New to Lotro - Hint & Tips

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NOTE 1: Original guide can be found on https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?507561-GUIDE-New-to-LOTRO-hints-and-tips . NOTE 2: Most hyperlinks seem to be blocked here on Steam. Almost all of them lead to the LOTRO Wiki which is an innocent page. Refer to the page linked above if links don't work. Last updated on 26Jan2022 Introduction Basic game vocabulary Getting started Races Classes The game Exploring Kill enemies Quests & deeds PvP (end-game) Socializing Fishing Tasks Crafting General new player hints Ways to gather information Useful tips in the game Combat hints Making money UI settings Other stuff VIP benefits Housing Plugins Crafting Getting started How do I craft? Making progress Crafting guilds Legendary Items Your first Legendary Item Improving and customizing your LI Traceries: what are they? Traceries: how to use and upgrade Skirmishes Skirmish introduction Skirmish categories Skirmish mechanics Why skirmishes? Epic Battles EB introduction EB specializations Getting started with EBs Why EBs? 1. Introduction This is something I wrote with the intention of helping new players with some questions they might have. If you find anything that isn't correct or is incomplete in this guide, please let me know and I will edit it. Be warned, it’s a very, very long guide… You may know some of these terms, others might be completely new to you... This is a small overview of commonly used terms and abbreviations (some are also used on other games or other parts of the internet). Adds: Enemies that attack you after you've begun a fight with another enemy. AFAIK: As far as I know Aggro (aggravation): Can be used as a verb, meaning alerting an enemy so it will start to attack you, or it can be used as a noun, meaning the threat that you are to an enemy in a fight. AH: Auction hall, a location in game where players can list items for sale and buy from each other. Alts /toons: Other characters owned by the same player. AoE attacks: Area of effect attacks that damage multiple foes within a certain range. Bear: Beorning, character class. BoA: Bind on Acquire, items that will be bound to your character as soon as you acquire them, which means they can’t be traded or sold to other players or characters. BoE: Bind on Equip: unlike BoA items, these will only be bound to your character after equipping them. BoV: Blessing of the Valar: a character upgrade bought from the store which will instantly elevate your character to either lvl 50 or lvl 95. Box runs: Running the weekly featured instance. BPE: Block, parry and evade ratings, passive attributes indicating the character’s proficiency at blocking, parrying or evading incoming attacks. Buff: an effect placed on a character (either by the character itself or by an ally) which boosts the character’s combat abilities. Burg: Burglar, character class. Cappy: Captain, character class. Champ: Champion, character class. Crit: Critical hit / critical success ratio, indicating either an attack which dealt more damage / healed more than the regular amount, or the rate at which a character can deal critical hits. Deconstruct: Certain items can be deconstructed by using the Flame of Ancalamír on them. This yields a currency-type item which can be used to barter or craft more valuable items in turn. Debuff: An effect placed on a character (either by the character itself or by an enemy) which hinders the character’s combat abilities. DoT: Damage over time, this will inflict a certain amount of damage every x seconds. DPS: Damage per second, this can indicate the players or classes that deal most of the damage in a fellowship, or it can indicate the dps-value of a weapon. EB: Epic Battles, also known as Big Battles. A special type of instance. See section 10 for more info. F2P: Free to Play, an account status indicating that the player has not spent any real life money on the account. Fellowship: Temporary group of up to 6 people, generally formed to do game content together which can’t be done solo. A fellowship can be converted to a raid which can hold up to 24 players. The monster play version of a fellowship is simply called “group”. FI: Featured Instance: every week a new instance will be “featured” which means they drop special rewards upon completion. The schedule of which instances are included in this rotation change with updates to the game every few months. FM: Fellowship maneuver, also referred to as conjunctions. These sometimes occur when you're fighting enemies while in a fellowship. The enemy will be stunned for about 10 seconds, and you will be able to choose between 4 options: a red, blue, green or yellow circle. When the enemy recovers from his stun, all fellowship members will perform a fellowship maneuver. The result depends on the combo that is made (more info later on). Note that creep FMs (warband maneuvers) are completely different from freep FMs. Founder: An account status indicating that the player pre-ordered the original Shadows of Angmar game in 2007. These players were allowed to participate in the beta testing, had a lower pricing rate for both monthly and lifetime VIP status and received a few minor bonuses exclusive to Founders. In 2010, Founders automatically became VIPs (as long as they either paid their subscription or bought a lifetime account), but some people still refer to the Founder title. GA: Garth Agarwen, a small instance cluster at the end of the Lone-lands questline at level 32, consisting of The Arboretum, Barrows and Fortress. GB: Great Barrow, one of the first instance clusters many people encounter as it’s located in the Barrow-Downs of Bree-Land. There are 3 instances (The Maze, Thadúr and Sambrog – or Sammy) which scale between lvl 20 and level cap. Guard: Guardian, character class. HD: Helm’s Deep, either the actual landscape location or (more commonly) the EB cluster taking place there. HoT: Heal over time, heals the target for a certain amount of morale (or power) every x seconds. ICMR: In-combat morale regeneration, the rate at which your character heals morale over time while in combat, without help of potions or healing skills. ICPR: In-combat power regeneration, same as ICMR but for power. IIRC: If I remember correctly. IMO: In my opinion. Kin: Kinship, a group of players joined together under one leader, similar to a clan or a guild in other games. LI: Legendary Item, a special type of weapon or class item obtained for the first time at the beginning of the Moria epic questline. Lifetime / Lifer: An account status of a player who bought a lifetime subscription back when they were still available. The lifetime plan is no longer being sold (since 2009) but they’re still very rarely given away as contest prizes.. LM: Lore-master, character class. Mini: Minstrel, character class. Mob: An NPC that you can attack. Moors: Ettenmoors, the area where most PvP action takes place. On freep side only accessible by VIPs. MT: Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor. NPC: Non-player character. Premium: An account status indicating that the player has spent some money on the game in the past, but is not an active subscriber. PST: Please Send Tell, an abbreviation usually put at the end of a recruiting message looking for players to join a fellowship or raid, or when buying /selling on public channels, indicating that any interested people should contact them in a private message (tell). PvP: Player vs. player, game mode in the Ettenmoors (or Osgiliath, but mostly in the Moors by far). RK: Rune-keeper, character class. Root: A skill that causes the target to become unable to move for a short amount of time. Attacking is still possible though. RP: Roleplay, a way of playing in which the real life player makes the played character act as if the character is real and not part of a game. RT: Roving Threat, a high-level enemy (lvl 100 – 105) roaming a certain area in a few zones. These were introduced in 2014 as a new type of landscape challenge for high-level players, but can po