LOTRO Adventuer Log July

Well it’s been a while since I updated you all on my LOTRO progress. For a while there I had slipped in and out of active characters and was evening considering a permanent break from the game. Then I decided to give the game one final try and I went hardcore head first into the Monster Play aspect of the game for a solid 2-3 weeks. I gained nearly rank 4 and found myself actually good at something in LOTRO for once. I earned a name for myself and I found that the strategies in Monster Play were similar to those used in Dark Age of Camelot. But then the harsh reality of being against unbalanced players and having to deal with the randomly created monsters that would pop in and trash talk (obviously made by Free People characters) just got too much to handle.

Luckily for me while Monster Playing I made two great friends. Goretruum and Arke were the only two I really became good friends with in Monster Play, so naturally we always grouped with each other for quests and such. Over time they began to share the same dissatisfaction with Monster Play and we all decided it was time to roll up characters and take them to 50 so that we could experience pvp from the other side. I made the announcement in this blog entry here that I had made a Captain and named him Graev (hehe I stole your name Graev!). Since then I haven’t really been updating you all on much of anything in LOTRO and to be honest I can’t think of why.

Graev the captain, Bartlebe(Goretruum) the Minstrel, and Beoarke(Arke) the Hunter are now on the home stretch. My character Graev has obtained level 45 as of last night and the others are right there with me at around 44-45. We have worked together over the past 25 days to quest, grind, dungeon crawl, and work together to reach our goal of PVMP in the Ettenmoors as Freeps. I am really excited that this will be my first LOTRO character to 50 and doubly excited about getting back into the pvp scene full time. The trip to 45 so far has been fairly easy but at time difficult. I’ll give a full accounting of each area we quested in and share my thoughts about the trip from 1-50 with you all when the time comes.