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27.09.2008 - 12:48
A very nice part of this game is the broker system. There are brokers in every major city and in some of the secondary cities as well. Exchange Brokers are a special type of vendor who allows players to put an item up for sale to other players at a designated price. This price can be anything the player chooses to sell his items for, so beware of over-priced goods. To put an item on the broker, you first must find one. After that, you right-click (double-click or ¡°H¡± for hail works also) on him to open the broker window. There are two tabs on the window, found at the bottom. One is for purchasing, one is for selling. Before you put an item up for sale, type in the exact name in the search field on the purchasing tab, and hit search. This will bring up a list of every item matching that name, allowing you to sort through and get a feel for pricing info. Also, you can see how many are up for sale. If there are a good many, you may want to sell your item fairly low price for now. If there are only a few, you might be able to squeeze out a little bit more than it is actually worth. But, in every case, make sure that you look at the item and see what you think it is actually worth, because if it is a plate mail breastplate, and you are an arcane caster, you may think that the armor value you see is awesome since you wear robes and cloth armor, but is really not all that great to someone who actually wears plate mail. To prevent this problem, maybe ask a few random plate classes about it first. Once you have a price in mind, go to the selling tab, drag your item to the box in the upper-left corner, and then look below it at the small boxes for different coins. In those small boxes is where you will type in the price you are asking for the item. After you are done, hit the green button at the bottom to put it up for sale. It will tell you the price it will cost you to do this, and ask for you to accept the price and charges, if you do, then accept, if not, cancel. Purchasing is a different monster altogether. Since the broker has grave difficulties displaying more than 200 items at any one time, it is a must to know how to search properly. First box will allow you to specify the sphere you are searching for, so if you are looking for a weapon, choose adventuring; if you are looking for some new shoes for your diplomatic outfit, choose diplomacy. The second area allows you to pick a type of item for that sphere. Perhaps you wish to find an offhand dagger for your rogue. In that case, your first area would say Adventuring; the second one would be Adventuring Weapon. The third part defines the slot, so pick secondary hand for the above example. The fourth specifies the class of the character, in this case rogue, so pick rogue. The last slot allows you to pick which rarity of item will be the least shown. If you don¡¯t mind buying a normal mundane item, pick mundane. But most people are looking for good quality. We all know there is strength in magic, and every character needs both strength and magic, so most people pick uncommon (blue names) as their least shown. This should allow you to get a list tailored to your likings just for your character¡¯s needs. Another piece of advice, the headings for each column can be clicked to order the list by that type, so clicking on price a couple of times should sort the list by price from lowest to highest. Back TRAVEL Since Telon is such a massive size, it is important to get a faster mode of travel than ¡°pat ¡®n ben¡± (your feet). cheap wow gold There are a few different ways to achieve faster travel, and none of them are without cost. The fastest method is, of course, to play a bard. Bards have songs they can compose themselves. mp3 players The components for these songs vary greatly, but they do have speed components that, if mixed properly, allow the bard to run at tremendous speeds. Add in a good drum, and they run even faster. A decent bard can usually outrun even the fastest of mounts. world of warcraft gold The next best method is to buy mounts and equipment for the mounts. Mounts at base speed can run anywhere from 30% faster than walking speed to as much as about 90% faster than walking speed. If you buy some tackle and horseshoes, they run a decent amount faster (about 10% - 40%). wow gold You can either buy a horse at 10th adventuring level, or 10th crafting level, for 12 silver 50 copper, or you can get one for free by doing the diplomacy quests and getting to a certain point. The diplomacy mount is a bit slower, but it¡¯s free. There are, for much higher levels, flying mounts available, but not much is known yet about them. wow gold For other means of travel, you can travel intercontinental by using the ports at the big port towns in each continent. Using them will take you fairly instantly to any other major port town. One other method of travel is to own your own boat. wow gold kaufen To get one, you either must build it yourself, or pay a decent price to an artificer to build one for you. There are many different styles and sizes of boats, so you will need to inquire about what can be built before you buy one.
