Class setup

[Redbeard]

Howdy yall,

Been playing this game casually with my friend, taking a break from boxing wow before the expac, and enjoying the experience. Have a 31 guardian at the moment.

Considering adding a 2nd or maybe a 3rd account to mess around in skirmishes, and was thinking about what id take.

Do you guys mind sharing your team comp and why you chose what you chose?

Thanks (Assuming anybody reads this subforum =P).

[The Multiplayer]

5 Runekeepers and 1 Guardian

The guardian is my point man and always hold the foe down while my Runekeepers lit em up, because of the strong survivability of the guard i usually can switch a RK to heal mode without getting aggroed.

Since you thinking of 2 or 3 a runekeeper or a minstrel would be good to pair up with your guard.
When i do 3-mans i use my guard, a captain, and a runekeeper. the guard has a herbalist, the captain has a warrior, and the runekeeper a protector. it works good when i finally got the helpers up to level 65 heh.

The captains herald is way smarter so i usually have them out as well. anyway have fun

[Naysayer]

if you're going to continue playing your guardian, then go with runekeepers. They're a boxers wet dream in lotro and will be able to both dps and heal your tank..

if you don't want to go with the guardian anymore, go with all wardens. wardens are seriously op.

[Gomotron]

I'm going 1 Warden and 5 RK's. At this point (level 12) everything goes BOOM so quickly. I am not so sure about instances etc. I may have to switch to a Guardian for survivability.

[TheKeeperofTime]

I've been running a mixed team: Guardian, Captain, Minstrel, Hunter, Lore Master, and a Rune Keeper.

I've been having a lot of fun with them, a little more work setting up stuff in Inner Space but I think its worth having the utility the different classes offer.

[Naysayer]

I've been running a mixed team: Guardian, Captain, Minstrel, Hunter, Lore Master, and a Rune Keeper.

I've been having a lot of fun with them, a little more work setting up stuff in Inner Space but I think its worth having the utility the different classes offer.

vid?

[Redbeard]

Wouldn't the warden be hard to box with his combos and what not?

I finally got ISboxer working, had some issues getting the keys repeating...

How are you guys setup? I think WoW has me spoiled as far as setting up the interface for boxing, I dont even see that I can make a follow macro here (though i think i saw somebody bind it to a button with a text command).

No macros, no castsequences etc... how are you guys setup?

Thanks for the answers, appreciate it.

[MonkeysUncle]

Well there's multiple ways to create macros in LOTRO. I three box currently, I have two hunters and a minstrel. I use a Logitech G15 keyboard to create strings of commands. You for instance can bind mutable key presses to one key macro.. so I have one that is (F2 /follow Enter) This selects the 2nd person in my fellowship, always being my leader of course because the leader of the fellowship is always at the top of the list. oh and follows him.

You could then make any combination of commands etc. I have three machines running LOTRO, and use Input Director to switch between them. The Logitech macros work on all machines, one of IDs handy features.

I play on the Brandywine server, and am one of the head officers in the Brandywine Brewing Co. we have a lot of dual boxers in the kin. If you are interested you can check us out at brandywinebrewingco.com

My mains name is Laoden, but often I'll be on my RK Laoniitas or hunters Laoborn... etc

[TheKeeperofTime]

vid?

Sorry, I don't have any video capture software.

As far as my setup, all my characters have the guardian targeted and use the auto skill forwarding option to attack his target.

I have several Keymaps, some with steps, in ISBoxer to handle various different things.
I have one set up to debuff: the first step does all the non agro debuffs (the Captain marks the mob, the Lore Master casts Sign of Power: Command, and the Rune Keeper casts Fall to Storm), and the second step has the Lore Master cast Fire-Lore.

I have a combat keymap that has a bunch of steps and cycles through skills on all the characters. I have that one set to reset after a couple seconds of not being pressed.

I have a button to cast Bolster Courage on the Minstrel, and I have an emergency heal button that has the Captain, Minstrel, Lore Master, and Rune Keeper all cast a heal on the Guardian.

For following I have the follow alias set up (like in the video you mentioned) and set to 9 on the keyboard. And I have 0 set up to assist and hit U (U is the default "interact" key, it will talk to NPCs, gather from a node, loot a mob, etc). I also have a key to toggle mouse broadcasting on and off, I use that to accept and turn in quests on all the toons at once. I run all 6 characters on one computer with two monitors, so I have keys to swap in different characters to the main window.

Its not as easy as WoW to get everything set up, especially with a mixed team, but I'm having a lot of fun.

[MonkeysUncle]

Yeah thats some good tips from the Keeper, I like how you have a mixed group but set up pretty well. Atm I only three box, sometime I'd like to get another account going, four manning some of the old Moria stuff would be fun, right now I own in FG and GS, with only three. Hunter, Guard, Minstrel or two Hunters, and a Minstrel... I usually don't take my main RK out unless I need a lot more DPS then my hunters can do together lol... I make joke.