mob was almost dead. There is an option called "Special attacks trigger auto-attack" in the combat section of the options panel. I hit Quick Shot, but just before I hit it, that last mob goes down. This makes the hitting of Quick Shot auto target the nearest target in sight; this was the sleeping lady in the center of the room. I see that arrow flying and think "WTH!?!?!?" Needless to say we didn't survive the entire room of mobs comming down on us. But as one of the guys from Trail of Kings said: "That was a hell of a pull! :-P"
Many people dont know this, but you can 'padlock' any item in your inventory by selecting it and pressing 'ctrl T'.I so this with any item I dont want accidentally sold/trashed, as you cant sell/trash any item with the lock symbol on it. I remember its Ctrl T by remmebering as TSA locking it =)
Haha I see you mentioned it already, The TSA add is humorious though. =)
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...1) learned at arround lvl 50 that I can divide stacks of items up into smaller stacks...
Originally Posted by silverblade5445
...1] For a very long time (I think until I was lvl 50 or something), I dint realize that I could press Alt while clicking the "Buy" button on vendors to buy stacks.....I used to click buy a 50 times if I needed 50 lumps of coal or something...
Don't remember if I mentioned this in the previous topic, but still..
When I leveled my minstrel, I knew a lot about the game already: had 4 raiding toons, one year of healing experience on rune keeper etc...
Everyone kept telling that minstrels were so good at group healing that I assumed some skills were AOE when they were not. I actually healed some Moria instances under a strong belief that Chord of Salvation was a group heal. Like a small Triumphant Spirit, you know
Originally Posted by SapienChavez
the last time "this thread" showed up someone mentioned you can move LIs to a different tab/color by dragging and dropping them onto the desired tab...
two years of trying to keep them manually organized...
(and some further posts on this topic)
Thank you!
So I don't have to save the blue LI tab untill I find a nice 2nd age LI
Then we come up to the sleeping lady (forgot her name).
Just for the record, it is now possible to do the room with all the adds at the same time (with a level 75 warden at least). :P
What chaos! Never saw anything like that. He just barged right in!
I never saw so many AOEs in one place.
I was supposed to be the healer there if I recall right... I don't even remember the rest of the group. A couple of 50s, my 60s RK...
He was a one man fellowship there...
Wardens are just too good. Biggest number of mobs I ever saw on anyone. :P
As for embarassing things happening to me... I didn't really remember any, but this thread and the previous one showed me one or two (like the repositioning of LIs)...
Last edited by Lucanthanas; Jun 27 2012 at 07:30 AM.
Yes, from this thread, if equipped, unequip the item. Drag the item from your bags into the tab you want. To move slotted LI's to different TABS just grab the LI with mouse pointer in your bags, and drag it to the TAB you want. You can't move them from LI tab to LI tab directly, but from inventory to the LI tab, or from the char screen works.
Credit goes to Crell_1, enginekid & Vilost for the above info.
For the longest time I didn't realize that there was a another entrance at the back of Esteldin that led to Nan Amlug East. So when I was questing there I always had to take the long way (exit Esteldin to Kingsfell and go north around the mountains into Nan Amlug East) and since I was there on-level, it involved fighting my way through boars and wolves every time I had to head back after turning in a quest (I did set my milestone at Esteldin so that helped). It wasn't until after I moved on to Angmar and one day used the Stable Master from Esteldin to Aughaire that I found out you could head out the back of Esteldin! D'OH!
I did that also. It wasn't so bad until I joined a DD group. They were getting pretty impatient for me to go the long way around for no apparent reason.
Originally Posted by silverblade5445
Up until a couple weeks ago, I dint know there was a guild crafting hall with all the guild vendors and all.....at the back of the Galtrev crafting hall....I used to travel all the way to Esteldin to barter the guild patterns and stuff....
Did this one too. Someone asked where the Weaponsmith guild was in Galtrev. I told them Thorin's Hall like THEY were the idiots. Luckily someone else pointed to the back of the crafting hall for both of us.
