Official Lord of the Rings Online news: LOTRO Solo Play for LOTRO Daring Characters up to 20th Level! Read the details here now!
While MMOs are home to thousands of players, there are times when you want to take on the challenge of the Dark Lord Sauron all by yourself. While not every quest is soloable, you’ll find a huge number of quests suitable for a lone hero from the Shire and through the dark heart of the Misty Mountains. This article focuses on levels 1-20, with future articles covering solo play up through 60th level.
Get familiar with the user interface and quick keys, since they become increasingly important as your LOTRO Daring characters advances in level. The more comfortable you become with the various commands and icons representing the skills available for your class, the faster you can play. Speed can help you stay alive when you don’t have a Fellowship backing you up.
When making the decision to adventure alone, it’s most efficient to choose quests from the same area. This allows you complete a large number of quests at once, return to the quest hub, and then move along to the next area as your hero advances in level. You’ll find that many quests hubs tend to lead you toward higher-level areas, and that’s true of both fellowship and solo quests.
There is plenty to tackle if you have an hour or less to work with. You can craft a few items from the things you recovered on your last trek through Middle-earth. Or maybe you want to dash off on a brief foray into the wild because you need a couple more hunks of boar meat to net the reward from one of your active quests. You might have to mine for copper, tin, silver, or barrow-iron—and will likely have to slay many monsters in the process. This latter task can help you advance your rank as a prospector, all the while earning experience toward your next level.
An Elven Loremaster begins her heroics in Middle-earth
Tricks of the Solo Trade
The radar map is a great tool for finding quests and resource nodes, especially those that might be hidden behind rocks or camouflaged by tall grass. All professions have a passive tracking skill that causes resource nodes to appear on the radar.
While questing on your own, don’t forget to spend Destiny Points to give yourself that extra bit of power, healing, or defense when you need it. You spend Destiny Points by clicking on the half-moon symbol on the radar. If you find yourself running low, you’ll earn more each time you level, or by participating in PvMP combat in the Ettenmoors.
Monsters and More
While some games’ core questing mechanic is killing monsters on an open landscape for experience, that’s not the most effective way to earn experience in The Lord of the Rings Online™. While your hero will earn some experience like this, you’ll earn a lot more by undertaking quests (many of which will require you to kill those same monsters you’d be defeating on your own).
Some adventures direct you to recover things from monsters, such as lynx skins, bear pelts, boar meat, claws, beaks, and the like. Others expect you to kill a specific type of creature—Orcs, Goblins, the bears near widow Asphodel Froghorn’s Farm, and wights in the Barrow-downs. Others might ask you to craft, pick up items at a location, or find an NPC and talk to them. Choose those that interest you and skip the others.
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