My brother was playing LOTRO when it was released at the beginning of 2007.He was one of the top fans of the game and spends quite a lot of time chasing goblins and cracking orcs heads, but he also keeps complaining that he remains behind his guildies with the XP. His characters never seem to be ready in time for the kinship's raids or the end game events. However, hearing him nagging everyday started to bother me after a while.
I had to solve his problem somehow and after some digging I have found out that many LOTRO players face the same series of problems with their character leveling because LOTRO is one of the most complex MMOs ever created. Easiest way to solve these problems is to make use of a fast LOTRO leveling guide.
I started looking at all the LOTRO leveling guides that I could find, checking samples, looking at pictures, reading forums. All pointed in the same way towards a very elaborated guide which many players have been using, especially a few of my brother's guildies.
This LOTRO leveling guide has nice descriptions of the quests with detailed locations for the NPCs, quests' related areas and literally tells you how to manage your time. A very nice system of maps is connected to all the steps showing exactly where to go. If all these don't help, the quests have links to a good site and a forum where you can find many useful tips. The guide is also provided with general tips that improve and fasten your leveling like how to avoid aggro when moving form a quest location to another or what foods to buy from the Auction Hall to enhance your character's stats.
The LOTRO leveling guide seemed OK to me, so I mailed it to my brother as one of the Christmas presents. He was very happy with it and since I didn't hear anymore nagging, I assume that he has really improved his character leveling speed.
Also I hope that you are enjoying in your Lotro games!
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