Hello World! I took a break to play some Eve Online but now I am back.  It turns out I am crafting in Eve and slashing in LOTRO. I have the best of both worlds. I have missed Middle Earth and it is good to be back. I even signed up for 3 months. I am tempted to do life!

Where have I been lately? In Moria of course! Into the depths I have plunged my dwarf body and mind. Into the depth of Moria I go. Hi ho! And even so I must say the conversion continues with the addition of two close friends I played SWG with over a year ago before entering Middle Earth. So without further sputter or speeches or promises of no- layoffs\ for ~Moria~ employees in the mines, I would like to welcome Othi and Demonae of Brandywine to our humble community in LOTRO. May the freedom from SOE bless your hearts and bandwidths! Welcome to Lord of the Rings Online.

~Lateris~

Programmer and designer Robert Hale has several general principles on improving artificial intelligence, or at least the appearance of it. It’s a useful set of pointers for an area of game design that is frequently criticized. For a good read click here.

Now that I am three levels away from level 60 I have been looking for guides about armor. My goal is to make my character more unique within the LOTRO armor system.  I came across Dravil’s Armor Guide.  The site is divided into 2 categories. Crafted and non crafted armor. All information is up to date as of Volume 2, Book 7. Set bonuses are based on the number of pieces of each set worn at a particular time. The bonuses are cumulative with other bonuses, and apply once per set.   You can view information on Crafted armor and Non Crafted Armor by clicking the links.

Crafted Armor

Non Crafted Armor.

I found a posts over at MMORPG.com by Virtuella on guides to LOTRO. I thought I would copy and paste it here for any of us in the community. I plan to update this as time goes by. I am the collector! 

Sites and Forums.
Official US forums - forums.lotro.com/
Official EU forums - community.codemasters.com/forum/forumdisplay.php
The online official Manual - www.lotro-europe.com/PDF/LOTRO_Manual_English.pdf
IGN lotrosite with lots of info - lotrovault.ign.com/
Allakhazam http://lotro.allakhazam.com/
7 day free EU trial www.lotro-europe.com/trialkey.php
7 day free US trial www.lotro.com/trial

Maps
interactiv Mapdatabase - www.mehq.net/dynmap/index.php
Some very nice handdrawn maps www.thebrasse.com/maps/LOTRO
Notated map over breeland - img100.imageshack.us/img100/7813/breeareavx9.jpg

Guides
Guide to interface - www.lotrointerface.com/index.php
Download userinterfaces - lotrointerface.com/
GroupConjunctions explained - www.lotro.com/gameinfo/feature-articles/412-feature-article-fellowship-manoeuvres
Shortcut/makro tutorial - lotro.warcry.com/content/guides/alias_macros
A scholars guide from US forums- forums.lotro.com/showthread.php

Overview of various things

Spawns for crafting,recipes etc - www.lotro-rares.com/
Racial traits - vnboards.ign.com/lotr_online_general_board/b5042/102305068/p1/
Thottbot alike database - lotro.mmodb.com/
Crafting database www.lotro-craft.com/skills-en.html
Misc Guides lotro.tentonhammer.com/index.php
ABC Songs/Music that you can download and play in lotro lotroabc.googlepages.com/songs
LOTRO Wiki- lotro-wiki.com/

I have talked four dear friends from SWG to try Lord of the Rings. In addition to this I have fully converted a WoW player to join our dear coven in Lord of the Rings.  Let the Holy conversions continue.

Yes! It is true. I am still loving the game!

Wanting to make up for a mistake is a good thing. Getting depressed about it is not. After all, mistakes, like everything else in the world, present crossroads in life–and you can take them up or down.

Recentlly I have found a podcast that I have been enjoying over at Virgin Worlds. The name of the podcast is “Rings Cast“.

Yes! I made it to level 35 and have purchased a pony for my dwarf. What a relief it is to have a sense of free transportation. I feel like it is an achievement that was worth the leveling.

After the five years of SWG and SOE I feel a little battle fatigued. I know I jumped the gun and shot straight from the hip an emotional reaction that even at my age was unwarranted concerning Mini Micro Transactions with LOTRO. I guess it shows I love the game. A dev posted this

Massively.com has posted a great article on on all the content that has been added to the LOTRO.  Massively wrote the following: Read the rest of this entry »

For the last week I have been text messaging a friend of mine “Go to www.lotro.com”. After a week of sending him links to massively.com for LOTRO news and answering all his questions I believe I have converted a long time dedicated player of WoW to LOTRO! This has inspired me to start a MMORPG conversion campaign on a door to door policy for my friends who are still playing Star Wars Galaxies and World of War Craft.

I should come up with a pamphlet that religious groups leave on people’s doors! LOL. One MMORPG to rule them all!!!!

This game reminds me of the early days of SWG. The community is absolutely wonderful. I have no problems leveling my new character or finding fellowships. Each area that I arrive at seems to have a healthy population. I am rediscovering the traits systems. The game is very rewarding. I feel like it is a rebirth of my love for virtual worlds. World of War Crack eat your shorts. Post SWG NGE- buh bye!

And in blog related news I have been updating my “links”.

Title: Leveling
Location: North Downs
Description: Contact my character Lateris for leving in North downs. I am lvl 29.
Start Date: 2008-12-26
Start Time: 01:00
End Date: 2009-12-18
End Time: 00:30

Earlier this year I tried LOTRO. I was still playing SWG and was drawn back to that MMORPG due to real life friends. Yet I have been checking on the LOTRO on a weekly basis. After watching the first movie I knew it was time to return. This month I finally communicated to my friends that I am done with SWG for good and would really like to return to LOTRO. Read the rest of this entry »