2 Guardians, 1 Lore-Master, 1 Minstrel, 2 Hunters

Group will handle aggro (GRD), Hunters can take on the tanked mobs while Lore-Master handles adds and Minstrel Heals

Champions, Minstrel, Lore-Master and Burglar can make a kick ass fellowship. You will have multiple mobs DPS (CHM), Debuffs (LRM + BRG) and Healing + Power (MNS+LRM).

Eat food if you know you are going to have a big fight or if you are going to solo multiple mobs (if yo know you can) since DPS are low for this class and the fight will be long so the chance to loose power is 100%.

Champions can tank in small groups because the ability of getting aggro and handling multiple mobs. Specially with a minstrel behind healing and some other classes combos. But do not expect to replace a guardian and forget about doing this in raids. Every class has its own pros and cons.

Since fervor and other skills help the idea that we are a DPS class at the cost of receiving damage we need to rely in food. Using food and managing our skills well are our main tools to deliver DPS to multiple mobs and to stay in good shape in long fights. Specially for soloing.
Using good weapons is a must also to optimize this.

Another way to nake money in the lone lands if you are LVL 40+ is to kill Huorns (trees) in Agamaur. You will get an average of 10s per kill, 100s by selling the loot and you can even get some Flawed Huorn Heartwood that will sell well in the AH. You just need to spend 10 - 20 minutes. If you are lucky enough you can get a chance to kill Darkheart too.

Some people reported extreme lag while playing after B12. Check these options to be sure where the problem is:

Memory: WinXP needs 1 GB t work properly with LOTRO. Vista needs 1.5 or even 2. If you have less than this you will need an upgrade.

Disk Defrag: defragment your hard drive, that way data will be more “closer” and the disk will not need to jump all around to find the pieces of information. In extremely fragmented drives (specially if you delete and install lots of things daily) this is a must.

Delete the lotro preferences file (located in the LOTRO folder in My Documents in XP or Documents in Vista).

Reset all options to default.

Try playing with the crowd control and texture cache in the advanced options.

Turn off floaty names by hitting N

UPDATE ALL DRIVERS. Specially video and sound.

Reset your router or cable modem

If you are using a wireless connection check the signal strength.

If from time to time the lotro screen goes black and the ATI Driver prompts about and error try reseting the graphic options to default using the LOTRO auncher (the windows where the recent messages from turbine and login info shows up).

It worked for me

To get the Firebreath emote your character needs to receive 100 cheers from other characters.

You can add your deeds to the quest tracker so you can see them as you play. Just go to the Deeds Window and click on “Add to Tracker”. Very useful for those moments of trait hunting.

You can read the official patch notes here

And you can also check some known issues here

The Barber can be found inside The Prancing Pony in Bree. You can change your hair style, hair color, eye brows and some decoration extras.

Since Book 12 there were some adjustments to the reputation points. Save all the rep items you get to exchange them sooner or later in order to get more items, weapons, recipes and special decoration items for your house.

The arrows cosmetical decoration can be purchased at the Rivendell Marketplace.