Cash, Capes and Castles

posted this on February 5th, 2012.
Categorized as lotro.

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Full link: http://www.containsmoderateperil.com/cash-capes-and-castles/

Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns

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lotro outfit: champion

posted this on February 3rd, 2012.
Categorized as games, lord of the rings online, lotro, lotro outfit, MMO, rpg.

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Full link: http://suzitastarshadow.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/lotro-outfit-champion/

Meet my baby champion :)  She is now level 33 and I thought she deserved a new outfit.  I had found the legs whilst questing on Eldaeriel and loved them, although I wasn’t sure on who or how to use them.  I also haven’t found a perfect match with the jacket but I think it looks good enough.  I don’t usually use bright colours but if anyone is going to wear red, its going to be a champion surely?!

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The Songs of Middle Earth – Part One

posted this on February 2nd, 2012.
Categorized as lotro.

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Full link: http://www.containsmoderateperil.com/the-songs-of-middle-earth-part-one/

Tolkien’s use of songs are an integral part of his writings. I am not musically talented myself, nor am I a scholar of song structure, but I appreciate how he uses them for plot exposition and character development. The medium of song briefly gives us a window to glimpse the enormity of Middle Earth. They give us a sense of the vast history of the realm with all its associated culture and heritage, stretching back over millennia.

Norse and Anglo-Saxon Mythology were immensely important and influential on Tolkien. Thus many of his songs are in the idiom of Norse poetry. He often uses literary devices such as the pitch of repeating vowel sounds (assonance) as well as the resonance of repeating consonant sounds (both in alliteration and in consonance). Tolkien himself sanctioned composer Donald Swann (of Flanders and Swann fame) to set some of his work to music and it met with his approval. Yet there are no definitive musical versions. This leaves a great deal of scope for artists from all musical disciplines to interpret his work.

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LOTRO Update 5.2 Coming to Bullroarer

posted this on February 2nd, 2012.
Categorized as beta, Bullroarer, F2P, Free to Play, legendary items, lord of the rings online, lotro, Patch Notes, relic, store, Update 5.

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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2012/02/02/lotro-update-5-2-coming-to-bullroarer/

DocHoliday's MMO Saloon DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View

After all the anticipation of the patch notes coming down JUST before a server hiccup at Turbine brought down the website, the actual patch notes for Bullroarer are quite tame.

I think the biggest thing in there (other then sound to the /toast emote) is the change to the Lockboxes:

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weekly screenshot: dwarven artwork

posted this on February 1st, 2012.
Categorized as games, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, rpg, weekly screenshot.

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Full link: http://suzitastarshadow.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/weekly-screenshot-dwarven-artwork/

I found this rather nice tapestry in the Library of Steel (solo instance needing an infused adamant, obtained from Mundeirr, Dolven-View).  I wonder if it could show the Lonely Mountain in the background, possibly with Lake-Town directly behind the dwarf.  Hmm… any ideas? :)


Raid locks

posted this on February 1st, 2012.
Categorized as failwin, fightclub, lotro.

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Full link: http://formeniel.blogspot.com/2012/02/raid-locks.html

Again, based on a true story. I can't believe they got themselves locked ~15 minutes after the raid locks reset. Well done. /sigh


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Lore-mastery: Update 5 instances guide – Pits of Isengard

posted this on January 31st, 2012.
Categorized as DPS, End Game, group, hard-mode, instances, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, lotro, Pits of Isengard, Raids and End-game, Rise Of Isengard, threat, Update 5.

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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2012/01/31/lore-mastery-update-5-instances-guide-pits-of-isengard/

DocHoliday's MMO Saloon DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View

I was tossing up whether to do a Riders of Rohan wishlist post this week or continue with the update 5 instance guides, but I figure that the longer I take on these guides the less relevant they become so into the Pits of Isengard it is…

Pits of Isengard

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Warden Update 6 Dev Post #2

posted this on January 30th, 2012.
Categorized as beta, gambits, group, lord of the rings online, lotro, threat, update 6, Warden.

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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2012/01/30/warden-update-6-dev-post-2/

DocHoliday's MMO Saloon DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View

Orion has the second part of his Warden updates posted and this walks through the Shield and Spear line gambits.  If you missed Post #1, head over here :)   As a follow-up to that post, Orion also responds to some of the comments on the forums as well:

Contains Moderate Peril Episode 45: When You Have Eliminated the Impossible

posted this on January 30th, 2012.
Categorized as lotro, podcast.

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Full link: http://www.containsmoderateperil.com/contains-moderate-peril-episode-45-when-you-have-eliminated-the-impossible/

As January draws to a close, we find that there’s no shortage of topics to discuss in the podcast. This time we cover a variety of subjects from the cancellation of BlizzCon, the success of BBCs second season of Sherlock and the announcement of the new Riders of Rohan expansion pack for LOTRO. Brian and I are joined by Lisa this time round for an hour of discussion and debate:

  • Weekly Summary: Brian has made Star Trek Online his MMO of choice and continues to rediscover the game. Lisa hobnobs with Twitter celebrities. I continue with my ongoing struggle to earn credits in Star Wars: The Old Republic. [00:58]
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Riders of Rohan- A Monster’s Perspective

posted this on January 30th, 2012.
Categorized as creep, F2P, Free to Play, freep, lotro, monster play, opinions, PvMP, Riders of Rohan, rohan, RoR.

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Full link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cstmfeed/~3/vpOII_Fs1ac/

While most people read the announcement of RoR (pronounced RAWR! by me) and thought that it was awesome, I was left with more questions than answers. This is because I recently got added on to CSTM for a PVMP article and have been thinking in PVMP mentality for the last few weeks.  I was going to post my first issue of “How to be a Monster” and then RoR got announced.  After reading from multiple sites, I could not shake away PVMP questions about RoR.  I decided that while the news was still fresh I would write about how this expansion could change PVMP forever.