Episode 118: Caffeinated

posted this on December 18th, 2011.
Categorized as dev diary, episode, Episodes from 2011, podcast, Update 5, Yule Festival.

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DumidumThis week we had a ton of news between Update 5 launching, the treasure-hunt event and yule festival starting soon!

Goldenstar went to Carn Dum again this week and shared her awesome “get stuck behind flags” skills. Dumidum enjoyed this game as well and even posed for me for this picture! Other than that, we are working on Volume I once again.

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Dev Diary: Yule Festival 2011

posted this on December 16th, 2011.
Categorized as dev diary, LotRO News, Ryan "Pinion" Penk, Snowman, Woo!, Yule Festival.

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A new dev diary was released today but new developer (but not new employee) Ryan “Pinion” Penk and his work with the Yule Festival. Time was spent tweaking and adding new pieces to the Winter-home events. Pinion had three goals when working with Winter-home:

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Episode 116: Recording Failure … Again

posted this on December 4th, 2011.
Categorized as Bullroarer, champion, dev diary, episode, Episodes from 2011, podcast, Warden.

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Record_ButtonThis week it took us not one, not two but THREE tries to actually record the “What We Did” segment so please forgive if our hearts are not in it by the time we actually got it recorded!

Merric has gotten his champion to level 75! He’s considering making it his new main and Goldenstar refuses to heal him. He needs to work on the champ’s virtues.

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LOTRO Reporter Episode 113

posted this on December 3rd, 2011.
Categorized as Book 5, dev diary, General, lotro reporter, mark conversion, podcasts, Show Notes, Update 5, volume III.

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In this episode, Chris Josh and I discuss the Volume III Book 5 Dev Diary, a mark conversion experiment from TenTonHammer, Auction Houses in the starting areas and more!
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Dev Diary: Volume 3, Book 4

posted this on October 7th, 2011.
Categorized as dev diary, Dev Team, epic storyline, Jeff Libby, LotRO News, Rise Of Isengard, turbine, volume 3.

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ScreenShot00014In a truant, but welcome Developer Diary Jeff “MadeOfLions” Libby discusses the new Epic Storyline released with The Rise of Isengard expansion as well as some of the technology used in creating it.

He starts off explaining that the main goal for the Epic Story is to visit as many of the “most exciting places” within Middle-earth,

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Episode 108: This Guy has Math!

posted this on October 2nd, 2011.
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GoblinTownThis week we talk a bit about Isengard’s release, changes, and known issues.

Goldenstar has not really experienced Isengard yet as she is playing her level 46 Burglar with her Monday Dum group.

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Dev Diary: Dunland Region Overview

posted this on September 28th, 2011.
Categorized as dev diary, Dev Team, Dunland, Jessie King, LotRO News, Rise Of Isengard, turbine.

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dunland_landscape_04Did you think that the Developer Diaries were over?  Well, frankly so did we. However, proving us wrong yesterday saw the release of a Developer Diary containing information about Dunland itself by Jessie “Vastin” King.

So what is Dunland you may ask and why did the expansion take us there?

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Episode 107: Fellowship Walk 2011

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!

For Baby Hobbits

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.

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Dev Diary: Draigoch

posted this on September 24th, 2011.
Categorized as dev diary, Dev Team, Draigoch, isengard, LotRO News, Raid, Rise Of Isengard, turbine.

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draigoch_08Another Developer Diary has been released; this time focused on Draigoch, the dragon who is the boss of Rise of Isengard’s new 12/24-man raid.

The diary states that one of the most important features of Draigoch was his physical aspect.  Turbine’s goal was to make him large, but at the same time to create a fight that didn’t seem a bit silly in its nature:

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Episode 106: Swab the Poop Deck!

posted this on September 18th, 2011.
Categorized as Armour, dev diary, Downtime, Episodes from 2011, Hunter, Minstrel, Orion, pirate, podcast, Zombie Columbus.

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This week we discuss the new screenshots, hunter dev diary, changes coming to the LOTRO Store and more!

This week Goldenstar has been playing with her Dums in Angmar. Her burglar is level 45 and working on her class quests and getting her legendary item.

Merric actually joined us in the Dum group this week and got his warden to level 45. He did a few skirmishes and is working on gathering burglar class items for the lazy Goldenstar.

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