27.09.2008 - 12:47
Ranged attacks are a necessary component to the game. If you do not have one yet, get one. A spell will suffice if you do not have the ability to use any other form of ranged attack, but keep in mind the max range on spells is usually a short distance, whereas a bow or crossbow has a longer distance. Some spells will still have good ranges though. Physical ranged attacks (bows, crossbows, thrown weapons) have damage based on dexterity, so you may want to focus on that some, along with other reasons (parry, dodge, chance to land a critical hit with physical weaponry, etc). Magical ranged attacks have damage based on two different abilities: intelligence and wisdom. Intelligence will affect your overall spell damage, while wisdom will help determine your chance to critically hit with spells. Of course, there is a class in the game that has a specialty in ranged weapons: the Ranger. Rangers have several different special attacks that utilize ranged weaponry: Critical Shot, Deadly Shot, Dawn Arrow, Splitting Shot, etc. Other classes have abilities that use a ranged weapon, but are not nearly as specialized in ranged attacks as the ranger. Ranged attacks are the main way to pull a mob, meaning to get an NPC¡¯s attention then have it follow you back to a safe place to fight it, usually with a group to help you kill it. It allows for you to not have to wander deep into a group of NPC¡¯s to grab one or a few, and to see if you will have too many way before they are actually attacking you. You can buy ranged weapons and ammo from a Ranged Weapon Vendor, but can buy very basic weaponry from a general goods vendor. Make sure that if you plan on using a physical ranged attack that you stock up on enough ammo to last you between visits to town. You may also wish to make the small investment in buying a quiver or bolt case to carry your arrows or bolts. Back HARVESTING There are two main reasons to harvest: to gather resources for use in crafting and to gather resources to sell to others for them to use in crafting. Harvesting is the skill that enables a character to gather resources from the world around them. The harvesting skills are reaping (plants), lumberjacking (wood), quarrying (rocks and gems), mining (metal), and skinning (animal hides). Each skill requires a different tool. Reaping requires a sickle, lumberjacking requires an axe, quarrying requires a hammer, mining requires a pickaxe, and skinning requires a knife. These tools are not weapons, mind you, but harvesting tools only. So that means no matter how nice your dagger is, you still cannot use it to skin that wolf you just killed. This is important because when you go to harvest mode, you automatically switch out your outfit and gear for your harvesting equipment. And vice versa, when you are attacked you will remain in whatever current setup you have until you attack the NPC, at which point you will switch back out for adventuring gear. buy wow gold As you gain levels in your harvesting abilities, you will pass through different tiers. Before you can progress to the next tier, you must buy a book and right-click it to read it. These books are skill specific and can be bought off of the harvesting trainer. mp3 players For example, when you reach 85 in mining, you can buy the first book for mining, which will allow you to now harvest tin nodes as well as the basic copper nodes. If you do not purchase and read the book, however, you will not be able to progress past 100 in your particular harvesting skill. To find a harvesting trainer, merely ask a nearby guard for directions (right-click on guard). world of warcraft gold The harvesting trainer will put you on a quest line to go cut down some trees or to quarry some rock or whatever. While you are doing that, you may as well mine 60 units of whatever the trainer is asking for, because the next quest is to combine the raw materials together to make 3 refined materials (which 20 raw = 1 refined, so have 60 already and it saves you some running). The last quest he puts you on is to decide your primary and secondary harvesting skills. wow gold At this point you will need to refer to the crafting section to decide which path is for you. " "Look around the area where you start and within a few meters of you should be a person with a yellow shield floating above their head, which means they have a quest they would like to offer you. This person has the first quest you will experience, so walk to them and hail them (right click, double click, or press H after targeting them). wow gold They will explain a basic beginner quest that you need to accomplish to continue on your journey, so when given the choice, accept the quest. Notice that after you accept this quest, the shield above their head turns blue; this means that you have an active quest with that NPC. Usually this quest will involve something similar to ¡°Kill x/y mobs¡± so turn around and look, those mobs are usually within spitting distance, so target one, and if you are a melee type (uses weapons more than spells) go whack on it with auto-attack and using your abilities, or if you are a caster (use spells more than weapons), then blast it into oblivion. wow gold kaufen When it is dead, right click on the corpse or type /loot to open a looting window then right-click on each item you want or click on the ¡°Take All¡± button to loot everything. A /lootall command also achieves the same thing as ¡°Take All¡±.
