LOTRO Cosmetic Outfit Tutorial

Just thought I'd make a video of my making a cosmetic outfit. I've had several questions on how to use cosmetics, equip items that aren't fit for your class, etc.. I hope this helps, and if you ever have any questions, you can always reach out to me here or on my toons in game. If I'm on Brandywine, you'll find me on Andadrien. If I'm on Vilya, I'll either be on Andadriel (my lormie) or Andadrix (my beorning).

Here is the outfit that I made:

It's made with:
Ever-Shadowed (Dyed Steel Blue)
Superior Sellsword's Shoulder Guards (Dyed Steel Blue)
Westemnet War Boots of Endurance (Dyed Steel Blue)
Luc-Socas (Dyed Steel Blue)
Amon Beleg (Dyed Steel Blue)
Elven Campaigner's Gloves (Dyed Steel Blue)
Tactical Eastemnet Campaign Circlet (Dyed Steel Blue)

So long, Vilya. Hello, Brandywine!

Well, this is the end of an era and a beginning of a new one! Tonight, I transferred my main toon - Andadrien - to Brandywine. I've heard for a while that it is super populated and that the PvP is awesome, so I finally made the leap!

It feels weird that I won't have a capped character on Vilya any longer. I might level my little second mini as a replacement... We shall see. 

For now, I'm going to forge ahead and try to make friends and get comfortable on Brandy. I joined a kin already. Someone had recommended it to me, and it seems really nice so far. Again, we shall see. I was able to go out to the moors with a few of them tonight - that was fun. I'm just impressed by the population of the server. Vilya is deserted compared to Brandy; it's nuts! 

The biggest thing that I dislike about transferring is that I couldn't take along my marks/meds/seals and my shared wardrobe. I took along as many of my favorite cosmetics as I could; however, I couldn't take everything. Also, there were things in the shared wardrobe that I no longer had the physical items for. I can still use them on my toons on Vilya, but Andadrien needs to start all the way over as far as her cosmetics are concerned. I expressed my sadness about this to one of my new kinmates, and he graciously offered to go through his hoard of cosmetic items and allow me to copy them to my wardrobe. That would be wonderful - definitely will help me get my cosmetics collection back on its feet, and who knows, there may be some great items in that stash that I didn't even have back on Vilya.

I will still play on Vilya, I want to cap my Beorning and maybe level my mini. Also, I still have lots of friends in Dawnbreakers that I'd like to still play with and a few in The Phoenix Rising too.

Kayloriel/Tasty

Well, allow others to suggest names for your outfits and the title you see is what you get.

Hehe

I know I haven't made an outfit in a very long time. I had all the intentions of making a Christmas-y outfit with the holiday being a couple days away and all. I took my inspiration and put it into the color; however, that's about where the inspiration ends - LOL. It was fairly simple to put together. It is made of things I had laying around in my shared storage and wardrobe. I don't have too much on my beorning yet. 

The outfit is made from:

Medium Nadhin Mask (Dyed Crimson)

Golden Tree Summer Cloak (Dyed Red)

Footman's Armour (Dyed Crimson)

Dwarf Leather Gloves of Fate (Dyed Crimson)

Horse Maiden's Trousers (Dyed Crimson)

Tursur-Lhopan (Dyed Grey)

My Current L100 Gear

EDIT:  still getting a ton of hits on this post.. this was a year ago, and gear has changed and there are better options in the game. This is also before LIs could be imbued and legacies changed. Please take this post with a grain of salt. I've radically changed my essences and set up.


A few of you have asked about my gear, so I went ahead and took screenshots of what I'm wearing now at level 100. It's not perfect, but I'm happy with it for the time being.

Legendary Items:

Jewellery - I didn't screen shot all pieces just the two sets:

Armour (click picture to make it larger) :

Chubby Hobbit

This is Chubby Hobbit and my little hobbit burglar.

Twinsies!

:)

Beornings!

So the new class - the Beorning - is available to test on the Bullroarer beta server. Of course, I had to roll one and check it out. There is a new starter instance; it's not quite a full fledged starter area. I thought I'd give those of you that are not on Bullroarer a peek at the class. Make a note and keep in mind that Bullroarer is the beta testing server, so things may change about the area and the class before it goes live in the actual game.

I was able to play a little bit further. The class seems pretty sturdy and not too squishy. It is a medium armour class. The trait  lines help you specialize for different roles. One focuses on your DPS, the other focuses on your bear form and strengthening that, and the third role helps you become a healer and crowd control support - fairly versatile. I think it would be an interesting class to play. Of course, I would need additional time to level and get used to the class before making a more concrete opinion of the class.

Anyhow, enjoy the video:

Elven Commander

Wearing heavy armour is a tricky task on my elf because she is usually too delicate to pull the armour off; however, I think she wears this well. It doesn't seem over-bearing. I like the bit of androgyny that this outfit gives her. She looks like she could be a commander in an army.

I also spent like 300 gold on this outfit, but I suppose inflated AH prices don't faze you when you have thousands of gold to waste on whatever you want. I don't spend gold on much else..

This outfit is comprised of:

Potent Fangorn Helmet of Command

Potent Fangorn Pauldrons of Valour

Cloak of the Grey Company (dyed Ranger Green)

Potent Fangorn Armour of Command

Boots of the Light Step (dyed Ranger Green)

Black

Forget what I said about ranking quickly! The update dropped and now I've not been in the moors since - haha! 

