So, you want to max your reputation with the Ale Association and the Inn League in as short a time as possible. This means you need to be a highly efficient courier! There are various guides on the official forums for the quickest delivery route, but they generally need a lot of maps/ports and are also now a bit outdated since the addition of new swift travel routes (e.g. Rivendell -> Echad Candelleth).
For this route you will need the following common port skills:
- Return to Thorin's Gate (kindred with Thorin's Hall)
- Return to Bree (kindred with Men of Bree)
- Racial Return to ... (Hobbits - Michel Delving, Elves - Rivendell, Dwarves - Thorin's Hall, Men - Bree)
- Milestone at Forsaken Inn (or Travel to Personal House if your house is in the Breeland Homestead)
- Travel to Outlaws Kinship House in Falathlorn Homestead
- [Optional: Return to Ost Guruth (kindred with The Eglain)]
Before you begin you will need to buy a stack of each of the following beverages for the Inn League deliveries (the Ale Association beverages are acquired as you go):
Prancing Pony, Bree
- Stars of Old Cider
- Moor-boar Beer
The Combe and Wattle Inn, Combe
Limael's Vinyard, Celondim
Thorin's Hall Inn, Thorin's Gate
The Golden Perch, Stock
The Ivy Bush, Hobbiton (Optional, can acquire en route)
The Bird and Baby, Michel Delving (Optional, can acquire en route)
Forsaken Inn, Lone-Lands (Optional, but might as well buy when setting milestone)
The Last Homely House, Rivendell (first door on the left) (Optional, recommended to get en route)
Make sure you unlock all the swift travel routes. The normal stable horse from Rivendell to Echad Candelleth takes 6 minutes! Anything that makes you faster will help - +68% speed horses, +mount speed buffs, etc. Once you're prepared, head to the Party Tree in Hobbiton and take all of the Ale Association quests. Let's go!
Ride south to The Ivy Bush, Hobbiton. Collect AA drink. (Optional: buy stack of Thistlebelly Brew).
Ride east to The Green Dragon, Bywater. Collect 2 AA drinks.
Ride east to The Floating Log, Frogmorton. Collect AA drink.
Port to The Forsaken Inn (via milestone or Breeland Homestead port). Collect AA drink. (Optional: buy stack of Swill and Forsaken Ale).
Port to The Bird and Baby Inn, Michel Delving via racial Return to skills and swift travel. Collect AA drink. (Optional: buy stack of Blagrove's Brown).
Swift travel to Tinnudir.
Swift travel to Oatbarton. Deliver AA drink. Take quest and deliver IL drink.
Swift travel to Brockenborings. Collect AA drink, Deliver AA drink. Take quest and deliver IL drink. (2 NPCs).
Port to Prancing Pony, Bree using Return to Bree skill. Collect 2 AA drinks. (Optional: AA Bree pub crawl quests)
Ride north to Thornley's Worksite, Breeland. Deliver AA drink. Take quest and deliver IL drink.
Ride south to West Bree.
Swift travel to Sûri-kylä, Forochel.
Swift travel to Zigilgund. Deliver AA drink. Take quest and deliver IL drink.
Swift travel to Sûri-kylä.
Swift travel to Garth Forthnir, Angmar.
Swift travel to Aughaire. Deliver AA drink. Take quest and deliver IL drink.
Swift travel to Garth Forthnir.
Swift travel to Rivendell. Collect AA drink. (Optional: buy stack Dorwinion White).
Swift travel to Hrimbarg, Misty Mountains. Deliver AA drink. Take quest and deliver IL drink.
Swift travel to Rivendell.
Swift travel to Echad Candelleth. Deliver AA drink. Take quest and deliver IL drink.
Swift travel to Rivendell.
Swift travel to Esteldin, North Downs.
Stable horse to Othrikar. Deliver AA drink. Take quest and deliver IL drink.
Port to Thorin's Hall Inn, Thorin's Hall using Return to Thorin's Gate skill. Collect AA drink.
Ride north-east to Refuge of Edhelion, Ered Luin. Deliver AA drink. Take quest and deliver IL drink.
Port to Ost Guruth using Return to Ost Guruth skill, or Ride south to Thorin's Gate.
Swift travel to West Bree.
Swift travel to South Bree.
Swift Travel to Ost Guruth.
Ride south to Ost Haer. Deliver AA drink. Take quest and deliver IL drink.
Port to kinship house in Falathlorn Homestead.
Ride west, then north-west to Thrasi's Lodge. Deliver AA drink. Take quest and deliver IL drink.
Whew, finished!
Lucky hunters can finish this much more quickly by porting at the following points:
Forsaken Inn to Michel Delving.
Michel Delving to Tinnudir.
Brockenborings to Bree.
Thornley's Worksite to Sûri-kylä.
Zigilgund to Aughaire.
Aughaire to Rivendell.
Last Homely House to Hrimbarg.
Echad Candelleth to Esteldin.
Othrikar to Thorin's Hall.
Refuge of Edhelion to Ost Guruth / campfire at Ost Haer.
