Lotro where to find exceptional hides

Now and then you find yourself in a strange stance. Some really weird glitch can give you the imagination of floating. For example if you just left the stable for a fast trip from Michel Delving to Breetown. Be very quick if you catch such a scene, and take a screenshot!

First, start to monitor your environment very thoroughly. For example, when i travelled to Eregion - a lvl 50 region - a noticed a bush of blackberry floating in the air. Very curious indeed! Do you remember the early times before you reached the magical level 20 ceiling?

Maybe you have visited the Marish or Woodhall in the Shire. Today i decided to go back to my early days and to enjoy the Shire again.

Its a cosy place, even for high level players. There are many small waterfalls, and one I remembered pretty good. Just south of Woodhall, in Green Hill Country, is a pretty high and scenic waterfall. Its to the west of a place full of huge brown bears. Yes, I think you will remember it now! Its the dangerous bear den, west of a hideout with lots of very nasty villains. Near the waterfall there is a bear den with some round boulders to climb. If you manage to climb upon the rocky ridge, you will have a beautiful view above the bear den.

Glad these brown monsterous bears didn't noticed me, although they seemed pretty docile! Maybe they are highly sought by hobbits for their fairs near Bilbo's Hill? Dancing bears are such a delight to see, especially when they try to eat a hobbit To the east and west of Michel Delving there are two gates.

I never found out, alas. Even 5 years later, these gates are still closed. According to Sweet Cherry, you can find in those lands a secret and abandoned Hobbit Village. I show you a picture from Cherry. Although not very big, Breetown is the biggest settlement in Lotro's Middle Earth.

And you can be there at a very low level. Breetown is perfectly safe, you can't get molested by bears, wolves or other nasty creatures.

Hobbits in Breetown As you enter the town from the westside, at the road to the Shire, you probably have noticed some hobbit houses within the city. You find them on a hill between the westgate and the northgate. I was always very curious about hobbits living in Breetown, so today i decided to pay them a visit.

A curious case of Borg in the Shire Today something curious happened. On my voyages in the Shire I discovered a strange green landscape.

Although the Shire should be green, this particular spot was a mesmerising shade of green. The nights in Lotro's Middle Earth are wonderful. Sometimes thousands of stars can be seen during a crisp and cloudless sky. Have you ever stand still a moment and behold the splendor of the Heavens?

I did, and when you look carefully you can find a white face and three distinct starpatterns in the sky, which have a special meaning in the world of Middle Earth. In the human world she is seen as a lady, and if you look carefully you can see her face.

The Moon could be a lady or a flowerlamp, carried by Tilion The Elves, however, have a totally different story about the moon. Tilion, a Maia Maias are spirits who help the Valars , was chosen to guide the vessel of the Moon at here path between the stars.

The Elves called the moon Isil, and later Ithil. The Moon was valued as higher than the Sun by the Elves, because it came from the Elder Tree and because it rose first in the sky. The moon was made in memory of the Elves.

The Sun on the other hand was made in memory of Men. Menelmacar - The Swordsman of the Sky Menelmacar is Quenyan for the 'swordsman of the sky' or 'swordsman of the heavens'.

Its one of the star constellations in the heavens of Middle Earth. On a clear night you can see it low in the horizon, with three stars in the middle and four bright ones around it. Forochel is a wonderful place.

Some people don ' t like it there, but as a seasonal visitor of the high north I really appreciate Forochel a lot. The fantastic white landscape, crisp skies and a frozen nose. The occasional trumpet of a mammoth and the Aurora Borealis are the most exotic things to experience there. If you ever wanna explore that thing, I can say that nothing is impossible.

If you are level 70 or 75 swimming to that iceberg is easy. If you are of a lower level you need some food for continous morale regeneration. The black triangular iceberg at Suri-Kyla The first thing you have to do is to swim to the nearest flat ice-shelve. After that you have to wait to regenerate your morale and then take the swim to the black triangular. Don't be too eager, since at a certain line there is a deadly invisible wall.

