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What is the currency used in LOTRO?
Money in LOTRO comes in three denominations: Gold, Silver, and Copper.
- 100 Copper = 1 Silver
- 1,000 Silver = 1 Gold

How do I know how much lotro gold I have?
You can check how much lotro gold you have by bringing up the Character Journal panel (Pressing the C key).

Character Panel shows your available cash.

How do I make lord of the rings online gold?
You can earn money by completing quests, looting coins off humanoid enemies, selling items you loot from enemies and chests, or even by selling crafted items.

How do I know how much money I will get from a quest?
You can tell what the rewards will be given upon completion of a quest by checking your quest log (Pressing the L key).

Quest log shows the quest completion reward.

How do I craft items?
You can make items like armor, weapons, food, and many more by taking up a Crafting Vocation. For more information, consult our Basic Crafting Guide.

How do I sell items?
You can sell (and buy) items in three ways: 1) to an NPC (non-player character) vendor that may be found in towns across Middle-Earth, 2) through the Auction House, or 3) by directly trading with another player character.

How do I sell lotro items to an NPC vendor?
NPC vendors will buy practically anything of value in your inventory, including items that are bound to you (items that cannot be traded to other players).

To interact with such an NPC, simply double-click (or right-click) on him/her. This will bring up a Shop Panel. Click on the Sell tab to list all the items in your inventory that can be sold. The selling price of each item is listed next to it.

The Shopping Panel
To sell an item, simply double-click (or right-click) on its picture. The money will go to your gold-purse automatically.

The padlock next to the name of each item allows you to lock an item so you won?t accidentally sell it. Only unlocked items can be sold.

How do I buy items from a vendor?
Just click on the Buy tab and it will list all the items the vendor has. Double-click or right-click on any item to buy it.

What is the Buyback tab all about?
The Buyback tab lets you buy back the last 16 items that you sold to any vendor during the session, for the same price at which you sold it. Nifty feature in cases where you get too click-happy and sell that precious sword by mistake! Don’t lose your lotro gold by mistake.

How do I trade items with another player?
To trade with another player, select the player you want to trade with and right-click on their portrait. On the menu that is brought up, select ?Start Secure Trade?. Drag the item you wish to trade from your inventory to the Trade Window and complete the trade. If you wish to pay the other player, enter the amount you want to transfer in the Trade window before completing the trade.

The Auction House

Where can I find an Auction House?
There are Auction Houses in Bree-town, Michel Delving, and Thorin’s Hall.

How do I sell lotro items in the Auction House?
Double-click or right-click on an Auctioneer to bring up the Auction Panel, then click on the Post tab. Drag the item you wish to sell from your inventory into the Auction Item box. An Initial Price will be set for you by default but you can override it. You may also specify a Buyout Price. Click on Post Auction to finalize the auction.

The Auction Panel
What is a ?Kinship Only? auction?
Kinships that have reached level 4 can post auctions for their members only.

What fees do I have to pay to sell through the Auction House?
Every time you post an auction, you have to pay a Posting Fee up front. The amount depends on the duration you picked (see the info below). The percentage is applied to either the Initial Price or the Buyout Price, if you entered one. In addition to this, the Auction House also takes a 5% Auctioning Fee(lotro gold) for every sale completed.

Duration/PostingFee
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08 Hours/6% of Item Worth
24 Hours/20% of Item Worth
48 Hours/40% of Item Worth
72 Hours/60% of Item Worth

How do I buy items from the Auction House?
Double-click or right-click on an Auctioneer to bring up the Auction Panel, or click on the Auctions tab if you already have the panel up.

You can highlight the category you want to search on. You could also specify a word or phrase that appears in the item name, and the level range to narrow down your search. Click on the Search button to bring up the items that meet your criteria. The list will show you the current bid on the item and a buyout price, if any. To bid on an item, highlight it, enter your bid, and then click Bid. To buyout an item, highlight it then click on Buyout.

What happens when I lose a bid?
If someone beats your bid, you will get mail from the Auctioneer informing you that you have been outbid on an auction. The money you bid on it will be returned to you in that letter.

At this point, if you go back to the Auctioneer and click on the Bids tab, you will see the lost bid still on the list. If you want to keep bidding on the item, just click on Bid. Otherwise, click on Concede to remove the item from the list.

Keep track of your bids.

