1/6 for Sammath Gul, guys! Guys? Anyone? I can't be the only one who's looking forward to running that at lvl 85!
05 December 2012
U9/U10
Last week Turbine announced their plans for update 9 (in December) and update 10 (in February)... and the raiding community responded accordingly.
25 November 2012
Blending in
I like it when people at least try to dress their characters reasonably. I don't think that wearing dresses in great battles is very practical and I don't think that using ridiculous dyes helps to hide yourself from unfriendly eyes... which is why all my characters look rather boring. I try to look like a normal citizen of Middle-earth.
It's okay to wear colourful dresses on special occasions, though! You can't go to a hobbit party (you know, pies and fireworks and beer and all that) with a dull brown ragged robe, it'd be silly.
But just think of it: how is a burglar supposed to blend in with the background if he or she is wearing a bright orange outfit in a forest? You can get away with red and orange and other bright colours if you're, I don't know, a ladybug or a strawberry, but for humans it's definitely not going to work.
Or how do you expect a dwarf swimming in yellow shorts to... errrr... I'm... not quite sure... how you could... I mean... I suppose you could... dye your beard green and... and pretend to be a huge... floating ball of seaweeds, but...
...
I have very mixed feelings about that picture.
Anyway, most of my characters have one or two silly outfits for festivals. However, my captain only wears black because I'm a roleplayer who has not come out of the closet yet and I like to think that she's a serious person who only does serious stuff. You can't yell and shout on the battlefield to motivate your fellows and expect to be taken seriously when you look like this:
"Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the world's ending!" is one of the things that you are definitely not going to hear from this person. Nuh-uh. No way. Never. Now if I get another horse, like my black heavy war-steed, and put some shiny armour on...
Yes! I am not afraid of anyone! I could fight anyone, no matter if it's an orc, a troll or a balrog! I could even face the trolls from GLFF in that outfit! I am so awesome! Riders of Rohan, to meeee! Yes!!!
... except no. I put my amazing black outfit on, got my huge black horse and went to Bree-town and that helped to put things into perspective.
Was it my unusually big horse? Was it my heavy armour? The huge two handed sword? My title? I will probably never find out, but someone definitely clicked on my character, walked up to me and still thought I was a man.
From now on I shall be known as Sir Tuljak the Strong.
/sigh
It's okay to wear colourful dresses on special occasions, though! You can't go to a hobbit party (you know, pies and fireworks and beer and all that) with a dull brown ragged robe, it'd be silly.
But just think of it: how is a burglar supposed to blend in with the background if he or she is wearing a bright orange outfit in a forest? You can get away with red and orange and other bright colours if you're, I don't know, a ladybug or a strawberry, but for humans it's definitely not going to work.
Or how do you expect a dwarf swimming in yellow shorts to... errrr... I'm... not quite sure... how you could... I mean... I suppose you could... dye your beard green and... and pretend to be a huge... floating ball of seaweeds, but...
...
I have very mixed feelings about that picture.
Anyway, most of my characters have one or two silly outfits for festivals. However, my captain only wears black because I'm a roleplayer who has not come out of the closet yet and I like to think that she's a serious person who only does serious stuff. You can't yell and shout on the battlefield to motivate your fellows and expect to be taken seriously when you look like this:
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Yes! I am not afraid of anyone! I could fight anyone, no matter if it's an orc, a troll or a balrog! I could even face the trolls from GLFF in that outfit! I am so awesome! Riders of Rohan, to meeee! Yes!!!
... except no. I put my amazing black outfit on, got my huge black horse and went to Bree-town and that helped to put things into perspective.
Was it my unusually big horse? Was it my heavy armour? The huge two handed sword? My title? I will probably never find out, but someone definitely clicked on my character, walked up to me and still thought I was a man.
From now on I shall be known as Sir Tuljak the Strong.
/sigh
09 November 2012
Fun times in Eaworth
Firstly, I'd like to say that the current "endgame" in Rohan is horribly dull. I can understand that it's mostly aimed at your average casual solo player and raiders with no life are a minority in a game like LOTRO... which is terribly sad because most of my friends happen to be raiders with no life and quite a few of them are taking a long break, since currently you can only quest and do skirm raids (booooriiiing!).
