LotRO: 50 Champion solos Fornost

[HeroSmash133spider]

how do u get champion

[69thedominator69]

is buying the not=rth-barrow down worth it?

[PsychoT1m]

@69thedominator69 Dont know. I stopped playing this game over a year ago. Ask in the advice channel in-game or your kinship if you're in one.

[vikingdrizzit]

people ask why our legendary traits dont seem as powerful as the ones other classes have, this is why :P champs FTW

[f00pers]

ok, i'm a 49 champ and i want to know if i can do this, first question: do you have any special gear like that absorbs damage or something? second: what kind of weapons did you use? light shield, heavy shield, two hander? third: what toggle did you use? glory, ardour, or fervour? oh and, did you just use lots of dps+bracing attack when cool down ends+ potions?

[PsychoT1m]

@f00pers I had the Annuminas set, not the best one back then, but it was pretty decent, dont remember my other stuff. I used everything, it was a very experimental run, DW, sword and board, glory, ardur and fervour. Today I only use DW Fervour and Sword and Board Glory. In runs like this it is very important to use bracing attack and pots when ever you lose the amount of HP they heal so you get them of CD faster. Do not wait until you actually need them!

[f00pers]

ok, i'm a 49 champ and i want to know if i can do this, first question: do you have any special gear like that absorbs damage or something? second: what kind of weapons did you use? light shield, heavy shield, two hander? third: what toggle did you use? glory, ardour, or fervour?

[avatarbloodspeaker]

Cool stuff, great music. Love my Elf Champ on Gladden.

[vilvero]

Lovely, I just did Fortost yesterday and like you we did everything but the last boss.

We tried him but he was way to insane.

[PsychoT1m]

@vilvero His difficulty seems to be a little higher then the rest of the instance. I hear instances scale in level now a days, does Fornost scale now aswell, or is it only lvl 40ish?

[vilvero]

@PsychoT1m It's kinda hard to tell as the leader was level 40. But if I have understand everything right not all instance's scale to your level

[vilvero]

@PsychoT1m It's only 40

[SuperHarryballzack]

how long does it uselly take to do fornost?

[PhilstoneLP]

amazing video :)

First time I've seen it 2 years ago. And it was wonderful!

But even now I often come here and watch it over and over again just because it's really cool... and in memory of the good old times :)

[Privat3D0nut]

Is this game really even fun without the p2p element? Im DL'ing right now but im not sure what to expect.

[111Teac]

Nice gameplay, Psycho, you still play ?

If yes, add me, im on EN-RP Laurien to

My name is: Ashall there..

[PsychoT1m]

@111Teac I havent played since april, but Im planing to checking out the new content in December during the Christmas holiday.

[a55a5in4ever]

Now that is some proper music !!! :))

[imonyourfacewoot]

In Flames ftw! :D

[raulcpinheiro]

Simply amazing! Sometimes i come back here at youtube just to check on this video again. It is inspiring.

Keep inspiring us Psycho!

[PsychoT1m]

@raulcpinheiro Thank you! Sadly I stopped playing LotRO, at least for a while. But I might continue filming in the future, and perhaps to some other games as well.

[LordBaal616]

Can a champion wear a two handed sword?

[PsychoT1m]

@LordBaal616 Yeah

[MrZaknis]

Just amazing....

[Sunbreroman123]

how long it take u to get 50?

[DonutsAreGay]

How can you get 3 chat boxes in your screen?

[PsychoT1m]

@DonutsAreGay Make a new tab and drag it out.

[W1zerdG1ml1]

I thought this said 50 champions solo fornost lol

[Yallsunda]

you only forgot to bring tokens with you :p

Nice video man!

[Ashmaker]

HAHA, at one point I thought that you were getting shot at by ALOT of arrows by peeps that were really bad shots. I then realized that it was the rain at 4x speed.

[citan1000]

sucks what the did to champs an mini's

[dhtutu]

nézhetetlen semmi értelme...

[dukenukem360]

EPIX JOB Never tought it was possible to solo it in SOA days , but big gz anyway i did at lv 60 about year ago,,,

When i watch LOTRO viedos NOSATGLY!!!! damn it wi liked that game back in teh time Rift , Hele and some instances where great fun.

