Gaming for Fun

Games I played, and will play in the whole Battlefield game series:

Battlefield 1942 - done

Battlefield Vietnam - done

Battlefield 2 - done

Battlefield 2142 - done

Battlefield Bad Company - Old PlayStation?

Battlefield Bad Company 2 - done

Battlefield 3 - done

Battlefield 4 - done

Battlefield Hardline - Will play

Battlefield 1 - done

Battlefield 5 - Will play

Around the same level:

Weak enemies: Just attack is enough

Strong enemies: Try to defence/heal until enemies run out of mana, then switch to attack

Note that fighting on horse is stronger.

Map levels

World, 5 countries (Eriador, Rhovanion, Rohan, Gondor, Mordor), regions, areas, subareas, caves.

Instance

Specific quest area of one player, no other players

Session

Similar to instance, 1 player only, but it's sandboxed, everything in the session is cleared when it ends

Time changes

eg. in Helm's Deep, click items near the map table to change time

Time is important to go to the correct coords of certain quests.

Ages

First Age: To the defeat of Morgoth, the Dark Lord

Second Age: To the 1st defeat of Sauron, the later Dark Lord

Third Age: To the 2nd defeat of Sauron, after the One Ring is destroyed.

Ally Forces:

Dwarfs -- Ered Luin

Hobbits -- The Shire

Men -- Bree-lands

Elves -- Trollshaws

Evil Forces:

Witch-king's Angmar (head of the Nine, servants of Sauron)

Saruman's Isengard (servants of Sauron)

These are the classes

Warrior

Ranger

Monk

Necromancer

Mesmer

Elementalist

Paragon

Dervish

Warrior has both healing and armour.

Monk has more healing abilities to cast but the same amount of mana -> not much useful.

Class

Choose the easiest class to play (usually healer)

Healer is common, but if any character class with better survival abilities, that class should fit best

Goal of playing

Play for stories, not to waste time for all classes.

Create more characters for classes for stories

Play quests in level order, even if the character is strong or survivable (eg. healer can survive better), because some enemies of higher levels get immune to damage.

Overview of the order of play

War in the North (Eriador): The Witch-king

War in Rohan: Saruman

War in Gondor: Sauron

Last region: Mount Doom

The best order is

First, play from the beginning to last region in Rhovanion (Lothlorien) and go to The Great River.

Second, play to Kingstead (Edoras) where there are 3 possible ways next: To Isengard direction (Merry, Pippin, Rohan war), to Gondor direction (Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Gondor war), to Mordor direction (Frodo, Sam).

To avoid the immunity problem of enemies, play in this order: (1) To Isengard, then (2) to Gondor, then last (3) to Mordor.

Note about the above order :

After Westfold and Isengard, go to the Paths of the Dead (PotD), but after the PotD, go to Old Anorien (Minas Tirith) instead of Far Anorien (extra area, higher levels than Old Anorien).

The Roads:

Recommended play order: Main quests (Epic) first, if out of current region, do side quests. Or at least, complete main quests of current region before moving to next region.

Eriador

The Shire -> Bree-lands -> Lone-lands -> Trollshaws -> Eregion

And other regions in Eriador

Rhovanion

Moria -> Dimrill -> Lothlorien

And other regions in Rhovanion

Rohan

The Great River -> 3 ways (in order of levels):

Merry/Pippin's way: Fangorn -> Isengard

Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli's way: Regions to Kingstead -> (1) Kingstead -> Isengard, and (2) Kingstead -> Paths of the Dead

Frodo/Sam's way: Cross quickly to Ithilien (hard levels, continue to Gondor first)

And other regions in Rohan

Gondor

Blackroot Vale -> Lamedon -> Central Gondor -> Dor-en-ernil -> Lebennin -> Lossarnach -> Pelennor (Minas Tirith) -> Osgiliath -> Ithilien

And other regions in Gondor

Mordor

Ithilien -> (1) The Wastes, (2) Morgul Vale -> Gorgoroth -> Mount Doom

EU (Europe) servers:

Lots and almost all English speakers, easy to chat

NA (North America) servers:

So many Asians (nothing racist here), can't even chat with them in English

The easiest way

Play a healer role, usually harder to die

A healer with some damage abilities is better

More, to re-play contents

Volume 1: The Fellowship of the Ring (Formation of the fellowship) -----------------------------------------

Sauron orders elves to forge the 9 rings and 7 rings. Nine given to the 9 kings of men, who later die and become Nazgul (Black Riders) as servants of Sauron.

Sauron himself creates the One ring which is the most powerful ring. Sauron conquers the Earth (Middle-earth) but is fought back by men, gets defeated by Isildur king of Gondor and Isildur gets the ring, and Isildur later dies because of the One ring. Gollum got it and passes to Bilbo. Bilbo passes to Frodo.

The Shire, Bree-lands, Rivendell:

Nazgul gets to the Shire to recover the ring. Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin run to Bree, meet Strider (who is Aragorn the prince in heir of Gondor, descendant of Isildur). They continue running away from Nazgul to Weather Top, and Rivendell.

