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.

Help protect the town of Archet from the forces of the Dark Lord.