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MaelstromWAR
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Hey guys just got LOTRO working, and I was wondering what servers have the highest population to lowest.. thanks guys
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O along with that question I was wondering can guardians wield 2 handed weapons, and if they cant, what class can?
Burglurs, hunters, champions can not sure on others but dont think guardians can. Any way why would you want to? they are tanks so shield is best.
Guardians can not dual weild. They can go shield and 1-h or 2-h. They can use a bow at lvl30 which helps alot with pulling.
I'm not sure about populations across servers. I only know that Nimrodel is very active.
That's a good question! Currently the populations of the servers look like this: EUROPE SERVER
Lowest population - recommended!
[EN] Gilrain
[DE] Vanyar
[DE] Maiar
[FR] Sirannon
[FR-RP] Estel
Highest population - login queues likely!
[EN] Snowbourn
[EN] Evernight
[EN] Eldar
[EN-RP] Laurelin
[DE] Morthond
[DE-RP] Belegaer
Login queues are likely on the highest population worlds so in order to avoid potential queuing, please choose one of the lower populated worlds
Guardians can use 2handed weapons. Although you will not see many of them actually doing so, because they are better with a shield/1 hander. They have a few attack moves that require the shield, and are actually pretty powerful.
Champions and Captains are the other classes that can Weild a 2hander. Champions are huge damage dealers, and can do well with duel wield, or a big 2hander. Captains most of the time are strictly using 2handers. They can use shields after lvl 15 I think, But they generally aren't a damage taking class, so the 2hander is more efficient.
Hope that helps.
Gurdians can have a two handed weapon but as a tank you really need your sheild.
Thanks guys, any Idea of the population of the North American servers tho?
Turbine used to impose artificial wait queues to discourage new players from going to higher population servers. Lately though I haven't seen any wait times on any NA servers. I also haven't seen a "We recommend XYZ Server for New Players" message in the launcher for a while either. I'd speculate that they have the server populations fairly balanced now. Although there are some "unofficial" servers. For example, Elendilmir has a good number of Australian players. It's the unofficial Oceanic server, so if you play at off-times for North America you'd probably still see a fair number of players online from that part of the world.
I'm on Landroval and it seems to have a really high population. You can also get an idea about the server population by checking the server forums at forums.lotro.com and see which ones are more active (more threads, more responses, etc...)
one more question, when can champions use 2 handed weapons?
Champs start out with duel wield. At level 10 you can purchase 2handed weapon skills.
http://www.lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Champion