So yeah, once again I’m sucked into LOTRO pretty hard. Exodus is like, the best.guild.evar! Kinship, yeah, yeah… Ironically, being the best.guild.evar is why I took my break from LOTRO to begin with — I vowed to not get so embedded in a game and start playing in that addictive hardcore style I did in WoW. Granted, if nothing else, my crappy laptop prevents that since it can’t run LOTRO at all. I did install it once just to see how bad it was, and it was almost humorously unplayable. There was a bit of drama as I was making my return, but it’s all over with now and in a moment of perfectly inspired timing, our original kinship leader is back from his break too and things are back to crazy, whacky, laughing-our-asses-off normal.
I only had two days off this week, and while I was working on crafting with all three characters (I now have a lowbie hunter…) when it came time to get things done, it was Arwellyn all the way. A couple of us still needed to finish up Book 3, even though it had turned grey for Arwellyn already. I’m a completionist; I despise deleting quests, especially this type. However… for the so-called “Epic Book III” I am sorely tempted to give a nod to Cameron that in this case, “epic” doesn’t quite apply. Book 3 was short, consisting of a mere 6 chapters, most of which were solo quests of the “run all the way here, run back, run here too” variety that made me wonder if Turbine had borrowed one of Blizzard’s Alliance quest designers for the day. The couple of group quests towards the end were short-ish but fun, especially fighting the over in Nan Wathren. But the final instanced battle saving the burning town of Trestlebridge from an orc raid was too short, and quite anti-climatic, hardly deserving of it’s “epic” title. Book 3 is the only series I’ve heard that complaint though, so I’ll cut Turbine some slack for now. I look forward to arriving in Rivendell to start Book 4 in the next week or so when I get back home.
After Book 3, several of us headed back over to Dol Dinen again, which is a sub-zone in the North Downs where a tribe of mostly elite orcs and trolls have set up camp. Some of the quests involve disabling their siege weapons and what-not; last night we were after the Siege-Master himself: Patonka, a master elite level armoured troll. Trolls are quite fun to fight, and groups of orcs with a troll in the midst makes for a hilariously fun, and tense, combat session. We fought our way up to Patonka and during the final fight with some of his guards, another kinship snuck in from the left side and tagged him first so we had to wait (an awful damn long time too!) for him to respawn, where we proceeded to whoop his armoured ass.
Getting back out of Dol Dinen was interesting when a full group of orcs and two trolls respawned on top of us while we were already fighting another group! Laughing our asses off! It’s a good think Arwellyn has that backup heal, she saved our poor overworked minstrel a few times, as well as keeping him charged up on power.
Looking forward to more next week!
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book 4 is a lot of running around in the trollshaws..the troll cave parts are kinda fun tho the final instance is with Lego-my-eggo-las but book 5 and on are really cool. (you down a ring-wraith in the end of book 5.) If you are really feeling gutsy try to four man him and do it without tokens like I did my first time. Second time I wised up.