Questions About Alts

[Curuer_Bauglir]

I started playing LOTRO with no desire to create and play alts, as I wanted to just run one "completionist" character. After awhile, I discovered it would be much easier to create crafting alts rather than rely on kinmates or other players to craft items outside my chosen profession, so I created an alt for each guild vocation and maxed their professions and guild status. Those alts were parked near their respective guild halls and never even upgraded their gear beyond those received in the intro, save the crafting tools. While journeying through older areas completing old deeds and running old content I missed out on due to my late start to the game, I found that I had forgotten many of the details of the epic story, which I thoroughly enjoyed, so I decided to take one of my alts and replay the epic story once more. On my first character, I would pick up all quests in an area and complete them based on proximity, rather than completing each quest chain sequentially. This time through, since I wasn't worried about landscape quests other than epics, I found the story even more enjoyable. I have completed the epics on my 2nd character and am at level 100, so does anyone have any suggestions for a unique way to level another alt should I choose to do so? I really enjoyed the variances between my first two characters. Made it feel like experiencing the game in a whole new way on top of the obvious differences between classes.

On a side note, I lurk and read the threads, so have seen the concerns about keeping alts up to date at end game. One thing I noticed is that even from taking an alt on a skeleton epic quest journey up to level 100, I had accumulated a nice sum of TP that I could use to "skip" some of the endgame grind. Gear was easy for me since I have all crafting vocations covered, so I used my TP on empowerment scrolls for my imbued LIs. Since I had completed nearly everything on my main, I also had plenty of currency that I could share with my alt when needed. Granted, I only have 2 characters at level 100, so my experience is likely different than a player with 4 accounts and 25 characters at level 100. What do you spend your TP gained from alts on? I was fortunate that my main character supported my alt. Do those that play many, many characters take the opposite approach and use the alts to support the main character (i.e. use alt TP to buy cosmetics, steeds, emotes, fluff)? I admittedly don't get into the cosmetics, RP, music, collection, housing, etc. aspects of the game, so I have never been tempted by those store or resource sinks. Curious to hear your perspectives.

[HardestyGrimwall]

As a New Player I quickly became convinced that I was not going to be able to cover the whole map and not miss anything, so I settled on one Dwarf to play Thorins gate, One Elf for Celondim, One hobbit for the shire and one human for Bree.

Then I discovered the ability to pass things and money around via the mail process and realized having 4 was the way to go. My Idea is to bring them all along at the same level for as long as I can so they can shre similar things as they go along

I figure at some point they will all come together at one point, quest or inctance and then they will be covering the same ground, and at that point I may take one up to 100

[Gandie2]

I started playing LOTRO with no desire to create and play alts, as I wanted to just run one "completionist" character. After awhile, I discovered it would be much easier to create crafting alts rather than rely on kinmates or other players to craft items outside my chosen profession, so I created an alt for each guild vocation and maxed their professions and guild status. Those alts were parked near their respective guild halls and never even upgraded their gear beyond those received in the intro, save the crafting tools. While journeying through older areas completing old deeds and running old content I missed out on due to my late start to the game, I found that I had forgotten many of the details of the epic story, which I thoroughly enjoyed, so I decided to take one of my alts and replay the epic story once more. On my first character, I would pick up all quests in an area and complete them based on proximity, rather than completing each quest chain sequentially. This time through, since I wasn't worried about landscape quests other than epics, I found the story even more enjoyable. I have completed the epics on my 2nd character and am at level 100, so does anyone have any suggestions for a unique way to level another alt should I choose to do so? I really enjoyed the variances between my first two characters. Made it feel like experiencing the game in a whole new way on top of the obvious differences between classes.

On a side note, I lurk and read the threads, so have seen the concerns about keeping alts up to date at end game. One thing I noticed is that even from taking an alt on a skeleton epic quest journey up to level 100, I had accumulated a nice sum of TP that I could use to "skip" some of the endgame grind. Gear was easy for me since I have all crafting vocations covered, so I used my TP on empowerment scrolls for my imbued LIs. Since I had completed nearly everything on my main, I also had plenty of currency that I could share with my alt when needed. Granted, I only have 2 characters at level 100, so my experience is likely different than a player with 4 accounts and 25 characters at level 100. What do you spend your TP gained from alts on? I was fortunate that my main character supported my alt. Do those that play many, many characters take the opposite approach and use the alts to support the main character (i.e. use alt TP to buy cosmetics, steeds, emotes, fluff)? I admittedly don't get into the cosmetics, RP, music, collection, housing, etc. aspects of the game, so I have never been tempted by those store or resource sinks. Curious to hear your perspectives.

