Are you a LOTRO hoarder?
Roger Edwards posted this on July 17th, 2011.
Categorized as Erebrandir's Horseshoe, hoarding, lotro, storage, vault.
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Full link: http://www.containsmoderateperil.com/2011/07/are-you-lotro-hoarder.html
There was a rather interesting article posted this week on the Massively websites regarding Erebrandir's Horseshoe. It explored quite a few theories about the item which is still cloaked in mystery. However, the main reason I picked up on this post was because I still have this particular item in my ingame vault. As a result it got me thinking about the whole concept of hoarding loot. Lets face it, if you've been playing LOTRO for more than a year there is potentially a lot to hoard.
I think its fair to say that when you play an MMO, you bring a great deal of your own personality traits to the game. It certainly plays a part when making the choice of class for your primary character. Depending on your mindset you may choose a traditional name based on lore or you may pick something humorous. The entire process of creating an alt and customising each aspect of it, is our way of expressing ourselves. Okay enough of this faux psychology. With regard to possessions and personal bric-a-brac, I take a very spartan approach in my personal life. I like order. I do not like clutter. Everything has a place. I subsequently bring that mindset to the LOTRO.
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LOTRO Store Weekly Sale
Goldenstar posted this on January 13th, 2011.
Categorized as LotRO store, quest pack, Sale, store, vault.
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Here are the weekly sale items for Friday, January 14th through Thursday, January 20th, 2011. Remember the sales run from midnight to midnight Eastern Standard Time (-5 GMT)!
20% off Vault Upgrades
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LOTRO Developer Diary: Vault 2.0
DocHoliday posted this on October 21st, 2010.
Categorized as Developer Diaries, Free to Play, lotro, screenshots, vault.
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Following up from yesterday’s announcement, Turbine released the Dev Diary on the upcoming Vault Changes. I actually didn’t have that many issues with the new vault, but I know many of you absolutely hated it, so I’m sure this is quite welcome. It certainly looks like this is a great combination of both the new and old systems, taking the best from both of them.

Dev Diary: Vault 2.0
Merric posted this on October 21st, 2010.
Categorized as dev diary, LotRO News, Ransroth, turbine, vault.
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With the release of Volume 3.2 we saw a revision of the Vault put forth. Not one to sit on his laurels, Ransroth has released another Dev Diary discussing even more upcoming changes to the vault system. The changes that we can expect to see are as follows:
Instead of a list, the main view is segmented into chests with both a name and header that can be renamed at any time.- A chest with no items will not be displayed until an item has been put into it.
- The chest dropdown menu has been replaced with a grouping of tabs on the right-hand side.
- Clicking on a tab will filter the view only displaying the items within that chest.
- Items can be dragged and dropped onto a tab to move an item into that particular chest.
The view can be changed to view items either as icons and text or just as icons.- The Vault and Shared Storage can be resized both horizontally and vertically.
- Right-clicking on an item will (still) allow you to move it to another chest, but it will list the chests via their name.
- You can now open the Vault, Shared Storage, and Wardrobe that will allow you to open the other panels instead of having to speak to the Vault Keeper once again.
- “There is now a new kind of sort: the “Auto” sort. This sort automatically groups similar kinds of items together, and sorts them within the groups in a smarter way than alphabetically. For example, IXP Runes will automatically be arranged by kind (level 60 first, then level 65), and then by the amount of IXP that the rune will award. Legendary Weapons and Items are sorted by the player’s class, then rarity, then minimum level to equip, then item class. Crafting ingredients are sorted by profession, then tier. Anything that doesn’t fall into one of the special categories will be sorted by rarity and item class.”
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he view can be filtered by chest, by name, and by type. - There is now a “Show All” button to clear the filter as well as keyboard shortcut that can be created to clear the filter. (No key is mapped to this entry by default.)
- You can now hold the Shift key to split items dialogue while moving them from various windows.
- Double-clicking on a stackable item in the Vault will merge it into an existing stack in your inventory.
- “Dragging a stackable item from the Vault over a partial stack in the inventory will fill the stack in the inventory and deposit the rest of the item back to the Vault.”
- The Vault will automatically merge partial stacks of the same kind together. However, you should read what this might mean if you keep stacks of the same item in separate chests.
- The Vault UI is loaded differently to make it much faster.
More Vault Space Coming to the LOTRO Store
Goldenstar posted this on October 14th, 2010.
Categorized as LotRO store, storage, store, vault.
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In an announcement today, Turbine states that more vault space items will be added as a permanent option in the LOTRO Store starting tomorrow! We will now have the option to pay to increase our vault space to a maximum of 150 storage slots.
The option to increase to 135 was temporarily available at F2P launch and so if it seems familiar that may be why. It also cost 995 at the time so they have gone down in price. I think Turbine simply knows storage is their big seller and they need to make it available all the time and not just for specials.
Now I should warn you that these purchases will be applied only to the character that you are on. These will not increase all your vault space account wide!
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Merric posted this on August 25th, 2010.
Categorized as beta, dev diary, Dev Team, F2P, General, Ransroth, storage, vault.
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A Dev Diary written by Ransroth was released today concerning the upcoming changes to the vault system with the upcoming release of Free-to-Play on September 10th. There have been quite a few changes to the system about which people may find themselves conflicted; I know I was, but we’ll get to that later.
First, let’s take a look at some of the changes to the systems and the new features that it will provide for all players:
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