Fancy Cosmetics...

One thing that I like, a lot, from Lotro are, without any question the Cosmetic option. it's not just that allows you to look awesome and epic all the time, with several different clothes for almost all the different things that you have to do, such as healing looking gear, dps looking gear, tanking looking gear or maybe just silly looking outfit... But the very best is that allows you not to look as a clown while you are running around Eriador saving the Middle Earth.

When I used to play WoW or DDO, you had to confront the fact that you may look like a clown, with purple shows, white legs armor and sky blue chest armor and a pointy helmet. This option actually helps you to look even better than many epic and totally capped characters that care less about their gear and look.

And obviously, since I decided to get some time to Lotro again, I have been working a lot in my Outfit gear. I'm not happy looking just awesome, I need to be epic, maybe legendary... maybe epic, legendary and awesome. So far, I mostly failed in my goal but I do really like how my character looks like in the game, some influences are from Castlevania: Lords of Shadows, Grabriel's armor, while other... mostly the same too, but with different colors. I think that Only Varsalla have a elegant outfit for healing and one fitted for war and yelling duties.

Let's start with Khas first :3

Khas, as a hunter, needs a lot of cover and stealthy gear, since I dont like the green (At least too much) and I really like the dark, red blood-like called Crimson, I decided to use both Cosmetics with that dye and few similar objects. They are basically based on Castlevania (As I said) and the Horse from the faction at Angmar.

My primary Outfit gear, for direct war, less stealthy and more pew, pew, pew
pew, pew, pew!

And as I said: Goes perfectly with my horse. (Which still have the normal name: "Unbroken Will"
I want to change it but I have no idea for now)

Stealthy mode, perfect for Crowd control duties and way more easier to run with.

The next example it's my new Rune-keeper, which I'm having a lot of fun with, (Maybe you dont know or dont remember but I used to have one, a male elf... which.. I deleted without remorse) Since this character is going to be for healing mostly, if I level her up, I decided to work the gear in that way. So far, the healing duties are not as I wanted so I have to level up a bit as dps, which allows me to use this...

Almost heavy armor looking, just to feel a bit more confident about my almost non existing
armor (Light) and a winged Tiara to go at hand
with my metal shoulders. Gloves and boots belongs to the Ex-pack set and combine a lot with my belt pouch stuff.

As for healing, it[s green.... only due the effect of healing that are green, and masked. Mostly, this is like Khas war gear...
But in green makes me feel like if I were a field medic with a masked hood.  

Playing with my Rune-keeper with this look its quite awesome, at least in the visual duties. looking stronger than normally is helps a bit when you die a lot of times due your almost non morale bar and zero armor... So far, with this toon, I'm looking forward to get the undying title, I haven't died or at least... I dont remember... lvl 20 will tell.

The last of the one that I decided to show is Varsalla, which have similar pieces but more with the ranger set from the almost last book epic line (yup, the chatty quest line).

Healer mode, if I eventually decide to do that stuff, with gloves and boots from the Ex-pack set,
Chest is a heavy armor, black dye (duh!) and the shoulder belongs to the Ranger set (Chatty stuff)

I do like that Outfit, looks extremely elegant and makes me feel like I should be healing someday with her, probably I will try but so far: I need to take her to lvl 75 first.

The battle gear... mostly Ranger set... in fact, I do believe that its only Ranger set...

Why I decided to use that one, well, simply, to remind myself that I'm not a heavy armor user and I can go around, running like a crazy elf using all my AoE attacks to pull the mobs... and yes, i have died a LOT with Varsalla lately, so... I need more visual help in here to remind me how bad I have my gear and my low morale hit bar as well.

WoW got something like this option, but you can carry only one type of outfit on you and it cost you some gold to transform the item that you have in what you actually want. Good thing is that you can apply it to shields and weapons, no matter what as long as they have the same family type, like two handed swords with only two handed swords, or maybe axes with axes, staffs with staffs... sounds obviously but still... they charge you for using the Transmogrification option... What a word, right? transmogrification... Amazingly I can remember that one but I dont know how to write Neighboord, Neighbhood, or Neighborhood... meh.. any way...

Hope you enjoyed my unusal post about cosmetics, it's boring, I know, but somehow it's quite interesting if you are not familiar with this feature of the game. Well, I gotta go!

Have a great night my friends, and I wish you a great beginning of a awesome weekend!

The slowly return

Yup, sort of... It has been a sloooowly return to Lotro due several things, such as TV Series, Movies, lot of work and several journeys of relax and vacation. But without any doubt, it's a return to Lotro. In fact, two days ago I decided to buy some Tp's and farm another annoying quantity (Since the virtues are capped at 14 now, I had several deeds that I need so close to finish them) to get the new zone, the Great river stuff.

