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Pre-launch Developer Chat!
Posted on02. Sep, 2010 by Merric.
WarCry will be hosting a Developer Chat with some of the Turbine Staff on Tuesday, September 7th at 1:00 PM EDT (-4 GMT/UTC)
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Server Names Announced
Posted on01. Sep, 2010 by Merric.
Sapience posted that the North American server names have been chosen and that they will be available starting September 8th!
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Dev Diary: Crafting in Free-to-Play (Volume 3.2)
Posted on31. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
With Volume 3.2 Weaponsmiths and Woodworkers are having some revisions which “…introduces an arsenal of new crafted weapons…” that target not only their stats but their damage types as well. However, it’s important to note that no existing crafted weapons will be changed.
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Scheduled Maintenance: Monday, August 30
Posted on28. Aug, 2010 by Goldenstar.
Sapience posted that the LOTRO Game Servers and http://myaccount.turbine.com will be offline for maintenance on Monday, August 30 from 6:00AM to 2:00PM Eastern (-4 GMT). The forums and wikis will remain up, but players may not be able to log in.
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Dev Diary: Captain Revision
Posted on26. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
Wow, there sure is a flood of information coming in about Free-to-Play isn’t there? Today, with the release of Ken “Graalx2” Burd’s developer diary on Captains, is no exception. Although a lot of this can be heard about in our Beta Roundtable, let’s go ahead and recap what we can expect to see for Captains on September 10th.
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Dev Diary: The Wardrobe System
Posted on24. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
The latest Developer Diary by Elliot “Avon” Gilman concerning the Wardrobe System that will be released with the upcoming Free-to-Play release on September 10th. For those who are unaware of what the Wardrobe system might be, it is a “…system designed to store the appearances of these [cosmetic] items and includes some unique features not seen with shared storage or the vault.”
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Scheduled Maintenance August 23, 2010
Posted on20. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
Turbine will be having some downtime for the game servers in the US next Monday.
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Dev Diary: Instances 2.0 (Part 5)
Posted on18. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
Today, sees the last installment from Joe “jwbarry” Barry discussing the revamps we’ll see concverning dungeons in the upcoming F2P release. In this installment he discusses the Great Barrow Cluster aka, Othrongroth
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Official Instance Join List
Posted on18. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
In today’s Dev Diary (which we will have a review of up shortly) was released the Instance Join List that we will see in Free to Play. Those that are in bold type are the dungeons that have been revamped, while the rest are within the Instance Join List, but have yet to be converted to the new scaling model.
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Beta Player Journals: Class Changes
Posted on09. Aug, 2010 by Merric.
Today saw the release of the last set of Beta Journals which covers the differences of class changes.
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Tell the Community Team 7/30/2010 Wardens
Posted on30. Jul, 2010 by Merric.
“Tell the Community Team” is where Turbine asks for the players to give them direct and specific feedback about a specific topic. This is really a fantastic opportunity for you to give your thoughts and opinions about the game directly to Turbine to think about.
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New Starting Area Screenshots!
Posted on29. Jul, 2010 by Merric.
Turbine released today new screenshots from the upcoming release coming this fall. The screens are of the new Man and Hobbit starting areas!
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Dev Diary: Instances 2.0 (Part 2)
Posted on28. Jul, 2010 by Merric.
Released today was Part 2 of 5 in the Instances 2.0 series created by Joe “jwbarry” Barry. In case you don’t remember, this discusses the scaling instance system that’s coming with F2P. This post however covers the rewards that come from completing and scaling instances.
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Tell the Community Team 7/23/10 Rune-keepers
Posted on23. Jul, 2010 by Merric.
“Tell the Community Team” is where Turbine asks for the players to give them direct and specific feedback about a specific topic. This is really a fantastic opportunity for you to give your thoughts and opinions about the game directly to Turbine to think about. These “Tell the Community Team” questions focus on Rune-keepers. They [...]






