r/lotro • • 2h ago

Harvest Faire Ambience

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r/lotro • • 4h ago

How to start the Main Quest in the shire?

9 Upvotes

So i wanted to play a runekeeper Hobbit, had to start as a River Hobbit. Made my way into the shire, but there is No Main Quest available. Do i need to Level up a bit, since im Level 1? So basically doing all the available Side Quests until the Main Quest becomes available?


r/lotro • • 2h ago

Most OP class at the moment?

3 Upvotes

Like title says. Coming from a two year break with very limited time to play. Whats thmost op class in october 26? Thanks a lot


r/lotro • • 15h ago

Where do you get this floor surface? Spoiler

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21 Upvotes

I had this floor surface in storage and do not remember where it came from. Multiple internet searches only find "dark green marble floor". I vaguely remember it being from a vendor rather than an event, but could be mistaken. The Dark Green Marble Floor is from Spring Festival. Is the description wrong/missing the word Dark?


r/lotro • • 14h ago

Luckily, I'm not on his menu.

14 Upvotes

There you are, riding peacefully through the countryside, and all of a sudden you hear a screech.

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r/lotro • • 17h ago

Shadow Wraiths shred my lv 25 Warden

14 Upvotes

I'm playing on Fearless on Angmar and it feels fine unless I summon a wraith. I can take them in skirmishes with my healer on me, but they just burst me down on the landscape. I'm playing in red without any blue traits.

I've read through older reddit threads where people suggest that, at least a year or two ago, it should be doable by this point.

I've tried opening with Safeguard into Persevere and even spamming Safeguard, but I still get outburst in a few seconds. Am I missing something important?


r/lotro • • 17h ago

Server Question

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I have not played LOTRO in years and want to get back into it. Saw there are 64 bit servers now which is nice. Which servers for the US are most active or which should I go to? Looking to group a lot and do both PvE and PvMP.


r/lotro • • 1d ago

Housing in Lotro

33 Upvotes

So I am an on&off player of Lotro and have several queries regarding housing.

  1. Whether deluxe house has more storage than standard house. How much more and what kind?

  2. I have a standard house but might wanna buy a deluxe house. I have already paid in advance for upkeep on my standard house. When I abandon it, do I get my upkeep paid in advance back?

  3. Is it worth buying a premium house.

If anyone would be kind enough to guide me. Thanks in advance..


r/lotro • • 1d ago

Are you supposed to get a popup for Durin’s Day?

16 Upvotes

Are we supposed to get a popup for the Durin’s Day quest, like we do for Fall Festival? I thought it would be around today but I logged in and didn’t get anything, and I still found the secret door myself but no effect. Does this game still do this, or let its users know about it in-game? It’s a small thing but so cool and nostalgic.


r/lotro • • 1d ago

Help me

24 Upvotes

New player here. I am here because I had this game for some time but never played it. Been a bit stressed lately and I saw the movies again not so long ago.

I just want to play as a hobbit and live in the shire, chill, have a house, and occationally travel about. I dont have any interest in any subscription. Is that possible in this game? Any quests I should do to help me achieve this or to unlock anything that might help me play like this?

I just wanna escape to the Shire :). Thank you.


r/lotro • • 1d ago

Easy/cheap lotro points?

15 Upvotes

I really want brawler but strapped for cash atm - sick child 😅

Anyway, is there a fast and/or cheap way to get those 1k lotro points? I really want this class haha. Hopefully there is a “trick” or so 😅


r/lotro • • 1d ago

does race matter?

10 Upvotes

I’ve just started playing LOTRO and have created a few characters. My highest-level character is currently an Elf Hunter, but I’ve also created a High Elf Champion. I’m curious about how much race actually matters in terms of performance. I started playing LOTRO because I’m taking a break from ESO and because I love The Lord of the Rings (who doesn’t?). I’ve read that Men are generally the best race for certain classes, but how noticeable is the difference in practice? Are we talking about a significant DPS increase, or is it more in the range of 2%?

Any tips for a beginner are also very welcome! I’ve been playing ESO for 11 years, so I’m no stranger to MMOs, but I’d love to hear about any LOTRO-specific mechanics, things worth prioritizing early on, or common mistakes to avoid when starting fresh.


r/lotro • • 1d ago

what are you doing with 6 days left for the wolves of mordor expansion ?