I quited game with SOM for me it is no longer old game totaly different feeling , COMBAT CHANGES And pvp is terrible,,,

Sold account to some fool ^^ hehe cheers from Mikegordon former lotro player

[knoflookov]

@dukenukem360 God, i remember you! You were a champion on Snowbourn... I allways thought you were extremely annoying but i can't remember why...

cheers Theori, Snowbourn

[dukenukem360]

@knoflookov Hahah yea its me ! i was very annoying to most people and creeps haha good times, quited 3 months ago since game sucked and my class got fucked up ! I diged up my XBOX 360.Maybe u remember me from comm forums Duje.. annoyiong there too also!! Now im playing Fable 2 and Fallout 3 EPIC,,, who knows maybe i will return again to game on some other char,,, 1 HELL OF AN ATTITUDE !

TC :P

[PsychoT1m]

@dukenukem360 Ah yeah, Duje, I know you from the forums. Im Iorielin there and in-game. I too quit the game because there was zero content, but I guess I will return when it goes F2P, and hopefully brings alot of new content. Im currently playing alot of Global Agenda, hella fun! Its an MMORPGTPS, hehe, a sweet mix of MMOs and FPS games merged into a futuristic action game. Skill based and not stat/luck based like most RPGs. Im tired of rolling a dice to see if I hit, crit, evade etc..

[Blackheart10003]

love the music choices btw. what program did you use to film this?

[PsychoT1m]

@Blackheart10003 Good ol' Fraps.

[sombrero96]

what level is fornost area?



[sombrero96]

@sombrero96

My bad.. it's in north downs.. long lost area

[Chamagurkafarmi]

@sombrero96 around 40

[rosibrunn]

cooles video

[Grdy987]

wait, you have a shield here. You did this in Glory mode? How did your power stay up?

[PsychoT1m]

@Grdy987 I did this in many different combos, glory, ardour, CB, shield, DW. It was a very experimental run. Power in Glory is not that hard to keep up, just avoid Swift Strike and Relentless/Remorseless Strike like the plaque, and use Second Wind alot.

[Fr3shBeats]

Well I believe you on downing this, that was quite impressive. I'll give it try once I get to 50 on my champ. I also soloed this on my 50 Captain. It was tough, popped all my cooldowns for every boss except first.

[Jacke9779]

Wow, you're great, i have a lvl 20 champ, my dream is to be as good as you :)

[PsychoT1m]

@Jacke9779 Hehe thanks.

[Erikinfo]

Mate, i did the a collar for a king quest at lvl 60, got a superb light armour chest item there. still wear it as cosmetic. best looking light armour item ive seen in the game really.

my question. i did the instance a few weeks ago solo, had nothing to do and was looking for more cosmetics. i had the key. I remember i did the boss at 4:00 last. did the ghost boss with the 2 adds before that. where did you find the last 2 (or better, 3) bosses in ur vid?

[PsychoT1m]

@Erikinfo After Brogadan at 4:00 you go out the back door which lead you to Riamul. You go in the final tower, if you go down to the basement you come to the warg boss. If you go up towards the roof you come get to the final 2 bosses.

[Erikinfo]

cheers mate --hmm, now i got to do it again:p

[Erikinfo]

I just heard that a housing item dropped there, so i had to have it. did the 2 bosses i couldnt find earlier, went great. 2 careless pulles killed me, but there was always an eagle to safe me.

got Remmenaeg in the 2nd try (didnt use hope the first try, so 6 dread wasnt nice). what are the braziers for there? lit one of them, and killed the boss. dont know what effect the brazier had.

Tnx for the info mate!

[PsychoT1m]

@Erikinfo If I remember correctly the braziers spawn adds if you dont light them, thought at lvl 65 I dont think those adds present any threat. Nice going though, I could never get Remenaeg down back at lvl 50, dont think I can now at 65 even (as a champ that is). How hard does he hit now? Do you think a melee could take him?

[Erikinfo]

Dont know, as LM u can slow and heal on the flanks of your pet (kited quite a lot). as champ you have more armour. i dont know how quick you can get him down, but if you could get the other bosses at lvl 50 i think you should be fine --it will be hard though. i dont know the champ class too well, id say try it. the barter armour is epic and will sell for 1 or 2 gold i think;)

got there quite quick, did it in 1.5 hours i think, bit less, had to walk back 1 time, few mobs where respawned.

[imjohannes123]

Nice :)

[PeaCeFLoweR580]

one isn´t solo

[PsychoT1m]

What do you mean? ofc one is solo.

[FriGid0]

sometimes u have two hunters behind u btw

[PsychoT1m]

@FriGid0 Are you serious? Never noticed! Read the info before commenting next time ;)

[killingman22]

hey my comp can not handle this game :(

so can you tell me a cheap comp that will run this game?

[shmoboy123]

mine's only £250 and i can run it, just look for a good processor, at least 2gb ram and at elast nvidia 6900 graphics CARD! not onboard graphics because it fucks it all up. mine's 3ghz triple core (so 9ghz total) 2gb ram and onboard graphics, and that ruins it all, if i get a new graphics card i can run this on high probably.

