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A new player question out of curiosity, regarding outfitting

1:05 am, November 30, 2014 Hello everyone, I started playing quite recently, and so far I'm really enjoying the game. For my whole time in LotRO there was nothing I longed to see more than the plains of Rohan, and since I fi [..] View

Returning to the game!

11:05 am, November 28, 2014 Hello all, I bought the stuff that was on sale over Thanksgiving and now I'm ready to get back into the game. Tried out some of the old stuff and looked around. I used to play on a few ~lvl 20-30 ch [..] View

Thinking on returning. What has changed since 2013?

1:05 am, November 27, 2014 First time I played LOTRO was back in 2011. I bought the game and I thought it was a free online game, but it wasn't. So I used two 7 day trial codes I got with the disc. When I heard it went free [..] View

out a seven-game homestand

1:05 am, November 26, 2014 Toronto which is closing out a seven-game homestand is allowing just 934 points per game while going 7-1 at Air Canada Centre The Bucks are averaging a minus-06 margin in the fourth quarter though th [..] View

New Ticket Button and players that should NEVER try to be helpful

1:05 am, November 23, 2014 Last night I had a horrible experience with players who THINK they know something. A boss would not spawn and I really wasn't concerned with is because I was getting Troll slayers done. But after 150 [..] View

[Forum] A First Steps-Guide would be nice

11:05 am, November 19, 2014 While I post this thread, I'm still registered as a 'Newbie' in this forum. That's because I had to create a new name for the forum...my old one from 3 years back wasn't accepted anymore. (During tha [..] View

What do I do?

11:05 am, November 19, 2014 So i've had an account for quite a few years now and have long been a fan of the books. I really enjoyed the game when i downloaded it during 2010 and even had a level 20 or 30 something character. I [..] View

Can I solo?

1:05 am, November 11, 2014 I downloaded the game a little while back but due to RL problems I was unable to play. Now I'm ready to get into the game but I have a few questions. Can I solo to end content? Are there any mages? C [..] View

The sound of a thousand musicians just vanished

1:05 am, November 6, 2014 I am a musician from the Landroval server - Les Beaux Chapeaux kin. We are only one group among many who make music on the server. In our kin alone, there are easily 750-1000 different songs transc [..] View

Hello,new player on Brandywine :)

1:05 am, November 6, 2014 I have been playing lotro off & on for the last few months but now I am playing more. I am a "free to play player",I don't plan to ever use actual money,since I don't have any lol.. [..] View

New players: a server nearest to your heart

11:05 am, November 3, 2014 I think it a sad loss that many who come to the game due to their love for the books (and/or Middle-earth role play) do not get to learn from the very beginning about the nature of the Laurelin serve [..] View

Attention all new players!!

1:05 am, November 2, 2014 Okay so I realize that the recommended server for new players is Gladden, but forget that. My recommendation is for ALL new players to join Brandywine, and here's my reasoning why: So gladden and Br [..] View

I have LOTRO hobbit questions

11:05 am, October 30, 2014 Which hobbit nationalities make the best Yeoman jobs of cooks, farmers, and tailors? What nationalities were all the hobbit characters of Bilbo, Frodo, Samwise, Merry, and Pippen? I know that Bil [..] View

Are lotro dwindling or growing in future?

1:05 am, October 28, 2014 I have think that are lotro player base gone smaller or is it growing. I know its less than its "glory" years, but now i have played different servers and feel somekind there are again more [..] View

Gramps Shakes a Finger

2:05 am, October 20, 2014 OK, first thing... this is not meant as abusive, snobby, nor accusatory. I play on Landroval and I originally chose it after researching online that the server has a high proportion of older playe [..] View

Few questions from new player.