How do I get an lotro item I won at the Auction House?
When you win an auction, the item will be sent to you in the mail. It?s sort of like a Christmas present? only without the fat guy in the red suit eating all of your cookies

One of the biggest costs associated with adventuring in the most dangerous areas is the overhead cost of repairs if you happen to die. Turbine accidentally gave people a way around this issue with their most recent patch, which allows characters under 10th level to die without damaging their objects in inventory. For this reason, it’s a particularly good strategy to use such chracters as mules, picking up treasure as it drops, but protected by the rest of a higher level group. Lower level mules can also be used to trigger traps,activating monsters, or drawing them towards traps or luring them out without risk, allowing the higher level characters to focus on damage. One technique this can also be used in would be to lure a mob of creatures towards the rest of a party, and have that party pick off one of the monsters, drawing its aggro while the lower level mule character draws the rest of the mob away from the battle for the moment. This gives parties a low-risk way to break up even the largest, toughest mobs. It also guarantees that they will respawn individually, rather than all at once, allowing parties to safely camp out near particularly lucrative treasure chests, etc.

Mining ore is progressively riskier in LOTRO, but it’s not necessarily a good idea to mine the most advanced ores to make a good profit. The way that LOTRO levels up prospecting skills requires even high-level prospectors to have copper ore, which is surprisingly the most in demand in the game, fetching prices up to 2 silver each in the auction house. The best place to mine silver is on near the road from the Brandywine Bridge to the construction camp along the road southwest of Bree, as it respawns most rapidly there. It is quite possible to harvest 80 copper there in one hour, which could be sold for up to 160 silver in the auction house… perhaps more as the economy starts to develop and inflation kicks in. As the game evolves, it may be a far better idea for leveling prospectors to harvest and auction copper in order to buy other ores which are, by definition, less in demand for experience leveling purposes.

 One of the best areas of the game to farm for quality drops is in the Emyn Hoedh region of northeastern Erid Luin. The wights in that region drop consistantly good treasure, but are easier to kill and in less dangerous groupings than the wights of the Barrow Downs to the west of Bree. From my experience, this is an even better location than the city to the east in the same area of Erid Luin, as the resale value of the items dropped is better and the drops are more consistantly good. This area will get even better as the game progresses, as demands for wights body parts increases… many are used for potions and the like.

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Champions are perhaps the best soloing class in Middle-Earth. The fact that they can wear heavy armor, as well as dishing heavy damage often causes those who have not played the class to have a bit of class envy towards them. Champions can fill in as a tank if no guardian is available, though doing so will make them forfeit most of their damage dealing capabilities. It is always preferable to have a guardian as a main tank because they have more hit points, better taunting ability and can dish more damage than a champion who is in tanking mode. However, it is the ability to serve in multiple roles if need be that make a champion desirable in group play. If your main tank should go down, the champion can switch to a shield and one handed configuration, turn off their fervour generation and fill in for them. They are best suited for their role as a DPS (Damage Per Second) class, however.

Fervour

Fervour is unique to champions. It is a reflecting of how much rage you have accumulated in any given fight. It is gained in two ways, the first is by using certain abilities such as Wild Attack and Swift Strike. These abilities will generate Fervour when used. The other way is via your offensive stance, which should be toggled on for most of your Champions career. Any time that you are not tanking this should be on. It will cause you to automatically accumulate fervour and to regenerate power more quickly, but causes you to forfeit your ability to Evade, Block or Parry. Most of your other special attacks or abilities have a fervour cost associated with them. This causes the champion to make some choices in combat, should they choose to use a triple attack at the cost of three fervour, or build their fervour to a full five points in case they need to use an area effect stun? These sort of decisions are what makes playing a champion an enjoyable experience.

The Area Effect

Champions are arguably the best class in the game when it comes to dealing Area of Effect (AOE) damage. They have a variety of differnet attacks from the level 1 Blade-Wall to damage dealing attacks such as Blade-Storm or stunning attacks such as Sound the Attack. Champions also obtain horns at level 20, which will do an area of effect stun, but have a 15 minute reuse delay. The number of monsters which can be stunned varies by the quality of the horn used.

Dual Wielding or the Big Bang?