[TheHunter998]

lotro seems to be very funny

[eggeggli]

what is the glowing circle under your feets for? never seen that on a champ

[PsychoT1m]

Are you refering to my targets target? When I select a target a circle will appear under the feet of the one who has aggro. And when I am soloing the circle will ofc allways be under my feet.

[ChriosM]

Excellent song choices!

[daveehl1034]

sweet

[brcraw]

How does LOTRO Differ from Warhammer, Aion and WoW?

Iv been thinking to try it out.

[furywillow]

its lore is more intricate, and altho the pvp cud use some work, the pve is great especially for fans of the book series

[nimking1]

LotRO = a very good game if you like the movies etc. / very lore based!!!!

Warhammer = a very good game and very much pvp based!

Aion = WTF???

WoW = good game with very much of everything but its easy...

[iinnffllaammeess]

awesome music ;)

[hexNpeanut]

Haha i ran up to Fornost with my lvl31 Hunter and after getting close enough to see levels turn and ran LOL great vid. keep up the soloing =)

[lollebiffen]

and i love to solo things too

[lollebiffen]

thanks =) i'm a dwarf guardian lvl 51. evernight.

[lollebiffen]

how you get it?

[PsychoT1m]

Dont remember, I dont subscribe to lotro anymore so I cant check it eigther. But I think its Something like "Show my targets target" under gameplay options or something.

[lollebiffen]

no. that red spear whit morale and power! between the enemy and you

[PsychoT1m]

Ahh, thats my targets target. Useless in solo. A musthave in groups! It shows me who has the aggro of the mob Im targeting.

[lollebiffen]

what is that red spear? whit hp and power

[PsychoT1m]

You mean my rank? If its the red/white icon on the upper left corner of my moral bar then yes, thats my PvP rank.

[Joanoamovies]

i will try it today, 60 chmp ;)

[clanmovies]

i was having a lvl 57 dwarf champion on snowbourn but i stopped to play wow with my friends...still awesome game but wow is also awesome

[dukenukem360]

Yea u are right about diffculty, but also depends on your gear and legd weapon. I have lv 60 champ on snowbourn will try it today its gonna be very intresting...

[PsychoT1m]

Good luck ;)

[dukenukem360]

all Dead are weak to Westernesse dmg type btw

if uare going grab loads of fear wound and posion pots best food and also morale/power pots

Fornost was only solo able for LM before BK7 now prob all classes can until him sry for my spelliling

good luck

[PsychoT1m]

Battle/wardening scrolls wouldnt hurt eigther, a legendary tool with -2.5% melee damage and a pocket item with -3% melee damage.

[dukenukem360]

Great job there :P

With bk7 update bosses are immune to dazes, stuns and roots so doing this again can be very chalenging..

if anyone try this again make sure u have Max shadow resistance like fidelity or inocennce trait. getting Confidence ca be very usefull here

[PsychoT1m]

Notice how this was done with a champ. That means that with the added CC Immunity the difficulty remains about the same.

[dukenukem360]

NAME of MUSIC PLZ!!

[PsychoT1m]

View the credits!

[Guffinator118]

is this game worth getting?

[PsychoT1m]

Really depends what you are looking for. But I think its good game.

[jmanjanz]

what are yours specs and gear in this video? and do you run in ardour or no stance? cus im level 60 trying this out and im having a hard time....my traits do suck but still....just looking for some advice

[PsychoT1m]

I made this movie 8mnts ago, I dont know what stats I had. But in this video I used Controlled Burn on most bosses. But never run in no stance, you'll run dry of power in seconds and can not sustain any DPS. Fervour is a DPS stance, Glory is a tanking stance and Ardour is a off-tanking stance. CB is the uber all in one stance.

[jmanjanz]

ya ok, thats what i thought, they kinda nerfed control burn now though...but it shouldnt matter as long as you can beat each boss in 2:30 minutes. O and did you use a shield at all? or just dual weild the whole way through?

[PsychoT1m]

Yup I used shield at the warg boss, the other quest boss and the boss right before the last boss. And I used shield on almost all the trash mobs in there. And you can get 3.30 on CB now traited.

[jmanjanz]

ya, so do you still play then?

[PsychoT1m]

Yeah, but I mostly play on my burglar.

[Sharkbait132]

Lol its like a Lord of the Rings version of Rambo XD

[MethosTR]

Perfect music for this vid.

In Flames and Soilwork FTW!

