#LOTRO Lore-Master Pets

[queen-scribbles]

Wulfwryn x Halthiras for the OC date meme for some lotro shenanigans :P

Depends, where are they having this date? Bc if it starts in the Shire, I feel like they're both gonna drink too much hobbit ale and things are gonna get FUN. xD While Wulfwryn may stop herself at tipsy, Hal--despite his membership to the Inn League--does not have a high alcohol tolerance. He'd probably be in that "pleasantly dizzy, self-preservation significantly lower but not quite drunk" stage, which would mean a lot of Wulfwryn convincing him not to walk on fences etc until he sobers up. At which point he's profoundly apologetic and embarrassed and checks at least five times he didn't do anything too awful(by which he means both coming on too strong--he wouldn't--and too dangerous/embarrassing she had to save him from xD). The rest of the night probably involves them sitting in a field looking at the stars--and potentially fireworks, if it's the right time of year--and maybe just a little making out.👀👀👀

If this date starts anywhere OTHER THAN a Shire tavern, it very likely begins with Hal asking Wulf if she wants to meet (some of) his animals and I hope she knows what she's getting into if she says yes. He has the raven. bear, and bogstalker Lore Master comps, six or seven horses(Summer Faire one is his favorite), and... at least fifteen pets(including but not limited to hedgehog, black cat, brown and white rabbits, white puppy, brown bat, brown sheep, and snowy owl). So if they do that, it'll take an hour or two easy of hanging out with various animals, then he'd suggest going for a walk and talking. (He's most comfortable in nature, so it's him subconsciously hoping to make this more relaxing, even if he forgets to check whether she would also find that relaxing, but he'd be fine if she'd rather sit inside to talk.) Would probably also end sitting somewhere to admire the sunset/night and a kiss, though it would be more... chaste, for lack of a better word, and less "making out", though he wouldn't be opposed if it still went there. :3

#oc date asks #i feel like they'd hit it off #obviously not as well as wulf/raenor bc they're the og #but there would definitely be some teasing ''well my raven likes you so CLEARLY you're a good choice" xD #sidenote: i just remembered i need to update hal's menagerie post with the ones from spring + the anniversary cozy cat #halthiras #wulfwryn #halthiras/wulfwryn

[friendofbears]

Neranthael is my original lore master, my first lotro toon. She's a simple sindar girl, with a deep love of nature, particularly bears she is the closest with. She has so many bear pets.

#lotr #lotro #neranthael bear friend #laurelin server

[lotrolulz]

Uh oh! Looks like my friend really didn’t like that “annoying, blinding, glowy, stupid ghosty useless light thing” that appeared on her Lore Master. It seems to have been named appropriately. 

#LOTRO #LOTRO Game #Lord of the Rings Online #The Lord of the Rings Online #LOTRO Lulz #LOTRO Lore Master #LOTRO Lore-Master #LOTRO Lore-Master Pets #LOTRO Spirit of Nature #Irritants allies of Esthiel

[loremastering]

Writing a “realistic” lotro Lore Master

(Disclaimer: This is just me taking notes and making a reference for myself of how to incorporate the Lore master game mechanics into a more believable setting for me, no one else has to follow it if they don’t want to. I am not dictating what other people should do in any way. This mainly concerns my elven LM) 

The Lore master is class is my favorite because of it’s animal and nature abilities but I feel like trying to write the class into the broader world of Middle-Earth lore can be seen as god-modding or cringe, in my opinion at least. Brings me back to those days of role playing where the setting was just normal, real world animals and humans, until ebony darkness dementia raven way made an appearance and won every battle and argument with 5 different magic spells and could communicate with dragons and unicorns, making themselves a god amongst the other players. 

So to avoid my main lore master Daerhovan being seen this way, I've tried to come to a compromise between source material Middle-Earth and LOTRO Middle-Earth in a way that makes my OC more believable.

In regards to animal communication and relationships with them.

I don’t want Daerhovan to be seen as a Snow White esque figure who makes animal friends wherever he goes and they help him with chores and shit, so I've tried to make his relationships to wildlife and other creatures a bit more in tune with middle earth elf canon and real world interactions.

-Animal interactions in general: 

It’s book canon that elves can converse with animals, so there’s no problem with communication there. But I don’t think they would warm up to an elf right away, some of them? Especially wild beasts. Most of the time Daerhovan leaves animals alone and lets nature take it’s course. But he tends to befriend those he rescues from cruel and inhumane traps. 

-Animal Companions: The bear, raven, bog guardian, eagle, lynx, and nature spirit.

