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

Sapience today put up quite a lengthy post on the armor store issue today, and while there’s quite a bit of PR-speak in there he does address a couple issues.  I honestly don’t think this will change anyone’s perception of things, but at least this is a post from Turbine acknowledging the issue and [...]

DocHoliday Turbine Finally Talks about the Store Armor Issue

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

Normally I don’t pay too much attention to what’s in the LOTRO store and more or less ignore the sale emails.  If there are things in the Store I want, I’m more than happy to go and get them, and most sales of items pale in comparison to the point bundle sales they do frequently. For the record, [...]

DocHoliday Counter-Point to the LOTRO Store Armour Argument

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...

There’s been quite a stir of late regarding the upcoming changes to skirmishes and instances regarding loot and the instance finder.  One thing I did want to point out as I’ve done a little skirmishing on Bullroarer – Medallions are rewards from completing Encounters in any skirmish, and I’m guessing those will scale up with [...]

1. Update 5: Armies of Isengard Release Notes
2. Developer Diary – Instances 2.0 Part 2
3. Instance Finder Coming to LOTRO

Once again I’m scheduling some time to chat with folks from Turbine about the various pieces of LOTRO that we all love, and some that we’re not so pleased about   I’m still gathering my questions, but wanted to give folks an opportunity to get their questions in. I can’t guarantee I’ll get to everything, [...]

1. Interview with Sapience at Gamescom
2. Do you have Isengard Questions for “Rowan?”
3. Episode 22 – Isengard Interview with Turbine

I’m sure many have already found these but I at least wanted to toss in a few comments as I go through them.  I will be going through the armor sets and the Warden class here in the next day or so.  And remember, these are just the first set of notes so get on [...]

1. Bullroarer Patch Notes (Build 2) for Update 5
2. Isengard Armor Set Details
3. LOTRO Update 3 Live on Bullroarer

In an interview with Adam Mersky and Aaron Campbell, TenTonHammer is able to get some interesting information regarding the next update, still tentatively named Update 5.  The big items coming are: More of the Epic line with Theodred, and a goodbye to the Rangers Instance Finder, similar to WoW and Rift New Instances centered around [...]

1. LOTRO In Their Absence Instance Guides
2. Sapience Confirms “Free” Post-Isengard Instance Cluster
3. LOTRO Raid Content Developer Diaries

One of the main unsung portions of the Isengard expansion has been the new changes for Lua, but it was one of those that I was very excited for.  Granted, those updates also broke Lua (fixed with the recent patch), so that gave the system quite the black eye.  After that patch, I’m back to [...]

1. Combat Analysis LOTRO Plugin
2. Sally Forth in Middle-Earth – Episode 17
3. LOTRO Stat Updates with Isengard