Funny stuff: I haven't been there yet... Anyway...

As you all know, Khas was my first toon, then I got Varsalla as a main but eventually Khas was again as main so I left the small, yelling elf behind. Minstrels are great, and with this ex-pack are even better and perhaps I die a lot due my low morale and my awesome looking, but totally ineffective, light armor  profiency, not taking aside the noob rising spirit on me, of course. Since I got the hunter again, everything seems to be a bit faster and nastier, arrow after arrow, if the enemy arrives so close is almost as good as dead, traps, fire arrow, light arrows, melee stuns, range stuns... Too many things just to ignore them. 

Me, wasting time in some old instance, trying to go solo...
Actually I got it until the last boss, but he killed me quite fast.

But all of a sudden, I felt the urge of playing again with the yelling, small elf again. Not so sure if it was the awesome Theorbo or the fact that there's few good little things aside annoying everyone in Bree with the Pibgorn (Which I rather like to call: Pigborn) So I logged off from the deadly hunter to travel the world once again with the music and the style of a awesome minstrel... Yelling and cursing around my enemies. But the quests that I decided to end were not exactly what I expected..

After this point, I was bored from talking to one ranger to another...

Still, this one, in the middle of the road, was kinda funny...
Does this guy knows that the orcs, crebains and hideous dog-like creatures roams
the place?

 Anyway, after those quests, I started the quests that ended with Theodred's death near isengard. Those quests were kinda great, inspiring soldiers, teaching them how to fight in arts that you actually have no idea (No wonder why some many of them died... A minstrel was his mentor in the battle duties...) But anyway, it was great. I got a new cosmetic set in the previuos book and now I was using it "Like a sir."

Yeah, yeah, less chat more fight! where are those brave soldiers who wants my
advice in combat?!

After teaching them how to use their bow and sword with my theorbo, the war began and it was more than nasty... In fact, was horrible, the horror and chaos was spread among each other in the battlefield even if at the beginning we thought that we were winning the fight. Sadly, I could not take screen from that part and the ones in were the prince got owned... er.. I mean, died, and the funeral and stuff, I forgot at home... So.. This was the first before the hell opened in front of our eyes.

"This... doesnt look very well at all... I think that we are
dead, soldier..."

After those fights, in which I proudly say that I died only once... Taking in mind that I only have 3k of Morale and light armor... and a Theorbo as a weapon... Everything got worst. the Prince got wounded, deadly wounded and obviusly, he died... With honor and full of noob actions, but honor and proud of being a Soldier of Rohan... 

The quest chain after that, well, it was creepy... its all about a dream that you have, a nightmare due all that massacre and stuff that everyone suffered in the small river and Isengard, but one of the first things that I saw was this guy...

Oh... hai... shall I play a song for you?

He was the Orc that was bossing around in Isengard when you were in jail, the same orc that wounded the Prince and died later somewhere away from you. He's back and got a better size and more morale... And its a bit angry with with after all that you have done in Isengard.

But killing him was no heroic at all, I mean, it was kinda nasty but at the end it was simple, like many other battles... And yes, there's a bit of sarcasm in there. Still, the dream was long and several things happened that I'm not, in any way, tell in this post, I already spoiled few things so I'll be kinda quiet about spoils and stuff.

DERN! I say no more spoiling! er.. Forget this screen...

ok, there's nothing to see in here, proceed to the next screen please!

Of course, all these quests are necessary to understand the new zone, The Great River, yet... I think that it was quite... disturbing... I'm going to explain it in only three screens (Since you reach the Great River in Dream mode... or whatever...)

 Screen 1:

The Fellowship... which is quite funny as you see the map and it's huge
and you have the lucky to find them EVERYWHERE... I know, I know, they are the dudes in here...
But... The legend its ours ): 

 Screen 2:

Well... Not so sure if this is getting like WoW with their huge fancy weapons...
Or I'm just dont getting the message of the dream...

And Screen 3:

Now, on color, Galadriel floating, this girl who seems to be blind (Due some cloth on her eyes) and suddenly.. she dies...

A bad dream?... A bad trip?... A Bad understanding of a awesome dream? Not so sure... but It was quite weird, which is some way is actually great since incite you to find out what the bloody hell is going on and what's going to happen and also, but also strange... really strange...

At least you meet:

Le Gandalf, le white wizard...

Sadly, all those quest didnt help me to lvl up Varsalla, not even a bit, if I got two or three bars was like "PFFFFFFFT AWESOME"... I'm lvl 73, let's say that quite near to lvl 74... at 80% or so, well, I was at 78% maybe 77% at the beginning.

Good thing that I got the new zone so I can lvl her up quite fast there, and hopefully, I wont die trying :3

Well, I'm out for a bit, gotta do some work and stuff, hopefully see you today in game and sooner again in the blog, have a great hunting friends of mine!