I think he would grow fond of certain individuals for sure. Everyone in the list above he might have rescued from what I mentioned above. For game purposes I mainly use the lynx. In the real world, I absolutely loathe wild animals being kept as pets, and it was hard to separate that part of myself when writing in daer’s faithful lynx companion. To compromise, I decided that, hey, a character can’t be a character without some flaws, so maybe he messed up with his lynx. In my story of him, she was rescued from starvation when found without a mother, and Daer took matters into his own hands, perhaps a little too much. Verya (the lynxs name) is still wild, but despite him trying to teach her to live on her own, in the lynx's mind it’s easier to stick by someone who helps you get food more easily and offers security. And maybe she’s just a really stubborn cat. Thus this is a lesson learned sort of thing.

So he lets the lynx stay. Besides, life back then for him was really lonely. When it comes to domesticated animals he’s all for them and wants to take every one of them home and give them love. 

Lore Master Skills

This has been a little harder to write with, but I've done what I think is my best. Many things I took out completely, and they are as follows. (i’m only listing those that relate to his in-game trait tree. I use all blue with a bit of red and yellow)

Gust of wind, the power signs, Sic em, heals, lightning storm, light of the rising dawn, wind,fire/frost lore, power of knowledge, inner flame, 

-Explanations for skills I've kept in

Burning Embers: To me the skill induction looks like the LM is igniting something by natural means that makes it explode upon contact with an enemy. So perhaps he keeps a decent sack of whatever it is that accomplishes this. 

Blinding flash and bane flare: These can happen by man made means and require no magic really. But with the gifts that elves can do in regards to crafting perhaps a little something more is involved (same with the other skills perhaps)

Sticky Gourd and Sticky tar: Like Burning embers, just bigger, and one has a different substance. 

Ancient craft: The in-game skill directly says that the LM is throwing a handful of metal to impede the enemy. 

Now, I didn’t want to completely omit some of his elemental skills, as I believe they’re a core part of who he is too. But the output is much, much lower, only used as a last resort, made possible by the canon fact that elves have a connection to the land, and doing these in battle severely weakens him after. (based on some tidbits from the skill deed texts). I also believe that being immortal gives elven lore masters the time they need to learn and harness this as well. 

Cracked earth: It was the elves who first taught the trees how to communicate with others, and I've used this canon fact to help Daerhovan persuade the trees around him to aid him in battle when the need arises. For this skill in particular, if a tree be willing, it can shoot its root up from the ground to entangle and root the enemy in place. 

Lightning strike: I’m still debating this one, but here’s what I have so far. He can only do this when he begins to master his craft. (still debating on whether that's at age 600 or 5000 lmao) He can only stun with it, there has to be electricity in the air already via storm, and it severely weakens him after use. 

Murder of Crows: An upcoming skill to replace Sic em. I’ll leave this here for when it actually comes out and I can decide how to incorporate or leave out

AND SO that concludes this mini essay lol. Might add more stuff as I think about but hopefully this puts Daerhovan in a much more believable light as a character and oc 

#lotro #daerhovan #oc #I TRIED IDK IDK #refs #if people with lms wanna do something similar feel free

[most-beloved-star]

“A Lore-master can only have one pet helping them at a time. A Lore-master must learn to choose smartly from their wide variety of pets to best fit each situation, specialization, role, and environment”

that’s great and all, lotro wiki, but have you considered I can have Boggy the Bog-Guardian out at all times because he’s my friend and I love him

#lord of the rings online #lotro #once I got the friend of nature trait it’s been the only one I’ve used #the fact I managed to fit boggy into my character’s backstory doesn’t help lol #i went onto the wiki to look at the lore master quests and got distracted

[thetamingofsmeagol]

Wow my first post on here. So uh, I drew something meme-inspired with Gollum and Glamorhel, one of my lotro characters. This is basically how I imagine their dynamic

Glamorhel is an elf and a lore-master, and I really don't play her as much as I should which I have been meaning to rectify but uh. Drawing her is the same thing as playing her, right? She's much prettier than this, I don't know how to draw pretty women yet. Or hands and feet.

Anyway! Glamorhel is a Mirkwood elf, and I like to think that while Gollum was captive there she was one of his primary caretakers. She's used to taking care of feral animals (and is something of a feral animal herself tbh) so she tolerates him better than most. Tolerates, not likes. And he absolutely fucking hates her because she keeps wrestling things he shouldn't be eating out of his mouth when they go on walks. It's a miracle she hasn't lost a finger to him. She can't have him around her other pets, because if they're small enough for him to eat he will try to eat them, and the ones that are too big for him to eat hate him

She means well and she's trying SO hard, Gollum, please try to meet her halfway

#sage draws #lord of the rings #lotro #gollum #smeagol #glamorhel (lotro oc) #not sure how i want to tag ocs yet

[asgardian--angels]

Calling All LOTR fans! Why aren’t you on LOTRO yet??