27.09.2008 - 12:46
As you wander through the lands of Telon, you will do quests everywhere you go, but sometimes all the quests you find are built mainly for groups. Well, sometimes groups are not easy to find, and sometimes you just don¡¯t feel like grouping. For this, Sigil has included something called Missives. Missives are much like the quests you have been doing all along. They usually include things just like the typical quest, ¡°Kill x/y creatures¡±. But, usually, you do not have to run back to turn these in, instead they will finish out on their own, and give you a small amount of experience along with a missive scroll. These missive scrolls can be turned in 1, 5, or 10 at a time. If you only turn in one, you get a paltry item, like food, drink, maybe a small potion. If you turn in five at a time, you get a minor item, either a decent potion, a green named (lesser magic) item, or the like. If you turn in ten, you get good items with a chance for rare items. These range from a lesser magic item (blue) on up to yellow, and possibly orange named items. Of course, sometimes you get really unlucky and get a really nice potion instead. A good bit of soloing is done using missives along the way. Back GRINDING In the original MMO games, there really was not a great deal of quests worth doing, so people had to find other ways to level up. They found out that they could wander around killing stuff while they did quests and could tell around how much experience they received per creature they killed. After some time, they would reach that lull in quests and progression, so they went back to the places that they had killed in that had really good experience per creature, and they got a group. Sitting there killing the same creatures over and over for hours netted them many levels, and that is what grinding is. Grinding is necessary at certain points where the game hits a small dip. Either you leveled too fast and the next quests are way above you or too easy for you, or you leveled too slowly so the quests are way too high above you. Maybe there are no quests worth your time at your level. Either way, grinding is your answer to continue leveling. As you advance through the levels, keep an eye out for enemies that you either like killing, or give good experience. If you need to, come back to them and slaughter them by the dozen. A form of grinding is farming. mp3 players Instead of grinding experience though, you are killing mostly, if not purely, for the items and coin. Many people go back to places where the enemies dropped good ¡°loot¡± (treasure), so that they can rack up a nice hoard of gold, gems, and equipment. This can be a useful tactic if you need to buy upgrades to any of your items or get some of those more expensive skills from your trainer. world of warcraft gold " "Crafting is the art of turning raw materials into a worked product. These products can be for many different purposes: to turn in to an NPC as part of a work order, to use as equipment, to put up for sale on broker, also they can be used as part of another crafting recipe. To find a crafting trainer, simply ask a guard again, and they will promptly send you in the correct direction. wow The trainer will have you do different quests just like the harvesting trainer did, and at the end of the series you will have a pretty good idea what all is involved in the process. The only difference is, with crafting you have to pick the skill first, and then you do the quests. So it is best to be informed up front about what skills do what. wow gold Back DIPLOMACY Have you ever wanted to play a character in an online game where you could do wonders just by talking to people and convincing them of different things. Well, Vanguard has that included. Diplomacy is one of the spheres in the game. wow gold It is basically like a mini-game from the final fantasy series. Diplomacy is done by right-clicking on an NPC, and when you see the spot in the dialogue where quests are listed, there will be a special quest of sorts followed by some colorful pictures. This is a diplomatic conversation. wow gold kaufen Look at the information provided before you click on it though. You will see up to four colorful pictures, if there is less, then that means something very important. The ones shown represent the suits available during that particular conversation. The ones missing represent the suits that are NOT available.
