Fighting a Balrog - A Tank Perspective

In game footage from the final encounter of The Rift of Nurz Ghashu in The Lord of the Rings Online: The Shadows of Angmar. This video is from the perspective of the main tank as the raid group battles the balrog Thaurlach. Music is "Judith" by A Perfect Circle remixed by Danny Lohner.

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• thaurlach
• balrog
• aa
• aurora
• australis
• tank
• guardian
• lotro
• rift
• raid
• video
• game

[Boltazer]

It looks like crap

[DJPsYkik]

@Boltazer Yeah, that was on my old PC with a 256MB graphics card and single core processor. It is stunning on my current quad-core PC with 2 1GB graphics cards in SLI... LOTRO is rendered beautifully.

[narathh]

may i ask something, is LOTRO very similar to wow in gameplay? i havent played it, but i play wow, and i think they look very alike...and i agree with DJPsYkik, that in wow u r DEPENDING on large amounts of cash and a good guild to achieve things at high level

[DJPsYkik]

Similar being that a lot of the standard MMORPG mechanics are the same (they didn't screw with mechanics that already worked), but there are some innovative things in LoTRO that differ from WoW. Both WoW and LoTRO have their better points, I wouldn't say one is "better" than the other.

[LynnWoman]

arkenstone is a great realm :)

[DJPsYkik]

And a great name. Never thought they'd name a realm after the Heart of the Mountain.

[domowomo123]

i have the trial for LOTRO and im loving it :P think ima get it at christmas xD

[liedetecter2000]

in realitty, balrog would crush any class with his foot

[rupetify]

wat band is this? i mean the music

[Ghost3210]

So the Balrog isn't tanked by a lore master that spams "You shall not pass!" ? How boring. ^^

[janinge380]

@EarendurTelemnar That's a matter of personal interest, considering how they are in many ways, much different. And don't think that alle the Warcraft lore is what you get from WoW, it is as I have claimed before - a lot of history and lore involved to read about. Personally I think both LotR and WC have an excellent storyline that I love.

[XxSSjUltimatexX]

@DJPsYkik I'll take your word for it as I download the game tonight.

[vikingdrizzit]

@pok282 not everyone is like that, infact in my experience, most people are willing to help others out, but there are always gone be jerks who get off on screwing people

[TheBalador1]

@LynnWoman yep

[vikingdrizzit]

hey dont blame it all the f2p players, if u didnt notice there are as many jackass subscribers as there are f2p, + it means that even if a person cant afford the subscribtin for some reason they dont get screwed over

[pok282]

@EarendurTelemnar Lotro community has been dieing lately. Some people have not noticed as it is taking a while but it is. Recently I found this level 65 warden who could have helped me as I was getting badly beaten and he was not using his aoe skills just so he could watch me die. Then when I saw him again he spam slapped me. I slapped him back and he said he reported me.

[VAKanako]

@Boltazer

you look like a fat nigger.