My first character was Dinoth.    When I rolled him I really thought that the hunter was the coolest thing I could be.  Standing there firing arrows off at targets was some of the most fun I had ever had.     So it is sad that I have put him on a shelf, but I did.  Since then I have leveled  (in this order) a champion, guardian, captain and most recently Lore Master.   With the impending war in Mirkwood approaching, I have had to consider who would be first to go…  which son would I sacrifice to defend Middle Earth (oh god I just RPd).  I really do love my all of the classes I play,  however I think I am getting a bit bored with my hunter and am going to put him on the shelf to be used for utility only ((sad face))

So what to do next?  Well my options

• Finothir, 60 Guardian 2/6 Radiance - If played correctly a guardian is nearly indestructible.  Having an excellent tank in an instance really makes a big difference.    A proper guardian allows the other roles to focus on healing, DPS, etc which benefits the entire fellowship.

• Eoblod, 60 Champion 5/6 Radiance - For PvMP reasons alone I will need to level my champ.  He is my primary PvMP toon and I luvs me some AOE with spiders in range and a big sword in hand.  I am a ~leetle concerned with the ever impending champion nerf but I am not sure  it will stop me.

• Denothir, 60 Captain 5/6 Radiance - The Captain is a great class.     My ability to play many roles from tank to off healer is super fun.    Many groups just cannot prosper without a captain but if not properly played, they are sort of worthless.

• Didnt, 60 LM 5/6 Radiance - Didnt was born out of boredom in July of this year.   I recieved a 24 hour ban one day for being a bad boy and rolled my loremaster.  I will say that I am still locked in nub-status on this character however I think having recently joined a new kin this is where I will be starting.    Having a consistent group to level and raid with I think will push me to start with this character first.

It is beginning to get more and more of a challenge, supporting many alts.  My fear is that my guardian may be next.

It’s here again.   That time of the year when everyone gets really bored before a new expansion.  Many of my really close friends are not playing and now even my aquaintences seem to have moved on to other games or other pass-times.  I log in and I just don’t know what to do with my characters.  I’ve done everything I feel in this game except for DN, and I don’t know why I don’t care that I am missing it.  The problem is that I don’t know anything outside of Lotro from a MMO perspective since it was my first.  I have tried WoW (i know), Warhammer, AoC, CoH, and most recently DDO and Aion (for 10 minutes).  Each game feels like learning a new musical instrument… I can read the music but don’t know what buttons to hit

I have tied to set some goals for myself out in PvMP land since PvE land seemed to dry up.   Recently leveled Didnt to R6 and am currently trying to get Dinoth to R7 and the Eoblod to R8.   The ranks are shallow goals but they give me something to work towards.  I am a pretty goal oriented person so I need to “achieve” something to stay interested.

The PvMP lately has been really bad.   I logged in today to find myself getting ganked my 8-10 wargs up by TR.  This just really makes me sick and makes me want to log.  It is the worst tactic and all that is causes is people to hug keeps and large raids.   I really have enjoyed some of the small kin groups and solo time in the moors but a warg pack makes that impossible.  I just don’t understand why they can’t see this?  Why can’t they understand that it takes nothing to roll a warg, stealth up, and CJ an opponent to death.    

So this is a call to all of you to delete your wargs!!  Go ahead.  I did.  I have a (prebook 12) rank 5 warg named Macksbone who no longer exists.

Go ahead…

go…

I’ll wait…

I’m getting bored again…   I got nuthin..  nevermind.

Are you having any fun?

     It has been a few days now since the Book 8 release and  {Booming Voice] The Dreaded Champ Fervour Nerf [/Booming Voice]  I have to say that I really like the new content.  I was nervous about another set of instances to grind and another book that I didn’t care about but the fusion of the book and the instances I think was a great idea.    Now I can help my friends complete the book and possibly get a HM barter item out of it.   But I digress…

     My post here today is in refernce to the [Booming Voice] Dreaded Champ Fervour Nerf [/Booming Voice].    I have to say that I am not feelin’ it.  I have done all of the new instances now in fervour, only once with a healer and have only yet to complete the Hall of Crafting (and that is bc we got someone bugged behind the door).    I contended strongly that this change was a non-issue for champions who know their class for the following reasons:

1.  It does not effect you during solo play when there is no incoing healing

2.  It does not effect skills like bracing attack and dire need

3.  There is no healing penalty in the moors

4.  A real “tanking” champ can use Glory/Controlled burn in an instance.

5.  We were given our LI points back to spend on Glory and Ardour bonuses

      The one major argument that I heard cited issues with fights such as the turtle that required high amounts of DPS output with large amounts of AOE Damage incoming.  The contention was that the sacrifice in either direction rendered the champion useless.  Whereby if the champion was forced into glory or ardour their DPS would suffer too much and if they remained in fervour they would not survive the AOE damage with the lack of incoming healing.  

     I am happy to report that my kinmates and I successfully defeated the Turtle last night using three champions to trade aggro during the fight.  We used a combination of Ardour and Controlled burn and the fight went extremely well.     Hope fully this puts to an end any whining over the [Booming Voice} Dreaded Champ Fervour Nerf [/Booming Voice], because to be honest.. it is just not that big of a deal

I am really starting to get pissed off about the lag in the moors.    I don’t know where I get off complaining about it but right now PvMP is what I want to do and the lagholes are just ruining for me.   Like many players I really do find I have a rythm to my gameplay which includes the animation of the skill.  I first noticed this on my Captain (Denothir) when switching from a Halberd to a Great Axe.  I just didn’t like the feel of the how the attacks went off on screen and what I wanted to do next.   

In most situations I have a series of buttons that I mash in a specifc order.  Typically at the end of that order something is dead on screen.  In the moors, it is much more situational but there is still an order there.  When the lag is so bad I just cannot function out there.  I click skills and they just sit there and it is ruing my fun… because as I already said, the moors is what I want to do right now.

So please turbine… please fix what you broke.  Oh and yes you broke something because pre-moria we had larger battles with less lag.  So please fix what you broke.  Please.

So we had a blast last night in the Palantiri doing some GS Hardmode runs.  I want to thank Nandir (as always) for leader a stellar group through a every easy couple of Romps on the boss.  I have not had an instance feel that “easy” in a while.     Also thanks to Glasses, Tsylandris, Chorric &  Kentamanos for just punishing Igash.  I got teal boots out of it and was sorry to drop after just two runs.

I am also somewhat intrigued today by a lot of the rambling on in the Landroval forums over how bad things are.  I think I’ll stay in the Mine a little longer.