LotRO: We find the good stuff
Monday night went almost as planed, better than expected. We all dinged 15 last time so I thought it would be a good time to run our class specific, level 15, quests. Unfortunately, the Lore-Master and Minstrel quests are solo only. My Guardian quest wasn’t, but I found it to be quite easy, consisting of protecting some dude as he walked around his farm. I finished it up while the boys were running theirs. I got a nice hat out of the deal.
We headed to the Forsaken Inn in Lone-Lands, I picked up eight quests, then headed into the runes just to the southeast. It was a nice spot for us. Lots of work and quite challenging at times as we were fighting multiple level 19-20s. We collected the components for a number of quests. A timely death found us back at the Forsaken Inn completing those quests. We all dinged 16.
With a few minutes left we decided to explore the zone a little. That’s when we noticed the large cone-shaped mountain ‘Weather Top’. It was too interesting, we had to check it out. We climbed all the way to the top and found nothing of interest. We used our maps to gate back to BreeTown. Selling off, skill training, and auction house searches kept us online long after our regular Monday ending. We’ve perfected a group /faint where we all faint on cue. It might not be funny, but it cracks us up. We used that to signal the end of our evening.
The teamwork required to fight the multiple mobs in Lone-Lands is what we enjoy. Surviving difficult fights with adds and surprises is where the fun is for us. We’ve not found much of that in LotRO. Most of the stuff we’ve fought, up to now, was solo-able - not much of a challenge. I think last night’s adventure gave us all a boost. A reminder of why we play.