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TOWNS AND QUEST HUBS
These are the towns, camps and other assorted places where
players can pick up quests. Level range describes the optimum level
range for XP gain. Important NPCs are those who bestow quest chains or
are crucial to the epic storyline, with position coordinates listed if
located outside the main hub. Description is a broad guideline of what
to expect from each quest hub without going into too specific of detail.
alt="Archet" src="http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/94121">
The
burned-out, smoking remains of a backwater town: where all epic
adventures start.
ARCHET
Level Range: 5-7
Important NPCs: Jon Brackenbrook,
Constable Thistlewool, Atli Spider-bane, Cal Sprigley,
Builder Earur
Town Services:
- Race of Man class trainers (Burglar, Captain, Champion,
Guardian, Hunter, Lore-master, Minstrel, Warden) - Provisioner
- Supplier
- Light & Medium Armoursmith
- Weapon Trader
- Bowyer
- Mailbox
- Milestone
- Barter Exchange Trader for new-character barter items
Description: The charred remains
of Archet are where you really start your adventuring career. The mobs
are still weak here, but it's in the same space as the rest of the game
and most of the hand-holding is done. Players can easily burn through
the spider-slayer and brigand-slayer deeds here early
on by killing lots of weak mobs. Don't expect much from quest rewards -
anything you craft when you get to Combe will be superior. Be sure to
hit up Bronwe's Folly and Blackwold Roost while you're here, and get
the Ancient Cairn at the south end of Blackwold Roost - doing this now
means you won't have to backtrack later on. Brackenbrook will get you
started on the epic storyline prologue, which you can do regardless of
race at any level. Tear through this area quickly, there's a lot more
game to discover.
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Don't
be fooled by the enormous size - the Comb and Wattle Inn has only 1
room, and it's occupied.
COMBE
Level Range: 7 - 10
Important NPCs: Constable
Sageford, Constable Underhill, Constable Wren, Gail Catchpole, Maida
Woodwright, Lizbeth Honeymeade
Town Services:
- Light & Medium Armoursmith
- One-handed & Two-handed Weaponsmith
- Bowyer
- Tavern Keep
- Stable-master (South Bree, Thorin's Gate, Celondim, Michel
Delving) - Milestone
- Mailbox
- Bard
- Clerk of Kinships
- All class trainers
- Crafting hall with novice suppliers and normal work areas
- Workbench (at Combe Lumber Camp)
Description: Following the epic storyline
prologue takes you to Combe, starting at the Comb and Wattle Inn and
carrying on into Chetwood and beyond to deal with the Blackwold
bandits.
Most quests here require running to Chetwood to kill stuff. Players
hsould be able to find ample materials to advance their crafts a bit
and make themselves some half-decent low-level gear that is superior to
quest rewards, though scholar nodes are in short supply (there are a
few in Blackwold Headquarters). Once you run out of quests here, head
south to Staddle.
alt="Staddle" src="http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/94123">
The
quaint little hobbit village where nobody wants to walk 2 feet to talk
to the guy standing next to them.
STADDLE
Level Range: 11 - 15
Important NPCs: Watcher Reedy,
Watcher Redweed, Constable Tanglebrush, Longo Daegmund, Himloc Grouse,
Falco Greenhand (31.4S, 48.6W), Gammy Boggs (31.0S, 48.2W), Lily
Underhill (31.0S, 47.8W), Asphodel Froghorn (31.4S, 48.0W), Eldo
Swatmidge (31.2S, 47.1W), Constable Bolger (32.0S, 47.9W)
Town Services:
- Grocer
- Mailbox
- Oven
- Forge
- Workbench
- Weapons & Armour Shop
- Fishing Supplier
- Novice Farmhand (31.0S, 48.7W)
- Farmland and Workbench (just south of the Novice Farmhand
and surrounding Gammy Bogg's farm to the east)
Description: Just south down the
road from Combe is the Hobbit village called Staddle. This is a quiet,
simple town mostly untouched by the events only a few minutes to the
north, and is populated by incredibly lazy Hobbits. Expect to
be asked to fetch things from neighbors 2 houses over and to do chores.
Falco Greenhand has slightly bigger problems with bandits from the
south. Some quests will send you into Midgewater Marsh.
alt="Midgewater Marsh"
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They
used to have proper tents, but the goblins stole the walls and left
them with only the roofs.
