I'm just starting back up after years away from the game. This video is uber helpful! I used to have to install bag mods and now you can just add the bag slots to each other ! It's crazy lol. Now I can have my two or three giant bags without ui add-ons
Welcome back to the game! I'm glad this video was helpful and yes, I remember the mod days for bags. There are still some good bag mods out there, but hopefully aren't as necessary anymore.
I've used most of these for years and forget that many players don't know these. They are very helpful and, in the case of warsteeds, almost necessary. Keep your quickslots locked while you play so that you don't have to say "where did my skill go?" I would constantly pull a skill off my quickslot during battle and have to replace it . I also lock them in session play for the same reason.
I use the Skill Queue in another way. It pops up automatically whenever you get in combat, so if you're in a densely wooded area for instance, and the Skill Queue pops up, it means you've aggroed something whether you saw the mob or not. Also, if your character is running away from a mob, the moment the Skill Queue disappears from the desktop, it means the mob has stopped pursuing. With regards to the Warhorse, I'm always using it. It takes some practice to get good with it, but you master it eventually; I'm even using it in Minas Tirith. Another thing, there is something in Combat Options called Directional Selection Indicator that I find quite useful. When activated, you will see a series of small dots on the ground emanating from your character when you are targeting a mob or other. If the dots are Red, you're targeting an enemy (not always, but just experiment and figure it out.) It's especially useful for range characters to know at a glance if what they think they're targeting is actually what they are targeting (looking at you hunters... hehehe!)
Recently just discovered your channel, and I love the content! As someone who is a 12 year vet of the game, this video was the first I knew of locking your quickslots XD Could have saved me so much pain in the past lol Loved the video!
Aww thanks! I appreciate you checking out my channel. And yeah the lock for quick slots is so vital. I think my first three years I never knew it existed and yeah it was a lot of pain. I’m glad I was able to help!
The auto steed slow down is one of my favorites. Another that I use is disabled combat music. It’s so helpful when you’re kill deeding with the constant shift between landscape and combat music.
Why I turned auto-loot off: In long raids you can easily get your hands full of random crap. But you can not get loot from boss boxes into your overflow, you have to free a space in your bags. And if there is more killing going on it can be tricky to actually keep a free space long enough to get stuff out of a box.
I'd add that you actually have TWO sets of quickslot bars - toggleable with the up/down arrows on the right of the bottom-most quick slot bar. That's where I keep e.g. travel skills and other non-combat things. And I've mapped the toggle to CTRL+Page Up. There's two toggles but pre-warsteed you only need one. Even with warsteed, one is enough for me.
Thanks for the tips! I actually added 2 quickslot bars and kept them vertical for the bottom right of the screen. Its a MMO habit and lets me dump off less used abilities and auras etc vs having a large blob of skills in the center
Hi, I'm weird! Nice video! Good points all, and well presented, and not too speedy. I'm weird in the speed hearing department. I'm going to try some of these from your perspective and see what happens. I decided 'Loot All' wasn't my thing when I get surprised by having a full inventory and no time to stop and mail or drop stuff. My weirdness knows there's good loot in that Orc's ditty bag, and I want it now! If I remember I'm scapping up all the stuff every time, then I can stop and sort when there's time. Pretty much the same as clicking the Loot Bag when there's time. Plus there's time to let stuff settle in there before I need to throw out anything or find a vault. Oh, and VIP is really good weird! I'll go out of the way to click on 'Wenda' just for the vault services on the road, plus the mailman sitting on my shoulders. Is there not some way to get even more Quickslots than 5 rows? Maybe it's a plugin, but I could use about 8 rows at least! I play weird. I leave them unlocked too, even though I get myself in trouble disenclicking one off to the side now and then. And I sometimes look and see a 'missing tooth' in the line and can't remember what it was... I just find myself rearranging them often, but it's not so hard to make the switch. I'll try it!
@@aubreytheweirdone Hey, gotta a few questions. Is there a way to get a better map? Should I do missions/skirmishes at level 21 or just follow the area/epic quests? Are there any essential plugins I need? I have many more but those are the most pressing. Kinda lost atm.
