This is my most boss mount of them all haha. It actually moves pretty fast.
http://i.imgur.com/vlpbv3v.png
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This is my most boss mount of them all haha. It actually moves pretty fast.
http://i.imgur.com/vlpbv3v.png
It actually doesn't. They nerfed its speed to something like 20% from its original 40%.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheaezra
Nobody is "ignoring" the Inn League/Ale Association quests... But they are simply another plodding grind, especially if you are dealing with characters that do not have class trait ports or many rep/store bought ports. In fact, when dealing with those characters, I can actually earn more from the festival quests themselves in the same amount of time.
Nothing changes the fact that the devs have put many mechanisms in place to encourage you to have alts. And yet, they also frequently turn around and toss this BS out - something that really sucks for people who have lots of alts (like they encourage). What is the total price for all the new "good" stuff...something like 480 tokens? Again, it's mind boggling that professional game developers sat down and decided that was a good idea in a game where they actively encourage alts.
It should take work and it should take some commitment. But that much? Absolutely ludicrous.
Well, if you can't find roughly 3 hours total per alt during the whole 2 weeks of the festival to farm enough tokens to buy all the new items (except dyes), or wait a year for alts to get the horse and the warsteed cosmetics at half price (or you don't want to or you have too many alts), then I guess next time the devs will just give us a horse and a caparison, no pet tomes and Eru forbid no cool warsteed accessories, so that no one will complain about having to farm too many tokens... The way I see it we don't get to have everything cheap just because there is so much of what we want to have. The devs did a fantastic job creating all those new items, so many and so cool, I'm happy with them, and thankful. It's been a great festival, and the devs only deserve our praises for making it so. If we asked them kindly to reduce the prices, maybe they would listen, maybe not, but I'm sick and tired of reading angry, rude, contemptuous remarks about a job done so well just because you have to grind tokens to get the new items. The rewards are too good and too many for you? Be ready for a single ugly tablecloth nag next time. Then you won't have any incentives to participate in the festival, will that finally make you happy? </rant>
Some of the replies in this thread. The usual lecturing and talking down to other players.
300 tokens is way too much for a war steed festival caparison set. Period. End of story. And that should have been blatantly obvious to them - providing they're operating on the same planet as the rest of us.
Are people here like this regarding way overpriced stuff in real life? Thinking that it's okay and coming up with compromises to buy the overpriced item, as if that somehow makes it acceptable?
Man, it's fine. If you do all festival quests even only once per day you'll get 50+ tokens minimum. Plus you can open 7 boxes/chests every hour to get 7-21 tokens each time.
It took me 4 days to get all new festival stuff (new cloak, mantle, steed, war-steed peaces, bat pet, two kites) and i don't think it's too grindy compared to other awful grinds that game has ...
300 tokens is way too much for a war steed festival caparison set. Period. End of story.
Why do people insist on telling them it's okay?
If they double the barter price of everything in the next Yule Fest and come up with a 1000 token item,
some people will be like, "that's okay, all you have to do is [insert complected formula]". Good grief.
Be ready for a single ugly table cloth nag next time? They already did that for the Farmer's Faire lol.
If you started a poll of "Who wants a horse wearing a plaid picknic bench table cloth?" How many players would you have expected to say "Yes"?
If you started a poll of "Who wants the next festival caparsion set to be Five Times More than last year?" How many would you expect to say "Yes"?
It's not hard to figure out what's not going to go over well, unless you're astronomically out of touch with the players.
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Originally Posted by Sheaezra
Actually, all people do here is praising developers for their great job with Fall Fest Steed. The Steed IS great and no more expensive then any other Festival horse. Caparison and price for it is another matter, but the horse itself is something to be thankful for.
The Gloaming Autumn steed is magnificent to me. I think it deserves high praise. I understand some don't like it and I understand why. But all in all its the ultimate Halloween steed. It's very close to what I described as wanting a while back ago. I like to playfully flatter myself to the friend I play lotro with, that they followed my suggestion. Especially the glowing eyes part.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirranta
The problem is -for a 9 years old MMO- the game is becoming less and less alt-friendly and Festivals are not the exception. It's not like, if the horse and caparison were cheaper, players with just a couple of characters would not have anything else to do. There are still start-lit crystals, essence reclamation scrolls and items like pets to sale on the AH.
