Dec 5, 2022

This week we discussed Update 38.0.1, Update 38.0.2, and our week in gaming.

Nov 28, 2022

This week we discussed Winterfest, Black Friday Sales, and our week in gaming.

Nov 24, 2022

For now Delving is meant for level 140 on normal servers and whatever level cap there is for Shadowfax and Treebeard at the time you read this guide. You can add extra difficulty to specifically Before the Shadow missions. As a reward you’ll get delving writs or a chest that can drop a host of armour, junk or very rarely some extra fancy LI or cosmetics...

Nov 21, 2022

This week we discussed the release of Update 34, Hengstacer Rock, and our week in gaming.

Nov 14, 2022

This week we discussed Update 34 Beta 3 that was on Bullroarer and our week in gaming.

Nov 7, 2022

This week we discussed the change in the Before the Shadow release date and our week in gaming.

Oct 31, 2022

This week we discussed Update 34 Beta 2 on Bullroarer and our week in gaming.

Oct 24, 2022

This week we discussed the Bullroarer build for Update 34 Beta 1 and our week in gaming.

Oct 22, 2022

Before the Shadow will be released on November 8, 2022 (barring any unexpected delays). One of the features of this update will be a new skirmish: The Doom of Caras Gelebren. Unlike most skirmishes, which are set during or near the main LOTRO timeline, this new skirmish is set in the distant past during the fall of Eregion during the Second Age. This skirmish...

Oct 18, 2022

This week we discussed a small patch and our week in gaming.

Oct 10, 2022

This week we discussed a look at the Swanfleet, missions, and our week in gaming.

Oct 9, 2022

Unpublished part 5 of a beginners introduction to stats in lotro. Never figured out to present the follow-up and advanced parts and kinda stopped on them. As you’ll see in the level difference part. Skipping ahead a bit to the actual less than theory bit. We’ll come back to the science later, but for now we’ll go beyond the introduction...

Oct 6, 2022

With the upcoming Delving system introducing new missions and mostly more challenging missions. There was the question, what would be the easiest way to delve into these challenges. Further adventures chapter 1 and 7 don’t have any combat so would probably the best option, but would the delving system be enabled on these? If so, that would only be 2...

Oct 3, 2022

This week we discussed Update 33.2.1 and our week in gaming.

Oct 3, 2022

Before the Shadow will be released on November 8, 2022 (barring any unexpected delays). If you order either the Collectors Edition or the Ultimate Fan Bundle, you will receive a number of items prior to the release of the expansion. The video below, I look over the various items you receive when you complete your order.   The most important part of the...

Sep 26, 2022

This week we discussed the release of Update 33.2, the Before The Shadow pre-purchase options, preparing for raiding, and our week in gaming.

Sep 26, 2022

Not a draft perse, but an unpublished part of the 99 instances of lotro discussing skirmishes and some “future” possibilities from 2018. Skirmishes Are skirmishes instances? And how should you categorize them if i would decide they would be one of the 99 instances? Skirmishes have filled a hole in lotro that would have been there without them. What...

Sep 21, 2022

Written, but a never completed draft from May 2020. Probably not complete, but a nice read or an intro if you want to take your first steps in larger groups. Most of it applies to Hiddenhoard now. Except just a bit worse of a raid in hindsight then Remorchant Make sure you want to raid May be a strange start to a raid guide, but do ask yourself what you’re...

Sep 19, 2022

This week we discussed Update 33.2 Beta #3 on Bullroarer, the Q&A with Severlin, and our week in gaming. 

Sep 18, 2022

15 years of updates in expansions, questpacks and systems have brought along many changes to Middle-Earth. Some large and some you might not have given much thought about. Major small updates We’ll skip the major changes such as a new expansion, skill trees or legendary weapons and focus on smaller, more deceptfull changes. In no particular order. Essence...