Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-33763020-20180101200418/@comment-33763020-20180103144149

Glflegolas wrote:

Barangolo wrote:

Glflegolas wrote: I personally play in Gondor mostly, but I have a forward base in the Grey Mountains. The views there are great, and there's not much to think about most of the time.

However, if you want more looting and adventure, maybe the Trollshaws would be a better bet. Try to settle in a clearing or on top of a mountain if you can, as that will make it easier to see visiting traders. There's lots of invasions and structures to loot in the nearby Lone-lands (but even the Rhudaur Castles in the Trollshaws have some good stuff), and you can always head down to The Angle if you need a village. Weather should also be OK, and you should be able to farm at the lower elevations.

Glflegolas (admin) Send a Messenger  12:51, January 2, 2018 (UTC) Will have a look at the Trollshaws as well, thanks. Trolls have more interesting loot than regular orcs I guess, though I wonder if any NPC drops beat the mystery webs regarding loot content. If I want to accumulate as much mithril as possible, what would you recommend in terms of enemy NPC's?

Barrow-wights would be the ones to kill if you want Mithril, you can also loot the barrows. Trolls drop all kinds of loot from animals, i.e. venison, leather, porkchops, etc. You might also want to check out Troll Hoards, found in caves throughout the Trollshaws, as they have some pretty good stuff.

Glflegolas (admin) Send a Messenger  12:16, January 3, 2018 (UTC) Excellent tip, thanks! Indeed the barrows gave me my first mithril helm and leggings if I recall well and constant nuggets, I just stopped looting when I considered that the barrows are finite in spawning and the fun will stop once I looted all of them. But you are right in that the wights spawn endlessly, so I guess a local base is a good idea for mithril farming :).

Most ideal would be if the Blessed modifier could apply to bows or (special) arrows, as this increases good loot odds and arming my troops with it could increase total loot, as currently I would have to slay them by sword or pike, which are less well wielded by hired troops than bows. Hmm, coming to think of it, I think I'll equip hired troops with Blessed pikes and put them behind 1-block openings so they can slay the Wights as well and make 4-block high corridors to lure them to a central point :).

The Hoards I was not aware of (except in the book of course), so that's a great idea!

I believe pyramids have mithril as well, but that's a much longer search in the desert, so the Barrow-downs is the go-to place for mithril it seems. I don't recall the Rohan barrows to have spawned any but I could be wrong.

Actually, this opens up a whole list of destinations, foremost Utumno: I found a lot of mithril nuggets there and Utumno armour is excellent of course. Travelling back home is a pain though and night vision has a cost.

But I'm drifting away now from my original concept of where to found a base, which is different than destinations to explore for mithril and other good loot :). It's the combination of the two (Location and Loot) that is challenging, because base location becomes irrelevant if I am going to be fasttravelling to the best loot areas anyway. The Barrow-downs are not a happy place to put my main base, despite great loot.