Lord of the rings online

Was celebrating Christmas with my family in real life…and well, after returned – with The Family in Lotro. Since it is a peacefull day – said “no” to killings. Just peacefull Yule festival quests and grinding for more and more tokens.

Why grind? I still need icy grim, steed cosmetics (3 of them) and essence reclamation scroll. And 120 quests to be completed.

We joked in Kin channel, talked about races in Lotro and festivities in real life. We were joking about being “over-drunk”, about races. I joked that if anyone is drunk, Gondor is to blame. “Why?” – someone asked. Answer was simple: Gondor is the only region that has regular quest to over-drink a drunkard (i.e.pirate). I had real fun in Kin chat…and then had to log off.

And so Christmas evening in Lotro has ended. The day has been good in Lotro. Hick…

Lord of the rings online

Christmas is in the air – all activity is mostly about Yule festival. Windstorms as usually – does all deeds, gets every single token she could, goes to Gondamon, then to Esteldin. Last day I was very succesfull with North Downs: did one quest (to bring auroch’s head to one Dwarf) and earned reputation with Esteldin; did one quest in North Downs and increased my reputation with Thorins Hall. Then – same repeatable dailies: wargs, orcs, spiders.

Vytautaz was forced to do Yule dailies. Two days of work – and I was able to barter grumpy Grim for my Loremaster. Now I still have 1 grim Ffrost?). at least one mount, 1 battle mount set and essence reclamation scroll.

Talked with kinnies about grumpy Gondor and Big Battles.  Most of them understand how I feel and why: I tried my best to explain it. Of course, I have certain prejustice towards Gondamon, but there are logic arguments for that.

And so the day has ended, I had some 433 Tps, was satisfied. Day has been very good in Lotro.

Lord of the rings online

Since Turbine listened to my prayers (bonus character slot was on discount) – purchased 1 slot for 446 Turbine points. Xgrinder was born, immediately rushed, skipped almost everything she could – and then to the vault of Bree, to use all reputation items.

Windstorms meanwhile fights on three fronts. Frostbluff – doing every quest (except snowball fight and eating contest), grindsing every token. Then – in Gondamon I am turning in task items to get Kindred with Thorins Hall. Finally, I rush to Esteldin to do dailies and get Kindred with the Rangers of Esteldin. Yes, slayer deeds are done there too.

As usually, we talk and joke in Kinship chat. My best jokes – and best jokes about me – concern my “grumpyness”, like – “Do not be grumpy, that is Nak’s job” or my remark  that role of Gandalf (“Gandalf thew Grumpy, Gandalf the always Evil”) is for me; others may try (without success) to play it…

NaktiesKarys helped one lvl.58 to fight in Great Barrows. Run was good one. Then, Naktieskarys too helped kinnie in Fornost…and was outperformed by Minstrel. When I run to target, target is dead, sometimes I got no kills. Yet one more proof that Minstrel is superior to any Champion and almost the best class in Lotro.

One player was very very kind for me. I was playing my Xgrinder, someone talked about free lvl.40 instrument…and I asked like “what about free lvl.40 LM staff?”. I was a bit trolling:who would make such for free? Yet that player did, sent it to me and now my big Loremaster has quality weapon. Yet one more proof our server population is very kind and helpfull.

I am regaining Turbine points (who knows what sales awaits us?), after long waiting I count them. Once again, i have lots of things to do.

And so the day has ended, I felt happy and satisfied. Life is excellent in Lotro.

Lord of the rings online

Little activity in Lotro: Yule dailies with Windstorms, then back to Gondamon to turn in task items. Finished Brigand salyer in Shire. Also, finally earned one more trait point, invested into some new ability to advance blue trait tree deaper.

In real life things goes wrong. Saw one “easy, solvable by 85%” question from one job application test. Microsoft Excel ddi not cope with it, all Kinship chat was not able, my friend (manager at one company) was not able too. Everyone told it was an absurd, question with too manay possible logical answers. Finally, after maybe an hour someone told it could be algorythm with random actions you need to take. Someone in my country thinks that in order to serve in, say, department of Fishment (Ministry of Agriculture) one needs to have exceptional skills with algorythms. Or they are creating a Ministry of Genius (reminds “Dexter’s Lab”…). Other things in life goes wrong too, so Grumpy Dwarf was really grumpy and really angry.

And so the day has ended. Bad in reality, mediocre in Lotro.

Lord of the rings online

Yule festival is there  – so my toon are thrown to help Windstorms. She has earned some Turbine points in theatre (considered to be the easiest TPs). Helped the poor. Still donating tokens, knowing that they will be returned after some 10 donations. Managed to grind >100 TPs…but more are to come. We could barter for cosmetic pets, Grims. I bartered fire grim, but there are snow and shadow versions too, each for 75 festival tokens. Then, we have warsteed appearance (100 tokens), Essence reclamation scroll (180 tokens); this is not counting 2 caparisons (~100 tokens each) and horses (~100 tokens each). But I will grind, I am good at that.

