Welcome to Pineleaf’s Pictorial Primer to Skirmishing. In this series, we will look at each of the skirmishes you can run in The Lord of the Rings Online™.
We will look at each skirmish in turn, including its scenario, layout, mobs, bosses, and encounters. We will also take a look at general aspects of skirmishes in the various appendices.
I will not be discussing strategy much, as that can vary based on your class and playing style. Any recommendations I make will be from the point-of-view of a hobbit warden. During my skirmishing runs, I will generally be accompanied by either a bannerguard or an archer.
All primers are available in PDF format for easy downloading, referencing or printing.
Index
- Volume 1: Trouble in Tuckborough
- Volume 2: Siege of Gondamon
- Volume 3: Stand at Amon Sul
- Volume 4: Thievery and Mischief
- Volume 5: Defence of the Prancing Pony
- Volume 6: Ford of Bruinen
- Volume 7: Survival Barrow Downs
- Volume 8: Battle of the Deep-way
- Volume 9: Battle of the Way of Smiths
- Volume 10: Battle of the 21st Hall
- Volume 11: Attack at Dawn
- Volume 12: Icy Crevasse
- Volume 13: Strike Against Dannenglor
- Volume 14: Protectors of Thangulhad
- Volume 15: Breaching the Necromancers Gate
- Volume 16: Assault on the Ringwraiths’ Lair
- Volume 17: The Battle in the Tower
- Volume 18: Rescue at Nurz Ghashu
Appendices
May your shield protect you and your spear never break.
Pineleaf Needles
Follow my skirmishing misadventures in Spear and Skirmish at http://my.lotro.com/raleyd/ or see my articles on playing skirmishes with the different classes here at CSTM!
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May 5, 2011 at 5:10 pm
Can’t believe that no-one else jumped in to say how absolutely frikin awesome these guides are, so I’ll say it :
These guides are absolutely frikin awesome.
May 12, 2011 at 11:26 am
A work of ART, most grateful for this amazing work Pine!
PS: spell check Appendix A: Solo Lieutenants for “compansions”
May 27, 2011 at 1:54 pm
I just wanted to say thank you for these awesome guides. I am looking forward to the rest of the Lieutenant guides, along with the rest of the Skirmishes. Please keep up the good work.
May 29, 2011 at 8:41 pm
Thanks for the guides Pineleaf. I just started Skirmishing because I hear you talk about it on the show. Went through the Tutorial and the first two today. Then I remembered you had guides posted here, so I’m checking them out to see where I went wrong.
Thanks again for putting these together.
August 5, 2011 at 11:18 am
I found this guide after failing this skirmish 3 times (at level 56 with a fairly buffed up soldier). I breezed through most of the skirmish until that end boss. I’d start fighting him, then suddenly notice my morale was at about 15% and he had called in buddies with bows. I carefully read your guide, stocked up on banners for the last fight, and killed him quick after placing 5 banners. What a difference that made! I had not realized you could place multiple banners before. I also saw the description of that corruption (+30% damage) and realized that removing it was a high priority! Thanks for a thorough and useful guide!
August 17, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Hey Pine, in the icy crevasse skirmish guide, check the picture on page 3, you left the same comment from the attack at dawn guide
August 17, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Oh, AWESOME guide BTW, sorry forgot to mention, so eager to collaborate
it’s redundant anyways to say how good these are!!
September 1, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Great guides! Do you think you could give us a bit more in-depth overview of the soldiers? Maybe talk about the strengths of each? What to look for when upgrading them (skills vs stats).