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Lore-master macros

Crowd control, debuffs and power restoration, with a pet drawn from the creatures of Middle-earth.

22 macros

  • /alias add bree /travel Bree-land
    /alias add ered /travel Ered Luin

    Hunters and everyone with a map skill accumulate dozens of travel destinations. An alias per destination is far faster than opening the skill panel every time.

  • /assist

    Picks up whatever your target is attacking. Put it on a quickslot and a fellowship can stay on one mob without anyone calling targets aloud.

  • /alias add home /travel Bree

    Gives a short name to a command you type often. Afterwards, typing /home runs whatever you attached. Aliases are per-character and save automatically when you log out cleanly.

  • /shortcut 62 /salute

    Drops an emote onto a bar slot. Roleplay kinships build whole bars of these, and it is the most common everyday use of the shortcut command.

  • /music

    Switches your character into music mode so you can play an instrument. LOTRO has a full ABC notation music system, and this is the first step into it.

  • /f Pulling now
    /raid Stack behind the boss

    Posts to your fellowship with /f or the whole raid with /raid. Raid leaders live in /raid, and knowing the short forms saves a click on every call.

  • /follow

    Auto-follows whoever you have selected until you move. Middle-earth is very large and travelling behind someone who knows the route is a real convenience.

  • /alias list

    Prints every alias on the current character. The quickest way to work out why a command is doing something unexpected.

  • Pet Commands

    Lore-master

    /pet attack
    /pet follow
    /pet passive

    The pet states a Lore-master or Captain needs. Putting these on quickslots matters because the default pet bar is small and easy to lose behind other windows.

  • /play songname.abc

    Plays a notated tune from your Music folder. Kinship bands coordinate whole concerts this way, with each player running the same command on a different part.

  • /playlist songname.abc sync

    Synchronises playback across a fellowship so a band starts together. Without the sync flag every player starts on their own keypress and the result is chaos.

  • /k Anyone up for a skirmish?

    Posts to your kinship. /k is the short form, and it is the channel most LOTRO players actually spend their evenings in.

  • /shortcut 61 /follow

    Places any chat command onto a numbered quickslot so it can be clicked or key-bound like a skill. Slots run left to right and then down through your bars, starting at 1.

  • /alias remove home

    Deletes an alias you no longer want. Worth knowing because aliases persist across sessions and an old one can quietly shadow a real command.

  • /roll

    Rolls a random number and announces it to your fellowship. Still how most kinships split a rare drop that nobody wants to argue over.

  • /ui layout save raid
    /ui layout load raid

    Writes your current interface arrangement to a named layout and loads it back. Useful for keeping separate layouts for raiding and for questing.

  • /showquickslotbar 3

    Shows or hides a numbered quickslot bar. Wardens and Beornings, who need very different bars in different stances, get the most out of this.

  • /target Bogbereth

    Targets a specific creature or player by name. Partial names work, which makes it the fastest way to pick a named enemy out of a crowded landscape.

  • /combat logging on

    Turns on the detailed combat log that external parsers read. Off by default, and the first thing to check when your parse shows nothing.

  • /stuck

    Frees a character caught in terrain by moving you to the nearest safe point. LOTRO has a great deal of complicated geometry and this comes up more than you might expect.

  • /tell Playername Invite when you have a slot
    /r On my way

    Sends a private message, and /r replies to whoever contacted you last. Both accept partial names with tab completion.

Other LOTRO classes

Every class shares the same macro syntax, so a good idea usually ports across.