After festival quests, Windstorms quested in the Shire, did almost all deeds, except Brigand slayer advanced (will finish quickly) and evil “No place for spoiled pies”. Then moved to Ered Luin, ran very quickly throughout the content, finishing all deeds. Well, except Sarnur ones, I am too little for that. Now I have ~400 TPs and need to grind more to purchase additional character slot.

NaktiesKarys helped kinnie in barrows near Bree and Sarnur. Sarnur was the show I really enjoyed. My shing-shings worked, my Kinship hunter was impressed. At last some self-confidence in my not-so-good class. At last shing-shings I ws investing into were usefull. Of course, I got some nice reputation items – yet still need to grind for more.

And so the day have ended, I felt satisfied. Day has been very good and (shing-shing) impressive in Lotro.

Lord of the rings online

My 500th post on this blog! Well, I guess it may be just the begining…

Meanwhile in nice green fields of Lotro… Windstorms killed stuff in Lonelands, doing her class deeds. Then I had to choose: do Trollshaws and heavily outlevel some other regions (Evendim, Misty Mountains, begining of Angmar) or… And I chose to deed in the Shire. Nice peacefull country, nosey hungry Hobbitses, easy deeds, easy Turbine points.

Turbine donated a coupon; -30% discount form purchase cart. After long consultations with the kinnies, went for some shopping:
Rise of Isengard expansion. Was 20% off, received more discount
Shared storage, +5 slots
Virtue slots
Result – used coupon twice, then purchased without coupon and was left with 19 Turbine points. Yes, Shire was really an option for quick TPs: I will need one more slot for TP grinding toon.

Went to barrows with kinnies. We had some fun killing monsters, looting stuff and friendly sharing reputation items. I was happy to give items I did not need to those who really needed. One of great many positive things to be in good Kinship.

Stormsong continues her learning. I switched my Minstrel to blue trait tree, chose blue stance and am using all the heals I have. At bluie line Minstrel is superb supportive unit. Heals, heals over time, protective bubbles, 2 types of resurrection (one – to revive up to 5 allies in combat and another – revive 1 ally out of combat). i asked Kin to invite me to instances/raids, first time after long hiatus. Almost always asked for a feedback. I am glad kin does not hide the truth. Initially I received some…sour words. One kinnie told me, I did not want to learn and want to use content very fast – I was in my comfort zone (dps minstrel) and did not want to experiment. Sadly, it is true and I am grateful to that kinnie. That’s what real friendship means:to tell about wrong things frankly and without hurting. Yes, I feel comfortable with self-healing dps Minstrel. But now, I have to master healer. To know skills. To be a good healer. Of course, that means feeling weird: I do not attack, just run away from monsters and spam heals all the time. I was glad to revive others or to protect lower levels at Filikul. If no one in group dies – that means only one thing: healers were doing their job good. And one day I will be doing my job good.

And right now I am grindign Turbine points to accumulate some 500 TPs and buy another character slot when it is on discount.

So weekend with Lotro was over. I felt satisfied, life was good once again in Lotro.

Lord of the rings online

It is hard for me to write blog. Half of day I try to work and can’t blog there. Then i am home, do some work here, play Lotro – and little time to write.

Meanwhile my Loremaster was questing in North Downs. Finished some slayer deeds, rejected some quests (i do remember my Champion being almost killed there and Champion was lvl.95…). However, reputation grew, started my way to Kindred. Quests were not hard, just a bit running forward and backward. Reached level 35 this way and I’m very close to lvl.36.

Epic quest redirects to Trollshaws and this is my chance to start gaining real xp, not just 11 or 22 per kill. I need fast xp to get more skills on trait tree. The more skills, the more powerfull my pet becomes. More powerfull pet – easier life.

In Kinship we had a strange evening. One kinnie left. Told he had too little time for game. He left. 3 alts left. Then another his toon left. Some of his alts too. I was surprised to see this like “Xa has left your Kinship”…”Xb has left your Kinship”…”Za has left your Kinship”. One kinnie tolds -“how many alts did he have? 2 million?”. No one was sure. Of course, it is a pity to see people leaving – but I guess they will return.

I did not miss my chance for trolling. Told – “Ok, guys, time for me to leave too”. Someone re-asked if I was not leaving. My answer was – “trolling: succesfull. I am leaving to have some sleep”. We laughed a bit and then I logged off.

Kinship once again was kind enough to make some shiny jewellery for my Loremaster and inform that at lvl.40 I would be able to use sword. My Kinship does care about me. I wish I could do something good for them too, but I really have little chance for that.

And so the day has ended and it was real success in Lotro.