The festival prices of these have always been stupid high. I mean you can run a Pela and get almost enough for a scroll or you can grind 140 festival tokens. Seriously?! I mean why do people even talk about these items, they are just unrealistically expensive and nobody in their right mind would grind them in festivals. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Laerien
Depends. Mine moves pretty fast and actually catches up with some other people's mounts. Perhaps that is because I have the journeyman riding skill I don't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChromiteSwiftpaw
I've seen this too. Quite some time after they lowered the hobby horse speed I saw someone riding a hobby horse that was a bit faster than my normal horse. I assumed he used some speed-buffs I didn't know about or that maybe it was a different type of hobby horse or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catburg
All other hobby horses I've seen have been moving super-slowly.
I decided the journeyman riding skill was a good investment because it is account wideQuote:
Originally Posted by Silmelin
https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/LOT...rait_(Account)
Yes it is expensive but if you have several alts on an account and all the non warsteed mounts on all those alts travel at 78% it seems good to me. It makes all those rep, reward and festival mounts more viable for getting around.
I have the Journeyman riding trait too, but the hobby horse was still faster than me :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Catburg
I thought it moved pretty fast for a stick horse whilst riding around the Party Tree area. That's the first time I've used it since I got it at the Yule Fest, because I had forgotten about it. I'll time it against a 68% steed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catburg
Is this serious or another attention seeker post?Quote:
Originally Posted by NeebPlayer
Whatever... I have to ask because you miss the point. I never said that those prices are cheap or efficient, I'm just saying that there are other items that may keep players interested in festival grind.
In fact, even comparing your "Pela" brilliant advice with Inn/Ale deliveries (110 fall tokens/<hour), I prefer deliveries. But that is just me. I understand that others prefer to do "Pela".
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Originally Posted by Silmelin
I moused over the tooltip for my hobbyhorse and it said my speed was 78% which is what you get for having the journeyman riding skill. As coincidence would have it I got this mount speed boost in my hobbit present todayQuote:
Originally Posted by Sheaezra
https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Ite...Speed_(90_Min)
When I used one of these the tooltip said my hobbyhorse was 98% so it would seem we can boost them. Whatever the case that thing could surely shift when I rode it today, just unfortunate that we are quite restricted as to where we can use it. My usual "normal" horse on the same alt is the Algraig rep one, that too read at 98%. The speed boost tome doesn't work on warsteeds.
Ah :) Thanks for checking :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Catburg
A bit strange that the Journeyman trait works on Hobby horses though, since the reason they lowered the speed was because so many people were annoyed that they could move as fast as the fastest horse even though a hobby horse is actually just a human/dwarf/hobbit/elf running with a stick :)
How very dare you of course my hobby horse is alive :D, I've called him Stickything because he is a stick. There is a big restriction on the hobby horse because we can ride it in so few places anyway, what is it with some people? Non warsteed mounts vary in their speeds and the deal with the journeyman package is that it brings them all up to 78% to give us loads of viable options for our pretty "town horses". With the package costing nearly 3k TP it stands need to give some big benefits. That said journeyman comes with "Smell the roses" which takes your steed speed back down again if you wish. I can ramp my hobby horse down to 20% if I want to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silmelin
I wonder how many people have bothered to buy journeyman anyway? It makes all these festival steeds like the current fab example viable for tricky twisty places and short rides.
Why are there seperate pieces of Gloaming kit for the war horse and a whole Comparison? Please advise and thank you :)
I might be misunderstanding your question, and if I do, I apologize :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Appliances
The Caparison is a separate piece too :) It's the blanket part of the war-steed outfit :)
One thing I would have liked different is that I would have liked the wooden headpiece to come without the cloth neckpiece. Just one minor thing in an otherwise excellent selection from this festival though :)
Same here. Would have preferred the cloth neck piece to be part of the whole caparsion. And agreed it's a minor thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catburg
Well I actually managed to win a white skeleton horse.