I love alts.

I love quests.

epic vol one gets kind of long in the tooth - not nearly as bad as it used to be, but the rest of the epics are fine.

May I suggest start in bree and do all quests and deeds including the epic there then follow the epic and as it takes you to a new zone do all of the quests and deeds in that zone.

[Sheaezra]

For me my alts are mainly in existence so that I can experience playing a verity of different classes and races.

[gripply]

I saw people talking in world chat about groups of people who run old content on-level and use the XP disabler from the store (100 TP?) to stay at level 50 and do Angmar instances, 75 for Isengard, etc. I'm interested in that sort of thing with some of my crafting alts. If it sounds interesting to you, put something in your bio that says so so people can find you. Or ask about it in your kin or world chat.

[Warmutkan]

I started playing LOTRO with no desire to create and play alts, as I wanted to just run one "completionist" character. After awhile, I discovered it would be much easier to create crafting alts rather than rely on kinmates or other players to craft items outside my chosen profession, so I created an alt for each guild vocation and maxed their professions and guild status. Those alts were parked near their respective guild halls and never even upgraded their gear beyond those received in the intro, save the crafting tools. While journeying through older areas completing old deeds and running old content I missed out on due to my late start to the game, I found that I had forgotten many of the details of the epic story, which I thoroughly enjoyed, so I decided to take one of my alts and replay the epic story once more. On my first character, I would pick up all quests in an area and complete them based on proximity, rather than completing each quest chain sequentially. This time through, since I wasn't worried about landscape quests other than epics, I found the story even more enjoyable. I have completed the epics on my 2nd character and am at level 100, so does anyone have any suggestions for a unique way to level another alt should I choose to do so? I really enjoyed the variances between my first two characters. Made it feel like experiencing the game in a whole new way on top of the obvious differences between classes.

On a side note, I lurk and read the threads, so have seen the concerns about keeping alts up to date at end game. One thing I noticed is that even from taking an alt on a skeleton epic quest journey up to level 100, I had accumulated a nice sum of TP that I could use to "skip" some of the endgame grind. Gear was easy for me since I have all crafting vocations covered, so I used my TP on empowerment scrolls for my imbued LIs. Since I had completed nearly everything on my main, I also had plenty of currency that I could share with my alt when needed. Granted, I only have 2 characters at level 100, so my experience is likely different than a player with 4 accounts and 25 characters at level 100. What do you spend your TP gained from alts on? I was fortunate that my main character supported my alt. Do those that play many, many characters take the opposite approach and use the alts to support the main character (i.e. use alt TP to buy cosmetics, steeds, emotes, fluff)? I admittedly don't get into the cosmetics, RP, music, collection, housing, etc. aspects of the game, so I have never been tempted by those store or resource sinks. Curious to hear your perspectives.

As you've already picked up on, what you drop TP on depends on what parts of the game you care about. Just as important is how much money (if any) you have spent/plan to spend on the game.

Initially my TP went to unlocking as many zones as I could, removing the currency cap, getting the enhanced wallet, riding trait, that stuff. Now that I have all of that, I've dropped some on boosted storage, and a little bit on other random things, but for the most part it just sits in a pile, looking pretty. Oops.

[djheydt]

For me my alts are mainly in existence so that I can experience playing a verity of different classes and races.

I have alts so that I can have a Guild Master in each craft.

[Dunford]

I have alts so that I can have a Guild Master in each craft.

This my approach also.

It really depends on what you enjoy the most.
I like to craft and I hate it if I can't keep my characters up to date with gear, so I focus on a method that allows me to do so.
Others like to PvM so they want to get to max level quickly and grind for top gear.
Etc.

I don't think there is a right or wrong approach as long as you are enjoying the game.