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Close this windowLOTRO: Your Guide to Playing Sauron's Minion - The Stalker - Page 2
You're stealth may suck in general, but it's enough to get you by the polar bears (or the massive trolls if it's nighttime) to the northeast, granting you easy access to the mines of Isendeep. Even if you don't have the quest yet, go inside and gather all the Isendeep ore you can get from the numerous crates scattered amongst the caverns. There's a ton of ore around here, so just explore the mines and gather up all you can get. In a short period of time, you'll have enough to do the Iron Belly of Lugazag quest two or three times over. It may seem like a waste for now, but since the quest is repeatable, it will save you time in the long run. Believe me, you can never have enough Destiny Points.
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Freeps Suck Worse Than My Stealth
Yes, yes they do. In my opinion, it seems like the Freeps are horribly overpowered compared to their Creep counterparts, at least in the first few ranks. This wouldn't be such a big deal except for two major factors. One, it takes a *lot* of kills to gain a rank. When I say a lot, I mean it. If you were in regular battles for a few hours, you might gain enough credit for your next rank. Well that's not so bad, right? Wrong! You will rarely (if ever) find yourself in a regular battle. Zerging and gank-raids are the name of the game for the Freeps and they will always outnumber you, so your ranks take a very long time to gain. Secondly, there is one way and only one way only to gain ranks - by killing other players. This wouldn't be any type of complaint at all except for the fact that the issue is compounded by my first complaint. I'm sure it all looked great on paper, but it does not translate to the game world well.
So what's a Stalker supposed to do? Like all the others, be prepared to die more times than I even care to think about. As time progresses, you will eventually gain enough points here and there to gain that ever-elusive rank. It may take a long time, but as you gain power, the battles will no longer be quite as unbalanced for you. If you have the patience to keep trudging along, there will finally come a day when you are (quite literally) death on four paws.
As you climb the ranks, you begin gaining powers that are the absolute bane of existence for the Freeps, especially all those Freep healers that seemed so impossible to take down not so long ago. You'll gain Pounce, Dire Howl, Crippling Blight, and Tendon Shred, granting you the ability to stun, silence, slow, and knockdown your targets. And that’s just part of the power you’ll eventually gain.
As a person that's been on the receiving end of that abuse from numerous Burglars, trust me when I say you won't believe how effective they can be. You'll find yourself killing your enemies and saving your friends, all while dropping back into a near perfect state of stealth with the Disappear skill right under the noses of every Freep out there. It will be a glorious day, but you're going to have to pass the test of patience. Have you got what it takes?
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Genre: Fantasy
Status: Published
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Fee: P2P
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