2:05 am, October 13, 2014 Hello everyone and thanks for opening my thread! I just started to download the game and now i have feq questions and i hope someone can answer asap! : ) 1. Which server i should choose? I can only [..] View

In-Game Support

2:05 am, October 12, 2014 I understand that VIPs get this feature and Premiums retain this feature for 45 days following the purchase of Turbine Points. Would purchasing something like the Quad Pack allow me to have In-Game S [..] View

Slayer Deeds

2:05 am, October 9, 2014 I'm interested in some advice from more experienced players. How important is it to complete slayer deeds? I have spent the past week or so going through the Eriador areas trying to at least finish [..] View

Aiding the Eastemnet - Increase limit please to 16 per day

2:05 am, October 5, 2014 I just started Hytbold and I ran into the limitation. I love the content, Don't get me wrong but I seriously believe it is set to low for this current time of the game. So I'd like to suggest to rais [..] View

Why can I only post here?

2:05 am, October 1, 2014 There are a number of factors involved in determining when a poster can hit the general forums. These include time registered, amount of posts and a few other things. Also, to be very clear, this is [..] View

Are Tanks still wanted in this game?

12:05 pm, September 29, 2014 Sorry if this is a really silly question, but I've been Googling up class info lately (now that I've found some more time to play) and I keep coming across threads from the post-Helm's Deep period (O [..] View

Attn. New Players - First Impressions on Early Leveling

12:05 pm, September 27, 2014 Considering how many players are stuck in this forum (with all the spambots, which makes for awkward company), I thought I would give them a helping hand. And this can go for players who have alread [..] View

Installing LOTRO and choosing your server type.

2:05 am, September 24, 2014 Greetings Thought I would share a couple of my first thoughts, maybe someone want to fix the errors or at least other new players might find some of it useful. First thing I stumbled on was during [..] View

VIP Account

2:05 am, September 24, 2014 When my VIP sub expires, how exactly do I go about cancelling my sub so it doesn't auto renew? I certainly don't want to give them anymore money as a reward for their lack of hospitality toward new p [..] View

Might want to let people know where they CAN post...

12:05 pm, September 23, 2014 Spent about half an hour trying to find a place where I can actually post. Could you simply put an icon next to forums you/we are allowed to post inside of? I wanted to post to a thread in the sugg [..] View

So just making sure — Brandywine is the "it" server?

2:05 am, September 17, 2014 Hey so with a new game, I always try to make sure I roll on the right server, because in MMOs choice of server can be game-changing. I'm a type of player who likes:Big crowded serversBusy serversBig [..] View

New Player Help

12:05 pm, September 9, 2014 Hello everyone! I just finished downloading lotro and this will be my first try of this game.Needless to say i am a big lord of the rings fan.I have some questions so let me get right to them. 1.I [..] View

Timeline & RP

12:05 pm, September 9, 2014 Okay, having returned after a year, finding out that my account has been reset on the forums (no idea why that happened. I had almost 200 posts), I have a couple of questions for roleplayers if they [..] View

VIP in Moria?

2:05 am, September 9, 2014 I understand that even when VIP, one must buy the Moria expansion. I am currently VIP, so is there any reason to rush to Moria once I get around level 50? I enjoy checking out the different level 40 [..] View

Mushroom Hunt proper protocol

2:05 am, September 8, 2014 When I do the Mushroom Hunt quest (Farmer's Faire), I look mainly at the mini-map and rarely at the full screen. I hit the del + u keys and only turn away if it's taking me towards the dogs. I have [..] View

What do we do now? Windfola the dying server, one of many.

