It’s happened, you know you can’t beat the hordes of enemies approaching.  The best thing you can do is hide your resources, but you just don’t the ability to hide it all.  You know your wall defenses will be wiped, you know your town will be looted.  You know you will lose all your defenses inside your city.  What do you do?

First, close your gates.  Open the gates when you are faced with an enemy you know you can beat with your ground troops, like 20k cavalry.  Close them afterwards.  Yes, it will piss them off more, but it’s something we need to do.

Next, use all your resources to build more troops. You can make them quickly in waves or do one lump sum.  Don’t bother with wall defenses, the enemy will wipe those easily anyways, and we have no control over when to use them.

If you are unbalanced, more wood then iron, or don’t have the population to build more troops, sell.  Sell everything you have to get gold.  Take the gold (it’s instantaneous delivery), and buy stone.  Buy all the stone you can, at whatever the cost.  What do you do with all the stone? You wait.

Let your city be looted (and pick your attacks with the gates). It won’t be long before the enemy gets tired of picking up stone, and only stone.  Sure they can convert the stone to gold, but the sell and buy prices will be different.  Just remember to periodically raise your loyalty, so the enemy can’t get your city (not a problem if it’s your only city) and of your heroes.  Don’t forget to heal your troops as well.  Out of money to heal them? Sell a little stone.

And the most important information… ask your alliance for reinforcements.  Even 5k scouts will help, but of course 200k, would help a lot more.  You will need to allow your embassy to allow alliance troops to be garrisoned within your city.  The size of your embassy determines the amount of armies that can be housed.  More is better.  If you have 4, then you can have 400,000 troops.  For defense, we want archers, swordsmen, and scouts.

This is an original guide/strategy written by Spitt of RPG-Exploiters.com. Don’t be fooled by other sites that only copy everyone elses’ posts to their site.

This is a sinister trick to play on your enemies, and should only be done from a city which is ok to lose.  You will get on your enemies’ shizz list really quickly.

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For all you hard working Alchemists who make a lot of money in your trade, this is some must have information.  In recent patches, something has changed, and in a new patch, something else is going to happen which will greatly affect your income.  Know these few tips, to make HUGE returns. Continue reading »

Here’s a few tips and tricks I have learned over the years.  I have almost always played on PvP servers, so some of these will only apply to that.

Use Insert and Delete to fly upside down.  Always looks kind of weird, especially if you are on a flying carpet and doing that.

Always (PvP Server) make a PvP toon, for leveling. Sooner or later you will be confronted with an enemy, who will pound you unless you know how to fight.

The best PvE gear won’t help you in Arena and Battlegrounds, get PvP gear instead – and learn how to use it to your advantage. Continue reading »

This is an original strategy guide, written by Spitt of RPG-Exploiters.com.

On most servers Iron and Wood cost more then any other resource. Occasionally, food is a scarce resource, usually on older servers – that’s just supply and demand however, since NPC farming should get you enough food to last a while.  I have decided I want to build a resource city.  I am going to make it produce both wood and iron, and to allow the storage in warehouses, but to not produce armies.  If armies are needed, they will be housed there from other cities.  The idea is to only make it a resources producing town, good for alliances and peeps who want to have their own “farm town”.

Primarily it will be Lumbermills and Ironmines, with 1 each of Farm and Quarry.  I make those, simply for the bonuses.  Instead of building a ton of barracks, I will build 1, with a ton of Warehouses.  This will allow me again to gain the bonus.  The barracks will be destroyed after all the bonuses are gained.

We will do away with wall defenses, and instead leave the gates open and a maximum sized embassy (with armies housed within).  When we need resources we will simply close the gates, kick the city from the alliance, have our own armies attack, and shift the resources around in the warehouses to make them available for the attacking army.  Once the “raid” is complete, we open the gates again, re-work the warehouse percentages, and invite back to the alliance.

