r/lotro

Oooor still playing them when burnt out on LOTRO?

Am a former EQ player but still play EQ2 and WoW (sometimes), I remember joining LOTRO back in the day because I'm a huge LOTR fan and also because I wanted a break from EQ2 at the time, however, I don't really remember much of the game...but I probably had to convince my dad on since I was like.. 11 when LOTRO came out. Coming back to this game after being gone since 2012 (apparently), I've been having far more fun on there than I have been on EQ2 in years. I do, however, have SOME gripes like how some quests are extremely vague on things and quest items/mobs are (sometimes) a pain in the ass to find...and the map is kiiiinda unhelpful, very hard to see anything on the map since it seems like I can't zoom in. (doesn't help that I'm colourblind so quest markers blend in almost entirely)

Hi everyone, I have a question regarding the playerbase on different servers and group content. Wife and me just started the game 2 Weeks ago and switched to mordor to experience the content releases on a more slowly pace.

I heard the servers are locked at about 1200 players. Last times I checked mordor the player count didnt top 120 people, with ~30% at max level. Grond has about 600 players in the evening but with much higher level cap.

The question is: i dont know how much group content we miss playing alone. How much is doable with two players? I am not really fond with coming back to dungeons overleveled to experience the content while being much farther already with the story.

Whats your take on this? How do you guys play this game?

(sharing a cool experience)

So I was grinding my scholar profession after duping my expert metalsmith. then I went to caras gelebren who I assume is an elven city. Which I thought is perfect since I'm an elf. The ruins in ered luin is just too small.

Collecting aged scraps text, around the ruins have me stumbling on a surprising elf npc on top of a hill.

Turns out it's one of them skirmish mission. Long story short. He had me finishing that mission where the city fell and celebrimbor died. Then after, the elven npc made me tour the ruins I'm in as his last request before going to valinor which turns out is the same city in the mission!

Following the marker on the map made me see the resemblance of the place on the landmarks in the skirmish mission where you defended the city,

I have a playlist of fantasy musics playing everytime I play the game, and while trekking Golden Leaves the song of gilgalad! started playing from my playlist and it was just so lore accurate🥲

It gave me the chills when the song was playing up until I reach the spot where celebrimbor died. Just so cool..

And it was also so lore accurate to the profession

I'm just a casual fan of the movies. I played both the Neverwinter and Elder Scrolls Online MMOs. I have very little time this year so I prefer to know what I'm getting into. Here we go:

1. My plans are to play with my gf. She's an Elf Warden, I'm a Man Captain. We plan to play free to play and I'd like us to need each other to cooperate and time ourselves. Is this a good duo for harder difficulty modes?
2. This game is HUGE. What should I focus on besides leveling, enjoying the lore, etc? Is it a good idea to go talk to the mount NPC as soon as possible? What even is a hobby? I also have a hard time interpreting the minimap. Is it normal to get lost often or is it just my shitty sense of direction (we both are dyslexic).
3. I love the lore and tone when the game turns cinematic but sometimes it gets very grindy/repetitive so far, similar to WoW or FF. What do you guys do to speed up or bear the boring parts?
4. How should I earn gold on my first character? Is 6 gold a lot?
5. What is in your opinion the most meta race/class duo? What about the most useful duo to group up with other people?

Thank you guys, see ya in Middle Earth.

Big LOTR fan and MMO fan so naturally I have been getting drip fed lotro content in my youtube feed and it has finally got me curious to play it.

I have played plenty of MMOs before and countless RPGs in my life but never thought to try lotro for whatever reason. I am not too worried on trying to more difficult classes either. How is it in 2026? What class gives that tolkien vibe the most? what to expect for my first 50-100 hours? how is the group, end game, and pvp content?

I tend to prefer melee classes but am open to anything! Excited to explore middle earth with you fellers!

Im just starting out and was just curious to see if the game progresses past the original book trilogy or not. it would be nice to play story content which we dont know what already happens

Hey everyone!

As a former WoW player there a certain Combat related things that i really like.

Everybody who ever played a Shaman in the early day of WoW knows how fun it can be if RNG is involved sometimes.

I love abilities that have a % to proc by itself or even multiple times depending on RNG.

The big example is Stormstrike with Windfury. Windfury gave your Attacks the ability to proc 3 additional times with a Chance of 20% paired with trinkets. You could easily hit 5-6 times by pressing 1 ability but it was pure RNG and a dopamine rush if it did proc.

Is there anything relatable in Lotro?

Only thing is could think of would be Champion but it resets cooldown which aint the same but at least close to what i mean.

Are there any other Specs in the Game that offer fun by giving those high rng dopamine moments?

With several characters simultaneously leveling in the 30-50 range, I'm looking for areas that feature opportunities for mass farming. For example, if you want a lot of orcs in one area, it's hard to beat Cirith Nur for big sweeps that allow you to pickup slayer deeds quickly. I'm wondering if there are areas like that with concentrations, located in Lone Lands, North Downs, Misty Mountains, Forochel, and Erigion. Just lots of opportunity for slayer deeds in one concentrated area. Any good recommendations?

Hi all I’m starting up tomorrow and was wondering what the most popular server for Eu?. Thanks in advance for the reply’s 🙏

What's the RP scene like? Is there walk-up roleplay to be found in any of the towns/cities? Are there any active kinships that roleplay more than just once or twice a week?

any ideas can’t kill the two trolls have last cave to fill blow with black powder , they won’t die lol hash hall guards

Let's get down to business:

1. What's the most efficient way to level up a crafting profession from scratch? Should I just craft random stuff and sell it to vendors?
2. I'd like to collect all the recipes of the three crafts I have taken, is there a better resource than the Wiki Index to check what I'm missing?
3. What should I do with Motes and Embers of Enchantment? I passively earned quite a lot of those but I can't figure out how best to spend them. I was thinking of doing the quest "From the Ashes Comes Virtue" for VXP but I'm not sure that's a good idea.
4. A bit unrelated but is it worth to barter for legendary traceries mid game? Are incomparable ones the right compromise? I currently have all rare ones but I collected a lot of shattered/cracked tokens and I don't know if I should upgrade them or just wait for level 86 and replace everything with other rares (I'm already at the 10k cap).

Thanks.

I don't play the game regularly like I used to but always come back to do the events. I somehow missed the Anniversary event and just read that it ended today. I know in the past they've done encores and was wondering if this was still a thing?

So I am looking to start a small group to level through the game with. whether that be new players or someone starting an alt.

The plan will be to cap the level at different points throughout to keep everyone close to the same level, give everyone a chance to keep up and run group content before moving up further. Looking to set a reasonable pace as the goal is ultimately to make it to max level. so likely increase level cap every couple of weeks.

Will be running on the Grond server.

For anyone interested I've started a server on discord, come say hi.

https://discord.gg/yMbYYDDj

once we have a few players we can get started. if you have any alts already levelled you want to play along the way, we can add them as the cap increases.