Most Obscure Landscape Mob in LOTRO

[cougar111]

I wonder if the LOTRO team has the ability to know if any of the landscape mobs across Middle Earth have never been attacked? Is there some Goblin, Wolf, Orc. etc that has never seen any action? Just tucked away somewhere with no idea what has been happening for the last 15 years. Random thought, but if they had the ability to find out, I thought it would be fun. Maybe make the mob king for a day or something.

[LabadalofDorlomin]

I suppose there could be as a few years ago didn't one of the devs (maybe MoL) state that not all the easter eggs they put into the game have been found? I guess there could be a mob or 2 attached to them? Who knows.

In fact that would be a good festival event... each festival drop new hints to unfound easter eggs and let the search begin..

[YamydeAragon]

I suppose there could be as a few years ago didn't one of the devs (maybe MoL) state that not all the easter eggs they put into the game have been found? I guess there could be a mob or 2 attached to them? Who knows.

In fact that would be a good festival event... each festival drop new hints to unfound easter eggs and let the search begin..

Of course they base the assumptions of "not found" that nobody have bother mentioned in on the forums. Like they though that the pasta eating cat at Rohan was never found but i noticed, just i'm not a fan of cats & specially of that cartoon cat so wouldn't care to post screenshots. I'm sure that many other players noticed too right out the bat. & on the line of animals there are a lot of pets, steeds & some NPCs with their default names that obvious allusions to pop culture names.

[OldMadeOfLions]

Of course they base the assumptions of "not found" that nobody have bother mentioned in on the forums.

Not just on the forums, but elsewhere too. I'm reasonably certain that nobody has found my latest Easter Egg in Yondershire yet, although it doesn't involve a fightable enemy so it's not really the sort of thing this post is asking.

MoL

[Rylnconn]

I wonder if the LOTRO team has the ability to know if any of the landscape mobs across Middle Earth have never been attacked? Is there some Goblin, Wolf, Orc. etc that has never seen any action? Just tucked away somewhere with no idea what has been happening for the last 15 years. Random thought, but if they had the ability to find out, I thought it would be fun. Maybe make the mob king for a day or something.

Intriguing premise .
Like those Imperial Japanese soldiers who never new WW2 ended stuck on those remote islands for decades .( except in reverse)
I'm not much for easter eggs , but having a creature or enemy combatant in middlearth that has never seen action .
Is like discovering a long lost tribe along the Amazon or Congo .
Would be nice to know if that was the case . especially if the mobs predate Moria .

[Brinswith]

I wonder if the LOTRO team has the ability to know if any of the landscape mobs across Middle Earth have never been attacked? Is there some Goblin, Wolf, Orc. etc that has never seen any action? Just tucked away somewhere with no idea what has been happening for the last 15 years. Random thought, but if they had the ability to find out, I thought it would be fun. Maybe make the mob king for a day or something.

One I always look out for is the Hewn Giant Arm up near Ferndur by Imlad Balchorth. I was up there the other day helping someone out and decided to see if it was around. Luckily it was. I've only seen it a handful of times over the years I think it shares spawns with Balchorth himself.




Another one I have only ever seen once is Sulluith a Wraith that looks like a golden set of armour up near the gate on the road to the Rift.

[WeirdJedi]

Not just on the forums, but elsewhere too. I'm reasonably certain that nobody has found my latest Easter Egg in Yondershire yet, although it doesn't involve a fightable enemy so it's not really the sort of thing this post is asking.

MoL

You aren't talking about the pigs that Raninia mentioned on the stream, are ya? I'm still not sure what that is all about. I went around all that place trying to figure it out with different emotes, but the pigs would just fall on their side after watching me for awhile.

[gardavil]

Not just on the forums, but elsewhere too. I'm reasonably certain that nobody has found my latest Easter Egg in Yondershire yet, although it doesn't involve a fightable enemy so it's not really the sort of thing this post is asking.

MoL

Thank you for putting neat things to discover in the game.

and as to an obvious rhetorical question... why tell anyone what we find?

[Arabani]

To understand an allusion one needs to know the source. While some things are well know all over the globe, there are a lot of culture specific stuff, so it is possible that some "easter eggs" simply have no reference outside The USA.

P.S I think I should start writting down strange and interresting things I saw in the World.

P.P.S. Now I'm intrigued about Yondershire.

[Vilan]

A contender might be the Angmar mobs up in Gath Uior (sp?) and just outside the Rift. They're pretty tough on-level and there's no quests that involve killing them, so they probably spend long stretches of time just chilling out.

Oh wait, I know! In Mirkwood, in the northwest corner of the area just outside Barad Guldur, there's a fortress structure with some bad guys in it, gorthorogs I think. The gate is locked and I have never figured out a way to get inside there. I would bet those guys have never been killed.

[DoRonRon]

If it was a tree falling over in a forest it would make a sound whether anyone was there to hear, in game it would later retell the incident at considerable length too. However if no one had entered a particular land block a mob might never have been instantiated. Schrodinger and quantum mechanics might argue it's existence. I'm unconvinced.

There was supposedly one rare trophy mob in Ered Luin I never found. But more than likely someone had found and killed it.