November 11, 2022 – Virrah

For some reason, I always felt that Virrah got neglected the most out of all my toons. Not sure why, but I was very happy to spend some time with her in Evendim today.

I understand why some players don’t like Evendim. That lake is huge and sometimes the only way to get certain places is to swim it, which takes FOREVER (hence the nickname “Everswim”). But it’s just so beautiful. The lake is gorgeous and exploring all the tombs and ruins is really fun. My only complaint is that there are SOOOOOOO many deeds. You have to slay EVERYTHING basically.

Today, Virrah assisted an Ent named Longbough defeat an ancient evil in his forest before joining up with some of the Dunedain to help with some tomb robbers in the Way of Kings. Not a bad way to spend a day.

Quests Completed

• The Twisted Heart
• Instance: The Twisted Heart
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Architects of History
• Scouting Arthobel
• Mirrors of Tham Sarch
• Robbers of Tham Sarch
• Longbows of Tham Laegamon
• Robbers of Tham Laegamon
• The Hills Have Eyes

Quests Bestowed, Not Completed

• The Way of Kings

Enemies Defeated

• 1 Angmarim Expeditionary
• 3 Barkskin Wood-trolls
• 2 Buzzing Lake-fly Swarms
• 5 Deadly Tomb-robbers
• 14 Hardened Tomb-robbers
• 3 Kergrim Scavengers
• 4 Master Tomb-Robbers
• 3 Rotting Pine-Lords
• 2 Rotting Wood-trolls
• 2 Summoned Roots
• 8 Twisted Heart’s Roots
• The Twisted Heart
• 5 Vile Kergrim

Enemies Defeated by Allies

• Haru, my trusty Bog Lurker
  • 2 Deadly Tomb-robbers
  • 4 Hardened Tomb-robbers
  • 2 Rotting Pine-Lords
  • 1 Twisted Heart Root
• Longbough, my Ent friend
  • 3 Barkskin Wood-trolls
  • 2 Rotting Wood-trolls
  • 1 Summoned Root
  • Heart-rot

Loot Collected

• 14 Bronze Arnorian Coins
• 7 Fragments of Dunedain Script
• 6 Silver Arnorian Coins
• 6 Adamants
• 3 Artisan Metalsmith Scroll Cases
• 1 Artisan Scholar Scroll Case
• 1 Artisan Tailor Scroll Case
• 1 Black Badge
• 28 Broken Longswords
• 2 Chainmail Shoulder Guards of Might
• 1 Chunk of Prilled Brimstone
• 1 Dwarf Quilted Shirt of Vigour
• 1 Elegantly Runed Earring
• 1 Elven Leather Shirt of Fleetness
• 8 Fine Skins
• 1 Gray Ear
• 1 Gray Heartwood
• 1 Hardened Carapace
• 14 Knotted Branches
• 8 Long-bows
• 5 Mathoms
• 8 Mirrors
• 14 New Sword Sheaths
• 1 Refined Celebrant Salve
• 1 Round Whetstone
• 2 Tallow Candles
• 14 Tomb-raider’s Sashes
• 1 Traveller’s Steel-Bound Lootbox
• 2 Well-kept Mathoms
• 2 Yellow Flax Fibre
• 331 silver pieces
• 1873 copper coins
• 12,902 XP

**UPDATE ON THE ANOR SITUATION**

World transfers were back up and running this morning, so I managed to request a transfer for the Anor folks to get them and their loot back! We will be making our new home on the Gladden server once the transfer goes through. I have no idea how long that might take, since I’m assuming there are a few other people also in the same boat, but at least the I-Squad will be back in business!

November 10, 2022 – Tansiel

Working my way through my toons to see where everyone is. Turns out, Tansiel was still hanging out in Bree waiting to take on more dead baddies in the Barrow Downs.

