Great guide! It's gotta sting a little that they FINALLY revamped the trait point system after you detailed and covered how the confusing and frustrating old system worked. For any reading this...trait point just come from normal character leveling up as part of BTS patch. You get the max of 98 point at level 140.
This MMO has to be one of the best hidden gems out there. I'm glad there's some good coverage and content being made on RU-vid for it because LOTRO is well worth the time put in. My only recommendation is to enjoy the journey because this is one of those games where reading the quest text pays off and if you're a fan of LOTR or anything Middle-earth then this game should be on your computer right now. Also seems to have a very friendly community as well, very laidback.
I played for almost 10 years and then took a very long break. This video is a good refresher and thanks for showing the changes that have happened over the years. Great video!
Amazing work! You're really a godsend for everything LOTRO :D As a new player, the "zones by level" part was really impressive, I just hope they will make maps less clunky and more readable/interactive when they revamp UI.
And then there's me who always spends the first 20 levels grinding out cooking in Thorin's Hall. I could fill up an entire vault with nothing but the pie fillings I've crafted lol 🥧
What an incredibly helpful video. I just started playing and am maining a warden for now, hit 18 recently and was starting to wonder just where I should be going. This gave me tons of important info that I didn't even expect. Watched the entire video lol You do a great job not stumbling on your speech and not adding unnecessary "ums" and "ahs". Phenomenal work!
Thank you so much for this detailed and extremely well-explained guide. It’s going to help me a lot with my lotro experience as a returning player that has lost track of everything that the game offers. Great work!
Thank you for this insane guide it will help tons! I haven't played LOTRO since 2012 and recently logged in and started leveling an alt. This game is still one of my favourites out there
Wow! Thank you! I bought this game in 2007! My old characters are gone. Wanting to return because I don't remember anything about it! Thank you for this
Keep the good work. This is of a great help for our small and growing community. MAKE LOTRO GREAT AGAIN ... well I meant popular, it's always has been great :P
It has been promised and it is finally here! Must have been a lot of work. Curious on what your take is ... cuz i think my route through the game was pretty optimised ^^ Already hate that i might have to admit I can still improve so much
My original character was a guardian..shouting anuse at the enemy is great fun...when I'm tanking in a fellowship and cant even see my Dwarf due to being surrounded by enemies I know I'm doing it right lol
As for crafting vocation: On my first couple of chars I took care of getting all professions. In later chars I always choose Explorer, because they have 2 gathering professions which is very helpful for my crafters.
I have a few month now that i can play every day for hours. I will level from 1 to 140 starting today and i think this will be a big help for me. i played this game 15 years ago .
Nice guide, I usually go through Angmar at level 40ish cause of the Fem Armor set and other set pieces which I find easily takes me through into Moria. YMMV I normally play Hunter and Rune Keeper.
I always find it a bit confusing to follow the stories proper in the different main quests. For example in my first playthrough I finished Gap of Rohan at lvl 75 and then got send to Great River several levels behind so I couldn't really enjoy it has I was over leveled and just wanted to get to Rohan proper. Is there any guide or video anywhere that could help me through this kind of mess? If not @Louey7 you should defenitely make one has I think bad quest chaining is one of the biggest issues to new LOTRO players. Other than that it was a great video, very very useful to me at least, altho a shorter format would be much appreciated, not to this video but for your videos in general (not the playthroughs of course).
Thanks for the vid! It needs an update tag or disclaimer to the changes to Trait points now being by leveling only (since the release of Before the Shadow)
The motes of Enchantment are still useful for Trigger Essences at Level 140, so you might want to think about not throwing them into figments of Splendour if you are close to 140
Normally those quests are super annoying, but Lotro actually has great quest variety and the atmosphere of the zones and the lore is so awesome it's easy to forget. I usually put an audiobook on or I listen to a D&D campaign while I play and it's so easy to get absorbed.
