This week we discussed the upcoming release of Update 23, spiders, skirmishes, and more.
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New Player Question
Are Legendary Items vital to the game? How often do you need to work on “updating” your LI? Does having an underdeveloped LI hold you back in game?
Week In LOTRO
Aerindys
- Reached Ally with the Iron Garrison.
- Continued adventuring through Moria and discovered Unstable Mushrooms for the first time.
Sanswinda
- Ran Northcotton Farm with Froring and Pineleaf and did dailies with Teri and Pineleaf.
- My Arkenstone captain finally got her archer as we helped Radagast and the Eglain in the Lone Lands.
- Ran my RK with Pineleaf and Cyndars and didn’t die–even with all the Jangovar we had to fight as we taught a young prince an important lesson and started learning about dragons!
Pineleaf
- My Gladden junior warden ran some Mirkwood skirmishes with Lilyrose
- During the field trip, we killed spiders and orcs in the Lone Lands
- Helped Cynders unlock the Lay of Rust and Rime
News Beyond LOTRO
The Lord of the Rings Loot Crate Coming
Antipodean Writer – The One Ring, Part 4
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About new player question, short answers:
1. yes
2. that depends, you’ll just need more and more hits to defeat enemy as your LI is outdated (it’s min level compared to yours). Common consensus is you should exchange your LI (weapon at least) at mid 50, 60-65, 75, 85 or better 86 (but 86 are drops only), 95 and finally 100.
3. yes, that also applies to imbued LIs at high levels (above 100)
The thing is LI system is going to be revamped soon (maybe this year), so everything above may change. If you are going to level quickly 50-100+ then above answers apply, otherwise don’t bother with that too much for now…
There’s a whole loot crate “culture” out there for geeks who love the mystery surprise. Usually the MSRP of the individual items, or the company would get a lot of blowback.
My guess is that this might be some test marketing in advance of the Amazon Prime LOTR series. The company may be gauging interest in RL loot.
Housewares, btw, probably means along the lines of glassware or coffee mugs. I think ‘soft’ housewares, such as bed linens would be hard to manufacture economically enough for a $50 crate.