Undying

As you can see, I got Ulael, my hunter, to level 20 without dying. I got all of the quests through the level 14 quests done at about the same time. This means that, except for festival quests and deeds, I have essentially completed The Shire, I have done every regular quest and all of the regular deeds except for Ally and Kindred of the Mathom House. Those will come as soon as start spending time in the Barrow Downs and start getting mathoms as drops from dead things.

Whither now? I've spent the last two months chasing this and thrown away a half dozen or more earlier versions of Ulael, and I'm at a bit of a loss. I thought while I was chasing the Undying title that I might run her to Trestlebridge and leap to her death, just to relieve the pressure. I might still, but I also might see how far I can go without dying. I'm certainly not going to play her a little more aggressively though.

Ulael, I suppose, is technically an alt, with my Champion being the main, but I find that I enjoy playing the hunter more, so Ulael may get promoted.

As for other characters, I probably will start leveling my minstrel who has been languishing for the last several months. A couple of weeks ago, I bought another character slot and I might start  at Hobbit burgler, and let the minstrel languish some more.

Living Hunter

The latest incarnation of Ulael is still alive! Probably because I haven't had a lot of play time. She's level 14 and working on the level 9 quests.

Another Dead Hunter

Ulael died, yet again. Sadly, she did it in the most embarrassing way ever. I had made it to Level 16 and was cleaning up some quests in the Chetwood. By level 16 the Chetwood is practically a walk through, but only if you don't just stand there. I had to run an errand and closed the game. When I fired up the game again, rather than stare at the ads, I pulled up Firefox and went poking around the interwebs. Unfortunately, I got distracted and spent too much time, when I looked at the game Ulael was standing there dead. Ouch.

On the positive side, I think I have hit on the stategy to get to level 20 without dying. Quite simple really. I'm playing all four of the intro areas. I do all of the quests at certain level in Bree-land, run to Bree, catch a quick travel horse to the Shire, do all of the same level quests, and move on to Celondim and then the Great Hall doing quests, then use my travel skill to go back to Bree-land and work my way through the next level of quests. I usually level twice on any given level of quests, so by the time I got to the level ten quests, I was level 16, and things were becoming a walk-through, unless I just stand there and let a wolf eat me.

This strategy plays into another goal for all of my characters, which is to complete all of the available quests, deeds, etc. I figure running Chetwood quests will probably be more satisfying at level 16 than following a more traditional path and then coming back and picking them up at level 30.

Anyway, I'm off to save Archet from the Blackwolds. Again.

More dead hunters.

Here I go again. I restarted the damn hunter AGAIN. I think it's three times since the last time I've posted here. Each time I figure out how to get pass the thing that killed me before, just to make new mistakes. This is going to be the last time, I swear.

I'm probably lying though.

Dead hunters

It is inevitable. I start I project, such as a blog, that requires a regular time commitment and life jumps in and starts sucking all of my time away. Between car troubles, work and what-not, I've had very little free time. I spent most of it playing LOTRO rather than writing about it. The sad part is I haven't accomplished anything in game. I keep getting Ulael killed and re-rolling her. I may have to give up the idea of earning "The Undying".

But not yet. Off to run through Archet. Again.