Upgrade for Lore master (flying mounts)

[Eleran12]

I feel that the reason the hunter is the most or one of the most common characters used it because of its porting convienience and the fac that it can travel easier than all other characters. I feel that the lore master a very underplayed class should have the ablility to summon a flying mount at a very high level say 80 when we get their. This way the lore master has something that makes it useful. The flying mount could be used similar to the hunter porting except it should be more a skill that takes a good deal of time to reload maybe a full day and it should be able to take up to 10 people with it to an area all have discovered of course.

[Nymphonic]

This way the lore master has something that makes it useful. .

I would like to know just how is the Lore Master useless? They can mez, stun, bring players back from being defeated, limited healing, lay down sticky tar to slow down enemies and great aoe combat skills.

My 62 LM really kicks some serious rear ends.

As far as flying mounts go, I have to say not a chance in Hades. We are not the Nazgul and we are not Gandalf.

On a technical side, LOTRO is just not made for that sort of thing. I'll let the technical players explain that.

[Cherrio]

I feel that the reason the hunter is the most or one of the most common characters used it because of its porting convienience and the fac that it can travel easier than all other characters. I feel that the lore master a very underplayed class should have the ablility to summon a flying mount at a very high level say 80 when we get their. This way the lore master has something that makes it useful. The flying mount could be used similar to the hunter porting except it should be more a skill that takes a good deal of time to reload maybe a full day and it should be able to take up to 10 people with it to an area all have discovered of course.

Lore master is the most powerfull class ingame and u think we are not usefull ?

we do most dps we do most cc we got healing.

and we can restore power.

what more do you want ?

this is not world of failcraft.
we dont need flying mounts end of story.

u need to read and learn more about loremaster and ye game will never have flying mounts wich is good we dont need em.

[AzureHawk2]

It WOULD be nice if more classes had better travel options available to them.

<on soap box>
More to the point, Eliminate the NEED for so much travel by ensuring EVERY TOWN has EVERY SERVICE: Vault, Auction House, Mail, Every Crafting station and every class trainer, bard, venders who can repair. At the VERY least all services should be available on every MAP - for instance No AH in either North Downs or Lone Lands.

Guess they figured they addressed the issue by adding the EXTREMELY over priced extra mile stone skills - the cost of them per ACCOUNT would still be high, but per character makes the price/value a joke.
<off soap box>

Just my 2 cents.

[Khafar]

Eliminate the NEED for so much travel by ensuring EVERY TOWN has EVERY SERVICE

If they do that, they'll spread players out too much. It's good to have a smaller number of full-service hubs (max: 1 per large region) where players will congregate than it is to put every service everywhere. If they're going to do that, they might as well just let us all open every panel from wherever we happen to be standing. (Yes, I realize people can buy that sort of service, but the mere fact that it has a price to it means relatively few people will).

Guess they figured they addressed the issue by adding the EXTREMELY over priced extra mile stone skills - the cost of them per ACCOUNT would still be high, but per character makes the price/value a joke.

I've asked for these for years, so I was fine with buying a few of them for a couple of characters (although I did wait for a sale). Very handy, and no regrets buying them.

Khafar

[BrianDavion]

No flying mounts. fact is I don't WANT LMs to be more common. LMs require some brains to play and are a fairly difficult class to master. they're never gonna be common, and if they became common it means those willing to take the time to master them will be hard to find among all the wanna be WoW mages

[Crimsonrayne]

No flying mounts. fact is I don't WANT LMs to be more common. LMs require some brains to play and are a fairly difficult class to master. they're never gonna be common, and if they became common it means those willing to take the time to master them will be hard to find among all the wanna be WoW mages

Yep!

I admit, sometimes I think it would be nice to be able to ask my eagle friend for a ride, lol, but I do not think LOTRO needs flying mounts

[FeldonTank]

I would hate to see flying moants which are lets say WOWish... But maybe being able to right click the bird and ask for a port to any 4 places say, with a 30 min cooldown would be great

[Jarnos]

I feel that the reason the hunter is the most or one of the most common characters used it because of its porting convienience and the fac that it can travel easier than all other characters.

Warden can also port. Hunter is a class descirbed as Easy, so lots of people start with it, and I think the class Hunter just attracts people, since is't very clear what you do ( the difference between guardian, captain and champion would be less obvious for new players from the start)

I feel that the lore master a very underplayed class should have the ablility to summon a flying mount at a very high level say 80 when we get their.

Will people really start a character cause it gives a handy flying mount in 80 levels?

This way the lore master has something that makes it useful.

