Tell the Community Team 3/12/10

posted this on March 12th, 2010.
Categorized as Community, feedback, LotRO News, turbine.

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“Tell the Community Team” is where Turbine asks for the players to give them direct and specific feedback about a specific topic. This is really a fantastic opportunity for you to give your thoughts and opinions about the game directly to Turbine to think about.

These “Tell the Community Team” questions focus on “What would you do?” scenarios. They have three questions they are looking for you to give them feedback on:

  1. You’re named CEO of Turbine for one day. You can issue one directive to the LOTRO team. What would it be? (Please be brief!)
  2. From time to time we spotlight NPCs, Points of interest or other unknown facts about characters and locations within LOTRO. Who, or what, in our game would you like to know more about? List 2.
  3. Do you currently have a DX11 capable PC? If not, are you planning on upgrading and when?
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Dungeon/Raid Overview: Angmar

posted this on March 12th, 2010.
Categorized as Angmar, azz, Barad Gularan, Bogbereth, Carn Dum, dungeon, Dungeon Guides, Ferndur, Guides, Rift, Urugarth.

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Angmar

Angmar back in it’s hay day used to be the place where dungeon-crawling raiding end-gamers would spend most of their time during the “good old days” of Shadows of Angmar. This region offered many ways to spend your time running through quest, dungeons/raids, hunting for ore, wood, and beryl shards. This look at the Angmar Hub will consist of a brief overview of the dungeons and raids available to any would be adventure seeker.

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Player Achievements – 2nd Week of March

posted this on March 12th, 2010.
Categorized as achievement, Community, Player Achievements, podcast, shout-out.

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Each week we ask you to share your successes in Middle Earth with the rest of the community. Post a comment letting us know what you’ve accomplished this past week. We will pick comments at random to read on the podcast giving you a chance for a little shout out for yourself!

Our shout-outs are only as good as the information we get so remember:

  1. Don’t forget to add your character name, what server you play on and if you like, add your Kinship if you have one. Hard to give you a Shout-Out if you don’t include it!
  2. Please keep your posts brief. We won’t be able to read full novels of your adventures. At least make it so we can easily sum it up!
  3. Do not be afraid to post any of your achievements. We don’t care if you just saved Archet or cleared out Dol Guldor. We want to hear from you!

These shout outs will appear in Episode 29 of A Casual Stroll to Mordor Podcast. Comments for this thread will be closed after recording as this is a weekly thing. If you missed this week’s cut off, don’t fret! A new thread just like this one will appear next Friday!

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DISCUSSING TACTICS

posted this on March 12th, 2010.
Categorized as Barad Guldur, Dûrchest, forum, raiding, tactics.

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It hadn't really occurred to me before, but I was struck recently by a huge difference between the European (Codemasters) and Stateside (Turbine) forums: there is almost no discussion of tactics on the CM forums. Which is quite strange, when you come to think of it.

By far the most popular sub-forum on the Turbine forums is the one called "Instances and Raids". Though it shelters a certain amount of grumbling and nit-picking, it also includes a lot of careful and serious debate about the strategy and tactics of the principal raids. Currently, there are several well-established threads about the Barad Guldur 12-man raid; one of them, "BG Strategy - Gauntlet and Boss 1 (Durchest)" includes 133 posts, many providing either detailed tactical proposals or feedback on possible changes since the latest patch. For a characteristic example of a recent post, see the illustration, above.


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What I’m up to

posted this on March 12th, 2010.
Categorized as birthdays, bored of raiding, casual play, friends, lotro, MMOs, personal, random, status, turning 40, Updates, warcraft, world of warcraft, wow.

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So blogging has fallen a bit by the wayside. I went to London/Reading to visit family and haven’t really got back into a schedule yet.

Add to that a bit of a turn from LotRO – I’ve been there, done that. I have 750 Dol Guldur medallions now and no weapon or emblem decent enough to spend any of them on. I can run through Sammath Gul without standing on a bone pile with my eyes closed. Volume 3, Book 1, was a small distraction – but didn’t do what I wanted it to. We’re raiding Barad Guldur, and making good progress, but raiding has diminished for me somewhat, and I think in the future I won’t be quite so gung ho to go twice a week. Ah yes, the casual vibe has started to catch me…

…I still log onto LotRO almost daily and do some of the daily quests to level up yet another emblem. They’re all rubbish. I feel, as I do it, as if I’m wasting my life. I really hate the LI lottery these days. And then I realise I’m raiding with what I consider rubbish and no-one cares, so why should I struggle to upgrade? Why pursue the Symbol for crafted 2nd Age items, when it may just be a wasted piece of crafting that someone else craves a lot more than I do?

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