@@MasterZhao 1. The only way to get a better map is downloading a mod. Not sure where to get the mod, but there are a few types for the map that make it better to work with. 2. Skirmishes don’t offer great rewards for similar XP as story quests that I say skip them, but many people I know recommend doing missions as you get more XP and good rewards. It’s almost like the secret trick of leveling up fast. 3. Plug-ins, there’s none that I can think of that would be essential. I’m sure maybe someone in the comments may recommend something :) Hope this helps.
I put all my travel skills on Quick Bar 4, leave it vertical and move it over to the side of the screen. You don't need it in combat, so the fact that it's out of the way is no problem.
To others I am sure it was helpful @@aubreytheweirdone But with my 1,700+ Hours in game? I saw a few things I had not thought about during the 1st Week of play. Then my gaming experience and common sense ranching took over, and off I rode to many a success. 👍👍🤴 5⭐
Hey, warsteed steering is cool, they are drift horses. You have to plan how you will slide around a corner, but very doable in Bree, Minas Tirith, the only bummer is when you travel faster than the map updates...
Agreed. If you promote the option to use auto-slowdown you consign those players to never learn the means to control the war-stead at all it's speeds, that only comes via practice. Even the other choice to select a gait limits players to 4 set speeds. With each of the 16 available having it's own associated turn rate you are missing out on so much. Trouble is that so many take this "easy" option and think it was a good choice. Appalling choice! As is promoting such to others.
Thanks! And yeah you will run out faster, but either way, when your inventory is full the pending loot bag will automatically start picking up everything. But if I just rely on my pending loot bag and that gets full, then I have to take time to sort through it and put stuff in my inventory before I can start picking up everything again. Just saves the extra step of sorting your inventory out a little later for you with auto loot.
I dont the Warsteed much, if I'm in a precarious area or crowded area I hit the walk hotkey and it toggles between 4 different movements speeds for the Steed, walk, trot, canter, and gallop if I recall
Few minor things I do. Saving and loading the UI layout is super helpful when making a new character or even when game throws you in as someone else for a history quest. I also have keys set up to select closest item, using that item to rather result mine or or collect quest items. Same with getting up or off horse and auto run on the mouse. I forget what the setting is called but I have the tiny dotted line showing where the event, friend or item I've selected it's related to my character.
is there any option to turn off the skill q? I have searched everywhere. With melee classes it completely ruins the flow because the skills don't stay in q if you are 1 inch outside of range so you wind up skipping steps in your rotation because the skill you clicked didn't fire.
I did have an issue with directx11. I think I had to uninstall the game a few times for it to work for me. Not sure, definitely check the LOTRO forums for help on that.
The game is beautiful when all things are at max - 3 monitors at 5760 x 1080 and 144hz. Barely using 4GB video RAM. The game engine is being taxed by what my machine is. Got a laptop for using Lotro Wiki
Thank you that is definitely useful , I have a question for you lady if I may , is it worth buying some expansion? And what kind of expansion would you recommend? Thank you.
Hey there! So I think the first expansions you may need when you are level 95-100ish. I recommend getting any Gondor quest packs if possible and save for the Mordor expansion.
Aubrey, How do I get rid of some of those elements to where I don't see health bars and such? Like you had it in the beginning of the video when you were riding your horse.
@@sandcasterofveeshan366 there is an old mod for this. It doesnt make the mouse arrow bigger but puts a well reckgnizable circle round it. It has lots of customization options. In battle this mod is crucial for me.
Damn, I've played this game for probably 5000 hours, and I didn't know about the ambient light ^^ Not sure if I want to change it, because the extreme dark of Moria really sold the aesthetic. But it's nice to have the option.
Yeah I recently learned about it when I made the video myself. It does help a bit in Moria cause there are some times where Moria is too dark, but it's nice to have the option.
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Your personality is great. Keep making content! Maybe bring the background music down slightly.
Thanks for the nice words!
I'm just starting back up after years away from the game. This video is uber helpful! I used to have to install bag mods and now you can just add the bag slots to each other ! It's crazy lol. Now I can have my two or three giant bags without ui add-ons
Welcome back to the game! I'm glad this video was helpful and yes, I remember the mod days for bags. There are still some good bag mods out there, but hopefully aren't as necessary anymore.
I've used most of these for years and forget that many players don't know these. They are very helpful and, in the case of warsteeds, almost necessary. Keep your quickslots locked while you play so that you don't have to say "where did my skill go?" I would constantly pull a skill off my quickslot during battle and have to replace it . I also lock them in session play for the same reason.
