A Casual Stroll to Mordor

This steed will be available for purchase from the LOTRO Store from November 23rd until December 8th, 2011.

LOTRO has announced the next store exclusive steed to come to the LOTRO Store. Say hello to the Steed of the Guardian!

Ken “Graalx2” Burd released the Guardian Developer Diary for the Rise of Isengard expansion today, and I have to say I enjoy most of the changes. As someone whose “main” character is a Guardian, I’ve been eager to see what changes would make it in comparison to their previous announcement earlier this year.

This is a special episode where we have an interview with cast members of “The Fellows Hip: Rise of the Gamers” movie.

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Today Orion posted what Graalx2 has been working on with Guardians in Isengard.

Morlag of Landroval asks: Why are champs in glory, with a shield and heavy armor, still so much squishier than guards? Is it the guard reactives or some other mechanic I’m missing?

This spreadsheet is analogous to the Champion Armor Spreadsheet I released previously.

I have found that a Guardian in Overpower can be a very exciting way to play. They have an excellent mix of DPS and survivability. In fact I would call it the perfect mix for tanking much of the “end-game” content.

So Hunters and Captains and Burgs and Champs could now tank instances in their DPS stances. All it took was enough DPS to beat healer agro. For solo bosses, Hunters made excellent Tanks, since they have parry and evade. For instances like Forges or GS, however, there are a lot of trash mobs. It was merely due to class roles that Champions ended up in a position to take over the majority of the tanking burden in early Moria.

The Guardian Roundtable was recorded on December 17, 2010

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We welcome you to join us on Friday, December 17, 2010 at 9:00pm EST for a discussion all about the Guardian class.

Call me a noob, call me a casual player, or even call me lazy; it doesn’t matter. But for the longest time I’ve tank in LOTRO that has primarily “skated by” without doing a lot to improve my effectiveness beyond some preliminary glances at my virtues or traits.

If you want to use two-handed weapons but don’t want to use pets, which class is best for you? Continue Reading to find out.

This week we have special guest Syp (aka Justin Olivetti) from the Massively “Road to Mordor” column as well as his own blog Bio Break.

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“Tell the Community Team” is where Turbine asks for the players to give them direct and specific feedback about a specific topic. This is really a fantastic opportunity for you to give your thoughts and opinions about the game directly to Turbine to think about.

So you used to play World of Warcraft and now are interested in this amazing game called Lord of the Rings Online. You loved your character in WoW and would like to play something similar to that, if possible. This post is to try to help you find that similar class in LOTRO.