2:05 am, September 8, 2014 Hello everyone I am rughbok R9 war-leader of windfola and I wish to share our servers biggest problem. So For the past I don't know maybe 2 months our server has been dying off. Honestly we h [..] View

help in world chat

2:05 am, September 4, 2014 hello this is my first post so no idea if this is the correct place to do it , but either way here it is: i would like to suggest to create some sort of rep sistem for the world chat, this way gms c [..] View

Fantastic fellowships and where to find them - that is the question ;)

2:05 am, August 23, 2014 I am totally new to the idea of MMOs - I have never played any before LOTRO. I cannot quite get the hang of fellowship, and understand how it works. When I'm looking for a fellowship, I can post it i [..] View

Roleplaying in Middle-Earth

2:05 am, August 22, 2014 Hey Guys, I feel like Role-playing in MMOs can be a huge aspect of the game and it seems that Middle-Earth is the perfect place for this. LOTRO seems to be pretty big and contains enormous amounts o [..] View

Newbie Questions

2:05 am, August 20, 2014 I'm completely new to MMOs, jumped in purely for the LOTR aspect. Enjoying the game so far. I'm a free player about to finish the Lone-Lands, so looking for advice before I make any major decisions [..] View

Cant log in today

2:05 am, August 19, 2014 it seems a few of us players have been whining about some log in problems for almost 4 hours already we have been complaining already in the FB page of lotro and it seems turbine or any admins wont r [..] View

How to find fellowship for Sambrog?

12:05 pm, August 15, 2014 Hi All, I am trying to form a fellowship to play the Great Barrow - Sambrog. However it seems that players I invite cannot enter the instance (probably since they are not allowed to Sambrog since t [..] View

Why is this so difficult?

12:05 pm, August 15, 2014 Why is posting so difficult? I mean, can't they just allow us to post? what if we have a major problem we have to report but we can't because we have to wait for however long it is, and be active on [..] View

Healing Frustrations

2:05 am, August 9, 2014 After arranging for our kin to get most of our players to Moria, we plunged in as a party. 2 DPS, one Champ tanking and me thinking I could heal on my RK. I've already leveled one RK to max as dps an [..] View

Quickslot page up and page down

2:05 am, August 8, 2014 I would like to experiement with this so I'm asking for other players that use this to please add your experience with this system. I'm guessing that it's here for a role swap, ie... dps to healing, [..] View

trait tree discussion 175.65 build 4

2:05 am, August 8, 2014 Keep it civil this time. Trait trees are just plain terrible. The buffet system we had before was immensely better than this. Why at turbine decided what skills should be attached where? Skill bloa [..] View

Best pack/expansion to buy for new players?

2:05 am, August 8, 2014 Hi all, new(ish) player here. One of the first things I am interested in getting is a mount, but I heard that if you buy certain packs or expansions you will automatically get a mount on all new char [..] View

Hello Everyone, I am a returning player and have a few questions.

12:05 pm, August 7, 2014 Hi guys, I've decided to return to this game, I haven't played for a while I quit when it went f2p, (that wasn't the reason I quit) Anyway, I am a few expansions short and I just subbed to the game [..] View

Wife and I starting out in the game together. Class and server questions.

2:05 am, August 3, 2014 Ahoy, all! My wife and I are starting out the game. We were going to choose Landroval since we liked the idea of roleplay being encouraged but not enforced. Does it have a decent population relative [..] View

Trait Trees??! What the heck happened? Devs on crack?

12:05 pm, August 2, 2014 I've been away from the game since mid-November, just signed in yesterday, and WHAT THE HELL!?? TRAIT TREES and SPECIALIZATION? What the hell happened?! I already specialized when I picked a FRIKKI [..] View

where are all the players?

12:05 pm, August 2, 2014 Usually when I start a new mmo there are plenty of people around to go questing with. Doesnt seem like the player base is huge.. but then the map is huge lol View

Pleading to pause shield runs untill bug fix and give servers affected by turtle bug a 2nd chance

2:05 am, August 2, 2014 After watching the shield run video on twitch last night I would like to ask to really pause all scheduled runs and give that server another chance to make a clean run. Its not my server, I play on E [..] View

If you really want to attract new players

12:05 pm, August 1, 2014 Can you please for the love of Gandalf please have the steam version download the latest build. It took me 4+ hours to download the game on steam, no biggie I figured I will just let it run over ni [..] View

Group content and LM healing questions

12:05 pm, July 30, 2014 Hey guys, I just recently decided to give LOTRO another try and at first I had fun, yet the closer I get to the F2P restrictions the more worried I become. I really enjoy group content and healing. [..] View

Hunter class and instances.