If you pass that line, you will be killed instantly, alas. So, I have to do that swimming trip all over again and again. Unfortunately the whole ice-sea at Forochel is guarded by a deadly invisible wall. But some iceberg and ice-shelves can be reached. Have fun to find out. R eaching the first ice-shelve, black iceberg ahead! Entering the ice-shelve of the black iceberg Another funny trip, is a ride to Kuru-Leiri. If you follow the seashore to the east, or rather the icy perimeter, you will find a nice white ice-bridge.

That bridge is more beautiful than the ice-bridge at Suri-Kyla, and its worth a trip to visit it The white ice-bridge at Kuru-Leiri Just before the ice - bridge there are two white pointed icebergs. Its very easy to swim to these icebergs and you can even climb to the summits of them. Have a friend with you to take some pictures, since it is a awesome sight to see a tiny adventurer on a huge iceberg. And if you swim through the deadly cold water, don't forget to look down at the base of an iceberg.

Climbing an iceberg with Raynah. If you look carefully, you can see me on the right one! Both icebergs near the ice-bridge can be climbed. Do you see me? View from an iceberg: a ghostly ship ahead. In the north of the Shire there are two great waterfalls, right after each other. This lovely landscape is worth to investigate and a trip to the highest waterfall is a real adventure!

Today i was accompanied by a you traveller, called Ulis, and we gathered near the ruin of Bindbole. The ruin of Bindbole The ruin of Bindbole is easy accessible and if you go from that point to the east, you will encounter after some minutes a lovely stream with two waterfalls. At the foot of the waterfall of Bindbole Somewhere at the waterfall of Bindbole you can climb the rocks and you will end up above the waterfall. First we decided to go west, just to view our starting point at the ruin of Bindbole Wood.

Its a beautiful place and from a distance it looks like an old temple from the past. Its sad to see such a splendid building of the past in total ruin. But alas, time flies, they say And that time kills everything in the end, is clearly visible at the Bindbole ruin.

Bindbole ruin from a distance If you are fond of ruins you can even travel some miles to west and - west of Bindbole Ruins - you will encounter a much smaller ruin, sitting on the edge of a rock-wall. Only daredevil's can reach that tiny ruin, and it is a hazardous climb to reach that high and desolate spot.

Its a round stone circle, with three broken pillars, and you can find it near a spider invested grove called Lobs' Grove. I never found any spiders there, but the sight above Lobs Grove looks awfully sticky! The ruin near Lobs Grove, west of the Bindbole forest ruin Ah well, time to go east again. Let's not be distracted by some old stone circle near the spider's grove, let's go to Bindbole's waterfall!

Many players have visited Esteldin. It's an old ruin full of Rangers and a major craft center for Tailors and Tinkers.

Its an impressive place to see it from above, with all these sturdy walls and fortified towers. If you want to visit the ruins and have a good look from above, go to Dol Dinen. Somewhere at that nasty place you can enter the mountains. These mountains are vast and one of the best rocky places to visit in the North Downs.

The whole mountain area between Kingsfell and Rhunenland, is an excellent off road area to explore There are some peaks to climb, but none of them will give you a sneak peek into the Orc and Troll camps of Dol Dinen. The reason for this obscured view of Dol Dinen is an evil fog in the air, which will darken you sight.

Anyway, the mountain area south of Esteldin and east of Meluinen is vast and a small wonder to explore. You have probably been in Agamaur, east of the ruins of Ost Guruth, in the Lone-lands.

It is a very weird ruin with red water and a strange red hue in the air. There are some dangerous walking trees and some nasty hidden 'turnips' on long legs. Low level characters can enter these areas too, but you have to be very careful. On the other hand, there is a trick to see it vere safely, from the northern mountain ridge which is the border of Agamaur. If you want to see it from above, climb some mountains west of Ost Guruth.

The mountainridge of Nain Enidh and Ost Guruth is easy accessible, even for level 20 players. Of course you need a horse to jump, but thats always the trick to enter these off road areas. The trick is to find some hidden place, and after some jumping experiences, you will emerge - like by magic - on the brown hills. Its near a place with trees, and just try to jump trough a wall or some columns.

To find these spots, watch out for small open areas 'slits' between the walls or pillars. With a war-steed you have to learn to 'feel' such spots. If you experience some 'rubberbanding' - like you are stretched back and forth on an elastic string - there is a chance that you find some magic pass between two normally inaccessible areas. Hides - The best farming places in Lotro.