Today was fun. Tansy fell in with a higher level character who was helping a newbie friend get through some deeds. When they saw that I was doing the same, they invited me to join them in a fellowship. Since this guy was level 100, he was able to one-shot pretty much everything there, so Tansy was getting credit for doing basically nothing. It was all going well until my internet decided to act up. Once I got back online, my friends were gone. I feel bad since it looks like I just ghosted them. Tansy managed to finish up her deeds by herself – even though she isn’t as high a level, she is still a pretty good fighter and could take out barrow-wardens and spirits in just a few hits. She managed to get through the rest of the deeds in Bree-land with the exception of the Wildwood deeds, which she will do once she starts questing there.

As far as deeds go, Tansiel is pretty much caught up except for a few deeds in Ered Luin, but those are in Sarnur and might be difficult for her right now. So we might just head back to the Trollshaws for some questing and finishing up the deeds there as well.

No full stats today because my chat log wasn’t set up right on Tansiel’s account. But here’s what I did do.

Deeds Completed

• Executioner of the Wicked
• Grave Digger
• Nemesis of the Fallen
• Grave Digger Advanced
• Nemesis of the Fallen Advanced

Not bad for a morning’s work!

November 8, 2022 – Apphirie

My little hobbit minstrel is going on an adventure indeed, starting her trip into the dark world of Angmar. It’s a scary place, and quite frankly, not my favorite part of the game. It’s just so dark! Makes things very hard to see, which is the point, I assume. And the music for this area is just unsettling. Again, that’s the point, I know. But I also tend to listed to other things whenever I play in Angmar, just because.

Our journey today takes Apphirie to the city of Aughaire in southern Angmar. She was instructed to present herself to the chieftain, and since she is a respectful hobbit, she does so. Crannog is not a trusting fellow, but he has reason not to be. He places a challenge on Apphirie so that she may prove her trustworthiness, instructing her to complete tasks for three of his most trusted tribesmen: Torquil, Raith and Osbail. As she fights wargs, orcs and the Trev Duvardain, she collects trophies and treasures to bring back to Crannog to show just what she is made of.

It’s not quite enough, and although Crannog seems impressed, he is still not convinced. But that is a tale for another time.

Stats for today:

Quests Completed

• Present Yourself to the Chieftain
• Predators in the Foothills
• Dark Raiders
• Trophies of War
• Crannog’s Challenge
• The Rising Chord
  • This is a minstrel specific class quest that I didn’t even realize I had. So yay?

Quests Bestowed, Not Completed

• Crannog’s Second Challenge

Deeds Completed

• None

Deeds Bestowed, Not Completed

• Warg Slayer (Angmar)

Enemies Defeated

• 2 Cave Scara
• 7 Duvardain Berserkers
• 2 Duvardain Scouts
• 2 Duvardain Sentries
• 1 Ongburz Captain
• 4 Ongburz Skirmishers
• 4 Ongburz Warriors
• 2 Scara Corpse-ravagers
• 7 Scara Hunters
• 3 Scara Skulkers

Loot Collected

• 4 Bloodstone Pendants
• 6 Skull Amulets
• 3 Missing Pages of The Rising Chord
• 2 Refined Athelas Extracts
• 5 Adamants
• 2 Artisan Scholar Scroll Cases
• 1 Artisan Woodworker Scroll Case
• 1 Broken Great Sword
• 16 Broken Halberds
• 1 Fragment of Dunedain Script
• 1 Gem of Buth Sankhas
• 1 Guilded Sword Sheath
• 1 Loop of Buth Sankhas
• 1 Mathom
• 1 Necklace of Buth Sankhas
• 11 Pristine Hides
• 2 Refined Athelas Essences
• 19 Sleek Skins
• 1 Slippers of Fem
• 7 Studded Sword Sheathes
• 1 Well-kept Mathom
• 147 Silver Pieces
• 984 Copper Coins

Also, just as a note: it appears that in the time I was away from LOTRO that the Anor Legendary server is no more? I’m guessing that the toons I had on there are long gone at this point. I’m going to explore and see if they were shifted somewhere else, but I’m guessing that since I hadn’t been on in a while, they were probably just deleted. 

