FAQ

What are the dye settings for the appearance images?

All armour and outfit appearances have been grabbed with standard colors. Adjustable dye settings for appearance images is not planned. The section is primarily about browsing the items and examining the stats on them.

Why are some of the class trainers missing in certain hubs?

The images for the class trainers is, like most other images, obtained from game screenshots. Turbine made is so that you can only view the goods from the class trainer that matches your own class. It does make sense so I don’t blame them. However, I only have two characters at level cap (a Warden and a Rune-keeper) so these are the only two characters I can cover myself.

Can I link directly to a specific barterer or even an item?

Absolutely. You can add parameters to the URL and you may link from blogs, forums, etc. Any zone page supports the following parameters:

hub=<number>

Can be 0 and up to the maximum number of hubs in the zone page.

npc=<number>

Can be 0 and up to the maximum number of vendors in the current hub.

item=<number> – or – item=<name>

If a number is used, it can be 0 and up to the maximum number of item rows in the current barterer list. You can also state the name of the item, which is usually safer (in case the list of items changes after a patch). More about this below.

The name must be condensed and without special characters, but it can be a partial name. If several items match the partial name, the first occurrence will be selected.

mapfold=<boolean>

Set to true and the zone page will load with minimized controls.

By far the easiest way to produce a working link is simply to use the search page. Suppose you want to make a link where the “smokey black steed” is automatically shown for someone. Here’s how you go about creating this link:

1. Search for “smokey black steed” in the search page.
2. Browse to find the result box with the item (in this case it will probably be the first one).
3. Click the red vendor name link. The zone page will show up and reveal the item, just like you want your link to do.
4. If you are lazy (or the link is relatively temporary) you can just copy the URL address and use this as a link to the item:

http://chordian.net/lotro/barterers.php?zone=mirkwood&hub=6&npc=4&item=9

If the link is supposed to be permanent (e.g. as part of a guide) you’ll probably want to adapt the item parameter to use a name instead of a number. The reason for this is that the items in the barterer list could be changed after a patch. By using an item name this wouldn’t matter because the zone page would just select the item wherever it might be in the list.

1. While in the zone page looking at the item in the list, click some other irrelevant item row.
2. Now hover your mouse on the “smokey black steed” item row in the list. You web browser should show the link to the item image, typically in a status bar field.
3. The name you need from the image file name is the part after the last underscore character. In this case it’s “smokeyblacksteed”.
4. Replace the number after the item parameter with this name. The URL now looks like this:

http://chordian.net/lotro/barterers.php?zone=mirkwood&hub=6&npc=4&item=smokeyblacksteed

As mentioned earlier, you can also use a partial name. The following would also work because the “Smokey Black Steed” item is the only one that contains the word “Black” in it:

http://chordian.net/lotro/barterers.php?zone=mirkwood&hub=6&npc=4&item=black

As you can probably imagine, it’s riskier. If the barterer receives a “Black Potion of Überness” in a later patch, that new item row will be selected instead as you click the link.

Why is the skirmish camp hub not up to date?

After the update for Volume 3, Book 1, I decided not to update this hub anymore. There are several reasons for this:

• The section was originally made for two reasons; to make browsing easier (no riding around in zones to find barterers) and to circumvent the blocked faction lists (no waiting until you have reached enough reputation). Skirmish camps, however, are available in several zones, all vendors are close together, and none of them are blocked after having done the skirmish tutorial. In other words, checking out skirmish camps inside the game is already pretty easy.
• The skirmish camps have enormous amounts of data, much more than the other zones combined. Updating it all is a humongous task and takes at least a week of hard work, if not more.
• You can see skirmish soldier cosmetics at Darzil’s LoTRO Crafting Guide and Lorebook Skirmish Guides.

Why can’t I click rows in the bottom of a list without zapping back to the top?

This only happened in Google Chrome and was caused by a bug in the WebKit code. Please make sure your Google Chrome browser is updated to version 11.0.696.57 or later and the problem should go away.