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In this episode, we are joined with CSTM’s newest blogger, Kiarane. Kia is the one who has been organizing and posting the fabulous Decoration and Furniture Guide.
This week Goldenstar has been primarily focusing on playing with the Summer Festival. Merric got his minstrel to level 40. Kia has been working on small corrections to the furniture guide and gathering the new summer items to add to the guide. Kia is working on decoration post utilizing the summer festival items. She’s also working on housing videos
Town Crier:
- Summer Festival Quest Guide
- Known Issues with Summer Festival
- Massively F2P Dev Interview
- MMORPG’s Interview with Turbine at E3
- Tell the Community Team – Hunters
- Anniversary Tokens have stopped dropping; vendors disappear July 7
- Quarterly Wallpapers Released
- PC Gamer: Blizzard discuss making World of Warcraft free
Free to Play Information:
- There will be 12 instances that scale come Book 2.
- Thorog’s Wing is still 24
- No plans to increase additional inventory space.
Player News:
- Bryandt shared his Death from Below for Minstrel‘s Guide
- Decimma sent in a Money Making Guide
- Veneration’s Part 2 guide to Sword Halls
- New Lore-master blog: Staff Strike
Raise Your Glass:
Maltbeard on Silverload:
Isn’t it in Turbine’s best interest to keep “Quest Leveling” (my favorite style of story consumption and leveling) flowing, natural feeling and easy?
What parts (or zones) of the game are best/worst for that play style and why do you think Turbine designed that part of the game that way (is it to encourage group play)?
Aelgerion:
Hi! First I just want to say thank you for putting your podcast together week after week. You both do a great job and give a great perspective on the game.
I’m hoping you can give some suggestions on where a casual minded player would quest around the level 40 range (my first time getting to 40 in LOTRO). I’m a bit early for Eregion I think and I’ve primarily used skirmishes for leveling. I’m really looking forward to the 40-50 section of Merric’s alt project..but I know that will be a while.
Musical Credits:
- “Battle of Ballylochian” by Fathom
- “Pigeon on the Gate” by Fathom
- “Swan Ships of Alqualonde” performed by Lonely Mountain Band
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July 5, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Yay Great Stuff Downloading on itunes Now
Thanks
July 5, 2010 at 8:39 pm
I had a great time! God I was stressed at the beginning, hehe. And thanks to those in the chat room for the support, is was very much appreciated!
July 6, 2010 at 8:19 am
You were Great
July 6, 2010 at 1:49 am
Excellent podcast! Really enjoyed chuckling along.
My suggestion for housing, if they won’t move crafting there, is to somehow make it THE place for all future ‘Hobbies’.
Kia mentioned the Sims. Turn housing zones into just that.
Good night!
July 6, 2010 at 1:59 am
My guess is that a housing update will be something similar to what they implented in DDO. At least for Kinhouses. You’ll have a place to activate buffs that you’ve purchased that will benefit the entire kinship for a limited amount of time. When that runs out, you’ll need to purchase another.
July 6, 2010 at 8:10 am
Nice Podcast, great to hear Kia talking about her great work, there does seem to be a lot more interest in Housing recently which is awesome! We are off to get some more trophies from GA tonight for our kin house!
I’m a little torn about the dungeon join, I think it’ll be usefull and I’ll certainly appreciate and use it with my friends and kin, especially as we have limited time with baby dwarf. But I do worry about if it will create a speed instance culture and expectation like in some MMO’s: enter, give me my quest, port me there, kill boss, lootz, go… kthxbai. Hopefully not, and that this will be a usefull re-visit feature, but time will tell
@Merric do you mean the grey speckled horse, with a red saddle cloth? (I can’t think of any other horses with a red saddle cloth). If so then its the Council of the North faction horse Garth Forthnir in ANGMAR! Have it on my Champ and it is indeed AWESOME!
@Merric have you thought about breaking it down to 5 level intervals on your altaholism posts from level 40, be a little easier, and class quests are at 45?
July 6, 2010 at 8:36 am
I do know that on Brandywine, there are a couple of French-speaking kinships, one of which is Le Ordre des Dragonnes Blancs. (not quite sure on the spelling)
July 6, 2010 at 10:27 am
Another fine podcast guys, Kia you were great!
July 6, 2010 at 5:54 pm
My new house is awesome! I still haven’t figured what trophies I will hang up, but the “bedroom” is incredible. It just works! Thanks Kia!!!!!
July 6, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Enjoyed the podcast. Agree with the rest of the girls. Hunters can paint their nails while fighting
I am loving the decorating guides. Can’t wait to see what else ya’ll come up with.
Bind on Acquire Cosmetics from the festival make me frown. I have no idea where I am gonna store them.
Very upsetting.
I am hoping the update to housing is not what they put in DDO… I would, however, like for the hooks to be placed better. I am torn on the crafting. Perhaps as a kin house reward.
See ya in Middle-Earth,
-R
Dungeon Join might be useful at times, but I don’t want to see the game made an instant travel game. Riding my horse and finding myself in trouble is half the fun. Summoning horns were useful.
July 6, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Great podcast! It is awesome to finally put a voice to the prolific Kia.
Make sure you ask about the “bird” pet during your Loremaster’s roundtable. I suspect you will find that many who play LM as their primary love it and you should be able to get some pointers on how to use it so you’ll love it too. Here’s a hint: Flanking Rules!
July 7, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Awesome podcast as usual. I admit I was not particularly interested in housing, I just bought my first house 2 weeks ago. The housing discussion was very enlightening in that I had no idea that the housing system was so dynamic.
Kia, your english is wonderful. I find that those who speak english as a second language try harder to speak properly. Then they end up sounding more eloquent than some native speakers.
I could listen to you say “Nimrodel” all day long…