Welcome to the thread for the one and only MMO that let us explore and play in J.R.R. Tolkien's world.I've been replaying it for a few weeks on Landroval with a friend now. We got to Evendim the other day. I've also been grinding professions like a madman to keep up with our level since quest gear seems to be mostly trash compared to crafted one. We're playing on Fearless for landscape dificulty but even then as a party it really feels easy to crush anything except for zones that are explicitly made for fellowships like Garth Agarwen.Any /vm/bros playing the game? What were your recent adventures? Or maybe some of you are abc wizards that like to play music in-game?
I want to play this so much, too bad the UI literally hurts and strains my eyes, everything is too small and blurry and unorganized
>>1196297Yeah, the UI doesn't scale well past 1080p. There's a rework to make it scaleable up to 4k that has been on the backburner for a while now, but who knows when it's getting a release date, especially when you see that easier stuff like decoupling crafting professions took more time than they anticipated due to old spaghetti code.
bump
Recently, a band of us decided to get on Arkenstone. The game itself is amazing. I'm coming from WoW and it's nice to play an MMO that's pleasant to the eyes and has quest dialogue worth reading.The player base on the other hand is awful. They're all insufferable redditor millenials. If anyone is looking to join our under the rug kinship send a letter to Agilfride with something to convince us you're the type of person we're looking for.
I love this game. I play it on-and-off and play DDO as well. I couldn't really get into this until they added the difficulty options, and even then similar to you OP I feel the difficulty is still too easy because of the self-healing, and the fact that most mobs don't really do much other than hit you. You say you're playing on Fearless, do you mean just Fearless or did you bump it up to +3 or whatever, I think the Heroic difficulty(?) is meant more for group play so I would recommend that.At any rate it might be worth waiting for Echoes of Angmar to release. I thought it was supposed to release earlier this year, but I guess not. My only woe with EoA is the fact that it won't have the entirety of Middle-earth. You'll only be restricted to Eriador. Which is fine, but I kind of like some of the new stuff in the later expansions.Thanks for reading my blog.
I have a lifetime account and I mostly just play during events because they are maximum comfy
There is just too much "QoL" being shoved into this game. Thank the senile forum boomers who beg SSG to add more things that they can buy. The new LI reward track is some mobile game shlock. The trait trees suck. To aggro any enemy you have to walk like 5 inches in front of it. The new maps are shit. They make features obsolete all the time (look at the old LIs, there is shit related to those in the game that has no purpose now.) The combat feels spammy and weirdly fast. Crafting is streamlined. Zones are streamlined. I could go on and on but I think I'm just autistic.
>>1197087>You say you're playing on Fearless, do you mean just Fearless or did you bump it up to +3 or whatever, I think the Heroic difficulty(?) is meant more for group play so I would recommend that.Yeah, just Fearless, since that's the minimum for the title, been thinking we should maybe bump it to +3 at the very least, there's only two of us so I feel heroic might be a bit much, especially since he caught up to my main character, I switched back to my blue guardian instead of playing red minstrel. Fearless +3 should strike a good balance between difficulty and making the game a slog.
>>1197240Sounds good, this game can be really fun when you crank up the difficulty and have some friends to play through it with. It's a shame the difficulty modifier doesn't apply to story instances though. Have you done any instances, or ran through any of the barrows public dungeons? Those are really fun with other people. The Eye is a bit annoying, I wish it was replaced instead with some more interesting mechanics. I thought I saw something like that mentioned on the roadmap.
>>1197274Did a few public barrow downs dungeons on my own, should probably run them again for the deeds, there's a deed for killing all the rares in them and I'd like to complete it. We ran the Great Barrow as a two man team the other day, besides the first boss and his swarm of poison worms we didn't have too much trouble.>The Eye is a bit annoying, I wish it was replaced instead with some more interesting mechanics. I thought I saw something like that mentioned on the roadmap.We jokingly refer to that mechanic as Sauron's orbital strikes/mortar strikes, but it's true that its not very inspired. You just have to dodge out of it and that's it, the modifiers applied to the enemies are a bit more interesting but not by much.
/vm/ has maybe three threads a year about LOTRO although it has been a few years since we had a solid long-running most of the year thread.Quest content up to 95 was made f2p a couple years back (from its relative ~30 cap) and quest coupons for content to around 110/120(?) is normally handed out on a yearly basis. The netcode has, is, and always has been complete and utter shit because the game is ran on spaghetti code from devs who no longer work there.SSG as devs are notorious for ignoring their userbase and engaging in little-to-no correspondence/communication. Absolute shit.That said, the game is free and cool to run around in, checking out the environments.
