Recently, upon hearing that there was adventure to be had, a corrupt wizard to challenge and rumors of pie (hey, they’ve got to have some food in there…), some kinmates and I decided to break into Isengard to help do our part in ridding Middle-earth of evil. Of course, this is far easier said than done, considering that the gates to this fortress are well-guarded by a pair of vicious-looking trolls…
Just one of these brutes has an absurd amount of morale and here we were facing a matched set! However, we did not let that deter us. Wonderboy the Warden (whom you may know as Elborigorn) bravely offered to hold the attention of these gate guards while the rest of our fellowship worked on dispatching them with haste. The rest of our fellowship was comprised of Sike, a trusty (if somewhat tricksy) burglar; Roewynn, an inspiring minstrel; Araphorn, a fierce champion; Iinferno, a fire-loving lore-master; and myself, Ehefkae the captain.
As you might imagine, the battle was fierce and for a short while there it seemed that Wonderboy would not be able to survive the attempt; indeed, at one point, I was forced to use my Cry of Vengance to rouse his spirit and enable him to carry on against these fearsome foes. Finally, through much effort and coordination, we managed to emerge victorious over our enemies. Isengard was unguarded and we were free to conquer it as we saw fit!
Our reward for such valiant efforts was the title of “Gatecrasher”. Sadly, there was no pie.
We ran this with a fellowship because of the fact that so many deeds in game won’t complete if you’re in a raid that we never thought to try it with more people. Apparently, this deed will complete while in a raid. Heh, good to know for later.
Maybe we weren’t looking for pie (we really had no purpose for doing this other than earning the title), but it makes for a good story. The biggest thing to remember, if you’re looking to attempt this yourself, is that these trolls get a nasty corruption that will let them hit your tank really, really hard. Keep the corruption off, and you should be good to go. Oh, and you may want to bring your own pie.
October 14, 2011 at 10:14 am
Awesome! Can’t wait till I’m lvled enough to get there. Any recommended level, or is this strictly a level 75 endeavor?
October 14, 2011 at 10:17 am
The trolls are level 77, I believe, so you’re going to want at least most of your group to be level 75 for this. Our minstrel healed us just fine at level 73, though.
October 14, 2011 at 10:49 am
Level 73+ is required to get deed credit for the kills.
October 14, 2011 at 10:19 am
Sweet! This sounds like a fun thing for some kinships or PUGs to try if they want a break from formal raiding.
October 14, 2011 at 10:30 am
I know one crit hit me for over 8k, so yeah, you don’t want too many of those even with 14-5k health tanks!
October 14, 2011 at 10:39 am
Yeah, the corruption they get increases their crits quite a bit. Elb got hit by two at once when we did this and there went 14k+ morale.
October 14, 2011 at 11:29 am
OH I hope to one day find a fellowship and try this
October 14, 2011 at 11:38 am
I had said to a friend, “I wonder if there is a title or hidden deed for killing the trolls at the gate, like ‘Gatecrasher’ or something.” Thanks for the proof and confirmation!
October 14, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Not trying to be negative,(Great job)but the rewards are now so lame for accomplishments like this.5TP?They are 5TP’ing us to death.
I love LOTRO but everything about it is becoming related to the store and making $.
Yes,I understand the business behind it but seriously,I pay for my VIP,I’ve bought all the expansions,yet the content,the rewards,the fun,it’s just not there for me like it was.
As much as I love this game I feel like I’m slipping away from the overall enjoyment I had with it not so long ago.
I know others feel different and I’m not bashing,just stating how it feels for me.I can’t be the only one?
October 14, 2011 at 12:42 pm
I am sure you are not the only one that feels the rewards are “lame”, but I do have to ask, “How many TP did one earn for deed completion before TP was awarded?” My guess is “none”. So, is “something” less lame than “nothing”?
October 14, 2011 at 12:47 pm
I would have no interesting doing anythign for 5tp anyway, its for the fun surely? The TP is just gravy!
October 14, 2011 at 12:48 pm
^^ in fact that should read, *doing anything for TP*
October 14, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Although TP has been lessened for some individual, there are now a few more deeds to complete relative to the number of areas, as each small section of Dunland has its own quest-specific deed, rather than merely a couple for the whole area.
October 14, 2011 at 12:09 pm
So do you get to walk in and explore afterward?
October 14, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Yep, you can walk right in and get a good look a the place. Of course, they’re not any more friendly inside than the guards are…
October 14, 2011 at 2:26 pm
It appears that you don’t have to do both at the same time.
Right after I hit 75, a group formed for this deed. All but 3 of us died on the first Troll, but we let the second reset, rezzed everyone, and took him down.
I didn’t know about the corruption, so I didn’t use my corruption removal skill at all. Maybe that’s why we died on the first attempt.
We also kept getting trash MoBs, mostly those stupid half-orcs wandering around Nan Curunir.
October 14, 2011 at 5:25 pm
might depend which one you were targeting, I noticed one of them got it way more than the other, although they both do get it on occasion
October 14, 2011 at 6:01 pm
this expansion was a disappointment for me from a standpoint of innovation. It has the T system for story, and epic story to continue good gear for the solo player, and it has the new skirms, However, No one on the older games have really taken the time out to enhance the ui of gameplay. What i’m talking about specifically is the way in which the game behaves. There are still ancient outdated systems of handling loot, housing, chat, questing that need serious addressing by every Developer of the older titles. In Lotro specifically we need to see Dynamic housing where the environment changes according to the experiences of the players Epic storyline, there is a need for a quest item inventory bag that has infinite space and stores only quest items, EVERY game needs AOE looting. Finally, they need to address something i and many gamers like me have experienced on this game, resistances on tier one mobs. As the game has progressed it’s become harder and harder to hit regular mobs with abilities unless you are melee. The problem is that the regular mobs have resistances end game and without a high tier legacy weapon battles take forever to finish. If i wanted to spend all day in one encounter fighting something i would play a turn based game instead of an MMO. Gone are the days of preparation to do a blasting effect to kill off a mob almost instantly. This game is really bad in the fighting dept, it needs a revamp, even if skills we use out of combat to increase damage output temporarily have a cooldown that’s still better then fighting the same mob for five minutes and it not be an elite. They need to address this because making regular mobs almost impossible to insta-kill is not the solution for increasing gameplay time. These are my only two complaints about this game.
October 15, 2011 at 12:19 am
Ok,now I really feel bad for even posting my negative Nancy blah blah.
Blahhh,blahhhh,blah!
October 16, 2011 at 2:41 am
Nine of my kinmates from The Osgiliath Guard ran this tonight (Saturday, 15 October) along with 15 others that we PUG’d and everyone got the title.
We had a warden tank each of the trolls, then burned one down and switched to the other. I know a full raid is kind of a cheap way to get the title, but it went very, very fast.
October 26, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Since the Isengard upate my game doesnt work anymore!!!!
March 14, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Didn’t really, know about the trolls till recently, but I managed to solo both of them on my Champ on the Windfola Server a few days ago.. Took about an hour an 5 minutes between the both of them…