Finish the scaled instance list and add skirmishes in the mix.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nWishful thinking for the Featured instance<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps some very wishful thinking, but in time wouldn’t it be great to lose the level limit for a box run? For the easier tier 1 we could use some limited scaling to allow us to run the instances with our kinnies that might not be 120. The larger the level difference between 100 and max level becomes the harder it will be for them to group up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’ve a lovely little instance finder. Experiment a bit to make it an actual group finder. Not for the max level challenges, but for the less specialized tier 1 run or the lower level runs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Final thoughts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Instancing itself has been in awkward spot for a time now. Ash, favored loot, extended level range, random ilvl increases or build in class-limitations. We’re coming to the end of the major lotro overhauls for all classes, ratings etc. It might be a good time to take a broader look at loot that gets your blood pumping again and what direction SSG and their players want to go in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lets talk about the current state of the Featured instance aka box run.\u00a0 Once a fun and alternative activity has lost most of it’s appeal. Introduced back in Update 18 as a way to give players a reason to run old content in a time where set bonus armors from Osgiligath and Minas Tirith reigned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":40737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[716,6,1001,15],"tags":[1158,728],"class_list":["post-49636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-critters-journey","category-general","category-opinion-piece","category-seeing-lotro","tag-box-run","tag-critters-casual"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Critter-casual.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49638,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49636\/revisions\/49638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}