DocHoliday's MMO Saloon DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View

I was tossing up whether to do a Riders of Rohan wishlist post this week or continue with the update 5 instance guides, but I figure that the longer I take on these guides the less relevant they become so into the Pits of Isengard it is… Pits of Isengard Diseases/wounds? First boss has a DoT wound [...]

PB Lore-mastery: Update 5 instances guide – Pits of Isengard

DocHoliday's MMO Saloon DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View

Today Turbine came out with another big announcement – the next expansion will happen in Fall of 2012 with the introduction of the Riders of Rohan! Coming with the expansion are: Increased level cap new skills and deeds on to Level 85 Mounted Combat Iconic locations like Amon Hen and Fangorn [...]

DocHoliday Next LOTRO Expansion – Riders of Rohan

1. Gap of Rohan Screenshots and Video Diary More news from Turbine today for the upcoming Rise of...
2. Siege of Mirkwood Expansion I’ve been tossing around my thoughts on this expansion (yes...
3. LOTRO Shots of Orthanc and Gap of Rohan Well we didn’t have to wait too long for them...

DocHoliday's MMO Saloon DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View

I saw a short dev update on this, so I wanted to share it.  Turbine has made a mess of creep-side mitigation in recent history by breaking them in Update 5, “fixing” them with Update 5.1, but that fix really didn’t quite work.  Many on the forums had been reporting that, and finally we hear [...]

DocHoliday Creep Mitigation Issues

DocHoliday's MMO Saloon DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View

Notice the name change for this update, which makes sense for me as it is a bug-fix patch for Update 5. The Known issues are up first with a few: Skill Cooldowns are not resetting for the Kalbak fight in the Tower of Orthanc Quest log is not displaying challenge rewards Whipmaster can fall into [...]

DocHoliday Update 5.1 Patch Notes and Known Issues

Luckily for me, unlike Doc I have had the chance over the past few weeks to play through all of the new instances and 3/6 wings of the new raid. I thought I’d jot down some quick impressions and give people an opportunity to post their reviews and thoughts on the Update 5 group content. Overall I [...]

A few new screenshots were released today showing off the new instance spaces.  The spaces highlighted in these shots are the Pits of Isengard, Fanghorns Edge, and Dragnakh Unleashed. Sadly I’m still haven’t had much chance to get into these spaces so I’m living vicariously through these images and [...]

1. Update 5: Armies of Isengard Release Notes I’m sure many have already found these but I at...
2. New Screenshots of LOTRO’s Draigoch Just when we thought Turbine had slowed up with the...
3. New Rise of Isengard Screenshots of Gear and Items Through some of the videos we’ve seen and heard of...

I thought it might be interesting to put up a post for people to share their early experiences with the instance finder. While still in an early iteration, the IF is a pretty big change to the game and could have a big impact on how people play the game. Personally I usually run groups with kin or [...]

1. Instance Finder Coming to LOTRO In an interview with Adam Mersky and Aaron Campbell,...
2. Bullroarer Updates for Instances and Skirmishes There’s been quite a stir of late regarding the upcoming...
3. Better Hurry to Bullroarer for Update 5 It appears that Turbine has gotten all it wants out...

Given the christmas season and upcoming holidays, this will be my last column for the year. I’ll aim to return to posting in approximately mid-January. I was going to use this post as an opportunity to link some of my past posts for people who might be new to the column, and also solicit some [...]

1. Lore-mastery: Introducing a new column I’ll start with a brief introduction of myself and what...
2. Lore-Mastery: What does a lore-master do? Pt. 2 This is the second part of a two-part column giving...
3. Lore-Mastery: What does a lore-master do? One of the questions that’s most commonly asked about lore-masters...

While we’re all waiting for the servers to come back up, you can browse through not only the Patch Notes but also the Known Issues posted today. The patch notes are pretty extensive with all sorts of things hanging especially for many classes.  I highly suggest taking a read for your class of [...]

1. Bullroarer Patch Notes (Build 2) for Update 5 The second build to Bullroarer is now live for the...
2. LOTRO Update 2 Patch and Known Issues Today was the first update for the Echoes of the...
3. LOTRO Update 3 Official Patch Notes The official Patch notes are live, no big surprises but...

I know many, including myself, have been wondering how all these marks, medallions, and seals will work out and how our current stuff will transition to the new.  Luckily Zombie Columbus puts it all out for us with a nice Q&A section to describe all the new currency changes coming with Update [...]

1. Bullroarer Updates for Instances and Skirmishes There’s been quite a stir of late regarding the upcoming...
2. Update 5: Armies of Isengard Release Notes I’m sure many have already found these but I at...
3. Developer Diary – Instances 2.0 Part 2 The next portion of JWBarry’s Developer Diaries is up, this...