DocHoliday posted this on May 22nd, 2010.
Categorized as BG, blog, crafting, CStats, End Game, Equipment, gear, group, lotro, Mirkwood, podcast, Raids and End-game, video, Warden.
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So there’s been a number of new (or maybe just new to me) projects and updates from the various community outlets and I wanted to highlight a few of them.
First up is another video from the EveNArtworkS folks I mentioned in a previous post with their amazing Warden video, this time highlighting one of my favorite classes to group with – the Loremaster! If you haven’t seen either of these, I highly recommend them as they do a great job of mixing the beauty of LOTRO with the music and the uniqueness of each class.
@Veneration has been pretty active of late not only putting together good forum resources for new players but also in launching and updating the LOTRO Network. This is a community site for sharing all sorts of LOTRO related videos as well as the site for the live stream of the LOTRO Reporter. @Veneration also has been streaming various in-game events like runs through the MIrkwood instance Sammath Gul. All of the live streaming events are usually announced through twitter so it might be worth following those guys if you want to catch things live. I usually try to catch the live cast of the LOTRO Reporter as its a good time with the folks in the chat-room.
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Adarel posted this on March 11th, 2010.
Categorized as combat, CStats, General, LM, Lore-Master, loremaster, lotro, miss chance, physical resist, resistance, tactical resist, testing, theorycrafting, vol3 book1.
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In the latest book update, Turbine made some changes to the levels of resistance that mobs have. They seem to think that a 10% miss chance is perfectly acceptable before resistance reduction stats and legacies are taken into account. I don’t necessarily disagree if we are able to make up the difference with gear and maybe virtues or traits. However, I’m not sure that is quite possible.
The LM community on the official NA forums are rather perturbed by the fact that Turbine really gave us no warning about this and seemed to be unaware of the “resistance bug” for ~2 months (the bug being that resistances were much lower than they had intended). I would think some very simple combat parsing would have shown this problem immediately. I truly wish the LOTRO community had more tools at their disposal for judging DPS, misses, resistances, and various other variables. If so, it would have been obvious at least to us even if the developers were out picking wildflowers.
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DocHoliday posted this on October 31st, 2009.
Categorized as CStats, DPS, lotro, Warden.
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There’s a tool out there called CStats that parses your combat log and allows you to calculate how much damage you’re doing. Lots of you may already know about it, but I just saw on the forums there’s a beta teaser (upcoming version 1.1) that will allow you to break out your DoTs and procs as separate lines from your attacks. This will be a huge help for us wardens as we can get a better feel for where our damage is coming from.
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