So, my other MMO is Lord of the Rings Online. I have 3 characters, all of which are way below the level cap (under level 40 out of 65 max). I dabble in it some, and keep it active mostly because I enjoy their housing system so much (and it’s nice to play in a [...]
Category Archives: Lord of the Rings Online
Like a rat in the maze: LOTRO spring festival
I would post about WOW today, but I’ve spent most of the last week stuck in a maze in LOTRO-land. This is the time of the spring festival in LotRO. It’s actually a literal maze: You wind your way through the maze and do various activities, such as looking for lost people, posting confusing signs, [...]
Upgrading houses in LOTRO
So, I finally got enough gold in LotRO to upgrade my house size from a standard to a deluxe. My original house was a cute (but really tiny) place in the hobbit area. So, I packed up most of my stuff (the rest of it was sent to Escrow, so it was pretty easy to [...]
What’s a “main”? Specialists vs. Generalists
So, since I’ve been splitting my time between LOTRO and WOW, I’ve noticed that I have very different play-styles between the two games. In WoW, I’m a specialist: I have my main, a druid, and I spend MOST of my time & resources on that one character. I did manage to get a shaman up [...]
Distractions: A case of the mondays
So, I’ve been distracted from WoW lately, and thus also distracted from blogging. One of my distractions from the game was school work done while my Undergrads (in my course & my research assistants) were all off partying it up for Spring Break. I’ve been working on organizing things for beginning to design & write [...]