The Third String Fellowship

[crown_of_antlers]

Now that it's known that the license for LOTRO has been renewed and that the game is not about to be shut down, I've created a third group of characters to multi-box. I'll be referring to them as "the Third String". They are Halasinda (a warden), Rodmond (a hunter), and Wilena (a minstrel).



Class-wise they are identical to my Second String but consist entirely of hobbits.

I mentally roleplay them as cousins who got a taste for adventure after they were briefly kidnapped by brigands (Strider once again saved the day. I wonder if he gets tired of rescuing kidnapped humans and hobbits). They just finished earning tokens (and LOTRO points) at Frostbluff and are now ready to start some serious adventuring.

Comments

[casimirian]

Awesome! How does multi-boxing work?

[crown_of_antlers]

It depends on a person's set up. I have more than one monitor on my desk. After launching my three accounts, I put my two followers screens in the smaller monitor and have the leader's account on my larger one. I play in "full-screen windowed" mode, making it easy to go from one screen to the other.

I also make sure to have "target assist" checked so when the followers are targeted on the leader, they will attack anything that the leader attacks.

[casimirian]

Interesting! Does this help with questing at all, or is this only meant to level up different accounts faster?

[crown_of_antlers]

I do it more for roleplaying reasons and imagine them as a group of friends adventuring together. All of the characters have a Stone of the Tortoise to disable leveling for as long as possible.