Originally Posted by Nymphonic
I've been here for over 5 years and just last night I found a hidden lake in the Bree Fields in a canyon that I knew nothing about. It even had some little islands in it and led out to a river that passes the giant that you have to get the lost backpack from. Not the one just south of Esteldin, this is another lake all together.
This one I knew about. I used to go around there to mine silver and barrow-iron. There was a lot of nodes in a small space and no one else was ever around.
Just for the record, it is now possible to do the room with all the adds at the same time (with a level 75 warden at least). :P
What chaos! Never saw anything like that. He just barged right in!
He was a one man fellowship there...
Wardens are just too good. Biggest number of mobs I ever saw on anyone. :P
Remember that the warden is 25 odd levels over the max of the instance. The amounts of misses from the mobs, parries, blocks and evades are enormous then. I remember I solo'ed Urugarth on my level 60 warden. Yeah, it shows warden's are basically a one person death-squad; bodies, blodd and pain follow where-ever they go. :-P
Another funny screw-up: Taking a group of people that are relatively unknown into the Vile Maw raid (Watcher). Explaining how the first stage of the fight works and that after triggering the Watcher, everyone needs to run left. Watcher get's triggered and take one guess who ends up defeated in the center.
I quickly learned many tricks in this games including crafting, mass buying but there is one I found out recently.. I can add normal equipment items to cosmetics/wardrobe slots!
Sometimes there is some good-looking equipment piece which I want to wear together with my cosmetics. So I make that part of cosmetics transparent (closed eye icon) to see that equipment piece. But when I was upgrading my gear that nice-looking piece has changed.
Not anymore.. :-) There are still restrictions that heavy armour pieces must be applied to cosmetics of heavy armour wearers etc. But it's still nice anyway since some normal equipment armour sets look great..
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Elves - Dusriel (RK75), Dusreth (HNT85), Dusaran (WRD65), Dusador (GRD24+)
Creep - Dusgok (Reaver3+)
Laurelin server - Anaruth Order (I'm Linux player)
1) It took me to level 50 before I figured out there were 'Swift-Travel' options in the Stable-Master. I always used to think they meant something bad, so I always took the normal stable route...
2) I did not realise there was an auto-run button until level 60 in Moria.
3) I did not know there was a glff until level 45, and I always thought to myself, 'Gee, this game is quiet'.
There are still restrictions that heavy armour pieces must be applied to cosmetics of heavy armour wearers etc. But it's still nice anyway since some normal equipment armour sets look great..
If you have shared wardrobe, you can just put the heavy armor into the wardrobe and then you and all your chars on that server can use it as cosmetic....whether theyre a heavy armor class or no
I've been here for over 5 years and just last night I found a hidden lake in the Bree Fields in a canyon that I knew nothing about. It even had some little islands in it and led out to a river that passes the giant that you have to get the lost backpack from. Not the one just south of Esteldin, this is another lake all together.
Starmere Lake is amazing...my favorite place in Bree-land. Great fishing spot and lots of silver to found there.
I just figured out on the craft vendors you can use the drop down to only look for craft materials instead of scrolling htrough miles of recipes to get to that one lump of coal you want.
yep embarrassed. :P
Mine is similar - it was only a couple months ago I realized you could sort/filter the Shared Wardrobe by Item and by Color. All this time I've been searching all 120 items trying to find what I want, grousing that it should be organized like the Shared Vault, with chests to make things easier. I still would like to see a vault type organization, but having those sort options that I never noticed helps a lot!
Originally Posted by silverblade5445
2] Up until a couple weeks ago, I dint know there was a guild crafting hall with all the guild vendors and all.....at the back of the Galtrev crafting hall....I used to travel all the way to Esteldin to barter the guild patterns and stuff....
This is one of the stealth additions that Turbine seems to be famous for. This Crafting Guild room was not there when RoI was released. It had to come at some update or other. I only found it by accident. "hmm... that curtain looks funny ... omg, an active doorway! omg, a Crafting Guild!"
This is one of the stealth additions that Turbine seems to be famous for. This Crafting Guild room was not there when RoI was released. It had to come at some update or other. I only found it by accident. "hmm... that curtain looks funny ... omg, an active doorway! omg, a Crafting Guild!"
