Allied channels + legendary wotv + activities

Besides the kinchat we’ve other way to get in touch with each other and allied kins. There currently also is a small kingroup on the legendary server. FB group or “legendary night” is the best time/place for an invite on that side.

Wotv
Teamspeak – TS: teamspeak3.i3d.net:10028 / PW: critter
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/107814316183
Website – http://exploremiddleearth.com
Discord – it’s somewhere

Allied kins – Copy or type in the below lines

Everlasting hope T1/grouping/events – /joinchannel Unified bond
MSA T2+ focussed – /joinchannel msa merc

Activities
Keep an aye out on the message of the day and fb group for most organised nights and events. Or let us know what you’d like to see us do. For Now or short term, see kinnies or allied channels as well.

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Wotv and the legendary server

Lots of questions asked, but also lots of questions unanswered still. We’ve settled on creating a “creep” like kin for our kinnies that would like to play with each other on the Legendary server. Kinnies are curious, but also noone has really committed to the server full time. The current officer team is on Evernight and will focus on there. Events will remain to be run on schedule as it’s now.

Launch plan Thursday to weekend
Bearlee will start a kin with (currently) the same name.
Everyone is free to join the kin
Officer/invite position open for all (current members)
Play, quest together with kinnies
All resources available such as website and teamspeak to non-EN kinnies

Unified/everlasting hope
Our allies are also playing on the server with a small detachment. For launch we’ve decided to not make a shared kin. Unified channel and runs are offcourse encouraged. They will likely have a larger base and 1 active officer on there. Options will remain open for later.

Post-launch
Depending on interest – a regular event such a creepnight. ViP only is a limitation for this.
Depending on interest – 3 and 6-man instances or epic story groups.
Low maintenance. Officers will check in, but not a continous presence or recruitment effort.
If a person really wants to settle on the server it’s in his best interest to use a pure legendary server kin.

New officers and Lottery results

Some may have already seen them in the wild. With the new update and changes in playtime we’ve decided to welcome a few new officers to the team.

  • Byuna as a new officer
  • Riga as a returning officer
  • Adye changed officer to Ferynda

We’d wish them the best of luck and hope you give a warm welcome as well. This should allow us to help the kin and game with more online time and activities.

Lottery results
On saturday, 15 september we had our back to school weekend with the lottery and games night. Trivia and the moria keg race were finished off as lottery entries we’re settled. Below you’ll find the results with all prizes been mailed this morning.

Main price 666 gold – Menstrial
1 – 440 gold – Adhelis
2 – 330 gold – Jelboy
3 – 220 gold – Riga
4 – 220 gold – Donkerblond
5 – 110 gold Elialin
6 – 110 gold – Johnrond
7 – 110 gold – Olaphyra
8 – 88 gold – 22 Donkerblond
9 – 66 gold – 5 Kallerthien
10 – 66 gold – 23 Olaphyra
11 – 66 gold – 30 Jarolas
Coffee and hope carepackages, Tiberbear, Ormeluva, Lerine, Jelboy, Ryuuken
[50 Small Reputation Acceleration Tomes] Menstrial, Beothrytna, Johnrond, Estenion
[10 Anfalas Scrolls of Empowerment] Stealthborn, Bearlee, Beothrytna, Johnrond, Mechelman
[2 Anfalas Star-lit Crystals] Adhelis, Olaphyra, Olaphyra, Menstrial, Lerine
[2 Sturdy Steel Keys] Kallerthien, Remetlak
18Beothrytna,25Estenion,23Olaphyra,9Mechelman, 26 Jelboy ,21Byuna ,28 Persik,8Cyncliff,16 Adhelis
[Blemished Symbol of the Elder King] Mechelman
[Empowered Abyssal Essence Box] Cyncliff, Elialin, Kallerthien

11th anniversary weekend 20-22 july

On the 20th of July Wisdom of the Valar will have been in existence for 11 years! We’ll celebrate this with the usual Kin Lottery, games night and Kin Auctions. Over the weekend we’ll also have Costume (part of Unified competition) and Screenshot competitions.

  • 20th July – Warsteed Race + Game Night
  • 22nd July – Lottery Draw + Trivia and Keg Race
  • 20th-22nd July – Kin Auctions; find your bargains at an AH near you
  • Costume Contest in Week 4 of Unified competition (20th is Week 2)
  • Screenshot/Caption Contest announced later in the week

To enter the Lottery send an in-game mail with 500s or items in case of f2p to the character ‘Lottovalar’.
Donations for kinnies or Kin Auctions can be send to ‘Quartervalar’ or post them on the weekend of the 20th July at an AH near you.

Any other questions, ask on the forum, Facebook group or an Officer.

New guides for a new website

Looking for class, instance or other lotro information? Don’t look further then the new guide section on our website. Over time we’ll update the pages with trait trees, tactics or advice about all things lotro.

Head over to the menu at the top and click what information you’re looking for. Have a handy guide, tip or comment let us know on the forum or facebook group.

Valentine weekend and contests

Welcome to our next weekend of parties, races and contests.