Hey everyone! It’s Molly here - aka, Sauron’s #1 fan lmao. 

Now, we’re a big fandom, between LOTR and the Hobbit and the Silm, there’s millions of us out there, and thousands on Tumblr! And we’re always looking for new ways to experience and interact with Tolkien’s legendarium. Plus, many of us have an overlapping interest in gaming, of any sort. But even if you don’t - read on, I implore you! 

There’s an incredibly awesome free MMORPG out there, one that I’ve been playing for years. It’s called LOTRO - Lord of the Rings Online - and it’s gotta be my absolute favorite interpretation of Middle-Earth ever. 

For those not aware, an MMORPG is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game, basically an open world PC game that has thousands of other users you can interact with within the confines of the game’s universe. And in this case, that’s Middle-Earth! 

Everything you know and love about Tolkien’s world is brought to life in stunning thoughtful detail, from the rolling hills of the Shire to the eaves of Fangorn and beyond. You become an integral part of the story of Middle-Earth, assisting the Fellowship both directly and in the littler ways that count most of all - staving off the forces of darkness by doing good deeds and helping the folk of Eriador, Rhovanion, and Gondor. Everything you do ripples outwards to influence the fate of Arda itself! Without you, there would be no hope for the Fellowship to succeed in its dire quest. Traveling from land to land, you become beloved and treasured as a hero by all the free peoples of Middle-Earth, royal and common folk alike. While you may start out small, soon your path will bring you to the feet of great lords and kings, and onto the very doorstep of Mordor itself, where the Dark Lord awaits. Fight the fell beasts of Sauron, skip through the Old Forest with Tom Bombadil, and ride your warsteed across the vast open plains of Rohan - the world is yours to explore, and to save, if you can. Middle-Earth depends on you.

I truly can’t overstate how much I love LOTRO. I’ve been playing for five years now and I am just as much in love with it as the day I first started. It’s always a little dicey, as a Tolkien fan, especially if you’re a highly devoted one, trying to judge and decide if an interpretation of his work will enhance your experience or ruin it - you just want to see justice done by him and everything he stood for. Trust me, I’m like that too (there’s no need to talk about a certain upcoming Amazon series...). So believe me when I tell you that the spirit of Tolkien comes alive in this game. The creators, writers, and designers of LOTRO have put so much thought and care, and heart, into staying true to Tolkien’s vision and messages. Great attention and care is paid with respect to accuracy to the lore and languages Tolkien created as well, something that cements the authenticity of LOTRO for diehard fans. You just feel good playing it (and honestly, I feel like it’s helped my self-esteem?? Those little virtual hobbits are so grateful for everything you do). Warm fuzzies all around. With a fair helping of angst, can’t forget that. Not all stories can have happy endings, but with your help, a whole lot of them can. 

So... maybe you’ve read this far, and are a teensy bit interested? Or at least intrigued. This is a chance to expand the world of Tolkien to something you can actually immerse yourself in, be a part of, explore like never before! Wander the cobblestone streets of Bree, smell the pipe-smoke in the Prancing Pony, feel the chill winds of the icy wastes of Forochel upon your face. Do you have the guts to face the Witch-King himself? 

LOTRO has so much to offer! Whether you are interested from a gaming perspective, or a story perspective, it’s endless fun. Before LOTRO I’d never played an MMO, and I certainly would not consider myself a gamer. I came from a love of Middle-Earth, and came for a chance to see that story brought to life. So don’t count it out if you think you’re not up for some hardcore gaming lifestyle - this game has the pace that you set for it. Whether you join a social kinship and roleplay, a raid group to do skirmishes, or go it alone and fish the day away, the possibilities are endless. 

Plus, I feel like it’s worth stating that the scenery in LOTRO is astoundingly beautiful. It’s not uncommon for my friends and I to ride around just for the view. And you know what else? The music, guys. Just, the music. LOTRO has been blessed these many years with composer Chance Thomas, who has crafted some of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard - comparable to those of the Lord of the Rings films themselves. He truly encapsulates the emotions, the grandeur, the coziness, the uneasiness, the dread and the joy, of every corner of Middle-Earth. (It’s so well-loved by players that TWO official soundtracks were even put out, and I play them in my car all the time, ngl. Check out one of the Rohan tracks here!)