RIP to the I-Squad: Iarvald, Ilgir, Iridia, Itylara, Ivien and Ixulias. It was fun while it lasted.

**UPDATE: It looks like transfers from the Anor server were supposed to be available until December 31st, but as of right now, all transfers are currently unavailable. According to the forums, it’s been this way for a while now. So there’s a very slim chance that I could get them back, but I’m not holding my breath. They wouldn’t be able to transfer to another legendary server anyway, which was why I created them in the first place. I might just recreate them and start over on one of the new legendaries. We’ll see. 

 

 

May 30, 2020 – Nirawyn

Well, well, ladies and germs, it’s been a while!

Today, I played around with my highest level character: Nirawyn, my level 85 human guardian. She is currently going back to try and finish up some deeds back in prior areas. There’s only one deed left in Evendim that she needs to finish up: Leaders of the Invasion (Advanced). Whew, this one is tough, even at a much higher level! The first one we tackled was Nengon, which wasn’t too bad. He’s an evil darkwater in Glinghant, once a beautiful garden in Annúminas is now overrun with all kinds of baddies. Too bad. It looks like it used to be quite a beautiful place.

Nengon was surprisingly easy to defeat, although to be fair, since I was soloing what is usually a six-person Instance, I leveled it down quite a bit so I could have a better chance. Once Nengon was taken out, it was time to move on to the next baddies on my list: Shingrinder and Dolvaethor in Haudh Valandil. It started off well. Got through the lower level without much difficulty. Went up the stairs and managed to dispatch Shingrinder, although he tried to throw me off a bridge. Dolvaethor, however, proved to be more troublesome. Or rather, he would have if I had been able to get to him. He hid behind a wall of flame and kept throwing flaming limrafn at me. Those things hurt. A lot. I’ll need to do some research to see about some better strategies to get past those.

On to the stats:

Quests Completed:

• Darkest of Waters
• Glinghant Corrupted
• The Kergrim Stalk Haudh Valandil

Quests Bestowed (not completed):

• End Dolvaethor’s Menace (Eh, well I tried!)

Deeds Completed:

• None this time

Deeds Bestowed (not completed):

• Annúminas – Glinghant
• Annúminas – Haudh Valandil

Side note: I didn’t realize until today that Instances also have deeds. I never really paid that much attention to Instances since you usually need multiple people and I prefer to play solo. That just gives me more to work on, I guess.

Enemies Defeated:

• 6 Angmarim Lookouts
• 7 Angmarim
• 9 Caustic Darkwaters
• 8 Draining Darkwaters
• 2 High Sorceresses
• 10 Obscuring Darkwaters
• 3 Stagnant Oaks
• 8 Stimulating Darkwaters
• 6 Suppressing Darkwaters
• 2 Tormented Horrors
• 8 Weakening Darkwaters
• Nengon
• 2 Spectral Champions
• 6 Spectral Warriors
• 3 Ancient Burrowers
• 4 Ancient Fell-talons
• 4 Arnorian Knights
• 18 Crypt Diggers
• 5 Crypt-invokers
• 12 Crypt-ravagers
• 4 Crypt-stalkers
• 8 Fell-talons
• 17 Flashing Limrafn
• Shingrinder
• 16 Burning Limrafn (damn those things!)

Loot acquired:

• 8 Marks
• 4 Medallions
• 1 Bounty: Footman
• 4 Bounties: Veteran Footman
• 1 Potent Valourous Breastplate of Fate
• 517 silver pieces
• 1284 copper pieces

XP earned: 5376

August 18, 2019 – Tansiel

Tansiel spent most of this session questing around the Trollshaws (and a couple in Evendim) and working on Deeds. Particularly hunting down nasty, slimy crawlers — that one always seems to take forever!

