Category Archives: LotRO

Just a quick note – after logging on tonight and looking at my crafting window, I finally realized that in the previous two posts, I had forgotten to account for the craft experience needed to reach proficiency. My numbers were … Continue reading

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LotRO: Leveling Woodworking from Scratch to Mastery, Journeyman tier

Following up on last night’s post, the table for the Journeyman Woodworker tier, using Ash Wood, is already a bit better furnished: Total Wood planks Total Exp How many to 840 Total Planks needed Total silver Total Crafting actions Champion … Continue reading

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LotRO: Leveling Woodworker from scratch to mastery, Apprentice tier

What is the most efficient selection of recipes to get woodworker to mastery? Browsing around, I found only either out of date or incomplete information. Some initial material I found online looked promising… and then I went in-game to verify … Continue reading

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LotRO: No more Clown Shoes – Outfits Explained

When I recently ranted about the problems that mismatching armour would do to a fashion-conscious character, reader Longasc reminded me that Lord of the Rings Online actually had a great system to customize every toons’ appearance, Outfitting. Of course, me … Continue reading

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The MMO Law of Gathering Professions

While I’ve made cynical observations about loot drop in MMOs before, in an amusing twist of fate, the invaluable Casual  Stroll to Mordor today blogs about optimal profession spread between four alt characters in LotRO. As coincidence has it, I … Continue reading

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LotRO: Warden’s Heal over Time, Second take

In my first attempt, I gathered the relevant information from the Lorebook and lotro-wiki, for the sake of convenience. Unfortunately, when playing my Warden the next time, I found out that the in-game tooltips didn’t always match the external data … Continue reading

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LotRO: Warden’s Heal over Time Duration, First Pass

Author’s note: The post below is based on incomplete and inaccurate information and does not reflect in-game reality. A more recent post supercedes the content below with more accurate information. As has been noted before, the Warden’s Heal-over-Time skills do … Continue reading

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LotRO: Graphical view of Warden’s Gambits, consolidated

To conclude on this series of posts, as promised on comments and Twitter (and thanks to Twitterer Longasc for the multiple plugs), here is everything on a single page. After completing the Fist gambits, I went back and added colour-codes … Continue reading

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LotRO: Graphical view of Warden’s Fist Gambits

The last group of Warden Gambits is the yellow group initiated by a fist attack, and this one was significantly more difficult to make sense of. Indeed, whatever the sequence, the pattern will break at some stage when more elements … Continue reading

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