Alright! As we all, probably are, burnt out on WoW.. Two friends and I have agreed to leave WoW, and join a new game. LOTRO seems great. I've done alot of reading, understand the classes and gameplay, all that.
My question is, since there's only 3 of us, and none of us are choosing guardian or minstrel as our class. Is it going to be hard to get a group together in order to quest? Is the community well populated?
Do you get to choose your starting location? Or does it depend on your race? I'm hoping it won't be too hard for us all to meet up.
Thanks for any input!
Just would like to say, after reading the boards a bit, community seems great, keep it up. ^^
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Your starting location is dependent on race, and all are pretty distinct and far away. The Elf and the Dwarf are the closest to each other, being on opposite ends of the same zone. The good news is you only stay there until about 10 or 15 or so, then it becomes a bit more central. There also aren't THAT many group quests in the zones, besides the story-line which starts differently for each race, but again becomes more central later.
As for partying, thats the nice thing about LotRO, the class roles aren't set in stone... for example a Lore Master or Captain can also heal in a pinch, though not as well as a minstrel. Champions and Captains can also be fairly good tanks, as both can wear heavy armor (not at the start of course) and for champion at least use heavy shields. You really shouldn't have any major problems, the classes are tougher then they seem, and you don't always need to have a healer and tank to take down elites, it helps of course, but i've killed many elites w/o a healer or guardian tank. I've also killed a lot of elites duo with a guardian (i'm a champion)
As for partying, thats the nice thing about LotRO, the class roles aren't set in stone... for example a Lore Master or Captain can also heal in a pinch, though not as well as a minstrel. Champions and Captains can also be fairly good tanks, as both can wear heavy armor (not at the start of course) and for champion at least use heavy shields. You really shouldn't have any major problems, the classes are tougher then they seem, and you don't always need to have a healer and tank to take down elites, it helps of course, but i've killed many elites w/o a healer or guardian tank. I've also killed a lot of elites duo with a guardian (i'm a champion)
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Sounds great. Since you know alot about all of this, will any class work with any other class? So to say, are there specific duos/trios of classes that do very well together? If so, please give details. :)
In general it is anything goes with anything, but a couple duos/trios are more effective like in any game.
Guardian+Anything will be good for taking out things safely, and even some elites. Guardians can be quite beastly.
Minstrel+Anything is also deadly, especially if the anything is a DPS. I was duoing some elites with a Minst and it was going great, if not slightly slow heh.
Champion, Hunter, Burglar+Another DPS will take down mobs very very quick, and adding more only quicken the defeat. Burgs are nice for starting conjunctions, which can do everything from massive damage to massive healing.
Lore Master and Captains are kind of your all around support class type thing. They have pets and can be handy to have. LM can transfer health/power to another, which is very cool. Captains can offer all sorts of buffs like attack speed increase, run speed increase, group heals, ect. Both could easily add to the duos above and turn them into a nice trio. Something to note though, both are "pet classes" and pets have REALLY whacky pathing right now... even more so then in WoW with hunters pets and jumping off ledges. Pets will random also go off to randomly attack things, no matter what mode they are on. So, it's something you have to be careful about.
Guardian+Anything will be good for taking out things safely, and even some elites. Guardians can be quite beastly.
Minstrel+Anything is also deadly, especially if the anything is a DPS. I was duoing some elites with a Minst and it was going great, if not slightly slow heh.
Champion, Hunter, Burglar+Another DPS will take down mobs very very quick, and adding more only quicken the defeat. Burgs are nice for starting conjunctions, which can do everything from massive damage to massive healing.
Lore Master and Captains are kind of your all around support class type thing. They have pets and can be handy to have. LM can transfer health/power to another, which is very cool. Captains can offer all sorts of buffs like attack speed increase, run speed increase, group heals, ect. Both could easily add to the duos above and turn them into a nice trio. Something to note though, both are "pet classes" and pets have REALLY whacky pathing right now... even more so then in WoW with hunters pets and jumping off ledges. Pets will random also go off to randomly attack things, no matter what mode they are on. So, it's something you have to be careful about.
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