No more will you have to find others, create a party, wait until the mob is untapped, and then take your turn in the long line of people who want to kill the mob(s). Whether or not you have accepted the quest, you will be able to fight the Warband regardless of your party status. Wait! What? A special giftbox? Yes, we’ll get to that in a moment.
This quest will be repeatable daily and will grant you rewards but also a special giftbox. As you ride to the scene, you will have the chance to accept a Warband quest.
When you get in the vicinity of a Warband, your map and mini-map will update with a new map note, letting you know that there is a Warband nearby. They will patrol long distances across all of Rohan. It can range from a pack of Warg-riders to an angry troll stomping through the landscape. There is no restriction to how many mobs will be in a Warband or what type of mob it will be. With Warbands, we aim to try and achieve this. I would much rather feel like I had a chance, or if I saw someone nearby trying to engage I could join in and fight too. I’ve either tried and failed or avoided it like the plague, knowing I would be a bug on its windshield. So many times, I, as a player, have wanted to kill that random spawn. Also, these mobs have often been so highly statted in the past that you can’t kill them without the help of 20 of your closest guild-mates. However, usually the rewards for killing these mobs are iffy at best and the race to spawn camp or kill steal makes them no fun. Any seasoned MMO player has felt the earth shake as a large raid-level world mob is storming the countryside or has found that rare monster in LOTRO who with the help of some friends or strangers, you defeated.
Generally they serve as rare mobs or spoilers that you need to stay far away from. In The Lord of the Rings Online and other MMOs, world mobs have been a pretty constant thing. Gather friends or passing strangers and fight these beasts solo or together. A pack of Easterlings or a man and his Crebain pets, these long-ranging patrols will be throughout Rohan, ready to spoil your day or fill your bags with spoils. With danger imminent, do you engage or flee? Or do you gather some nearby heroes to help? We wanted to ride over the distant hill only to find a pack of Warg-riders cresting the hill across from us. One of the moments we wanted to capture was the idea of roving packs of monsters travelling across the massive rolling plains of Rohan. We knew also that we had to do it right and look at as many aspects of our game as possible. With the Riders of Rohan, we knew that we had a major update that you have been anticipating for quite some time. Riders of Rohan Developer Diary: Warbands
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