>>1196214is this the last remaining hideout for trueblooded hardcore internet racists like I'm expecting?
>>1205330theres some but you'll most likely get reported and maybe banned for saying anything like that in public chat
I love this MMO its so comfy but I hate how neglected and left to rot its getting, the servers are falling apart.
>>1205330no. generally tried to avoid global chat but still spied a couple of fags looking for 'LGBT friendly' guilds. most people were roleplaying though and talking about F1. I got to level 20 and dropped it because I couldn't find anyone to do instances with once you get to Rivendell. the game is extremely slow, the amount of travelling between quest givers is insane. the world is absolutely huge though and pretty comfy. combat is as basic as it gets.
>>1213012The reason everything is so slow is because the best part of the game is traversing
>>1213802I MOSTLY agree but I remember multiple times I would complete a quest and have to walk back the exact same path to the exact same spot to complete another quest from the exact same person. it's bullshit and LOTRO is one of the worst examples of it.
>>1215758and it's even more egregious because f2p cucks you out of travel options. 95% of players will stop playing instead of paying money for it.
>>1196214does anyone know how to get this game to work through steam? tried playing this game 2 years ago, it seemed right up my alley, but i couldnt get it to work. i was able to load in once, but once i had put my graphics up to the max the game just bugged out and wouldnt let me open it up again.
>>1220154why are you using steam to play lotro?
>>1220154>>1220154Had this issue the other day. From top of my head you have to allow some version of direct x, either 9 or 11. If you use nvidia card you also have to manually allow it on nvidia app. If it still doesn't work you have to open text file - userpreferences.ini in the LOTRO file and if Displayadaptor= 0 then change it to 1. More info at 7 min mark.
>>1220154https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SalcO6zWyL4
Has anyone ever seen ERP happen in Lotro? Is it even allowed? I know there are tons of older women playing the game and I would love to have one degenerate play session
hey nerds might join up. if i am looking correctly, seems the anniversary is coming up on the 18th and history says they tend to give some nice freebies out
>>1241298I've only played for a few months on Laurelin (EU RP server) and haven't really seen any lewd stuff going on. I play a female high elf too and I've never been approached for ERP either. I'm sure there has to be a handful of people doing it in private.
>>1241298you can ERP in real life too anon
Love how comfy this game is, I prefer that its low stakes low action.>>1241298Any game with RP in it has ERP, these days ERP is the dominant form of RP
>>1238242What 7 min mark?
>LOTRO threadB A S E D ASEDplay on Landroval>>1196307>>1196297I'm on a 4K monitor and I do 2560x1600 and it's tolerable. That scaling update can't come soon enough though.
>>1241298There is holiday music festivals on some of the bigger servers. You can usually find 'flyers' and ads on server forums. People make bands and get on stage to play songs, etc.
gonna play for the first time today :3happy 17th LOTRO! wow!
Goddamn ssg is stingy this year on anniversary rewards
>>1259042yeah i wanted all the free DLC and whatnot which happened some previous year :/ fug i missed out. anyways it's kinda comfy. definitely an older feeling MMO. for comparison i am trying Black Desert and Elder Scrolls Online at the same time and LOTRO is the one that feels most like a LOTR-skinned original WoW
the stuttering as assets load in when walking around the world bothers the fuck out of me and prevents me from enjoying it, I keep reinstalling every couple years to see if they've fixed it yet but every time I'm disappointed
>>1261523Yep they really need it fix this if they want to keep new players
which outfit should I use on my newly created dwarf warden adventurer
based schizoid Christian helping out new playersfull message:"For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our s1ns in accordance with the Scriptures,that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me."1 Corinthians 15:3-8 (ESV)Yeshua replied to His disciples:"I am the way, the truth and the life.No one comes to the Father except through Me." - John 14:6
>>1264518my honest reply
who /EoA/ here?
>>1264576EoA is kinda lame desu senpaiwhy would you want less content? muh black hobbits?
I tried this 2 years ago and quit because I was struggling on a busted laptop playing with fucking touchpad.Now I have a decent computer and thinking about getting in.I've been playing FFXIV for the past 3 months and while I like the core game, the surrounding climate of aggressive gayness and in your face leftism is really putting me off.