About which vocation to chose: if you want to be able to craft everything with as few characters as possible, you would need 4 characters and chose the vocations: Armourer, Historian, Tinker and Woodsman. I chose the Explorer for my warden, but now I will very surely change the vocation, because I dont want to make more characters than neccessary.
I wish I could just buy the trait points without having to level up. I want to experiment with different builds on my RK but I need trait points to unlock the skills I want.
I think why Evendim has that long sidequest chain The Blade that Was Broken is because Evendim was meant to be a day one region but got delayed. I think it came out like three months after the initial release. But as a result it had no story chapter or book for the initial Vol I Book 1-8 story.
I wish they would give Champions back there shield and make shields crafted by Weapon crafters. as they are pretty much used as weapons or can be mostly/realistically. and were crafted by weapon smiths mostly. I would love to see Champs to be rebalanced for a shield/shield combat in there Marital Champion Trait Line. Instead of the same old boring Dual wield or 2 handed for all trait lines adding back a little more diversity.
havent even clicked Play yet, but i found lotro 3 days ago and im loving the shit out of it already, glad there's a channel on youtube about this, cause coming into an mmo so late with all the bonus content is mad daunting, you want to chill and enjoy, but at the same time not waste hours doing redundand content or things that arent really important
Hey Man, i love your videos.I have a quick question: would it be a major dps loss if i used a man for the hunter class instead of an elf? Thanks in advance!
Thank you for so much useful information! I'm a new LOTRO player and I have a question/idea: I created a high elf lore master and at the end of the intro quest I got a ring (blue text) named Nírya. The stats of it scale to the level of the character (increase as you level up). Are there more relatively easy to obtain items like this that scale up with your level? (like WoW heirlooms)
I am thinking of play Lotro again (last time online was over 10 years ago). I like the idea of a man hunter (Ranger type-like), but I heard there are lots of hunters around already. Captain sounds also good. Any tips, guys?
Those are far-ranging stables. Some newer ones are called this if you can travel to "far" places (such as missions stables have this color, and occasionally the more major encampments of an update)
Im kinda confused by this book quest, epic quests skirmishes. Like Evendim covers 30-40 levels but Trollshaws also covers 30-40, both have epic and book quests, etc. does this mean I have to choose between them or what? What happens if I choose to do Trollshaws and skip the Evendim? Am I gonna miss the epic quests and book quests in Evendim? if so what happens? Whic route is the best?
You can skip the book quests and pick up the later ones if you want which is what I'm doing as they are pretty boring. I found you just end up going back and forth between areas that are the same levels since you usually hit areas that are too high level half way through
is this guide maybe outdated? i startet with lotro 2days ago and my first session ended up on 12. For the crafting part i had to choose 3 independent things not like in this vid here where u choose a set? bundle?
Is there a transmogg system like in wow that you can add templates to your collection which you can use later for your ornamentation without having the actual item?
There is a system... sort of similar. You can put items in your wardrobe, and on any character on that server, you can cosmetically equip the items without having the originals anymore.
Hunter is just so boring though, Captain and Loremaster are my personal favorites as they have a lot of diverse abilities and pets with the Loremaster being great at mobbing and the Captain being extremely durable. Burglar is a really fun class to and being able to stealth allows you to pick your battles or bypass enemies for ore nodes, etc.
1:26:11 Wasn't expecting the "tit buff" instead of "bit tough" lol. Seriously though, thanks for an amazing guide, this really helped a friend and I out while we're levelling.
I got to lvl 100 for the first time and got bombarded with introduction quests from all over Gondor, from eastern Gondor to Far Anorien, and as all the zones are lvl 100 I don't know where to start, or if Im obligated to use my stone of the tortoise so I can get to experience all the content Gondor has for me. Anyone who can give me any hints on this it would be much apreciatted becasue Im really lost right now.
@@Louey7 Thanks for the answer Louey! Love your lotro content, specially the guides. One about a good order for leveling (without missing class trait points or important/funny story lines) to try to fix all that mess in the game I think would be very well recieved. Keep it up!