Any Easy Way To Meet With Friends of a Different Race?

[Shloompy Grampy]

So my friend is an elf, the other a dwarf, and I myself a man. We both have different quests, so how do we play together if we are not compatible in any way? There must be some easier way. Or, if at all, is there any way we can meet up with each other easily, without riding halfway across the continent, only to ride back to our main quests.

[DigitalImpostor]

You can either wait until you've all got the quests that send you to Bree or you can use the stable masters to travel to one of the other starting areas and do the quests there, that is assuming you've finished the Tutorial and Introduction quests which are two-race specific (dwarf and elf do the same Introduction quests and hobbit and man share a different set of Introduction quests).

[frobisher]

Some alternatives:

#1 Duo both areas. Travel to another zone with your character and pick up regional "epic" quest your friend is currently doing. The downside - you have to start from the very first one in a chain, so it requires a bit of patience until you get to the point where you are compatible.

#2 Perspective. The very first area for each race (be it Combe, EL or parts of the Shire) requires very little time when compared to the rest of the game. Closed-off "intro" zone for each race is just laughable. Just... play through. Not going to take much longer than several evenings (if even that long) if you focus on epic. Then you meet @ Bree, as you will be sent there sooner or later.

#3 Meta. Craft your way out of level range of initial zone using materials you pick on the way to speed-up the process, then either speedrun through regional "epic chain" or ignore it altogether along with other obsolete quests. Then you meet @ Bree. Obviously not going to work where "intro" zone is involved, but, seriously, who cares about how "long" intro zone takes.

In short - patience or patience and a bit of meta.

[76561198077869228]

The only quests which are "race depenent" are those in the introduction!

Once you have completed the introducation (at approximately level 7-10), ALL quests are open to all races. In fact, if you are attempting to level without leaving Bree, you MUST do all the quests in all three areas. All F2P players have access to the three areas - Michel Delving, Thorins Hall and West Bree, and can swift travel between them.

On top of leveling, there are all of the vaious Deed quests in the three areas. Granted you may have "out leveled" the particular area and the quest rings have gone from Gold to Gray, but the quests are still available -- they are actually still available to you all the way up to the Level-cap.

There are more "class specific" or "profession specific" quests than "race specific" quests.

Also an explanation of the Fellowship mechanics. When you and your friends are in a Felllowship, you can SHARE QUESTS with each other. In the Quest guid there is a display which shows which of your fellows have the same quest, have completed it, or are not eligible for it. When your fellowship is within a radius (50 meters, I think) of each other, and you click on a particluar quest in your log, and then click "share quest" -- a box will pop-up on each of your companions screens to acccept the quest. Their answes will then be reflect in the quest log. If someone is ineligible for a quest, a message will appear on your own screen to that effect.

[76561198077869228]

BTW, in general, unless you are completely new to MMOs, the Tutiorial and Introduction section should not take more than about 45 minutes maximum. And that is if you kill everything killable!!! (Which is worth doing as you can sell all of the "vendor trash" for coin! - ignore the cooments about keeping the "junk" around for tasks." Tasks don't become relevant till you hit the Lone Lands.)

[oreyos]

You should all go to the Shire (Michel Delving) and start the quests there. That's neutral ground for all of you :-)
The starter areas are fun, although if you run them often enough they become a bit of a drag.
If you go to Bree, you don't have to migrate until around L20, as that is the area where you go after finishing the intro areas for other races than man.

Anyway, find the stables at Frerin's court, Celondim, Michel Delving or Bree town, and pick the fast travel option to the stable you 3 selected to play from.

[Shloompy Grampy]

Thanks so much guys! Frobisher especially! I will certainly try these ideas out. I'm positive we will all be sent to Bree eventually :) Seeing as though I am a Man, and them, Dwarf and Elf.

[Wildmanfrost]

ea race's Prologue is open to the others. you can p/u the other races in their starting town via stable. once to Book 1 you can duo the entire line and local quests.

If you two want you can do both the elf and dwarf prologues.