LOTRO Players News Episode 26: No Expansion

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Featured Comments

Sullo left a comment on episode 25 of LOTRO Players News.

“Protip: If you’re not yet at level cap, use your Destiny Points to purchase rest XP (“Accelerated Experience”). At only 250 Destiny Points, it’s an inexpensive buff, and it persists after you revert to Premium.”

Emails

This week our first email is from Glenrin.

Hello Everyone!

I was wondering what your thoughts are on gearing at endgame. I am not a raider and will be mostly skirmishing solo/duo (and possibly Big Battles) as my endgame activities. Is crafted the way to go or is the gear you get from Skirmishing/Big Battles what I should shoot for? Is there another route I should be thinking about?

Thanks for the great show!

Glenrin, Man Champion on Landroval

This week our second email is from Blacjack

“Hoping one of you guys knows the answer to this. Is there a way to see what warsteed appearances you have gotten before your character has access to the warsteed? I’ve been getting warsteed appearances from festivals on a few alts but Shift M doesn’t work unless you have gotten access to the warsteed.

Thanks,

Derek (blacjack)”

This week our third email is from Estel-Ali.

“Hello LOTRO Players,

I am Estel-Ali of Landroval and Brandywine..This week participated in a Winter Party/Talent Show on Landroval held by Lonely Mountains Band..I enjoyed it very much..While I enjoy hardcore raiding very much, the role play and events like these are often the highlight of my week..

Seeing the popularity of my first poem “Estel-Ali” , I decided to continue the story and wrote for you guys and for everyone else, the second part of my poem..Hope you guys enjoy it..Looking forward to hear Pineleaf read it again with that fire and passion 😉 😛 Love the podcast and site..Keep up the good work.

Helms Deep

Riding fast and riding swift I came,

On my War Steed, Firefly is his name,

Western Rohan, ah the desolation and cries,

The free people divided, full of orcs and spies,

The King under a spell, corruption of Grima, he wasn’t leading,

Seeing all the death, division and desperation, my heart was bleeding,

Then came the light in the shadow, the ray of hope, Gandalf the white,

The conqueror of death, the keeper of Vilya, a majestic sight,

The King came out of darkness and held up his sword,

Heir of Eorl the young, Theoden, Rohan‘s lord,

I went through all the town’s to spread this news,

To gather people under one banner, to change their views,

We rode to Helms Deep, prepared it defenses,

We cranked the catapults, the ballistics, built the fences,

And then they finally came, the army of Isengard,

Our numbers were weak, but we fought hard,

We slew thousands, Legolas and Gimli were counting,

The orcs flew before Anduril, flame of the west , it was daunting,

But the orcs kept coming, they weren’t stopping,

Driven by the will of Saruman, they weren’t stopping,

Then came the dawn, and the white rider came,

With an army of Eorlingas, and a white flame,

The orcs fled before them, with fear and scorns,

The shepherds of the forest, the Ents and Huorns,

The battle for Helms Deep was a victory, a win,

But The battle for Middle-Earth is just about to begin.”

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9 comments

Fredelas / December 23, 2013

Remember that unless you’re the lucky owner of a lifetime subscription, “Free to VIPs” = “You can rent it for $10 to $15 a month.”

- Andang / December 23, 2013
  
  Yeah and buying the content with TP is only renting it until the game shuts down. 😀
  
- Braxwolf / December 23, 2013
  
  I am interested to see how this affects non-VIP players, if at all. I made the decision to let my VIP lapse early this year, and I’d rather not have to go back to a sub if possible.
  
  - dgenxali / December 24, 2013
    
    Yeah this is my last month of vip, I think I am going to let it expire and not renew it.. With the TP I have, I will buy the 3 regions I still don’t have.. Only thing I will miss is freep side pvp.. But until they actually balance the sides, it is pointless anyways
Eric / December 23, 2013

What race? How could you add to the Free Peoples that are left? Class could be interesting… I wonder what kind of class could be added to fill out the ranks?

- Andang / December 23, 2013
  
  It will be interesting for sure. Lets hope Turbine follows through this time to create something great.
  
dgenxali / December 24, 2013

Bravo Pineleaf! Well read poem 🙂 you brought fire and passion.. As always great show!!

Estel-Ali

Ps Andang you play champ on landroval? I think I saw you last time I went to the server, but you went offline before I could say hello

- Andang / December 24, 2013
  
  All the characters I play are on Landroval so that was likely me. Feel free to hello anytime you see me on.
  
Frieja / December 26, 2013

The survey that Brax mentioned is closed down now, and we cannot view the results anymore; however, I created the following Google doc to format the free-form comments to be easier to read.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IkbJWFWdLbAUq7M7Nt3Z25Qd_AGcjrcSQucO8ovGxvU/edit?usp=sharing

It was last updated the night before Suse took the survey down at 614 responses.

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