Questing Guides Index

A guide to Questing in Middle Earth

This is a guide to Questing in Middle-Earth. I hope that you find it useful - whilst levelling characters through LOTRO I have found that I often wish that there was a guide which would stop me turning in quests just to find out that the follow up of Quest A is actually right where I just went for Quest B.  This guide suggests a sensible order to do quests in and groups up quests in the same location to minimise the amount of time you spend running around from Point A to Point B.

This guide will take you through the same zones as the Epic quests where it is practical to do so.  Where it is not (usually because the zone through which the Epic passes is not the most efficient place to level) I will include a short guide to the Epic only.

Volume 1: Eregion

There are 4 starter zones, one for each race which cover from level 5-15 (levels 1-5 are covered by the introduction to the game which is so simple a guide seems pointless!)

• Men (1-15)
• Elves (1-13) 
• Dwarves (Coming Soon)
• Elves & Dwarves (13-15)
• Hobbits (Coming Soon)

After this the zones are the same for all races and an efficient levelling path can be found by following the guides below:

• Levels 15-20 Book 1 & Bree-Land
• Levels 20-30 Book 2 & The Lone Lands
• Levels 30-36 Evendim
• Level 36 Book 3
• Levels 36-39 Evendim
• Levels 39-40 Annuminas
• Level 40 Book 4

Levels 40-50 are probably the most awkward to level through. They are covered by 4 different zones (Angmar, Forochel, Misty Mountains and Eregion).  For a VIP member, it's no problem to visit all those zones (although I've skipped Eregion as you will level just fine without it) but for a Free/VIP player it takes a lot of TP to unlock the areas.

If you're Free / VIP I suggest buying Angmar first and then Forochel and skipping the other two zones entirely. If you can only afford one then I suggest taking Forochel as it will provide quests for the higher levels when you need more xp per level, be aware that if you only buy one quest pack you are going to need to get a lot of XP from Skirmishes etc - I strongly advise getting both Angmar & Forochel if you possibly can.

• Levels 40-42 Book 5 & The Central Misty Mountains (or just Book 5 without the Misty Mountains)
• Level 42-44 Book 6 & Western Angmar
• Level 44-46 Southern Forochel
• Level 46-47 Book 7 & Eastern Angmar
• Level 47-49 Northern Forochel
• Level 49 Book 8: The Scourge of the North

Optional Interludes - very inefficient use of TP, but if you happen to have the packs the quests are quite interesting:

• Level 47 - Misty Mountains - High Pass
• Level 49-50 Misty Mountains - Goblin Town (incomplete)

At Level 50 you can either head straight to Moria or complete the rest of the epic quests in Book 1 - I recommend doing the Epics at least once for the story line but since they consist mainly of repeatedly running from place to place you may like to skip over them on further playthroughs. Note that you will get another 20TP for completing books 9-15 and will gain about half a level of xp.

• Level 50 Book 9: The Shores of Evendim
• Level 50 Book 10: The City of Kings

Volume 2: Moria

At level 50 the mines of Moria beckon. Moria is a lovely place to quest since it was revamped in 2012 - the quests flow logically and there's very little doubling-back to turn things in.

• Level 50 Foreword
• Level 50 Book 1: The Walls of Moria
• Level 51-52: Moria - The Great Delving
• Level 52-53: Moria - The Silvertine Lodes
• Level 53-54: Moria - Durin's Way
• Level 54-55: Moria - Waterworks
• Level 55-56: Moria - Zelem Melek (incomplete)