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irst thing i discovered is that yes if enough mobs beat on you that you can die to them in the instance if you ve done the instance the first main room straight ahead i got rid of one mob then attempted to take out a single elite by the door that was my first mistake that elite runs into the middle of the room and then aggros everything left in the room on me with about a half dozen dots on me plus about 15 enemies i died fairly quickly i respawned and reentered the instance then spent about 5 minutes slowly beating up the individual mobs before tackling that elite again i shook my head grumbled something and continued onward taking note of any of that type of elite throughout the rest of the dungeon crawl really slowed down my progression into the tomb and made this instance into a full clear i wasn t taking any chances so that turned what i felt would be 1 2 hour run to the final boss into an hour including resting to heal up and recharge my power bar i reached the ending of the instance which the questline said to find the maguffin and i stealthed on over i m an elf and can pull that off without being a burglar and kept trying to click on the maguffin no dice i unstealthed and let the intro to the final boss fight begin so much for being clever i thought then the final boss started hitting and drawing adds i went from full health to 50 in nothing flat and i started cursing up a blue streak as i realized i was not going to be able to take this boss out the youngest mini red wandered over looked over my shoulder and said ooo that s bad i unclenched the mouse and massaged my right hand i hadn t realized i d had the thing in a death grip no kidding i d figured that being 29 levels higher than this thing would be enough but i guess not well that explains the cussing gee thanks at least my wife wasn t around otherwise she d think that i d come down with a sudden case of tourettes syndrome games such as lotro still surprise me even though i ve been playing mmos for over seven years now a lot of times they re good surprises such as finding a twist in a storyline that really sucks you in or the background scenery looking so majestic all by itself but this this is one of the nasty surprises it s a kick in the pants that says you don t know everything so you d better stay cautious i d better remember that about life too there was one memorable lfg run into blackrock depths that began in the intro area and everybody decided to stick together to do a full run of the place it took us about 1 5 to 2 hours but it was an incredibly fun ride for the tolkien fanatics yeah i know elendil isn t buried there and yes i know where he s actually buried it s provided in unfinished tales that is even referenced in the questline so the devs definitely did their homework putting this in place posted by redbeard at 9 34 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lotro mmos tuesday november 29 2016 she has the heart of a dwarf i will tell you that at the hill s foot frodo found aragorn standing still and silent as a tree but in his hand was a small golden bloom of elanor and a light was in his eyes he was wrapped in some fair memory and as frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they had been in this same place for the grim years were removed from the face of aragorn and he seemed clothed in white a young lord tall and fair and he spoke words in the elvish tongue to one whom frodo could not see arwen vanimelda namarie he said and then he drew a breath and returning out of his thought he looked at frodo and smiled here is the heart of elvendom on earth he said and here my heart dwells ever unless there be a light beyond the dark roads that we still must tread you and i come with me and taking frodo s hand in his he left the hill of cerin amroth and came there never again as a living man j r r tolkien the fellowship of the ring it took a little over three months but i finally finished the mines of moria lothlorien southern mirkwood expansion for lotro while the original lotro storyline shadows of angmar took a long time to really get going mines of moria starts off with a bang and then slows down into a long slog through darkness and the claustrophobic khazad dum do not disturb the water once again hitting the l60 level cap meant that the story picks up in a way that plays to the strengths of tolkien s creation interactions between dwarves and elves the monumental task of actually cleansing the mines and what lies in the deep places of the world as gandalf called it the complex nature of the dwarves and the omnipresent threat of sauron all contribute to a well designed story down there you can see the camp fires of orcs while my few paragraphs are mostly spoiler free i will mention the obvious the fellowship s passage through moria isn t referenced at all after all the iron garrison would have had no knowledge that the fellowship went through the mines until a pc reference is presented in nud melek a view of the first hall lumping in lothlorien into the mines of moria expansion as an additional zone to explore similar to how the firelands was added to wow s cataclysm expansion made perfect sense i d argue that while lothlorien is larger in scope than the firelands it does serve a purpose as a spot for daily quests lothlorien also represents a spacing mechanism before the epic questline pushes on into southern mirkwood across the nanduhirion lies lothlorien again southern mirkwood is an entirely new zone much larger in scope than lothlorien but has fewer daily quests it is primarily an end zone allowing people to prep for end game fellowship quests and raids storywise it is not only an end zone for the epic questline it provides an explanation for those who are familiar with the journey of the fellowship how is the fellowship able to slip south along the anduin river undetected by the obvious nearby presence of dol guldur and orcs from moria even a sunny day can t drive away the gloom of mirkwood in the shadow of dol guldur i remember reading in world chat several days ago about how people liked moria and mirkwood at first but after toiling in this zone for a long time without new content sound familiar wow fans the expac began to really wear on people i can see that happening because it can be difficult to deal with the gloom of southern mirkwood not to mention the mines itself without needing to go periodically visit bree or the shire to enjoy the clear skies and happy faces of the npcs part of what made shadows of angmar better than the mines of moria is that the last half of the epic questline wasn t stuck solely in angmar and forochel but you traveled all over evendim bree ered luin north downs lone lands trollshaws and eregion the nature of an expac is to focus on the new areas but an expac such as the mines of moria is very limited in scope you can t have the epic questline travel all over because the action is all in moria and its immediate surrounding areas the iron garrison hails from erebor and the iron hills both areas far outside the scope of lotro lothlorien is a pleasant diversion but i miss the sounds of lake nenuial in evendim the timing of the frodo s journey works against the mines of moria shadows of angmar s latter half fits in rather neatly into the gap between when the council of elrond happened and the fellowship exited moria as i d previously mentioned the travel involved