Quests Completed

• Reclamation
• Surprise Pipe-Weed
• Beasts Among the Ruins
• Putting Down the Dying
• A Chilling Revelation
• The Missing Scout
• Keepers of the Dead
• Master of the Risen
• Return to Thorenhad
• House of the Master
• Frodo’s Burden (+Instance)
• The Riddle-game
• The Riddle-maker
• The Riddle-finder
• The Riddle-seeker
• The Riddle-master
• A Place of Rest
• A Road Seldom Traveled
• Giant Footprints
• Book 4, Chapter 5: Hiding in the Dark
• Book 4, Chapter 6: The Knowledge of the Onodrim

Quests Bestowed (not completed)

• The Tomb of Elendil (need some help with this one)
• The Elves of Eregion
• Passage to Darkness
• Down from the Mountains?
• Book 4, Chapter 7: The Aid of Mirkwood
• Agarochir, Keeper of Tirband (need help with this one too)

Deeds Completed

• Wight-slayer (Trollshaws)
• Wight-slayer Advanced (Trollshaws)
• Ally to the Elves of Rivendell
• Worm-slayer Advanced (Trollshaws)
• Crawler-slayer Advanced
• Wolf-slayer Advanced (Trollshaws)

Deeds Bestowed (not completed)

• Slayer of the Trollshaws
• Kindred with the Elves of Rivendell

Enemies Defeated

• 13 Deadly Blight-worms
• Gurdring
• Onodrim
• 1 Angmarim Venom-master
• 1 Bear-wight
• 1 Corcur Poisoner
• 6 Corcur Skirmishers
• 19 Crawling Rock-worms
• 1 Curr-olog Ancient
• 1 Curr-olog Mangler
• 4 Deadly Stone-crawlers
• 2 Elder Angmarim Lookouts
• 1 Elder Angmarim Sorcerer
• 3 Elder Angmarim Venom-masters
• 2 Elder Angmarim Warriors
• 36 Elder Moor-stalkers
• 6 Maddened Mountain-bears
• 23 Root-crawlers
• 32 Silent Moor-stalkers
• 12 Stone-crawler Devourers
• 1 Summoned Lurker
• 1 Summoned Spinner
• 32 Wight Blight-callers
• 116 Wight Dread-warriors
• 24 Writhing Stone-crawlers

Loot Collected

• 10 Pouches of Old Toby Pipe-weed
• 3 Refined Athelas Essences
• 3 Silver Arnorian Coins
• 120 Marks
• 5 Pouches of Shire Sweet-leaf Pipe-weed
• Armor of the Forest
• 1 Artisan Jeweler Scroll Case
• 2 Artisan Metalsmith Scroll Cases
• 3 Artisan Scholar Scroll Cases
• 4 Artisan Tailor Scroll Cases
• 2 Artisan Weaponsmith Scroll Cases
• 3 Artisan Woodworker Scroll Cases
• 1 Black Badge
• 7 Broken Halberds
• 121 Broken Longswords
• 1 Dwarf Quilted Leggings of Fleetness
• 1 Dwarf-make Steel Leggings of Determination
• 18 Elvish Relics
• 1 Enduring Elven Leather Gloves of Might
• 1 Explorer’s Leggings
• 46 Fine Furs
• 49 Fine Skins
• 41 Fragments of Dunedain Script
• Gandalf’s Thanks
• Gurdring’s Emblem
• 35 Glowing Essences
• 8 Grey Ears
• 7 Grey Goos
• 5 Grey Tails
• 25 Hardened Carapaces
• 1 Indigo Plant
• Luthrand
• Map to the Eavespires
• 11 Mathoms
• 79 New Sword Sheaths
• 53 Pristine Hides
• 1 Refined Celebrant Salve
• 1 Riddle Master’s Hat
• 100 Ridged Finger Bones
• 1 Rune-marked Collar
• 66 Signets of Rhudaur
• 46 Silky Filths
• 1 Small Savage Round Shield of Determination
• 72 Smooth Scales
• 1 Sprig of Parsley
• 1 Strong Beaded Necklace
• 2 Studded Sword Sheaths
• 1 Tallow Candle
• 7 Traveler’s Steel-Bound Lootboxes
• 14 Well-kept Mathoms
• 945 Silver Pieces
• 6449 Copper Coins

