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Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, The Road to Mordor

We here at Massively have been avidly covering Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online since we launched back in late 2007. And now, we’re dedicating a new weekly column, The Road to Mordor, to cover the many facets of the game including the just announced Volume 3, Book 1 content update. Every Friday, we will be exploring topics and writing guides for both leveling players and end game raiders, crafters and role-players, info-hounds and casual browsers.

After the jump, we’ve listed links to official guides, fansites, podcasts, blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages and more. This community guide will be updated as new resources become available.

But before we get into it, also want to help answer any questions you have about the game. Wondering what are the best legacies for Champion Second Age weapons? The lore behind Dol Guldur? Which Skirmish nets the most marks per hour? List your question in the comments below and in a couple of weeks, we’ll round up the best ones and answer them.

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The Road to Mordor: Community guide to Lord of the Rings Online originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Sci-fi, Events, in-game, Launches, MMORTS, Global Agenda

Readers, we’re contacting you through an encrypted channel right now to deliver some very important information. Agent Schuster and Agent Brennan will be on deck for the launch of Global Agenda, ready to fight the Commonwealth at your side.

Come Monday, log into Global Agenda and team up with Sera and Shawn to fight the good fight in both PvP and PvE strike teams. The dossier is still sealed on this mission, but keep an eye on this post and the encrypted T-Feed (@massively on Twitter) for the full information on how to link up with Apoc and Archangel on the day of the launch.

We’ll announce our play times and character names come Monday by updating this post, so just place a bookmark here and get your game all patched up. Take advantage of the early start while you’re at it and get your characters leveled up for launch. This way our enemies will never know what hit them.

Spy with the best: Join Massively for Global Agenda’s launch! originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Within a very short time, though, I was completely blown away. Britty’s skill for animation is very clear, and her characters are immediately accessible. She’s definitely got some amazing chops. She mentioned in her excerpt that she didn’t include any voice acting or lip synching for Happy Anniversary because she didn’t feel the story required it. I absolutely agree with her. Between the power of the imagery and her perfect timing with the music, she absolutely conveyed the narrative without any additional voices or character singing.

The video has a fairly harsh ending, which I think is appropriate given the context of the video. It’s actually a little more raw and gritty than what I was expecting to have happen, so it wins a few style points in my book. This was a great video, and I’m totally going to check out Britty’s other work in the future.

Interested in the wide world of machinima? We have new movies every weekday here on WoW Moviewatch! Have suggestions for machinima we ought to feature? Toss us an e-mail at machinima AT wow DOT com.

Filed under: WoW Moviewatch

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The Care and Feeding of Warriors is WoW.com’s weekly column for warriors. This week, we jump on the bandwagon. Matthew Rossi tends to miss jumping on bandwagons, fall, and hurt himself, followed by a lot of swearing. It’s actually somewhat entertaining to watch.

There is, ultimately, only one thing warriors actually do.

We hit things. We don’t poison them, we don’t electrocute them, we don’t burn them or freeze them or hit them with diseases or the Holy Light. We just hit them.We don’t turn into anything, we don’t stand back and let an animal hit things for us, we just plain hit things. We hit things and get angry, and we get hit and get angry about that, too.

That being said, warriors can specialize in one of two ways to hit things. One is to heft a big two handed weapon (or two of them) and hit things to death. The other is to put on the heaviest armor we can find, strap a car door to our arm, and get things to hit us as hard as they can, and then hit them back.

This week, we look at protection, the “Is that all you got? Is that it? COME ON!” spec.

For starters, what is protection, you may ask? Well, read the above. Now we’ll go into more detail. The warrior protection spec is the oldest actively used tanking spec in World of Warcraft. Tanking is the role in a five man, 10 man raid, or 25 man raid (and originally 10, 15, 20 and 40 man raids as well) where one player deliberately attempts to hold a mob or multiple mobs attention so that they do not attack the healers and/or damage dealing players. To do this, tanks need to work on two separate but equally important aspects of play.

1. They must hold aggro. Aggro (derived from aggression) is the hostile attention of the mob or mobs in question.
2. They must survive the damage inflicted on them by the mob or mobs long enough to be healed.
3. No, really, you need to do these two things. Otherwise, you’re not tanking, you’re just a greasy stain on something’s fist and/or other means of killenating.
4. Yes, I said killenating. What, you’re too good for made-up words?

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Filed under: Warrior, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors

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