2:05 am, July 28, 2014 Time to fix Hunter class, it's a dps class not support. Fix T2 Instances....Iorbars peak and Warg-pens (lvl100).. 96% chance to die with a guardian, hunter or Rk and minstrel. Many of my friends will [..] View

asking about surnames-last names

12:05 pm, July 27, 2014 Does the game provide surnames or last names to every player's character, or do the players have to provide the last/surnames for their characters? Can they choose and pick? How does that work? View

Kinship Help

12:05 pm, July 24, 2014 Hello & Greetings, I have been playing lotro for about a month now and i see many kinships around that are mostly themed in laurelin server, yep rp server where i play. Now i am thinking of m [..] View

Cannot see pet names

2:05 am, July 24, 2014 Can anyone please tell me why I can no longer see pet names (like the shrews from the Spring Festival)? It's not the "N" key for floaty names; I've tried that, and I can still see the name [..] View

The return of fellowship quests

2:05 am, July 21, 2014 In this update, I noticed that an old kind of quests have returned- fellowship quests that are an integral part of the story and quest chain. I thought that this folly was abandoned- that turbine rea [..] View

Can't post in other forums

2:05 am, July 21, 2014 I know new players can only post in this forum, but I am a returning player with an account since 2007. I really don't understand why I can't post in other forums. I will go ahead and ask my quest [..] View

Dear Turbine

12:05 pm, July 20, 2014 I love this game. I love it for the story, the reach landscapes and what was......Lotro. Fanbois can cry all they want too about the state of the game and how good it is but truth is truth. Alot of [..] View

New players - few questions

12:05 pm, July 17, 2014 Hi there! I've decided to give this game a try, and I'm quite excited! I usually play a healer, it looks like that would be rune keeper or ministrel, any advises, explanations on how the 2 classes [..] View

How to transition from solo play to fellowship/raid?

2:05 am, July 15, 2014 I have lvl 95 Hobbit Hunter, my first and only character, and I've always played solo. I would like to try some fellowship play/raids/instances, but my character's level and my own skill level are a [..] View

Initial Impressions

12:05 pm, July 13, 2014 Hey, fellow LOTRO players. I just started playing yesterday, and I gotta say, this game is pretty fun. Hope to see you guys in game! Just wanted to say hi. View

Help me choose a server (EU)

2:05 am, July 11, 2014 Hi all, my first post in this forum (and hopefully the first of many). I have just started playing LotRO for the first time on the server 'Riddermark'. I've played through the first few levels whi [..] View

Character Creation Tool Idea

2:05 am, July 9, 2014 I realize that turbine most likely will not spend development dollars on this... but City of Heroes had the best Character Creation tool ever... once you picked your base body part shapes... you were [..] View

Cannot find players for instances anymore.

2:05 am, July 6, 2014 Today, on Saturday around 19:45 (primetime), i logged into my server Belegaer. 150 players only in GLFF, i asked for players for ANY instance exept Skumfil and Swordhalls (because i have finished the [..] View

Inspecting players - Please return the the virtue/traiting tab

2:05 am, July 3, 2014 Hello Turbine, In the past we were able to see the traiting and virtues of players during inspection. This was an invaluable tool when forming pick up groups (PUGS) as it allowed me, as a leader, t [..] View

Monster Play has no email or bank access...

2:05 am, July 3, 2014 I'm enjoying monster play so far but I'm getting lots of items I would like to transfer to my regular characters. I see no way to do this. Email would work fine or the bank would be the ultimate. I h [..] View

Downtime Notice: Monday, June 23 from 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

12:05 pm, July 1, 2014 UPDATE: The maintenance window has been extended until 2:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT). We apologize for the inconvenience, and will keep you updated. The LOTRO Game Servers and http://myaccount.turbine.com [..] View

Quest pack bundle ever on sale?