YES! I always forget to lock them up 🤣
I use the Skill Queue in another way. It pops up automatically whenever you get in combat, so if you're in a densely wooded area for instance, and the Skill Queue pops up, it means you've aggroed something whether you saw the mob or not. Also, if your character is running away from a mob, the moment the Skill Queue disappears from the desktop, it means the mob has stopped pursuing.
With regards to the Warhorse, I'm always using it. It takes some practice to get good with it, but you master it eventually; I'm even using it in Minas Tirith.
Another thing, there is something in Combat Options called Directional Selection Indicator that I find quite useful. When activated, you will see a series of small dots on the ground emanating from your character when you are targeting a mob or other. If the dots are Red, you're targeting an enemy (not always, but just experiment and figure it out.) It's especially useful for range characters to know at a glance if what they think they're targeting is actually what they are targeting (looking at you hunters... hehehe!)
music is WAY too loud was hard to hear you through some segments
Nice video!! The background music is REALLY too loud.
Aubrey, your videos are gold! As a new player this was so helpful. I love the options in this game.
Thank you! Your kind words mean so much! Glad I could help.
I’ve been playing for almost 15 years and didn’t know about the auto-slow feature for war steeds 😂
Yes same! Someone told me in chat less than a year ago and I had to share. It's a game changer.
It’s a godsend for me.
Recently just discovered your channel, and I love the content! As someone who is a 12 year vet of the game, this video was the first I knew of locking your quickslots XD Could have saved me so much pain in the past lol Loved the video!
Aww thanks! I appreciate you checking out my channel. And yeah the lock for quick slots is so vital. I think my first three years I never knew it existed and yeah it was a lot of pain. I’m glad I was able to help!
The auto steed slow down is one of my favorites.
Another that I use is disabled combat music. It’s so helpful when you’re kill deeding with the constant shift between landscape and combat music.
Why I turned auto-loot off:
In long raids you can easily get your hands full of random crap. But you can not get loot from boss boxes into your overflow, you have to free a space in your bags. And if there is more killing going on it can be tricky to actually keep a free space long enough to get stuff out of a box.
I'd add that you actually have TWO sets of quickslot bars - toggleable with the up/down arrows on the right of the bottom-most quick slot bar. That's where I keep e.g. travel skills and other non-combat things. And I've mapped the toggle to CTRL+Page Up. There's two toggles but pre-warsteed you only need one. Even with warsteed, one is enough for me.
Three sets actually after you get your warsteed.
thanks for making this, allot of settings i didnt even know about!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tips! I actually added 2 quickslot bars and kept them vertical for the bottom right of the screen. Its a MMO habit and lets me dump off less used abilities and auras etc vs having a large blob of skills in the center
I have one character with the vertical style and I should adapt it more!
Another great one! These helped out a bunch. Thanks!
Glad to be of help! Thanks for watching!
Aye I'm new an love the mmo rpg. This Is the game!! Thanks for all the help! Hope to see you in the game!
Wow... I've been playing off and on since launch and never knew about that inventory trick with the bag slots.
Yes, it's something I didn't find out after like 12 years of playing XD
Hi, I'm weird! Nice video! Good points all, and well presented, and not too speedy. I'm weird in the speed hearing department. I'm going to try some of these from your perspective and see what happens. I decided 'Loot All' wasn't my thing when I get surprised by having a full inventory and no time to stop and mail or drop stuff. My weirdness knows there's good loot in that Orc's ditty bag, and I want it now! If I remember I'm scapping up all the stuff every time, then I can stop and sort when there's time. Pretty much the same as clicking the Loot Bag when there's time. Plus there's time to let stuff settle in there before I need to throw out anything or find a vault. Oh, and VIP is really good weird! I'll go out of the way to click on 'Wenda' just for the vault services on the road, plus the mailman sitting on my shoulders. Is there not some way to get even more Quickslots than 5 rows? Maybe it's a plugin, but I could use about 8 rows at least! I play weird. I leave them unlocked too, even though I get myself in trouble disenclicking one off to the side now and then. And I sometimes look and see a 'missing tooth' in the line and can't remember what it was... I just find myself rearranging them often, but it's not so hard to make the switch. I'll try it!
