The LOTRO Lorebook and Isengard website (http://isengard.lotro.com) will be brought down for maintenance on Tuesday, January 3rd from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT). Thanks for your patience!
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Goldenstar posted this on January 2nd, 2012.
Categorized as Downtime, isengard, Lorebook, LotRO News, maintenance.
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LOTRO’s New Community Site
Goldenstar posted this on September 10th, 2010.
Categorized as blog, changes, Community, forum, Lorebook, opinions, site, web.
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September 8th was the day that Turbine took down their web sites to unveil their brand new lotro.com and community pages. I for one was excited. I was eager to see what sort of new features and options we’d have with the new community site.
Unfortunately the great unveiling didn’t go as smoothly as everyone would like. The sites were giving error pages, slow to open, blogs were empty or formatted goofy, permissions were messed up and profiles were all kinds of goofy. It had people annoyed, frustrated and even angry over the poor transfer to the live sites. However I’ve been able to notice improvements such as the site working much smoother and search results actually opening working pages which wasn’t happening for me earlier.
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Goldenstar posted this on May 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as add-ons, blogger, champion, episode, Episodes, Episodes from 2010, Hobbit, Lorebook, podcast.
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This week we talk about things we did this week was quite a bit!
Goldenstar got the new spring festival mount on three of her characters. Goldenstar also made two new alts a Lore-master and a Hunter. The hunter is absolutely adorable so picture has been included so you can enjoy the cuteness. She also participated in a run of Barad Gularan with the kin.
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Goldenstar posted this on May 1st, 2010.
Categorized as General, Lorebook.
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This post is a guest post from CeleOOKIE who is heading up a project to help update the lorebook. I asked her to give us a little write up to share with everyone as I believe this is a wonderful project that would benefit all of us!
Have you ever googled a quest only to come up short on all of the ‘usual’ wiki sites? Well, so have I. I’ve given myself a personal quest and I’d love for the LotRO community to get a share of the loot as well.
A Casual Stroll to Mordor #21: Hobbits in Rollerskates
Goldenstar posted this on January 24th, 2010.
Categorized as episode, Episodes, fear, legendary item, Lorebook, Other LOTRO Podcasts, player-event, podcast.
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In this episode of CStM, we discuss how we are going to ding that final level of 64 to 65. We received many wonderful suggestions on the topic. Merric is working on his warden and Goldenstar took advantage of the free mounts to shuffle all her alts around.
Our main topic this week is discussing how we handle changes that do or do not happen in an MMO. With Orion’s recent bad news in our minds we discuss the process and promises of changes in our games today. We reminisce about past games and how their changes have let us down. We also discuss the best way to voice your issues with changes to the devs.
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Goldenstar 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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In 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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almazar posted this on December 14th, 2009.
Categorized as General, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lore book, Lorebook, lotro, lotro reporter, map, quest help.
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As we where running around the Misty Mountains last night, I had occasion to open up the in-game Lorebook to look up where we needed to go for one of the Epic Quests. I noticed that there where couple of changes, which will probably make me more likely to use the Lorebook in-game in the future.
The first of these changes is that the Lorebook seems much quicker. In the past, I’ve always found that it was quite slow and cumbersome to use. Now, I’ve found it quite fast. Searching for quest still meant a little hunting. Just typing in the quest name didn’t work for some reason, I had to type a portion of the name, and select “Quest” from the drop down menu that showed up, so you might have to fiddle a little with what you type into the search box.
For those of you who don’t know, the Lorebook is an in-game guide to all things LOTRO. You can search quests, items and skills and get a description. Better than that, for quests, you can get map co-ordinates and sometimes even comments on how to complete the quest. Very helpful. The icon to open the Lorebook is on the mini-map, just bellow the destiny points icon. It looks, well, kind of like an old bearded man. At least it does for me….
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Goldenstar posted this on December 10th, 2009.
Categorized as Lorebook, LotRO News, Release Notes, turbine, upgrade.
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Siege of Mirkwood data has been added to the Lorebook as well as some other new features. Yay! Read about the changes in the release notes.
If you visit the page you’ll notice it looks different! There have been some updating of the software bringing more functionality and improving performance with the site. The home page now lists separate listings showing popular game content and lore content for example. The search is big and right on top. It looks good in my opinion.
Mirkwood information will now be searchable in the lorebook including skirmishes and their traits. Maps have been improved and given more options. The Barter items have been set to list all its items in one line instead of broken up (which really was confusing as poo for me when trying to write the festival guides.)
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Goldenstar posted this on December 7th, 2009.
Categorized as Guide, lieutenants, Lorebook, reference, Seige of Mirkwood, Skirmishes.
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A new lorebook entry has appeared listing the lieutenants you will run across in the new skirmish system and what skills they have. They state it is only very useful if you are not doing solo tier one skirmishes but the tier two and three skirmishes definitely need some planning when you meet these foes.
Spoiler Alert: A fair warning to those who like to figure fights on their own that will ruin the surprise. The listing the type of skills they have as well as their effects.
It is not yet complete but it is a very useful list to keep handy for certain. You may want to bookmark this one for reference! Skirmish Lieutenants
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isanni posted this on November 29th, 2009.
Categorized as Deeds, Did you know, emote, exploration, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, Lorebook, lotro, lotro reporter, lotro wiki, mood emote, Traits.
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I recently discovered the LOTRO Lorebook. Yeah, it’s not exactly a new thing in the game, but it’s a new-to-me thing! The Lorebook, which is a wiki (database), with some player-created content and some Official Turbine Stuff, contains all kinds of useful LOTRO information. It can be accessed two ways: in-game by selecting the icon on your mini-map, or online at http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Lorebook_home . I find that it is extremely slow when accessed in-game, and since I always run LOTRO in window mode, I just open the Lorebook website in another window.
When the Lorebook page opens, scroll down to see the Table of Contents. One of the first things I found in the Lorebook was the list of 133 available emotes (in the Character Attributes section). I had no idea there were so many! Emotes like ’scratch’, ‘juggle’, ‘giggle’, and ‘tantrum’ can add a bit of fun to otherwise boring moments when your fellowship is waiting around for something or someone. Yeah, there’s even an emote for ‘bored’, but one of my favourites is ‘pick’. Give it a try! :)
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