Noob Question: Horses?

[Fleur_Darc]

Hey, noob question here: how do you get a horse? I am a Level 9, and tried visiting the horse farm in Bree, but none of the horses there are available for me to buy. Am I missing something, or do I have to wait until I'm a Level 20?

Would appreciate any help

--Fleur_Darc

[Ziane]

Do you have the riding skill that you buy in the store? That's first then (I think) you can purchase those horses at Hengstacer Farm. You can get free horses from festivals.

[Fleur_Darc]

I'll check it out, I don't know if I have the skill yet. Thank you!

[Olgomil]

Hey, noob question here: how do you get a horse? I am a Level 9, and tried visiting the horse farm in Bree, but none of the horses there are available for me to buy. Am I missing something, or do I have to wait until I'm a Level 20?

1) If your account is F2P or Premium you need to purchase the riding skill in the store, its 95 Turbine Points, and you need to purchase it in each character you want a horse (its a per character purchase). You can to purchase the riding skill after to complete the intro. Some times there is a free offer from third party web sites called "LOTRO Starter Pack" that include the riding skill, you can to check it in google, but i dont saw an offer in the last months.

2) If you are VIP you can to purchase a special (slower) horse without the riding skill in the Horse Farm in Bree just after the intro, and, at level 20, play a quest for to get the riding skill for free.

Sergio :-)

[HardestyGrimwall]

1) If your account is F2P or Premium you need to purchase the riding skill in the store, its 95 Turbine Points, and you need to purchase it in each character you want a horse (its a per character purchase). You can to purchase the riding skill after to complete the intro. Some times there is a free offer from third party web sites called "LOTRO Starter Pack" that include the riding skill, you can to check it in google, but i dont saw an offer in the last months.

2) If you are VIP you can to purchase a special (slower) horse without the riding skill in the Horse Farm in Bree just after the intro, and, at level 20, play a quest for to get the riding skill for free.

Sergio :-)

Olgomil said it all

As a fellow new player, I would add just one thing, when you finish your intro, in your mailbox is a letter of thanks who ever was in your area (Jon Brackenbrook for humans and hobbits) and attached to that letter is a gift....when you open that gift another one appears (Red Wrapping) that gives you a 24 hour horse whistle. And for 24 hours you can ride Old Mully for free. If you set yourself up for a marathon session you could get a long way to level 20, riding that horse all the way. You will need 500 silver to buy a horse, but you should amass that by then


(Me I paid the 95 turbine points. My resilient stand to play for free and only play for free lasted all of 30 minutes )

[djheydt]

Olgomil said it all

As a fellow new player, I would add just one thing, when you finish your intro, in your mailbox is a letter of thanks who ever was in your area (Jon Brackenbrook for humans and hobbits) and attached to that letter is a gift....when you open that gift another one appears (Red Wrapping) that gives you a 24 hour horse whistle. And for 24 hours you can ride Old Mully for free. If you set yourself up for a marathon session you could get a long way to level 20, riding that horse all the way. You will need 500 silver to buy a horse, but you should amass that by then.

Also: at level 9 you may not have 95 Turbine Points or 500 silver either.

To get TP, do Deeds. Hit shift-L on your keyboard, or click on the caret
(^) at the extreme left-hand end of your bottom bar and click "Deed Log."
This brings up a page that tells you what deeds you have outstanding,
of what kind (class, race, region, et cetera) and how many times you have
to do what to finish the Deed and get 5 or so TP for it.

You might find it easier to collect silver. The way to get in-game money
(copper, silver, and eventually gold) is to go out and hunt things. The
best, most cost-effective sources of money are humanoids (that is, evil
Men, evil Dwarves, goblins, Orcs, almost anything on two legs) whose
level is lower than yours. The ideal level for humanoids to hunt is nine
levels below you ... but at level 9 you won't find many of those. Go
out and kill anything you can; they will drop copper and silver; they
will also drop items that you don't want but can sell to the nearest
Vendor NPC (the guys in towns with green banners floating above their
heads). We call those items "vendor trash."

And when you get, say, to level 16, then you can go out after
level 7 humanoids, whose labels will be grey to you, and they won't
attack you till you attack them. Slaughter them without mercy.

But you also get copper and silver for doing quests; the NPC you turn the
quest in to will give you copper/silver as well as XP (experience points).

Keep at it. There are a whole lot of things to do in Middle Earth. You
won't get bored.

(Me I paid the 95 turbine points. My resilient stand to play for free and only play for free lasted all of 30 minutes )

[Ghost_Archer]

There are 'Slayer' Deeds and 'Explorer' Deeds that will be enough for that 95 tp in all the racial stater areas. I think the most annoying of those is the Slug slayer in the Shire since you have no real reason to be killing the things in the first place. Wolves, bandits, spiders, goblins, even hendrovals you'll be killing enmasse but not slugs. Oh, plus you get the 'Quest Completion' Deeds for just doing quests.

[Polymachos]

There is actually a reason to kill slugs. When you reach Overhill, and talk to Otho Broadbelt, you can accept a quest that leads to a line where an area must be cleared from spiders, and in order to enter it, you have to bring slug slime to Gammer Boffin.


Greetings, Polymachos

[Ghost_Archer]

There is actually a reason to kill slugs. When you reach Overhill, and talk to Otho Broadbelt, you can accept a quest that leads to a line where an area must be cleared from spiders, and in order to enter it, you have to bring slug slime to Gammer Boffin.


Greetings, Polymachos

Very true but it is only like 6 slugs out of 90.

Oh, bump above SPAM.

[DeadlyGazebo]

There is actually a reason to kill slugs. When you reach Overhill, and talk to Otho Broadbelt, you can accept a quest that leads to a line where an area must be cleared from spiders, and in order to enter it, you have to bring slug slime to Gammer Boffin.


Greetings, Polymachos

Two reasons, actually! You can only get the Carn Dum hidden slug-slayer deed if you already have the shire slug-slayer deed.

Of course, that assumes you're going to grind kills in Carn Dum when you get to level 50, which most people aren't going to do

[Fleur_Darc]

Thank you all so much for your advice

[StinkyGreene]

I went with the Samwise Gamgee Starter Pack. It is 10 bucks (5 on sale at times) gives all characters rolled forever a horse, +15 bags, and ditches the gold cap. Plus then your account is premium. A small price to pay, especially if you have a plethora of characters.