27.09.2008 - 12:45
So I made my character¡­ now what. Well, there¡¯s a lot to be done. But one of the key features of LotRO is its intricate quest system and delicately woven story. This guide will help you become familiar with both. The Story of LotRO Story. What story. If you¡¯re one of the millions who have read the books or seen the movies, The Lord of the Rings has a deep and intricate timeline that follows the trials and hardships of many different characters in the fight against the Dark Lord Sauron. There¡¯s plenty of info on the lore of Lord of the Rings to be found at the Encyclopedia of Arda. How is that handled in the game though. Through the use of quests and cinematic events, the story crafted by the Turbine and numerous Tolkien Experts will be played out by you, the player. Okay, so where does my character fit in. As a dwarf, elf, hobbit, or human, you are one of the many free people of Middle-Earth. Your character¡¯s path does not follow in the footsteps of the books¡¯ characters, but rather down a different path that was only oft alluded to in JRR Tolkien¡¯s notes and appendices. Without spoiling much of what you¡¯ll see in LotRO, there is a mounting dark force on the rise in Angmar, and it is up to you and the friends you make in the game to thwart it. I¡¯m familiar with the books, but when does my character begin his ¡°life¡±. Well, that all depends on your race. As an elf, your very first steps will be taken centuries before the Fellowship from the books is formed, and as a dwarf you¡¯ll begin just before The Hobbit¡¯s events take place. The cinematics of each race¡¯s beginning quests will bring you up to date, along with the men and hobbits, just as Frodo and Sam are leaving the Shire. It is at this point that the game¡¯s story truly begins. Questing in Middle-Earth Okay, so I get the story bit, but how does LotRO¡¯s quest system work. As you travel throughout Middle-Earth, you¡¯ll meet many a varied Non-Player Characters (NPC), all of them ready to give you tasks to complete. These tasks are called quests, and NPCs that have one for you to undertake will be denoted by a golden ring above their head. Also, you¡¯ll see nearby quest-givers on your Mini-Map, also denoted by a golden ring. You¡¯ll receive your 1st quest very early in the game, and thousands more as you continue on. One of the many quest-givers in Middle-Earth. Why do I care about quests. Can¡¯t I just go around and kill things, or make stuff. Sure you can, but you¡¯d be missing out on a lot of the content that¡¯s been put into the game. Not to mention some of the best rewards (both money and items) are given out when completing a quest. Also, you¡¯ll find gaining a level to be a lot more friendly if you help out the NPCs with their numerous tasks. I have a quest, but I forgot what to do. How do I check what needs done. For just such a situation, you have your Quest Journal (default key = ¡°L¡±). Pressing L will bring up the Quest Journal, and it¡¯s here that you¡¯ll be able to keep track of all of your current tasks, as well as ones that you¡¯ve completed over the course of your character¡¯s life. mp3 players The Quest Journal Each quest is color coded according to the difficulty it will be for your character¡¯s level. Gray is the easiest, then comes green, then light blue and blue. White is even with your character¡¯s level, yellow is slightly above, and orange, red, and purple are considerably above your current level. world of warcraft gold You said something a bit back about rewards. And money too. Do tell! Yes, you heard me right. wow Some of the best items and a lot of money are there for the taking, if a player is dutiful enough to complete some of the quests. Aside from using the Quest Journal to figure out what needs done, you can also see what rewards will be given upon a quest¡¯s completion. Is there anyway to keep track of them without having the Journal open. wow gold Of course there is! When you highlight a quest, the menu down at the bottom of the Journal gives you several options. ¡°Add to tracker¡± will make that particular quest¡¯s objectives show up on your main screen off to the right on the ¡°Quest Tracker¡±. The Quest Tracker What do these little symbols by the name of the quest mean. wow gold kaufen Those symbols indicate different types of quests in LotRO. The symbol that looks like a bunch of people means that the quest will likely require a Fellowship (group of players) in order to be completed. The golden ring means that the quest is an ¡°Epic¡± quest, while having both on the same quest means that it is an Epic quest which will likely require a Fellowship to complete. wow power leveling What the heck is an ¡°Epic¡± quest. Epic quests, more often than not will be quests that directly relate to the main story of LotRO. They are catalogued in your Quest Journal under categories similar to a book (i. e. ¨C Prologue, Chapter 1, etc). They often involve a private instance, where the story can play out, and many will require a fellowship to complete, though certainly not all of them.