Aah its been a while... again...

I'm kinda back, I had three months full of unusual things that I usually dont like to do but it went well, for example, i love to stay at home, having a normal weekend, maybe watching a movie, eating what we call here "tequeños" and drinking Cold tea... instead, I have been traveling a lot to the place called "Colonia Tovar" with some friends, playing D&D, watching movies and... well, mostly the same things but with company and in another place that's not home...

Also, I went back for few days to WoW... And it's not my fault and it's true! Let me explain... Lotro client has been a bit of a Pain lately in my Pc, few months back I had to reinstall the game in order to have 1 day of playing Lotro and then another critical error, a wild critical error, decided to strike and I had to download AGAIN the ENTIRE game and re-install... It was a good time to take a bit vacation of been fooling around in the middle earth. December was nice, Video-gameless and full of small outdoor adventures but eventually, I decided to return.

When I wanted to play lotro again, I remembered all that I had to do and suddenly I got a invitation for WoW, and decided to try WoW again for 2 weeks, this time with the Horde and of course, a Death Knight... WoW was great, the Raid finder option its nice, everything got funny but eventually it was somehow the same...

This is my new DK.. Esteno...

Yes, I was playing while I was at work, its not awesome, its just that I had plenty of free time... right now, I wish I had at least the half of what I had in that moment D: Anyway... Dk's are fun, they start at lvl 55, as soon as you get out of the new zone you can go and own Outlands, so basically, it was easy to lvl up this lady... I really wanted a Warlock but... 85 lvls to go... meh... I dont know...

Playing WoW gave me a dose of old memories, friends, raids, instances, drop... and also gave me General, Trade and LFF channels, hate comments, Rage for items, Bugs, High lvl Characters of the Opposite faction killing you while they had 10 or 20 levels more than you... and worst of all: Legal PVP...

Bugs... like, for example, swimming and flying at the same time in Orgrimmar...

One thing that I miss from the game its the PvP which its awesome and if you have a fast computer and a decent/fast connection, it could be somehow addictive and legendary. I went to the new Raid, with Raid Finder, killed Deathwing, claim so loot and... pretty much of PvP, since its the best thing that you can do once you have done, at least to know it, the raids of the season..

And to get, by far, funnier or better looking armor sets...

I kinda miss the PvP right now...

But the time came to a end and now that I have another lvl 85 in my list, I feel like I could play more but I dont want it as well, its a internal fight from both sides that sometimes makes you wonder: "What if... I change the game for a bit"...

And even with the new, so long waited, Lotro update, "Shores of the Great River", I decided to take a sneak to DC Universe Online... hopefully I will be testing it today, IF the game downloaded correctly... hopefully... hopefully...

But anyway, I'm not gonna count with it right now, since it maybe dont happen at all.. I decided to sahre something with you all, and since most of you (I'm judging you all by my actions) rarely read the changes on the updates in ANY game, since they are like the Terms and.. I forgot the other word, the only that comes to my mind is "Agreed"... Conditions, maybe? yeah.. maybe.. anyway... look what I found today in the Lotro Update notes that may change the destiny and ambitions of all:

• Landscape soldier tokens can be bartered for marks and medallions at the skirmish upgrade vendor.
• Cosmetic versions of the Helegrod armor set can now be found on the Cosmetics skirmish barter vendor.
• The Moria and Bree NPCs that exchanged reputation items for potions now accept the trading of those items.
• You can now exchange Moria Guards and Miners reputation items by visiting the reputation vendors in Moria.
• Some barter vendors in Lothlórien, Mirkwood and Enedwaith will now allow you to exchange their region's respective Gold Tokens for Silver Tokens (along with the other way around).
• The value of five ducks is now one pig, however pigs will continue to be worth their weight in gold because you can make bacon out of them!
• The Dunlending Quartermaster now has a Travel to Galtrev skill, available to all players with Kindred standing.
• Barter costs of the Level 45 Class Items and some Consumables have been adjusted.
• Worn Symbols of Celebrimbor are now available via Skirmish barter vendors.
• The Reputation rewards from Enedwaith have had their Minimum Level requirements lowered, based on the required Tier of Reputation. Kindred items remain at Minimum Level 65.
• Players may now exchange 50 Marks for 1 Medallion at the Currency Exchange NPCs found in the various Skirmish Camps across Eriador. There are also options to exchange for 10 and 50 Medallions.

Ducks got Nerfed... I KNEW IT! Pigs were always better...

Now we are going to hear all those ducks talking about how Turbine hates them and blah, blah, blah... Dern... it's gonna be a long month my friends...

Well, I'm out to my home my friends, good luck and have a great hunting!