MIDGEWATER MARSH
Level Range: 13 - 15
Important NPCs: Edda Twiggins,
Roderick Neeker-friend, Bill Mossfoot
Town Services: none
Description: Some quick
shopping-list "kill-stuff" quests for mobs in the marsh. This hub is
not marked on the map, but is located at 32.5S, 43.5W, on a hill just
north of Goblinhole Ruins.
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The
shining light of civilization: The Inn of the Prancing Pony.
BREE-TOWN
Level Range: 10 - 20
Important NPCs: Strider, Gandalf,
Barliman Butterbur, Mayor Graeme Tenderlarch
Town Services:
- Stable-master - West Bree (Buckland, South Bree,
Trestlebridge, Hobbiton, Thorin's Gate, Esteldin, Michel Delving,
Celondim, Ost Forod, Suri-Kyla, Adso's Camp, Hengstacer Farm) - Stable-master - South Bree (Forsaken Inn, West Bree, Combe,
Rivendell, Ettenmoors, Bree-land Homesteads, Ost Guruth, Celondim,
Michel Delving, Thorin's Gate, Lhanuch) - Auction House
- Vault
- Crafting Hall with normal work spaces and novice suppliers
- Tavern Keep (Prancing Pony)
- Grocer (Lily Sandheaver near West Bree Stable-maste, and
Whelan Appledore in Bree-Town Hall) - Armoursmiths, Weaponsmiths and Bowyers (market area)
- Outfitter (Weapons and Armour Shop across from Bree-Town
Hall) - Mailboxes
- Milestone
- All class trainers (Hunter - outside Bree-land Hunting
Lodge;
Captain, Champion, Guardian, Warden - Bree Town Jail; Burglar -
Lowbank's Estate; Lore-master, Rune-keeper - Scholar's Stair Archives;
Minstrel - Prancing Pony common room) - Bard (Prancing Pony)
- Barber (Prancing Pony)
- Healer (Prancing Pony)
- Notary (Bree-Town Hall)
- Outdoor forges (West Bree)
- Taxidermist
- Clerk of Kinships (Bree-Town Hall)
- Reputation Vendors (Bree-Town Hunting Lodge)
- Skirmish Camp (just outside of South Bree gate)
Description: The central hub in
Eriador, which all characters must pass through at some point.
Quest-givers are spread out throughout the town, and there are not all
that many that start in Bree despite the size of the place. Most
quest-givers have been de-centralized to outlying locations. Strider
and Gandalf can be found in their rooms at the Prancing Pony, but only
during their portions of Volume I Book 1 of the epic storyline.
Barliman Butterbur is the innkeeper at the Prancing Pony and has his
fingers in many pies.
alt="Adso Haybank"
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The
horse won't hug him, so Adso is forced to hug himself.
ADSO'S CAMP
Level Range: 13 - 18
Important NPCs: Adso Haybank,
Roger Hawkling, Buckley Sheppard, Graham Larkspur, Gytha Lainey, Bill
Ferny (28.3S, 56.2W)
Town Services:
- Grocer
- Provisioner
- Stable-master (Buckland, West Bree)
- Campfire
Description: A good handful of
quests here involving hunting stuff in South Bree-Fields and Old
Forest.
alt="Grimbriar's House"
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NO-ONE
puts dwarfy in the corner! Oh, well, maybe Grimbriar does....
GRIMBRIAR'S HOUSE
Level Range: 13 - 18
Important NPCs: Chief Watcher
Grimbriar, Watcher Rosecane, Lofar Ironband
Town Services: none
Description: Located at 28.2S,
53.3W and not marked on the map. The NPCs are standing outside, and the
quests generally involve beating up brigands in South Bree-Fields and
Andrath.
alt="Saeradan's cabin"
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You
don't need hair to be bad-ass.
SAERADAN'S CABIN
Level Range: varies
Important NPCs: Saeradan
Town Services:
- Stable-master (Candaith's Encampment)
Description: A ranger of the Grey
Company, Saeradan keeps a small, tidy house at 25.5S, 52.9W. He is
involved in a number of quests at various levels and important in
numerous epic book quests.
alt="Old Greenway Fort"
src="http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/94129">
Andreg
wishes he could afford to live inside the ruins instead of his low-rent
dais.
OLD GREENWAY FORT
Level Range: 15 - 18
Important NPCs: Andreg
Town Services: none
Description: Andreg, standing on
a dais surrounded by pillars just north of Old Greenway Fort, has a
vendetta against the nearby orcs.
alt="Hengstacer Farm"
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Somewhat
surprisingly, the jobs you get from Hengstacer farm do not invlove
shoveling crap. It's the hobbits in Enedwaith that give you those
quests.
