LOTRO Official Update 10 Release Notes

posted this on March 6th, 2013.
Categorized as End Game, Equipment, ettenmoors, gear, instances, legendary items, lord of the rings online, lotro, moors, ost dunhoth, Patch Notes, pvp, Raid, Warden.

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Shockingly enough, there’s a known issues list already posted.  Pretty significant especially when there’s so much in there regarding loot not hooked up, which was one of the main selling points for this update.  Seems like a minor issue – and I don’t understand why Turbine springs a release with no warning when there are this many “little” things un-resolved.  Granted, it probably will take them time to wrap everything up but it seems like another pass of polish would’ve done quite a bit of good and not let the community down at all.

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Dev Diary: Update 10 Instance Cluster

posted this on February 26th, 2013.
Categorized as dev diary, Dev Team, Instance, instance cluster, instances, Joe Barry, jwbarry, LotRO News, Raid, Sleepy, Update 2.

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battle_erebor_03Today’s Developer Diary by Joe “jwbarry” Barry and Sleepy centers on the instance changes coming in Update 10.

The New Instance Cluster

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Dev Diary – Seals and Medallion Conversion

posted this on February 25th, 2013.
Categorized as currency, dev diary, Dev Team, Instance, instance cluster, instance finder, instances, Jon "Rock" Steady, loot, LotRO News, Raid, raiding, Rockx, Update 10.

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devdiary_header1RockX released a new Developer Diary (of sorts) that is pretty short and to the point.  In it he discusses the upcoming conversion of Seals to Medallions coming in Update 10.  In case you were unaware, with the upcoming release of a new raid set all current seals will be converted into medallions at a rate of 1 seal to 20 medallions.  Within the diary RockX explains the motives behind the conversion:

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LOTRO Store Available and Weekly Sale

posted this on February 18th, 2013.
Categorized as Halls of Night, Inn Of The Forsaken, Instance, instance cluster, instances, LotRO store, rank, skirmish sale, Skirmishes, Weekly Sale.

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I missed the announcement but as of around 9:30pm Eastern yesterday, the LOTRO store (and all other Turbine services) are restored. [source]

The store page on the LOTRO site is not yet updated but I thought I’d get the store sales I was able to see in the LOTRO Store. This list may not be exclusive as I may not have logged in the right class or level to see some extra sale so if you find something I missed, please let me know in the comments.

It does appear that at least at the time of this posting, last week’s sales are still active so you can check out those items as well.

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LOTRO Update 10 Preview

posted this on February 16th, 2013.
Categorized as General, instances, lord of the rings online, lotro, lotro reporter, LOTRO Reporter Podcast, preview, Previews, Q&A, raids, Update 10, Videos.

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Chris and Layanor join Producer’s Aaron and Hannah, as well as PR guru Leo and Jonathan “Berephon” Rudder to talk about Update 10. We take a look at all the raids, and end with a quick Q&A.

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LOTRO Update 9.1.1 Patch Notes

posted this on February 11th, 2013.
Categorized as crafting, End Game, Equipment, gear, group, instances, lord of the rings online, lotro, Raids and End-game, Riders of Rohan, rohan.

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I didn’t even realize there was going to be a patch today but there was and 2 things from this really jumped out at me.

First, I was surprised that they’re doing server side performance enhancements ahead of Wednesday’s extended downtime.  I’m all for them doing things, it just seems strange timing to me.  But hopefully it will help as I know since Rohan many (including myself) have been having issues.

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LOTRO Update 10 2nd Bullroarer Patch and Armor Screenshots

posted this on February 5th, 2013.
Categorized as beta, Bullroarer, captain, champion, champions, End Game, Equipment, gear, group, instances, lord of the rings online, Lore-Master, loremaster, lotro, Minstral, Minstrel, Patch Notes, Raids and End-game, screenshots, Warden.

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The second build hit Bullroarer today and it included quite a few additions that were not there previously.  You can find the full patch notes here, but there aren’t too many changes mainly the finishing off of the changes they had already announced:

  • Fate determines out of combat power regen, not Will
  • Quests can be completed/advanced in raids
  • All sorts of class tweaks – mainly power related
  • Various Mounted combat tweaks, again mainly power related
  • All sorts of creep changes – shockingly enough, power related
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LOTRO Update 10 hits Bullroarer

posted this on January 31st, 2013.
Categorized as beta, Bullroarer, End Game, Equipment, Free to Play, gear, group, hard-mode, instances, lord of the rings online, lotro, ost dunhoth, Patch Notes, Raid, Raids and End-game, stats, Warden.

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The initial build hit Bullroarer yesterday for Update 10, and we also have some patch notes.  There’s a decent amount in the notes, but also a number of things that are not in the notes, so I’m expecting not only Dev. Diaries to clear things up but also a couple other builds before it goes live.  Here are the notes, but I also wanted to discuss a few items in more detail.

There’s a lot of debate on these new Mithril coins but in all honesty I don’t really care that much.  The biggest thing that bothers me about the whole is that it was the first thing they decided to talk about, really ANOTHER currency added to the game is the most exciting and pressing thing for Update 10?  But this really has very little impact on me since I don’t use those items and it will actually clear up some inventory that I was hoarding from lottery winnings, so there is that bonus.  But I am wondering what’s behind this move and if we’ll see more of this kind of consolidation going forward.

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LOTRO Update 10 hits Bullroarer

posted this on January 31st, 2013.
Categorized as beta, Bullroarer, End Game, Equipment, Free to Play, gear, group, hard-mode, instances, lord of the rings online, lotro, ost dunhoth, Patch Notes, Raid, Raids and End-game, stats, Warden.

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The initial build hit Bullroarer yesterday for Update 10, and we also have some patch notes.  There’s a decent amount in the notes, but also a number of things that are not in the notes, so I’m expecting not only Dev. Diaries to clear things up but also a couple other builds before it goes live.  Here are the notes, but I also wanted to discuss a few items in more detail.

There’s a lot of debate on these new Mithril coins but in all honesty I don’t really care that much.  The biggest thing that bothers me about the whole is that it was the first thing they decided to talk about, really ANOTHER currency added to the game is the most exciting and pressing thing for Update 10?  But this really has very little impact on me since I don’t use those items and it will actually clear up some inventory that I was hoarding from lottery winnings, so there is that bonus.  But I am wondering what’s behind this move and if we’ll see more of this kind of consolidation going forward.

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LOTRO Developer Chat Thoughts

posted this on January 25th, 2013.
Categorized as beta, Bullroarer, Developer Diary, End Game, epic line, Equipment, expansion, Free to Play, gear, group, instances, lord of the rings online, lotro, Raid, Raids and End-game, threat, Update 10, Update 11, Warden.

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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2013/01/25/lotro-developer-chat-thoughts/

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Yesterday’s developer twitter chat had a bit more information in it then previous ones, but I think that’s purely just because they’ve got a release ready for Bullroarer Smile  The majority of the real news was around Update 10.  I’m not going to hit on everything, just a few items that jumped out for me.  The full transcript is up on the forums if you want to check it out.

With regards to Update 10, the biggest news for me was that it will be hitting Bullroarer next week.  I’ll be curious to see how long it stays there as I hope it goes through a couple of iterations considering the new instances and armor sets that historically have issues but it wouldn’t surprise me if there was some internal pressure to get it out earlier.  Here’s what was announced:

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