Wood in Lotro I just started a woodworker, and was wondering where to go to farm wood. I will make this part of my blog 'on the road', so each time I f i nd some interesting wood, I will append this blog. Wood you can harvest. Black Ash. Rare extra drop. Mastery components. Sticky Resin, Common Flax.

Ashy Resin, Bree Flax. Amber Resin, Pale Flax. Black Resin, Yellow Flax. Black Ash Heartwood. Spider Silk. Soft Resin, Golden Flax. Mithril flake. Hard Resin, Fairy Flax.

Birch Sapwood. Cracked Rhi Sigil. Oak Sapwood. Tarnished Crest of Rohan. Oak Bark. Lore: Lebethro n is a tree restricted to Middle Earth. It was a hardwood tree, like an oak, that grew in Ithilien, a place in Gondor. The walking-staves which where presented to Frodo and Sam by Faramir, where also made from Lebethron.

A Lebethron tree, with a fallen branch in Trollshaws A Lebethron branch with typical hastate leaves Lebethron in the Lone-lands see Lone-lands map above The swamp in the southeast corner of the Lone Lands see map above , Harloeg, has a small number of Lebethron nodes. Some Lebethron can also be found in Agamaur.

Both places are guarded by signature foes, like lvl trolls in Harloeg and lvl undeads and evil trees in Agamaur. If you don't like signature foes, go to the Trollshaws, Evendim or the Misty Mountains. These places are much richer for Lebethron wood than the poor spots in the Lone lands and has not such dangerous foes. Lebethron in Evendim see Evendim map above As soon as you pass the giant stone statue of the King, and you travel southwards along the shore of the big lake, you will encounter several Lebehtron branches.

The steep hills at this place contains also some Lebethron. The best locations however are situated at the western shore of Lake Evendim. You can reach it by a boat, near the marketplace of Tinundir. There are some fierce foes here, like wolves, bears, marsh-flies and garaudan hunters, but if you are careful the Evendim shore is a pretty easy place to gather huge quantities of Lebethron.

Especially along the shore of the wooded area of Emyn Uial. I found even some branches on Tyl Ruinen, an island which is famous for lots of salamanders and some nasty turtles. If you like a beautiful place and a peaceful lake, with great vista's, go to Evendim for Lebethron wood! It's quite empty, since most woodworkers gather it in Misty Mountains or Trollshaws.

Lebethron in Troll shaws A long the road from the Last bridge Southern Trollshaws to the undeep part of the Bruinen river the famous ford where Gandalf stopped the black riders , there are many harvest places of Lebethron. They are easy to loot, unless you anger some bears or - at night - nasty trolls. South and north of the road is plenty of Lebehtron to be found, but these areas are more dangerous then the road to Rivendell.

In the High Moor, east of the ford, there are also some Lebethron branches to be found, although not as much as in the western part of Trollshaws. As soon as you enter Angmar from the Northdowns take the right road into the mountains, just after the warg area of the North Downs; the left entrance leads you throug a dangerous road with lots of wyrms and drakes , you wil find plenty of lebethron along the road. An failry easy place is the eastern half of the Ram Duath and Fasach-Larron.

More difficult - if you are of the same level as the mobs there - is the western part of the Ram Duath and Fasach-Falroid. You can also circle the most easy places constantly, and loot al the lebethron you can find. They will be respawned, if you complete your looting circle. Lebethron in Forochel Although there are some pine forest in Forochel, I didn't find any wood in this zone. Possibly all branches are vanished under the snow Lea ves of the Black Ash A corky treetrunk in a swamp: that must be black Ash!

If you like some snow, it will be the eastern half of Misty Mountains. Unlike Eregion it cannot be accessed easily in the Misty's or Angmar. In most other places in Misty Mountains you will find Lebethron Wood.

For Angmar however you need to do some quests to enter the eastern part epic Book quest, books 6. If you have done these quests, you can look for Black Ash south of Meathad and Gorothlad. Its not a very cosy place, since there are lots of mobs and it is a long way to travel. But maybe you can combine your wood gathering activities with some quests, slayer deeds orcs, wolves or farming hides. Random drops : some black ash branches, and especially some heavy black ash branches, will drop occasionally Spider silk and Black Ash Heartwood.

