i am downloading lotro for the 1st time right now and will be starting my journey soon. after i start i will update my impressions here. any advise on race, class, server, etc is very appreciated!
My feeling about race & class is that they all have strengths and weaknesses and valuable roles to play in a group. Choose what most appeals to you and stick with it when things get a little hairy. You'll find that the game has its rougher and more difficult points and some points that are just a grind. However, it's a ton of fun overall and very addictive!
i am downloading lotro for the 1st time right now and will be starting my journey soon. after i start i will update my impressions here. any advise on race, class, server, etc is very appreciated!
cya in-game
sz
My advice is, dont come to the forums until after you have leveled your first charecter (hobbit burg is my reccomendation). The boards can pull you down fast if you take it to seriously, enjoy the game. Lotro really is a spectacular MMO, enjoy it before you get jaded.
the tutorial is taking me through how to play. i am level 2 lol but, the graphics look beautiful on ultra settings.
got my level 2 skills... one i understand the other is confusing. i will figure it out though!
oh yeah - i am on Riddermark and i rolled a Captain (not sure what they do but, it wouldn't allow me to have a Rune Keeper?)
stay tuned...
sz
add - i just turned level 3 and went straight south out of Archet to a pond. the hi res is awesome! i climbed up on a big rock/boulder and jumped in the pond to swim around. i took off my gear and did it some more. the climbing, jumping and swimming is the best i have EVER seen in an mmo! FUN FUN FUN so far!
level 10 now and starting to branch out of Archet (Breeland) a bit. i am really getting hooked! found a nice kinship (guild) and they have been very helpful with explaining how to play and what to do. still going!
LOL i have reached level 11 on Riddermark, and today i started learning my crafting. i learned jewelry, prospecting and cooking (HEY! no barefoot cooking in the kitchen jokes!). the prospecting is just finding the ore nodes and mining them. i do it while i am out questing. i also have to refine or smelt the ore into ingots (whatever that is?) then i use my jewelry crafting to make my bling! i LOVE bling! today i made rings, earrings, bracelets and a necklace. YEAH! me. however, my cooking is not going so well. i have to figure out where to get the ingredients (ugh!)
so far i am still having a blast exploring, questing and oh yeah, did i mention that i HATE spiders!
my kinship (guild) is treating me great and answering my dumb questions. they have NOT /gkicked me yet. or would that be /kkicked me? level 11 and i feel like i am just scratching the surface with this place... it seems HUGE!
i still have no clue about the difference between f2p, premium and VIP... figure i will cross that bridge when somebody clues me in. OH! and i don't have a horse yet... not sure about how to do that yet either.
Not sure if free players get it, but there is a blog area of this web site, and a customizable home page and a bunch of other stuff.
the home tab up there takes you to some of it. I forget how to start the blog and get to it, but its in there somewhere.
Not saying to stop doing this (its neat to watch you progress and discover stuff) just that you might be interested in the other tools beyond the forum.
And ingot is the name used for (usually metal, but not always) a (usually rectangular) blob of materiel in a storage format. Gold for example... they melt the gold into mostly rectangular bars which are easily stacked and are a person can lift one easily to take it away for use. Lead, the same. Many people at home cast things with lead and some use muffin pans to make "ingots" to the term can be pretty loosely used but its the correct term.
Most of the professions have one producer and one gatherer paired (this is your prospector/jeweler). You gather your ore and make your products. The third one usually requires you to buy the gathered stuff from another, in this case a farmer. So you head to the auction house and sell your ore (sell it raw, people want the prospector points for smelting it) or ingots or jewelry and buy some flour (spring, at the low level?). Using the spring flour, you can make pie crusts or something, and so on. Of course a lot of the cooking ingredients are on the cooking trainer/supplier NPCs but you will need some farmer items. Cooking is the most expensive craft, but you can buy your way to the top rapidly.
Free players have a ton of limitations to lift via their earned turbine points, things like only able to own a couple of gold max, unable to really use the auction house (?), not able to swift travel from place to place, have to buy class trait slots, and a lot of other stuff. Premium and vip get rid of these things and unlock quest packs and more for you, there are many breakdowns of the differences so look around on the forum sticky posts to find this info.
Horses are one of the limits, you either have to buy things in the store or buy (vip??) to enable getting one in-game via a quest at a certain level. Its not a big secret, but I wont give details if you do not want them, just telling you if you do not pay for vip I think it just becomes a store purchase for you.
Draegon:
"stack all the morale you want but dont come on here wonderin why you aint hittin hard! "
i am up to level 14 now. i am still exploring the Bree-land area and doing tons of quests.
the one thing i REALLY love is that i see and run into so many other people out in the game world. the Riddermark server seems to be very populated and there are always a lot of conversations going on. it is hard to explain but, i love bumping into so many live peepz just out exploring and in the weirdest places. when i played WoW it had become so barren out in the world areas and you never saw anybody, except in the cities. i am not dis'n on WoW, but it is just an observation and it makes lotro seem 'alive'... if you know what i mean.
my kinship is still helping me. a guy made me a nice 2h sword and a complete set of armor to put on at level 14. so, needless to say it was SO exciting getting to 14 today and getting to put on my new clothes; it was JUST like Christmas!
my bag space and bank space are becoming a real issue. i just don't have enough slots for all my stuff. this partly is caused by the fact that i don't know what i am suppose to keep, what i should throw away, vendor or sell on the auction. geez - i don't even know how to use the auction yet.
lotro is still fun and so new... stay tuned!
<3 saun
there is a bank in major cities --- you can store things you are not sure of there.
If you cannot (or will not) wear it, eat it, or make something from it, then sell it to a vendor. Work on determining what you may be able to sell to other players (mostly, crafting resources that you find/loot) but if you are out of space, the vendor approach works (you can always find more junk to sell after you figure it out).
Draegon:
"stack all the morale you want but dont come on here wonderin why you aint hittin hard! "
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