Tip 1: For some unknown reason, most people grab level 10 Lakes.  In most cases since food is cheaper on most servers, it’s better to grab Hills and Forests.

Tip 2: If you or your alliance – or even group of alliances are being pounded by the top few alliances, band together, and stop selling food.  With the lack of food, or even higher food rates, then the enemies who have been attacking you, can starve and lose their armies.

This spot is a spawn of 2-4 Cairn Giants that spawn around a 4 story tower that can be killed rather fast and safely. This may take a little practice to get it to work right, but it’s a great technique to kill this small spawn of giants.
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I can only assume you have read my other articles on what to get in a hero’s attributes, and what the hero’s attributes are for.  As you begin to play more, you will raise your attack skill immensely, and after months of playing it’s not unheard of, to have a hero with 270 attack.

The best attack hero you can get, will be a base 70 attack.  This is a low level hero, which at level 1 has level 70.  If the hero is level 8, then the attack would be 78.  You want to snatch these base 70 heroes up, as they are rare and welcome in any attack, especially at higher levels.

There are some tricks however, which will allow you to find more heroes, then what is listed in the inn.  The first trick we are going to talk about will simply allow you to refresh the Inn, without having one of those scrolls to do it for you.  The way that we do this is to empty a city of all the heroes, and to have a Feasting Hall, the same size or greater then the Inn.  What you do is buy all the heroes up, and let them all go.  It will cost you a bit of gold, but that’s not a big deal, better gold, then real money or the luck of a spin, right?

The second way to find hero’s, is an exploit, and for that reason, it’s for members only… This content is for members only.

If you use the code “JIH MUSHA SOH“, you will get Captain Kirk’s Uniform added you your bonus items. Of course, true Star Trek fans already have this.  They got the code from Star Trek DVD Boxset

Go to Naphui Quarter and put hard mode on.

Equip the following;

Build: Glyph of Swiftness, Deadly Paradox, Shadow Form, Way of the Lotus, Golden Lotus Strike, Fox Fangs, Death Blossom, Radiation Field (Asuran skill) 
Weapons: Perma Staff and Zealous Daggers of enchanting
Attributes: 16 Shadow Arts, 12 Dagger Master, 3 Critical Strikes

Enter mission, go to the light orb to the right of the bell, up the ramp. Make sure you run away from combat in a safe area.

You can’t kill a star light and they can’t kill you so don’t bother. Your goal is to kill Star Blades and Star Sentinels. You can kill these guys so long as there are 2 Star Lights in the group (not just 1).

If you only want to get the celestial weapons then run around until you see a celestial weapon on one of the birds, it will drop roughly 85% of the time. If you want feathers, just kill as many birds as you can.

When using the attack skills, don’t target a Sentinel because they block with lightning reflex, so target a Blade and your area effects will kill the sentinel, if you time it right.

Be careful about your energy and make sure to have 30 energy when you need to Renew Shadow Form. Skills 4-8 note what they do and know how to maintain the energy with them.

A successful run with picking and choosing the right places takes about 15-20 minutes (because you won’t be able to kill all groups with too many lights) and in the 15-20 you usually get 3-4 gold and 120 feathers.

The profit per hour averages to 16k and 10 gold (the gold could be worth a lot if you’re lucky).

Good Luck, and be sure to tell us how you did.

Imagine a sneaky dps tank, with the ability to find your traps, then disarm them.  Imagine massive DPS with decent armorclass and hit points.  This is the Dwarf Batman build. If you have the veteran build its much easier.

