General Advices for fellow Boxers

[ShadowKntSDS]

I just started myself, so I am hoping others will chime in with more answers. Anyway, here is my 2 copper:

1. I always see ppl talking only abt isboxer when LOTRO is concern. Is keycone also equally effective?

I've am currently using Hotkeynet, and I've already hit some limitations. I'd like to hear on keyclone vs ISboxer as well.

2. Is Warden+5RK the best boxing combination? Need to know this coz both Warden n RK required to be unlocked.

I've heard that later in the game you may need a Guardian to hold agro properly with all the DPS the RK's can put out. I also know from playing the game that wardens are much more micro management intensive than most classes.

3. The instance in LOTRO is 6man rite?

There are also 3 man fellowships, but yes the basic party is 6 man.

4. Assuming we are going to play all the way to game end and enjoy every expansion, what other features should i buy or is a MUST to buy?

If you are buying from the Turbine store, and plan on going to end game, you are going to pay through the nose. Your best best is to try to find a Moria or SoA box on amazon. Both of these should come with a 30d time code. You can easily play pure F2P all the way to 20-25 without activating your account. After you run out of quests, THEN activate code that came in the box, and grind through 25 to ~50 in that month. Once you hit 50, all the content is in Moria (which you get added to your account when you buy a Mines of Moria box), and all of the 60+ content requires you to buy Siege of Mirkwood.

I got a Mines of Moria box for $8 + shipping. I also found a sale on Shadows of Angmar for $0.90 each and picked up 5 copies. Moria unlocks the 50-60 content, and the other side benefit of the Moria box is that it unlocks the Runekeeper and the Warden class.

Even if you dont do that, you are way better off paying or a sub for a month (3mo = $29.99) than buying the content via the points store. Unless you are really slow, you'll easily blow through $10 worth of points in under a month, AND sub'ing for a month gets you 500 points free anyway.

5. I using a QuadCore with 8G ram, is there enough? I looked at the isboxer forum, and saw someone mention its hard to keep screen freezing with his i7...

I think he resolved this issue to bad RAM timings.

I've tested 3x clients on a i7 965, 6gb ram, and a 8800GTX. I did not touch any of my settings and were all still left on the defaults when I play my main on a single client. I have yet to try 6 clients.