Update 15 - Will we join aragorn or keep playing the disposable garbage mopper again?

[Cigfreed]

I agree with the original idea on this post. I just can't believe most gamers, especially younger folks, find it fun at all to frequently do tasks like pulling weeds, setting or clearing a table, cleaning up messes, gathering crops, Etc. Especially when all it amounts to is click, watch the boring, repetitive animation. No challenge at all and far too much like doing your chores at home. We want to feel like the warrior hero, not the housekeeper. I also find the game nerfed beyond belief when a guardian and LM can fairly easily duo a warband, near level, that's supposed to be raid level or easily solo one that's suppose to be a fellowship. I'd also love to see more situations where something like an undefeatable Balrog shows up, or half the camp of Orcs notices the fires and explosions and aggros and we have to use our wits to escape. Or a player goes charging blindly into a tomb and a boulder falls on them and kills them. If we set off a trap in the game, usually it amounts to about a 10% scratch. While I'm at it, and if anyone really reads all these, please give my cappy a better mounted skill than yelling at the mobs.

[Ellyllon]

I've just started the 'to Dol Amroth' quests, having been away from the game since Christmas. My first question after the session play is - why is one of Elrond's sons seemingly blonde? We know they were identical - and there were 3 elves-3/4 elves on the Paths of the Dead, so I assume one of them had to be either Elladan or Elrohir (and they have the same faces, but more glittery eyes.) I haven't found them later in the game yet (nor do I know if we see them before Minas Tirith) so was this an error of some sort? And though Tolkien changed some birth dates, shouldn't Lothiriel be a child, or at most, a fairly young teen?

[Brya]

Lothiriel is either 19 or 20 by my reckoning, depending on her exact birth date. (Born 2999 TA, the impending siege of Minas Tirith being March 3019 TA)

[OldMadeOfLions]

Lothiriel is either 19 or 20 by my reckoning, depending on her exact birth date. (Born 2999 TA, the impending siege of Minas Tirith being March 3019 TA)

I have Lothiriel at 20 years of age, which does put her on the young side of ruling a city as significant as Dol Amroth.

MoL

[djheydt]

I have Lothiriel at 20 years of age, which does put her on the young side of ruling a city as significant as Dol Amroth.

MoL

On the other hand, I bet she has a group of wise elders,
too old to go and fight with their Prince, who can advise
her, and in many (most?) situations, all she has to do is
say "Make it so."

(On the OTHER hand, she's old enough to marry, in that
preindustrial culture. Will we get to see her betrothal* at
least, some time after the Ring falls?)












SPOILERS for those who haven't read the Appendices....





















*"In the last year of the Third Age [that is, T.A.3021]
[Eomer] wedded Lothiriel, daughter of Imrahil."

[OldMadeOfLions]

(Will we get to see her betrothal at least...)

I think enough clues are present about that in-game already that you likely have an answer for that one.

MoL

[djheydt]

I think enough clues are present about that in-game already that you likely have an answer for that one.

MoL

Great!


...more characters for the character-counter

[Vellrad]

Their adventures don't intersect with yours at the moment. Once they do I expect you'll see them again.

MoL

Preferably dead.
If rohirims need dwarven matchmakers to go out with someone their pathetic kingdom should die out and no one will miss it.
Horn was worst NPC in epic quests.

[Vellrad]

I somewhat agree with this.

I understand that this is a game and people want to be a part of the story and the main events, but I don't agree with having the players hang out with the company at the drop of a hat. Maybe I'm just conservative, but I don't think we should be anywhere near Aragorn&Co most of the time... then again, I was one of the minority that entirely and strongly disagreed with having us on Helm's Deep... And I still think that. We should have never been 'a part' of the events in Helm's Deep and we should not influence major events from the novels.

We aren't mentioned, because in helm's deep we only do menial tasks.
Is there description of people cranking ballistas and catapults?
I remember only description of Aragorn and company fighting orcs, and players focus on using siege weapons in BBs.

Important thing to remember:

lotro is non canon.
its fan fiction, and setting game in time of war must contain lore breaks.
For lore breaks free game, lotro should be set years after ring is destroyed.

[Ellyllon]

Well, if Tolkien himself fiddled with the relevant dates, it's not a big issue either way.

But - and I haven't gotten far in the update since restarting - but *is* Elladan or Elrohir now blond for some reason? (I've only seen them in the session play. 3 elves, 2 blond. One Legolas... who arguably perhaps shouldn't be blond either.) This, of course, isn't a huge criticism - Arwen's model had green eyes, which drove me nuts, but that's my own thin skin. Just curious.

[OldMadeOfLions]

But - and I haven't gotten far in the update since restarting - but *is* Elladan or Elrohir now blond for some reason?

Looks like a bug to me. His clothes are right, but his hair seems to have changed on us.

MoL

[Beaniemooch]

Looks like a bug to me. His clothes are right, but his hair seems to have changed on us.

MoL

Perhaps he wished to test the theory that blondes have more fun?

[Ogmu]

There's times I feel like the "special" friend of the heros.

Momentous times are here. Great deeds need to be done. Gandalf and Aragorn and Gimli and Legolas and so on...you are charged with destroying the Ring.

Ugmo, you are also a great hero and we can't do this without you. Can you go outside and pick me 8 weeds out of the sidewalk? That would be grand! Thanks so much for your help, little buddy.

[tamlong]

The setting will geta lot tighter to the end where epic events hardly have any place for you to fit in. Though you an play in these events as through session play, but it is not nice enough to replace playing the story with your own character.

There are plenty of places where we could fit into the epic storyline without popping up in the main sequence. of course we are not going to tag along with Frodo Sam and Gollum, but we culd go to Shelob's lair, be a major part of the battle of Minas Tirith and at the gates of Mordor, there is plenty of room to be creative. Ont hat subject, I thinkt he quests in general should be more creative not just go and kill 10 of this mob or collect 8 of this stuff, or destroy 3 of these. That's the only quests seem to happen majority of time and I think a lot more thought and creativity could make this game excellent rather than the mediocre game experience it has become where you do the same type of quest over and over with each update just in a different area and high level but essentially the same boring quest yet again. Rant off

[Saniko]

Ont hat subject, I thinkt he quests in general should be more creative not just go and kill 10 of this mob or collect 8 of this stuff, or destroy 3 of these. That's the only quests seem to happen majority of time and I think a lot more thought and creativity could make this game excellent rather than the mediocre game experience it has become where you do the same type of quest over and over with each update just in a different area and high level but essentially the same boring quest yet again. Rant off

I think the creativity is in the quest text. There's always a bit of story explaining why something needs to be done. What other quest types could Turbine do (within the game's limitations) to increase variety? So far quest types include kill x things, gather y things, go to z locations, talk to NPC, rescue/escort a NPC, deliver an item, perform an emote, solve a riddle, reach a difficult location (Eaworth anyone?), ...

[Cableknitdragon]

Looks like a bug to me. His clothes are right, but his hair seems to have changed on us.

MoL

Not the first time Elrond's boys have done that too, the instance An Echo of Days Past at Zudrugund also features Suddenly-Blond-Elladan I believe! (and that's been there for at least a year for me!)

[Sylrisson]

Not the first time Elrond's boys have done that too, the instance An Echo of Days Past at Zudrugund also features Suddenly-Blond-Elladan I believe! (and that's been there for at least a year for me!)

Yep, I reported that probably about a year ago. XD