2:05 am, June 17, 2014 Hello fellow lotro players :) Since endgame is rather non existant right now I am planning on enjoying lvling some alts. There is an offer to... View

A few things I'm wondering about

12:05 pm, June 12, 2014 Hello, when I was playing yesterday (incoming possible spoilers for new players) I stumbled across Gandalf in the Prancing Pony while I was looking... View

The Epic Adventures Of Rylun Larkspur

2:05 am, June 1, 2014 The Epic Adventures Of Rylun Larkspur I recently came across some posts of LOTRO players doing a RP total immersion. I was very inspired as well... View

New players (Kinship)?

2:05 am, May 29, 2014 Hi all, I have been looking for a kinship for a while now and find it hard to find what I am looking for. I hope someone can help me out here or... View

The problems with the trait trees, and what can be done about them.

3:00 am, May 13, 2014 I don't like the trait trees. A lot of us LotRO players don't like them. A lot of LotRO players do like them. During each round of beta testing prior... View

New Player Tips

2:45 am, May 13, 2014 Here is a quick overview of what to expect from LOTR Online Which character type should i choose and what to they do exctly? Burglar - stealth, debuffs, high damage end-game Hunter - ranged, mostly [..] View

Forums

Best pack/expansion to buy for new players?

Dec 13, 2014, 11:30 pm Hi all, new(ish) player here. One of the first things I am interested in getting is a mount, but I heard that if you buy certain packs or expansions you will automatically get a mount on all new char[..] View

Attn. New Players - First Impressions on Early Leveling

Dec 10, 2014, 5:23 am Considering how many players are stuck in this forum (with all the spambots, which makes for awkward company), I thought I would give them a helping hand. And this can go for players who have alread[..] View

New players (Kinship)?

Dec 7, 2014, 4:52 pm Hi all, I have been looking for a kinship for a while now and find it hard to find what I am looking for. I hope someone can help me out here or...[..] View

New players - few questions

Dec 6, 2014, 2:26 pm Hi there! I've decided to give this game a try, and I'm quite excited! I usually play a healer, it looks like that would be rune keeper or ministrel, any advises, explanations on how the 2 classes [..] View

Cannot find players for instances anymore.

Dec 3, 2014, 10:38 pm Today, on Saturday around 19:45 (primetime), i logged into my server Belegaer. 150 players only in GLFF, i asked for players for ANY instance exept Skumfil and Swordhalls (because i have finished the[..] View

where are all the players?

Dec 3, 2014, 4:58 pm Usually when I start a new mmo there are plenty of people around to go questing with. Doesnt seem like the player base is huge.. but then the map is huge lol [..] View

If you really want to attract new players

Dec 3, 2014, 1:58 am Can you please for the love of Gandalf please have the steam version download the latest build. It took me 4+ hours to download the game on steam, no biggie I figured I will just let it run over ni[..] View

New players: a server nearest to your heart

Nov 30, 2014, 4:38 pm I think it a sad loss that many who come to the game due to their love for the books (and/or Middle-earth role play) do not get to learn from the very beginning about the nature of the Laurelin serve[..] View

Inspecting players - Please return the the virtue/traiting tab

Nov 30, 2014, 4:38 am Hello Turbine, In the past we were able to see the traiting and virtues of players during inspection. This was an invaluable tool when forming pick up groups (PUGS) as it allowed me, as a leader, t[..] View

New Ticket Button and players that should NEVER try to be helpful

Nov 28, 2014, 3:26 pm Last night I had a horrible experience with players who THINK they know something. A boss would not spawn and I really wasn't concerned with is because I was getting Troll slayers done. But after 150[..] View

Attention all new players!!

Nov 28, 2014, 1:31 pm Okay so I realize that the recommended server for new players is Gladden, but forget that. My recommendation is for ALL new players to join Brandywine, and here's my reasoning why: So gladden and Br[..] View

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