A Casual Stroll to Mordor #19: Sugarpuff Sweetiepants

posted this on January 10th, 2010.
Categorized as adventure pack, altoholic, azz, blogger, Episodes, hack, horses, ign, Lorebook, mount, pax east, Skirmishes, veneration.

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A Casual Stroll to Mordor Album ArtIn this episode of CStM, we talk about:  Merric’s first attempt at playing Goldenstar’s minstrel. Merric is closer to getting his remaining alts to level 20. We are both level 61 and inching closer to level cap! We have also have purchased PAX East tickets so we will be down in Boston this March!

We have an interview with the two new bloggers to our team, Azz and Veneration. We ask them about their MMO experience, what they enjoy in LOTRO and what got them into blogging. Get to know these two as they are now part of the CStM family!

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Mirkwood: Another upcoming change

posted this on November 24th, 2009.
Categorized as doc holiday, festivals, horses, lord of the rings online, lotro, misc, News, siege of mirkwood, Updates.

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Just caught a twitter about this and saw the related post on the forums. Apparently the method you get Festival Horses (for various seasonal events) will be changing with the release of . posted on it in his blog, so here is what he found out:

Dreams Come True

posted this on July 6th, 2009.
Categorized as Codemasters, design contest, horses, lotro, my little pony, turbine.

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Seriously, Lord of the Rings Online has just made a dream of mine come true – with a Design Your Own Horse contest. In what must surely be another sure sign that Rohan is the next expansion (as if there were any doubt), I’m really excited to see what fans make of the contest even though they say only the winner will appear in-game. Next we need Rohan announced with the customise-your-horse option and that’d just rock.

The closing date for both the US and EU contests is 28th July, with winners regaled on 18th (Codemasters) and 28th August (Turbine). Note these dates. The belief that Rohan will be announced sometime before the end of the summer fits in quite nicely with this horse-themed contest, so I think we’re looking at an announcement at the end of August now. With the European Games Developers Conference in mid-August and then PAX in the US in early September, it looks like we’re really honing in on a window of opportunity here. No idea how long from announcement to release, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was early next year. If it comes any sooner, I’ll be delighted, of course, and that would fit in with the hints of a level cap increase before the end of the year. So, let’s just sit back and enjoy the speculation ride!

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