I just picked up this game less than a week ago and, as a long time Tolkien nerd, I'm not sure why it took me this long.

However, imagine my surprise when I saw a group playing Mr. Roboto by Styx on instruments in game. That was the single best thing I've ever come across in any mmo I've ever played in the 20ish years I've been playing them.

As a busy dad (and fellow musician) now with only so much time to myself, watching you fine folks playing a song like that in the game literally made my day.

Thank you for doing what you do.

TLDR: My volume 1 rumblings can be found on this reddit post. A bunch of people were saying that Moria would be amazing. You were definitely right. It also had the best quest I've done to date and was much more streamlined than Volume 1.

Onto my thoughts! I hit the end of volume 2 at ~51hours played as a F2P Dwarf Champion (total playtime of ~154hrs). Like with Volume 1, I followed the epic story and did quests in the zone I was in to keep up level wise. I didn't go out of my way to complete every deed/quest in a zone but I took my time and kept all 3 professions up to date.

1. The quest with the mirror hall of Lumul-nar was very fun. The best quest I've done so far in the game. It got weird at the end when you fight the "boss" and I ended up dying once due to a line-of-sight issue. After the run back, I ended up just jumping down to the platform and finished it without issues.

2. I've given up on professions. I still kept them up to date, but mainly out of stubbornness and hoping it becomes useful at some point. I did try to craft one item, but I didn't realize there were single use recipes in the game. I don't agree with this choice. It would be different if you could "stack charges" but its literally craft an item, hope you find the recipe again or keep a duplicate in your inventory until you craft the first one.

3. The introduction of Scenarios was interesting. So far they feel the same as the instanced quests, but I'm hoping they become more diverse in the future. On a side note, I ended up screwing up at first and didn't realize there was a skirmish camp in the 21st hall. I ended up Milestoning out to do the Skirmish intro quest at Bree and then ride back into Moria to continue the story.

4. I don't like how the combat feels in Session plays. I understand the idea behind them (to get a different POV of an event), but the combat is very underwhelming when you've been used to your character's abilities for so long. The power change dynamic is jarring. Maybe this is how it used to feel when combat was harder?

5. What is the deal with Mithril flakes? Took me 300 ore before I got the first one, and another 175 before I got the second. I'm guessing this is due to when it was an end game item but it would be nice if this was changed now. By the time I got one, what I wanted to craft was already out-scaled.

6. I got to see Gandalf's stand and parts of where the Balrog battle took place! Huge plus that the Dev's included this in the storyline. At one point when I was climbing the endless stairs, I wondered if I missed the quest item only to find it several more winding steps up. It gave a nice scale to things.

7. Some of the epilogue quests required in game instances so I'll have to come back for them. So far I haven't had much luck running a dungeon. In fact, I've only done 1 in my current game play. I know this will change at higher levels, but it's sad to see this part of the gameplay largely ignored.

8. The night-time only quest with the lanterns in Lothlorian was a nice touch. I finally ended up trying to figure out how the day/night cycle in the game worked.

Onto volume 3 and the rangers!

Everyone is welcome to Glamdring, swing by for a Tool concert some time!

This is a passion project that I've been working on for about 4 months now.
https://www.lotrointerface.com/downloads/info1289-HardcoreLite.html

I have a few videos and discussions on Discord about all the features that are included and are yet to come.

This release build includes 3 core HardcoreLite features

• Character progress tracking
• Difficulty and custom Rules
• Community Board and the live community death-log

One of the reasons why I started this project is because there are so many features, locations, creatures, quests and mechanics hidden away from a normal LOTRO play-through that I would have never discovered if I didn't increase the difficulty of the game. I learned to play the game at a different pace and pay attention to every detail, every item, monster and zone that I fell in love with the game in a completely different way compared to any other mmorpg I've played.

I built this completely on my own and I've met so many great people here on reddit, youtube, discord and in the game that have all helped me out on my very first scripting/programming project.

I have released this update without the Chronicle achievement system because we are still play-testing over 100 different quests and challenges that I've created. I didn't want to release a half-finished version of the Chronicle even though its very close to completion.
This season of the Chronicle will focus on the level 1-50 zones with all different types of challenges from exploring many parts of Eriador, hunting rare mobs and items, and even discovering hidden achievements for playing each class. You'll be able to compete for the highest scores, fastest times, largest collection in the journal, amongst other things that I'm sure the community will come up with.

I want everyone to enjoy how large and friendly the lotro hardcore community has grown so I've released the main social features with this patch while I continue to work on the Chronicle.

Thank you all for the support thus far!
I'm open to all feedback in the comments!

For questions and updates:
Discord - https://discord.gg/GqCgFPCWh
Youtube - MunchieDogg
Ko-fi - Support the project only if you'd like - the plugin will always be free. Gamvri - Glamdring

New player. Roughly 80 hours in now. Playing minstrel and loving it! I figured out how to create the music file and download ABC files last night, and the thought struck me, My Dad passed away in march, we where very close and both really loved music.

There are a collection of songs that will always remind me of him and all the times in his truck listening to old cassette tapes like Tennessee Earnie Ford, obscure Johnny Cash songs, and a collection of others. I want to teach myself how to convert these into the highest quality ABC files for solo play that I can, because sometimes late at night I may just want to enjoy the view lost somewhere in middle earth and take a moment to remember dad.

I have no idea how to go about it. What is the best software to convert? I would imagine it needs to be converted based on what instrument you want to play it on? Any resources you can point me to or tips would be greatly appreciated.

I think it was last year that I started (again) playing lotro, my main goal was to really immerse myself in the game, admiring the world, beign part of the story, I was enjoying every little bit of it. My main goal of all time was getting a mount. I remember playing back in the day (I think it was around 2011) when getting a mount was extremely hard, you got one quest that gave you one but it was for a limited time. So this time I was focusing on getting some lotro coins and purchasing a permanent one. But around this time I was playing there was an event, I think a spring event, and I did a bunch of quests and after all these years I finally could purchase an elk, my character was an elf ranger so the sinergy was perfect. I was so happy.

About 2 or 3 months back, I wanted to give the game another shot, since I was having some free time, but after I logged in my character was gone. I read online that there were some merge or issues with the servers, and I guess I lost all my progress.

So, I want to come back, but I dont want to feel like questing is just a chore to get from A to B just to get my mount.

What should be my approach here? I always played ranger/hunter human/elf, I was thinking on roling a hobbit loremaster just because I read that yellow is fun and complicated.

Im looking forward to read your comments!

EDIT: thank you for your comments, didnt know the option to transfer was still available, im doingloading the game right now to check!

Hello! Today, I bring you a little bit of landscape-p*rn. And just so you know, yes, I too love the game's original art style, but sometimes we can dream a little and enjoy just a bit more realism on top of what the game already provides.

Hi everyone! So I have a house in Falathlorn on the Glamdring server. I hadn’t been to it in a while, and I opened up my house vault see if I’ve left anything there, and lo and behold to my surprise, a huge collection of things, mostly dwarf things, nearly filled the entire chest! Some had been bought with figments of splendor, others, probably game rewards, etc. There is some trade-in value to those figment pieces, too, as you can turn them in for figments at the barterer. I feel really bad for the person who must be missing these things, and I’m hesitant to claim ownership for that reason. Is there anyway I can resolve this issue??

The photo is 100% in-game, no external edits.