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re: Week 4: Reach the top of Weathertop!

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Hello Kinnies and Friends!

For week 4 of the Coursera "Online Games" course, the assignment is to reach the top of Weathertop and to document your journey. See the course syllabus ("Gameplay for Week 4") that describes the various options in more detail.

You can get to Weathertop either solo or in a group, but if your character is much lower than level 20, you will probably need to go with a group. One option for getting to Weathertop is to fight your way up as part of a group quest (in LOTRO, group quests for up to six people are known as “fellowship quests”).

So, we have scheduled the following events on Landroval for people that would like to go to Weathertop as a group.

  • Tuesday, May 19 at 4PM – an escorted tour to Weathertop; one or more high-level characters will act as guides for those who would prefer a leisurely (and mostly non-violent) ascent. Meet at the Forsaken Inn in the Lone Lands [34.0S, 40.7W]. If you are substantially below level 20, you may have difficulty getting to the Forsaken Inn even if you stay on the road, so in that case, you may want to ask for an escort there from Bree.
  • Thursday, May 21 at 7PM – Retake Weathertop fellowship quest; fight your way to the top of Weathertop with several of your fellow students! Meet at Candaith's Encampment [30.1S, 37.9W] if you are doing the Retake Weathertop quest for the first time; or, meet at the Ost Guruth reflecting pool [30.9S, 29.3W] if you don't have this quest in your log of active quests (either because you have already done the quest, or because you haven't done the epic quest line up to book 2, chapter 5 yet).
  • Saturday, May 23 at 1PM – Retake Weathertop fellowship quest (see above for details).
  • Sunday, May24 at 6PM – Retake Weathertop fellowship quest (see above for details).

All times above are server time (US Eastern Daylight Time / New York City time).

Although we have scheduled these specific times for ascending Weathertop as a group, we understand that these times will not work for everyone; if they don't, just ask on the coursera chat channel, and we can set up some additional times for escorted or group ascents! In particular, it is very easy to arrange an escorted walk-up for characters that are too low in level to participate in the fellowship quest -- we can find an escort and accompany you up to the top in only 15 minutes or so, so don't be shy in asking for a tour at a time of your convenience if that's the option you would like to do!

A few more details:

It's sort of fun to do all the Book 1 and Book 2 epic quests that precede the Retake Weathertop quest (which is Chapter 5 in Book 2 of the epic quest line), to put that particular quest “in context.” BUT you can participate in the Retake Weathertop fellowship quest even if you have NOT done the preceding quests in the epic quest line. You can also do the Retake Weathertop fellowship quest if you have already done it previously. See this thread in the course forums for more details.

You can do the Retake Weathertop quest if your character is a bit below the recommended level of the quest (which is level 23). However, if you are too far below the recommended level of the quest, doing this quest might be a frustrating experience, as you may not be able to do much damage to the enemies you encounter, and you may be defeated easily if you are not careful.



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Here's a picture of the results of our trip this afternoon: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133077795@N03/17255695924/in/dateposted-public/

 



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Yes, we ended up doing an impromptu fellowship version of the Retake Weathertop quest today :) All DPS and support people, so we tanked with our bears :) Nice action shot, Glo!



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I'll be there tomorrow -- yay! Looking forward to it!

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