Casual Stroll to Mordor

I applaud this decision, and look forward to bringing Haakor and some old friends along on the new raid (once we hardcores figure it out, of course).

Ever thought about figuring out strategies for yourself but never really knew how to go about it? “Continue Reading” for some basic tips from Elb…

We mentioned the post on Wandering Through Middle-earth on this topic on episode 70 but today we have photos of our own to share with you sent into us by Rudyjarkon of Windfola.

Thanks to the reflecting pool, you can create your own private instance in which you can kill the mobs therein and advance your deeds without competing with other players or disrupting other’s quest time.

In this episode we discuss our first run of Glinghant. This didn’t go so well for us with some issue with re-spawning ghosts. We also made our first visit to the Turtle, another first for us. A very successful and smooth run.

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log in this evening just sort of putzing around. I thought about playing on my Runekeeper or making a new character who’s story I have partially figured out in my head when Azz spoke up in Kin chat announcing that we were going to visit the Turtle tonight.

This week we are recording during the “Get Us Out of Bree Party”! We discuss doing more with Volume 2, collecting book pages with our alts and more!

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Elborigorn guides us on the Helegrod: Giant Wing in a post F2P world.

This week was dungeon week for Merric and Goldenstar. We revisited Helegrod trying the new scaling instance at 65 in the Giant Wing. We also tried 16th Hall and Ost Elendil which were new instances for us.

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The classic instance, “Great Barrow –The Maze”, has been closed until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience.

When we first published the instance join list from part five of the instance dev diary we quickly had a comment from Chuck Steel saying it would be a great reference with a bit more information. I mentioned in Episode 51 that I was working on building that reference sheet.

Today, sees the last installment from Joe “jwbarry” Barry discussing the revamps we’ll see concverning dungeons in the upcoming F2P release. In this installment he discusses the Great Barrow Cluster aka, Othrongroth

How do the level 50 instances rate on a difficulty scale? Continue reading to see how I rated them…

A set of fair and well-enforced rules help build a structure for your raid that helps keep people on the same page and will do well in earning you the respect you need to do your job effectively.

The “Alternative Methods” guide set is aimed at presenting different ways to fill the basic roles/needs in any group or instance without use of either the normal class/roll or method.

The biggest key in raid success and especially in succeeding as a raid leader is communication. Everything from basic rules and strategy to who needs to go AFK and when needs to be communicated. If nobody knows anything because nothing has been communicated then the raid will inevitably fail and the leader will have failed as a leader.

In Part I, we looked at each mob, the way the mobs enter the “Arena” and finally the way the mobs behave. One thing that was left out purposefully is the Corruption Removal Techniques that help you defeat bosses. Many people commented that this was extremely important, and I can’t agree more. So have no fear, I haven’t forgotten to include that in this guide.

Way back in Episode 23 we talked to Turbine developers Zombie Columbus, JWBarry and Raskolnikov about skirmishes. A small part of that super long podcast we talk about area effect traps which we called “Standing in the Poop”.

Sapience has very helpfully stepped in to clear up some confusion from the articles and information we’ve gotten this week via E3 interviews from Massively and Ten Ton Hammer as well as the LOTRO Store screenshots released earlier this week.