One day, when I was in the shire looking for rabbit holes...

[HardestyGrimwall]

(A noobs story of a chance encounter, Or why you should pay attention to your quest finder)


I accidentally reset the quest finder to highlight a "fellowship recommended" quest and like a doofus I just followed the quest icon until my Hobbit Mini found himself neck deep in a goblin camp.

At first I was lost, because this did not seem to be the way back to the fellow i was supposed to bring the pointy rock to. But I kept going because the little quest icon in the mini map told me I was going in the right direction

Then I ran into a handful of goblins, took them out and kept going., and then I ran into a dozen Goblins, and then they ran into me

So I ran...ever towards that quest marker, wondering what the hell was going on. I must have had eight Goblins stravaging after me, and I was picking up more by the second, I finally got to the objective waypoint and it was smack dab in a Goblin camp, and I began to realize my mistake. I hesitated for a second and they were on me

Despite my best effort, and strumming and yelling and cramming crams, I was soon overwhelmed and my little hobbit went down for the first time ever. But I had an instant restore. So I restored myself , finished off the last three Goblins who had followed me and looked around.

I was in the middle of Indian country with dozens of Goblins all around me, but none of them had activated on me. I was thinking of using the waypoint stone (I keep forgetting the real name of things) to get out of there, when I saw the Pink Umbrella that was the goal of this "fellowship" quest and I thought , what the heck....I got this far. So I went a grabbed the umbrella, and all hell broke loose and I ran for it. again streaming goblins behind me and taking shots from Goblins ahead of me but some how I made it out of the camp, Shouting and strumming and cramming and running. Got the exp points and finished a "fellowship recommended" quest on my own......dying once

I imagine if I knew what I was getting into and took it slower I could do it again without dying but man that was fun!


The little mini rocks!

So question.....I have now by design or accident soloed a couple of fellowship recommended quests...is this something alot of people do?

[Yula_the_Mighty]

It is very common.

[Tirian-Hammerfist]

I'm afraid to say that this quest isn't actually a fellowship one any more - the fact that it is marked as a small fellowship quest is a relic of a time when the goblins in that camp when players were much weaker (before trait trees), and they were much more thickly packed than they are today. This quest nowadays is quite an easy solo one, particularly if you're sensible about how much you pull at a time.

[Boraxxe]

As is noted above almost everything can be done solo in the lower-level areas.
But keep in mind that I said "almost".
You can still be surprised.

[Vilan]

Particularly in the lower level zones, many quests are labeled "fellowship" that perhaps once were but are no longer. I well remember getting 5 people together to do a fellowship quest near Bree, moving up to the quest location, and finding that the boss I had to beat was just one signature bandit. That was it. Could've done it myself no problem. I believe that boss was harder once upon a time but Turbine made it easier and didn't bother updating the quest log icon. So I recommend giving any fellowship quests you find a try solo to see if they truly require a group or not.