isanni posted this on September 3rd, 2010.
Categorized as Free to Play, General, LotRO store, Turbine Points, announcements, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter.
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A recent article on www.lotro.com provides a beginners’ overview of the new LOTRO store. See the original article, along with screenshots of the store, here. I provide a summary of the article below, with some of my own concerns and questions.
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isanni posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as General, Servers, announcements, crickhollow, dwarrowdelf, head start, imladris, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, riddermark.
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Sapience of Turbine, in trademarked Incredisoon style, announced yesterday that Turbine will be opening four new servers for our gaming pleasure!
The servers will be named as follows:
These servers will be available on a first-come, first-”served” basis, starting September 8th for Head Start players, and September 10 for all others. (Check here to see if you are eligible for the earlier start date.) Sapience also noted that the forums for the new servers are up and running, in order to help the flocks of people organize themselves and their friends. For those of you with 67 alts who just NEED to have 9 new characters to love, head on over to the new servers, make some new friends, and bring our well-renowned LOTRO community spirit to some new players arriving soon, very soon, ultra soon, uber soon….. You get the idea! 
Happy gaming!
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as Free to Play, lotro, lua, volume 3.
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The long awaited diary on the new Lua Scripting has been posted with some very cool insight from Narrel on the process to get Lua scripting into the game. Even more exciting is the confirmation that Lua Scripting will be in the game at launch of F2P. Granted Narrel does put some caveats in there, but assuming all goes well it will be in launch.
I’m always fascinated about how these things progress and appreciate the insight on how the internals of Turbine work. This certainly sounds like an impressive effort from Narrel, ForsakenArcher, Agiclaw and Frosty with the support of the whole dev team I’m sure. It was also very encouraging to see the beta community step up and not only try things out but post some pretty darn cool UI scripts.
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as Free to Play, crafting, lotro.
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While loading the client up this morning, I noticed the following note:
ALERT: If you currently have active crafting consignment quests, please cancel or complete these quests before server maintenance begins on Tuesday, Sept 7. These quests (available in Overhill, Silverdeep Mine, Combe Lumber Camp, or Duillond) will no longer be available once Volume III, Book 2 goes live.
For those of you who haven’t done these (I’ll admit I just started myself) you essentially are paying an NPC to go off and farm materials for you, up to Artisian level. You travel to the NPC and there will be a few different options for the different skill levels and based on your level you purchase the right one. Using those items creates a new quest which is essentially a timer and at the end of the timer you return to the NPC and they present you with a key to a chest with the appropriate crafting ingredients. There isn’t a ton of ingredients but usually a handful of the different types including chances for some of the crit items. These can be pretty handy for leveling up alts or in augmenting your resource gathering at the lower levels. They’re also nice for cases where you can’t gather resources for yourself. Case in point, the Historian includes weapon-smithing but no prospecting, so these quests can help quite a bit.
Read the rest of this entry »wickedpt posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as Lore-Master, lotro.
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Hello everyone. As you know the new LOTRO patch will launch on September 10th (or 8th if you are in the headstart). This new patch will bring some changes to the levels which skills are acquired. This changes go all the way up to level 30. I will change the Blog in the next days to represent this changes. I’ve also compiled a small chart with the skills that will change in levels:
Bor posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as Captain leveling guide, Classes, Game Mechanics, General, captain, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter.
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This week we cover the areas for leveling from 51-60 and the skills you will attain from them.
Having reached level 50 and finishing your level 50 class quest you can finish up in Eregion and move into Moria, which is like nothing you have ever seen. Gaining access to Moria requires the purchase of the Moria expansion and the completion of Volume 2 Book 1 of the epic quest line, so we are going to operate on the assumption that you have both of these taken care of. After entering Moria you will first notice that it is huge with multiple quest hubs. The first few are levels 50-56 and then the lower levels are 55-60.
Another option once you are in the level 55-56 range is to quest in the outer Moria pre-Lothlorien areas for reputation with the Elves of Lothlorien which will grant you access to the Lothlorien areas. There are two Factions of Dwarves in Moria for reputation the Miners and the Guards. Both of them have decent
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on September 1st, 2010.
Categorized as Free to Play, lore, lotro, podcast.
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I had almost removed them since they hadn’t been updated in so long but I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed new episodes of Ringcast by Lady Sinea and The One True Cast by BadPanda pop into my iTunes. Both plan to put out new content now that they’re getting spun up on all the F2P news and excitement. I know there are quite a few LOTRO Podcasts but it is always good to get another perspective on things.
Bor posted this on September 1st, 2010.
Categorized as Classes, Game Mechanics, General, Hunter, Hunter leveling guide, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter.
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This week we cover the areas for leveling from 51-60 and the skills you will attain from them.
Having reached level 50 and finishing your level 50 class quest we can finish up in Eregion and move into Moria which is like nothing you have ever seen. Gaining access to Moria requires the purchase of the Moria expansion and the completion of Volume 2 Book 1 of the epic quest line, so we are going to operate on the assumption that you have both of these taken care of. After entering Moria you will first notice that it is huge with multiple quest hubs. The first few are levels 50-56 and then the lower levels are 55-60.
Another option once you are in the level 55-56 range is to quest in the outer Moria pre-Lothlorien areas for reputation with the Elves of Lothlorien which will grant you access to the Lothlorien areas. There are two Factions of Dwarves in Moria for reputation the Miners and the Guards both of them have decent
Read the rest of this entry »almazar posted this on September 1st, 2010.
Categorized as General, PAX, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, prediction.
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I’m going to go out on a limb and make a prediction for Lord of the Rings Online. I’m going to predict that Turbine will announce the next major content update at PAX, and that it will come before the end of the year.
I have a few reasons for believe this, but I’m feel very strongly about this. We will get an announcement from Turbine letting us know that we will be continuing our journey towards Mordor.
Read the rest of this entry »isanni posted this on August 31st, 2010.
Categorized as Did you know, General, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, stacks, vendor.
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After a brief hiatus from posting — due to the demands of the dreaded “REAL LIFE” — I am back with another installment of “Did You Know”! Don’t worry, you can be well assured that I was appropriately pummelled with wet noodles for my prolonged absense, and it won’t happen again!
So….. “did you know” that when you are buying items from a vendor, there are different options for choosing the amount that you buy? What I mean is, with a simple press of a button, you can indicate the quantity you’d like:
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