DocHoliday posted this on January 19th, 2012.
Categorized as End Game, ettenmoors, lord of the rings online, lotro, moors, PvMP, pvp, Raid, Raids and End-game.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2012/01/19/creep-mitigation-issues/
DocHoliday's MMO Saloon
DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View
I saw a short dev update on this, so I wanted to share it. Turbine has made a mess of creep-side mitigation in recent history by breaking them in Update 5, “fixing” them with Update 5.1, but that fix really didn’t quite work. Many on the forums had been reporting that, and finally we hear confirmation that there’s still an issue. Kelsen posted today that they know there’s an issue and they plan an upcoming fix to restore creep mitigations to the pre-Update 5 levels. Essentially the fix they tried, didn’t work the way the wanted it to and there’s still more to do. However, there’s no word on when that patch might see the servers.
I know this doesn’t solve anything, but at least they acknowledge the problem and are planning to fix it soon.
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DocHoliday posted this on November 18th, 2011.
Categorized as Armies of Isengard, End Game, Equipment, Free to Play, gear, group, instances, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, moors, podcast, pvp, Raid, Raids and End-game, Rise Of Isengard, Update 5, Warden.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/11/18/interview-with-the-lotro-team/
DocHoliday's MMO Saloon
Once again I’m scheduling some time to chat with folks from Turbine about the various pieces of LOTRO that we all love, and some that we’re not so pleased about 
I’m still gathering my questions, but wanted to give folks an opportunity to get their questions in.
I can’t guarantee I’ll get to everything, nor am I 100% sure who I’ll have access to, but if my last interview is any indication they are open to pulling in people necessary to answer the questions.
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DocHoliday posted this on October 7th, 2011.
Categorized as End Game, Equipment, expansion, gear, group, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, Minstral, Minstrel, moors, PvMP, pvp, Raid, Raids and End-game, Rise Of Isengard, Skirmishes, tank, Traits, Warden.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/10/07/compilation-of-post-isengard-launch-information/
There has been quite a bit of change lately with Isengard, and I wanted to put up a post that combined some of that for folks.
First up, for those of you out in Dunland you may have interacted with an NPC Andred out in the Gravenwood. Personally, I had a horrible time trying to find the last two quests (the set is part of a deed) so I’m sharing the snapshot below to show you where I was standing when I was able to get these last two quests:
DocHoliday posted this on September 8th, 2011.
Categorized as beta, ettenmoors, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, moors, pvp, Raids and End-game, Rise Of Isengard.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/09/08/isengard-creep-pvmp-developer-diary/
Not to be outdone by his diary for the Freeps, Kelsen unveiled another diary today outlining the changes on the Creep side. This is another long one, weighing in at 6 pages, most of which means very little to me as I don’t play creep-side. Curiously absent though is any discussion on the store – I wonder if we’ll get another Store update like we did for Update 3?
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DocHoliday posted this on September 6th, 2011.
Categorized as beta, captain, Developer Diaries, End Game, Equipment, ettenmoors, expansion, Free to Play, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, moors, pvp, Raid, Raids and End-game, Rise Of Isengard, screenshots.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/09/06/isengard-developer-diary-freep-rewards/
We’ve seen and heard quite a bit about what’s happening on the Creep side of things out in the Ettenmoor, today Kelsen walks us through what we can expect on the Freep side. And there are some cool shinies that are making me do the math of how much I need to be in the moors to get those ranks!
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DocHoliday posted this on September 2nd, 2011.
Categorized as beta, Bullroarer, Developer Diaries, End Game, Equipment, expansion, gear, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, Minstral, Minstrel, moors, Raid, Raids and End-game, Rise Of Isengard, screenshots, threat, Traits.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/09/02/isengard-minstrel-developer-diary/
<Updated> I realized I mis-read the part on Cry of Valar – you no longer need to use a trait to get the ICMR buff for it as that buff is just part of the Cry now! <Updated>
Not to be out-done by the Champion diary, Orion takes us on a seven page description of what all is happening to the Minstrel class. Instead of outlining the diary here, I’m just going to give my takes on it page by page and try to summarize, otherwise this post would just be ridiculously huge.
The first page is mainly the introduction for the diary as well as the explanation of what happens with Medium Armor as Minstrels will no longer have the ability to trait for Medium Armor wearing. Any bound Medium Armor the Minstrel is wearing when Isengard launches will be converted to Light Armor.
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DocHoliday posted this on August 30th, 2011.
Categorized as beta, Developer Diaries, ettenmoors, Guardians, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, moors, PvMP, Rise Of Isengard, threat, Traits.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/08/30/guardian-isengard-developer-diary/
I have to admit, I was expecting a little more from this Diary as we really haven’t heard anything regarding threat changes with regards to all the DPS changes. I guess we’ll have to wait and hope they scaled them both appropriately as we progress to 75. Graalx2 gets the privilege of sharing this diary with us on the upcoming changes to the Guardians. He does try to ease the crowd by saying Guardians and Wardens will be able to tank just as effectively as Champions, and again to re-iterate my fears, I’m just not sure they’ll be able to out threat the DPS.
For the most part it seems like Guardians are getting a similar treatment to Burglars in that the class is pretty well set up. The main change they’re getting is a boost in DPS, but not in an obvious way:
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Iinferno posted this on July 6th, 2011.
Categorized as creep, ettenmoors, freep, Guide, monster play, moors, PvMP.
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Full link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cstmfeed/~3/wmXeNKD1YwY/
Hi everyone! This is Iinferno of Elendilmir (or Don if you’d rather call me that). I’m a huge moors addict, and love writing, so when I stumbled upon CSTM a while back I noticed a distinct lack in moors related content. More recently I wrote CSTM asking if they had need of a new writer and when they let me in I thought this would be a great time to fill in the gap in pvp content.
A Somewhat Brief Overview of the Moors
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DocHoliday posted this on June 15th, 2011.
Categorized as beta, Developer Diaries, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, Minstral, Minstrel, moors, pvp, Rise Of Isengard, Traits.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/06/15/proposed-isengard-minstrel-changes/
I know I’m quite a bit behind on these, but luckily for me Orion today posted a summary post that rolls all the previous posts up as well as incorporating all the feedback. As always, remember these are still in flux and make sure to leverage the forums for feedback on the class if you have it. The devs have been VERY busy on the forums lately, so I’d take advantage of that.
I’ll recap the previous posts briefly but will focus on the latest:
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DocHoliday posted this on June 14th, 2011.
Categorized as beta, End Game, Equipment, ettenmoors, Free to Play, gear, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, moors, PvMP, pvp, Raids and End-game, Rise Of Isengard.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/06/14/upcoming-lotro-freep-pvmp-changes/
I’m assuming these like the various class changes, will be rolling out with the Isengard expansion but we shall see.
Before I just into the Freep side, I did want to mention some of the creep changes. I say mention, as I don’t know jack about Creeps so I’ll keep it brief. But the big news is that with Isengard, free players (subscription reference, not game reference) will be able to join in the PvMP battles with the Reaver class. Other classes will be available in the store – which is also noteworthy since it signifies the store coming to the creep side as well. In addition to this news, Kelsen also posted notes on 2 of the creep classes:
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