NPC Locations Useless

[GalateaOrea]

I recently spent too much time trying to find a Class Trainer in Eregion. After being amazed by the 250 plus responses the lorebook search returned, I was finally able to find the list of class trainers. I was so relieved. Then, I saw it was just a list of NPC names. Okay, I'll click on all of them until I find the one in Eregion. But NOOOOO. What do I get? Not one word about where said NPC Class Trainer is. Not one. Just a Google map showing the location. Now even assuming I had a snap shot memory for every place I've ever been in this game and some sort of wild intuition about what someplace I've never been must look like, I haven't seen it from above. So while the Google maps are clever and fun, it seems that Turbine could give us a hint as to where these NPCs are. Even if they want to make it as hard as possible to find them, couldn't they as least make it fun by adding, "Starts with an E". Or, "The place of Grimli, son of Dimli, King of Nimli, met his timely fate"?

I could have found the trainer faster just by riding all over hill and dale guessing where it might be.

I know the Lorebook wants to be the source of information for LOTRO, but it needs actually to be helpful, and not just a compendium of minutia.

[Duwis]

Do you have URLs for specific examples of where you feel the information is lacking? We provide specific information for nearly every NPC with most of the gaps coming from ones in odd places (e.g., an instance inside an instance).

For example, you can do an advanced search on hunter NPCs. Of the seventeen results returned, only two do not have a map point. If you click on the icon to the left of a name or on a marker icon on the map itself, a caption pops up displaying coordinates for the NPC as well as the area/region/territory data.

I will say though that specific NPC articles could use a touch up to display the coords and region text outside of the map. We'll work on getting that in soon, but the map marker can always be clicked on to display the data.

[Nemis]

Well, I think here is his problem:

It is not obvious that you actually need to click the little map pin to get an idea of the location. And that is the ONLY place you can see the location.

The listing of the URL you gave does not have a 'location' column, and if you click on the trainer name, the page it takes you to does not have the location either.

It's a user interface issue. The information is there (if you can figure out how to use it), but it is not 'apparent', not 'easily visible'.

Only someone who uses google maps often would even think to click on the map pin.

Juat add a location column to the listing, and it'll ba MUCH more user friendly. You can then see all the locations at a single glance, and go to the nearest. In fact the 'class' column lists 'n/a' for everyone on the list. Just change that column to 'location', and you don't even have to really reformat anything.

Regards,
Nemis