Thanks! I had no idea about most of these.
Right! Me too! I’m glad to share out the knowledge!
@@aubreytheweirdone Hey, gotta a few questions. Is there a way to get a better map? Should I do missions/skirmishes at level 21 or just follow the area/epic quests? Are there any essential plugins I need? I have many more but those are the most pressing. Kinda lost atm.
@@MasterZhao 1. The only way to get a better map is downloading a mod. Not sure where to get the mod, but there are a few types for the map that make it better to work with. 2. Skirmishes don’t offer great rewards for similar XP as story quests that I say skip them, but many people I know recommend doing missions as you get more XP and good rewards. It’s almost like the secret trick of leveling up fast. 3. Plug-ins, there’s none that I can think of that would be essential. I’m sure maybe someone in the comments may recommend something :) Hope this helps.
@@aubreytheweirdone ok, thx.
I was today years old when I learned there was an auto-loot feature. I hate that little bag! Thank you!
ME TOO! I’m glad I could help
I put all my travel skills on Quick Bar 4, leave it vertical and move it over to the side of the screen. You don't need it in combat, so the fact that it's out of the way is no problem.
Yeah my hunters setup is similar to that.
@Chris B Yesss! Thank you for tip!
An excellent setting to turn off if you have performance issues is post processing effects. Having that off greatly increases performance.
Thank you for the amazing tips. These help alot
No problem! Glad I could help!
thank you just started very useful.
I’m glad this was useful! Thanks for watching.
TY! i loved and i need this video! =)
I'm glad you loved it! Thanks for watching!!
UI editor is ctrl+shift+# for UK settings.
@@LootzMy ohhh I see! Thanks for sharing!
this is a rlly high quality and well done video, thx!
Nice tips. Great video. And I like your name for obvious reasons. Take care. Peace.
Thank you! Glad you liked the video!
Well done tips and tricks, Aubrey 👍👍🤴⭐
Thanks! I'm glad it was helpful!
To others I am sure it was helpful @@aubreytheweirdone But with my 1,700+ Hours in game? I saw a few things I had not thought about during the 1st Week of play.
Then my gaming experience and common sense ranching took over, and off I rode to many a success. 👍👍🤴 5⭐
Hey, warsteed steering is cool, they are drift horses. You have to plan how you will slide around a corner, but very doable in Bree, Minas Tirith, the only bummer is when you travel faster than the map updates...
That’s for sure! The map updates too slow sometimes
Which is always.
Agreed. If you promote the option to use auto-slowdown you consign those players to never learn the means to control the war-stead at all it's speeds, that only comes via practice. Even the other choice to select a gait limits players to 4 set speeds. With each of the 16 available having it's own associated turn rate you are missing out on so much. Trouble is that so many take this "easy" option and think it was a good choice. Appalling choice! As is promoting such to others.
But isn't Always Loot All gonna make you run out of bag slots? o.O I love the Pending Loot bag.
Great videos btw~
Thanks! And yeah you will run out faster, but either way, when your inventory is full the pending loot bag will automatically start picking up everything. But if I just rely on my pending loot bag and that gets full, then I have to take time to sort through it and put stuff in my inventory before I can start picking up everything again. Just saves the extra step of sorting your inventory out a little later for you with auto loot.
I dont the Warsteed much, if I'm in a precarious area or crowded area I hit the walk hotkey and it toggles between 4 different movements speeds for the Steed, walk, trot, canter, and gallop if I recall
Actually good tips, nice cloak too!
Thanks! I appreciate that!
Lawwwd have mercy. Another banger
Aww thanks! I appreciate it 🥰
Few minor things I do. Saving and loading the UI layout is super helpful when making a new character or even when game throws you in as someone else for a history quest.
I also have keys set up to select closest item, using that item to rather result mine or or collect quest items. Same with getting up or off horse and auto run on the mouse.
I forget what the setting is called but I have the tiny dotted line showing where the event, friend or item I've selected it's related to my character.
In the uk we have to use ctrl # to alter the ui
This a really useful video.
I'm glad I could help!
What an awesome video!!
Thanks so much 😊
The options are searchable, makes it pretty easy to find settings for loot and such
Yes, thank you!
