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Servers Live!
Siege of Mirkwood is now live on all LOTRO Servers! That is all.
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Siege of Mirkwood: Patch Notes and Known Issues
With the Siege of Mirkwood due to launch today, I was planning on posting the entire patch note list for my readers… I did not expect how large that list would be though! Instead I will just provide a link for you all and some commentary. First, though, the Known Issues (linked – list is [...]
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Mirkwood Explained: Opening Skirmishes
Videos of the Skirmish Tutorial instances and a general guide on how to complete the Skirmishes Tutorial in order to open them for future use.
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Digesting the patch notes
Holy cow, there are a lot of them however they are broken up into quite a few bite-sized chunks. And most of them are things already covered in depth in their Developer Diaries. Things like: Skirmishes The Combat and character sheet revamp Mounts The main menu The lone lands revamp Legendary ...
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My guest podcast appearance
So I had a blast chatting with the LOTRO Reporter folks last week, their latest episode (episode 15) is posted on their website. We covered a bunch of different topics but a good bit on Wardens and how I got started with them, Legendary Item legacy pool discussion, beta in general, and also my ...
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LOTRO Reporter Episode 015
Download the podcast directly here: Podcast015 Episode 15 Show Notes This week, we discussed: 1) Legendary Item Legacy Pool http://www.lotro.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/541-developer-diary-legacy-pool-distribution-by-class?start=1 2) Massive SoM ...
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‘Twas the Night Before Mirkwood…
Well, less than thirty minutes to go out here until Dec. 1st. Sure, the servers won't be up again with Mirkwood until later today, but this dwarf is heading off for the night. I look forward to Siege of Mirkwood and the changes it will bring. See you on the other side (of the Anduin), Moormur
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Siege of Mirkwood Patch Notes
Highlights The Skirmish System has Arrived! The Skirmish System has arrived! Brian “Zombie Columbus” has put together a seven part series of Developer Diaries that explain every possible aspect of this massive new system. Be sure to read the entire collection! Part 1: Overview Part ...
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Mirkwood Explained: Opening Skirmishes
Videos of the Skirmish Tutorial instances and a general guide on how to complete the Skirmishes Tutorial in order to open them for future use.
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Dev Diary: Crafting in Siege of Mirkwood
A look at the changes coming in crafting with Siege of Mirkwood. Some good, some bad, some amazingly good!
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Dev Diary – Mirkwood Crafting Changes
So there’s a fair number of changes coming up for crafting with Mirkwood as the new diary explains. Overall there are some nice additions and changes, but nothing overwhelmingly exciting. I also found a good legendary page on the Lorebook so check it out – link is at the bottom of the post and ...
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Updates to My.LOTRO.com
So with Mirkwood launching tomorrow, there’s a big push at Turbine to get all the web apps updated as well. My.LOTRO is getting a bunch of updates to account for the new things coming with Mirkwood, primarily the skirmishes. Updated to WordPress 2.7 – which I’m not 100% sure what exactly it ...
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PC Woes
I’ve been bitching for a few months on Twitter about the extremely unstable state of my PC, but I haven’t been in the mood for any PC gaming at all, so I’ve just let it go. I’m slowly getting back in the mood to play a single MMOG — which will be LOTRO, naturally ...
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Dev Diary – Lone Lands revamp
So I’m a little late, but a busy weekend with Thanksgiving, holiday decorating, and recovery taking up a bunch of my time. A bunch of folks have already covered this, but I wanted to do a quick recap and summary of what’s coming. For me, this is a very welcome revamp as not only was [...]
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What to do on the first days of Siege of Mirkwood?
lotroreporter.wordpress.com — So it’s Tuesday morning, the servers have come back up, and you’re wondering what you can do... now that Siege of Mirkwood is live. Well, here are some thoughts: 1) Go directly into Mirkwood. The nice thing about this expansion is that the ... (more) What to do on the first days of Siege of Mirkwood?
What to do in the last days of Mines of Moria?
So, you’ve got one day left before Siege of Mirkwood comes out and you’re wondering: What am I to do on this last day of pre-SoM content? Well, here are a few ideas: 1) Try to get a group together for Garth Agarwan. With the changes comming to the Lone Lands, GA will no longer be [...]
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Did you know…
I recently discovered the LOTRO Lorebook. Yeah, it’s not exactly a new thing in the game, but it’s a new-to-me thing! The Lorebook, which is a wiki (database), with some player-created content and some Official Turbine Stuff, contains all kinds of useful LOTRO information. It can ...
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Poll: First Task in SoM
With the Siege of Mirkwood launch just days away now, we're curious what your plans are. This week's poll is: What will you do first when SoM launches?
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Outside LOTRO: Tolkien Inspired Bard
Our thanks go out again to Heiko for sharing these YouTube videos of Colin John Rudd who has put some music to Tolkien’s lyrics like Galenswerd is doing with his Lonely Mountain Band project. However, while Lonely Mountain Band is 100% Tolkien work, Colin John Rudd has a mix of music types in ...
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Siege of Mirkwood: Instance Changes and Garth Agarwen
Continuing my posts on the updates coming with Siege of Mirkwood, I am writing today about some changes to the Instance system and the changes to Garth Agarwen that come about due to those updates. This is the post I promised you all in my previous post on the updates: Siege of Mirkwood – Lone ...
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