Strayed Captain

So I was doing the Epic quests with Lamvaethor, my level 49 Rune-keeper. I’m in Angmar and currently on Book 9. The instances of previous books are fairly easy with Inspired Greatness and even if the NPC takes some beating I can simply pop the Master of Writs, cast some Writs of Healing and continue DPSing. The skill must have been designed with suicidal NPCs in mind.

Now to the darkness: it’s nothing horrible, I’ve just been doing chapter 1 of book 8.

The quest used to send players into Carn Dûm to recover pieces of Golodir’s armour. With the soloification the quest now requires player to visit three of the eight towers of Barad Gúlaran in Nan Gurth. While doing the quest yesterday it occurred to me how fortunate I was never to visit Nan Gurth during night-time. I’d like to think of myself as a skilled navigator and I certainly don’t have any problem reaching most of the in-game locations simply by foot but navigating in this kind of darkness is beyond me. Despite that I have found the first two towers (Hill-men and Goblins) though I have died leaving the second. Finding myself revived in Myrkworth I proceeded to find the third tower (Dourhands). After nearly running into an Angmarim Elite Master and likely missing several others I simply did not see I found the tower and recovered the third piece. (During the quests you enter the towers and kill emissaries inside, IG automatically kicks in so the fights aren’t hard).

The pieces of Golodir’s armour (a sword, chain-mail and a shield) are damaged and so you need to get them repaired. I proceeded further with the quests only to find out that I’m stuck with the horrible darkness of Nan Gurth. Fortunately I only had to visit Esteldín and Rivendell and didn’t have to traverse any kind of wilderness. Still spooky though:

Esteldín

Rivendell

After the Sun rose I could only see a faint fog but I could tell the bug was still there. Nonetheless I have logged off by that time and restart will surely fix it. Now I’m only wondering what to do further. I will probably finish book 9 but I have done the rest recently with my Warden and I don’t want to repeat it so soon. I will probably start Volume II and head down to Eregion though I’m not in a hurry to enter Moria.

And yes that’s all