LOTRO: Archet After The Fall

Posted by Wolfen in LOTRO

Anyone who has played a human in Lord of the Rings Online will be intimately familiar with what I recount here. Be that as it may, I must start somewhere, so I now begin to tell the tale of my human hunter named Wolfbow.

Once you complete the starter instance, which takes place in a small town named Archet, you are placed in the “real” game world. Archet is not the same town you started in. It was terribly burned during the invasion, and as you would expect, the world has greatly changed around you.

Archet after the burn

The first few quests I picked up were: Burying the Dead, A Threat from Spiders, Disease Among the Boars, and a quest started after I had previously killed the Marsh-Fly Queen. The quests are pretty straight forward. I had to find the bodies of three men and bury them, kill 10 diseased boars, and kill some spiders over at Quigley’s farm.

The spider quest led  me to finding the famous dwarf Bali just before he died. It ended with me killing a big spider named Iornaith in the spider infested tunnels beneath Quigley’s farm. These quests netted me around 90 copper per quest, better shoulderpads, and a better helm to wear.

Burying the Dead

Finishing these quests earned me level 10 and some nice new skills to go along with it:

Focus – Instantly gives a great deal of Focus, which allows my hunter better attacks with the bow

Penetrating Shot – Great damage dealing shot that is most effective when used with Focus

Dual Wielding

Medium Armor capability

Ranged Critical Rank 1

Ranged Evade Rank 1The Focus and Penetrating Shot skills are great when used in conjunction with one another. With very short re-use timers, they allow me to deal a good amount of damage. My overall damage output has increased signficantly with this combination.

Spider Caves

Bali the Dwarf is dead

The next couple of quests sent me to the town of Combe, one of which was  to find a ranger named Toradan, who wants me to help find the missing ranger Amdir. With these quests, my stay at the little town of Archet it at an end.