Originally posted by vidiotking

Originally posted by jarish

also do you have the hi-res version?

 

I have a pretty nice rig:

e8400 / 260 gtx / 4gig 800 ram.....I run vista w/ all the bells and wistles on a 24" monitor. Great frame rate.

What is this Hi Res version you speak of?

There are 2 clients for D/L the regular and the hires version that has high resolution textures. If you installed from a DVD you should have the hires

also do you have the hi-res version?

brandywine

tyndum 50 dwarf champ

For all those who haven't got the expansion yet or want to start into the game, Gamestop has a sale starting on Friday for the Mines of Moria compete edition for 29.99 (10 dollars off). This also includes the original game for those who don't have it. This isn't only for black Friday but also goes through the weekend.

Thought I would pass this info along for those who didn't know.

Yes there will be player crafted ones as well.

From Quests, drops and crafted.

Originally posted by trancejeremy

I can't say I'm impressed. Especially the first pic (which I guess is a Champion dual wielding a sword and axe).  A glowing purple ball on the top of each blade? And the others seem to have a glow in the middle.

I'd rather see the whole thing glow, if they must, not just one bit of it.

I'm pretty sure they don't glow all the time. Just when you are perform some skill. If you look at the dwarf with the hammer there is nothing there.

Of course you are not going to be able to use the stables until you find them so you will have to fight your way through once. And BTW if you read the descriptions on the goats it looks like the highest rep one is faster than  the others. So maybe you get on to start but it is not as fast as the rep ones.

And BTW what is wrong with a goat. You realize how much of an uproar there would be if you couldn't rent a mount or use one...they are in the books.

http://www.glyphweb.com/ARDA/o/oxen.html

http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/k/kineofaraw.html

Originally posted by green13

No Man or hobbit scribe could harness the power of runes in these ways; such talents are not part of their nature.

Yet another example of Turbine butchering Tolkien's lore. Just like when they originally said there were no magic users in Middle Earth other than the Istari.

Little quote from Gandalf:

I once knew every spell in all the tongues of Elves… Men… and Orcs.

The Witch-King of Angmar - he wasn't an elf or a dwarf. And there are more examples.

I think it's fair enough that they're going to restrict the class to elves and dwarves - but they could do so without breaking lore. At the time the mmo is set in, the races of Middle Earth have withdrawn from each other a bit. So it'd be conceivable that the bulk of such lore has simply passed from memory amongst humans.

It's like they hired a cave troll to do their research...

Men now do not have this power...the Númenóreans did back then, but those men are no longer around. When Gandalf is speaking of Men...he is talking about the Númenóreans.

They have already showed them. They are a Ram/Yak like creature that will only be used in the mines for rentable mounts. You won't be able to summon your horse inside. Look in my moria preview thread to see them.

Originally posted by wizardsleeve

Judging from the maps, there seems to be a number of horse-heads throughout Moria. If they are not fast travel, well, they'll at least carry you monster-free through most of the map it seems, but yeah, it'll probably take quite some time considering the size of the area. (travel in this game, at first, is an experience. it gets tiresome after a while though, when lots of your time is spent traveling. realism in this area is a joke, and a waste of time. would have been better spent in making combat more realistic or some such)

waste of time...i think its faster than alot of other games. WoW doesn't have fast travel options.

Originally posted by wizardsleeve

Well lets see where the OP 'read' this bit of information, actually.

ok...where...i havent read that and I have read just about everything.

there are stables for sure...but maybe no swift travel options?

Lots of new links

I don't believe this game will ever go F2P, but what they might do is have like a 4.99/mo model in which you would then pay a bit extra for the free content updates. It seems this is something they want to do for casual gamers without as much time on there hands. Or they might chagre a small fee for access, like 4.99/mo for 30hrs of play. Something like that.

Look in my thrread...there are a couple new previews by people who went to pax with race info on the new classes.

Buddy key and founders referral are 2 different things.

Buddy: 10 day trial no restrictions, can upgrade account to full no problems.

Founders: Lets you get the cheaper pricing and horse at 25. But you need to have a new account. So if you try the trial or use a buddy key and want a refferal you will have to make a new account effectively losing what you have done.

You should be able to D/L the client without activating an account. Once you have d/l and then installed you can create a trial account.

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=159441

Should be alot of stuff coming at PAX this weekend. Also you can apply for BETA now.

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=159441

Info here

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=158636