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Volume III: Allies of The King, Coming Soon! – news from LOTRO
Jan 28th
The shadow is spreading over Middle-earth, and the future king needs his allies to gather around him. Your part in the legend of the Ring continues as you must gather the Rangers of the North and bring them to the aid of their leader as he prepares to face his greatest challenge. Coming Soon, Volume 3: Allies of the King, Book 1: Oath of the Rangers!
Tell the Community Team: Skirmishes
Jan 28th
From Sapience:
The Tell the Community Team threads have returned! Were looking for feedback on the Skirmish system. Is there something youd like to see changed or added? Is there a region you think would be perfect for skirmishes? Let us know! Join the discussion here.
So, Turbine are curious what you’d do with the Skirmish system now that it’s in place. Lots of questions so far about LIs, too.
Personally, I’d like to see better rewards on the longer skirmishes. I’m making over 500 SM/hour on Dannenglor, personally, and even more when you consider token drops and dailies. Compare that to something like 200 SM/hour for Gondamon and Tuckburough. Sure, “fun” is important, but MMO content will always reach a point where it is no longer for for its own sake, and that’s when rewards need to take over. Right now, they’re not very even.
Welcome back, former LOTROers. Enjoy your free horse rides, current LOTROers.
Jan 21st
Well, well, seems we’ve got another welcome back weekend on our hands. As always, this means some bonus XP. This time around, it’s 5% instead of 25%, which is a bit sad for my low-level alts who’d like to blow through a few levels, but there’s better news, too: Free rides at every stable all weekend, even for current players. YAY! From Sapience:
Come celebrate with us for free* during our Welcome Back Weekend from January 21st through January 25th and see why critics are naming The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood the Best Expansion of 2009.
To help celebrate, youll get a +5% XP boost for all mob (monster) kills and free travel at all Stable-masters! (Click Here) For full details.
Xfire Video Capture Awards – news from LOTRO
Jan 21st
Think your video-making skills are top notch? Xfire is hosting their first ever Video Capture Awards! Break out your director’s hat and shoot your best LOTRO video, then upload it to Xfire’s featured Publisher’s Category. You could win great prizes including Turbine T-shirts, posters, signed copies of LOTRO, and more!
Known issue with raid locks in BG
Jan 20th
From Sapience:
Players who enter the Barad Guldur raid instance with a previously obtained raid lock may encounter an issue where, upon a group death, the gates earlier in the instance no longer lower. This will prevent the group from returning to their previous point of progression and continuing.
The recommended work around is for players to exit the instance, disband and reform the raid under a new raid leader. This will reset the instance and lower the gates. However, any trash mobs prior to the next boss fight will respawn as a result of resetting the instance.
We are currently working on a fix to resolve this issue.
Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood: First Patch Now Live!
Jan 19th
The first major patch for The Lord of the Rings Online since the launch of the Siege of Mirkwood digital expansion in December of last year is now live!
The patch focuses mainly on skirmishes and Legendary items, even going so far as to refund players’ Legacy points. For skirmishes, the Barrow-downs skirmish has returned and non-Siege of Mirkwood players will no longer be limited to three skirmishes.
For more details on the patch, you can view the full patch notes here.
Legacy tier upgrades FIXED!
Jan 19th
As confirmed by Graalx2 here, the issues with legacy upgrades are being fixed.
Unaware of what the issues were? A number of legacies (at least eight of them confirmed for Wardens!) did not reduce in cost at certain upgrade levels. (In particular, T4>T5 and T5>T6 were being miscalculated.) That means that, given a rate of something like 500SM/hr (taking into account dailies), you were looking at about four hours of wasted gameplay upon purchase of a Scroll of Entitlement, because your legacy tier upgrade would net you zero points. Oops.
Glad to see this is being fixed. Doubly glad to see the devs communicating with us.
Lord of the Rings Online: Roads Goes Ever On – Returning to LotRO
Jan 19th
MMORPG.com Lord of the Rings Online reporter Jason Parmele writes this report on his decision to leave the popular World of Warcraft for Turbine’s adaptation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings franchise.
I’m ashamed to admit this. I’ll say it once and then we’re going to move past it. I did not read The Lord of the Rings until after seeing Peter Jackson’s: The Fellowship of the Ring. I eventually went back to read The Hobbit, The Simillarion, Unfinished Tales and The Children of Húrin. As an addicted MMORPG player and fan of Asheron’s Call I was excited when Turbine announced they had purchased the rights to develop Middle-Earth Online, now called Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO). As an early beta tester I was impressed with Turbine’s re-creation of Middle-Earth and when I found Gandalf’s stone on Weathertop I knew this game would be special. However, it took me nearly three years to rediscover that.
Read Roads Goes Ever On – Returning to LotRO.