Valentine race
Join us at 20:30 Cet on the 16th of february for a love-filled (warsteed) race. If you’re there during halloween you will know its a themed track that will lead you across some of the loveliest places of Lotro.
http://exploremiddleearth.com/wordpress/mushraider-master/events/view/164

Lovely Lottery
During the kin gathering and party on the 17th of february we’ll have the live-drawing of our Lovely lottery. To enter the lottery get your tickets beforehand by sending 500 silver to the character Lottovalar.  During the evening we’ll host games, trivia, music and there is the opportunity to spar, be merry and have a nice time with your kinnies.
http://exploremiddleearth.com/wordpress/mushraider-master/events/view/165

We love a good picture
What we also love is a good screenshot. A valentine screenshot competition is open till the 19th of february after which you get to vote for your favourites. There will be two prizes for each theme – a public vote and a jury (well me).
We’ll have 3 themes to enter

  1. I’d love to ….
  2. Lovely views
  3. 10 things i hate about ….

Each theme can have one entry per member with or without a caption. Upload your screenshot to the forum, facebook group or provide a 3rd party link to Bearlee ingame.

Tales of a halloween party + lottery winners

On a stormy weekend a drunken Elf vineyard occupatant blamed the evil “spirit” and send a group of 6 wanders on a race towards the Nines crossing at Buckleberry ferry. Seeking advice from tom bomabdil send them to see the wandering shade in the barrows. The presence they felt was his family returning to Middle-earth. He asked the riders to warn his oathbreakers aunt near Minchams camp and afterwards make their way to Oathbarton to grab their stealthy ghost pup and make their way to the reunion at the haunted burrow.

For the halloween race 6 racers set out across the ghostly track with Bagofpies coming in 1st place with Simrien 2nd. Closely followed by Burglaris,Penbre and Lerine. Toffeecake joined us later in the race. But was making good ground.

The race was just day 1. On the sunday we’ve had our grand yak-fur centered trivia, firework and lottery party at the kinhouse. After some scary empty bugged kinhouse we made it towards the stage for the lottery draw. Without further due ..

  • 500 gold  Elboreth
  • 400 gold Mampi
  • 300 gold Throfro
  • 200 gold Lerine
  • 100 gold Darkarise, Adhelis
  • 75 gold Davtona, Adhelis
  • 50 gold Leonmon, Adhelis
  • Mystery box – Riga, Throfro, Mikkye, Bosef, Xintieja items of choice

The keg race could end at no other place then the haunted burrow ofcourse. A nice gathering of kinnies made their way for a few shots.

Back to school weekend with lottery and chicken run

Wotv is going back to school. On the 8th of september we’ll have a kinparty and lottery. The party will be around 20:30 cet with spars, trivia and music. Around 21 Cet we’ll have the lottery drawing from all the people that had send 500 silver per member to lottovalar for a ticket. Wondering what your number is? Check here for more

On the 9th of septembre we’ll organise a public chicken run going from Sandsons farm to Echad miroble. Ones known as the School and library of the elves of eregion. This will start around 20 Cet and is estimated to take about an hour. Afterwards we might take a field trip to Minas Tirith or Mordor.

During the weekend we’ll posts some items on the kin auctions. And let us know if you can join us on the party or the chicken run

Wotv in 2017 – rough plans for the coming months

Mordor is out, the kin celebrated their 10 year anniversary and we’re all still alive. In this post i’d like to answer some questions i’ve gotten over the past few weeks and some you might not have asked yet.

What kind of activties will we organise ingame?
We organise what is asked, we like and/or what we feel you would like to do. Ettenmoors, instances, races, chickens, parties, deed night etc. Lotro has changed alot of things and (temporarily) removed some activities for us. We’re sure that the ettenmoors will be populated again in the near future, T2 runs are a lot harder now and the need to do specific raids for armour sets isnt there anymore.

Over the next few weeks we’ll continue to offer a mixed schedule for high, low and max level players. Some will be mordor based and others accesible for all. In the mean time, don’t forget to have fun with your kinnies.

Lotteries and kinparties aka Party-weekend
These will be back on a regular schedule. It won’t be one every month. But we’re aiming for a 6-7 week. This will give us the time we need to make them a success without having them be just be another thing.

First one will be at the beginning of september. Followed by the Halloween party in october and the new year week in December. The first weekends theme will be Back to school. Details will follow in the next week, but we’ll have a new lottery, kinauctions, kinhouse party and a Chicken run to Echad Mirobel.

The mordor instance cluster
We do have plans to tackle this new instance cluster as the kin. The raid that will come after it is on our mind as well. We missed the window to really participate in the Throne raid. But this time we’re not rebuilding the kin as it’s released.

Ofcourse is completely dependant on the number of players, gear and classes available at that time. There will be increased attention for it when it will be released, but the kin won’t go full 7 day T2 raid schedule.

Website update – event planner
To prepare for the new instances and raid and to further polish the website we’ve added an event planner to the page. This will be the basis from which we organise our events. Everyone can join the events, but there will be events for which we have a limit to the number of players of classes.

Website update – Unified
At this time the wotv website and Unified are two seperate website. They will be integrated into one event calendar and sign-up. No need to visit multiple websites or miss events cause there was no place in the MotD or it wasnt posted to our facebookgroup.

Website update – overview page
Speaking of not missing events, posts and other information. The website itself has gotten a new look a few weeks ago. It’s build up in a way that each visitor has the information they need in 1 place. Or easily reachable from that page.  Below are the direct links to each part of the website.

recruit.exploremiddleearth.com – Welcome, kin information and website information for new or upcoming members
member.exploremiddleearth.com – Overview of the event calendar, highlighted posts and events and the latest forum posts.
forum.exploremiddleearth.com – Our forum
unified.exploremiddlearth.com – Direct link to the (old) unified website