DocHoliday posted this on December 8th, 2011.
Categorized as Developer Diaries, lord of the rings online, lotro, moria, reputation, Update 5.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/12/08/update-5-reputation-dev-diary/
One of the less talked about changes with Update 5 comes in the form of some tweaks to the Reputation system, and mainly in the way the turn-ins are handled. Like the previous Instance Finder diary, this does function more as a Q&A but a little more beef in it.
Essentially all the various items that previously you had to turn in to some guy somewhere, they’re now consumable! So you just use the item from your inventory and poof you have more reputation!
Read the rest of this entry »PB posted this on October 24th, 2011.
Categorized as crafting, Draigoch, gear, instances, isengard, Lore-Master, lore-mastery, loremaster, lotro, Minstrel, Raid, reputation, Rune-keeper, skirmish, stats.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/10/24/lore-mastery-level-75-non-armour-gear/
The end-game gear treadmill has started anew, so it’s time to start sitting down and working out what pieces you should be shooting for. I won’t be talking about armour in this post, both because I’ve discussed the raid armour set in a previous post, and because I haven’t yet had the time to work out the best way of mixing and matching set pieces with random drops. I’ll probably do a later post updating this one when I get the chance, but for now I’m focussing on non-armour pieces. Also, while the discussion here is specifically aimed at lore-masters, most of the stat priorities are the same for each of the 3 tactical classes so the gear discussed here should be basically the same as for minstrels and rune-keepers.
Where to get loot
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on September 13th, 2011.
Categorized as beta, champion, crafting, Draigoch, epic line, expansion, gear, group, Instance, isengard, legendary items, lord of the rings online, lotro, Minstral, podcast, Raid, Raids and End-game, reputation, Rise Of Isengard, store, Warden.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/09/13/episode-22-isengard-interview-with-turbine/
I have to admit I was a little shocked by the conversation today with Turbine on a number of fronts. I was very happy to hear from folks other then the Producers, not that that’s not valuable, but I had some pretty specific questions that I was glad to here ZC and Graalx2 hop in to cover. Not to mention there were quite a few very exciting things brought up in this interview.
My apologies for the call quality, not only were they on a speaker phone but I was recording using Google Voice which would sometimes drop out on our ends, but still record in good quality resulting in some question repetition.
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on August 19th, 2011.
Categorized as beta, crafting, Enedwaith, isengard, lord of the rings online, loremaster, lotro, lua, Mirkwood, moria, podcast, Raids and End-game, reputation, Rise Of Isengard, scripting, Skirmishes.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/08/19/sally-forth-in-middle-earth-episode-18/
Dealing with a slightly slower news week, this episode includes a longer topic and some more discussion on what I’ve been up to in-game.
News:
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on July 28th, 2011.
Categorized as beta, crafting, End Game, epic line, Equipment, expansion, finesse, gear, group, isengard, lord of the rings online, lotro, radiance, Raid, Raids and End-game, reputation, Rift, Rise Of Isengard, Skirmishes.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/07/28/lotro-rise-of-isengard-itemization-developer-diary/
Today Turbine posted a new Developer Diary talking about the itemization coming with the Rise of Isengard expansion. One of the big encouraging things for me was the intent to incentivize all sorts of player types including solo, crafters, raiders, and casual groupers. Of course, we still have to actually see it, but I was encouraged that they’ve identified there is a problem and are working to try to fix it. The pure fact that many still raid OD (all my characters do) with numerous pieces of the Moria sets highlights that we’ve been stuck in an item rut for a long time.
The first two points of the diary were to identify the big problems they’ve been facing:
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on June 21st, 2011.
Categorized as festival, Horse, lord of the rings online, lotro, mount, reputation.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/06/21/lotro-summer-festival-2011-horse/
So I’m still behind but wanted to post briefly on the new horse available with the Summer Festival that went live today. I must say, I really enjoy this general horse style as they look very nice. I haven’t seen too much else that’s new on the vendors, but will admit I haven’t looked too hard yet. I’ll try to post an update, but as always I will most likely just point over to CSTM’s Guide as Goldenstar’s guides are just amazing.
<Update> I ended up finding a stock-pile of old tokens, so was able to get the horse for the 20 tokens it takes, and still have some left over <Update>
Read the rest of this entry »Ketani posted this on April 26th, 2011.
Categorized as Angmar, Bullroarer, Council of the North, General, Horse, new, pony, reputation, steed.
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Full link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cstmfeed/~3/JGoE45axd6A/
A while back, I mentioned a new horse that was using an appearance from an existing horse. When first added to the game back in November of last year, the “Prized Angmar’s Free People’s Steed” had an identical appearance to the Dunedain War Steed earned by completing several Eriador instance deeds. This was later confirmed to be a bug, and we were told that it would be fixed in a later patch.
With the announcement that Bullroarer has been patched with Update 3 content, I decided to see if this horse had been updated with a new appearance yet. I am happy to confirm that the horse’s look has been updated! I think it’s rather impressive looking and I can’t wait for the patch so my captains can enjoy their "new" horses.
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on February 12th, 2011.
Categorized as beta, Bullroarer, echoes of the dead, End Game, Enedwaith, epic line, gear, group, hard-mode, legendary items, lord of the rings online, lotro, podcast, radiance, Raid, Raids and End-game, reputation, video, Warden.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/02/12/episode-6-of-the-sally-forth-in-lotro-podcast/
Episode 6 is now live, head on over to LOTRO on TGN-Stratics for the full show notes.
Read the rest of this entry »DocHoliday posted this on February 10th, 2011.
Categorized as lord of the rings online, lotro, reputation, screenshots, Warden.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/02/10/finally-world-renowned-in-lotro/
After all sorts of slaying, I’m now part of the cool-kids club of the World-Renowned. Granted, I’m sure when the first new zone pops I’ll have to prove myself all over again but oh well, that’s the life of an MMO player.
I put up a lengthy guide of how I did it over on TGN-Stratics but it certainly was much more enjoyable and rewarding then I thought it would be. Not to mention a TON of Turbine Points to use for other goodies that I might want.
DocHoliday posted this on February 6th, 2011.
Categorized as BG, End Game, Free to Play, legendary items, lord of the rings online, lotro, podcast, radiance, reputation, Skirmishes, video, Virtues, Warden.
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Full link: http://docholidaymmo.com/2011/02/06/episode-5-of-the-sally-forth-in-lotro-podcast/
Episode 5 is now live, head on over to LOTRO on TGN-Stratics for the full show notes.
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