This week we discussed the extended downtime, LIs, and our time in LOTRO this week.
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LOTRO Downtime Survival Games of the week:
Aerindys: Could not find a suitable replacement 🙁
Sanswinda: Stronghold and Banished
Teriadwyn: Craft the World and Sims 4
Pineleaf: Minecraft
Teri’s Cosmetic Pick of the Week: Seeds of Spring by Cosmetic LOTRO
New Player Question
Is it worth it to level up multiple LIs simultaneously? Do you ever switch between LIs? Do you need different LIs for different trait lines?
Week In LOTRO
Aerindys
- Got help from Sanswinda and Cyndars on how to update my severely underleveled LI and THINGS DIE SO MUCH FASTER NOW
- Leveled my Beorning up to level 15 and did the first class quest
Sanswinda
- Did some more crafting and leveling on Anor.
- Spent some time in Moria on a burglar with Teri and Cyndars and on a warden with Aerindys and Cyndars.
- Worked on my beorning’s cosmetics on Crickhollow.
Teriadwyn
- Arkenstone Master (challenge) Burglar Galeferth led the way to the Redhorn Lodes from the 21st Hall… WITHOUT GETTING LOST. (much)
- Saryssa progressed through the Rohan storyline and completed the Folca session play.
Pineleaf
- My Anor warden completed questing in the Trollshaws but still more deeds to do.
- More skirmishes
- Burglar started on the road ro Rohan
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The game is back, but my VIP status expired during the outage. I know it’s not your problem but could anyone at Lotro Players advise how I actually contact S S G to get this resolved. Yes I could pay but frankly I’m a little upset with not being able to actually contact. S S G as opposed to the billing company.
Ahhh the return of Timeleaf. We only see him twice a year.
Another great episode! Had me laughing quite a bit. As far as what I, and my wife, did during the down/absent of game time. We spent it catching up on some movies and T.V. shows that we’ve been wanting to see. We watched Bohemian Rhapsody, which I highly recommend for anyone that is even a casual Queen fan. We also watched a few ST Voyager, and Enterprise episodes, since we have not seen them since they originally aired. (I know, boring, but you did ask your listeners to post what they did….) On another note….The new player question, Pineleaf explained the Buff stick of a captain pretty well, but sadly I have to add my 2 cents worth since my main for a long time was a cappy. Cappy’s can do all 3 trait lines well, and they are asked to do all 3 from time to time, so it pays to be prepared to do so. Up to level 115, I had sets of LI’s for Healing, Tanking and DPS’ing for my cappy. Not only the 3 weapons, and 3 Items, but I also needed 2 sets of Armour for him 1 for tanking, and 1 for healing and DPS. It was after Mordor that I decided I was not going to grind for all this anymore, and switched back to my Mini, (who was my original main, but I moved to Cappy cause my kin needed one more then Mini). But as Sanswinda noted, Mini’s need Multi Li’s also, but not as bad as Cappy’s. My mini can wear the same amour no matter what he is doing, but he needs Li’s for DPS, Healing, and in raiding a Buff LI. Only 2 weapons, Dps and Heals, and 2 Books, Healing and Buffing. Not as bad as a Cappy, but still a lot of work. This is of course if you want to raid, and be at least not the one to blame for multiple wipes do to bad gear….lol. All that said, you do not need to go crazy with your LI’s as Terri, and Pine both can tell you. This game is not only the best as far as it’s story lines go, but also in it’s balance of the casual player, as well as the crazy hard core player. Sorry for the over long post, I can ramble at times…
Back with a new player question! Is swift travel only available in the starting zones? Or is there some way to unlock swift travel? If it is something you have to pay for like journeyman’s travel skill, is it locked to vip’s only like the magical everywhere mailbox or is there a way for me to make a one time purchase to unlock it?