Bludborn’s great raiding article this week made me curious how many of our readers have been/are raiders in LOTRO.
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A Question for the contributors, do you raid outside of the Adventures? Do you enjoy playing with 11 other friends in an attempt to save middle earth? Or is it a chore that gets in the way of levelling warden number 10? (jokes – we love you Pineleaf)
This is a great follow up question! Because of Adventures I said “Yes, at least once a week.” However if it weren’t for Adventures I would never raid. I used to but VERY rarely. 6-man and 3-man instances? Sure, sometimes. I don’t look at Adventures as a chore though – it’s a great time playing with everyone and we have heaps of fun. I see it as more of an opportunity to talk and hangout with friends than for just completing raids and instances though.
That was always the intention. To have a great time hanging out and talking, while kicking some raid butt. However, “raiding kins” “elitists” turned it into job and business and turned off a lot of players.
That can be said of any facet of the game, though. Roleplaying ‘elitists’ have turned off some from roleplaying, music ‘elitists’ have caused some to turn away from creating music. I bet there are ‘cosmetic’ elitists as well, though I do not know any personally, thankfully 🙂
Some enjoy being very serious about things, and that is fine. The goal is to find others who both share an interest with you and also share the same ideas on how best to enjoy that interest. Do not let yourself be turned away from an activity due to thinking that everyone who enjoys that activity does so in only one way.
No. I also don’t grind deeds. Raids are exactly that; a mindnumbing grind. Having a fulltime job, wife, kids, soccer, … I prefer not to spend what little LotRO time I have on such activities.
Same for me. LotRO is a social / questing game for me. Raids (and instances and skirms) are not the things for me. Leveling is something that just happens while questing. And raids… well, too much people and just mindnumbing (wellchosen word Camb) killing nonsence. For me that is. Lotta people in mij kin love to raid. And that’s the great thing about this game, you can play it exactly the way you want. Just don’t tell me I don’t play it right because I don’t raid 😉 Same for epic battles btw.
I do not raid (was in a few with kin but mainly to explore the places or help kinmates when they needed 6th or 12th player). But I do deeds. TP are always good to have (and to some point virtues, specially those giving better mitigations). And in most cases I was bored in raides quite fast, just shooting or slashing all the time. I prefer to do in that time other things (like leveling other toons in Lotro, or play other game in which I have still some unexplored places).
And I agree with Raebidus ( “that’s the great thing about this game, you can play it exactly the way you want”). That rule works in all other well designed MMO’s.
Other.
Back when I was still fairly new to the game and had just reached the then level cap of 65 I was invited to come along in a Watcher raid. I had no clue what was going on, and I was dead in less than 5 seconds. Acid water. Nobody said anything about acid water 🙂
Geez when I hit 85 cap that’s all I did, 3 times a day for weeks and weeks.
People are getting harder to find but my kin still tries to raid at least once a week.
Yes, most days.also the epic battle raid deep walling as this is great for those kin members who haven’t reach level cap yet.
These are a great way to break up the daily grind that has become the end game content.
And is fun to be invited to play with the big boys as well 🙂 Hope I can be online this weekend and partake in some family friendly raiding fun 🙂
Oh I’m not one of the big boys, it’s the new essence armour that doesn’t flatter my figure
Define raiding
Raiding – “Verb – quickly and illicitly take something from (a place).”
ie: “she crept down the stairs to raid the pantry”
Drat her! I knew I shouldn’t have fallen asleep.
No. No time for that. Wife, kids, life… No way. My blocks of time are too small and too irregular. Tough to even do kin stuff.
Agreed. 3 or 6 man instances? Easily 1+/week. Raids or Skraids for 12 or 24? obviously less so.
The online experience I have with raiding are the Moria instances Filikul and Vile Maw, they were exciting to run but only lasted a few minutes. It would be amazing to be able to experience very long and complicated raids like Bludborn and many others have experienced. Too bad they seem abandoned so that I wont really be able to experience the grueling task of raiding.
The next “interesting raid” that isn’t too crazy long and/or hard to explain is probably Draigoch — it is level 75, and while nominally a 12-man (doable by a 24-man group), it could be done by a 7-person pickup group back when the cap was 75. Doing it the right way still requires 7 because of the setup… but you really only need two people who “know the raid”, and the other five just have to be people who can listen and pay attention when told things like “Follow your group leader; when a conjunction comes up, do this one, stand close to your group leader”. It should be relatively fast if you’ve got some overlevel folks pouring in DPS.
So, if you are interested in broadening your raiding experience, ask around in your kin or friends list or whatever to see if there are a couple of experienced people willing to raid. It really takes one person who knows the map well (the tunnels are just complicated enough that it is easy to make a wrong turn at a critical moment), and one tank who has done the raid before. The rest of the group should include one burg (to do it right, you want to be able to fire conjunctions on demand, but any burg who knows their class reasonably well ought to be able to deal with that), at least one healer, at least one person who can in-combat rez (for the inevitable screw-ups), and then whatever else to fill in the damage.
If you happen to be on gladden, invite me, I love Draigoch. It is worth trying it just to see the dragon, that’s some of the best art in the game 🙂
Good breakdown…me thinks a RAIDING article is needed…fun raids for all…
I don’t think RAIDING should be always presented as the hardcore activity it unfortunately sometimes is…