LOTRO: Beer fight!

//Skirmish System

I've been playing LOTRO a lot more now since they had the Mirkwood expansion update. So far it's been fun but the Skirmish system is slightly difficult to solo if you are a squishy. First off, the Skirmish system are instances where you can either do as a party, raid or solo. So far there are 3 that are offered for my current level, which involves protecting weathertop, a dwarf fortress and a small hobbit town called truckburogh in the shire. The enemies are always random except for the last boss and there are hidden extra bosses in the instances that you can take on for extra loot.
The rewards are pretty niffty. It's a bit like Warhammer where you collect medallions to trade for gear/weapons, but you can purchase skills for your NPC solider, crafting items and reputation tokens.

Only issue that I have encountered so far is the NPC solider you control gets stuck everywhere and he sometimes ignores me when I'm getting pummeled to death. And the death penalty is pretty steep too. The more you die, the more they deduct skirmish tokens from your loot table. It's not easy mode like other games, that's for sure.

//Fly you fools!!!

For the Yule festival, there is a new event called the Beer Fight. If you go to Thorin's Hall and under the throne room, you will find a party area. The beer fight starts every 10 min. You flag the quest from the Dwarf then as soon as the event starts, make sure you quickslot the Club weapon given to you. The objective is to interact with the party keg that randomly spawns on any of the 3 tables and hit people that get in your way. The club weapon knocks people back a good 5 feet and it's called "Fly you fools!". It's pretty hilarious to watch and it was a lot of fun. The quest is repeatable too and you get yule tokens and a "Party Keg" replica to put inside your house.