Thursday, October 23, 2014

10/23/2014 - This week

Tuesday - Had a blast with Teri and Zig running the 3 mans from Garth Argawen.  Ran on my lil' hobbit guard to catch him up the group.  We are holding at Level 35 for the moment.

Next week, there's a northern corner of the Trollshaws teeming with elite spiders, trolls, wood trolls, huourns and other wild things that could use some attention.

Thursday - Be on tonight at 7:45, we'll start a call and see where we go.  Had a great time last week with D questing in the southern end of Ered Luin.  Found out later that C was lurking in the shadows on her captain.  We'll coax C into the call this week. :)

This group is more come as you are... so level is anything from 5 to 20... and we're in Gondamon I believe.

Monday, October 13, 2014

Linked Through LOTRO - Thursday Fresh Start

Hello!  Welcome to a new group on Thursday.

We'll meet on the Landroval server at 7:45 pm CST for this fall group.  Go ahead and go to www.LOTRO.com and download the game if you haven't already.  You'll need to set up a Turbine account as well.

Most likely I'll be playing my Level 10 Rune Keeper named Karvrakk for this group at first.   But I have 9 characters on Landroval so I'm pretty well rounded with all classes (except Warden) so I can fill any role at a wide variety of levels.

/joinchannel ltl - this is one of the first things you'll want to add to your interface in game.  This will put you in the shared chat channel that we'll use to talk when in game and not on a call or in a specific group.

Groups are more fun when we can talk, so voice communication is encouraged.  I like to use a headset with a mic as much as possible, however a built-in mic on a laptop is ok in a pinch if your background noise isn't bad and you turn the game sounds down (or pipe them into earphones.)

Voice options: in order of preference

  • Method 1 - We can share Skype details and I open a group Skype call
  • Method 2 - Teleconference bridge through Google voice - I haven't used this in a while, so I'm not sure if I'll have to renew it.  Also, as it's a free service, there tends to be lots of traffic and busy signals from the mutli-level marketing crowd.
    • TELECONFERENCE BRIDGE:  1-267-507-0240
    • Conf Code: 827217 
  • Method 3 - In Game voice - this is not the highest quality, and you have to be in a fellowship (same group) for it to work.
Tuesday night - 
Let's find someplace to burn through some tough content that is achievable.  Maybe Nan Wrathren or Dol Dinen in the North Downs.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

LTL is live.

The group channel ltl is live on Landroval.  There are a couple folks that I play with on a fairly regular basis starting to use this for communication when in game on characters that aren't in the same kins, fellowships, etc.

/joinchannel ltl to join.

Also Linked Through Lotro is set for Thursday nights from 7:45-10pm CST on Landroval.  We'll start with whatever group we find with low levels (or fresh rolled characters) and see where we go.  Unfortunately my 2nd laptop is down, so Mrs. Karv is off line at the moment.  I hope to have that corrected soon.  I may just set her in motion some nights to run things... that will be entertaining!

Tuesday night at 8-? CST the level campers are looking at level 33 content as suggested previously.  Maybe running more Fornost wings.  4 of 6 for the water wing last week seemed to go fairly well so we'll see how Earth and Fire go.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Level Cap at Level 33

To the Tuesday night crew... Argaz, Sassy (Saryssa), Zig and Raegide, let's level camp at 33.  That'll get us the abilty to farm Garth Argawen a few more times to get the tokens for the gear for this level.  It's also a decent level to hit Fornost.  Fornost is a good one to start running in rotation at Level 50 for the scalable gear that drops... so we'll be back.

Content to look forward to at this level:

  • Garth Argawen - Level 32 for the tokens
  • Fornost - Level 33 for the fun
  • North Downs - Level 33 for Epic Vol 1 Book 3
  • North Downs - Level 33 - Dol Dinen - Elite filled group area with landscape quests.
  • North Downs - Level 33 - Etten Caves - Elite Troll filled cave