Archive for the ‘Lord Of The Rings Online Miscellaneous’ Category
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 0 views
As everybody knows, the two end-game 12-man instances at the moment are gated-that is, you need a certain minimum level of radiance in order to even enter them. Personally, I think this is a poor design approach, and it's no secret that most players feel the same way. However, we're ...
Posted in Lord Of The Rings Online Miscellaneous | No Comments » | 0 views
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 0 views
I suspect that not many players are aware of the fact that the Codemasters forum recently started running a section in which players are invited to respond to questions about the game and its design. Since these questions are usually quite specific, and presumably correspond to things the designers actually ...
Posted in Lord Of The Rings Online Miscellaneous | No Comments » | 0 views
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 0 views
Quest trophies - the decorative items which drop when a particularly tough boss has been killed - are, quite rightly, Bind on Acquire (BoA) - they are meant to be proof of prowess or cunning, and shouldn't be available on demand to anybody with money or generous friends. The same ...
Posted in Lord Of The Rings Online Miscellaneous | No Comments » | 0 views
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 0 views
We have a new splash screen, according to which Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dum is nearly upon us - and very good news that is, too. But I am made more than a little uneasy by this chap, who figures mightily in the splash screen and, is, presumably, the Scourge ...
Posted in Lord Of The Rings Online Miscellaneous | No Comments » | 0 views
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 0 views
Thorildin is a dwarf from Finland with a warped sense of humour and, clearly, far too much time on his hands. He has invested some of that time in assembling the biggest hat and helmet collection ever seen on LOTRO, and has very kindly placed it online for the delectation ...
Posted in Lord Of The Rings Online Miscellaneous | No Comments » | 0 views
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 0 views
Nornuan lives in Filikul, a rather damp and plashy chamber of the great tower of Gabil-Munz, at the centre of Moria's Waterworks. He probably doesn't mind, though, as he's a giant Snapping Turtle - a chelonian not to be trifled with lightly, since he has 688,000 morale and a habit ...
Posted in Lord Of The Rings Online Miscellaneous | No Comments » | 0 views
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 0 views
Responding to my earlier post about Nornuan, the great turtle of the Waterworks, "Anonymous" commented that his kinship had worked out a tactic which involved using a Lore-master's bear to tank the turtle: "A burg can provoke the turtle so it doesn't switch targets so no one gets an acid ...
Posted in Lord Of The Rings Online Miscellaneous | No Comments » | 0 views