So, for the nitty gritty that you may be wondering about! This is a great time to join LOTRO. Over the years, the game has grown tremendously, adding more regions of Middle-Earth to quest in, building more storylines, and expanding the characters you can have, the clothes you can wear, and the activities you can do! Currently, you can play several races - Man, Dwarf, Elf, High Elf, Hobbit, and Beorning - as well as a wide variety of classes - hunter, lore-master, rune-keeper, burglar, champion, minstrel, captain, guardian, and warden- each with their own unique stories and abilities. Multiple characters can be created for free on one account. There’s a wide customization capability for characters and cosmetic items, for housing, steeds, emotes, pets, and more. That’s part of what makes LOTRO so fun! Most expansions can be purchased in-game using points earned by completing deeds, making LOTRO affordable and FTP (free to play) for a large proportion of its content. Additionally, we have an incredibly thorough and comprehensive Wiki-style website for all LOTRO-related information. This is an incredibly knowledgeable and welcoming community.

...Did I add that there’s maiar in the game too? If you have a keen eye you’ll spot them.

Molly why are really you making this post?

Now, earlier I mentioned kinships. Traveling Middle-Earth can often be more fun with others, and having friends can help you learn the game and offer advice and insight. They can be roleplay partners, band members (yes, you can play instruments in the game!), or just buddies to talk to. Many LOTRO players are in kinships, and each is different, depending on what you want to get out of the experience. You can find a kinship within the game, or on social media - in fact, I found my kinship, the one I’ve been in all these years, right here on Tumblr! I want to extend that hand in friendship to potential new players that are in the position I was all those years ago. 

Our humble kinship is called Dwarrowdam. You may recall this is the name for a lady-dwarf! While many of our members are dwarrowdams, that is by no means a prerequisite. We welcome players of all races and classes. Dwarrowdam is a casual social kinship, where we enjoy helping others out, from learning the ropes to festival activities, deeding, raids, concerts, and much more. We host weekly kin nights, where we get together and have fun for a couple of hours. This kinship has been going almost since the start of LOTRO itself, and we are eager to meet new people! A few of our higher-ranking members have had to depart after many years, due to real life commitments, and we hope to build our ranks again. We all thoroughly enjoy mentoring new players, myself included. Dwarrowdam would be a great choice for kinship for any player just starting out, or a continuing player looking for a relaxed social atmosphere as part of their gameplay experience! We are located on the Landroval server, which itself is known for its friendliness and its roleplay opportunities. It is our hope that gaining a solid handful of new, active members will allow our kinship to return to its former glory. Kinships can fizzle out and dissolve if too many players leave, and that is the last thing we want to happen to Dwarrowdam. It’s been like a home for me and many others, and I believe we can restore it.

I am an officer in the Dwarrowdam kinship, along with Badari and Daerhovan. We strongly encourage you to contact us with any questions you might have, about the kinship or LOTRO itself, or if you would like to join Dwarrowdam. 

Anyone who loves Tolkien and Middle-Earth should give LOTRO a try. For me, finding it was like filling a hole in my life I never knew existed. It’s thrilling, peaceful, emotional, hopeful, all in one - basically, everything that the stories we know and love already are, but brought to life in front of us. I’d like to think that if you tried it, you’d love it as much as I do. And if you’re in need of a kinship, please consider Dwarrowdam. 

And besides, look at Gandalf and his bushy eyebrows. You can’t say no to that.

#lotro #lord of the rings online #lotr #lord of the rings #the silmarillion #long post #mine #do i enjoy writing posts about lotro? absolutely #we seriously need new members #n e w b l o o d #but more than anything i just want to share the joy that lotro has brought to my life #it's gotten me through so many hard and stressful times #you just ride out into the middle of nowhere in rohan and sit there and watch the sun set and everything is right in the world #i LOVE being able to mentor new players it's so fun and having that chance to be in a kinship as soon as i started was pivotal #we welcome you all with open arms #anyway yeah we're desperate for new members and if we can't get some we will probably be forced to merge into a larger kinship #which is alright i guess but you lose that sense of identity #so this is sort of a plea post? like please help us #we need renewed interest in LOTRO itself overall. there's a wide audience to be had but membership is down #and i feel like part of that must have to do with the fact that there's no more movies coming out #nothing drawing new people in #so this is me turning to the audience lotr already has that probably doesn't yet know this game exists

[mallovorelstargazer]

@ashenslades , thank you for the tag!

LOTRO Themed 11 Questions

What was the first class you ever played?

Lore Master!

Favorite starter area?

I want to say Ered Luin because of the diversity of the landscape and because it was my first area I ever played in but The Shire is very lovely and a very friendly and fun place to start.

Would you rather quest in Mirkwood or Enedwaith?

Both are beautiful and have some very fun quest lines but I’ll have to go with Mirkwood.