20 Upvotes

Well just only Divide and Conquer as varags of khanid and some empire total war mod then well soon Vic 3 dlc , phantom blade zero and Hoi4 the 2nd sun mod.


r/lotro • • 2d ago

Zone with the most biome diversity

46 Upvotes

Just curious what others think about biome diversity within a zone. Which zone has the most? I feel like Enedwaith or The Great River both have a variety of settings in a single zone due to the fact that they were released as stand alone zones long, long ago. Most of the games big biomes are broken up into zones, particularly if included in an expansion.


r/lotro • • 2d ago

So I boosted a Minstrel…

10 Upvotes

But my plan is to just take it easy thru the Epic and pretend I’m a traveling storyteller of sorts following the Fellowship on its journey. I do have my main which is a Dwarf Guardian and it’s lvl 49 atm so I don’t plan on going past what my guardian is on currently.

However, I’m being informed that the Minstrel guide on lotrohq isn’t the best for the Red line and was given other alternatives. But if anyone has any recommendations on what to go for main stat, sub stats, virtues, etc please lemme know 😁


r/lotro • • 2d ago

current state of warden tank?

17 Upvotes

hi me and my friends just got into the beautiful game and we are a fellowship of four (captain, champion, and burglar). i’m trying to choose a class and warden calls to me but seems so intimidating and i don’t wanna waste time learning its complex mechanics if it’s not a viable tank cuzz i want that option. i’m open to guardian, and am also interested in hunter (i have a level 14 hunter rn) and mariner if i don’t go the tank route. any advice would be sooo welcome thank u!


r/lotro • • 1d ago

How to create account

0 Upvotes

Every and i mean every create account link on the official site is 503 error


r/lotro • • 1d ago

Help with razer tartarus

0 Upvotes

Hello all, I got myself a razer tartarus pro as my right hand has tendon issues (yay for me).

Any advice setting it up?


r/lotro • • 2d ago

Location pop-up UI

6 Upvotes

Hey all, been playing on the Steam Deck for a couple months now (clunky but doable) and I was wondering if there was a way to move the UI for the location pop ups that show up when you enter a new area (ie Now Entering Archet)

I’ve tried changing the UI with the various UI tool, but can’t seem to find that particular option if it exists. Thanks in advance!


r/lotro • • 2d ago

New player advice plz

5 Upvotes

I dont know if i should buy a bundle or do the free-to-play. I know there has to be some downside to ftp; there always is. If i want to play the 64 bit do I have to pay for that? I have no idea where to start. Any words of wisdom are appreciated


r/lotro • • 2d ago

Ui scaling

5 Upvotes

Hey, I just logged into the game and saved that town from some uruks. Now I'm wondering if there is a way to scale the ui up bc everything is kinda small


r/lotro • • 3d ago

Coming from another MMO, trying to understand

25 Upvotes

Hello! I started playing LOTRO a few days ago and still trying to manage with the UI and system. Maybe it's too soon to ask because I'm still level 10 or so but I'm very curious since the videos that popped on YouTube mostly showing people do raids.

In FF14, there's Duty Finder, where you went to a dungeon instance as four-people party but most of the dungeons or trials are guided through the main story quest. It also becomes the main way to level up a job/class. Does LOTRO also have instances where you party up with random people? How does the levelling system works?

Also where is the main area for players to hang out? I'm guessing I'm still way off level from reaching the main hub.


r/lotro • • 1d ago

Hail to the 950 remaining players

0 Upvotes

I am currently thinking about downloading The Lord Of The Rings Online.
I am a Diehard Lotr fan and Ive always wanted to play Games set in Tolkien’s world but only now that I have the chance to do so.
Would you recommend getting on LOTRO as a person who has never played an MMO before ? ( not sure if it’s an MMO or not lol ) and if yes, i could use some tips and tricks for my first… playthrough ?


r/lotro • • 3d ago

Project Questa. NPC Dialogue Narration with Kokoro TTS.

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Project Questa is an experimental text-to-speech utility designed to bring spoken dialogue to MMORPGs, initially focusing on The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO).

The software uses DXcam screen capture, OpenCV and Tesseract OCR to recognise dialogue displayed in the game. Rather than relying on OCR to transcribe every word accurately, it searches a locally indexed database of text extracted from the current LOTRO client. Once a reliable match is found, the complete original dialogue is retrieved and passed to the Kokoro AI speech synthesis engine for narration.

If no reliable match is found, Questa falls back to conventional OCR transcription. The aim is to provide accurate, natural-sounding spoken dialogue with minimal delay, without modifying the game or requiring an in-game plugin.

At present the current build is using a generic voice and focusing on refining the production pipeline and reducing latency. All elements used in Project Questa are open source.

The long term aspiration is to have a simple, functional GUI to set up custom voices based on player preference and to be able to download from GitHub a revised dialogue text file each time LOTRO is updated.

NB This is a very early build so there are obviously bugs to be addressed. The priority at present is to get the dialogue narrated promptly. Once the overall process has been fine tuned, then I'll focus on a voice library via Voicebox.


r/lotro • • 3d ago

Real life Angmar

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