Oh, well. Here is an outfit that took me about 45 seconds to put together.

This is made from only three items:

Coruthor (dyed black)

Light Nadhin Shoulders (dyed grey)

Gossamer Dress (dyed black)

Rank 10

I'm back - well sorta.

I'm really just PvPing. I hit rank 10 the other day. I never posted when I hit rank 9 a while back before I took my break. It's taken me a little while since I did take that break, but I did it - I'm rank 10.

I now have my second favorite rank title. Commander is my favorite - I'll enjoy being rank 12 when I hit that.

I'm already 15% in to my next rank over the course of the last 3 days (no accelerators). I think I'll hit rank 11 more quickly because I've been spending all my time in the 'moors.

See you all out there - maybe we can group. 
Who knows?

Taking a break.

With the launch of ESO, I have decided to take some time away from LOTRO. I've cancelled my subscription for now. I may come back to LOTRO at some point in the future, but at this point I have no plan to play it seriously for the foreseeable future.

Happy Gaming!

The Traveller

This hooded traveler treks through Middle Earth fighting and fishing as she goes.

This is comprised of:

The Horse Maiden's Hood (Dyed Dark Green)

Mathom-Hunter's Mantle (Dyed Dark Green)

Fisher's Backpack (Dyed Dark Green)

Lawgiver's Robe (Dyed Dark Green)

Dwarf Leather Gloves of Fate (Dyed Dark Green)

Elven Hunter's Boots (Dyed Dark Green)

Challenger of Saruman

Got a new title!

:D

Flight to the Lonely Mountain Tier 2 Challenge

A few days ago, The Phoenix Rising completed Flight to the Lonely Mountain Tier 2 Challenge for the Vilya Server first.

Here is a shot of us with the chests:

Completed deeds:

I now have the steed and war steed - I did dye the war steed cosmetic before taking the screen shot.

Regular steed:

War steed:

And lastly, I have the Defender of Erebor title:

Rank 8

Merry Christmas to me!

Rank 8!

Thank you to those who've helped me with the last push over the past few days and to all the creeps I've killed (or have died while I healed the person killing them). 

Despite the L75 stuff being red, I decided to go crimson with my gear - goes better with my "war goat".

The Wandering Minstrel

Somewhere in Middle Earth roams a lone minstrel.

She plays tunes that lightens the spirits of all the weary travelers she encounters.

She is wearing:

Ceremonial Circlet of the Seven Stars (Dyed Ered Luin Blue)

Supple Great River Pauldrons of Vitality (Dyed Ered Luin Blue)

Footman's Armour (Dyed Ered Luin Blue)

Strong Eastemnet Combat Leggings (Dyed Ered Luin Blue)

Tursur-Lhopan (Dyed Ered Luin Blue)

Andadrien's Guide to the Minstrel

Check out my new guide to playing the minstrel!

It is almost complete (give me a couple days to finish it),

but you can click here to start reading!

This is up to date with the class changes we've experienced with the recent Helm's Deep expansion.

Gatecrasher

You will now be known as Master Guardsman Andadrien Aldaelon, Gatecrasher to those you meet in your travels.

Isengard trolls are no match for me... and Dravenn.. He helped too.

Wasn't actually all that hard.. I always thought they were one shotters as they have no level. I was surfing around LOTRO videos on YouTube, and I came accross an RK/Mini duo that took down the trolls. Naturally, for kicks and giggles, I had to try it too... If you do it, there is a deed for killing the two trolls - you get the title, a rune, and 5 Turbine Points!

Iorbar's Peak

Look what I did!

:3

IP T2C L95

Solo on my Minstrel

Enjoy!

Pinata

One thing I don't like about HD is that there is no armour sets... My mismatched gear looks like a pinata and a sombrero had a baby and that baby threw up on it. Pink and orange pants with green accents... sea blue gloves... zucchini colored shirt.. and those boots... yellow with little red triangles... 

So UGLY!

I need to find a tailor to make me crafted stuff.. depending on the stats.. because then, at least, my stuff might not look great, but it will match.

Brace yourselves!

I told you it was ugly! Ignore my stats.. I've have on all kinds of dps gear and purples and L85 LIs.. this will improve... I want to get my will up about another 800 at least, and once I get all the jewelry sets, have a dps set up and a healing set up. Right now my gear is completely schizo, but with the exception of the LI's it is at least all 95 gear already. I'm in the process of finishing off my L95 LIs.. they aren't perfect yet.

Warrior

So tomorrow, the Dawnbreakers will be having a cosmetics competition to celebrate the arrival of Helms Deep. This is the final event of a series of events planned to usher in the new expansion. There were a few categories - I chose Warrior.

This is what I came up with.

I love that cloak! Since I'm supposed to be portraying a warrior, I had to take one action shot. I snapped this on my mad race to get to 95.

This outfit has several components:

Fine Grey Company Wrap (Dyed Turquoise)

Supple Wildemore Cloak of Loyalty (Dyed Sea Blue)

High Officer's Armour (Dyed Turquoise)

Gloves of the Hammerhand

Thick Elven Soldier's Leggings (Dyed Turquoise)

Hardened Elven Officer's Potent Boots (Dyed Turquoise)