However, you can do some of those quests with your friends and/or kinmates to make them more entertaining.
Until next time!
However, you can do some of those quests with your friends and/or kinmates to make them more entertaining.
Guess who couldn't get up there fast enough and had to wait until someone else bought a summoning horn from the LOTRO store (that'd be me). Also, guess who fell like 20 times and landed outside the city walls twice (yup, me again).
I saw at least 3 deaths in Eaworth that were caused by that tower. 1) Someone missed a jump (perhaps because Jara pushed him?), 2) someone jumped on Moose and accidentally fell off, and 3) Moose didn't aim for the river when we all decided to jump down.
Final score:
Beacon of Eaworth: 3+
Citizens of Middle-earth: 0
Until next time!
25 October 2012
To Rohan!
So a lot of people have had the chance to chill out with the Rohirrim for about a week now. Sadly I have been busy with not throwing stuff at other people in real life, so I could not play as much as I wanted to play, but I have seen just enough to know how it is.
The landscape is really nice, I really like my new horse, hunting warbands is a good way to kill time and the music is amazingly beautiful... however, not everything about Rohan is that great.
Q: "Hey, random male blonde man! If you could use five words to describe your homeland, what would those words be?"
A: "Dire. Our mission is dire."
(dammit, voice actors with repetitive lines!)
On a completely unrelated note - you can buy a new cosmetic item for dwarves from the LOTRO store and it's amazing. In case there are people who have not seen it yet - here's End with his pimp outfit (and my thoughts about his newly created dwarf alt).
Stay classy, everyone!
The landscape is really nice, I really like my new horse, hunting warbands is a good way to kill time and the music is amazingly beautiful... however, not everything about Rohan is that great.
Q: "Hey, random male blonde man! If you could use five words to describe your homeland, what would those words be?"
A: "Dire. Our mission is dire."
(dammit, voice actors with repetitive lines!)
On a completely unrelated note - you can buy a new cosmetic item for dwarves from the LOTRO store and it's amazing. In case there are people who have not seen it yet - here's End with his pimp outfit (and my thoughts about his newly created dwarf alt).
Stay classy, everyone!
11 October 2012
Welcome back, End!
... yeah, maybe I should've posted that a week earlier, but I don't think he'll mind. We're glad to have you back with us, noob.
09 August 2012
Why no one should ever roll a captain
I'd like to apologise for not posting anything in the last few weeks. I have been busy in real life.
I've always thought of myself as a hunter but in the last few months I have mostly been raiding and doing instances on my... captain. It's not really that surprising, considering that we lost our regular captains in late winter due to some rather unfortunate circumstances. And since Dz disappeared mysteriously some time ago, our group now usually gets their buffs from either me or Ve.
At least now no one can question the necessity of taking me to our raids. It's quite nice. However, if you're a cappy, you probably know that there are some downsides to playing a super awesome support class.
So here are a few things that always annoy me when I'm on my captain.
1. After a wipe everyone but you takes a short break.
You, of course, are not going anywhere because there is some serious buffing to be done and you might as well do it while everyone's AFK to not waste anyone's time. It's even more fun when you're the only captain in your raid!
(Look at that, I can't draw a straight sword anymore. I have a curved sword. A curved. Sword.)
2. People don't understand that there's a max range for everything.
It's probably quite annoying from the healers' perspective as well, but nothing - and I mean nothing - beats having to switch between groups a million times just because someone didn't realise they weren't close enough to get motivated and then whined because they weren't buffed. Well, whose fault was that?
Ohh, you found a way to climb on top of that lamp post. How interesting! Could you come back now and let me give you your crit buff?
3. No one actually waits for buffs.
Sometimes I feel invisible because I shout and yell and scream at everyone else, yet they pay no attention to me and run off before I can even pull my amazing buff dagger out. It makes me sad.
4. You need a million weapons.
Did you think you could get away with having just one emblem and one weapon? lol nope! My poor captain has 5 fully maxed legendary items and I'd still like to find a decent 1H sword for healing because I found an amazing shield at some point and would like to use it for something (although I guess my current main sword is already good enough for healing). Unfortunately I think it's not going to happen before Rohan, /sigh.
