One tip I’d like to add which while general in nature is especially helpful for Hunters who don’t want to use mods: Hunters eventually accumulate a very large number of travel skills. If you want these skills on your bars where they are convenient they simply won’t all fit along with your combat skills. The excellent mod TravelWindowII can solve this problem but another way is to make use of the character’s alternate skill bar set. If you click on the teeny-tiny little up or down arrows just to the right of the skill button at the bottom-right, that will take you to your alternate skill bar set. (If you have your War Steed you might need to click twice to cycle through the mounted combat skill bar set to get to the alternate skill bar set.) The alternate skill bar set is useful for lots of non-combat things, such as food or emotes. But even non-Hunters can eventually accumulate a lot of travel skills and the alternate skill bar set is a good place to keep them. It is even possible to assign a keybind to avoid the need to click on those ridiculously tiny arrows.
Late here, but Yes!.. Travel Window mod is amazing. set any size and scroll to what you need. For others, there are wheel mods for LM pets and cosmetic, as well:)
The other thing about Blue line is that it removes the to-hit penalty for ranged attacks while moving. Any Hunter (or other class) can fire no-induction/instant ranged attacks while moving but only a Hunter specced Blue doesn’t suffer a to-hit penalty for such attacks. To me, that is even more important than being able to use induction bow attacks while moving. My Treebeard main is a Yellow Hunter that I have set to Deadly (0) mode. I wanted to play him Yellow for the extra challenge but once past about Level 30 he was no more difficult to play than any other Hunter spec. The extra traps provide quite a bit of AoE (although it’s mostly not pew-pew AoE and so requires more planning to use properly) and a ton of crowd control, really nice for handling Deadly mode combat. Yellow also has a number of simple boosts which add to evade and mitigations which make up for the lower direct DPS compared to Red. Yellow is also especially nice when in a group that isn’t demanding that your DPS be absolutely optimal because of the crowd control and other support abilities (such as being able to remove debuffs from your entire group with one skill cast).
I also play as a blue hunter for the same reason, the mobility. I am interested in yellow also because I like the idea of decoys and traps, but one thing that would make it a more fun class is if yellow line could get mobile stealth. Then it would make the trapper feel more like a ranger. It would be neat I think.
I started playing the yellow tree, followed by the red one. I actually prefer red for "normal" difficulty and signature monsters, while i MUCH prefer yellow for elite's (all solo) because yellow gives me much more control AND i'd argue that if you can make monsters walk through your traps you may actually deal more damage than red, all while being super safe.
I have and still play quite a few mmo's.. This game's classes are excellent. I can't say that any of them are bad, heh. Many of them are pretty unique:) Regarding the Yellow line. For my Blue line I utilize it for the bleeds and survivability:) Very good addition to Blue w/red and yellow. Yellow line is also excellent as a pre-setup for dungeons/raids! Setup all the awesome traps, then switch to your main line for maximum carnage!😂 P.S. I'd love to see some higher lvl builds for the different classes; as well, when possible, as things have changed:) edited for P.S.
As a 14year hunter I don't play blue at all I have a red single target build, red AOE build, yellow build for boss 3 in Throne of the Dread Terror and a mitigation build for t3+ content. I trait for high crit and dev magnitude so I don't need to move around because nothing really gets to me and if something does, they are dead with the next shot. I personally don't want to give up the extra range and damage in red line because the damage difference is not a small amount it's over 10% due to blue line being a survival line not a max DPS line. I one shot most targets so running in blue for me makes no sense for my style of game play.
Congrats, TH-cam recommended you to me, must be all those Smite and Gandalf nodding meme videos. Anyways, nice intro and tutorial to a game that i never heard off but this interests me, is this game server still alive?
Yep! Though differnet servers have different populations and most are older so they are "end-game" heavy in terms of population. But it's single player these days so you don't need other peeps to play :)
Nope; the stat differences are miniscule at best considering gear makes up like 99% of the bonuses, so it's mostly about your roleplay preference and/or cosmetic preference!
Nope, it's not a cosmetic set, though I'm wearing it cosmetically. Nightshade Jacket, Scorched Ox-Hide Shoulders, Barnovan Hunter's Cured Gauntlets, Ceremonial Shadow-Stalker Leggings, Boar Clansman Sentry's Boots, and the Swift Wool Cloak of the Traveller.
Whatever you want, literally. They can all solo equally, so it's really just a matter of finding something that is fun that you think matches with his loremaster.
One tip I’d like to add which while general in nature is especially helpful for Hunters who don’t want to use mods: Hunters eventually accumulate a very large number of travel skills. If you want these skills on your bars where they are convenient they simply won’t all fit along with your combat skills. The excellent mod TravelWindowII can solve this problem but another way is to make use of the character’s alternate skill bar set. If you click on the teeny-tiny little up or down arrows just to the right of the skill button at the bottom-right, that will take you to your alternate skill bar set. (If you have your War Steed you might need to click twice to cycle through the mounted combat skill bar set to get to the alternate skill bar set.) The alternate skill bar set is useful for lots of non-combat things, such as food or emotes. But even non-Hunters can eventually accumulate a lot of travel skills and the alternate skill bar set is a good place to keep them. It is even possible to assign a keybind to avoid the need to click on those ridiculously tiny arrows.
