Beginner tips for Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

Before you dive head-first into Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, you’ll need to be sure that you’re aware of some tips that’ll enhance your gaming experience.

Here are some great beginner tips for Return to Moria.

Tips for Return to Moria

Below are a group of the best tips you’ll need to know before you start your Moria adventure.

Always leave your camp prepared

Moria is dangerous. There are many threats out to get you, be it a pack of wolves, a band of goblins, or even despair and starvation. Before leaving on an expedition, make sure you’ve got this checklist covered:

• Food
• Pickaxe
• Weapon
• Backup weapon
• Shield
• Torch
• Wood (20)
• Hammer
• Stone (20)
• Armor

If you do not have this checklist complete, then you’ll struggle to do anything you want to do in an expedition. You’ll need wood to build platforms and you’ll need stone to restore statues and monuments. The rest is obvious.

Make sure all tools and armor are fully repaired so they won’t break on you mid-battle. You can’t repair on the field, so make sure to have a backup.

As darkness and hunger can kill you, having food and exploring during the day is a must if you want a fruitful and extensive exploration. Short trips in the dark and cold are fine, but you may struggle if you get into a lot of fights.

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Brush up on your battle techniques

Utilizing the right battle techniques can save you during a siege or in a fight outside in Moria. Before long, you’ll get your hands on a shield and a weapon. Making use of the following fighting moves will ensure that you dominate your enemies:

• Attack combo – Quickly tapping the attack button will engage you in a three-hit combo, with the final hit doing more damage. Note that the initial swing takes longer than the following swings, so you need to make sure you’ve got enough time to initiate it.
• Charged attack – Quickly charging the attack button allows you to charge your attack, allowing it to deal much more damage. I generally exclusively use charged attacks, as they quickly deal so much more damage.
• Block – Blocking with your shield or your weapon blocks all damage from enemies, and when you’re not swinging your weapon, you should be blocking.
• Bash/kick – When blocking, you can attack to deliver a special hit. If you are without a shield, this will result in a kick that stuns an enemy. With a shield, this results in a bash that will have you charging forward. Both are useful, and you should incorporate this into your attacks to alleviate pressure from numerous foes.
• Parry – If you perfectly time your block with a shield, you can stagger the enemy. This will still block all damage.

Making sure you’ve mastered combat will save your life on many occasions. I typically rely on the bash and charged attacks to get me through them in a swift manner.

Note that some weapons have a special effect with the charged attack, making it even more viable.

When attacking, you can lock on to enemies. Click the scroll button on your mouse to lock on to an enemy, ensuring that your hits won’t miss. This can be very helpful if you’re having a hard time actually connecting with your target. It is less useful in crowds, however.

Set up smaller camps

You don’t just have to settle for the first camp that you come across. To make travel and exploration more convenient, you can build a Camp Hearth or a Stone Heath anywhere you like. This will create a zone that allows you to build around it, so you can store food, items, materials, and even a bedroll so you don’t have to keep venturing back and forth between your camp and your mining spots.

This will make Moria safer for you, and much more convenient.

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Make sure to restore Moria

You will see toppled monuments and statues toppled along your journey. Make sure to keep at least 20 stones with you wherever you go to rebuild these legendary sites. This will grant you with a buff and could reward you with crafting recipes and treasure. Certain monuments can be inspiring to your Dwarf, making them well worth the small costs.

Never go AFK

Even when you pause the game on a world you’ve loaded offline, pausing the game doesn’t actually pause the game.

If you pause and do something else, chances are you’ll either get sieged or some enemies will pick a fight with you. If you’re wearing armor, you’ll have to repair it again and if you were sieged, then you’ll have to rebuild your stuff.

For this reason, whenever you’re about to leave – even for five minutes, just leave the world. It’s quick and easy to jump in and out of worlds in Return to Moria, and everything is automatically saved.

Don’t leave food out!

One neat feature of Return to Morai is being able to cook food for you and your friends to enjoy. Be careful with your portions, however, as if they’re left out for too long they’ll spoil.

You can’t take cooked food with you into Moria, which makes sense, which means that if all the food isn’t eaten before you leave, it’ll just go bad. If you’re playing by yourself, don’t cook more than two portions for simple meals, and don’t cook more than one for more complex meals.

Remember that your Dwarf will be hungry when they awake, so preparing a meal before setting off to bed is a more efficient way to run things.

I hope this has served you well, and that you’ll be much more prepared for your time in the deep, dark depths of Moria.

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