Good bye Lord of the Rings online

Just few days before new payment was due i closed my account at Codemasters. Good bye Lord of the Rings online, it has been nice 10 months and it was pleasure to play and grew few of my characters, unfortunately in last 4 months the game has nothing to offer to all players who reached it's end Promises of new content delivered by "end of the year" with Moria expansion are not enough to keep me paying and waiting.

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17.3.2008 | Daniel Dočekal | Lord of the Rings Online | Comments : 8 (31.12.08 23:50) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

LOTRO : Quick peek at some spells : Call to Greatness (Minstrel)

Call to Greatness spell was added in Book 11. That and lack of description (see here, "You call out to a fellow, inspiring him to greatness.") is making it one from well forgotten spells. Yet, it is very usefull, especially in end-game encounters.  Effects (please correct/add if i haven't got it complete) are as follows :

• Champion : Defeat response, 2 Fervour every 5 seconds
• Guardian : +25% Threat
• Lore-master : Blinding Flash refresh every 5 seconds
• Minstrel : +10% Healing, Chord of Salvation reset every 5 seconds
• Hunter : -15% Threat, 1 Focus every 5 secs
• Captain : Defeat response every 5 secs
• Burglar : +15 damage to positional attack

The resetting timer every 5 seconds (usually for 15 seconds) should be present for every class.

One last note - while in raid, it can be cast only in your own fellowship. And yes, minstrel can cast it on himself.

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17.12.2007 | Daniel Dočekal | Lord of the Rings Online | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

LOTRO : Bits and bytes November 28nd : Thrang Defeated

Few weeks and Thrang has been defeated. Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima kinship advanced again int The Rift. Yesterdays first attempt at Thrang was succesfull, after some nearly three quarters of hour fight, Thrang finally died. Balrog (Thaurlach) is waiting. And he will be dead soon. I am sure about it.

My minstrel is 50. Codemasters/Turbine should deliver some new content before xmass, at least i hope so. Lord of the Rings still must catch up in content richness and variety. And that lazy Fellowship of the Ring is still stuck in Rivendell.

I have spent some gold and time doing mining to get mats for my jewelcrafter. EvuulSara, name inspired by hellish Sara Oakheart, is hobbit burglar and now finally Master jwc. And will be a Grand Master for sure after some more time. Only few hundreths of Misty Mountain Silver Ore and all is set. Of course there is still issue to bring her up to (at least) level where she can use critting tools. But that will happen as well.

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28.11.2007 | Daniel Dočekal | Lord of the Rings Online | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

LOTRO : Bits and bytes November 20th

Gloriela, my minstrel, is at lvl 50 and had few nice runs into Urugarth and Annúminas. It's interesting to see the difference between minstrel and priest (WoW).

The Rift after first Patch is still buggy. Third boss is bugging under stairs into evade, spawned monsters on stairs are bugging still as well. Anyway it's interesting fight now, at least. There is new bug at number six, Shadow-Eater. Summoner is spawning his worms behind fences where nobody can kill them. And while all are in combat, nobody can open the gate to start boss encounter. Mushroom picking-up quest is still not fixed.

Saving into instance in The Rift has one interesting feature. I went there with my minstrel through saved state of our raid (where i go with my main) just to check something. And as soon as i reached giant vendor (after first two bosses) i just got saved with whole #1 to #6. Even without killing anything. Call it  bug if you want.

Playing with traits and virtues might be sometimes interesting puzzle. Deeds and Traits here has  been updated, as i have spent some time revising and thinking about LousyAnne's setup. She is champion, so if anyone interested in possible Champion Traits Setup - Virtues (Tolerance, Determination, Discipline, Justice, Loyalty), Race (Eldar's Grace, Friend of man, Tactics and Conviction Bonus, Return to Rivendell, Power of the Eldar), Class (Deadly Strikes, Vicious Strikes, Swift to Anger, Fervent Rage, Flurry of Blow) and Legendary (Ferocious Strikes, Explosion of Blades)

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20.11.2007 | Daniel Dočekal | Lord of the Rings Online | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

LOTRO : Bits and bytes November 7th

The Rift is bugged, heavily bugged. Seeing through walls is funny, but does not make anything bad. Bugged bosses and their scripts are bad thing. Door getting stuck after wiping at Thrang is really bad. And Codemasters of course decided, that trash on long way past Eldgang vendor will respawn continuously, so even you killed bosses up to Thrang, you still have to spend a hour of fighting to get to him again. But no surprise, Codemasters have this weird idea : pissed players are best players. Still, The RiftIS wonderfull instance.

Gold sellers are having their own Harvest Festival. Standing in city and spamming channels with offer of their services every second. For hours and hours, nobody cares. Sometimes i have bad feeling that gold sellers and bots are in fact supported by game makers. It's good for their income. There is large pool of ppl who would stop playing without ability to buy anything they want.

Meet Gloriela, hobbit minstrel. Little hobbit minstrel of mine is slowly reachign its game maturity, level 50. Book 11 update was taking care of minstrel skills, mainly adding some "kind of" dps state to it. And nerfing healing skills. There are many ppl complaining about that. I have to say that i really like to play my minstrel. And those new skills, brought by Book11, are really good.

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7.11.2007 | Daniel Dočekal | Lord of the Rings Online | Comments : 5 (7.11.07 13:25) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

LOTRO : Bits and bytes November 2nd

Oh. I have met a Gollum yesterday. As my minstrel (44 now) is happy to try all new quests (added with Book 11), she has found a marvelous chain. It end's in private instance (single, not fellow) where you can see sneaky cheaky Gollum. First time ever in Lord of the Rings Online. Great!

Game has a maintenance day today, instead of usual thursday, promising some patches - i wont show you patch notes, as it's probably only joke from game writers. There are numerous bugs introduced in Book 11, but patch notes are just about. Well, nothing.

I can confirm that mezzing Hillmen-Slave at Boss #1/#2 will stop new waves spawning. Wild guess, it's not working as intended, so we will see this for sure fixed. I got my first "token" in The Rift yday. Which in turn means, i am proud owner of new champion boots (yes, my main is champ, minstrel is just first from alts).

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2.11.2007 | Daniel Dočekal | Lord of the Rings Online | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

LOTRO : The Rift journey begins

First kin (Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima) run into new 12 main raid instance The Rift has been enormous succes. First two bosses downed without (boss) wipe in 3 hours of time. Great work done, and many thx to those from outside of kin who have done great job.

The Rift, new 12 man raiding instance, is interesting place. Boss fights are far away from usual tank-and-spank and require tactics. Trash mobs are hitting like train and are numerous, whilst pull must be made carefully and timed.

Killing first two bosses opens access to city located inside The Rift where giant race of Eldgang dwells and needs help of all who can help. And more bosses (nine in total) are awaiting with new challenging fights.

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29.10.2007 | Daniel Dočekal | Lord of the Rings Online | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +