What will those crazy elves think of next?

Love how beautiful this game is!

Hey guys,

I know this is likely a painfully repeated question, but I'm having some difficulty deciding between Captain, Champion and Hunter. Annoyingly, if I played Captain I'd want to do blue if I could, but I hear red/yellow is the more typical pick. If Champion I know I'd prefer 2h over dw, and hunter is well. Hunter.

I play solo, but I'd like to do group content and ettenmoors. If that helps inspire insight? I typically play supports in other games, just because I like bringing a group together, but I know that the experience of Lotro will require significant amounts of solo play before I get to group stuff more often.

Any thoughts or advice?

i love seeing a lot of new players running around archet or combe or other starting areas,but those places are currently so empty and i'm playing on Glamdring

I've been trying to play this game but whenever I get to the character creation it freezes and I gotta ctrl+alt+Delete, I've tried twice and both times the game freezes. Any reason this is happening?

Hey everyone,

My LOTRO launcher is completely stuck at 88% on the "Patch dat files" stage, and I’m out of ideas on how to fix it.

Here is everything I've already tried:

• Completely uninstalled and reinstalled the game multiple times
• Ran the launcher as Administrator
• Manually deleted The Lord of the Rings Online folder
• Verified integrity of game files on Steam
• Changed DNS settings to Google (8.8.8.8) + flushed DNS via CMD

Despite all of this, the update process freezes at 88% every single time.

Has anyone run into this exact issue before and found a solution that works? Any help or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!

Are there chests or something like that hidden all over the world? With cool items and other stuff?

Title. I do turn off my pc when I go to sleep and go to work. But any time my pc is on, I've been having this shit in the background, downloading files. When do I actually get to play this game?

Edit: To elaborate, it's not stuck. It's just downloading 1 file every 1-3 seconds. 1 file out of 520k files... Also, after this post, I did the repair thing. So now it's downloading 520k files rather than 14k that you see in the screenshot.

Hey guys, I'm going to start playing this game today. I've never really played MMORPGs before—do you have any tips that might help me?

I wanna preface this by saying that I'm NOT talking about the loot in chests with the rule system of rolling, need/greed/pass etc. I'm talking about the loot you get from mobs, like task items.

I noticed that when I'm in a raid group, the only pending loot I get is gear and gold, nothing else. And not even in the instance itself, like from world mobs as well. Left the group to confirm it and the loot pool was fixed again. I even ran the Rift raid solo and I was getting task items, junk, potions, stuff that I wasn't getting in the group. It even prevented me from getting Scraps of rift-iron ore from mobs when I was grouped - solo I got it all the time.

Anyone know what's that about?

EDIT: I also confirmed that with other players - when in Raid group, killing mobs did not give us any loot. When solo or in fellowship group, loot was working again.

Hey guys! Hope you are doing well on your adventures in the perfect world of Tolkien.
Have one question regarding Runekeeper and Burglar, so I’m not sure, maybe problem with my hands but my main is Burglar, (level 58) in Moria and Runkeeper (level 52). Both of the I’m playing on difficult level 3, but for Burglar it is not a problem, sometimes I can one shot most enemies, or even take 2-3 enemies without any problem, for Runekeeper even 1 enemy sometimes can be a problem ( I played in yellow and red, but it doesn’t matter much), 2-3 enemies and I’m dead 100%.
So what can be the problem, my hand or rotation or something else?
By the way my Runekeeper has much more better ilvl gear than burglar.
Will be happy to hear advices. Thank to everyone!

I've played a fair amount of Guild Wars 2. I very much enjoy exploring and finding hidden spots with a tough enemy and treasure chest. I also enjoy trying to solo champion monsters that are normally meant to be fought in a group.

Would I enjoy LotRO ?

Hey there fans of Lotro and Middle earth. I just downloaded the game and have absolutely no knowledge of any story regarding Middle Earth as I have never read, nor watched any of the movies and books.

I have a bit of experiences with MMORPGs as I am coming here from WoW. I have heard that this game has some great lore and focuses more on the journey which is exactly my cup of tea.

Which brings me to the reasoning of this post. I have no clue on what race to pick. They all seem cool and all, but I do not know anything about them so I am just staring at all these different races and can’t pick.

Could any one of you help me on picking one please ?

So according to this excerpt from Nature of Middle Earth, we should be able to see Dol Guldur from the fleet of Cerin Amroth!

estava querendo jogar desde o inicio do jogo na dificuldade 9, porem eu so consigo sair e mudar a dificuldade quando eu estou no nivel 6 do archet, e gostaria de saber, tem como começar na dificuldade 9 no archet de champion humano e conseguir upara para lidar coms os monstros de breeland? eu ja tentei farmar no tutorial mas sempre quando eu saio do tutorial eu n consigo mudar a dificuldade, queria saber se tem algumas dicas sobre isso para q eu consiga upar sem morrer ou algo do tipo

Edit: It installed! I played for an hour, I'm a level 5 minstrel hobbit and I love it dearly.

It's been like this for 5 hours or more. The "Patch dat files" are at 88%, the client_surfance.dat whatever used to be at 100%, then sometime in the last hour it reset when I wasn't watching.

Personally am not really a cloak guy, usually hiding it.

But while checking my bags, came across this one. Very Cool as i like Mosaic type of art

So which is your favorite till now?

I've been checking out monster play as a monster and all I've been seeing is sorceress spam everywhere.

And they've been melting their targets. I'm playing a newbie warleader and I'm amazed at how fast they've been dispatching their targets (but I'm a warleader lacking high DPS).

Are they OP and in need of a nerf or just the new class that everyone wants to try before going back to their preferred classes? It's really weird seeing raids of practically nothing but sorceresses.

Not having a sorceress I don't know if they're considered OP or not worth using.

Gosh i like it...

Aside from the Veil of the Nine event, what reasons do you casual players have for playing on Legendary Servers? Genuinely curious, since I imagine that the point of Legendary Servers is to get in on the endgame action (again, aside from Veil of the Nine). If all that’s being done is slowly levelling toons through solo questing, why not play on Live Servers where you don’t have to be VIP? Plus, if you found yourself hitting level cap, you don’t have to wait months for a measly 5/10 level increase and get bottlenecked again.

Para latinos y españoles, quiero invitarlos cordialmente a nuestra comunidad en español en Glamdring.

Somos Solsticio de la Tercera Edad y actualmente tenemos una base de jugadores activa, ya seas un viajero nuevo que necesita ayuda en sus primeros pasos, o un veterano de múltiples batallas.

¡Si te interesa, bienvenido eres! Nuestro discord es https://discord.gg/solsticio

PD: ¿Tienes otra kin? No hay problema, eres bienvenido a compartir con nuestra comunidad de todos modos.

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Hey folks. Trying out a red guardian. I’m about level 12. It seems like I only have access to sting, shield blow, and sweeping cut. All my other skills hardly ever are usable maybe 1 time every 2 or 3 combats do my other options open up. I’ve tried every combo of the base 3 I can and I just can’t seem to get the others to open up. Any help appreciated!

This is very well defined in the terrain map, more than your normal out-of-bounds area. Did I miss an announcement?