Makes me proud to be half Swedish.

[Dreamcastz0r]

You seem to like swedish bands :o

[PsychoT1m]

Melodic Death Metal, also called Melodeath or Gothenburg metal, its origin, sweeden. Its one of my favorite metal genres. And as the name (Gothenburg) of the genre says, most bands hail from sweeden. Great music, metal with melody, I love it :)

[PsychoT1m]

I prefer dual wielding, but its all about how you prefer to play, which setup do you like? Other then that I can say that slower is better, the slower your weapon is the harder it hits and more DPS you do.

[Wildhunter16]

what video capture software u use i use one but it sucks and some times it dont record any thing in the game XD

[PsychoT1m]

Fraps. But it require quite alot of the computer and you have to have alot of free harddrive space while recording.

[Wildhunter16]

i wall mack it but first i need to know how many pots i will need and soon u will see my video but level 60 ^^

[PsychoT1m]

I always stack up on 40 pots when I visit AH. You're only gonna need pots for the boss fights, and trash close to the castle. You want to use pots as soon as its of CD. Each fight lasts around 3-5mins I guess, so thats only 2-3 pots each fight, depending on how many bosses you are trying and if you fail or not or kiting is involved those numbers may vary.

I would recomend 20+ just to be safe.

[Wildhunter16]

how many pots did u use?

[PsychoT1m]

Haha, unknown. About 1 pot ever 2 mins, which means, alot.

[TPMEISE]

How you did this without heal? :P

[PsychoT1m]

Controlled Burn, Bracing Attack, Pots, Sudden Defence, Dire Need, Eldar's Grace, DPS, AoE. And I guess thats it!

[XKfeildX]

Blade wall really helps sometimes :)

[PsychoT1m]

It is AoE, and cheaper powerwise then swift strike, and it gives you 1 fervour. So I use it alot insted of SS. But I dont see it as vital for survival. oh ok, maybe on Rhavameldir.

[XKfeildX]

Well, not for survival, just as a spam, you know what i mean right?

[PsychoT1m]

Power cheap AoE DPS with fervour building. Sure its a great skill.

[Joanoamovies]

nice man.. u play chmp very well.. u are lvl 60 now?

got a lvl 56 chmp atm, and chmp are a very good class..

[PsychoT1m]

Thanks. yeah ofc Im lvl 60 now, got there shortly after release of Moria. Got me a 60 Burg aswell and soon a 60 RK. Was thinking about starting to make some movies again soon. But Im struggeling with lag cause I have to play on a laptop now-a-days.

[Dathering]

But with the champions are 2 hunters so the champ didnt solo it, the hunters maybe helped him and 5:30on Krithmog they pulled out ghosts and eldars grace is for nothing when u play as champ u have skill fevour and there is: cannot parry block or evade

[PsychoT1m]

2 hunters didnt help. Did you read the info before commenting? The ghosts wouldnt have come if I had cleared the upperfloor before activating krithmog. Therefore krithmog is easily soloable. And the ghosts only came once he was dead. Eldar's grace is holy! Clearly you dont know too much about champs. I actually never used fervour in this instance, or atleast very little.

[XCHAPYEG]

You had some extremely close calls there! I myself cant make it past Rhavemldir.

[PsychoT1m]

Eldar's Grace, saved my life a few times yeah :)

[woodesroger]

i play wow now, just wondering how close this is to it, if at all, lotr is by far one of my fav movies and i want to know what the online game is like

[jbone488]

coming from someone who played wow alot... LOTRO is much much better. The story and setting makes it worth it. Plus you have well balanced characters and a great community. Trust me when i say you should buy it

[NoerrebroCrew]

is a Champion good???

Im starting this game maybe.

Is it like a paladin in wow ?

[PsychoT1m]

Yes a champion is good, how it is compared to the paladin I dont know as I dont play WoW. But a champs main rolls are DPS, AoE, Tank and Interupt, with most focus on DPS.

[hudsonking]

i soloed most of it on my lvl 48 loremaster =)

[PsychoT1m]

LMs can solo everything, thats not new. Im currently leveling my LM, on lvl 20 now :)

[gnom1306]

i can't even do complete fornost run with my 60 champ O_o (5/6 rad pieces atm) but they nerfed champs alot after MoM and i were only lvl 40 when it came out

[PsychoT1m]

Well they nerfed our crit and avoidance in MoM, other then that they just boosted us, and we are now much better then ever. My avoidance and crit was shit with the gear I had there though. Problem is the +9 level advantage thing that makes it tough now, I havent tried it yet at 60, but will soon.