Good tip!
Late here, but Yes!.. Travel Window mod is amazing. set any size and scroll to what you need. For others, there are wheel mods for LM pets and cosmetic, as well:)
Is there addons for lotro like in WoW? Like weak auras and stuff
The other thing about Blue line is that it removes the to-hit penalty for ranged attacks while moving. Any Hunter (or other class) can fire no-induction/instant ranged attacks while moving but only a Hunter specced Blue doesn’t suffer a to-hit penalty for such attacks. To me, that is even more important than being able to use induction bow attacks while moving.
My Treebeard main is a Yellow Hunter that I have set to Deadly (0) mode. I wanted to play him Yellow for the extra challenge but once past about Level 30 he was no more difficult to play than any other Hunter spec. The extra traps provide quite a bit of AoE (although it’s mostly not pew-pew AoE and so requires more planning to use properly) and a ton of crowd control, really nice for handling Deadly mode combat. Yellow also has a number of simple boosts which add to evade and mitigations which make up for the lower direct DPS compared to Red. Yellow is also especially nice when in a group that isn’t demanding that your DPS be absolutely optimal because of the crowd control and other support abilities (such as being able to remove debuffs from your entire group with one skill cast).
Interesting!
I also play as a blue hunter for the same reason, the mobility. I am interested in yellow also because I like the idea of decoys and traps, but one thing that would make it a more fun class is if yellow line could get mobile stealth. Then it would make the trapper feel more like a ranger. It would be neat I think.
Plus that way you could have blue line for speed and mobility, red for stationary high crit dps, and yellow for stealth / traps.
I love my blue!
Nice! What server do you play on?
I'm not active atm, but Laurelin and Landrovel@@myjoyinacross6626
@@Renfail Oh ok, I am on Crickhollow.
I started playing the yellow tree, followed by the red one. I actually prefer red for "normal" difficulty and signature monsters, while i MUCH prefer yellow for elite's (all solo) because yellow gives me much more control AND i'd argue that if you can make monsters walk through your traps you may actually deal more damage than red, all while being super safe.
A very interesting approach!
I have and still play quite a few mmo's.. This game's classes are excellent. I can't say that any of them are bad, heh. Many of them are pretty unique:) Regarding the Yellow line. For my Blue line I utilize it for the bleeds and survivability:) Very good addition to Blue w/red and yellow. Yellow line is also excellent as a pre-setup for dungeons/raids! Setup all the awesome traps, then switch to your main line for maximum carnage!😂
P.S. I'd love to see some higher lvl builds for the different classes; as well, when possible, as things have changed:) edited for P.S.
Cheers; my highest levels are in their 90s. I don't know anything about the end-game.
@@Renfail Fair enough, Bud! You'll get there at some point, and when you do, I'm sure more will have changed!😂
As a 14year hunter I don't play blue at all I have a red single target build, red AOE build, yellow build for boss 3 in Throne of the Dread Terror and a mitigation build for t3+ content. I trait for high crit and dev magnitude so I don't need to move around because nothing really gets to me and if something does, they are dead with the next shot. I personally don't want to give up the extra range and damage in red line because the damage difference is not a small amount it's over 10% due to blue line being a survival line not a max DPS line. I one shot most targets so running in blue for me makes no sense for my style of game play.
Lots of fun ways to play!
Congrats, TH-cam recommended you to me, must be all those Smite and Gandalf nodding meme videos. Anyways, nice intro and tutorial to a game that i never heard off but this interests me, is this game server still alive?
Yep! Though differnet servers have different populations and most are older so they are "end-game" heavy in terms of population. But it's single player these days so you don't need other peeps to play :)
Is there large difference if I want to play human instead of elf?
Nope; the stat differences are miniscule at best considering gear makes up like 99% of the bonuses, so it's mostly about your roleplay preference and/or cosmetic preference!
@@Renfail Thank you. 🙂
@@lukasvejsada9913 You are welcome! Enjoy :) (P.S. I have a human hunter, halfling hunter, and elven hunter lol, no I don't have an addiction)
What is this armor set? Is it cosmetic? How to get it?
Nope, it's not a cosmetic set, though I'm wearing it cosmetically. Nightshade Jacket, Scorched Ox-Hide Shoulders, Barnovan Hunter's Cured Gauntlets, Ceremonial Shadow-Stalker Leggings, Boar Clansman Sentry's Boots, and the Swift Wool Cloak of the Traveller.
Which is the best if I’m just playing with my brother? He’s a lore master.
Whatever you want, literally. They can all solo equally, so it's really just a matter of finding something that is fun that you think matches with his loremaster.
how is the rotation?
whatever you want it to be
ultimate guide? where is agility, where is skill combo, where is sets from skirmish camps or elswhere...this is really bellow my expectations.
Go make your own video, and you can have all the things you want in it.