LOTRO: 7/25/07
Pretty good night. I joined a fellowship early on that was going to work on An Ancient Story of Evil, which is a quest that I’ve had for quite a long time. Once we were all together (one member was quite a ways off), we ventured into the Great Barrow and got started. A couple of the members needed to collect chalices for another quest, so we worked our way through the maze for a while looking for those. This didn’t bother me, since I also had a quest where I needed to kill 25 wights in the Great Barrows, so that got done pretty easily, especially since any wights killed by the fellowship counted towards my tally. I did have a little trouble with pulling MOBs to me, however, which is a problem for hunters. Ideally we will sit back and throw pop shots into the crowd, letting the characters which are better at melee handle the up close combat. The problem arises when I hit a character too many times, and they decide to come after me, instead, and the other characters have to then chase after them. I need to remember to switch my targets to spread out the damage, I guess. I’ll pose that question on the forums for advice.
The questing took quite some time and after about an hour and a half, we finally completed it. We did have to hunt around the maze for a while before we could find the one character that had the item we came for, however, so that added some time. Once we were done, the other hunter in the group used one of her skills to teleport us back to Bree. I can’t quite remember what the skill is called, but I can’t wait to get it.
The Fellowship broke up once we got back to Bree, since most of us had to logoff pretty soon after. I was going to logoff quickly, but realized I was only about 1000 points from getting to level 20, and I wanted to see if I could get there quickly. Grinding like that takes more time than I had, however, since I couldn’t find any high level MOBs close to Bree, and I didn’t want to venture too far away. So, I had to logoff around 11:15 with only 600 points to go. Oh well, I should get there easily enough the next time I play.
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