Dec 29, 2021

For your first time in gundabad you should ofcourse stick with questing, but you may find yourself 140 rather than later with missions, vip weekends or other swordhalls on other characters. And looking for an easy way to gear.  This guide is broken down by gearslot and different levels of difficulty/quality of each gear and where to find it. Choose a slot...

Dec 20, 2021

This guide will focus on gearing at level 140, the weeklies and other activities on the level cap. Index Questing in gundabadGundabad beyond questingGearing at level 140Gear and essencesInstancesWeekliesLegendary weapon upgradesResource and material farmTraitpointsVirtue Xp Questing in gundabad Questing starts in Annak-Kurfu with the Legacy of Durin Chapter 5.1...

Mar 24, 2021

With Update 28 en 29 there have been a lot of changes to the way of acquiring scrolls and crystals. The imbuement is still the same and the revamp is still a long time away. For this guide we’ll focus on keeping it compact and streamlined. Step 1 Acquiring your base LI In short you’ll want a Blemished symbol of the elder king (FA symbol) or a Unearthed “class”...

Nov 4, 2020

The latest update (28) ditto’ed into an expansion. Yet this update did bring a large upgrade to gear one could get at level 130. While questing in this region it is suggested to atleast limlok gear as there are large enemy encampments and a lot of morale to dig through. Especially in the second map. For such I’d call it an appendix to...

Aug 3, 2020

Since the last update to the Minas Morgul primer we’ve had many changes to the raid, a new instance and a new region that has added plenty of new gear options. For the full details on questing from level 120-130 and the Minas Morgul instances i’d refer you to the Primer from March https://lotroplayers.com/2020/03/21/minas-morgul-primer-2/ This guide will focus...

May 5, 2020

Ever since Minas Tirith not much has changed about creating your level 100 Legendary items and imbueing them afterwards. For this guide we’ll focus on keeping it compact and streamlined. Sources of level 100 legendary itemsPreparing imbuement (and legacy information)Imbuement and best practicesPower curve of legacies (your level vs LI level)Upgrading your...

Mar 21, 2020

Main hub for your Minas Morgul expansion questions. Last update 20th of March Content Walkthrough linksQuestingGearing up before Minas MorgulActivities after 130Weekly and dailies for Reclamation of Minas IthilInstance overviewLoot overviewCrafting guildBullet point information Instance guide links NameLink – Guide qualityHarrowing of Minas...

Feb 8, 2017

Quick note – Lotroplayers layout functions differently it seems. Tables need to be replaced with images at a later point. Envision, you have watched the lotr movies or your friend has been talking about Gandalf again. You remember you once played a game that was build around that world. But for some reason you just stopped playing. Now that your interest...

Greetings, everyone! 🙂 Amidst all the talk of legendary items and the great advancement made by the Forge-masters regarding how to imbue them, another discovery has been made in our lands recently. Essence stones, of various size and luster, are being found to have significant power, and industrious folk have begun to work armor and jewelry to make use of these...

Greetings, everyone 🙂 Surely you have heard the news, yes? The Forge-masters of these lands, with whom we have toiled year after year only to tread water, have had a breakthrough of legendary proportions! No longer must we cast aside our shinies and forge others anew when new trainings are available to us! Yay! 🙂 Through the process of Imbuement, the...

Just a few steps more and it is lights out for this creep… Oh, hey everyone!  You all caught me while being sneaky, something we Burglars very much enjoy being.  I am not sure why everyone insists on calling us Burglars, though.  I have never stolen a thing in my life, honest! So, you want to know what it is we do and how we go about doing it, you say? ...

Greetings, everyone! 🙂 The idea to write a guide for the Legendary Items system came to mind after listening to Episode 48 of LOTRO Players News, where there was some lamenting over the Legendary Item system and the ‘grind’ involved. Later that day, while with others defending Helm’s Dike, the Rohirrim saw fit to award me an ancient symbol of...

  Maybe you’ve heard of “hardcore” raiding and want to know more. Maybe you’re entirely ignorant of it and don’t want to know more. Either way, I’m going to tell you more. I’m an equal opportunity informer. I hope to outline here some of the basics and tell you what you might expect from such groups. So what is...

While some call it Hot-bolt, others call it LayanorVille but Pineleaf and Spridra call it Hytbold.  They both do a great job running through the complexity of Hytbold and simplifying it so that a simple mind like myself can understand.  A huge thanks to both of them for sharing their knowledge in these...

  Here we have my breakdown of The Fires of Smaug, the third and last raid in my series on the Erebor instances. This one is probably the most mechanically difficult, especially if you are going for the challenge quest. Again, in the interest of full disclosure, I have completed this on tier 1 & 2 many times on my lore-master and warden, but have not...

  If you’ve ever done or attempted the Survival Barrow Downs skirmish, then this fight is quite similar.  The raid is always timed (10 minutes) as it’s not about how far you get or which boss you defeat, it’s about surviving until the game says “Time’s Up!” Full disclosure: This is the Erebor raid I’ve done the...

  I’m going to start my explanation of the current end game raids with Battle for Erebor.  This is a “pick your poison” type battle.  Before you can actually start the fight with the two trolls, you must select a number of unfavorable terms, depending on how difficult you want the fight to be.  For tier 1, you only need to select two of...

Author Edit: This was written before the large-scale class revamps that accompanied Helm’s Deep.  The general principles should mostly be accurate, but the particulars, especially regarding traits, likely are not. I’m writing this for those people who have played in groups before, whether small or full fellowship, and want to get into raiding. ...

  solo = green small fellowship = purple fellowship = blue raid = red I put this together so I could easily find soloable warbands or if I was looking for a particular warband for the daily Forlaw quest.  I hope you find it useful too. Warband tokens drop from the gift box quest reward (the daily auto bestowed quests), they seem to be more common with the...