DocHoliday posted this on January 24th, 2012.
Categorized as Equipment, F2P, Free to Play, gear, lord of the rings online, lotro, Raids and End-game, store.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2012/01/24/turbine-finally-talks-about-the-store-armor-issue/
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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 admitting that they went a bit too far.
First off, he pretty much admits that they never intended to say “we’ll never sell armor in the store” like many are upset about. I imagine many will take issue with this statement, but as I talked about earlier (my podcast discussion) I firmly believe they were planning this all along. Not to mention that he also references DDO (just like the Massively interview) which further reinforces my belief that they just poorly communicated their intentions from the start.
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DocHoliday posted this on January 17th, 2012.
Categorized as F2P, Free to Play, gear, lord of the rings online, lotro, screenshots, store, turbine, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2012/01/17/lotro-store-armour-update/
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As a quick update to the Store Armour Issue, after today’s patch, I popped onto a few characters today and noticed the following:
- My level 24 RK only had access to the Tier 3 items, with a minimum level requirement of level 20.
- My Level 5 Burglar had access to Tier 1 showing level availability from 1 through 9
- And my level 15 Hunter had access to Tier 2 with level ranges from 11-20
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DocHoliday posted this on January 13th, 2012.
Categorized as Equipment, F2P, Free to Play, gear, lord of the rings online, lotro, Skirmishes, turbine.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2012/01/13/counter-point-to-the-lotro-store-armour-argument/
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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, I’ve bought multiple TP packs (and I’m a VIP with my 500 TP/month stipend) and mainly purchase traits and tomes, and the occasional relic removal scroll. For me, these items in the store are purely items that allow me to better enjoy the game that I want to play as I could mostly get them in game if I had enough time and/or patience. They allow me to maintain multiple characters at the end-game and not get totally burnt out on things that I barely enjoy doing once, let again multiple times.
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DocHoliday posted this on December 9th, 2011.
Categorized as Armies of Isengard, Developer Diaries, End Game, Equipment, gear, group, instances, lord of the rings online, lotro, Prince of Rohan, Raid, Raids and End-game, Skirmishes, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/12/09/update-5-barter-currency-dev-diary/
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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 5.
Overall I like the goal of consolidating and unifying between the new instances, the old scalable ones, and skirmishes. I think the biggest concern so far is with the availability of seals which are needed for the top tier armor sets.
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DocHoliday posted this on December 2nd, 2011.
Categorized as Armies of Isengard, Developer Diaries, End Game, gear, group, instances, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, Raid, Raids and End-game, Rise Of Isengard, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/12/02/update-5-developer-round-table/
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Instead of just a single Developer talking about the update, we’re given a healthy dose of the whole crew. The diary focuses on all the new instance spaces and gives some nice background from the team.
They start off with the smaller instances and have some nice fun discussions in there regarding the Ents. Initial discussions focus on the instance spaces in Fangorn and the Pits of Isengard.
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DocHoliday posted this on November 30th, 2011.
Categorized as Armies of Isengard, gear, group, hard-mode, instances, lord of the rings online, Lore-Master, lotro, lua, podcast, Prince of Rohan, Raid, scripting, Skirmishes, Update 5, Warden.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/11/30/episode-26-what-now/
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This episode is a little old as I recorded it prior to the Thanksgiving holiday but never finished editing it. However, be on the look out for another episode this week as well as another Turbine Interview next week.
News
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DocHoliday posted this on November 22nd, 2011.
Categorized as Armies of Isengard, beta, Bullroarer, End Game, gear, group, hard-mode, instances, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, Raid, Raids and End-game, Rise Of Isengard, Update 5, Warden.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/11/22/better-hurry-to-bullroarer-for-update-5/
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It appears that Turbine has gotten all it wants out of the testing for Update 5, as Bullroarer will be closing tomorrow at noon eastern!
That’s right all of you wanting to get actual numbers for seal and medallion drop rates and how long it will take to potentially get the new armor sets, you better act fast.
And for those of you wanting to see how the new Warden tweaks work, you’ve got less then 24 hours TOTAL to get it done!
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DocHoliday posted this on November 22nd, 2011.
Categorized as Armies of Isengard, beta, Bullroarer, End Game, gear, group, hard-mode, instances, lord of the rings online, lotro, Patch Notes, Raids and End-game, Skirmishes, Warden.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/11/22/bullroarer-patch-notes-build-2-for-update-5/
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The second build to Bullroarer is now live for the upcoming Update 5: Armies of Isengard content coming in December. Lots of bug fixes and response to the community in here, and it appears like this update is paralleling Update 3 (In their Absence) which would mean another possible Bullroarer update before this content finally hits live. So, make sure to get on Bullroarer (if you can) test stuff out, bug it, be vocal (but constructive) on the forums, etc. There also appear to be changes to the barter and armor set requirements, but I haven’t checked them out yet to be totally sure. Nor am I 100% convinced they’re final, yet 
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- Lots of Instance Finder Tweaks including the ability for the leader to boot Link-dead players
- Quite a few class tweaks
- Warden Changes:
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DocHoliday posted this on November 21st, 2011.
Categorized as Armies of Isengard, End Game, Equipment, gear, group, hard-mode, instances, lord of the rings online, lotro, Raid, Raids and End-game, Skirmishes, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/11/21/bullroarer-updates-for-instances-and-skirmishes/
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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 the number of people, but they’re available in Solo skirmishes.
We’ll probably never know how much of this was accidental or what was done to respond to the community but Zombie Columbus posted the upcoming changes which will either hit Bullroarer or when Update 5 hits live:
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PB posted this on November 21st, 2011.
Categorized as Armies of Isengard, Armour, cc, DPS, gear, healing, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, Raid, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/11/21/lore-mastery-update-5-armour-sets/
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Lore-mastery is a weekly column by Psychobabble of Imladris, focussing on lore-master news and end game play.
I was so looking forward to jumping on Bullroarer and trying out the new stuff. I wanted to actually get to play some new end game content, get a bit of an insight into the new gear system, take a look at the new raid and get some early tips on it, have a chance to play with some players from other servers and mix around a bit. So I downloaded the client as soon as it was available, hit the character copy, copied my LM over and waited for the “in progress” message to finish. And I waited. And waited. And waited. And then I went to bed and when I woke up…
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