What is a LOTRO MileStone?

A LOTRO Milestone is not the first time you achieve a goal, but instead a system that offers you limited teleportation ability within LOTRO. With the maps in LOTRO so large, it can be a bind to trek all the way along and then all the way back, although there are stables available to allow you to travel faster - I've yet to use a horse myself, because I'm quite stingy with my money and prefer to keep it to buy stuff and adjust my traits. Not rich enough to fritter it away on public transportation.

Here's how milestones work in LOTRO. You first find a MileStone - they are around settlements normally and they are by the roadside. They should have the word "Milestone" hovering above them. Simply right click and the dialog box will pop up asking if you want to set your map to be attuned to this milestone.

When you want to teleport back, you just open up your inventory and use the Map Home that you will have been given when you came out for the introductory quests. Using the map takes a couple of seconds, so don't bother thinking you can just whip it out when you are getting your arse kicked by some goblins. The use will get interrupted by combat, and you'll probably just get killed anyway - if things are looking grim in a fight, just run instead.

Here's why milestones are so limited in LOTRO – you can only have one milestone enabled at any one time which means you can only use the map home to go to a single place. You can’t use it to move between one place and another and then go back again.

I actually find this quite annoying because having to run from one end of the map to another is actually rather boring, especially if all I want to do is go and find a Training Hall for example. However, if LOTRO allowed you to simply jet around the map without having to run anywhere, I guess you would miss out on meeting other players and it would ruin the illusion of the continuous world in which LOTRO is set. While teleportation is perfectly acceptable in single player RPGs, it doesn’t work in MMOs so I guess we all just have to get used to getting on our horses.

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