PB posted this on December 12th, 2011.
Categorized as group, Instance, lotro, moria, trait, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/12/12/undocumented-change-to-moria-class-quests/
DocHoliday's MMO Saloon
There are reports on the forums that the moria class quests have been changed to no longer require you to complete the full fellowship quest at the end of it to get the trait attached to the quest line. Apparently all of the quests to kill the special mobs inside various moria instance remain, but the traits they used to reward have been added to the previous quest in the quest chain, so that you no longer to go into Forges, Skumfil etc. to get the relevant trait. The trait is rewarded retrospectively if you had already finished the second to last quest.
This change makes a good deal of sense from the point of view that these instances are no longer end game content and so it’s much harder to get a group for them nowdays, but it’s strange that this appears to be another fairly large change in game mechanics for which we have absolutely no official statement or patch notes about. Turbine sprung the “bound to account” change with Medallions of the North Men in update 3 and moria/loth/dul gudur medallions in RoI without any official announcement, it seems another fairly large change which will be relevant to a lot of players has managed to slip through the patch notes.
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PB posted this on December 12th, 2011.
Categorized as crowd control, DPS, End Game, Instance, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, Raid, screenshot, soloing, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/12/12/lore-mastery-years-end/
DocHoliday's MMO Saloon
Given the christmas season and upcoming holidays, this will be my last column for the year. I’ll aim to return to posting in approximately mid-January. I was going to use this post as an opportunity to link some of my past posts for people who might be new to the column, and also solicit some feedback. I hope you’ll also forgive me a little indulgence too, I thought I’d go back through my screenshots and give a bit of a slideshow of my lore-master over the past year or so.
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DocHoliday posted this on October 27th, 2011.
Categorized as Draigoch, End Game, Equipment, expansion, F2P, Free to Play, gear, group, Instance, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, Raid, Raids and End-game, Rise Of Isengard, store, Virtues.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/10/27/lotro-draigoch-guide-rant/
Normally I’m a pretty big fan of the things Turbine puts out and am generally not too bothered by the LOTRO store, however this last “guide” from Turbine really annoyed me. I’m sure you’ve all seen mention of it as it was blasted out to everyone as part of their normal email communications. It wasn’t until we started chatting about it on twitter that I really started to realize why it was bugging me so much and decided to rant about it a bit.
The guide starts off with some actual decent spoiler free tips, so I thought this would be good. But then it derails quickly into a bunch of store items that can help with your fight without any mention of the fact that many have craftable equivalents. I don’t have a problem with talking about the store, but when that becomes the focus of the article, it really rubs me the wrong way as it makes it seem like Turbine wants you to believe you need these items to succeed in the raid.
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DocHoliday posted this on September 13th, 2011.
Categorized as beta, champion, crafting, Draigoch, epic line, expansion, gear, group, Instance, isengard, legendary items, lord of the rings online, lotro, Minstral, podcast, Raid, Raids and End-game, reputation, Rise Of Isengard, store, Warden.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/09/13/episode-22-isengard-interview-with-turbine/
I have to admit I was a little shocked by the conversation today with Turbine on a number of fronts. I was very happy to hear from folks other then the Producers, not that that’s not valuable, but I had some pretty specific questions that I was glad to here ZC and Graalx2 hop in to cover. Not to mention there were quite a few very exciting things brought up in this interview.
My apologies for the call quality, not only were they on a speaker phone but I was recording using Google Voice which would sometimes drop out on our ends, but still record in good quality resulting in some question repetition.
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Goldenstar posted this on August 24th, 2011.
Categorized as dungeon, Instance, isengard, LotRO News, Rise Of Isengard, Update 5.
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Full link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cstmfeed/~3/P0FIrKQXl-o/
Sapience has posted on the forums the following which I think will be very good news to the folks worried about paying for the next set of instances releasing after Rise of Isengard:
We are currently preparing five new instances for release post Isengard.
Rise of Isengard will be released on September 27 along with a 24 Player raid. There will be 3 Three player, 1 Six player and 1 Twelve player instance released in Update 5, the first update after the release of Rise of Isengard. These instances will be free to any player who has pre-purchased the Rise of Isengard expansion or who purchases after launch via the Turbine Web Store.
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Branadoc posted this on February 28th, 2011.