32pt Build
15 Strength
15 Dexterity
12 Constitution
14 Intelligence
11 Wisdom
12 Charisma

Start with a rogue who is lawful good (that’s an oxymoron, lol)
Lots of skills 40 to be exact max as many rogue skills as you can 1py in tumble. Ignore Haggle (build a haggle bard to do you selling and buying if you want the haggle skill)

1st level
Feat: Toughness

2nd level Ranger
Keep up your hide, move silent, and rogue skills. Spend 2 pts if necessary.
Favored Enemy: Undead

3rd level Ranger
Skills: Same as before
Feats: Oversized two weapon fighting

4th level Paladin
Skills: Put them in heal
Ability Point: Strength

5th level Paladin
Skills: Keep putting them in Rogue

6th level Paladin
Skills: Same as before
Feat: Dodge

7th level: Ranger
Skills: Update the ranger/rogues skills to max

8th level: Rogue
Skills: Max out all Rogue class skills that you can.
Ability point: Dexterity

9th level: Ranger
Skills: Max what you can
Feat: Mobility

10th level: Rogue
Skills: Max them, dont forget balance

11th level: Ranger
Favored Enemy: Constructs

12th level: Ranger
Ability Point: Dexterity
Feat: Spring Attack
Now, take Whirlwind Style

Now alternate between Rogue and Ranger.
Do not go over level 5 Rogue
Continue to max Ranger till level 12

Your character can wear Mithril Platemail without skill penalties
Smite 2 times, Lay on Hands 2 times
Ssneak attack for 3d6 +9
Dual wield dwarven axes
You are immune to fear and disease as well as resistant to magic, poison, and most elemental attacks.

We have all heard the “trick” of buying low and selling high.  With this little bug, you will be easier able to find cheaper auctions to buy, in order to sell for more, or even to better equip your characters at a low price.

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This is a Dungeons & Dragons Online exploit, which will allow you to farm White Ice Game coins, without skates, quickly and easily.

In the harbor, the stairway above Berne Jorne, the questgiver for the quest “Arachniphobia“, has a small ledge near the top of the second set of steps. Follow this ledge south, making sure you hug the wall.

You will notice one White Ice Game Coin floating in the air a little out from the ledge. The ledge you are standing on is under the Winter Ice Games Ski Jump. If you jump off the edge of the ledge, you will have an effect similiar to feather fall called “Light Gravity”. So, jump off the ledge, grab the coin, and safely float back to the ledge. Now you can change the marketplace instance you’re in, to another using the menu above your map. Rinse/Repeat.

This trick works best if there are 5 or more instances at the same time. Less than that and you will end up having to wait for coins to spawn.

There are a lot of ways to build prestige in Evony. However, the town hall trick seems to be key in building prestige the fastest. Also keeps you from being attacked.

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Text Macros! These can be used in any game, that allows you to make a macro with chat commands, and changed to fit your game.  On slower chat servers, could also be done manually, but much more difficult to do so.  If you have more, please share them in the comments.

We all remember Bob from AV don’t we?

/bg ————
/bg |..|………..
/bg | ..\.O ……This is Bob
/bg | .. /|\ ……Bob took SH Graveyard
/bg | …./\ ……Don’t be like Bob
/bg |…………..
/bg |\………….

There are many other variants, changing bobs position or text.

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I know this sounds stupid to most people, but it’s something I have learned over playing many many games… read the manual first.  The manual will give you a quick overview, and you won’t waste time in game, asking people how to do this or that. I recently tried out a 10 day trial of Fallen Earth, and having read the manual, I didn’t waste the average of 3 days most people lose in the beginning of play, to keep asking the same stupid question, like “how do I open my pack” or “how do I reload my weapon”. Not only will you save the time, not asking stupid questions, but normally, you also speed by other levelers because you know the basic information that they couldn’t be bothered with, because they wanted to jump right in.

The StarTrek Online Manual, is worth a read, even though the information is available online – I prefer hard copies, but thats just me.

If you want to play StarTrek Online, you can buy StarTrek Online key from Shattered Crystal and download the game directly from StarTrek site.

One of the most difficult things about doing the For the Horde! or For the Alliance! achievements, is going to the capital city that is hugely populated, and trying to run in, and kill the king/queen. If you simple wait for Wintersgrasp (maybe make a toon to advertise WG on the other faction) getting all the 80’s into the fight, this will allow you to more easily run the big cities. For the Horde, time it for IF or SW. For the Alliance, time it for Org. This will give you about 15 minutes, 20 tops, with in which to run in and kill the boss.

