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 Diseases/wounds? First boss has a DoT wound [...]

PB 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

Right on the heels of the Riders of Rohan Expansion announcement, Massively released an article with comments from Kate Paiz and Adam Mersky talking about the upcoming year. The article starts off with a bit of a look back at 2011 and I think it is fair to say the whole EU transition took up way [...]

DocHoliday Turbine talks 2012 Plans for LOTRO

1. Turbine 2010 Plans – Volume 3 target date According to Adam Mersky at Turbine, via MMOrpg.com, Volume 3...
2. Turbine Finally Talks about the Store Armor Issue Sapience today put up quite a lengthy post on the...
3. Stumbling into 2012 I’ve been pretty quiet lately and that’s mainly due to...

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

Sapience today put up quite a lengthy post on the armor store issue today, and while there’s quite a bit of PR-speak in there he does address a couple issues.  I honestly don’t think this will change anyone’s perception of things, but at least this is a post from Turbine acknowledging the issue and [...]

DocHoliday Turbine Finally Talks about the Store Armor Issue

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 [...]

DocHoliday Creep Mitigation Issues

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

Notice the name change for this update, which makes sense for me as it is a bug-fix patch for Update 5. The Known issues are up first with a few: Skill Cooldowns are not resetting for the Kalbak fight in the Tower of Orthanc Quest log is not displaying challenge rewards Whipmaster can fall into [...]

DocHoliday Update 5.1 Patch Notes and Known Issues

Luckily for me, unlike Doc I have had the chance over the past few weeks to play through all of the new instances and 3/6 wings of the new raid. I thought I’d jot down some quick impressions and give people an opportunity to post their reviews and thoughts on the Update 5 group content. Overall I [...]

A few new screenshots were released today showing off the new instance spaces.  The spaces highlighted in these shots are the Pits of Isengard, Fanghorns Edge, and Dragnakh Unleashed. Sadly I’m still haven’t had much chance to get into these spaces so I’m living vicariously through these images and [...]

1. Update 5: Armies of Isengard Release Notes I’m sure many have already found these but I at...
2. New Screenshots of LOTRO’s Draigoch Just when we thought Turbine had slowed up with the...
3. New Rise of Isengard Screenshots of Gear and Items Through some of the videos we’ve seen and heard of...

I thought it might be interesting to put up a post for people to share their early experiences with the instance finder. While still in an early iteration, the IF is a pretty big change to the game and could have a big impact on how people play the game. Personally I usually run groups with kin or [...]

1. Instance Finder Coming to LOTRO In an interview with Adam Mersky and Aaron Campbell,...
2. Bullroarer Updates for Instances and Skirmishes There’s been quite a stir of late regarding the upcoming...
3. Better Hurry to Bullroarer for Update 5 It appears that Turbine has gotten all it wants out...

While we’re all waiting for the servers to come back up, you can browse through not only the Patch Notes but also the Known Issues posted today. The patch notes are pretty extensive with all sorts of things hanging especially for many classes.  I highly suggest taking a read for your class of [...]

1. Bullroarer Patch Notes (Build 2) for Update 5 The second build to Bullroarer is now live for the...
2. LOTRO Update 2 Patch and Known Issues Today was the first update for the Echoes of the...
3. LOTRO Update 3 Official Patch Notes The official Patch notes are live, no big surprises but...

I know many, including myself, have been wondering how all these marks, medallions, and seals will work out and how our current stuff will transition to the new.  Luckily Zombie Columbus puts it all out for us with a nice Q&A section to describe all the new currency changes coming with Update [...]

1. Bullroarer Updates for Instances and Skirmishes There’s been quite a stir of late regarding the upcoming...
2. Update 5: Armies of Isengard Release Notes I’m sure many have already found these but I at...
3. Developer Diary – Instances 2.0 Part 2 The next portion of JWBarry’s Developer Diaries is up, this...