LOTRO’s chat system is very versatile and quite powerful, and though it’s rather simple and intuitive once understood, it can be quite confusing, and even off-putting, to new players. We wanted to do something about that, so in this lengthy episode, Branick, Mysteri, and Krorain (Okay, mostly just Branick because he talks so much in this one) cover the vast array of options available to you. Thanks for listening.
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- Lotro-Wiki: Chat Channels
- Custom Chat Channels
- Lotro-Wiki: Alias
- mmorsel: Fellowships: Grouping in LOTRO
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As I understand it, once a Lore-master gets the sword and staff trait, it gets slotted and never, ever gets removed… it’s just that good.
Branick, as far as I can tell, the emotes listed are not all emotes, but just ones your character can do. I only saw the dances listed I knew I had picked up this festival, and none of the ones I hadn’t learned, for instance. I also saw some LFF channel requests for GB groups on Arkenstone while listening… so it must get used some, at least in Bree.
Krorain, do both. As Indy said, the sword and staff is a passive trait. The Ents is a most awesome skill to use in combat.
Indy’s right. It’s said lore-masters only have 2 legendary trait slots, because no lore-master should unslot that trait. Ever. It gives you stats from your sword, more damage from having another weapon, and the passive bonuses are great.
I was fine during the raid. I had the Sudden Defense morale bubble up, so while my actual morale was sitting at a couple hundred, the bubble was going strong. Challenge is different from Champion’s Challenge, by the way. For guards, it’s an AoE taunt so you do not have to actually target anything. You just have to be in range and it will pick up at least 3 targets, depending on legacies and traits.
As far as text colors go, I found that for kinship officers, it is a good idea to change kinship and kinship officer chat channel colors. They are the same color or way too similar by default and someone will undoubtedly respond in kin chat to something said in and meant for the officer channel.
And lastly, LFF tends to be used quite a bit in a few areas. I see it used a lot in Bree, Moria, and Lagtrev, but almost never anywhere else. OOC tends to be the channel of choice in the Ettenmoors on Crickhollow. Don’t know about other servers.
Hey guys,
Great show as always. Being that LOTRO was my first MMO as well, I knew I was “getting it” when dealing with the chat became second nature.
On thing you may want to add or mention is how to to “link” an item into the chat. You can either drag the item from your inventory into the chat line, or you can Ctrl+right click on any item and it will appear in the chat. It is helpful for advertising what you may want to sell or buy, or if you have a question on a specific item and you’d want to send it in a chat message.
Keep up the great work!
Tomeoric, The Westfold Marshals
Ack. The dual for sword isn’t really a passive but I treat it as one. Got it, slotted it and forgot it. Meaning I’d never UNslot it.
Standard is the filter for things like crafting spam but also loot pick ups and the like. I turned mine off once and was shocked at just how much I wasn’t being told. So I turned it back on. A good idea to leave it on really.
Enjoyed the chat primer – learned some nifty tricks here and there, so thanks for the discussion.
If you’re not a fan of a lot of chat spam, I might advise against having the Standard filter turned on. It generates a lot of text, as each looting will display text just for looting, and then will list each looted item (regardless of quality). If in a fellowship, it will also display all the stuff your fellows looted.
One kind of nifty command that will only display if you have the Standard filter on is the command “/played”. Common in several MMOs, this will display how long you have had that one particular character logged into the game.
Finally remembered my 2nd comment (1st was on the standard filter but Zyngor already covered it)
My other comment was that the Combat Analysis plugin has been updated such that it runs completely in game, no 3rd party .exe needed. This was a change with RoI that allowed the chat tab to be parsed in-game by Lua allowing for this plugin, and a raid roll plugin as well.
I just came back to the game recently to find my characters erased and the game F2P. So, I restarted a Lore-Master on Arkenstone. I was pleased to find The Academy podcast because, obviously, I’m totally lost! Thanks for the great info you put out and the game convos. Good stuff!