Have you ever done the In Their Absence questline?

Some of it! I’m up to Sâri-surma. I’ve enjoyed the story so far.

Is there a class you thought you would love but just can’t get into?

I’ve only played Lore Master, Hunter, and Guardian. LM and Hunter are both pretty fun but I’m finding Guardian a little slow.

Do you have any favorite cosmetic pets?

The bunnies and the fluffy sheep from the Anniversary Festival. The kites are also really pretty.

What’s the name of your (current or future) primary Legendary Item?

My LM staff is named Echo of Telperion.

Is there a music theme in game that you never tire of hearing?

Aaah, I don’t know that I can pick one. The Rohan music is very nice.

Have you ever done chicken play?

Just one or two of the starter quests. I crash too much to try anything else, lol.

Are you a Weatherstock Wayfarer?

No.

Would you rather have one cosmetic outfit in multiple colors, or multiple cosmetic outfits in the same color?

Several outfits.

[feyariel]

What I Like about WoW

My memory being what it is and a lot of my drafts never getting posted, I don’t know what all I’ve said on this blog. Thus, I don’t know how much I’ve complained about my latest pet project.

The short of it: I want to do a thought experiment about the sort of character I would make to represent myself were I in one of those “trapped in an MMO” series/situations, but the only non-defunct MMO I have more than cursory knowledge of is World of WarCraft and I don’t like it as much as I discuss it. Some of this is mechanics which might go away in the above situation, some of it is mechanics which would not go away even in such a situation, and a lot of it is lore. I used to be a lore fiend, but got very irritated with the amount of stuff World of WarCraft either discarded from WarCraft III, implemented from before WC3 was released, or retconned out of existence (or into existence).

That’s not getting me anywhere, though.

I’ma try to focus on the positives. I kinda feel like I need to do that for reasons beyond this project (and possibly in general), but for me negatives usually outweigh positives. (I say this right now, in my mood and with long-term problems, and yet have never been able to answer the “is the glass half-full or half-empty?” question.)

Anyway, to the thing.

I got interested in World of WarCraft because I liked the lore of WarCraft III. There are plenty of stupid, contradictory (and thus wrong), and boring bits to WoW’s lore - how most of the conflict is gratuitous, how diplomacy isn’t a thing in this setting, how often people (especially people who are supposed to be wise) make terrible decisions (Malfurion comes readily to mind), and I could go on. However, there was been a depth to it (before it became a variation on Norse Mythology), with some mystery.

As cartoony as everything is, the other main appeal of the game was that you were out and about in a countryside that was positively gorgeous. When I was playing WoW, there weren’t very many MMOs that I cared about: Lord of the Rings Online (which was pay-to-play at the time, too high-end for the computer I had, and was set in Middle Earth [as much as I like the fantasies that derive from Tolkien, I do not like Tolkien]; on the bright side, you could play music), City of Heroes/City of Villains (almost exclusively set inside a city, per the title), Guild Wars and eventually its sequel (never touched), Warhammer Online (which collapsed before I got to do anything with it), and Dungeons & Dragons Online (which became free-to-play after I had stopped playing MMOs). I can’t say a whole lot about the last three I named, but LotRO was gorgeous save for character models (one of the reasons I dislike Tolkien is that his elves are conservatively elfin in appearance - sometimes pretty humans with slightly pointed ears, as opposed to alien fae). I’m sure things have changed in the almost-a-decade since I played.

Mostly, though, it was the experience. I had fun playing with the people I played with. I liked going through dungeons, even if I played a healer (which was a mind-numbing practice in WoW: you focus on the tank’s health bar and click a button). The RP experience was okay and I really enjoyed exploring everything.

I associate WoW with Tory more than anything. Yes, David and Harrison bought me the game, but I mostly played with Tory and “Albertine” (whom I suspect to be one of Tory’s toons, given how quickly I became the lieutenant guild master and how often we spent time in-game doing nothing but sight-seeing together). A lot of the reason I’d want to play WoW again is nostalgia for those times. (I’d roll up on Sisters of Elune [my original WoW home, even before I met Tory] again if there was server space, though current statistics show it’s finally switched to being Alliance-predominant instead of what it once was.)

Does that mean I should consider WoW strongly? Not really Nostalgia is insufficient for me to like most things. Besides, I was getting bored with it when I left: WoW just doesn’t offer the style of play I like, especially not post-Mists of Pandaria. I want a little variety, lots of customization options, and an action-style combat system (though I can make due without that). I’d also reallyreallyreally like to play a telekinetic, but I have yet to find options for such a thing in most MMOs.

