Over the past week and a half, David and I have been questing and exploring within Moria. At first I thought it was really magnificent and it was really making me increasingly excited to play. Of course, then we start to quest in there, and the entire place is one gigantic maze, and has had me muttering many curses to dwarves and their so called city planning abilities. The added fact that ponies are not allowed within the Mines, goats only, and we neither have the reputation nor the Adventurer’s Pack yet, we have to foot it everywhere that the rent-a-goat won’t take us. It’s just an absolute nightmare to navigate through.
Despite that though, Moria is still amazing to run around in and I’ve been spamming the ever living hell out of my screen shot button (as seen on my screen shots page), even though that hardly does it justice. Completely different to see still images to actually be running around it yourself. A couple days we’ve played, we hardly even quested… just simply ran around exploring and picking up stable points.
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The hobbits currently sit at barely 53. It’s very doubtful we’ll make the 60 goal before December 1st when Mirkwood launches… and the more I think about it, the more I’m ok with that. We’re on what’s rumored the most populated server, I’m not really wishing to rush into Mirkwood and the clusterfuck of players all trying to quest/level at the same time. I think I’m going to prefer sticking around Lothlorien for awhile instead, build reputation with those elves first.
Aside from that, I’ve grown rather tired of Polecat’s low damage while soloing and farming, so I’ve continued poking at my captain alt. Despite my “if a hobbit can’t play this class, I won’t touch it” stance, it’s really not a bad class. I like the fact it’s self sustaining, wears heavy armour, and does decent damage. It’s the complete opposite of champion when I played that two years ago and was endlessly pissed at the amount of times I’d die (mostly because in order to do heavy damage, you have to use an ability that completely forgoes your chances of evade/parry/block so you get hit like a truck repeatedly).
I picked her up from the 16 she was sitting at yesterday morning and pushed her to 20, and proceeded to deck her out in full crit heavy armour and jewellery. Leveled her again some more this morning and she’s now 21 and logged out trying to achieve at least a little bit of rested experience.
Still working on the shear multitude of Bree-land quests. Just started the northern part of the map, and have yet to touch Barrow-downs still. Haven’t even stepped foot in another map still aside from Farmer Maggot’s Bamfurlog, as one of the Buckland quests sends me to him.
The heralds are still… odd. Having an human following me around is rather creepy. Granted, they also still have the follies of Lore-master, the other pet class in LOTRO. The pets are two levels below your level, their pathing is terrible and tend to get stuck on everything, and they’re aggro magnets like you wouldn’t believe. At least, it’s looking like level 35 I gain access to standards, and I won’t have to worry about it anymore as I’ll be placing those in the ground instead.
Also, I gave her a surname. She shall be known as Nadzia Lesek… and the “pilgrim” herald behind her is Aurelius. All Polish names. I also now consider her to be a main character.
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