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Turbine talks 2012 Plans for LOTRO

DocHoliday — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:37:23 +0000

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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

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Orion Teases Update 6 Warden Changes

DocHoliday — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:07:12 +0000

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Last night, Orion posted a few teasers on what he has up his sleeve for the upcoming Warden changes planned (hopefully) for Update 6. Orion didn’t give too many details, but laid out some ideas that sound interesting but I will admit it doesn’t sound like the class is getting any simpler. Keep in [...]

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Lore-mastery: Two is the lonliest number

PB — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:00:50 +0000

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As you should know by now, I really like the lore-master class and I think it’s well designed and very useful in both group and solo situations. Today’s column, however, focuses on one of its weaknesses – lore-masters don’t play particularly well with other lore-masters in tougher group content, [...]

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Orion Teases Warden Changes with Update 6

DocHoliday — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:51:25 +0000

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Orion has a couple of quick posts up on the forums talking about the Warden changes coming for Update 6. Nothing huge, but some indications of where he’s headed, and of course nothing is finalized yet. His first post lays out 3 key ideas: 3 distinct modes and a fourth generic one Tank – confirmed [...]

Lore-mastery: Soloing old content for fun and profit

PB — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:58:45 +0000

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One of the things I’ve been enjoying doing with the new level cap increase is going back and soloing old group content. The lore-master has always been a strong soloing class, with its toolbox of cc, debuffs, healing (both self and pet) and pets themselves and some of the changes in the expansion have made [...]

Good Warden News in Update 5

DocHoliday — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:00:21 +0000

Orion not only popped onto the forums, but he’s also discussing what he’s been able to get in for the class coming with Update 5. HoTs will be significantly boosted to compensate for the incoming damage scaling Changes to some skills to enable them to contribute to partial mitigations He’s considering moving tactical contributions from Related posts:

Orion Comments on the Post Isengard Warden

DocHoliday — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:51:19 +0000

Today was a nice surprise when I saw Orion make a number of posts to try and summarize the feedback and issues with the class. He did a great job of summarizing and clarifying the issues, and although there are things he’s not in control of, he did promise to discuss with the folks who Related posts:

Compilation of Post Isengard Launch Information

DocHoliday — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:11:35 +0000

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 Related posts:

Isengard Post Launch Thoughts

DocHoliday — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:51:27 +0000

I’m a little torn so far on my thoughts for the new Isengard expansion. I haven’t had as much time in game as I might like, but I have been in quite a bit and have hit 70 on my Warden. Starting with the downers, there are significant issues with the expansion as you can Related posts:

Isengard Rune-keeper Developer Diary

DocHoliday — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:30:30 +0000

Well Zombie Columbus has been teasing us for a while about this diary, and apparently he was determined to not let Orion show him up as he released a massive 7 page Developer Diary today walking through the Rise of Isengard changes for Rune-keepers. I rarely play my RK (she’s 20 something) so I really Related posts: