Casual Stroll to Mordor

In this post, I will list the instruments available, how mentoring works and where minstrels get these skills so we can spread the joy of /music across Middle-earth!

With the release of the new raid armor sets and a few new heavy armor drops I decided to update my Champion Armor Spreadsheet.

This spreadsheet is analogous to the Champion Armor Spreadsheet I released previously.

I have found that a Guardian in Overpower can be a very exciting way to play. They have an excellent mix of DPS and survivability. In fact I would call it the perfect mix for tanking much of the “end-game” content.

The Champions role is melee DPS, both Area of Effect (AOE) and Single Target (ST). This guide will focus on that role, for that reason I will focus on the Fervour stance.

Psychobabble asks: I was wondering whether you thought a captain could main heal the grand stairs?

It turned out the crafted items had what I was looking for. Most of the Multi-recipe Malledhrim items have poor stats but have larger special effects. The Malledhrim Gauntlets of the Gloaming have a 15% chance on a hit to give 74.5 morale. And the Malledhrim Hauberk of the Gloaming has a 75% chance to block 23 common damage.

I built this Champion Armor Spreadsheet so that I could optimize my armor selections to suit my tastes. I made it available on the forums to help others answer their questions. I have now updated it again to clean up the formatting, add a few more builds, and to make it available here on Casual Stroll to Mordor.

My primary goal is to describe a systematic method for attaining high DPS using a 2H weapon for those who might be interested. Maybe you already use a 2H weapon but want to eek more DPS out of it. Maybe you decided to use DW long ago without really taking the time to find out the changes required to optimize a 2H approach, and want to try it out now.

This is the final post in my series about the different things minstrels (or in some cases all healers) need to think about when healing a fellowship. See the other posts concerning Healing Priorities, Threat Management and Power Management in case you missed them! Today’s topic is focusing on communication which is something everyone should [...]

A healer out of power is not a useful healer. A healer needs to really learn to efficiently keep health bars up while maintaining a good power pool throughout a fight.

Today we’re going to talk about threat management (sometimes called “aggro” or “hate”) which is something every player should be managing in a fight. The tank wants threat, everyone else wants to stay under the tank’s threat.

I am not saying I’m a great healing minstrel but I started in LOTRO as a minstrel class and minstrel still is my main. I am not a big fancy raid healer but I do a dungeon or raid when I can and I believe I have some tips I can share to the up [...]

I come from old days of MMO play where the plan was to divide and conquer. Separate the mobs into as many little chunks as possible and have your team cut them down one at a time.