Lord of the Rings Online
Grand Endeavour #1 - Updated
LotRO's 64-bit Glamdring Server
LotRO is celebrating its 18th anniversary soon, and releasing their first 64 bit servers that will have access to the entire game. Any sane person would use the free character transfer service to move their roster to the new servers.
Unfortunately, “any sane person” isn’t on brand.
Being the completionist I am, there is a lifetime of content to clear here and odds are I’ll never see more than 5% of it if I’m being generous. The fun is in the journey as much as the destination, though.
The Limitations
Alright, what's the damage?
Self Sufficient Crafting
All characters will have at minimum three crafting professions, guild status in any applicable guilds, and will only be able to accept resources I’ve harvested myself. No marketboard or reliance on kinship members.
All classes at max level
12 classes total (right now) with a level cap of 150 (right now), with both of these subject to change. I feel like this would be the minimum requirement for a run like this. After all, with a weekend or two, some mission turnin spam and some double XP items, 150 is pretty easy to reach right?
This brings us to another restriction – no missions can be completed until you’re at max level (and skirmishes/Epic Battles limited to where required by the story), and no XP enhancing items can be used. No armor that gives +xp and scaling stats, no 2 hours of double XP, just quests the way Gandalf intended.
D e e d s
There’s thousands of these suckers, and they don’t share between characters. This is an optional victory lap step, but I consider it a requirement for a true success (and the reason why that may never happen). These do not include seasonal deeds or deeds no longer available.
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Monster players are also considered a victory lap – not required for the challenge, but I’d love to have a group of them at least to rank 10 if not higher.