in shadows of angmar isn t realistic and neither is turbine s condensing of middle earth into mmo sized chunks but it does allow at least some time for the story to play itself out the mines of moria doesn t have that luxury as it has to fit into a much tighter time frame so the game can t really afford to send you gallivanting across the length and breadth of eriador at the end of the epic questline i could really feel the atmosphere of southern mirkwood really wearing me down and while i knew it was happening i still wanted to push on to reach the end the epic questline s end was a bit abrupt but there were about 8 epilogues to fill in the gaps as to what happened after the final fight i consider a few of them and if you ve played them you know which ones they are to be the true endings of this part of the story leaving you feeling bittersweet about the whole thing celeborn put it very well in a way the ending of the epic questline in southern mirkwood surprised me a bit there was a heavy reliance upon skirmishes to fill in the gaps which is a departure from shadows of angmar i don t think i minded too much but it felt like there was an attempt to cut a few corners when it wasn t strictly necessary soa s endings weren t skirmishes but they were instances you could relive via the reflecting pools around eriador in that respect they felt more well personal than just a skirmish having reached the end of the mines of moria expac i know i ve got another long slog ahead this time to grind deeds so that i can start exploring into the lead in to the riders of rohan expac which i ve been led to believe is the cataclysm of lotro the expac that broke the game we ll see about that but i ve got some time before i can find out maybe i should wander caras galadon like the fellowship did however i do get a slightly uncomfortable feeling among the galadrim like they re snickering at me behind my back or that i m like a puppy dog that they re playing with for a while i d argue that things for soa really took off once you got to gath forthnir and reached the original l50 endgame at that point the story had several twists and turns involving back and forth across all of eriador until a satisfying if saddening ending is reached i d say that about half of the soa story was told at the old max level i put that in quotes because you can keep leveling past l50 but the storyline was designed for l50 and i m kind of grateful for that because of some of the areas you wander into in angmar the oldest mini red told me this story a couple of weeks ago about how someone came riding into bree and started exclaiming in world chat how wonderful and alive bree was been in moria someone asked yep was the reply forochel gets depressing when the fog rolls in and you can t see more than a few feet in front of you that happens in evendim as well but much less frequently posted by redbeard at 5 12 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lotro friday november 25 2016 happy birthday wow jeez at 12 years old wow is almost a teenager by theamat on deviantart and courtesy of marvel s free comic book day offering of age of ultron several years ago posted by redbeard at 10 43 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels wow tuesday november 22 2016 now that s more like it don t know what you got till it s gone don t know what it is i did so wrong now i know what i got it s just this song and it ain t easy to get back takes so long don t know what you ve got till it s gone cinderella the adventure i ve been on the past month began when the graphics card in the main pc went belly up i d been thinking that we might want to upgrade some of the components over the holidays if the bonus gods were willing to smile on us that is but i d been thinking that a new graphics card would be 2 on the list behind an ssd but that idea got thrown in the trash heap on november 4th yeah like this only with fewer cows from quickmeme com i ve already covered my adventures dealing with the intel integrated graphics for my 3rd gen i7 system spoilers they weren t happy ones so i knew i had to shell out for a new card and yes i warned the boss just how much one that would be a bit better but not top of the line would cost 200 us so with a budget in hand and potential specs a plenty i sallied forth to do battle with the mighty graphics card market i used to be an nvidia fanboy from way back in the day but i had some bad experiences with the gs series of nvidia cards in the late 2000s so i d switched to amd s radeon offerings when the current pc was built i saw no need to change that particularly since the amd integrated graphics on the mini red s laptops ran rings around intel s integrated graphics if they can do that i figured then their dedicated cards will be good enough for me what i saw in research only confirmed my suspicions as i zoomed in on the rx470 as the potential card to have the 4 gb option in particular hit that 200 price point and i had a traditional hd monitor so i had no need for either the 8 gb or the rx480 cards i also had a quirk of the system in that i only had a 6 pin power connector available for the graphics card not an 8 pin so that ended up limiting my selection to only a couple of cards namely this one the sapphire radeon rx470 4gb from pcworld com courtesy of my living close to newegg s warehouse it s only a state away it arrived several days ahead of its original delivery date which meant that i had an opportunity to install the sucker a lot sooner than i expected nah man if i can figure out how to get a refrigerator to fit in a small kitchen i can buy the right sized graphics card from catplanet org the only surprise i had during installation was that the power connection was on top of the damn card not on the side which meant that i had to get creative in terms of making sure the card fit around the case frame still the installation and driver updates went fairly smooth and the card itself is quieter than the old hd7700 i had in the pc over the past week i ve had a chance to sit down and try a stable of games with the new card to see what sort of difference it made to the graphics settings now i don t have a game that s less than two years old wildstar and mass effect 3 are the newest from 2014 so the games i have don t really stress a game card like a current gen game such as say witcher iii or black desert online still this card ought to handle both current gen games without much issue as for the games i own let s just say that one game in particular surprised me a lot lotro experienced some lag when entering certain areas such as around emyn lun in mirkwood as if the game were busy loading data from the lotro servers given that lotro is closing in on its 10 year anniversary next year i wasn t expecting the graphical lag like i got but once that initial lag was over the game ran smoothly i ve checked online a bit and discovered that i m not the only person who has had these issues with lotro and that it might actually be due to the game architecture i can t really say but it is definitely the only game that i ve experienced this issue with but the graphics oh yes all of the little lotro graphics options are selected and it makes a big difference in the background on the game items such as fog are much more realistic now and background scenery is far more detailed i can stand on the northern dwarven outpost in 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