5. Your raid leader will never leave you alone.
Dear raid leader, you're talking to the whole group, yet apparently 11 people get "etc" and I get everything else. I know it's because my big skills are actually pretty significant, as opposed to "RKs, use that group bubble thing" or "hunters, you should... pew pew more, I guess", but it's still unfair. Stop picking on me! D:
6. Scary thought: 20 wipes x 12 people x 2 buffs per person = 480 wasted buffs
I tend to get very frustrated if people wipe the group for moronic reasons. OH, I WONDER WHY. Stop dying, guys, or next time you'll all get 5% Motivating Speech from me instead of the usual 10% because I'm sick and tired of going "crit... crit... crit... parry... crit... oh god, someone wanted focus... crit... switch me, please... motivate... switch back... crit... crit..." so often.
So the next time you receive buffs from your group's captain, please think of all the pain we always have to endure. Thanks!
In other news: we beat ToO shadow T2 3 weeks ago, Lofarr and Blue joined our kin (oh cookie cookie cookie!), my warden hit lvl 75 a couple of weeks ago and Sato got addicted to running Dungeons of Dol Guldur over and over again. Hooray juice!
I've always thought of myself as a hunter but in the last few months I have mostly been raiding and doing instances on my... captain. It's not really that surprising, considering that we lost our regular captains in late winter due to some rather unfortunate circumstances. And since Dz disappeared mysteriously some time ago, our group now usually gets their buffs from either me or Ve.
At least now no one can question the necessity of taking me to our raids. It's quite nice. However, if you're a cappy, you probably know that there are some downsides to playing a super awesome support class.
So here are a few things that always annoy me when I'm on my captain.
1. After a wipe everyone but you takes a short break.
You, of course, are not going anywhere because there is some serious buffing to be done and you might as well do it while everyone's AFK to not waste anyone's time. It's even more fun when you're the only captain in your raid!
(Look at that, I can't draw a straight sword anymore. I have a curved sword. A curved. Sword.)
2. People don't understand that there's a max range for everything.
It's probably quite annoying from the healers' perspective as well, but nothing - and I mean nothing - beats having to switch between groups a million times just because someone didn't realise they weren't close enough to get motivated and then whined because they weren't buffed. Well, whose fault was that?
Ohh, you found a way to climb on top of that lamp post. How interesting! Could you come back now and let me give you your crit buff?
3. No one actually waits for buffs.
Sometimes I feel invisible because I shout and yell and scream at everyone else, yet they pay no attention to me and run off before I can even pull my amazing buff dagger out. It makes me sad.
4. You need a million weapons.
Did you think you could get away with having just one emblem and one weapon? lol nope! My poor captain has 5 fully maxed legendary items and I'd still like to find a decent 1H sword for healing because I found an amazing shield at some point and would like to use it for something (although I guess my current main sword is already good enough for healing). Unfortunately I think it's not going to happen before Rohan, /sigh.
5. Your raid leader will never leave you alone.
Dear raid leader, you're talking to the whole group, yet apparently 11 people get "etc" and I get everything else. I know it's because my big skills are actually pretty significant, as opposed to "RKs, use that group bubble thing" or "hunters, you should... pew pew more, I guess", but it's still unfair. Stop picking on me! D:
6. Scary thought: 20 wipes x 12 people x 2 buffs per person = 480 wasted buffs
I tend to get very frustrated if people wipe the group for moronic reasons. OH, I WONDER WHY. Stop dying, guys, or next time you'll all get 5% Motivating Speech from me instead of the usual 10% because I'm sick and tired of going "crit... crit... crit... parry... crit... oh god, someone wanted focus... crit... switch me, please... motivate... switch back... crit... crit..." so often.
So the next time you receive buffs from your group's captain, please think of all the pain we always have to endure. Thanks!
In other news: we beat ToO shadow T2 3 weeks ago, Lofarr and Blue joined our kin (oh cookie cookie cookie!), my warden hit lvl 75 a couple of weeks ago and Sato got addicted to running Dungeons of Dol Guldur over and over again. Hooray juice!
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