Champions can dual wield from level one onward, but can also train themselves in the use of two handed weapons. There are pros and cons to each. The main advantage of a two hander is that your special attacks will do much greater damage. As a champion myself, I let the gear dictate which of the two I will use at any given time. A good two hander will outdamage two pretty good one handers. But generally I prefer to dual wield because you attack faster and in general it seems that you deal more damage. When tanking a spear makes a reliable weapon because they have a higher damage than most other one handers, as they cannot be dual wielded. This makes them ideal if you need to go into a shield + one handed tank role.lotro.

Another thing that deserves mention here is the use of daggers. There are many daggers that have a high DPS available in the game, but their use as a primary hand weapon has a trade off. They are very fast, but their damage is low. This means that your special attacks will do less damage, but you will attack quicker. When dual wielding daggers I have found power to be an issue. You will often run out of power before the end of a fight.

So, maybe you’ve heard about this wacky music system that lets you play real music in-game. You’ve probably seen the people standing around in Bree banging out swingin’ tunes. Maybe you’ve even dabbled with the /music command a bit. If so, you probably quickly discovered that it’s a pretty robust and powerful system– musical newbies need not apply. If you don’t know much about music in real life, it can be a little daunting. Worry not! I was once in the same boat as you, friend, and now I can pluck out songs with the best of them. With a little help from this guide, we’ll have you playing like a pro in no time. Read on to begin your musical journey in the land of Middle Earth!lotro.

Getting Started

The first thing you’ll need to do is make sure that your character has their instrument skills trained. No skills, no songs. You get these from your class trainer at level 5 as a passive skill. Every class gets the lute proficiency and one other instrument with the exception of the Minstrel, who can play all of them. Here’s a quick list of who gets what for reference:

Burglars, Hunters, and Lore-Masters play the clarinet.

Captains, Champions, and Guardians play the horn.

The harp and flute are Minstrel-only. Sorry for all you non-Minstrel harp enthusiasts!

Once you’ve gotten the necessary skills from your trainer (which you can verify by looking at your passive skills tab), you’ll need to buy the correct instrument. Any will do for making music, but obviously you need the ones that correspond to your skills. You’ll find all of the basic instruments at your friendly neighborhood bard for a few silver (it’s the same place where you equip traits).

Equip your instrument by right-clicking it or dropping it into your instrument slot, and you’re ready to rock– literally! You can now press enter and type “/music” to enter music mode, at which point you can begin using the keyboard to play notes.lotro guide.

Feel the rhythm in your soul! Make some music, mon!

Some of you are probably gurgling and clawing at your eyes right about now. But hey, remember what the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy tells us: Don’t Panic! That previous section is really only necessary if you want to convert sheet music to LOTRO or compose your own songs. For the rest (most) of us, someone else was nice enough to do the heavy lifting. It’s pretty easy from there to learn to play; it just takes a little practice. Lets start with something simple: Camptown Races!

Get your character set up using the instructions in the “Getting Started” section. Once you’re ready to begin playing, tap these numbers:

5535 653 32 32 5535 653 2 32 1

You’ll get a feel for the timing pretty quickly. This one is very simple, but it’s just to get you used to playing with the number keys. After you’re comfortable with Camptown Races, move on to something a little harder. Chopsticks requires you to play two lines at once, creating chords.

4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4  3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3  2 2 2 2 3 2  1 1 1 1
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5  5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5  7 7 7 7 6 7  8 8 8 8

So, you’ll be using two fingers on each beat: 4&5, 3&5, 2&7 (watch out for that 3&6 towards the end), and 1&8. After a few minutes getting a feel for chords, you’ll be ready to try your hand at using shift(numbers designated in italics)and control (numbers designated in bold). Try a little Frere Jacques to get the hang of using the shift key (note the last two 5’s are not italicized).

1 2 3 1  1 2 3 1  3 4 5

  1 5 1  1 5 1There aren’t many songs where you’ll have to mix CTRL notes and SHIFT notes, so don’t worry about that too much. By now, you’re probably feeling pretty confident in your musical abilities, and you should be. You have three songs in your repertoire that almost everyone can recognize! Practice those for a while until you’ve really got them down, and then you can use your newfound musical skills to tackle much harder fare like the Star Wars theme, the Mario Bros. theme, and actual rock songs.

Glenn maintains a regularly updated song list, so I suggest you head there to start looking for new music to impress your friends with. Congratulations! You’ve gone from a talentless nobody to a musical genius in just under 20 minutes! You must be some kind of prodigy.

Now go out into Middle Earth and show everyone your newfound mad musical skillz.