How to Succeed at Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO)

A detailed gaming manual to compliment and extend the limited starter game manual which comes with the Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) game. Includes critical path questing decisions, charts, graphs, and strategies for avoiding grinding situations. Helps you to make decisions to level your game characters as quickly as possible and make decisions which characters and roles to choose. Helps a beginner to understand the important information necessary to enjoy the game in the least stressful environment possible in a detailed but small reference guide. A technical approach to LOTRO gaming character traits and skill advancement. Includes advice for minimizing the health consequences of gaming addictions and analysis of why online games are extremely addicting. Helps the gamer understand why games are designed to create a punishment/reward cycle and offer so little advancement as a slow and painstaking process known as 'grinding". Offers insightful advice to avoid the negative consequences of "grinding" by presenting strategies and solutions to minimize it. Version 1.1 added more charts and graphs to enable character selection to optimize might, agility, fate and will. Version 2.0 added more quest and task analysis to help you level your character on the fastest path to "maximum" capability at each game level. Compares two character leveling strategies with progress graphs, and analysis strategies for sharing crafting components and "task drop" components. Version 3.0 and 4.0 added additional strategy recommendations for quest game levels 24-100 and structured quests from level 1-24 into easy to follow quest chains. Version 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 add additional character leveling and craft leveling recommendations and resource management charts. Includes a generalized discussion for questing order and locating optimum quests in the VIP subscription questing areas and the 4 expansion packs; Mines of Moria, The Siege of Mirkwood, Isengard and Riders of Rohan. The final two chapters of the book follow maps and make suggestions for creating a patchwork quest path taken by the characters in the movie, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Using these maps you can follow along while watching the movies again and identify/visit the same locations inside the LOTRO game virtual environment.