Housing coming to LOTRO

When I heard that housing would be a part of the next update for Lord of the Rings Online I got excited! Not only will I have a house where I can go to store even more things (I'm a pack rat) but I will be able to decorate it too! Everything from the floor color to furniture and trees outside! Its going to be great!

Not only will there be personal houses, but Kinships can also buy houses for the group to use for meetings, material trading, storage, and so much more. Company of Red Dawn will become a Lifespan Rank 7 Kinship a week or two after housing is released, and we will then be able to buy our Kinship house, which we have already saved enough money for.

So, here are a few details for those that like personal/group housing in MMORPGs. There are two types of houses, personal and kinship. There are two types of personal houses, simple and deluxe. To purchase a personal house, you must not only have enough silver/gold, but the character must have reached level 15 too. One house per account also, so if you play with more than one character, they would have to share the personal house, and the character that bought the house would have to set up user permissions for the other characters.

A simple house has two rooms and one storage chest. A deluxe house has more space and the option of two storage chests. All houses can be decorated on the inside and the yard outside, so it is possible to make your house show your personality (to an extent). You can also set your house's permissions to allow "anyone" to come in and view your house (I really like this feature, and may have it turned on for the Kinship house).

I have already "played around" with a personal house on the "preview" server and just can't wait until this is released for everyone. What a blast it's going to be!!!

Kirvay Windwalker

Sylwin's last name

Some really great names were suggested to me in the game I had going on the LOTRO Arkenstone server forum, and I decided to go with "Silverwind" but changed the spelling a little bit to Sylverwynd.

So, Sylwin has a last name, and a very good one too, I think.

I have really been giving her "all the love" recently too. I need to get back to some of my other toons and start running them up as well. Poor Lalinreth has been stuck at level 18 for "forever" it seems.

Who knows what tomorrow holds, maybe I will run them all for a little bit, or maybe I will start rotating them.

Keep reading to find out what happens next!!

Give Sylwin a Last Name Contest

When a character reaches level 15 on LOTRO you can personalize them more by bestowing a last name (at a small cost, of course). Sylwin has reached level 16 and I have decided that it is time to come up with a last name for her. But, what to name her?

Then it came to me - ask others to suggest and/or vote on a last name for Sylwin. In exchange for this I am offering a prize (because I love to give things away in game) of a full set of light or medium armour appropriate to the level of the toon of the winner (and some dye to go with it too).

If you would like to participate in this little "game" of mine, all you have to do is have a character on the Arkenstone server, go to this thread http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=94126 and either suggest a last name or vote for one that has already been suggested.

One random poster will be the winner!

Sylwin just keeps on Questing!

I have been completing a lot of quests recently with my good friend Aereaon, a human Captain. We have been mostly in the Midgewater Marshes battling goblins, neeker-beekers, and these huge flies! Along the way we collect the local resources for our crafting professions. I was able to craft us Iron Mining Picks to help us collect ore faster! That was fun and saved us both a lot of silver! I even made an extra one and sold it in the Auction House in Bree for 99 silver, which was lower than what everyone else was selling their's for!

So, with all of the questing and battles that we have been doing, I reached level 15 last night and was given my first "class quest". I talked to my Hunter Trainer (the person I buy all of my Hunter skills from) and was told to travel to Adso's Camp west of Bree and meet with a lady there who would test my abilities as a hunter.

She took me to the Old Forest and told me about a wolf that was quite a problem and the need to kill it. I had to use my tracking skills to locate Yellowfang and set up a way to kill the wolf without it, or the other wolves, killing me in the process.

I searched high and low and looked everywhere I could to find Yellowfang, but this wolf eluded me all the while. I finally stumbled upon the infamous wolf and the battle began. I proved myself a worthy hunter by dispatching Yellowfang and received a very nice reward for my efforts.

I think I may take a break for a day or two and recover from these adventures, or I may find myself right back out there in the thick of things...one never knows!

Sylwin

Sylwin moves to level 13

I have reached level 13 after fellowshipping with a nice gentleman named Aereaon. He is a Captain and recently reached level 11.

On our last outing, we traveled through Chetwood Forest and battled Jagger Jack and his allies. We found ourselves victorious! These areas can be daunting and dangerous if you are not with the right people. But a good hunter and a good Captain can accomplish much when you put your mind to it.

I have not been doing much crafting yet. I still need to concentrate on collecting materials, then will work on my metalsmithing and should be able to craft some very nice heavy armour pieces when the time comes.

Sylwin