August 17, 2019 – Apphirie

Character: Apphirie – level 51        Server: Crickhollow

Race/Class: Hobbit Minstrel

Apphirie had one goal and one goal only: to complete the Garth Agarwen Exploration deed and finish up the Deeds of the Lone-lands. It has been a while since she has quested in the Lone-lands, but Garth Agarwen just takes so much out of you. There is a reason why that whole area is meant for fellowships. Apphirie is at least 20 levels above what that level is supposed to be and it’s still really hard to solo. Fortunately, as a minstrel, she was able to continuously heal herself, although the two guards at the Garth Agarwen Gate, Esyld and Edan, took several tries. They are tough! Also tough, was the final guardian of the Spring of the Red Maid, Vatar. You kill him once, and then he spawns a whole bunch of crawlers, which are easy to kill, but there are just so many of them! And then you have to kill Vatar again, while he still spits crawlers out at you! Finally made it through the whole thing and completed my goal. Yay!

Hanging out in Bree with your musical horse. Like one does.

Quests Completed

• Challenge: Ivar
• Optional Objective: Wights

Quests Bestowed (not completed)

• Challenge: Naruhel
• Challenge: Dunlang
• Optional Objective: Darkwater

Deeds Completed

• Garth Agarwen Exploration
• Explorer of the Lone-lands
• Deeds of the Lone-lands

Deeds Bestowed (not completed)

• Heralded Savior
• Silver Tongue

Enemies Defeated

• 4 Creoth Chieftans
• 1 Creoth Devout
• 1 Creoth Leader
• 1 Creoth Warden
• 3 Deadly Wights
• 17 Fell Wights
• 1 Summoned Servant
• 18 Twisted Arms
• 26 Twisted Wights
• Blogkritar
• Ivar the Blood-hand
• Esyld
• Edan
• 18 Creeping Muck-crawlers
• 1 Foul Wriggler
• Vatar

Loot Collected

• 230 Marks
• 3 Rejuvenation Potions
• 300 Motes of Enchantment
• 5 Logs of Yew Wood
• 5 Sturdy Hides
• 2 Adamants
• Aegrist
• 1 Artisan Tailor Scroll Case
• 1 Artisan Weaponsmith Scroll Case
• 29 Broken Short Bows
• 41 Decrepit Finger Bones
• 1 Drop of Black Resin
• 1 Dwarf Leather Gloves of Vigour
• 1 Eglain Token
• Engdail
• 1 Expert Jeweler Scroll Case
• 1 Expert Tailor Scroll Case
• 1 Flat-headed Mace of Vigor
• 46 Fragments of Dunedain Script
• 1 Greater Celebrant Salve
• 40 Heavy Sword Sheaths
• Ivar’s Banner
• 16 Large Filths
• 1 Scimitar of Might
• 16 Shimmering Essences
• 1 Tallow Candle
• 11 Tough Carapaces
• 1 Traveler’s Steel-Bound Lootbox
• 3 Well-kept Mathoms
• 36 Silver Pieces
• 1619 Copper Coins

August 15, 2019 – Frinara

Character: Frinara – level 56               Server: Crickhollow

Race/Class: Human Hunter

Frinara is mostly right now focusing on Slayer Deeds in Evendim. Today was a pretty productive outing, finishing up several deeds. First, she focused on the Gertheryg walking through Annúminas. There is a corridor of them going across the bridge to Tyl Annún, including the Titan. I usually left the Titan alone though, since he’s needed for a quest turn in and I wasn’t questing today. I left him for someone else’s quarry.

I know people jokingly refer to this region as “Everswim,” but it is awfully pretty.

 

Next up was Giants! The place for giants in Evendim is Amon Môth on the west coast of the lake. There are quite a few giants there and they respawn pretty fast. It only took me a few passes through to finish up this deed. Finally, I had a bunch of salamanders left to hunt. Easiest way is to run around in circles on Tyl Ruinen. I had already gotten a pretty good jump on this one after hunting limrafn in Barandulf.

