A very warm welcome my friend!
This time it’s a week of good news, so come and share a cup of tea with me. The kettle is already full of warm water. Here, let me pour you some.
Two weeks ago a friend of mine started sending letters again. It has been long since I heard of him. He is a man from the far south, but north of where Lufere comes from. Rohan, he calls his lands, and he speaks of terrible times approaching his land. He is swift and good with horses, I had never seen such ability with that animal. It seems like in his lands they learn to ride from child on.
He was one of the friends we met one fateful day in the Prancing Pony, and he was aghast and very wondered when he met us hobbits for the first time, for his lands seems to lack our fair folk. He is a good man, strong willed, and a natural born leader, since his servant and, above all, friend Ererl loves and follows him everywhere he goes.
What I like about knowing other people is tradition, and it seems like Stilfred Strongaxe has much to tell. And his adventures seem to be very interesting, since he writes with passion.
Well, I see you have to go. May the Valar protect you on your adventures and I’ll see you again next time you come around here.
Until then, fare well.
New members of the Separate Fellowship: Stilfred Strongaxe and Ererl
[When it goes to buying in the store, you always will try to spend as few of the hard earned Turbine Points as possible on the specific item you want to get. Some like to buy at full price, but especially F2P players are somewhat limited on the points they get, since they have to grind for each TP to get everything in the game.
At one point all players that didn’t buy the boxed edition on Mines of Moria will face the question what to buy: if the quest pack is a good idea or if it is worth the wait to get the expansion with the cool extra stuff. It is, after all 1495 vs. 2495 Turbine Points… a whole 1000 points. But Moria is necessary for the character leveling from level 50 to 60, not to count the still useful pieces of armor you can get from running instances like Grand Stairs, Forgotten Treasury and so on.
Some say it depends on the need you have. I have already met some players who already had bought the warden class, for example, and now grinded for the quest pack. What I will do here is a quick rundown on what you get on the expansion pack, afterwards I will tell my (very personal) opinion about what I think is the best option.
I bought the Moria expansion when I was F2P, so I pretty much remember the benefits I got from it. What surprised me one day while talking with one of my kinnies is how much value you got from the expansion pack (using the new wiki entry as a help to determine the price):
Moria quest pack: 1495
Lothlorien quest pack: 695
Warden class: 795
Rune Keeper class: 795
Two extra character slots: 595x2= 1190
Skirmish trait maximum rank to 15: 195
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Total: 5165
I myself wondered at the total in the number I just calculated for this post (my initial calculations were somewhere above 4000 TP). I think the expansion pack in itself is well worth buying, no matter what needs you might have at the moment. Even if everything else gets a discount (which usually gravitates around the 30% mark), you would still spend 3616 TP over a long time, which means that you would spend too many points on all the stuff you get in the expansion.
If you are not the altoholic type, then you might argue that you won’t need the character slots, but then again, you would miss out on two (!) quest packs and the skirmish trait. And, who knows, maybe one day you might want to make a third character…
The free to play system shows that if you want to acquire anything in game, patience pays off. But just don’t have too much patience. It will take you too long and a huge grind to buy everything separate. Besides, if you already bought one or two of the things in the package, it is still better to buy the expansion.
It may take you longer to enjoy the Moria content, but you will have much more to enjoy the whole game content. Plus, if you say now that you won’t need this and that, then you are probably wrong, since most of the times some players will gravitate to use the stuff in this package at some point. A little accidental foresight will never do wrong.
So, go ahead, no matter what kind of account you have. The expansion is well worth getting, even if you might not find all useful at the moment. I think that pretty much should settle the discussion on what to buy of the two options. It’s more points for Mirkwood and, later on Isengard (or any other quest pack you might need as an F2P).
All Hail!]
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