Helm's Deep Roundtable: First Impressions
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The Helm's Deep expansion has been out for almost a week. This past weekend, along with some of officers from The Osgiliath Guard (I'm not an officer; I work for a living), we had a discussion about the expansion.
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Captain Roundtable 2013
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Over this past weekend, The Osgiliath Guard's division captain, Grayman, led a workshop on playing the captain class. Several of TOG's other captains attended to offer their insights into the class and talk about our favourite class....
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Champion Roundtable 2013
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This past weekend, we had a class roundtable (yes, I'm caving and calling them roundtables now) for the Champion class.
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Episode 200: Thank You
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This week is our final episode planned for Casual Stroll to Mordor. Thank you everyone for nearly four wonderful years of sharing our love of LOTRO!
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Episode 199: Going Out Dumb
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Our second to last episode ever! This week we had some news on LOTRO Card sales, 20 questions and answers from LOTRO, store sales and more!
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Hunter Roundtable 2013
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I am a bad hunter. I’ll say that right off the bat. A hunter was the first toon that I rolled in LOTRO (and in any MMO really), and it’s a fun class to play. Unfortunately, it’s also a class that can very easily make things go bad for a raid very quickly....
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Episode 198: Curd and Whey
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This week we had update 11.1 release notes, a few developer bites, store sales, announcement of the end of CSTM, brief talk about about Rift free-to-play and more!
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More Minstrel Talk
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This is the second part of our minstrel discussion featuring Vraeden, Alanion and several minstrels from The Osgiliath Guard from Elendilmir.
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Episode 197: Ow When U P
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This week is very light on LOTRO news. We’re hoping for big news next week from E3! So we talk about the store sale, gossip about shadowofmordor.com and talk about Doctor Who.
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Episode 196: Back from Vacation!
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We’ve been gone for two weeks and return to catch up on LOTRO news! We talk about update 11.0.1 release notes, spring festival, store sales and more!
info_outlineI am a bad hunter. I’ll say that right off the bat. A hunter was the first toon that I rolled in LOTRO (and in any MMO really), and it’s a fun class to play. Unfortunately, it’s also a class that can very easily make things go bad for a raid very quickly.
I leveled my hunter up to the then-cap of 65, then realized I couldn’t ever find a group. Part of it was that there are a gajillion hunters out there and DPS is easy to find in a raid. And part of it is that I was a new player and I had no clue on what I was doing in a group. So I parked my hunter and rolled a minstrel. Gradually, my minstrel became my “main”, but the hunter was my first toon.
This past weekend, I got together with several of The Osgiliath Guard’s hunters to talk about the class.
In this is-it-really-a-roundtable? discussion, we discuss the basics of the hunter class including class traits, legendary item legacies, raiding, stats, consumables and the like. We also talk about how you can avoid getting the reputation of being a “bad hunter” and having to wear a giant scarlet H that wards off all raid leaders.
One of the other attendees is one of our kin’s main raid tanks, and he gave us some insights into how a hunter can make his job easier, and things hunters do that make him crazy.
As with the discussions we had about minstrels, this talk isn’t designed for hardcore raiders, but for players who are new to LOTRO or new to the class. This is a long talk (almost an hour and a half), but there’s a lot of content in this one.
If you have comments or other questions, please leave them in the comments below.
Special thanks to Grayman, Juliehood and Kep for their insights into the hunter.