Lachwen Decides It's Makeover Time

[the_gneech]

Big night for Lachwen tonight. With the help of some friends from the Valar Guild, she completed her L60 class quest in the 16th Hall of Moria, as well as picking up her last legendary trait and finishing a double-handful of deeds and quests in Moria. But before all of that started, she decided to celebrate having hit level 60 (the original Mirkwood expansion level cap) by getting a makeover in Lothlorien.



As you can see, it's a softer, friendlier look than she was previously sporting, with flowers and highlights in her hair and an actual outfit designed by some of the finest crafters in Caras Galadhon, rather than a bunch of random pieces just tossed together. They couldn't get her to abandon the peacock color scheme, tho -- Lachwen just isn't Lachwen without the colors of the rainbow. Unfortunately, the outfit is a touch lacking in the yellow/green portion of the spectrum, so she compensated for that a bit by adding a touch of gold to her signature winged circlet.

All that said, she's still the same badass lightning girl under the skin -- some of the deeds completed involved slaying vast numbers of orcs. ;) And she hit L61 halfway through the instance run. It was actually the first time any of my characters had been through 16th Hall, despite jamesbarrett's insistence that I'd done it before. It is conceivable that one or two of my characters might have stepped in the door and I forgot it, but I would have remembered those boss fights, they were definitely new to me.

Anyway, 'twas a fun night. Alas, likely to be the last major amount of time I can spend in LotRO this week -- I've got a con coming up this weekend that I need to prep for -- but now all of the major roadblocks are overcome and when I do get to go back into the game, Lachwen can just follow the Volume II quests on through to the end, and go back to catch up with deeds and other such things later.

-The Gneech

Comments

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

Grats on the milestone. n_n

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

-TG

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I recently had a character milestone as well. n_n

[kamau-d-lyon.livejournal.com]

Looking good Gneech. I've been spending some time gaming myself (and getting some much needed stress relief) but more on that in another post.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And you enjoy that R&R, you need it!

-TG

[radbaron.livejournal.com]

I think I see my problem with my character then. You focus on deeds first, then the quests and books. I've been doing quests/books and letting the deeds come naturally.
And you have all 8 legendarys??? Augh! 1 complete, 4 in progress, and I don't even know where to find what I need to do for some of them. Must turn off the first person shooters for a few days, and do some 3rd person bow twanging :D

Congrats on 61 as well.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Well, the deeds matter mostly as they give you Virtues, which make a big difference in the end-game content. I try to bang out as many of them as I can while doing my levelling in a given zone, just because it's kind of a chore to go back and do them later after you've zerged your way to the level cap.

OTOH, once I've out-levelled a zone, I go on to the next one. But usually by then I will have completed the "Finish X quests in zone Y" deed at least and probably achieved at least Friend rep with the local faction.

And upon reflection, I'm not positive I have all of my legendary traits, I may have mis-spoken there. I have all of the ones I need to complete specific tasks for in Moria -- there may be more that I haven't finished yet. I'd have to look 'em up. But I do have my last legendary trait slot, which is what I was thinking of.

-TG

[jamesbarrett.livejournal.com]

I think what I remember is taking you in and at about the point inside where you went "I don't remember this" I remember you saying that once or twice before right there. So, you may never have actually done the whole thing before but I remember at least taking you inside once or twice to that point.