LOTRO: 7/26/07
Another good night, although it turned out to be not as productive as it could have been, at the cost of good karma…
Once again I got into a fellowship early on that was doing a large quest that I needed; Book 1, Chapter 11, which is another Great Barrows quest. We had a full contingent of folks including a minstrel, but I was one of the higher level players, as opposed to the previous night when I was the lowest. We started the quest and were doing well until we were working on the last big elite character and the minstrel got defeated. The rest of us were able to finish the quest, but she didn’t end up getting credit for it, unfortunately. I guess we were all in a good mood, since we all said that we’d find a reflecting pool to do the quest again so that she’d get credit.
One kind of cool thing that happened was that I leveled up during the quest, and during the time we were getting to the reflecting pool a couple of the fellowship members congratulated me. That was a social interaction which I hadn’t had before, and it was kind of nice.
Anway, we got through the quest again without any real problems. After we were done a few of the folks needed the Lalia quest, which I had already done, but said I’d help out with. Once we finished that, it was almost 11:00PM, so I had to go. But, like I said, it was a good night, but I spent a lot of time working on quests that I didn’t need, so it could have been a more productive night.
I was pretty excited to see what new skills I received at level 20, and there were some cool ones. Rain of Arrows is a pretty intense shot which sends multiple arrows at a target. I also received the ability to use fire, which means I can put fire oil on my arrows before I shoot them, thereby potentially igniting a target that I hit. I also have the “Desperate Flight” skill which allows me to teleport to the nearest rally point in case I’m in a really bad situation.
tim: 1.5h