[MrEnderson]

i tryed this one time. but i coudent get past Rhavameldir 1:42 . to many adds :(

[PsychoT1m]

Yeah go have a try, duoing shouldnt really be a problem except for the last boss maybe, but as the RK can heal I think the last boss will also not be a problem. But it shoudl be a fun experience.

[quikgamer]

Good luck trying with a RK, A LM would stand a much better chance.

[uzamaki22]

not really we .nommed it earlier, and the RK was soloing it today and im pretty sure he won.. or the server crashed (again) i went offline before he finished, you severely underestimate Rk's ;)

[quikgamer]

LM's have uber crowd control plus Light of the Rising Dawn and March of the Ents, they are made for soling multiple mobs. RK have aromour of storm which can stun melee mobs plus shocking touch again u need to be up close to them to do it.

[uzamaki22]

what stance did you use? fervour ro glory i cant tell, i would love to try this in one leve, did you have rift armour etc? i have 260 agil 330 might 297 vital

[PsychoT1m]

Mostly ardour, yes, you heard right, ardour. Then on hard bosses I ofc used controlled burn. Theres just no way you can do it without. I did not have the rift set no. I had the annuminas set. Really bad agility on that set, glad to have changed it for the new ones.

[Sail17]

Whoa you have amazing graphics. Ultra high with all the dx10 options enabled?

[PsychoT1m]

Not sure I had DX10 at the time, but other then that I had FullHD with Ultra High graphics.

[jeppep86]

nice vid there, and yeah that last boss is pretty much impossible for a single lvl50 champ. Retry at lvl60? :D

- btw, how did you customize your UI like that? You seem to have extra bars to the right on the screen (just right of enemy icon).

thanks in advance :)

[PsychoT1m]

You customize it by pressing ctrl+' or somethings. And the extra bars you get by going into options and under quickslots, then you just show bar 4 and 5.

Retry at level 60 could be fun, I may try that some time.

[jeppep86]

sweet thanks!

[PsychoT1m]

Actually the reason I have those 3 bars there is couse I got a Logitech G11 keyboard, so the 3 bars represent the 3 rows of extra keys on the keyboard which I use for skills :) The other bars I have bound to keys around the movment keys and mouse which I use for skills that are more important in PvP and which dont have induction time allowing me to move freely around the opponent while using skills, just a tip ;)

[mrjthekid]

I'd love to know if/when you do the 60 retry if it's still possible, even without a vid..

[PsychoT1m]

Retry at 60: Small mobs, elites and such are easier it seems. But bosses are not, they hit hard as hell now. I only tried Megoriath and Brogadan. Megoriath I could kill, but it was hard. Brogadan I could not, but thats partialy cause I didnt have any of the big CD skills. Also I did not retrait for this, I was AoE traited, so If I were to trait Berserker this could maybe be done, and better gear wouldnt hurt eigther.

[ReakingVengence]

in flames cloud connected, love that song. and nice vid btw

[Asker1234]

Theres 2 hunters on the warg boss?

[PsychoT1m]

Its for the quests, please read the info before you comment. ---->

[Asker1234]

well nothing special then

[EandDmovies]

awesome vid dude im getting LOTRO soon aiming towards a champion great graphics too lol cant wait till you make another and its in HD!

[PsychoT1m]

Thank you :)

[Thordim]

What resolution are you running this at? You have an incredible amount of space in which to see things. If you are running a super-high resolution, mind sharing your system specs?

Are your traits aimed at tanking or DPS for this run? It's a very nice run. Congrats! It looked like it was a lot of fun. I have a friend who plays a Champion, along with myself, and we're always trying to find trouble. :)

[PsychoT1m]

Its HD resolution 1900x1080 running at Ultra High. nVidia 8800GTX, Intel Q9650 or something 2,66GHZ Quad core, 4GB 1066MHZ DDR2 RAM.

Traits are mixed, mostly DPS though, heavy shield use, I should have had Bracing attack traited, but I think I used Bladewall instead. Im sorry I dont really remember, and things changed a little with MoM.

And yeah it was very fun, but it took very long time, and I got lost in there a few times, but it was a good way to end SoA for me.

[angerbeaver]

I want my hunter to wear heavy armour :(

[Morzen2000]

why is your player going SO fast?!

[PsychoT1m]

Because the video was way too long, so its scaled up to 4x speed. If you've read the info you'd know.

[chiefmustafa5150]

wat armor and weapon?

[PsychoT1m]

Annuminas set with Angmar sets helmet, Tordram/Blade of Keria and the shield I do not remember, but its a quest reward from book 12-14.

[rocker796]

well played :D