Oh, and elves. There are elves. They have a nasty habit of being big and beefy, with the males growing facial hair, but they do have fun(ny) ears. Also, Draenei! And Tinker Gnomes! And cool versions of orcs! And playable goblins! And those trolls (even if they are racist against Yoruban-Jamaicans)!

S’yeah, that. Also, I <3 Illidan and Sylvanas, even if Illidan is a stupid addict and Sylvanas is becoming more evil (eviler?) by the year. I’m babbling. There are some things I like about WoW, but it would probably behoove me to find an MMO I like more.

[ortadunyacom]

LotRO Update 20: Battle of the Black Gate Yayınlandı!

Lord of the Rings Online oyuncuları bugün çıkan Update 20 ile kelimenin tam anlamıyla Sauron’un kapısına dayandı.

Battle of the Black Gate oyuna 90’nın üzerinde yeni görev ve Wastes diye bir bölge altında Noman-lands, Dagorlad ve Slag-hills’i ekliyor. Macera Camp of the Host’ta başlıyor ve oyuncuları epic book’ta Volume IV, Book 8’e, Kara Kapı Savaşı’na götürüyor.

Yeni hikayelerin yanı sıra, oyuncular 2 yeni kaynak instance’ına kavuşuyor, bu instance’lar solo veya fellowship ile yapılabiliyor. Bu instance’ları yapan oyuncular Host of the West’e yaklaşmakta olan savaşta yardımcı oluyorlar. Oyuncular her bir faction için item toplayıp bu sayede güzel ödüllere kavuşabiliyorlar. Ayrıca, update çok sayıda oyunu geliştiren özellik getiriyor ve sorunları çözüyor.

Oyuna update ile gelen yenilikler:

Kara Kapı Savaşı’nı bizzat yaşama şansı.

Level 105 oyuncular için 90’nın üzerinde yeni görev ve deed.

Yeni Roving Threat’ler, Flora görevleri ve yeni haftalık instance’lar.

Yeni Store Item’ları.

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[spoiler title=”Update Detayları”]

Here are the Release Notes for Update 20, released on Tuesday, March 21st.

Of Special Note:

Journey through The Wastes!

Update 20, The Battle of the Black Gate, features more than ninety quests in three new regions: the Noman-lands, Dagorlad, and the Slag-hills. Discover new adventures beginning in the Camp of the Host.

The Black Gate

Epic Volume IV, Book 8 is now available. Experience the Host of the West’s climactic confrontation with Sauron’s forces at the Battle of the Black Gate, as Aragorn seeks to draw Sauron’s Eye away from his true peril…

Resource Dungeons

Two new dungeons are now available! Explore Carchost, the Towers of the Teeth and Skoironk, the Maggot-holes, each with its own landscape, solo resource instance, and group resource instance.

Prepare the Host of the West for Battle!

Players can acquire supplies, provisions, and armour to prepare the Host of the West for the Battle of the Black Gate! Collect enough items to assist each faction of the Host of the West, and receive unique rewards. Supplies, provisions and armour can be earned through solo and group resource dungeons, Roving Threats, Landscape monsters, and Crafting.

News and Notes:

Classes

Burglar – Using Track Treasure will deactivate an active resource tracking skill and vice versa. Only one type of item may be tracked on the mini-map at a time.

Captian’s Reform the Lines skill has received a visual update.

Captain – Elendil’s Fortune buff is no longer removed when the Captain is healed.

Captain – Five stacks of Elendil’s Fury will now cause your next Blade of Elendil to consistently grant a defeat event.

Captain – Last Stand Heal legacy will now properly increase the Last Stand heal.

Captain – Increased initial value of Defensive Strike Armour Buff legacy.

Champion – Riposte now unlocks on partial parries.

Champion – The Physical Mastery Buff from Battle Frenzy now refreshes reliably.

Guardian – Guardian Follow Through now increases Shield-Smash targets to 8 when fully traited. Follow Through increases Shield-Smash targets by +2 at rank 1, +2 more at rank 2, and +3 more at rank 3.

Hunter – Archers Mark now properly reduces a target’s critical defense.

Hunter – The Blood Arrow heal over time duration has been decreased from 20s to 10s without changing the overall magnitude of heal, so each tick is larger.

Lore-master – Enfeeble-modified debuffs should properly account for other sources of debuff strength.

Lore-master – The Fellowship Friend buffs from the Bear and Raven now properly reduce incoming damage.

Lore-master – The Firm Grasp trait now works with the daze effect that Lightning-storm can gain from certain items.

Minstrel – Follow Up now works out of combat.

Rune-keeper – Essence of Storm no longer removes the “Charged” buff which makes Sustaining Bolt free.

