Shamus Plays: LOTRO, Part 8
- Thread starter Shamus Young
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I know this is old as crap, but I'm just now discovering this series. Anywho, I'm somewhat disappointed that you didn't have trouble with the Woodwright quest, as I would have loved to have read a rant explaining why it's broken as shit.
Technically, it's an extremely easy quest. Find the guy, fight him, report to his mom. However, there were about twenty dozen other people also trying to do this quest when I was doing it, and being that this was labeled as a "solo" mission, no one bothered with fellowships. If you aren't in a group, this quest is completely first-come-first-serve. You can help fight the guy, you might even be able to talk to him soon after the fighting starts, but you don't get credit unless you were the absolute first person to click on him. So once he runs off, you have to wait for him to respawn. But that takes a ridiculous amount of time, at which point it becomes another damn case of first-come-first-serve.
Mind you, most of us were newbs. Eventually someone got the obvious idea of forming a fellowship so we could end it and get on with our lives, but I still don't think it's a good thing to have to do this when it was meant to be a solo quest. It either should have been marked as a group quest, or something should have been done to give everyone credit so long as they were doing the quest and not just passing by.
Technically, it's an extremely easy quest. Find the guy, fight him, report to his mom. However, there were about twenty dozen other people also trying to do this quest when I was doing it, and being that this was labeled as a "solo" mission, no one bothered with fellowships. If you aren't in a group, this quest is completely first-come-first-serve. You can help fight the guy, you might even be able to talk to him soon after the fighting starts, but you don't get credit unless you were the absolute first person to click on him. So once he runs off, you have to wait for him to respawn. But that takes a ridiculous amount of time, at which point it becomes another damn case of first-come-first-serve.
Mind you, most of us were newbs. Eventually someone got the obvious idea of forming a fellowship so we could end it and get on with our lives, but I still don't think it's a good thing to have to do this when it was meant to be a solo quest. It either should have been marked as a group quest, or something should have been done to give everyone credit so long as they were doing the quest and not just passing by.