Quests Completed

• None

Deeds Completed

• Brutes from the North (Advanced)
• Giant-slayer (Evendim)
• Giant-slayer (Advanced) (Evendim)
• Salamander-slayer

Enemies Defeated

• 2 Elder Angmarim Archers
• 1 Elder Angmarim Venom-master
• 1 Summoned Lurker
• 1 Summoned Spinner
• 4 Elder Angmarim Warriors
• 24 Gorthorog Warriors
• 58 Stone-giant Lobbers
• 56 Stone-giant Warriors
• 93 Island Salamanders
• 1 Lake-skimmer

Loot Collected

• 924 Motes of Enchantment
• 30 Marks
• 33 Adamants
• 1 Agile Silver Bracelet of the Traveler
• 5 Artisan Jeweler Scroll Cases
• 2 Artisan Metalsmith Scroll Cases
• 2 Artisan Scholar Scroll Cases
• 6 Artisan Tailor Scroll Cases
• 1 Artisan Weaponsmith Scroll Case
• 1 Artisan Woodworker Scroll Case
• 3 Black Steel Keys
• 1 Boot Knife
• 13 Broken Halberds
• 85 Broken Longswords
• 1 Chunk of Prilled Brimstone
• 1 Crystal of Remembrance
• 1 Decorated Heritage Rune of Legend
• 5 Drops of Black Resin
• 1 Dwarf Leather Gauntlets of Fleetness
• 1 Dwarf Leather Gloves of Might
• 1 Dwarf Steel Boots of Fate
• 1 Dwarf Steel Gauntlets of Fleetness
• 1 Elven Padded Jacket of Vigor
• 1 Enduring Dwarf Leather Leggings of Determination
• 41 Fragments of Dunedain Script
• 1 Gleaming Heavy Chasing Hammer
• 1 Heavy Carapace
• 1 Helm of the Wild Hills
• 1 Hunter’s Bow of the Third Age
• 1 Legendary Shard
• 1 Longsword of Ruin
• 1 Mantle of the Wild Hills
• 11 Mathoms
• 4 New Sword Sheaths
• 1 Nimble Spear of the Traveler
• 1 Random Relic Pack
• 13 Refined Athelas Essences
• 20 Refined Celebrant Salves
• 1 Reinforced Swift Gages of the Traveler
• 1 Relic Bundle
• 1 Shining Scale Shoulder Pads
• 50 Soft Skins
• 1 Sprig of Parsley
• 17 Studded Sword Sheaths
• 1 Swift Great Square Bat
• 1 Tourmaline Silver Earring of the Traveler
• 3 Traveler’s Steel-Bound Lootboxes
• 50 Very Sharp Claws
• 9 Well-kept Mathoms
• 1 Wood Kite Shield of Fleetness
• 768 Silver Pieces
• 4818 Copper Coins

Items Crafted

• 36 Polished Red Agates
• 8 Brilliant Edhelharn Tokens
• 2 Glorious Edhelharn Tokens
• 1 Talisman of the Ember-eagle

August 10-11, 2019 – Nirawyn

Character: Nirawyn – level 85               Server: Crickhollow

Race/Class: Human Guardian

Nirawyn spent the past few days questing and exploring Nan Curunír, the area also known as Isengard. In the shadow of the tower of Orthanc, there are lots of goblins and wargs prowling around, including a large cave den.

