Lord of the rings online

Lotro community is something to behold. I experienced it myself (again).
LFF chat. As always, end-game, end-tier instances or random low level, mostly Moria (Barad Gularan and Urugarth/Carn Dum were too). I asked if there are any Big battle runs. Quite legit question in LFF chat. Of course, no answer.

Next day I tried to do a little provocation. Started typing things like “…” or “test”. No reaction as well. Started asking every single day if there are any Big battles. No answers too.

Laurelin hates me too much to even have any conversation with me. I do not know why – but this is fact. Random people may have a random talk, typically 2 sentences short. That’s all. No help offer, no questions – nothing. As if I was mostly invisible.

So I just stand on my poor Loremaster in Minas Tirith besieged and stare at Mithrandir. There is almost zero chance to finish two Epic battles. Nobody runs them, nobody offers any help about them. Everyone is too proud, too arrogant to notice me.

Laurelin’s community is dead. It does not exist and will never exist as community. Random group of arrogant elitists, trolls, haters – yes. These random groups would never form anything stable.

And I am so absolutely alone. Stuck in epic I am most likely doomed to never finish. Could not get into Mordor, because need epic I would never finish. Stuck with sub-class that is of zero importance in any combat.

Future is as bright as black hole.

Lord of the rings online

Dreaded Minas Tirith! An area I quest with much reluctance. Disconnect follows disconnect and I count how many epic quests remain. Looks like I am at sixth quest from 13 existing. I had some refreshment – ride out from hated Lag Tirith to check some gates; NPC does not return in time – rush back. And then again running and disconnecting.

One time I tried riding on warsteed. Remember Gandalf doing it in MT? Yeah, crashed immediately.

Talked to kinnies about Loremaster. Right now red Loremaster is a lightly armoured melee class with few ranged AoE attacks. Some…new class, no news that anybody likes them. Blue line is praised as tanky. So it is natural, that next nerf would be – yes, for blue Loremasters. It is clear that in future Loremasters would have no pets.

I wait for this nightmare to end. Finish epic, then try to explore and grind reputation. Yes, reputation with defenders to get Travel skill. And then Lag Tirith would be finished for good.

Bloxd

Finally, I succeeded in creating an almost good mini-star destroyer. It would be named “Armed transport”, for it houses 10 people, and little space for things like power generators or command outpost. For my story, I need two such transports. Unfortunately, there is almost no space to hold cargo. Of course, no space for TIE fighters.
After all, all this nice space stuff is pure decorations. Following story, these ships used all their fuel and now are grounded. You know, without energy computers, radars won’t work, ship won’t fly etc.

So my days go and go. Waiting for lag area to be done in Lotro and for inspiration to appear in Bloxd.

Lord of the rings online

I spoke with one very kind player from kind Kinship. It is really good to speak to him. He speaks frankly and is friendly towardas me. He listens.
He proposed I try any Mission. I tried on my lame little Loremaster. Mission was a success. Orcs just fell for my attacks. Sometimes fight went to melee. That kind player told my dps was good, almost as his lvl.120 Burglar. Impressive. Later he sent me a set of Anorien assault armour. Socketed one, with 3 sockets. I use all Essences I had + some from vault.

It was high time to test all this on Orcs of Harlond. This time it was not that easy. I cannot use pets (lasts 10 seconds, cooldown 2 minutes). I cannot use Ring of Fire. Some of nice skills are on 2 minutes cooldown. Too often I did melee fight – which is much better now. Looks like SSG thinks Loremaster is melee class, with some ranged AoE…

And so I quested, left Lossarnach, moved to look for Faramir. Which led me, through quests, to Faramir’s lookout and Osgiliath. To my surprise, one could enter Osgiliath. There is entry, guarded by few outposts. Even I could annihilate one set of enemy, avoid other and run to Culverts. There, I picked epic quest to run to Minas Tirith.

I thought it would be short and good questing. SSG does fight lag every time. Reality looked different. Every time I went/rode from tier to tier – I disconnected. In average, there were 3 disconnects while travelling from one tier to another. We have 7 tiers, so in theory it is 21 disconnect. I disconnected almost everywhere: before entering building, exiting building, while travelling on foot in corridors, while riding in corridors…lag was everywhere. Minas Tirith is just a nightmare in terms of lag.

Which led me to skipping all texts. Yes-yes-Ok-finish. I try to do exploration deeds, which is not easy.

Now, my task is clear: rush to finish epic in Lag Tirith (yeah…10 more long, boring, lagging quests!), receive nice cloak; finish exploration of Lag Tirith and use taskboard items to get reputation. After that, just leaver Lag Tirith to some better regions.

My kind player was right: things are no THAT grumpy. Red loremaster is basically a new class with no analogues. It is melee fighter with few ranged attacks and no self heals. Best thing for it would be to…to just be erased as class. Loremaster should be either blue (pet tank) or yellow (crowd control). Now it is not suitable for quality dps. One could quest on red LM, but there would be almost no fun in it. Doable, though.

Bloxd

Just lots of planning and drawing in Excel. So far I have blueprints for one (armed?) transport. 10 people, some space for…something and possibly – 1 or 3 cannons. Of course, almost no cargo department. I would need two of such ships. They remind little Star destroyer.
Unfortunately, cannot build one large ship – would be too huge to see…and maybe a bit ugly.

So, my days go, kind of normal in Lotro and Bloxd. If only I had any kind of socialization in any of these games…

Lord of the rings online

Lotro space is full of backlash. Everybody dislikes or even hates changes to Loremaster. Red line can use pet as a skill. Pet lasts maximum 15 seconds. To summon a pet you have to target enemy. Naturally, your pet will die within first 3 seconds…so wellcome to wait 2 minutes before summoning pet again. Naturally though, SSG has unleashed their fanboys. Fanboys scream what fanboys always scream: all changes are good, everything is good, everything is perfect because SSG did it. SSG reaction is predictable: 97,12% probability of “everything works as expected”; 2,28% probability of increasing red lines skills by some 1-2,5%; and 0,6% probability they will make red line Loremaster playable.

To my surprise, I found a group doing one of Epic battles I needed. I asked to join, they were kind to agree and not be angry on worthless red Loremaster. Everything in that group went perfect, we earned platinium and I was mostly guided what to do. Not so much talk – but at least one of three Big battles is finished.

I had some talk with kinnies. Expressed my really grumpy situation: Champion toons are parked; Minstrel is parked; now Loremaster is parked. All they are totally useless in on-level combat. However, if Minstrel has good attacks and self-heals, Loremaster lacks good attacks and has no self-heals (only good attacks come with ~2 minutes cooldown). I have no toons to play with, I have no socialization and SSG is nerfing everything, except maybe Brawler and Mariner.

Situation is really bad. All I can do now is catching birds and turning in taskboard items. That’s all what is left from Lotro: hobby and task items.

Sometimes I think the very best for Lotro would be sunsetting. To end Lotro’s life before it becomes absolutely unplayable mess with developers who have zero knowledge of their own game.