Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Episode 31 - F2P Update and Getting to 65

Hey all

In this episode we cover:

News:
LOTRO goes F2P on September 10 (or 8th if your lucky)
(http://www.lotro.com/news/pressreleases/782-the-lord-of-the-rings-online-will-be-free-to-play-starting-september-10-2010)
Sapience Announces F2P Head Start
(http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=350862)
Dev Diary:  Instances 2.0 Part 4 - Helegrod
(http://www.lotro.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/772-developer-diary-instances-20-part-4-)  
Dev Diary:  Instances 2.0 Part 5 - The Great Barrow
(http://www.lotro.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/785-developer-diary-instances-20-part-5-)
Dev Diary:  Volume 3 Book2 Quest Notes
(http://www.lotro.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/786-developer-diary-volume-iii-book-2-quest-notes)
The Hobbit News
(http://the-hobbit-movie.com/)

What Have I Been Doing in Game

The Heart of the Show will address a listeners question on how best to solo to 65
Pre-leveling
  • No why you want to get to end game before you try to get there (healer? tank? other?)
  • Enable your Quest Tracker and Quest Guide
Levels 1-20
  • Learn your class
  • Pickup the explorer vocation
  • Focus on the Epic Story line
  • Get every solo quest you can in an area (focus on the green and blue quests)
  • Don't forget your lvl 15 class quest
Levels 21-40
  • Continue to follow the Epic Story line
  • Continue to grab every solo quest you can
  • Do the lvl 30 class quest
  • Make sure you do the Skirmish quests and tutorial
Levels 41-50
  • Get past the experience hump by focus on Skirmishes to get XP and skirmish marks (to buy class quest items that normally drop from elite mobs)
  • Buy you legendary class trait quest books from your trainer and complete these deeds/quests
  • Complete the lvl 45 Class Quests which will unlook another legendary trait
Level 50+
  • Back to the epic story line, but this time the Mines of Moria Volume not Shadows of Angmar
  • Be prepared to group....some Epic quests and some areas just require it
Hope you like the episode

Alberos

2 comments:

  1. Great podcast! Keep them coming!

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  2. I'm just listening to this, about 35 minutes in, and you said something that set me off. Paraphrased, it was, "Everybody plays a DPS'er, everybody plays a debuffer like a Lore-Master or Burglar, but it's very hard to find tanks and healers - as in any game." (Emphasis mine.)

    I'm coming to the conclusion that the root cause of that is that DPS and de/buffing are active roles. The tank and the healer exist solely to react to what mobs do. Is a mob attacking someone else? Tank throws a taunt. Is someone dying? Healer throws a heal.

    The DPSers and the de/buffers are the only characters that actually get to play the game. In Soviet Russia (and everywhere else), the game plays the tanks and healers.

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