Friends In LOTRO

I have made quite a number of friends in LOTRO. Some of them still active, while few others have gone MIA. Those people in Lowyat.NET who played LOTRO mostly have been consumed by other games, presumably Skyrim.

I'm currently in contact with friends whom I helped acquiring the Rise of Isengard expansion. Their IGN are Souzin (LM) and Gedzza(GRD).

Souzin, from what I gather, is a guy from Terengganu, while Gedzza in the other hand is a guy from Kedah. Here is a screenshot of my hunter Farinas with Gedzz (alt of Gedzza)

I've also made quite a number of friends from Down Under, since I'm now in kin based in there, called Aurora Australis. Below are screenshot of the kin activity not long ago :

 

 

 

Below is screenshot of my minstrel Farimin beating Draigoch with Aurora Australis :

Back to Blogging My Gaming Life

Wow ! It's been a very long time. Very very very long time since I last wrote in this blog. In the previous blog I wrote how I got a new addiction in LOTRO. That time I just started playing the game. I guess it is time for me to write again.

A lot of thing has happened between now and then. New baby, a break from LOTRO for 6 months, playing FM2011, back to LOTRO again etc, etc.

To start off, let's just say I'm currently enjoying my LOTRO. I have 2 level 75 characters, a Minstrel and Hunter. I also have a Burglar at level 53 and a Guardian at level 25. Even though I started with the hunter, the minstrel is the first character I got to level 75. Doing group content at level 75 is very satisfying indeed. Getting there is quite a challenge since you'll have to solo mostly.

I'm currently in a Kinship called Aurora Australis. It is an Aussie based kinship. My hunter was initially in there, but then quitted because I wanted to be with my Malaysian friends in the same kin called Adventurers of Eriador. However that doesn't last very long when one by one my fellow Malaysian LOTRO friend left the game.

So I decided to go back to Aurora Australis and settle there. If any Malaysian want to play with me, I simply add them to the friends list.

Below are my characters at selection screen :

 

 

 

There are few other characters that I do not show them here because they are still in level 1.

Lord Of The Rings Online

Currently I'm focusing my game time on playing LOTRO since it turned to Free2Play. My character, a hunter, in now level 38. For initial few weeks I was on free account, grinding TP to buy quest packs and traits, then I turned to a premium account because there was offer on TP. I will update this blog with a screen shot of my character some time not far away in the future.

At least this gane will keep me busy while I'm waiting for Guild Wars 2.

New Game : Legendary Champions

Wow, it has been a long time. My gaming has been limited by my work commitment and my daughter who has taken over my PC, watching her favorite videos on YouTube. However I managed to try a new game called "Legendary Champions" by Aeriagames. It is a F2P game just finished their closed-beta, now on the phase of starting the open-beta very soon.

The game asks you to choose one of the warring faction to be in. For the level 30 and under, the quests are still PVEs, but once you reach level 30, all the quests from then on are in the open PVP areas, which means you are forced to do PVP if someone attack you. This is one aspect that I personally think a let down. I just can't accept that you are being forced to be a punchbag for the money spender in a F2P game.

I'm still waiting for the release of Guild Wars 2. I don't mind they take their time to release it actually, because that will buy me some time to get the money to upgrade my PC before i will be able to enjoy the game when it is released.

Gaming Time Out

It has been a while since I last wrote in this blog. It was due to me concentrating on my Microsoft Certification exam. Also partly because of Runes of Magic has temporarily blocked the sales of diamond via the Auction House, thus making the acquisition of diamonds for the F2P player impossible .

Recently my Guild Wars account was hacked by gold seller. Twice it was hacked. In the first hack, all my golds are gone and my equipment are salvaged, virtually left me with nothing . In the second hack, they get smarter; they deleted all my characters and replaced it with their own, making me impossible to log on to the gaming account. In both cases I had to contact the GW support for help. Nowadays I change my GW log in password every time after I play. Tedious, but that's the best I can do for now.

RoM : Upon Reaching 55/55

My Mage/Priest has finally reached the level limit of 55/55. At this level, it is pointless to do the normal quest as the character will not benefit from the experience gained from completing those quests. What I do nowadays is just the daily quest i.e. the "Hunter Raid" to farm TP for levelling up my skills. 10 daily quests per day will get me around 120k TP. Usually after doing the hunter daily I will kill the swallow walkers for the meat. They sell around 4.5k a piece. The only problem with swallow walker is that they are quite far apart, and they are not that many like the crab. Farming crabs at 55/55 is just pain because the spawn does not drop like they used to be at a lower level. I could kill 10 crabs and still get no drop of the spawn. That is not a very efficient way of farming.

Recently RoM has been updated to patch 2.1.6 . Came with that patch is a durability issue where casting a skill now will eat some of the weapon durability. My testing from doing hunter daily quest shows that weapon durability wear out very fast. After complaints from players across the game servers, I think the issue is now fixed for all, except knight. I read from the forum that knights are still facing this issue.