Categorized as epic quests, gameplay, Instance, landroval, Locations: Lone Lands, Lone-lands, lord of the rings online, lotro, misc, MMO, questing, turbine, Videos, Weathertop.
Tagged as Inspired Greatness, Retake Weathertop.
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Full link: http://sneakyhobbits.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/video-retake-weathertop-instance-landroval/
Here are 2 more videos for you. A 2 part set showing a run through the Retake Weathertop [Solo] Instance for 1.2.5 – I was a bit over level for the quest so everything was pretty trivial. The Inspired Greatness buff also sort of made me overpowered when facing the 2 final bosses.
Without further ado:
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Tony posted this on January 27th, 2010.
Categorized as Barad Guldur, Bugs, Instance, News, Patch, Raid.
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Full link: http://combo.mmeow.net/2010/01/clarification-on-barad-guldur-gate-issues/
This morning, LiuTsieng posted a brief explanation on how the gauntlet system for Barad Guldur is supposed to work. After the bug fix for the gate issue in this area, some things have been adjusted.
We don’t do a great job of communicating the way the gauntlet works, so here’s what’s happening in that pic:
— You have 40 minutes from the time you kill the last two armored guards at the end of the gauntlet to kill Durchest without having to reclear the gauntlet.
— 39 minutes after you’ve killed those guards, you’ll get a warning message. Something to the effect of, “You hear the sound of reinforcements in the halls, they are coming..“
— A minute after that warning message, you’ll receive a message stating something to effect of, “Reinforcements have arrived, this is your last chance.“
— At this point you’ve had 40 minutes of free attempts on Durchest. Any current attempts will need to be finished up, after which the gauntlet will reset.
If you’ve been trying to prevent a respawn of the gauntlet, you’ll see the situation in that picture. Simply walk to the entrance (you don’t need to leave the instance, just walk to the door). You should see the front gate raise, an instance billboard indicating that you will have to reclear the gauntlet, and then the gate should lower.
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arbitrary posted this on December 24th, 2009.
Categorized as 6-man, challenge, Dol Guldur, gorothul, gorthorul, gorthul, hardmode, Instance, lotro, Mirkwood, sammath gul, siege of mirkwood, typos.
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Full link: http://nerfthecat.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/the-boss-of-many-typos/
Sammath Gul – the dungeon I’m specifically missing an accent on because I’m lazy (in a post about typos, what next??!).
It stands as the 6-man jewel in the Dol Guldur cluster and I’m not going to do a spoilery post. Not about tactics, placement, fights, loot, etc. Well, a little about loot. So stop reading here if you don’t want to know how many medallions it’s worth.
With that out the way, it’s worth 10 medallions when run-through on hard-mode. There’s nice loot. There’s a chance to drop the item needed to craft second age level 65 items. A smallish chance. An annoyingly small chance, considering the lottery of Legendary Items.
It’s also quite a learning curve. Which is good. It means even us die-hard ‘run in and kill’ people have had to learn tactics. It means, I, as our traditionally captain-y main healer, have died a LOT in these hallowed halls. But it’s still a good romp.
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Tony posted this on November 26th, 2009.
Categorized as Barad Gularan, Instance, News, Walkthough.
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Full link: http://combo.mmeow.net/2009/11/azz%e2%80%99s-excellent-barad-gularan-walkthrough-on-cstm/
Merric and Goldenstar are out and about, so Azz of Wizzard of Azz was nice enough to write up a guest post. It covers Barad Gularan, an instance located in Angmar. Moria’s been out for a while and Siege of Mirkwood is just around the corner (December 1st is less than a week away, if you can believe it), which can make it easy to forget about a lot of the older instances.
Azz wrote up a really impressive walkthrough of the area, which I highly recommend. If you’re high enough level and looking for something to do that you might have missed, go check it out. Seems like a lot of fun and it’s not something that will eat up your entire weekend. That’s a plus! 
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Tony posted this on November 12th, 2009.
Categorized as Chambers, Instance, News, screenshots, siege of mirkwood.
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Full link: http://combo.mmeow.net/2009/11/screens-of-mirkwood%e2%80%99s-chambers-instance/
Turbine sent out some screens of a new instance coming in Siege of Mirkwood, referred to as the “Chambers Instance”.
There’s a familiar face in these shots too … Well, more like a familiar eye.
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