Branadoc posted this on December 21st, 2010.
Categorized as Blurbs, Character: Branadoc, Events, Events: Seasonal, gaming, lord of the rings online, lotro, misc, MMO, Seasonal Event, Winter Home, Yule Fest, Yule Fest 2010.
Tagged as Lord of the Rings Online, Turbine.
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Full link: http://sneakyhobbits.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/yule-fest-2010-errata/
So this year for Lord of the Rings Online Yule fest I have found a definite dearth of holiday spirit. No fault of Turbine’s but I have been feeling meh about it all.
This year Turbine added a new zone for the holidays called “Winter Home”, this is a snow covered area (ostensibly located to the NW of Forochel) which holds quite a few festive (and some not so festive) quests for the season. You don’t get direct awards of Yule Fest Tokens, instead you get Frostbluff Coin items that can either be bartered for festival tokens, or used in quests.
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Branadoc posted this on March 27th, 2010.
Categorized as Character: Branadoc, Events, Events: Seasonal, gaming, Locations: Angmar, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, questing, Seasonal Event, Skirmishes, Spring Festival, turbine.
Tagged as LotRO Forums, PAX East, Turbine.
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Full link: http://sneakyhobbits.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/skirmishing-and-ding-level-45/
Friday I did some more skirmishing, got some more Spring Leaf tokens and finally, after 3 years of life, got my ‘main’ up to level 45! Only 20 more levels to go… *sigh* well, I will catch up to my kinship eventually eh?
Before I get on with the post, I hope that you lucky suckers (yeah, suckers… *pout*) are having fun up at PAX East.. be sure to visit the Turbine Booth and harangue them for not giving me a free pass/transportation/hotel! Just kidding on the harangue part, but visit our great Turbine folks anyway 
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Branadoc posted this on March 25th, 2010.
Categorized as Events, Events: Seasonal, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, News, Spring Festival, Spring Festival Mount, turbine, Updates.
Tagged as LotRO Forums.
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Full link: http://sneakyhobbits.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/spring-horse-npc-not-to-return-until-late-april/
That’s right, Sapience (a community manager of the LotRO forums) posted a reply to this thread regarding the NPC that sells the documents for the Spring Festival Horse. When the festival launched the Naughty NPC was selling the documents at cut throat prices, apparently in an attempt to bankrupt his boss. Instead of selling them for 1.6 gold (for folks who already have purchased a mount in the past) or 4 gold (for folks who are buying their first mount) he was selling them for 3 silver / 7 silver (respectively).
Turbine jumped in pretty quick and disabled this naughty vendor, and people have been wondering when he will make a return – Sapience stated that it would require a client side patch due to the nature of the bug, and that the patch would happen closer to the Anniversary date (April 24th). He did say, however, that the festival would be extended or re-enabled [whichever necessary] in order for folks to turn in their tokens and get the documents for their horses.
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Branadoc posted this on March 24th, 2010.
Categorized as Angmar, Character: Branadoc, Deeds, Events, Events: Seasonal, gaming, Locations: Angmar, Locations: The Shire, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, questing, Seasonal Event, Skirmishes, Spring Festival, turbine.
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Full link: http://sneakyhobbits.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/skirmishing-a-few-deeds-spring-is-sprung/
So over Monday and Tuesday I managed to do a few Skirmishes – even managing to fail one I have done successfully before :/. Finished off a few deeds with those skirmishes, and moved my way closer to a new level and a new look for my soldier.
The big thing for this week, though, is the Lord of the Rings Online Spring Festival. It started up yesterday and will likely run for about a month or so (no guarantees). Read beyond the break for more.
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Branadoc posted this on December 15th, 2009.
Categorized as casual stroll to mordor, Downtime, Events, Events: Seasonal, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, News, Seasonal Event, turbine, Updates, Welcome Back Weekend, Yule Fest, Yule Fest 2009.
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Full link: http://sneakyhobbits.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/welcome-back-weekend-yule-festival/
Two more tidbits of news for you readers to peruse while the servers are down for their hardware upgrade! First off, The Lord of the Rings Online is having another Welcome Back Weekend – to top everything off the Yule Festival will be starting soon as well!
Welcome Back Weekend
Once again Turbine is opening its doors to old subscribers and allowing them to come back to the game free for 5 days! Between December 17th 2009 and December 21st 2009, old members can return to the lands of Middle Earth and see how much has changed! During the Free Weekend returning players will get the following:
- A 10% XP Bonus on Mob kills
- The ability to return to old characters
- Experience the Siege of Mirkwood!
- Return to the game for just $9.99 (US) a month!
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Branadoc posted this on October 15th, 2009.
Categorized as casual stroll to mordor, Events: Seasonal, Fall Festival, festival guide, gaming, lord of the rings online, lotro, LoTRO Bloggers Ring, MMO, News, turbine, Updates.
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Full link: http://sneakyhobbits.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/fall-festival-quest-guide/
I personally haven’t started any of the festival quests (and, sadly, after 2.5 years haven’t participated in any festivals… something I plan to remedy) but the great folks over at Casual Stroll to Mordor have created a nicely detailed guide on where to go, and what to do in the Fall Festival.
So head on over there and check it out! Don’t forget to tell ‘em that Branadoc sent you.. you get free pie if you do.
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Branadoc posted this on October 15th, 2009.
Categorized as Angmar, Character: Branadoc, Events: Seasonal, Fall Festival, Locations: Angmar, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, questing, turbine, Videos, Welcome Back Week.
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Full link: http://sneakyhobbits.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/more-angmar-questing-bad-orcs-evil-statue/
Jumped into Lord of the Rings Online during daylight hours today to get some more questing in Angmar done, as well as to take advantage of the +25% XP enabled for the current Welcome Back Week event (Fall Festival is running now too folks!).
I left of last time after completing one of a small chain of quests, today I went to a cave near the camp I was at in order to finish off some orcs and Wargs. I forgot how much I hate the stealthy wargs in this area :/ – I managed to complete the quest, but I still want to explore the cave further; Heres the video of me going through the cave:
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Branadoc posted this on October 14th, 2009.
Categorized as Events, Events: Seasonal, Fall Festival, gaming, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, News, october 2009, Updates.
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Full link: http://sneakyhobbits.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/fall-festival-is-live-no-really/
Branadoc posted this on October 13th, 2009.
Categorized as Blurbs, Events, Events: Seasonal, Fall Festival, gaming, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, News, october 2009, Updates.
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Full link: http://sneakyhobbits.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/fall-festival-false-start-sorry-folks/
Well, the fall festival for Lord of the Rings Online was scheduled for today, but it was ‘tentatively’ scheduled (something I probably should have pointed out huh?). All reports from In Game show the Festival has not gone Live yet, no word on the Turbine front but it looks like it is delayed.
I will be sure to update when I find out that the festival is indeed truly live.
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