Crafting

New crafting recipes for endgame tokens: Two Host of the West recipes have been added to the Anorien crafting tier for each profession (Cook, Jeweller, Metalsmith, Scholar, Tailor, Weaponsmith, and Woodworker). You can also acquire 2 additional recipes per profession via rep barter, and there is a 1-shot recipe that drops for each profession.

Featured Instances

The Featured Instance rotation has been updated. The new Featured Instances are the Lost Temple, Glinghant, Fornost: Wraith of Earth, Seat of the Great Goblin, Sword-hall of Dol Guldur, and Flight to the Lonely Mountain.

Featured Instances can now drop Wastes crit crafting items and reputation token bundles for the Host of the West Quartermasters.

Items

The T2 challenge Throne of the Dread Terror now offers an “Ornate Inlay” which can be bartered to update existing Throne of the Dread Terror equipment.

Skirmish – The price of the Small Reputation Acceleration Tome is being increased to better reflect Mark and Medallion acquisition rates.

Return to Arnach travel skill scroll now properly requires Friend standing with Rangers of Ithilien, not Kindred.

Older and scaling instances received a large scale pass to provide/improve Beorning specific container drops where they were missing or not class appropriate.

Nanu has finally come out of hibernation and started moving again! The turtle’s hiding place has been updated.

Dyes – “Dark Purple” and “Deep Purple” were used in different places to refer to the same colour. All references to this colour have been unified to “Dark Purple.”

Sigileth’s daggers are now appropriately flagged as daggers, not swords, in the wardrobe.

Auction House – Cosmetic Pets – The Aurochs Calf, Stowaway Rat, and Sand Flies cosmetic pet items now properly post to the “Cosmetic Pets” Auction House category.

Pet Collection

Pet Collection has received an overhaul. The UI now displays every pet available in the game. Players can now preview pets, summon pets they own, and drag a pet skill to a quickslot from the Collection UI. The old pet collections and associated titles can now be found under Social Deeds. To complete these Deeds, summon each pet in the Collection.

Two new Pet Collection Deeds are now available: Best Bugs and Fetching Foxes.

Quests and Adventure Areas

Two new Flora repeatable quests for the Wastes have been added. These quests count towards Assisting the Herbalists: North Ithilien, and are bestowed by Arador after completing the Noman-lands quest content. Phials of Golden and Violet extracts can be collected from Flora in the Wastes, and traded for rewards at the Herbalist.

Players with the vector quest “Incubated by the Flaming Deeps” underway (incomplete) will have to re-obtain the quest from the NPC.

You can now perform emotes on the stages in Belfalas premium housing areas.

The Bree Scholar’s Hall no longer has a visible exterior.

North Ithilien – Cair Andros: The Captives – fixed Maushlak occasionally not entering combat.

Instance: The Reclamation of Talath Anor – Typo/wrong voice over in instance entry dialogue and background dialogue has been fixed.

UI

Four additional custom Chat Tabs are now available. These tabs can now display across two rows at the top of the Chat Window.

In the Fellowship Mini Panel, fellows buffs and debuffs will no longer disappear after a fellow is defeated.

The accelerator button should no longer appear on the Deed panel for reputation deeds.

Mount skill icons should now all appropriately grey out when the skill cannot be used.

Added a Stable-masters Collection button on the radar.

The Mordor map should now more correctly display fellow member locations.

Miscellaneous

Fixed a display problem that would cause effects icons to jump around and flicker. This should also be a small performance improvement for the client.

The following emotes now have animations: assist, attack, blush, brb, curtsey, drool, fight, grumble, hug, innocent, mumble, pat, ready, resist, rest, stare, stretch, succumb, sweat, tear, wait, & wink. “Nothing” should be the only text-only emote remaining for all races now. The /pat emote chat text has been changed to reflect the new animation. The hug emote will now show hugging self animation.

You will no longer see any mobs above level 105 (until Update 21).

The French and German Mordor maps have been updated.

NPCs standing with crossed arms will no longer show held items.

Beleriand weapon particle effects are now more noticeable.

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Sauron'un Kapısına Dayandık! LotRO Update 20: Battle of the Black Gate Yayınlandı! Lord of the Rings Online oyuncuları bugün çıkan Update 20 ile kelimenin tam anlamıyla Sauron'un kapısına dayandı.

#Lord of the rings online #LOTRO #lotro update #oyun #update 20

[friendofbears]

12, 15, 27?

12. Were there any plot twists that really got you somehow?

Finding Lothrandir still alive! I almost cried. Poor Lothrandir.