27.09.2008 - 12:43
What is the currency used in LOTRO. Money in LOTRO comes in three denominations: Gold, Silver, and Copper. - 100 Copper = 1 Silver - 1,000 Silver = 1 Gold How do I know how much money I have. You can check how much money you have by bringing up the Character Journal panel (Pressing the C key). Character Panel shows your available cash. How do I make money. You can earn money by completing quests, looting coins off humanoid enemies, selling items you loot from enemies and chests, or even by selling crafted items. How do I know how much money I will get from a quest. You can tell what the rewards will be given upon completion of a quest by checking your quest log (Pressing the L key). Quest log shows the quest completion reward. How do I craft items. You can make items like armor, weapons, food, and many more by taking up a Crafting Vocation. For more information, consult our Basic Crafting Guide. How do I sell items. You can sell (and buy) items in three ways: 1) to an NPC (non-player character) vendor that may be found in towns across Middle-Earth, 2) through the Auction House, or 3) by directly trading with another player character. How do I sell items to an NPC vendor. NPC vendors will buy practically anything of value in your inventory, including items that are bound to you (items that cannot be traded to other players). To interact with such an NPC, simply double-click (or right-click) on him/her. This will bring up a Shop Panel. Click on the Sell tab to list all the items in your inventory that can be sold. The selling price of each item is listed next to it. The Shopping Panel To sell an item, simply double-click (or right-click) on its picture. The money will go to your coin-purse automatically. The padlock next to the name of each item allows you to lock an item so you won¡¯t accidentally sell it. Only unlocked items can be sold. How do I buy items from a vendor. Just click on the Buy tab and it will list all the items the vendor has. Double-click or right-click on any item to buy it. What is the Buyback tab all about. The Buyback tab lets you buy back the last 16 items that you sold to any vendor during the session, for the same price at which you sold it. Nifty feature in cases where you get too click-happy and sell that precious sword by mistake! THE FIRST STEP How do I trade items with another player. To trade with another player, select the player you want to trade with and right-click on their portrait. On the menu that is brought up, select ¡°Start Secure Trade¡±. Drag the item you wish to trade from your inventory to the Trade Window and complete the trade. mp3 player If you wish to pay the other player, enter the amount you want to transfer in the Trade window before completing the trade. The Auction House Where can I find an Auction House. There are Auction Houses in Bree-town, Michel Delving, and Thorin¡¯s Hall. world of warcraft gold How do I sell items in the Auction House. Double-click or right-click on an Auctioneer to bring up the Auction Panel, then click on the Post tab. Drag the item you wish to sell from your inventory into the Auction Item box. wow An Initial Price will be set for you by default but you can override it. You may also specify a Buyout Price. Click on Post Auction to finalize the auction. wow gold The Auction Panel What is a ¡°Kinship Only¡± auction. Kinships that have reached level 4 can post auctions for their members only. What fees do I have to pay to sell through the Auction House. wow gold Every time you post an auction, you have to pay a Posting Fee up front. The amount depends on the duration you picked (see the table below). The percentage is applied to either the Initial Price or the Buyout Price, if you entered one. wow gold In addition to this, the Auction House also takes a 5% Auctioning Fee for every sale completed. Duration Posting Fee 8 Hours 6 % of Item Worth 24 Hours 20% of Item Worth 48 Hours 40% of Item Worth 72 Hours 60% of Item Worth How do I buy items from the Auction House.