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Lord of the Rings Online: Tale of the Shipwrecked Mariner
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
Yarr, mateys, International Talk Like a Pirate Day be comin' on September 19th and to celebrate them developers at Turbine have included a new adventure for ye piratey types. Ye need to check out the Tale of the Shipwrecked Mariner on the official site to find out where ye need to be goin' to grab yer treasure. So what are ye waitin' for? Set sail!
Avast mateys! Gather round ‘n ye shall hear the tale of the shipwrecked Mariner, and a tale of woe and trouble it be! Search the banks of the Brandywine for the lost crates and barrels from a doomed supply ship.
Ye’ll be rewarded for yer efforts with piratey gear from the thankful crew. Ye may even run across a few treasure chests the shifty fellows failed to mention! This special event only happens once a year in September, so don’t ye miss yer chance! Arrrgggggh!
Read ye olde original post here.
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Is it pirate time again already? Awesome!
AAYE
Only on Sunday but also in europe.
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
Ahoy! Avast me buckos!!
This isn't new, though they may have expanded it (the quests) or added new goodies (yay).
no its been around for a while, would be nice to see what it is but the servers are so lagged out it is hard to anything.
It's one quest involving:
running from an NPC just across the road from Buckland on the east bank of the Brandywine river along the riverbank collecting kegs and crates that fell off a shipwreck to the west bank of the Brandywine river in Evendim where you talk to another NPC at the shipwreck, where you:
get told to run back to the first NPC, where you then barter the kegs and crates to another NPC standing next to him for a pirate hat/eyepatch combo, a pirate hat separate, and an eyepatch separate.
And that's it.
It's been going since yesterday and last for 4 days, already did it yesterday.
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.-
-And on the 8th day, man created God.-
Er, you mean they simply activated the same old Pirate "adventure" they've had since the game came out basically (2007).
But they did add the pirate outfit (not gettable in the quest) to the store for only what, $2-3?. And even the pirate outfit isn't new, it's taken from an anniversary event.
R.I.P. City of Heroes and my 17 characters there
Yeah, I was a bit peeved as I thought the outfit would be a quest reward as well, rather than solely a cash shop item. And I was rather astonished to find out that one simple quest was what they'd term an "event".
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.-
-And on the 8th day, man created God.-
I haven't had any issues with lag. It must be on your end.
No offense, but I hate when people use that excuse. Just because you have no problem doesn't mean noone else does, and it doesn't mean it's automatically on their end. Try reading the official forums lately.
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.-
-And on the 8th day, man created God.-
This is almost as bad as zombie stormtroopers in Star Wars. Turbine just needs to make a generic Fantasy MMO, call it AC 3, where they can put all this random junk that they clearly want to have, but instead stuff it into the LOTRO universe.
aw... really... pirates in lotro? Come on!. It's like Goat Mounts.... Simply Ridiculos.
Theres pirates in lotr...so how is this ridiculous?
Apparently stating the truth in my sig is "trolling"
Sig typo fixed thanks to an observant stragen001.
I read the books, and don't recall pirates being mentioned. Can you tell me where they were mentioned? Perhaps I've forgotten?
Edit: Also, if there were pirates, they wouldn't be sailing pirate ships down the Brandywine River.
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.-
-And on the 8th day, man created God.-
They are in the return of the king, even in the movie. Actually, Peter Jacksson is casted as one of the pirates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsairs_of_Umbar
If WoW = The Beatles
and WAR = Led Zeppelin
Then LotrO = Pink Floyd
Most of the time, lag is the result of an issue with the user, not the game. I hate when people automatically assume it's the game/company. I've had no issue. If it was the game, shouldn't I be having issues too? I had issues last weekend with lag and rubberbanding, but since they have tweaked the servers earlier this week, no issues. And from the chatter I see in OOC, I don't see anyone else with issues either.
You also seem to forget that there are more than just one server, and they are NOT all created equal in stability.
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.-
-And on the 8th day, man created God.-
That's seems unlikely and an excuse to blame the game. I'm sure what was done to one server to correct the issues was done to all. To do less than that would be quite ridiculous.
Well, I'll be damned. Been awhile since I've read the books, and to be honest I've fell asleep whenever I've tried to watch the movies. Okay, there were pirates. They still wouldn't be sailing the Brandywine River. They raided and sailed the coasts of Gondor. Plus, I can't really see goody two-shoes player characters (after all, except in MVP, every player character in LotRO is "good") stopping to help raiders.
*sigh* It doesn't matter that they do the same things to every server. Not all the servers perform the same. Some have been laggier than others from the beginning. Some have required more maintenance downtime than others.
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.-
-And on the 8th day, man created God.-
Shadowlord Sage
CmdrAkbar
Napa Valley, UO, 1997.
What a bunch of B.S. By definition if others are not lagging , it means its your end. Period. The end. There are only two types of lag. lag that is caused by the servers and those that are caused by your connection. It could not be your home connection, it could be a transfer point, but either way, its YOUR end. Stop whining.
Shadowlord Sage
CmdrAkbar
Napa Valley, UO, 1997.
No, the BS is the people that sit there and say "I have no problems, so you're all full of shit! WAAAHHH!!! WAAHHHHH!!".
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.-
-And on the 8th day, man created God.-
Yes, the Corsairs engaged in piracy...but so did the Vikings. Doesn't mean that they actualy looked like a bad rip-off of Johnny Depp. I think Turbine is taking a little liberty with the IP here..... Jackson took a bit as well. In the Lore, if I recall correctly, Umbar was a city of the Black Numenorians.... and I think the ruling classes (who supposedly ran the Corsairs) were at least still supposed to be largely of that bloodline.
Basicaly Turbines MO seems to be using very thinly veiled references (if even those) in the IP to pull in stock, pop-culture fantasy themes... that generic fantasy mmo fans might expect...but which don't really fit the Lore very well.
f2p ?
free 2 play ?