In lieu of doing any actual leveling progression in LotRO this week, I've been taking my level 50 elf Champion Maladhros out to grind some deeds. I killed 150 trolls in the Lone Lands, all in one go, for Troll Slayer 1 and 2. The next night, I did the whole Quick Post run and Shire Brewmaster to complete Shire quests. Then I traveled to the North Downs and killed 70-something goblins in Dol Dinen for something I don't even remember, and found three or four points-of-interest for two more deeds.
Delivering what is probably really unimportant Hobbit-mailI also completed two tiers of sickle-fly slaying in the Bree-lands and three deeds in the Old Forest: found all those Ent-wife flowers, finished the POI deed, and killed 40 Huorns. Quick aside: I still have Head-butt traited and slotted on my level 33 Dwarf Guardian Aurrok, and I always try to finish off trees with it. Just so I can head-butt a tree to death. Also, even with the map, I still get lost in the Old Forest all the time. I think it's great.
Bears like glowy, blurry areas. I learned that watching Survivorman.Next night, I rode back to the North Downs and killed 50 Drakes and something like 260 Worms. I was going to just work a little on Worm-slayer, but I got carried away and finished it and went ahead and did Enmity of the Drakes*. In all, I leveled up six or seven virtues (three slotted) and earned one race trait, plus I finished two class traits in the process, even though I was only fighting grey mobs.
Added bonus: I looted absolutely everything. Vendored the trash I picked up in the Drake/Worm run alone for just shy of 2 gold. That'll help offset the 5G I spent on the Mathom Society horse last week. And the 5G I spend on the same horse for my level 47 Hunter, Maethur. And the 4G I spend on the Bree rep horse for Aurrok. It's a lot of money for just horses, but I want all four of my active characters to have a 250-morale mount. Kwali, my 41 Rune-Keeper, got his 250-morale goat through the Ale Association last year during the Fall Festival.
Then I bought the Steed of Night for Mal, so. Yeah. I did. I still like the Mathom horse, but I wouldn't have bought it if I'd known I was weak enough to buy that stupid damn Steed of Night. Jenny bought one, too. We actually had to buy points (double bonus point sale) for her to afford it. So well done, Turbine. You put it on sale before pulling it from the store again, and we spent twenty bucks on points to afford it. Are you happy now?
Anyway. My only other character is a level 23 Hobbit Burglar. I'm not leveling him because I don't like the class and I'm hanging onto him for the name until I roll another Hobbit. But he isn't totally inactive. I've been fooling around with him, swimming rivers from border to border, killing low-level mobs for cosmetic drops, stuff like that. Just running around Middle Earth goofing off, because I don't have anything to really do with him.
Added bonus: I looted absolutely everything. Vendored the trash I picked up in the Drake/Worm run alone for just shy of 2 gold. That'll help offset the 5G I spent on the Mathom Society horse last week. And the 5G I spend on the same horse for my level 47 Hunter, Maethur. And the 4G I spend on the Bree rep horse for Aurrok. It's a lot of money for just horses, but I want all four of my active characters to have a 250-morale mount. Kwali, my 41 Rune-Keeper, got his 250-morale goat through the Ale Association last year during the Fall Festival.
Then I bought the Steed of Night for Mal, so. Yeah. I did. I still like the Mathom horse, but I wouldn't have bought it if I'd known I was weak enough to buy that stupid damn Steed of Night. Jenny bought one, too. We actually had to buy points (double bonus point sale) for her to afford it. So well done, Turbine. You put it on sale before pulling it from the store again, and we spent twenty bucks on points to afford it. Are you happy now?
Anyway. My only other character is a level 23 Hobbit Burglar. I'm not leveling him because I don't like the class and I'm hanging onto him for the name until I roll another Hobbit. But he isn't totally inactive. I've been fooling around with him, swimming rivers from border to border, killing low-level mobs for cosmetic drops, stuff like that. Just running around Middle Earth goofing off, because I don't have anything to really do with him.
Has anyone ever farmed here? I mean, ever?So I decided to do something really fun. I rode, on his slow starter pony, from Celondim in Ered Luin to the Last Bridge at the edge of the Lone Lands. The plan was to see if I could get him to Moria. But first I think I'm going to send him some silver, ride him back to Hengstacer Farms, and buy a standard mount (+62% speed, I don't want to try this on the old +32% slow pony). Since he's a burg, it'll obviously be the bay pony.
*Going back to the race trait slayer deeds... Drakes? Really? Race of Man has wights, hillmen, and wargs. Not too difficult. Dwarves have goblins (not orcs... goblins), trolls, and dourhands. Even easier. Hobbits have to kill wolves, spiders, and goblins. That's a walk in the park. But elves? What the fuck, man? Goblins, orcs, and drakes? We have to kill friggin' dragons? I don't care if the ones in Ram Duath were grey, those big ones beat me up. I didn't die or anything, but I had to stalk them and get them away from the worms before attacking them. Took forever, and that was only for Enmity of the Drakes ONE.
/rant
It was a fun couple of days, really, and I'm not finished. Still two or three left in the Shire, and then I start on Evendim and the Trollshaws. See you on Meneldor.
*Going back to the race trait slayer deeds... Drakes? Really? Race of Man has wights, hillmen, and wargs. Not too difficult. Dwarves have goblins (not orcs... goblins), trolls, and dourhands. Even easier. Hobbits have to kill wolves, spiders, and goblins. That's a walk in the park. But elves? What the fuck, man? Goblins, orcs, and drakes? We have to kill friggin' dragons? I don't care if the ones in Ram Duath were grey, those big ones beat me up. I didn't die or anything, but I had to stalk them and get them away from the worms before attacking them. Took forever, and that was only for Enmity of the Drakes ONE.
/rant
It was a fun couple of days, really, and I'm not finished. Still two or three left in the Shire, and then I start on Evendim and the Trollshaws. See you on Meneldor.
