Ecstacy playing LOTRO shock!

*reward spoilers*

I did not intend to turn VG into a LOTRO blog, but with the imminent arrival of the new expansion Leaves of Lorien I am firmly in LOTRO mode right now.

I had a very pleasant time last night, indeed one of the best I've had and it's been a long time coming!

I finally finished Vol 1 Bk 15 - WOOT!

As I had a practice run the night before, I managed to explain the strategy and lead a group to victory. I even killed Mordrambor mid-stage when three level 60s had died before me. I wont spoil the end. A very exciting instance, I thought we were screwed at least twice but managed to pull through with the help of a few Resurrections of course.

You get some nice goodies too - and so you should from what is effectively the end of Shadows of Angmar. You get a painting for the house, a nice cosmetic cloak, some new titles "Champion of Eriador" sounds good eh? But best of all you inherit Laerdan's nag, a nice silver mount! Well, he won't be needing it any more will he? This also means you can also flog your old horse for 1 gold piece.


Westfold Exiles are a very nice kin, I had not met them before. Polite, calm and thoughtful they were all using voice and had a good sense of humour too. They were very grateful to me and for the first time in ages I felt like I was instrumental rather than feeling like a noob like I do with more hard core players that play the game a lot more than I do.

The evening also reminded me that a significant part of MMO enjoyment comes from the players within it. If you play most of the game solo avoiding group quests you will certainly not get as much from the game as being more sociable. Now that I am playing again I need to make more of an effort with my own kin and start enjoying the game more.