Goldenstar posted this on December 17th, 2011.
Categorized as crafting, poll, Weekly Poll.
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This week’s poll was sent in by Thoronlin Angryhands via email. He is curious what folks do while crafting. You may do one or all these things at one time or another while making a big load of goods but choose the option you feel you do most frequently.
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DocHoliday posted this on November 11th, 2011.
Categorized as crafting, lord of the rings online, lotro, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/11/11/coffee-coming-to-lotro/
Sort of ironic that on a day where I’m sadly in need of LOTS of caffeine, Sapience confirmed some new additions to crafting coming with Update 5. These aren’t anything huge, but some fun little items that will be coming to Cooking and Farming.
Cooks will be able to brew coffee, with Farmers able to harvest the beans!
As for the actual buffs, he covers those here (they’re run speed buffs), and in the images shared (Normal Version vs Crit Version). One downside is that these are considered trail food, and as such you won’t be able to mix them with things like the various statistic foods.
Read the rest of this entry »PB posted this on October 24th, 2011.
Categorized as crafting, Draigoch, gear, instances, isengard, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, Minstrel, Raid, reputation, Rune-keeper, skirmish, stats.
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The end-game gear treadmill has started anew, so it’s time to start sitting down and working out what pieces you should be shooting for. I won’t be talking about armour in this post, both because I’ve discussed the raid armour set in a previous post, and because I haven’t yet had the time to work out the best way of mixing and matching set pieces with random drops. I’ll probably do a later post updating this one when I get the chance, but for now I’m focussing on non-armour pieces. Also, while the discussion here is specifically aimed at lore-masters, most of the stat priorities are the same for each of the 3 tactical classes so the gear discussed here should be basically the same as for minstrels and rune-keepers.
Where to get loot
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Categorized as crafting, Game Ideas and Suggestions, Games Guides and Advice, Thoughts and Musings.
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Full link: http://thekhazadguard.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/changes-to-joining-a-crafting-guild/
Tedwise demonstrating the art of Home Brew
DocHoliday posted this on October 1st, 2011.
Categorized as crafting, epic line, expansion, gear, instances, isengard, lord of the rings online, lore, lotro, Rise Of Isengard, Traits, Warden.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/10/01/isengard-post-launch-thoughts/
I’m a little torn so far on my thoughts for the new Isengard expansion. I haven’t had as much time in game as I might like, but I have been in quite a bit and have hit 70 on my Warden.
Starting with the downers, there are significant issues with the expansion as you can see from the Known Issues thread. There are some little ones, but some major ones like the Lua crashing issue. The frustrating part about the Lua issue is that this was well known and documented during Beta, but since Lua isn’t officially supported it wasn’t addressed nor have work-arounds been released to the developing community. For now the best suggestion is to not use plugins, which unfortunately hits me pretty hard as there are many that I really enjoy. There are also 2 quest completion traits that are messed up including the deed for the Trum Dreng zone which is one short of completion and the Starkmoor quest completion Starkmoor quest completion that incorrectly includes the 4 fellowship quests inside the Pit. This pack certainly does feel rushed to me as I’m just surprised things like this made it through without being addressed. I really hope we see something in the next week or so that addresses these issues.
Enough of the down sides, with all the issues Isengard has, the zones are amazing. I’m really enjoying the quest lines and all the stories involved in the expansion. I realize there are many kill quests and the like but they’ve wrapped them in such a way that I don’t notice it nearly as badly. The zone phasing effects are quite well done and are a huge new tool for them to tell better stories. The Weft’s Cleft instance is also really well done and gives me all sorts of hope for what’s to come with some of the larger battles we know are coming.
Read the rest of this entry »thekhazadguard posted this on September 27th, 2011.
Categorized as crafting, Games Guides and Advice, Thoughts and Musings.
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With RoI now live, I was keen to have a look at the changes to the farming profession, something I didn’t sneak a peek at in Beta. Tiers 1 to 6 seem to be unchanged, but Tier 7, the Westfold Tier has a number of changes, which personally I think are pretty good.
Goldenstar posted this on September 25th, 2011.
Categorized as crafting, dev diary, Draigoch, episode, Episodes from 2011, Fellowship Walk 2011, isengard, podcast, Rise Of Isengard, Rune-keeper, Warden.
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We are only a few days from Rise of Isengard and we have quite a lot of Isengard information to share this week!
This week Goldenstar admits to being the worst burglar in the world. Her burglar is still level 46 and enjoying dungeon-ing with her Monday Dum group.
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on September 23rd, 2011.
Categorized as crafting, Developer Diaries, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, Rise Of Isengard.
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A quick update from Turbine today walking through some of the changes coming for crafting in Rise of Isengard.
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on September 18th, 2011.
Categorized as crafting, Equipment, gear, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, Minstral, Minstrel, Rise Of Isengard, threat, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/09/18/post-isengard-minstrel-changes/
Rise of Isengard has introduced a TON of changes for the class, and Orion isn’t quite done yet. Although I have to admit this is a great change. Currently there are a number of changes that have been made to the Minstrel instruments to modify the benefits and make them more useful.
Friday, Orion posted on something he was able to get into the process for the upcoming Update 5 regarding the Minstrel instruments. He’s been able to change the craftable Tier 7 instruments such that any instrument can have any of the available bonuses leveraging the multi-output recipe feature. Only the Tier 7 recipes will be changed, the other recipes will function as they do currently. Here are the buff choices:
thekhazadguard posted this on September 17th, 2011.
Categorized as crafting, Games and Guard News and Events, Games Guides and Advice, Thoughts and Musings.
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With the announcement that Beta will be closing on Monday 19th September, the Rise of isengard expansion will be here very soon. We came to Beta fairly late on, and we both had different things that we wanted to spend our time persuing, and investigating how they worked, and if we found problems, bugging them. Adams main one was to investigate and test the new Champion changes, which you can read all about here.
Neither of us wanted to run around Dunland and Isengard too much, especially not me. I wanted to save that for when the game was live, and I could go “oooooh” and “aaahhh” and explore everything properly, and be all excited about what I’d seen. Not so for the crafting – I wanted a look at that straight away. Crafting is a big part of my game (and real life to be honest) and I was keen to see what the new tier 7 Westfold items were like. With the removal of stat caps in the expansion, this could lead to some very interesting options for character builds, and thus crafted items, much more than we had seen before.
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