Helpful! Thank you
You’re welcome! Thank you for watching!!
Amazing tips!
Awww thank you!
Music is to loud. Had to turn the sound off and just use CC.
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I will add using Reshade and not bother with Ambient light at all, Reshade will make the game come back to life visually
I turned on all my quick slots bar but only see one. I think I did it once on accident but forgot how to do it.
is there any option to turn off the skill q? I have searched everywhere.
With melee classes it completely ruins the flow because the skills don't stay in q if you are 1 inch outside of range so you wind up skipping steps in your rotation because the skill you clicked didn't fire.
I'm still looking for the setting to reduce server lag.
@@arthurridgley9116 Hehe when you find it, can you tell me where it is 🥹
Very good nerdette.
How did You install directx11, mi Game only runs dirx9 and keeps crashing🤕
I did have an issue with directx11. I think I had to uninstall the game a few times for it to work for me. Not sure, definitely check the LOTRO forums for help on that.
The game is beautiful when all things are at max - 3 monitors at 5760 x 1080 and 144hz. Barely using 4GB video RAM. The game engine is being taxed by what my machine is. Got a laptop for using Lotro Wiki
Thank you that is definitely useful , I have a question for you lady if I may , is it worth buying some expansion? And what kind of expansion would you recommend? Thank you.
Hey there! So I think the first expansions you may need when you are level 95-100ish. I recommend getting any Gondor quest packs if possible and save for the Mordor expansion.
@@aubreytheweirdone well thank you very much for the type
Aubrey, How do I get rid of some of those elements to where I don't see health bars and such? Like you had it in the beginning of the video when you were riding your horse.
Oh I turned off HUD. It’s control and backslash for me 👍
Whoop I totally wrote the wrong thing lol. It’s F12 to make the HUD disappear 😅
@@aubreytheweirdone Awesome. Thanks Aubrey, it works! This is great! It works.
another good tip would be to show target`s target...i did this once and now i forgot where you turn it on :(
does this game work in 4K ? building a new PC this week wanna know if itll be worth adding LOTRO to the test list
There a way to enlarge the microscopic mouse pointer? I have very poor vision (I need eye surgery)
@@sandcasterofveeshan366 there is an old mod for this. It doesnt make the mouse arrow bigger but puts a well reckgnizable circle round it. It has lots of customization options.
In battle this mod is crucial for me.
thanks very much
Thanks for watching!
Ditto on background music being too loud.
Damn, I've played this game for probably 5000 hours, and I didn't know about the ambient light ^^
Not sure if I want to change it, because the extreme dark of Moria really sold the aesthetic. But it's nice to have the option.
Yeah I recently learned about it when I made the video myself. It does help a bit in Moria cause there are some times where Moria is too dark, but it's nice to have the option.
Im looking to spend some time in middle earth. downloading it now play around.
Is the lag still in the game ?
Yes. It’s been improved, but it still is laggy from time to time
So for the interface it's contral and back slash but idk how it looks
I think I remember now
I got it just remembered
As someone who has poor hearing (I'm over 70) trying to 'hear' while playing music, is very distracting.
😐
Noted
@@aubreytheweirdone i would say just adjust the volume of yourself and also the music, relisten to it and find a good balance. great video though :)
@@nicholaspeterurgero1675 thanks!
Great tips, but I beg you to never use that obnoxious background music ever again.
pro tip in the future. music almost outways your voice. great video though.
Ok decent video but what is the banging every 2 seconds?? Why???
It’s the background music 😅
music is so loud its makes u hard to hear
Literally every lotro streamer
I'm struggling to get through this video for the same reason.
It's fine. Noo issues here
volume up bro
Yeah a good 10% lower would be good probably..
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3:13 I sure as fuck don't! Durrrr!
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Them pop tarts will mess your game up frfr.
😂😭 But they’re good…
The background music is way to loud and its competing with you talking to much.
is there a setting that makes the game not boring?
I got about 2 minutes in and had to bail because of the music...sorry.
game in 2024 but u post it in 2023? :)
leave my bags alone! :(
😂😂😂
Game pay2win ?
Not in the slightest in my opinion.
Jesus, pls turn the music down.
It's not tyat bad geeze
you chose terrible music for this video...
Thank you!
Very helpful, thank you!!!!