Comments on: Mines of Moria™ Day 7: Craft Festival

By: Zubon

Zubon — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:00:10 +0000

Tide: Day 3, Day 6. I need to post some more days.

By: Tide

Tide — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:19:01 +0000

Hey Zubon — you don’t seem to be enjoying much of LotRO. Every post I think I’ve read from you in the last 2+ weeks seems you’re pretty ambivalent about the whole game. Why continue?

By: yunk

yunk — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:49:04 +0000

Well isn’t the mark of a great chef the ability to make great soup? Since soup is so easy, only a great chef can make soup great. I suppose in Middle Earth the same is true for bread and jam. Anyone can make bread and jam, but only the greatest of hobbit chefs can make a truly amazing bread and jam.

In fact bread and jam is one of the quickfire challenges in Top Hobbit.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:38:11 +0000

Harvesting: queue up 3-4, windowed mode, have Firefox in a window small enough to see when you are done. Harvest. Repeat. My new widescreen monitor is a great boon for that.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:13:27 +0000

Hard to alt+tab out while farming though since you have to be there to click on each field to harvest them. Refining the seeds at the workbench? Sure, that’s when I queue up the lot and AFK on the 360 or something.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:35:54 +0000

Gwingris in Eregion has a daily quest (“pick up 8 leaves”) that gives 3 cups of Red Tea. I have been using them. I did not max out Supreme, just unlocked it, but a kin-mate was doing so at the same time. He got several of the leaves for advanced teas.

Farming is that boring, but that is what windowed mode is for. Or a book.

By: Yeebo

Yeebo — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:22:31 +0000

One of my kinmates maxed out her cooking. The first time she offered me “red tea” I was skeptical. However, the ginormous vitality buff convinced me. I try to carry some around at all times now.

And grats on maxing out farming. I’ve never gotten it past tier II personally. I think it’s neat that LoTRO has farming available, fits the lore nicely. Unfortunately, it’s also just as boring as you would expect.

By: mbp

mbp — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:53:06 +0000

I find myself eating a lot more food in Moria than I remember from before. The short term healing buff from Rack of Lamb is a life saver when soloing.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:45:01 +0000

You’re forgetting, Zubon, that the mighty British Empire was built by men fed on scones and jam and cups of tea ;)

By: Jezebeau

Jezebeau — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:45:23 +0000

Well… it is a fairly short-term buff, right? Can’t beat the sugar-high for an immediate, short-term energy boost!