It’s very late at night, and I should be in bed. The problem, you see, is that Siege of Mirkwood launched last night, and I’ve had the fortune of playing skirmishes all night. Well, most of the night. I did get a chance to create a couple of alts. Suprise! I bet you didn’t think that was going to happen.

Back to the topic of the Siege of Mirkwood launch. I think that Turbine did a fantastic job of launching the expansion. Although there where some issues on Brandywine and Landroval, I didn’t here of anything on any other servers.

As far as skirmishes go, I have to say that they are a blast! We ran through several of them this evening with a smaller group, just three of us, and we enjoyed it tremendously. Although we had a little difficulty in getting everything sorted out as far as Soldier traits go, and Bill kept on having issues with his soldier’s health bar disappearing, we still enjoyed ourselves.

A couple of tips:

1) Realize that there is a quest that you need to do before you have a chance to get into skirmishes. After you finish that quest (which is a pain in the but!), you complete 2 tutorial skirmishes, and then you’re free to create/join any skirmishes available to characters of your level. The quest that you have to finish involves collecting 10 “War Orders” and 1 “Target List” from mobs (Goblins, Orc, Trolls, Warg-Riders, etc)  that are approximately your level. These do not drop on every kill. Kind of a pain to have to do this before you enter the skirmishes. Skirmish Tutorials = Good, Quest = Boring and Frustrating.

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