HENGSTACER FARM
Level Range: mid-teens
Important NPCs: Gil Sandheaver,
Emma Rosethorn, Eogar, son of Hadorgar
Town Services:
- Stable-master (West Bree, Trestlebridge)
- Stablehand (for purchasing reputation mounts via barter
documents) - Horse-master (for purchasing regular mounts with silver)
- Stablehand (for bartering Bree-steed Receipt)
Description: A small handful of
quests here including one of the few that sends you to the Nen Harn
area. VIPs can come here to do the quest to get the riding skill at
level 20.
alt="Survivor's Camp"
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No
one wants to sit near Bob. Bob had beans for dinner.
SURVIVOR'S CAMP, DEAD MAN'S PERCH
Level Range: 16 - 22
Important NPCs: Sal Haywood,
Tobold Leafcutter, Reginald Sickleweed, Bob, Lalia (31.0S,
55.6W), Bob Redthistle,
Edith Sweetrose, Addie Wheatley
Town Services:
- Travelling Vendors (basic provisions, no repair tab)
Description: Merchant travelers
who mistakenly tried to take a shortcut through the Barrow-downs, the
survivors have set up camp at 31.8S, 56.2W (not marked on the map). The
player is directed to find this camp upon discovering a dead body on
the path to the Northern Barrow-downs. Most of their quests involve
killing mobs in Northern Barrow-downs. Bob's idiot niece, Lalia, is
horribly lost and looking for her prince - run the little aggro-magnet
around the Northern Barrow-downs, kill lots of rats, crawlers,
barghests and wights make sure she stays healed and keep aggro off of
her as much as possible. Rather more
difficult quests at the Dead Man's Perch camp, sending the player into
the Southern
Barrow-downs. Edith Sweetrose, the Travelling Vendor, has a number of
repeatable bounty quests for Bree-land reputation and crafting supplies
rewards.
alt="Southern Barrow-downs"
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"Oh
sure, you stick the booze in a tough wooden shell, but the human being
can make do with a ragged canvas tent for protection from
sword-carrying zombies!"
SOUTHERN BARROW-DOWNS
Level Range: mid-20s
Important NPCs: Naerandir, Aradia
Town Services: Mustering horn,
campfire
Description: Quests here are for
the Great Barrows. These quests can be completed from anywhere, since
the Great Barrows are now entered via the Instance Join panel rather
than through the front door to Othrongroth. Rewards are pretty solid
for this level.
alt="Weather Hills"
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Hard
to believe he has so few customers all the way out there in the Weather
Hills near the ruined keep full of high-level signature orcs. Boggles
the mind, really.
WEATHER HILLS
Level Range: 20 - 24, 53 - 58
Important NPCs: Sam Thistlebur,
Aggie Honeysuckle, Dale Sageford
Town Services:
- Travelling Supplier (crafting supplies, no repair tab)
Description: This camp, located
at 28.3S, 41.4W, has 2 sets of quests. The first set is for level 22
and involves killing some local wildlife (wolves and level 22 half-orcs
and orcs). The second set is for level 55 and involves venturing into
Ost Alagos and fighting the level 55 signature mobs in there. Ost
Alagos is just up the hill, and is totally epic when seen from a
distance from the north.
alt="Goldberry"
src="http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/94134">
Trust
me: if Tom Bombadil had a big crush on you, you'd spend most of your
time hiding out in a horrible spider-infested death-maze too.
MISCELLANEOUS
Level Range: 14 - 18
Important NPCs: Ham Greythistle
& Nate Brittleleaf (stables behind Thornley's Work Site),
Wandering Shade (patrols around the Dead Spire), Goldberry (Goldberry's
Spring), Rose Thornley (Thornley's Work Site), Watchers Oakdale and Brittleleaf (South-guard Ruins)
Town Services: none
Description: A variety of quests
from de-centralized NPCs out in the wilderness. Rose Thornley wants her
husband rescued from orcs, the lads in the field at the back of the
work site want some animals killed, the Wandering Shade in the Northern
Barrow-downs has an interesting quest chain there, the watchmen in the ruined tower at South-guard Ruins have some quests for beating down some local bandits, and Goldberry has a
quest chain that sends the player troll-huntin' near Nen Harn.
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