Both are rare crafting ing redients. The Giant Halls area is the most dangerous of this three, with lvl 44 signature trolls and giants. At the high pass there are wargs and goblins in the northern part, and wyrms in the southern part. Although the same level as in Giant Halls, these mobs are no signatures and easier to overcome than the awful giants.

So, roughly north of the line Mirobel and the Walls of Moria see the map below. In fact, Eregion is one of the best zones to gather black ash wood. Its easy accessable from the the Trollshaws. Just ride south along the Bruinen River in trollshaws, and if you follow the east bank, you will finally find the road to Eregion.

You can also quick travel from the stable in Rivendell to Echad Gwingris, or other places in Eregion. Just pick a zone which is the most comforable for you, ans gather lots of black ash in Eregion! The forests at Gorothlad and especially south of Maethad are relatively rich in black ash.

Some scattered branches I found in the open forest north of Duvuinen and along the rod from this area to Himbar. At himbar there are a lot of spiders, and somehow this has an effect on the normal and heavy branches of black ash: you will find Spider silk as a fairly regular random drop here. Two branches were found in the elite master area east of Barad Gularad, but the rest of this very dangerous area lots of I checked the Rift of Nurz Ghashu, the ruins of Imlad Balchorth and all the pools and little volcanoes of Malenhad, but these places didn't contain any black ash branches.

West of Malenhad, the ash branches are replace by lebethron branches. Tip: remember that you have to complete one of the epic books wasn't it Book 6? You need to pass some strange, devil-like statues, and this is only possible after completing the complete quest-line of Epic book 6, which can be done solo.

Black Ash in Angmar. This is a zone rich in birch wood and you can find it nearly everywhere. If you are at the same level as the mobs around, it is wise to gather wood while you are also doing quests. The area around Thinglad is the less dangerous part of The great River, so it is an excellent starting point to gather branches of birch. Birch branches can be found in the Twilight Gorge, around Stangard, in the Rushgore and even in the treeless Brown Lands.

You will encounter some gargantuan spiders, trolls and walking pine-trees Huorns , of Don't forget to harvest the heavy birch branches, since they will drop occasionally the rare cracked Rhi sigil. I found these sigils in Dimlight Gorge and the Brown lands both level 75 areas. One curious drop of oak has to be mentioned too.

When harvesting wood in the northern rim of the Dimlight Gorge, near a big spider hole, I found 1 branch of oak. Maybe it was just pure luck that I found oak; a real once in a lifetime chance.

When I checked the spot again marked orange on the map below , I found only birch This big part of Middle Earth contains 5 areas, and - surpisingly - the most easiest zone is also the richest zone for oak wood. I mapped the part of The Wold north of Harwick almost completely, and as you can see it is full of Oak branches. At level 85 it is a pretty easy zone for oak wood, much easier than the other zones in East Rohan.

South of Harwick there is a distinct change in oak distribution: the nodes are sparse here and widely distributed. So, if you need a lot of oak, stay roughly north of Harwick and filly your bags as quickly you can! I found one branch of Birch in The Wold, along the riverbank. Actually, this was already the map of The Great River, but after you have crossed the bridge into The Wold.

The Sutcrofts has also a widely scattered distribution of oak. Be aware that this is one of the most difficult crafting professions. Not because it is hard to craft stuff or acquiring scholar crafting rec ipe s. No , the probl em is that the stuff you have to find is hard to obtain. As a scholar you are looking for artifacts, like an archeologist. You are looking for old pitchers, ancient vases, urns, old texts and hidden coffers and lockers which may contain ancient materials.

Well, if you know something about these artifacts, I think you get the picture where you have to look for them. Right, in ruins! The difficulty is that ruins are not so common in the world of Middle Earth as you may think. At least not so common as forests, shrubs and hills with wood and ore. So you have to discover them and investigate their occupants. The other problem is, that most of the ruins will be infested with enemy forces, poisonous spiders or some other fierce predator.

So, in this perspective the Scholar is perhaps the hardest crafting profession there is. Elves and burglars may be better off as a scholar, since they can sneak in stealth into those dangerous ruins.

