Tales From Middle Earth - The Bearded Minstrel

Disclaimer: This guide is my personal opinion on how to optimize and run Guardian's in U21. This by no means is indicative of the best possible methods and I am certain people will have better suggestions than I. Feel free to post in comments and I will review and update accordingly. This is my Guardian, Batcher: My Physical and Tactical Mitigation is capped, I have 100k+ health, 77k Crit Defence and 55k, 35k Block and Parry Rating Respectively. Let's talk about how to accomplish that. 1) Class Traits If you are going to be endgame tanking, you want to mix blue and yellow with 5 points into red's skills damage + rating. I am missing 2 trait points, this will go into completing 3/3 Follow Through and then 1 extra point into anything. If you are soloing or leveling, however, you are going to want to instead focus on combining blue and red to form a really sturdy and durable solo build: Why do you spec into blue instead of red for soloing? In Mordor......

There is only 1 quest that vectors in Nargroth. Under the fires of Orodruin is a zone-wide quest in Talath Urui that takes you to every major area of the zone. The very last objective will be to enter Nargroth so do not start this zone without this objective. Immediately upon zoning it, a watcher-stone will be in the middle of the room. Click on it to gain various quests available to this dungeon: The stone will offer just 1 quest: Head further in and defeat some orcs until an offering drops. Go back to the stone to progress the quest. This will open up 3 auto-bestowed quests: Here is a map of all the objectives: When all the quests are completed, go back to the stone and finish the quest "Playing with Fire" 3 more quests will become available: Here is another map of the objectives for the next phase: With all quests completed, go back to the stone and turn them in. This will unlock the final quest, "The An...

There are a lot of guides out there explaining the allegiance system, and before I begin, I want to make sure I acknowledge them as they are valuable resources: [CC] Allegiance, why, where, how and what for? An Adventurer's Guide to Mordor - Allegiance Now, that being said, I wanted to create a guide that is a little more direct regarding the Allegiance system. Let's jump right into it: What is Allegiance? Allegiance is a new reputation system. There are 4 choices, You can join all of them, but you can only have 1 active. The order by which you join each Allegiance affects the overall amount of time it takes to level up that Allegiance. First is fastest, second is less fast, third is even less so, and fourth is "normal" slow pace. Which should I choose first? Up to you, there's no meta to this. This is truly an RP decision. But if you want to have a little bit of a description of each story line... Kingdom of Gondor - Witness Aragorn's coronation...

Hey everyone, the following is a visual representation of Lûghash. This should make getting your quests done easier if you are having trouble navigating the spire. Racks, Tools, and Forges are for the quest "Breaking the Oath-taker's Horn" Sverting, Neth, Freki, Dreri, and Eitur are for the quest "Under a Wicked Crown"  Dwarves are for the quest "A House Divided"

Hey everyone, the following is a visual representation of the Dungeons of Barad-Dûr. This should make getting your quests done easier if you are having trouble navigating the dungeon. Dwarves are for the quest "Prisoners of the Dark Lord". Debris is for the quest "The Shadow of Narchraw". Sapakar is needed for the quest "The Search for Sapakar". The Glurugoth is needed for the quest "The Wrath of Glurugoth". Vaskmun and his 3 locations in green are needed for the quest "Within the Bones of Barad-Dûr. Note: You have to come in here twice. Once for Sapakar and Glurugoth and the second for the rest.

Here it is, good luck: Ok, I'm just kidding. Obviously that is way too difficult to really discern and understand. Here is the break down on a deed/quest level: * Note: If the quest objective is a ring and easily reached, it won't be featured here. Just open the map and run to the ring. Deed: The Way Into Mordor * The Durthang tower-top is accessibly only by going through Durthang proper. The guide to Durthang can be found here . Deed: Forgeworks of Udûn Deed: Forge-fires of Udûn Quest: Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: Udûn Pages 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,14 and 16 are in Udûn proper. Pages 6 and 15 are in Anglach. Pages 11 and 12 are in Durthang.  Page 13 is in Durthang Tower-tup and is at the very top of Durthang Tower. Quests: Signal Flags in Udûn The quests Whispers and Signs, An Answer Unspoken, and Advanced Signs are detailed below: Quests: The Things They Left Behind The rest of these are not 100% complete yet,...

Hey everyone, the following is a visual representation of Anglach. This should make getting your quests done easier if you are having trouble navigating the forge. Artifacts are for the quest "Anglach: Fragments of the Past" Stones are for the quest "Anglach: Four to Open" all these quests are auto-bestowed upon pickup/kill. The breadcrumb into this dungeon is "The Dark Depths of Anglach" in Udun. If you prefer the "original" style maps, here you go:

Hey everyone, the following is a visual representation of Durthang. This should make getting your quests done easier if you are having trouble navigating the fortress. Coffers are for the quest "Durthang: Prized Possessions" Baubles are for the quest "Durthang: Sorcerer's Baubles" The red mobs are for the quest "Durthang: The Lieutentants of Ugrokhor" all these quests are auto-bestowed upon pickup/kill. The breadcrumb into this dungeon is Chapter 1.2: The Cruel History of Durthang from the Black Book of Mordor. If you prefer the "original" style maps, here you go:

Day 7 | Day 6 | Day 5 | Day 4 | Day 3 | Day 2 | Day 1 | Day 0 I sincerely hope this is the last one. I've enjoyed my adventure through my memories but I'm just really excited for Mordor. I want to take this opportunity to focus on the future instead of the past. This series has been entirely about the last 10 years, but perhaps we can talk about the next 10 years. So, what does LoTRO have to work with? Pictured below in pink is the remaining landmass unexplored: Really puts things into perspective! But let's be fair, a lot of that is mountain ranges and unless it's underground (which is possible!) let's show just open fields: Still significant. Granted, it's very true Tolkien didn't expand much on these areas and they really are ruins of kingdoms long past. But the here is potential places to explore: South Farthing of the Shire  Gray Havens South Downs Far Downs Harlindon Farlindon Andrast Anfalas ...