North Mirkwood

[Resolina]

The new quest pack might cause some issues for people. I've included a guide that might answer all your questions: North Mirkwood

[Marithil]

This is awesome. Thanks Res!

[Finnok]

Thanks Res! This is all some super great stuff!

A couple thoughts:

1. Why should the travel skills only require Acquaintance Standing? There's no travel skill in the game that you can get at that low of a standing. Usually it's Friend for Hunters and Wardens, and Kindred for everyone else.

2. I've only found 3 dailies - two in the Dale Keep and one from Thranduil.  Have you found anymore?  I heard mention that some are locked away behind rep gates (like Central Gondor), and that some were removed from this release due to bugs.

3. I thought the map in the forest was off on purpose!  Lore-wise, it's not supposed to be easy to find or stay on the Forest Path!  I like how the map is off - makes it seem more realistic.  Makes you excited when you do actually find the path!

[Resolina]

1. SSG never admits an error with the travel skill requirement. Yet, someone pointed out that at the top while searching for categories, it does say Travel Skill -- Acquaintance. I can't say for sure one way or another until they fix it.

2. The dailies seem to be on a rotation. They are adding more data to the wiki quest page. It seems to be on a 3-day rotation. You will notice Day One, Day Two, Day Three with a listing of 8 separate quests (This might be because they have currently disabled some until the next patch). Whether or not they are rep gated, I don't know. I did maybe one quest before hearing from world chat that "they were broken".

3. I would agree except it is also off at Erebor, Dale, and Lake-town as well. At least the quest focus still accurately shows you where to go.

[Finnok]

One more thing.  I think this release has some of the best environments since Moria.  It's perfect!

Mirkwood Forest - It's dark and depressing.  It's really hard to stay on the path.  The water makes you fall asleep (this is cool, although gets old fast).

Raft-Elves - Wow!  This place was unexpected!  Where the elves gather together all the barrels and ship them off to Lake Town.

Old Esgaroth - The old, burned out Lake Town

Lake-Town - The new Lake Town.  So much fun to wander around this place!  Felt like I was in the Hobbit movies, with all the bridges, etc.

Dale - Gorgeous town, especially from a distance at night, with all the lights

Erebor - As if the inside wasn't awesome enough - the outside of it and the steps up to it were just awesome

 

I just felt really immersed in the atmosphere of this region, so it follows that SSG did a great job with it!

Love it!

-Finnok

 

[Marithil]

I so want this semester to end so I can play it!!

[snarkqueen]

The maps in Eastern Rohan don't match all of the roads, either. I discovered that the hard way once when I was trying to look at a window and still ride... 

I'm willing to bet the map discrepancy is in a number of places in-world.