But a brute force of hack and slash, or a magic daze or root can be very handy too. If you like danger, hunting enemies for scholar artifacts goblins, orcs, trolls, thieves and brigands can drop now and then artifacts too or looting ruins, the Scholar crafting profession is the thing for you! In the table below you can see which artifacts are needed for which scholar tier. Also, each artifact contains a special kind of material and with these materials you can make all kinds of interesting stuff.

Like power and morale pots, crafting buffs and buffs for shooting arrows, defense and attacks. Type of Artifact. Shattered Pitcher. Aged Scrap of Text. Early Third Age Relic. Worn Tablet Fragment. Broken Urn. Cryptic Text. Ruined Second Age Trinket. Antique Vase. Cracked Dwarf-carving. Faded Sindarin Passages.

Torn Craftsman's Diary. Forgotten Text. Ancient Vase. Undeciphered Moon-letter. Worn Elf-carving. Sage's Lockbox. Broken Dwarf-statue. Etching of Moria. Rune-carved Tablet. Tattered Khuzdul Parchment. Also sometimes people will just dump their hides for quick money if they're not tailors. Don't get into a hurry and set your prices lower than they should be. Let the under cutters supply clear out and then sell your stuff. In general a stack of hides has sold for about 1g, plus or minus a couple hundred silver, for the last couple of years.

The best way to find your posting price is to do a search for the specific type of hide you're selling, and then sort by buyout. This will let you quickly see if there are a ton of people selling a type of hide, what you should sell at, etc. But as I said, if there are tons of people selling, say extraordinary hide, you're better off finding a less competitive hide to farm over just cutting your prices for a quick sale. Find a resource that doesn't have 50 people selling 20 stacks Light Hide Light hide doesn't usually sell for much, but if you see them selling for a good price in the AH then jump on it!

You can farm light hide really quickly. Farming Locations: My favorite location to farm light hide is in the Shire and Bree-land. For Bree-land I like the wolf den in the forest east of Combe. Medium Hide This hide is similar to light hide. It usually doesn't sell for much, but check the AH to see. If it is you can farm it quickly and make a quick bit O' gold. Farming Locations: My favorite place to farm medium hides is in the pig pit north of Bree-town. The other of my favorite spots is in the wolf dens in the Midgewater Pass.

There are tons of wolves there that will give you a good supply. Sturdy Hide I used to make a good amount of gold off of sturdy hides. It's easy to farm when you're in your mid 40's of level since most of the mobs are easy kills. Thread: Hide Farming Areas. Advanced Search. Sep 04 , AM 1. Join Date Feb Posts 3. Hide Farming Areas Anyone know the best places to farm light medium sturdy pristine and exceptional hides so i dont end up spending 4 hours for hides. Gothmog:What of the wizard? Witch King: I will break him Dagahad Level 50 Captain.

Reply With Quote. Sep 04 , AM 2. Join Date Apr Posts Re: Hide Farming Areas Drauglad is the place for pristine. Sarnur isn't bad for exceptional. Sep 04 , AM 3. Join Date Feb Posts Re: Hide Farming Areas Medium from the area around sawtooth with the howling and lurking yellowfangs. Sep 04 , AM 4. Join Date Mar Posts Pristine hide - Cave claws in Maethad, south of Gorothlad, in Angmar.

There's an area with nothing but static spawns of cave claws. Exceptional hide - it was Isendeep if the Freeps have control but it's still dangerous because creeps still go in after gold farmers. I would say Sarnur now is the 2nd best if you don't want to risk it in Isendeep.

Sep 04 , PM 5. Join Date Apr Posts 1, Couple corpses spawn in the area, too, so you can get some extra junk to sell while farming hides Sturdy - around Orthrikar you'll find lynx and bear; the lynx are easy to kill and have a good drop rate for sturdy hide. I prefer this location to the warg den cited by the previous poster since you aren't going to be repeatedly wounded or filled with dread due to wolf howl like you are with the wargs.

Pristine - I like the area boars just North of Aughaire. Exceptional - Definitely go with with Sarnur. Spawns are really predictable. Sep 04 , PM 6. Re: Hide Farming Areas. Originally Posted by gtechie. Light Hide - Wolves den in Combe Medium Hide - Bears in Old Forest, follow the river that runs through the old forest all the way to the west till it ends.