2 Wending Way, Greyheights - Home of Apelred

Despite the credit crunch Apelred has joined the property ladder with a nice little standard house for 1G plus chest for an additional 100s at 2 Wending Way in the Greyheight Shire Homestead.

Drop by for a smoke anytime :)

Already half filled the chest - now I need to get the decorators in.

Update - Apelred lies down after a hard days wallpapering.

Bone-Speakers & Morcheryn

Apelred, Colzarak & Tormay finished off the Bone Speakers (in the pic one lies dead while Colzarak gives his Troll mates a good thrashing).

The party then went to find the Earth Kin Scout who is tucked away up a narrow path and took the quest to kill the Morroval (who have a most surprising catwalk gait) and then on to Slay the Mistress of Shadows Morcheryn in her dungeon. In the pic Apelred is annoying his Guardian by stealing the aggro (again) cheeky hobbit.

Level 44

Apelred made level 44 doing book 6 quest Challenging the Stone & Stone of Clucath & and some Ram Duath quests with help from Sterandir although we couldn't quite manage The Far Reaching Hand with just two of us :(.

Master & Matron

Apelred finished the Hill Beast private instance Master & Matron at the second attempt after realising Tasgall had more than 4,000 moral so could tank easily. Switching to endurance stance and not getting aggro on the Hill Beasts was the way to go. Its goodbye to Gastano's Travellers Cloak seen in the pic which has served Apelred for 15 levels as the Winter Cloak reward gives some much needed Fate.

Level 43

Apelred ventured into Morfil to complete Dark Raiders and gain level 43.

Revenge on the Gauradans

Apelred returned to seek revenge on the Gauradans (see Eregion post) with friends Colzarak (thanks for the fire oil and triple traps) and Tormay (Aeshac's older brother & a Minstrel) to complete the 'An End to the Enterprise' quest by killing three Ritualists. You have to take the figurines to Bree and then return to Tal Bruinen which should be a lot easier now there is a Stable Master there. However I could not seem to find the ride from the Rivendell stables so I took the ride to Gwingris which goes right past Tal Bruinen :). The Cause For Joy quest reward includes a very nice 26.8 DPS bow that does Beleriand damage. Apelred is trying to collect a bow/crossbow for each type of damage, currently having Common, Ancient Dwarf, Westernesse and now Beleriand which leaves Light damage remaining.
Here is the Lotro Wiki entry on Damage Types
http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Damage_types

Aughaire first visit

Apelred made his first venture into Angmar today picking up a group of quests in Aughaire.

Salamanders Slain

Apelred, Aeshac & Colzarak got together to kill the Salamander breeding pair finishing the Rumming quest chain meaning no more swimming for a while :)

Eregion

Apelred got defeated in Echad Gauradan and was resurrected in a stange new land. Being a nosey hobbit he had a ride round the region carefully avoiding the level 52 Dunlandings and other assorted nasties. Here is the map after his travels. Note most stables require level 45 minimum to travel.

Notice the map maker still can't keep his coffee cup off his work, messy bugger :).

Respect

Apelred shows his respect to the Blue Lady.

Level 42

Not the band but Apelreds latest achievement making level 42 by restoring Elendil's statues (The Corrupted Statue & The Lost Statue).

A Meeting With the Blue Lady

Apelred is working his way through the 20 quest sequence for the forging of Narsil that ends in the Tomb of Elendil Instance.

Here he talks to the Blue Lady after walking through the waterfall to find her domain. A magical experience the first time you experience it.

Then she asks him to go and kill more Salamanders, curses!

Rumming's Ridiculous Request - First Moria Session

Applied the 3Gb upgrade for Moria and rejoiced that quest items are now not taking up bag space, hooray :).

Apelred finally cracked and looked on lotro.mmodb.com for the location of the chests for the series of 3 Rumming's quests. The pic shows the view to the Warg Chest just visible down the hill.

He killed quite a few Salamanders and tried to advance the new deeds that have appeared with the Moria upgrade. The sets of class traits you can get look interesting. Still haven't got my head round the combat changes but the basics remain the same. It might be me, but my induction times seem slightly slower - mmmm.

Tried to solo the 2 Elite Salamanders for the last quest but failed miserably.

Aeshac is back for a trip to Dol Dinen

Apelred's trusty Loremaster friend Aeshac made a welcome return after a few weeks break and with Colzarak tanking for us we ventured into Dol Dinen. In the pic we take on Raugzok the Warg. We got halfway through Weakening the Tide killing Orc Bone Speakers who have an annoying heal just when you think you have them licked and a quest to collect pieces of Seige Engines that are surrounded by Ongburtz Combatants and mean Trolls. Apelred got in a bit of bother and was resurrected by Aeshac during the session - cheers.

A Trap for the Creature Instance - Spoiler

Gollum's first appearance and the most fun in a quest so far.

SPOILER - these pics show some of the fun to be had waiting for and chasing Gollum.

Garb of the Woods

Apelred has been rewarded with his first equipment set Garb of the Woods (Woodlands Jacket, Band of the Woods and Shoulders of the Woods) giving a nice +27 agility bonus.

Also in the Character Journal you can see very fine Brilliant White Gold Rings and Sparkling Platinum Earrings. Thanks to Touslemane for crafting these as a present for reaching level 40.

Level 41

Apelred made level 41 this week by completing Misty Mountain (Pottery), Ost Forod (Thauk) and Tal Bruinen (Woods equipment set) quests. The pic is the view south near Tal Bruinen settlement.

The Tal Bruinen quests involved a bit of running between there and Thorenhad (note if you are defeated in Tal Bruinen you get resurrected near Thorenhad which is convenient for the Toad Stew and Giant Footprint quests).

He also managed to kill enough goblins in Tum Fuin where Thauk can be found to get his Hobbit-Silence (feign death) hobbit race trait.

Garth Agarwen Revisited

Apelred (Hunter) and Colzarak (Guardian) revisted Garth Agarwen again and managed to get past Grimbark by using the Valour technique of running away. Despite being Level 40 & 41 we were defeated a couple of times and fell foul of respawns after 1 hour or patrols not exactly sure. The difficulty is running away does not work with mobile mobs as they just chase you relentlessly. As the pic shows we were cowering and have decided to wait until we can get a fuller strength party together.

Level 40

Apelred achieved level 40 hunting Snow Beasts in the Misty Mountains for his determination virtue.

Garth Agarwen

Apelred & Colzarak explored Garth Agarwen. They were defeated by the Gloom Waters and eventually found their way to Grimbark. It is a bit humiliating to be defeated by a Maddened Bee Hive!

Misty Mountains

Apelred ventured into the Misty Mountains for Snow Lurkers, Snow Beasts and Wargs.

Had a try at Book 5 but it was far too hard to solo at level 39.

Do you like the Riddle Masters hat? It keeps the cold out!

Book 4 Instance The Unmarked Trail

Boy this was hard, we had a party of 6 including Beoleth a level 50 Guardian and only just made it.

Apelred made level 39 during the quest so needed precision stance just to hit the level 42 mobs at all!