A quick round up of what I have seen/heard at the forums

first a useful new option that some called the only good feature SoM has is the option under Chat to stop repeated letters in chat so no more WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW or ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

okay the game has been sanitized
the legacy stacking is gone and as I pointed out it was so easy to spot that the users got one week bans but if you got all your rad gear in one night doing SH in hard mode maybe that was good trade off for you…

the skirmish get to boss die and re-set him to get his usual 200 silver per kill is almost 100% nerfed with the addition of chests that spawn only once

the skirmish control point get more marks than intended trick has been nerfed

some classes were occasionally able to ID a legendary weapon and see more than 3 legacies, this was not working as intended and will be fixed in upcoming patch

The 25% exp bonus in skirmishes will be removed in an upcoming patch and trotted out on special weekends

the loot or the reason some people only do THIS skirmish is being addressed the skirmishes that are known to have good lieutenants to loot the loot will be decreased in an upcoming patch so there will be no reason to play THAT skirmish because players think it is a richer instance

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=4373571#post4373571

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There’s a dev diary coming soon about the updates and changes to skirmishes with Book 1. The rewards balance is being adjusted and is in there, so I won’t spoil too much. But, we are increasing the rates that Lieutenants will become sparkly by a very noticeable amount. However, this change does not mean you will be getting more cash and marks out of the spaces. We’ve shifted down the payouts of the bosses to balance this appropriately so at the end you will have the same amount as before, just delivered differently. We always wanted skirmishes to incrementally reward you as you go, and I think with the control points and with skirmish marks we did a good job of this. We didn’t translate that well into the cash drops through the space, so this adjustment will help to take care of that. In addition to the fact that it’s just exciting to see Lieutenants become sparkly.

As a second note, we are adjusting the bonus rates of Skirmish Marks and other mark drops in group sizes and tiers, but I’m not going to go into detail about that here, I’ll leave that for the dev diary. But, to stave off the rampant speculation and pitchforks and torches, the solo tier 1 amount has not been dropped or nerfed to achieve the adjustments we’re making.

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the new free content book 3 has been announced but even though they have listed changing jewellery icons as a big thing to look forward to things that appear to NOT be coming are:

new land mass
first age 65’s
increased second age 65’s

face it folks you (and I) are not getting anything of value anymore as a “free” update come next oct/dec there will be new land mass and first agers added for a cost

there are some almost howling threads at the main forum like:

When do we get the new skills, traits, virtues and class quests advertised for SoM?

and another has a great quote where is my promised legendary that LEVELS with me?

on a personal note I play all 9 classes and supreme master/kindred guild rep all crafts, and got my ninth guy past the SoM intro so all my crafters have their vineyards recipes and 4/9 (4/8 actually) have their SoM recipes except my cook who wasn’t given any new recipes for that expansion (I do not count the crafted relics a proper cook recipe, they are hard to swallow)

that’s the latest fortnight (or so) look at lotro well guess time to find a good download spot for that STO beta key I got…..:) but those games aren’t really my cup of tea

The LoTRO Auction House is a great way to make money and clear out some bag and vault space. Also the Auction House will help you to figure out what to farm to make  money the faster and more efficient way.  I have some guide lines I follow just to make it fair.  These are not mandatory, but I believe this is a fair way of doing business, and then I will tell you the greedy way. You make your own choice about which one you would like to use.

Fair Way

I have been told the fairest price to post items is 4-5 times what the vendor would buy for. There for a item selling to vendor at 5 silver would sell at Auction for 20-25 sp not a bad profit. But my opinion is 7 times the vendor price.  This is not too bad either, especially with the auction house prices these days.  Most people sell at 10-20 times the vendor price. Also selling at these lower prices means your items will sell almost immediately.

