Comments on: How to Level Quickly in The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™

By: If You Don’t Know What You’re Doing, At Least Do What You’re Told at Kill Ten Rats

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:04:11 +0000

[...] you know why you level faster solo? Your time is worth nothing to your teammates. They are quite happy to make you wait for them, to [...]

By: Oblib Jaggins

Oblib Jaggins — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:39:02 +0000

I mainly run with my brother, and we often skip the group content if there is not a PUG handy. There is now plenty of content in LOTRO to level on just solo quests. Forochel and Evendim really helped in this department!

By: Dragonchasers » Great Barrows to Rivendell

Dragonchasers » Great Barrows to Rivendell — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:08:21 +0000

[...] read a post at Kill Ten Rats about leveling fast. Tried it a bit yesterday and it sure works. I might just skip the Fellowship [...]

By: Oz

Oz — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:54:40 +0000

I’m sure they have this info, as we had it in EQ. I remember working with a dev at one point on a proposed rewrite/revamp of a dungeon, and they did it strictly based on stats of dungeon visits over X period of time (ended up not happening due to massive amounts of quest mobs that would have to be moved and found new homes which extended time over budget - it instead ended up as one of those back-in-time instances that came out around DoD).

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:03:01 +0000

Unrelated:

You know what would be a nice bit of info that we’ll never ever get? The number of times low-level instances/dungeons have been visited by players, both in WoW and LOTRO, corrected to account for the population difference and “age” of the dungeons.

Or if you wanna approach it from another angle, the percentage of the playerbase that visited low level instance in both games, and how many times that happened.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:15:42 +0000

I’m torn on this, and it’s perhaps somewhat related to my general tiredness of “levels” anyway.

One the one hand, I’ve wondered if WoW didn’t cure me of altitis. In every game post-WoW I only have one or two alts, tops, and I’ve never gotten any alts to level cap. In LOTRO, I have a Captain alt and I find myself not entirely interested in leveling him, I’d just rather have the ability to say “ya know what? I’ve done the entire leveling process once, just let me make this guy level cap so I can use him.”

On the other hand, because of the hours I’m usually available to play, I find myself with no choice but to solo. My Captain has already missed out on the Great Barrows. A lot of the North Downs group quests are already grey. Garth Agarwen will probably be next, followed by one of my favorites, Dol Dinen. I was really looking forward to doing those, and it’s looking like there’s a high probability it won’t happen.

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:37:59 +0000

What, there is no option to refer a friend and get triple experience plus a zebra with a horn?

By: Merimet

Merimet — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:31:54 +0000

Also, it should go without saying, but you do indeed lvl up *nearly* twice as fast when you have rest xp. I say nearly because, alas, quest xp is not doubled, but general mob killing xp sure is. Whats neat about lotro as opposed to WoW or whatever is that you can use the in-game destiny points to purchase more rest xp if you so desire. Personally i never do this since i usually only play on weekends, and even then i spend so much time on my mains that my alts are always rested for a full level