A little taste of Rohan

Hello Guys, it’s been a while. I haven’t got the time to log in lately and I won’t be able to do that in the foreseeable future as well, since I have just moved to Cologne, Germany.

Meanwhile, it happens that a big games conference was going to happen here, so I went to see what was going on and guess what I found: a LOTRO booth with a preview of Riders of Rohan!

I’ve got to play the small demo and ride a horse into combat and let me tell you, it is not easy! If you are galloping, you won’t be able to turn fast enough, so you end up circling the enemy, which is frustrating. But it makes sense. So you do not command your horse as when you are just travelling, it is a lot more sluggish, but you get the hang of it quickly, though. Soon, you begin to understand that you have to stop, turn around and charge again towards your enemies.

It wasn’t enough time to sense if the blow dealt was strong (and it wasn’t as Fal that I was playing, so I couldn’t really compare), but enemies died quickly.

Here is a (very blurry) picture of the action:

And another cool stuff that I managed to get are these buttons:

Well, that is it. A little taste, that’s all, but definitely something to look forward to!

See ya!

Class demographics of the kinship

At the moment, our kinship has 214 members and our demographics,
divided by class, are:

1. Hunter: 42 members
2. Guardian: 29 members
3. Minstrel: 28 members
4. Champion: 24 members
5. Rune-keeper: 23 members
6. Warden: 20 members
7. Burglar: 17 members
8. Lore-master: 16 members
9. Captain: 15 members

 

Omnymax in a loading screen

Could be…

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Results and new poll!

Here are the results of our poll “Have you pre-purchased Rise of Isengard?”:

Our new poll is about the likes and dislikes of our kinsmen, and maybe, the most important of them all. Since many of us have more then one toon – and those toons tend to be very different from each other –, I believe it’s a fair question to ask “Which class is your favorite”. I, for example, have created different toons to experience LOTRO in different ways. I’ve been pissed of with Falranion (cap), frustrated with Gilgalaras (hunter) and bored with Amgalaras (rk). But I love Fal’s flexibility  (and maybe now I’m beginning to learn how to be a better captain), Gil knows how to kick ass with 2 shots and Am’s powers are magnificent (specially the star-warsy, shooting-lightning-bolts-out-of-my-hands power!)  All classes have upsides and downsides, and our preferences may vary during the course of the game, so it’s ok to change you mind later, but right now, who is your favorite?

And feel free to justify your choice through comments on this post!

How to gain access to the blog?

Three easy steps to become a blog contributor:

1. You have to be an officer to request blog access.
2. You have to create an account at wordpress.com
3. You have to send an in-game mail to Omnymax, Falranion or Poppytine with the e-mail registered in your WordPress account.

We will send you an invitation to become a contributor, you accept, and that’s it.
Now you can access the blog with the username and password of your WordPress account through the meta menu in the footer.

Omnymax, Falranion and Poppytine are the blog administrators, so if there are any doubts or questions, ask us.

We can be mean

Hello again!

Here we start our monster play project.
With Isengard expansion some features from monster play will become free to play so everyone can enjoy this aspect of lotro.

Hotwingz will coordinate the awesome creeps at this first moment so contact him in game or through here to discuss interest and details.

See u on the other side!!