Not too Bad

This way is my common advice, before selling your item’s search the inventory of the Auction to see what other people have posted the same item for.  Now find the lowest price for the current number you have and subtract 5-10 silver from it and that’s what you post your item’s for. You’re just a little cheaper then the other guy so your item is almost always going to sell first, assuming a person hunting is not click happy and doesn’t check for lowest price.
Also if there is one item that is at least 40% lower then the rest of them, and the market is good (hides, gems, crafting items, etc.) go ahead and buy them out if the math comes out so you can drop the price 5sp below the other guys and end up making more in the end.  These are great investments.

Greedy (I do not recommend)

Don’t be that guy out there that posts items for outrageous amounts (you’ll know whats outrageous). You won’t sell much, and someone will likely come along and undercut you. I know you hate it when you need something and check Auction house and everything is high priced. Think of how you feel when searching for items and find them all high priced, and then post your items.

Farming Tips and Tricks

I would recomend before going on a farming trip, to run by and check the Auction House. Search for common items like hides, gems, crafting items, etc., and see what they are going for. If you know for sure you can kill X mobs fast by yourself and prices are up, then go right ahead. It sure beats running off to farm stuff and make it to the Auction House only to realize the market is low today. Check each one and see what has the best price to time ratio. This will also save you that 30 minutes wondering what to farm.

Once you feel comfortable and get to know the Auction House,  you can start buying and selling to make a profit. But don’t do it right away, as you might buy high and sell low, or worse, buy something which you think is low, and end up not being able to resell it.

The trick is to find some common items you find there everyday, such as hides, ore, shards, and flakes which all sell on a regular basis. Now watch these for a week or so and see the common prices. Once you see approximately what they go for and you see somone post one for a lot less, you can buy it out and resell it for a nice little profit. Even 100sp extra adds up quickly. Example below I run into the most.

Example:

Dwarf-Iron ore sells commonly for 800-900 silver pieces for a stack of 50.
Now every other day you see someone post it 700-800 for a stack of 100. This actually happens a lot. Buy it out and turn around and split stack into 2 stacks of 50 then repost for  600-650 silver pieces. Your price is way lower then competitors and usual prices. Now you’ve made about 400 silver profit without having to farm a thing.
Hides, ore, flakes, and shards all sell on a regular basis, stick with those items and you shouldn’t lose money.

One last tip.  When you start to get a feel for the average prices, make sure to write them down.  If you can check every day, GREAT! if not, try to check at least 2x a week.  I have noticed that on weekends, prices are lower, and on weekdays, they are higher.  Sometimes, you can buy on a weekend, wait a couple days to the weekdays, and then sell for a better profit.

Good luck!

You need the sidestep melee upgrade, the one where you can double tap in any direction.

The trick is, after having engaged a mob in melee, spam double tap backward while swinging like crazy. You’ll notice the mob will miss you several times.  After you master this, you will be able to take anywhere from 50%-80% less damage per mob.  This works best, in melee mode, not casting/ranged.  There is no reason that utilizing this trick, you shouldn’t be able to take out higher level mobs, then normally.

Bonus Tip:  When overweight & walking slow, you can double tap to move.  You can increase your speed this way 2x or more.

Some days ago a friend of mine and I found a great little exploit.

What you need:
-a chopper (every other vehicle with more than one seat will probably work)

What you do:
Basically, you just jump on the vehicle

So, here is the interesting part:
You can jump on the vehicle WHENEVER you want.

Some examples:

• -being stunned
• -being incapacitated (especially sapped)
• -being behind a wall (every direction)
• -even while being in combat!

Only condition: The vehicledriver has to be out of combat for it to work.

This exploit is particularly helpfull in arenas:
-Stop burst on stunned targets

-Prevent good opener of your opponents due to sap

-Get to the upper area of Dalaran Arena

-Be creative! I’m sure there are a lot of further applications for this.

Multi Person Vehicle Exploit

Have fun !