Quests Completed

• Gnashing Fangs
• Recipe for Disaster
• Top Dog
• This is Not the Work of a Cook
• Not Cute at All
• The Master of Beasts

Quests Bestowed (not completed)

• Captain of Fangs

Deeds Completed

• Warg-slayer (Dunland)

Deeds Bestowed (not completed)

• Warg-slayer Advanced (Dunland)

Enemies Defeated

• Mangle-maw
• The Black Matron
• The Cook
• The Master of Beasts
• 1 Half-orc Sentry
• 2 Harassing Dark-claws
• 4 Hungry Warg-pups
• 21 Isen Wargs
• 19 Isen Warg-riders
• 8 Isengard Goblins
• 13 Isengard Stickers
• 2 Skahk-hai Warriors

Loot Collected

• 18 Chunks of Calenard Skarn
• 4 Piles of Eastemnet Soil
• 10 Chunks of Riddermark Skarn
• 6 Scraps of Rohirric Text
• 13 Blotchy Skins
• 22 Calenard Hides
• Captain’s Dagger of the Third Age
• Chunk of High-grade Calenard Skarn
• 1 Decorative Sword Sheath
• 1 Eastemnet Cook’s Scroll Case
• 1 Eastemnet Jeweler’s Scroll Case
• 3 Eastemnet Scholar’s Scroll Cases
• 2 Eastemnet Tailor’s Scroll Cases
• Elegant Silk Boots
• Embroidered Silk Leggings
• 1 Green Garnet
• Hunter’s Crossbow of the Third Age
• 2 Jade Gemstones
• 2 Jeweler’s Adorned Scroll Cases
• Lore-master’s Staff of the Third Age
• 1 Major Essence of Physical Mastery
• 40 Marked Furs
• 1 Medium Bridle of the Third Age
• 1 Metalsmith’s Adorned Scroll Case
• 1 Minor Essence of Finesse
• 1 Minor Essence of Parrying
• 1 Minor Essence of Power
• 3 Pieces of Eastemnet Sealed Wax
• 37 Punctured Shields
• 6 Red Agates
• 18 Riddermark Hides
• Rider’s Studded Gauntlets
• 1 Scholar’s Adorned Scroll Case
• 1 Speckled Ear
• 2 Tailor’s Adorned Scroll Cases
• 1 Tarnished Heritage Rune of Learning
• 2 Traveler’s Steel-Bound Lootboxes
• 2 Westfold Celebrant Salves
• 496 Silver Pieces
• 560 Copper Coins

Nirawyn earned 64,764 XP and 5 LOTRO points.

August 3, 2019 – Zylleith

Character: Zylleith – level 13             Server: Crickhollow

Race/Class: Beorning

Zylleith is my only Beorning. I had another one, but deleted it. Sadly, I don’t even remember her name. After one of the Updates, I decided to give Beornings another try, and thus Zylleith was born. Beornings are fun, although I think they were a little over-hyped. You get to turn into a bear, which is cool, but there doesn’t seem to be much advantage to fighting as a bear. You don’t move much faster, your attacks aren’t that much more powerful. It is fun though, so I guess that’s the point.

Zylleith is also my only toon that fights with a great axe. So that’s cool. She is also an explorer by trade, so that she can farm ore and wood. I haven’t done much crafting with her, since my other toons are so far ahead of her and can make her anything she needs, but we’ll focus on that at some point.

We spent our time in the Shire working on the Spoiled Pies deed. I absolutely love the Shire. It is one of my favorite regions in the entire game, but unless you create a hobbit, it is really easy to miss it entirely. There may be a few other deeds or quests that take you briefly to the Shire, but that is no where near enough time to truly get the Shire experience. It’s why I’ve started taking all of my toons through the Shire, whether they are hobbits or not. The Spoiled Pie deed, as well as the Quick Post deed, is a really good way to get a full tour of the region, which is why I enjoy them.