Except it's not really more usefull for actual Gameplay.
For that, LM's are allready usefull.

The flying mount could be used similar to the hunter porting except it should be more a skill that takes a good deal of time to reload maybe a full day and it should be able to take up to 10 people with it to an area all have discovered of course.

Being able to port others? So like a hunter port, except you sit on a flying mount and wait 30 mins to arrive?
Might as well use swift travels and slay some mobs to earn the silver back....


Another Flying Mounts suggestion but with very flawed assumptions and reasonings behind it.

[legotho]

My loremaster can port to:
The Shire Homesteads (Personal House)
The Shire Homesteads (Kinship House)
Bree (Racial Trait)
Ost Guruth (Reputation port)
Emyn Lum (Reputation port)
Nan Laeglin (Reputation port)
Fordorith (Milestone)

Not that I need to, for group content any more. The Instance Join panel made most of my locational requirements irrelevant.

[hucklebarry]

I would be really surprised if the landscape for LOTRO actually supported any sort of vertical space that would allow this without a massive and total game overhaul.

Aside from that... I agree with others that there really isn't a need for group travel, and we have tons of options for the individuals. I'm not a fan of the instance join panel, but the more ports and instant traveling we have, the closer we get to simply logging into a gaming foyer where we pick our instance and whoosh off. I like the RPG in my MMO where I spend some time traveling, adventuring, seeing folks, exploring, etc.

I also agree with others that the LM should remain an advanced class... and therefore we will see fewer of them. A well played LM can make impossible content possible, and difficult content is made easy. Debuffs and mezzes are the things that keep Sauron awake at night

[CroutonCabbage]

No flying mounts. fact is I don't WANT LMs to be more common. LMs require some brains to play and are a fairly difficult class to master. they're never gonna be common, and if they became common it means those willing to take the time to master them will be hard to find among all the wanna be WoW mages

Just because the character creation screen says it's advanced, doesn't mean it is.

[hallasan]

I feel that the reason the hunter is the most or one of the most common characters used it because of its porting convienience and the fac that it can travel easier than all other characters. I feel that the lore master a very underplayed class should have the ablility to summon a flying mount at a very high level say 80 when we get their. This way the lore master has something that makes it useful. The flying mount could be used similar to the hunter porting except it should be more a skill that takes a good deal of time to reload maybe a full day and it should be able to take up to 10 people with it to an area all have discovered of course.

Disagree. Please take a moment to search 'flying mounts' for all the reasoning.

Also, the premise that Hunters can port is not a sustainable rational for Loremasters.

Each class is designed to have strengths and weaknesses and the LM, played competently, is one of the most powerful and challenging of classes.

Also, swift travel is a very simple travel sequence. Visualize it as an underground or subway system (or any public transportation map).

[Zeelander]

I have experienced the switch to flying mounts in WoW, and I have to say that once you introduce them you can't go back. With can't go back I mean that, you can't go back to your normal mounts, riding through areas, enjoying the views and the details, experiencing the storylines from quests...

I don't think it will ever happen also, at least not until the story has finished in lotro. You just can't muck up one of the best stories ever written just because we want flying mounts...

Next to that there are loads of people into lore and would not like to see this happen.

I rest my case

[LotRO-Chris]

This would be an"RoI post-release" dead horse necro thread. No more reason to fret about having to wait for RoI access,, so this & a PvP thread have already popped back up.

What's next, the "hunter pets" dead horse...?

/sigh

[Celestrata]

As others have said, there have been many, many, many similar threads to this one. Closing this as the others were closed.

[Ironcrown]

ibtl.......

[Thalifea]

I came here to chew bubblegum and say "no", and I'm all out of bubblegum.

[djheydt]

I would be really surprised if the landscape for LOTRO actually supported any sort of vertical space that would allow this without a massive and total game overhaul.

And you would be right. As has been explained many times in many threads on this very topic, flying creatures in LotRO don't fly. They rest upon an invisible column of air about two virtual meters high, which is capable of shrinking or collapsing when the flying creature is stunned or defeated. It can't get any taller ... so that the hypothetical flying mount couldn't even rise above the treetops, let alone the mountains.

This doesn't apply to, e.g., the Nazgul on their fell beasts circling way overhead over Dol Guldur. Those are part of the weather pattern.

[Jewl_of_the_lake]

This doesn't apply to, e.g., the Nazgul on their fell beasts circling way overhead over Dol Guldur. Those are part of the weather pattern.[/QUOTE]

Sever thunderstorm warning with a chance of Nazgul :P

[hucklebarry]

I think I saw the "close" button in the Pit of Iron