eldaeriel posted this on April 24th, 2013.
Categorized as adventures, eq2, everquest 2, games, MMO, Raid, rpg.
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Full link: http://starandshadow.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/moloing-protectors-realm/
I’ve been really missing the inquisitor class from eq2 (the hunter in lotro is very similar to eq2′s ranger) so I thought I’d pop back in and give her a whirl. I have a baby guild there still, 10 levels away from being able to get a guild hall so I thought I’d try the recommended way to get some quick plat and status – soloing Protector’s Realm with a mercenary (it’s known as moloing 
) I didn’t think I’d do particularly well, seeing as she is wearing handcrafted gear and has low AA points but I found a SK merc and thought I’d give it a shot.
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DocHoliday 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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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2013/03/06/lotro-official-update-10-release-notes/
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DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View
<Update>
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.
<End Update>
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eldaeriel posted this on February 27th, 2013.
Categorized as games, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, ost dunhoth, Raid, rpg, weekly screenshot.
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Full link: http://starandshadow.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/ost-dunhoth/
On Monday evening we had a kin outing to Ost Dunhoth, as we were all mostly level 85 we cleared the whole thing on T1 in one evening. It must have been insane back when it was the cap level raid – I was pretty happy to have those extra 20 levels 
I really enjoyed seeing the whole zone and especially enjoyed playing through the overarching storyline.
(click for slideshow and larger images)
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Merric 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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Full link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cstmfeed/~3/ql-OduG_R0I/
Today’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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Merric 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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RockX 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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DocHoliday 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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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2013/01/31/lotro-update-10-hits-bullroarer/
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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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DocHoliday 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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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2013/01/31/lotro-update-10-hits-bullroarer/
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DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View
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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DocHoliday 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 
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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DocHoliday posted this on January 23rd, 2013.
Categorized as BG, End Game, Equipment, gear, group, instances, isengard, legendary items, lord of the rings online, lotro, Patch Notes, Raid.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2013/01/23/lotro-update-9-1-patch-notes/
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DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View
I didn’t even realize a patch was incoming until I saw the notice that the servers were coming down. Nothing too exciting here, mainly bug fixes and tweaks to the instance loot. Check out the full notes here and here were the top things I picked out:
- Fixed the armor values for the level 85 Dol Guldur sets
- Fixed the invisible travel mounts and Hytbold NPCs
- Festival quests will be removed from your log once the festival ends
- Mainly an increase overall in the drops of the uber equipment in the new instance spaces and scaling instances
- To reduce the effectiveness of BG farming, Tiers 1&2 for the Twins and Durchest no longer contain symbols in their loot table. However, the challenge mode chests remain unchanged for all bosses.
- Mirkwood vendors have all now switched over to skirmish rewards instead of the Mirkwood barter items.
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DocHoliday posted this on January 11th, 2013.
Categorized as arg, End Game, expansion, festival, Free to Play, Funcom, housing, instances, lord of the rings online, lore, lotro, mounted combat, Raid, rohan, secret world, the secret war, The Secret World, TSW.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2013/01/11/2013-lotro-and-tsw-predictions/
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DocHoliday's MMO Saloon - LOTRO, Secret World, & Rift with an End-Game View
I do find in interesting and enjoyable to not only look forward, but also take a look back at what we’ve done in the past. I’m going to limit my predictions to the two main MMOs I’m playing these days (LOTRO and TSW). Before I look ahead, lets see how well (or poorly) I did predicting 2012.
I ended up not doing too badly with many of my predictions but did miss on a couple:
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