Lilikate asks: Pineleaf I’d love a tutorial about how you have your screen set up! How did you get the icons along the top of the screen and why? The short answer is that I am using plugins. I will go through each of the plugins and describe what they do. TitanBar The icons on the top of the screen are from TitanBar. This plugin provides you several icons...

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How Do You Start Skirmishing? You have reached level 20 and you are ready to skirmish. Now just open the Instance Finder and…. Wait a moment, why won’t it let me run any skirmishes? Oh, that’s right, you need to run the skirmish tutorial first. Soon after you reach level 20, you will receive a letter in the mail asking you to report to one of the skirmish...

The skirmish Survival: Barrow Downs is once again available. This skirmish became available with the 11.1 update. What changes were implemented, if any, do not appear in the patch notes. May your shield protect you and your spear never break. Pineleaf Needles  

When are each of the skirmishes set? Once you unlock a skirmish, you can run it at any time. Therefore, you will most likely be stepping out of the normal timeline of the game whenever you run the skirmish. In addition, you can run a skirmish as often as you wish. While it is likely the Dourhands made more than attempt at taking Gondamon, I suspect they didn’t...

What is a skirmish? In short, a skirmish is an instance that is scalable on three dimensions: level, difficulty, and group size. Types of Instances Before we can discuss what sets skirmishes apart from other instances, we need to discuss just what an instance is. Instances are areas set apart from the main world for various purposes. Most instances are private...

Here at Ask Pineleaf, we will attempt to answer questions relating to skirmishes. We will begin our column with a series of three question from Bellcari of Landroval: One thing I would love to hear your talk about is T2 and T3…like…what is the mechanic for T2 on a given skirm etc.  I think many of us just think of them as hard and harder...

The skirmish Survival: Barrow Downs is not available at this time. We have not yet received word from Turbine as to the reason for the skirmish’s closure or an estimate as to when it will be available again. May your shield protect you and your spear never break. Note: The skirmish was restored on June 12, 2013. Pineleaf Needles...

Welcome to Skirmish Academy. This is your source for information on skirmishes in The Lord of the Rings Online. The articles in this section will be divided into five groups: Skirmish News This is where we will post the latest news about skirmishes. This will also be the home of previews that in some way affect the skirmishing system. Lessons Are you new to...

We have already taken a general overview of bridles, as well as a look at legacies. Now it is time to look at relics. Just as with other legendary items, you may enhance your bridle with up to four relics: a setting, a gem, a rune, and a crafted relic. The catch is that bridles do not use the same relics as other items. You create crafted bridle relics in a...

One of the challenges I sometimes have in mounted combat is maintaining contact with my opponent. This video demonstrates my attempts to counter this with the /follow command. While this was recorded with a minstrel, I presume that it will work even better with my warden. May your shield protect you and your spear never break, Pineleaf Needles    ...

Now that we have taken an overview of legendary bridles, let’s take a deeper look at the legacies. As stated in the previous article in this series, bridles have the same three types of legacies as other legendary items: an inherent legacy, three major legacies (revealed on identification), and three minor legacies (one revealed at each of the three first...

With the release of the Riders of Rohan expansion, we get not only war-steeds but also a new legendary item: bridles. As the name implies, these new legendary items are intended for your war-steed. Obtaining a Bridle Where do you get a bridle? You get your first one when you complete the mounted combat tutorial. You will most likely get several more as loot...

The release of the Rohan expansion is rapidly approaching. The most important feature that is being added in this expansion is mounted combat. This includes a new class of mounts: the war-steed. While we will be looking into all aspects of the mounted combat system here at WARSTEEDS, the first question we must answer is where you can use your war-steeds and...

The release of the Rohan expansion is rapidly approaching. The most important feature that is being added in this expansion is mounted combat. This includes a new class of mounts: the war-steed. While we will be looking into all aspects of the mounted combat system here at WARSTEEDS, the first question we must answer is where you can use your war-steeds and...