Comments on: Race at my own pace

By: Illthirst

Illthirst — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:33:07 +0000

Okay, I will drop a post to a new topic too :)

I was taking a 4 months break last year and when I came back I’ve had to realize that my small kinship broke up.. We were a really small kin with a few members back then, but we were always there for each other, and I’m not talking about gaming now. We knew each other from the game and some drunk facebook pics, but the atmosphere was so much filled with fun and care and friendship that its hard to compare to anything.

I’ve played Eternal Lands, a windowed mmo with a tiny community, WoW lasted 6 hours on my HDD, Lineage was boring as hell, but I admire Tolkien’s work and really felt the real meaning for his philosophy within this kin.

Of course we never made it to the Rift, Helegrod – HAHH! – but we did some unforgettable URU and CD runs.

I say: not just wait for your friends, but lend them a hand and have fun while doing this. And if they aren’t on, well, make some new friends, it can never hurt :)

Waves,

By: Degwarg

Degwarg — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:13:05 +0000

‘far easier to max out a new character than it is to get the tier-1 raiding gear.’

Good point…leveled 3 guys to 60 and had a lot more fun along the way than I did torturing myself trying to even partially radgear them. Maybe time-wise it might have taken longer (dunno), but it sure was easier on my nerves. And some folks have like 5-6 toons at cap, yikes…

Hope you work things out so you can play at the same level w/your friends.

By: West Karana » Daily Blogroll 6/30 – Christmas edition

West Karana » Daily Blogroll 6/30 – Christmas edition — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:26:45 +0000

[...] Suzina of Kill Ten Rats looks at “gear check” requirements for the new Lord of the Rings Online dungeons and wonders, with the recent changes making Radiance gear more difficult to get and groups for it increasingly rare, how casual players will be able to catch up. [...]

By: Robert Schultz

Robert Schultz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:24:36 +0000

One Word: multibox

By: sean

sean — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:04:25 +0000

ditto. wait for yr friends, max out yr virtues, improve yr jewellery if its not already instance and rep jewellery.

yr observation is really valid tho, and maps onto my own experience: those ppl who were able to do MoM before Bk7 have full rad gear; those who didn’t are still all missing one or two pieces.

on my server it’s really noticeable: those raiding kins that were doing the Watcher in december have many ppl in full rad gear; those kins – even really large ones – that weren’t able to get to the Watcher before Bk7 hit *still* haven’t got to the Watcher.

and the point about the gear check is also valid: rad gear, even if yr not doing the Watcher, is so much better than non-rad gear (+10% hp [not certain about that number, haven't got full rad myself], no dread on dying) that if you have rad gear, you wear it.

altho the decision to put radiance on armour in MoM seemed like such a good idea at the time, in hindsight, it’s apparent that it was a really big mistake: it single-handedly gated the end-game *and* killed crafting.

By: Yeebo

Yeebo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:24:10 +0000

Two comments:

1. I think it blows pretty bad that radiance gear has been added as a “gear check” to current LoTRO. That is not what I sogned up for. In olden (SoA) days, we could gear up doing whatever we found fun; whether crafting, PvP, repeatable 6 mans, or high end book quests; and end up with gear enough to do quite well in the final raid (Rift). Not remotely true now. Hope you like hard mode three mode 6 mans and 3 mans.

2. Wait for your friends. While you are waiting on your friends, max out your virtues. You will be surprised how much they help if you really get anal about them. It’s like alternative jewelry slots.