Actually, it was there, just not as obvious, according to a post from Budgeford (Turbine) in this thread... I wasn't aware of it initially, until they made it a bit more obvious.
Actually, it was there, just not as obvious, according to a post from Budgeford (Turbine) in this thread... I wasn't aware of it initially, until they made it a bit more obvious.
ha! learn sumpthin' new every day. Thanks Alcaniel!
Leveling my first toon (a champ) I was wondering what all these relics and carvings and flax &&&& was that was dropping off these mobs, they weren't the same background as the regular vendor trash but I couldn't figure out WHY!?!?!
I was also quite poor. Spent my hard earned silver on junk I didnt need in the AH. Constantly scratching for silver to make my next ride to Bree.
One day...... roled up a new toon. Got a new profession. (scholar). hmmmmmmmmm. Goto AH. I seeeeeee.
Over the course of about a year I had vendored dozens of Gold in crafting supplies and crit mats.
I just recently realized that there are three types of food (cooked, trail and fortifying) and that you can eat one of each kind and get their benefits simultaneously.
I had been playing about a year when a random stranger asked me if there wasa reason I was crafting one ingot at a time. I had no idea I could do more than one, no wonder it took so long. Was more embarass when he asked how long I had been playing. I wish I could have said only a week but I was already level 30+.
Makes those Bulk recipes for Forester and Prospector at the Skirmish Camps useless.
Originally Posted by jiupitsu
Guess what, there are three entrances to the Prancing Pony..
I found those entrances made access to quest givers easier than running through the whole Inn.
Originally Posted by Mirarian
I just figured out on the craft vendors you can use the drop down to only look for craft materials instead of scrolling htrough miles of recipes to get to that one lump of coal you want.
yep embarrassed. :P
I found out at the various Class Trainers you have access to recipes related to those classes, recipes not available at the craft vendors. Class items too.
Glicyn, Man CPT; Drigrin, Hobbit BUR; Heli, Dwarf MIN; Eliyvan, Elf LM- Imladris
Soldiers of Gondor - Kin
mine was stable use on my very first main... level 50 before i realized anyone can use the slow stables... the travel button was greyed out until player selects a destination, but as a greenie FTP i assumed all were VIP-locked.. and rode literally miles and hours to join my friends questing in their various regions..LOL
Many people dont know this, but you can 'padlock' any item in your inventory by selecting it and pressing 'ctrl T'.I so this with any item I dont want accidentally sold/trashed, as you cant sell/trash any item with the lock symbol on it. I remember its Ctrl T by remmebering as TSA locking it =)
Haha I see you mentioned it already, The TSA add is humorious though. =)
I can't get the control T thing to work. No idea what I am getting wrong. so I guess I stick to locking things in hte sell tab at a vendor
I can't get the control T thing to work. No idea what I am getting wrong. so I guess I stick to locking things in hte sell tab at a vendor
First alt + left click to select the item in your inventory. Then press control + t to lock it. If you selected the item properly, its name will show up in the top-center of your screen. (You can also emote at inventory items selected this way... "So and so begins dancing with Sticky Goo.")
The newest embarrassing thing for me is probably the time I needed (days!) until I found out that the Descendant can indeed auto-attack apart from the two attack skills. All the time I was grumbling how the fights were taking so long while I stood around and waited for the cooldown while the foes were happily beating on me (that said the backkick attack is awesome and sometimes hilarious and I use it whenever the skill is free and any opponent nearby).
Early on questing with my Lore Master, I had to learn how to carefully approach each fight. The problem is, not every mob is going to react how you expect them to. Once, while completing quests in the Chetwood outside Combe, I was fighting inside the Blackwold HQ. I targeted one Blackwold along a wall and sent my raven at him. Instead of coming at me or standing and fighting my raven, he turns around and takes off around a corner. When I saw my raven follow him, I was like "NOOOOOOOO!" I quickly tried to recall the raven. When the raven reappears around the corner, 5 or 6 Blackwold were hot on his tale. Oh &&&&! Run away!!
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Took me a while to realize there was indeed another way there.
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so I guess I stick to locking things in hte sell tab at a vendor
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