The MMORPG Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) has one of the most interesting Free2Play concepts. A player has presented a method to earn 570 points in less than 3 hours.
Lord of the Rings Online has a pretty clever, but grindy Free2Play system: How free is it really?
The MMORPG HdRO was originally a subscription MMO. So it needed the base game and a recurring subscription to be played. But like many other paid MMORPGs of the “post WoW” generation, Lord of the Rings Online has been free since November 2010.
We are looking at the Free2Play system today for current reasons and showing you a method of efficiently farming Lord of the Rings Online points. The question is: Should one do this?
Lord of the Rings Online has one of the most exciting Free2Play systems
The payment model of Lord of the Rings Online is relatively complicated, as there is little content accessible for free. If you want to unlock quests in advanced zones or entire expansions like Mines of Moria, you need Lord of the Rings Online points or Turbine Points. You can either buy them in the shop or earn them through deeds.
Deeds are what achievements or trophies are in other games. In most games, you do them for their own sake, perhaps to earn a trophy like Platinum. Maybe there’s a mount or a title at stake.
In Lord of the Rings Online, however, players can, if they wish, really “unlock content without paying for it” – except with their time.
Grind Lord of the Rings Online for free
This is a pretty time-consuming matter. I did it myself once and managed to unlock enough to get to and complete the first expansion Moria.
The trick is to collect the same kill and discovery achievements with as many characters as possible, to unlock points that you can then invest in the shop. This is best done when a bonus event is running so you can acquire areas at a reduced rate. They then offer new quests where you can again collect deeds with your army of twinks. You can also access the areas beforehand – but you get nothing out of it because there are no quests and deeds.
If you have many twinks, farming deeds is a way to play Lord of the Rings Online for free.
On the page HdRO the Resistance, in the “Book of Deeds” all achievements in the individual areas are listed along with how many points you receive for them. Even if the page may be somewhat outdated here and there, HdRO the Resistance is still the best German-speaking address for fans – as far as we know.
I farmed HdRO points pretty clumsily 4 or 5 years ago. How to go about it professionally is shown in this French video.
In 2 hours and 43 minutes to 570 points
A veteran of Lord of the Rings Online, Edward Gibion, earns 570 Lord of the Rings points in 2 hours and 43 minutes with a fresh character, however, he uses several boost items to shorten the process.
The catch in the Free2Play system of Lord of the Rings Online: Better not calculate the hourly wage
Mein-MMO says: The system of Lord of the Rings Online is really interesting and sparks the ambition to unlock and earn the content against all odds.
However, one should not make the mistake of calculating the hourly wage. The 3 hours of “playing” with a fresh character result in, if everything goes optimally, 570 points, as we have seen.
In the shop, you can get 600 points for 6 euros. For an hourly wage of 2€, such “playing” is certainly not for everyone. But for those who farm the same mobs in other games for 2000 hours for a level-up, this playing may have a special appeal.
Regarding the question of how free is Lord of the Rings Online: It is really free, but only for those who are willing to earn this “free” with their time.
Lord of the Rings Online is currently experiencing a kind of third or fourth spring; an expansion is set to be released in summer:
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