Lumul-Nar Solo & L63

Grimberg tries the solo version of Book 8 Chapter 3 Mirror Halls, it does not have inspiration, the mobs are just normals. It is a lot easier than the 3 man version, hardly a bat in sight and only a couple of warriors. The Task Mistresses still have the 1000% damage increase & nasty wound so they have to be killed quickly. Had fun setting the mirrors as his kinmate normally does this. Ergoth the final boss is on her own so is a straighforward fight. Its a bit too easy really.

The only extra Lumul-Nar quest he could complete was the Lesser Rings quest. These quests got Grimberg to level 63.

Fil Gashan

The Flaming Halflings help Cappies Stuball & Grimberg complete In Harms Way in Fil Gashan & then we go on to defeat General Talug. Grimberg gets the General's armour to display in his house.
Here are some screenshots in Picasa

Fil Gashan

Oathbreaker

Grimberg was 12k rep short of Kindred with the Iron Garrison Guards so did a few runs of the Scholar crafting instances in Hadudbab, located in Durin's Way, which net about 4k per time. He could then buy the Master of the Charge book from the rep vendor and buy the Armaments of the Oathbreakers from the Captain Trainer to equip the Oathbreaker Archer herald. Grimberg already had 5 red to enable his herald to be an effective off tank.

Mirkwood Entrance

Aeshac, Stuball & Grimberg race through the Mirkwood Entrance Instance and Grimberg dings level 62 in the process. Maybe he can make it to level 65 by the time Isengard is released?

Grimberg L61 in Moria Deeps

Grimberg solos New Devilry at level 61 and finds it quite a bit easier than Apelred did at level 65.

Captains Dev Diary

Captain Grimberg is hoping to make Level 65 by the time Rise of Isengard is available, bit of a tall order given the lack of game time he gets.

Captains are getting a major overhaul in Rise of Isengard. See the Dev Diary for details. Here are a few highlights.

The main change is to try and give Captains a serious chance at being a Tank with a revamped Leader of Men trait line. Cappies will be able to Block when wielding a 2-handed weapon, Routing cry will not require a defeat event and can be made a Forced Taunt giving some hope of keeping aggro. I suppose my favourite stun effect will be removed.

The Captain now receives all of their Tactical Offence Rating and Outgoing Healing Rating from Might (instead of Will). Hopefully this stat change will ease the stat balancing act a bit as long as Power is not an issue.

As Grimberg gets lonely without his herald he is pleased to see the trait “Strength from Within” no longer prevents the summoning of Heralds and Archers.

The Rift in Pictures

From The Rift of Nûrz Ghâshu

Those nice folks in Reconnected invited Apelred to join them in a run through the Rift. A big thankyou for letting Apel experience this classic LOTRO raid.

Here is the story in pictures on Picasa.