LOTRO Free Trial and anyone still play?

i just installed the trial and im having some weird graphical problems with the shadows, does anyone know a way to sort this out? :confused: i tried installing the newest drivers but it didnt help

this is my system

Intel Core 2 Duo E8600
Nvidia GTX280
SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX
Asus P5Q Deluxe
Corsair HX 620W Psu
120gig Maxtor SATA
300gig Maxtor SATA

and here are some pictures of the problem
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its strange because it only seems to happen in areas where there is a lot of shadow & npc's/creatures & it sort of flickers on and off like that so it doesnt happen all the time :confused: i was going to buy the game but unless i can solve the problem i dont want to
 
I've read somewhere that there is an issue with the game and nvidia drivers, so you might want to update them to the new beta.

How are you finding the game?
 
Teki187 said:
I've read somewhere that there is an issue with the game and nvidia drivers, so you might want to update them to the new beta.

How are you finding the game?
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thanks :) ill give the beta drivers a try, so far i dont really know,im not enjoying the starting area with my elf character as much as the human but im going to stick with it and see how it goes, i just fancied a change from wow and i love lotr so this was my first choice :p

Edit: well i was going to try the beta but i cant find them on the site
 
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I have been un able to download the trial. I have tried several different places and it fails partly into it.

Even with using firefox.

Anyone recommend the best place to download?
 
I've been playing pretty much solid now for the last 36 hours.

Started as a burglar on Snowfall.

I am finding it pretty good however, and I am not sure if this is just me, but it seems to similar to WoW! Finding ores/wood using skills, crafting etc seems very WoW like. It just seems that its too similar, and I don't really like WoW!

Hopefully, I am going to use as much of the 14 day trial as possible, maybe make a couple of new characters in order to cover the different professions.

I also don't get the Monster area at all. Started as a monster, picked up a couple of missions, walked down into the valley only to get raped by a flying fairy thing + friends who had 3 times more health than I did at the same level :/
 
New update coming end of Jan possible Mid Feb - Book 7, Lorien expanded and new zone Dol Guldor :)
 
AHarvey said:
I've been playing pretty much solid now for the last 36 hours.

Started as a burglar on Snowfall.

I am finding it pretty good however, and I am not sure if this is just me, but it seems to similar to WoW! Finding ores/wood using skills, crafting etc seems very WoW like. It just seems that its too similar, and I don't really like WoW!

Hopefully, I am going to use as much of the 14 day trial as possible, maybe make a couple of new characters in order to cover the different professions.

I also don't get the Monster area at all. Started as a monster, picked up a couple of missions, walked down into the valley only to get raped by a flying fairy thing + friends who had 3 times more health than I did at the same level :/
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Well it sure is not a revolutionnary MMO, but some aspects of the game are different than Wow. Like you said the PvP is not the same, its more PvMP(monster player), there's also the trait system which is great I think.

Also the pace of the game is not the same, the world seems way bigger than wow and way prettier as well :) and the real thing that I love in this game is that the community seems way more mature than wow's which is flooded by kiddies trying to be l33t d00ds.
 
Leodido said:
Well it sure is not a revolutionnary MMO, but some aspects of the game are different than Wow. Like you said the PvP is not the same, its more PvMP(monster player), there's also the trait system which is great I think.

Also the pace of the game is not the same, the world seems way bigger than wow and way prettier as well :) and the real thing that I love in this game is that the community seems way more mature than wow's which is flooded by kiddies trying to be l33t d00ds.
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Agree entirely with that. LOTRO is similar to WOW in terms of UI and the surface of the game, so definitely for the first levels you could say its WOW in Middle Earth (which to me is already an improvement as I prefer Tolkien's world) but as you get deeper into the game the differences become more apparent.

Also, I recommend that to experience the game fully you get into a kinship at some point (maybe pay for another month after your trial to continue tentatively). A good kinship makes all the difference imo. I levelled my first character from lvl ~25 to 43 mostly by going out with 1 or 2 experienced kin members who were levelling up an alt, and learnt a lot with them, especially about teamwork, and then I started doing kin runs in the elite areas which are really fun and nothing to do with soloing to kill X number of spiders.

What I like about the game is that getting to the high levels doesnt feel like the end of the game, more like the beginning of a new way to play it. The game has a lot for the top levels to do.
 
I am still having trouble downloading the trial> I have tried on three different times, during the day once and at night twice.

And it always just stops.

Where are the legal torrents when you need them?
 
Alas there are none, you could find an unofficial one, which would not necessarily be illegal as the free trial is free anyway
 
I am enjoying it so far, level 14 Burglar, spent 4 hours exploring Bree land this morning and collecting skins, wood and ore.

Running it on DX9 on XP with most things on high/ultra.

Anyone got any good sites for guides for crafting etc?

And any OCUK kinships setup?
 
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I wouldn't bother too much with crafting at a low level tbh... If you want to get anywhere fast it will take a lot of gold/time.

Definitely collect rescources though as they are always be a great source of income if required
 
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I wouldn't bother too much with crafting at a low level tbh... If you want to get anywhere fast it will take a lot of gold/time.

Definitely collect rescources though as they are always be a great source of income if required
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Depends on the profession to be honest - if you're a light / medium armour class then tailoring will keep you in as good or better than dropped / quest reward armour for a long time, purely from hides you loot from kills along the way without grinding the profession.

Likewise tinkering will get you jewelry generally better than what's available as rewards until you start to hit high levels, without any great effort besides mining ore you come across. Tinker profession also includes cook, which is excellent for classes that don't have self heals.

Scholar doesn't start to be any use until you're expert and is a pain as resources are scarce, metalsmith I found the hardest to get anything useful out of for a long time.

If you have an alt or two it pays to choose complimentary professions for them too. My hunter is a tinker, she supplies my minstrel scholar with ore for his weaponsmith work and dye ingredients, he makes bow oils and traps for her. Both of them give hides to my warden tailor who keeps everyone supplied with armour.
 
You can get all the professions with 4 characters if you choose the right crafting vocations, and that way all the ingredients you pick up are useful for one alt or another.

Not sure if there are other combinations, but you can do that with Tinker, Historian, Armourer and Woodsman. That way you always have an alt to supply another with whatever he needs.

The only 'flaw' in it is that to advance some professions you need to also level up to complete a crafting quest that allows you to progress to the next tier in that profession, so you cant effectively have a main character 3 alts at very low levels just there for crafting, at some point you need to level those up to for them to be useful in every tier. That said, stuff like boiling hides into leather will not require you to level the alt up, so you have that from a 'slave' alt even if you dont level it up.

You could get help from someone and do the quests required even at a low level, just let a higher level friend do the killing, but then the next limitation is that you need to get to a certain level anyway to use the superior crafting tools that give you an extra % chance to crit an item, and its the crit items that are going to make you the money.

Other than crit items, you can make money with the gathering professions almost from the word go, as stuff like silver sells well and you can gather that at tier2 prospector even at the low levels, its just about taking the time to farm it.

Another helpful link:
http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Crafter_interdependence
 
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