At Rivendell, it is decided to destroy the One ring in Mount Doom, and the fellowship is formed by 9 persons: 4 hobbits are Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, 2 men are Aragorn and Boromir, 1 elf is Legolas, 1 dwarf is Gimli, and Gandalf who is actually a Maia spirit.

Eregion, Misty Mountains, and Moria:

The fellowship passes thru' Eregion, Misty Mountains but fail to cross Misty Mountains and turns back to go through Moria. Gandalf fights with a balrog, kills it and dies but as being a spirit he returns back as Gandalf the White.

Volume 2: The Two Towers (Rohan-Isengard war near Isengard tower, and Gondor-Mordor war near Morgul tower) ---------------------------------

Lothlorien, and the Great River:

After Moria, the fellowship comes to Lothlorien the land of the elves; and continue on to the Great River (River of Anduin).

The Split into 3 groups:

After Great River, Boromir dies by arrows of the orcs. Frodo doesn't want people die while protecting him and split to his own way to Mount Doom with Sam. Frodo and Sam go through Osgiliath, and the war between Gondor and Mordor.

Merry and Pippin are captured by the orcs to Isengard tower, and the 3 Hunters: Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli chase them to rescue. After, found out Merry and Pippin escaped the orcs. Merry and Pippin live with the ents and later help in Rohan-Isengard war together with the elves.

The Three Hunters go to the Paths of the Dead, and Gondor before reaching the Black Gate. The 3 Hunters and Gandalf go through Edoras, and the war between Rohan and Isengard. Saruman dies falling off the tower. And after, the Three Hunters and Gandalf ride to Minas Tirith the capital of Gondor to join the direction of Frodo and Sam.

Side note: In the game LOTRO, the spit by which player should play (not the story split) is done at Kingstead of Rohan into: Eastfold, Westfold, and Paths of the Dead.

The Black Gate and Morgul:

The Three Hunters, Gandalf, Merry, Pippin and the armies of elves, Rohan, Gondor fight at Black Gate to distract Sauron, attract all orcs to Black Gate so Frodo can move from Mordor wall in to Mount Doom. Frodo and Sam sneak through Morgul into Mordor and destroy the One ring. Sauron doesn't die after the ring is destroyed, possibly he's the immortal Devil, but has power diminished.

Go to the in-game LOTRO Store to buy the Character Rename token (~999 coins).

The game pops up a dialog to change name. Use the following command in chat if accidentally close it:

/changename NEWNAME

Very useful for loading custom UI from another character, or load custom UI for session (some quest session is sandboxed and UI is default).

/ui layout save NAME

/ui layout load NAME

The levels change quite smoothly from the start (The Shire) to Moria in Rhovanion, to The Great River in Rohan.

But after Kingstead, it leads to Eastfold and Westfold.

The levels between Eastfold in Rohan and the next region Beacon Hills in Gondor is quite different.

After finishing Eastfold, going to Beacon Hills isn't directly an option. Head back to Westfold to go to Stonedeans, to Isengard first is the option.

Reach the desired level of the region See: https://lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Quest_Levels a) Play higher-level regions get levelled up faster. b) It's possible to receive quests 5 levels before the desired level, eg. Beacon Hills requires at least level 103, thus the character should be at at least level 103 - 5 -> 98

Quest packs contain majority of quests, Expansions have all quests in quest packs and more quests.

Quest packs: --------------- Eriador: [Free] North Downs 24-34 [Free] Trollshaws 35-40 [Free] Evendim 30-40 [Free] Misty Mountains 43-48 [Free] Forochel 45-49 [Free] Angmar 42-48 [Free] Eregion 48-53

Rhovanion: [Free] Lothlórien 55-62 [Free] Enedwaith 60-65

Rohan: [Free] Great River 70-80 [Free] Wildermore 82-86

Gondor: (Some Must-buys, to go to Mount Doom) [Should buy] West Gondor 95-100 [Should buy] Central Gondor 100-105 [Should buy] East Gondor 100-105 [Must buy] Far Anórien 100-105 [Must buy] Old Anórien 100-105 Although it's possible to go through Far Anorien >> Old Anorien >> Osgiliath >> North Ithilien for the shortest way to Mount Doom, but the easier way is West Gondor >> Central Gondor >> East Gondor as monsters are of much higher levels between Eastfold vs Far Anorien.

Mordor: [Free] North Ithilien 105 (Buy Mordor Expansion below to go to Mount Doom) Need theses?: 1) March of the King Quest Pack (Osgiliath to North Ithilien) 2) Battle of the Black Gate Quest Pack (The Wastes)

Expansions: --------------- (Some Must-buys, to go to Mount Doom) [Free] Mines of Moria 50-60 [Free] Siege of Mirkwood 60-70 [Free] Rise of Isengard 65-75 [Free] Riders of Rohan 75-85 [Free] Helm’s Deep 85-95 [Must buy] Mordor 105+ Also need this?: 1) Minas Morgul Expansion (Morgul Vale, into Mordor)

Speed changes:

3 -> 6 -> 9 -> 12 -> 15

Walk (press Insert to toggle walk/run): ~3 m/s

Run (base measurement speed): ~6 m/s

Goat (Moria): ~9 m/s

Regular horse: ~12 m/s (a bit slower than this value)

War-steed: ~15 m/s (60 km/h, max speed)