15. Do you have a favorite class to play? A favorite specialization?

Red lore master! For some reason, I favor the path of Gandalf. It's not that I don't enjoy the blue line, because I do have that traited in one of my lines, but I generally stick with red for questing. Pets are my favorite and I often cycle through different pets because they all need love!

27. Do you have any memorable stories about interactions with other people? Nice, funny, just plain weird?

So some of my favorite memories involve playing in kinship groups on landscape, especially in Annuminas, where ALL of us have the NPC running with us, so even though there's like 4 or 5 actual players, there's a full hoard of characters running through absolutely STOMPING the Angmarim and it's so satisfying <3

I was lucky enough to make some great friends in lotro and my Dutch friend Mara that runs around with me helping so much with leveling and learning the game in general. We played so much together and I kinda miss that from my night shift days, when our times lined up better.

Thank you for the ask <3

#lotro #lotro ask game #ask games

[friendofbears]

2, 9, 11, 20, 40 for the LOTRO asks?

Hi!! Thanks for the ask 💜

2. Do you have a favorite epic quest?

Oooh I have several favorites but my all time favorite is actually the entrance to Moria. The concerns and problems the dwarfs face, the watcher, the memorials outside when all is said and done. I really have a soft spot for the dwarfs! They have been through so much and they just want their home back!

9. Do you have any favorite characters?

Radagast! I love him, I wish we had more quests with him. The little quests he sent my lore master on, to find and save small creatures 💜

11. If you could have one npc as a companion to run around with you, who would it be? Would it be the same for all your characters?

I think it would depend on the character. My dwarf hunter Skaori would be happy traveling with bingo forever.

20. Do you spend a lot of time on cosmetics- outfits, weapons, housing, pets? Do you have any favorites?

My wardrobe is full. I actually bought the Rivendell supporter pack so I could have the pretty curved elven blade. I specialize in collecting all the cat pets especially, the only pets I don't usually buy are the kites. I love horses too, my dwarves collect all the goat pets and mounts. I just bought a house in Rohan! I'm still decorating it, but I love all the book stuff, comfy looking furniture which there is a sad shortage of in lotro. I buy all the pet housing deco too. I have a kinship house on laurelin that I'm slowly decorating. I have 2 crafting stations but I hope to get the other items so we can do all the crafting in one place.

40. Which region has the best music?

I think the vales of anduin themes are my favorite. That said, the music in Thorins Hall sets off all my nostalgia feels because my first character played the elvish opening and I have fond memories of getting my camera stuck backwards and being completely unable to climb a staircase. Also falling off the bridges/ stairs/ walkways without rails.

This was a lot of fun!

#lotro #lotro ask game

[friendofbears]

Some fun little character shots of some favorite lotro characters. I think I want to write/draw them more often, so I'm thinking of doing bios. In the meantime here are some facts about them. All of these are on Laurelin server. I'm a fairly active player and I don't mind if you reach out to me, either for questing or chat or whatever. I mostly casually rp as I do quests, generally solo but I'm not opposed to company.

Neranthael was the very first character I rolled in lotro, when I first started. She is a true 'bear friend' and doesn't do bear slaying quests and most of her pets are bears. She isn't opposed to summoning other companions but the bears are her dearest friends. Has a vegetarian lifestyle and enjoys a good friendship with most of the beorning people. Can't sing, but if she drinks she will try. You have been warned.

currently level 59, not played often because I retain hope her hobbit friend will return one day.

Cargond is stern, serious, to the point of it being funny. Totally obtuse to the idea of humor. Has some particularly hilarious mannerisms. What those are, depends on my mood and the time of day because what is real life?

currently level 75. I don't think I've swapped over his legendaries.

Lallidhriel is a soft spoken, sallow faced elf who still bears the signs of the wound she carries. She fights through the pain it still gives her, determined to help middle earth before she sails on to healing. She often wonders if the people she is helping, have any fucking idea what they are doing. Has a lovely deep voice when she sings.

Lallidhriel is level 81. Been deeding heavily.

Fraeyel, mother of Alaessa. Sindarin, still dressed for the midsommar festival here. Serious, very caring, very very smart. Fastidious attention to detail.

Currently level 45, created to play alongside Alaessa, lore master. Later joined by Beardhelm, Captain.

Revaenna, wife of Beardrath. It's a shame that there's no marriage mechanic in lotro. She is a human hunter, but in my head she's a beorning that doesn't shift to fight. Or a human married to a beorning.

Currently level 57. Created to play alongside Beardrath, Beorning and Lenafled, Captain.

#lotro #lotro oc #lotro toons #neranthael #lore master #laurelin server #Revaenna #Fraeyel #Cargond #lallidhriel