Quests Completed

• Spoiled Pie from Michel Delving
• Spoiled Pie from Needlehole
• Spoiled Pie from Tuckborough
• Spoiled Pie from Frogmorton
• Spoiled Pie from Budgeford
• Spoiled Pie from Brockenborings
• Spoiled Pie from Scary
• Spoiled Pie from Woodhall
• Spoiled Pie from Stock

Quests Bestowed (not completed)

• Destination: Bree-land

Deeds Completed

• No Place for Spoiled Pies

Deeds Bestowed (not completed)

• Slug-slayer
• Harvest-fly slayer
• Deeds of the Shire

Enemies Defeated

• 1 Harvest-fly
• 2 Hill Tuskers
• 3 Putrid Bog-slugs
• 2 Reeking Bog-slugs
• 1 Wolf

Loot Collected

• 38 Chunks of Copper Ore
• 2 Chunks of Silver Ore
• 6 Logs of Rowan Wood
• 30 Marks
• 2 Agates
• 4 Amethysts
• 4 Chunks of Crude Brimstone
• 1 Chunk of Grey Rock-salt
• 1 Crude Whetstone
• 5 Dirty Filths
• 2 Drops of Sticky Resin
• 1 Light Carapace
• 3 Light Hides
• 1 Matted Fur
• 1 Matted Skin
• 1 Opal
• 1 Pile of Copper Salts
• 1 Slick Membrane
• 2 Small Filths
• 2 Small Membranes
• 810 Copper Coins

Zylleith leveled up from level 12 to level 13! Yay! These early levels are so much easier to get to! she got 3426 XP, 200 Destiny Points, and 5 LOTRO points. Huzzah!

 

July 30, 2019 – Eadneyth

Character: Eadneyth           Server: Crickhollow

Race: Human                        Class: Captain

Eadneyth is the only one of my toons that has a (very small and barely defined) backstory. I created her because I wanted another tank, but something other than a guardian. I hadn’t played a captain before, so I wanted to give it a try. When I made her, my randomization made her blondish, sort of like Nirawyn has, and since they are both my tanks, it made sense that Eadie should be Nira’s younger sister.

Eadie fights with a halberd and has a man at arms named Fritz who carries her standard. She is my main weaponsmith for the Crickhollow bunch. In today’s session, she is catching up on some Bree quests in and around Staddle and Chetwood.

Quests Completed

• More Treasure
• Prologue: A Critical Strike
• Widow’s Farmhand
• Widow Froghorn’s Pipe-weed
• Quality and Character
• Farmer’s Market
• Wanetta the Wedge
• Concern for a Friend
• Eyes of Staddle
• Lily’s Secret
• Falco’s Garden
• Fixing Falco’s Folly

Quests Bestowed (not completed)

• Prologue: The Hideout

Deeds Completed

• Brigand-slayer (Advanced)
• Bree-land Adventurer (Advanced)

Deeds Bestowed (not completed)

• Quick Wrist
• Slayer of Bree-land
• Improved Routing Cry
• Bree-land Adventurer (Final)

Enemies Defeated

• Jagger Jack
• Jasper Mudbottom
• 2 Blackwold Knaves
• 1 Blackwold Lieutenant
• 5 Blackwold Lookouts
• 4 Blackwold Marksmen
• 10 Blackwold Poachers
• 1 Blackwold Raider
• 2 Blackwold Ruffians
• 7 Blackwold Scouts
• 6 Foraging Brown-bears
• 1 Wolfhound

Loot Collected

• 3 Lesser Athelas Essences
• 30 Marks
• 1 Agate
• 3 Aged Scraps of Text
• 3 Amethysts
• 1 Apprentice Jeweler Scroll Case
• Boggs’ Great Sword
• 11 Broken Daggers
• 1 Broken Hatchet
• 6 Broken Shortswords
• 9 Broken Sword Sheaths
• 1 Chunk of Grey Rock-salt
• Cutleaf’s  Greaves
• 1 Delicate Golden Bracelet
• 1 Dirty Ear
• Falco’s Earring
• Falco’s Smasher
• 1 Lesser Celebrant Salve
• 5 Light Hides
• Lover’s Shield
• 3 Mangled Sword Sheaths
• 2 Matted Furs
• 2 Matted Skins
• Pipe-weed
• 2 Small Whetstones
• 5 Silver Pieces
• 1378 Copper Coins

Eadneyth earned 2168 XP and 20 LOTRO points.

Eadie and Fritz