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

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 [...]

DocHoliday LOTRO Store Armour Update

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...

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 [...]

1. Developer Diary- Instances 2.0 (Part 3)
2. Update 5: Armies of Isengard Release Notes
3. LOTRO Rise of Isengard Itemization Developer Diary

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 Warden Updates Update 5 for Wardens Never Surrender Changes Orion Continues on the Wardens Lottery [...]

1. Sally Forth in LOTRO – Episode 11
2. Episode 24 – Off to Isengard
3. Sally Forth in Middle-Earth – Episode 15

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 [...]

1. Bullroarer Patch Notes (Build 2) for Update 5
2. Interview with the LOTRO Team
3. Update 5: Armies of Isengard Release Notes

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 [...]

1. Update 5: Armies of Isengard Release Notes
2. Patch 3 for LOTRO Update 3 on Bullroarer
3. LOTRO Update 3 Live on Bullroarer

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

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, [...]

1. Lore-mastery: 5 questions about Update 5
2. Lore-mastery: Lore-master legendary items in Isengard
3. Lore-Mastery: Isengard raid armour analysis