A Casual Stroll to Mordor

With Rise of Isengard, we will be seeing some changes to virtues. The cap will be changing from rank 10 to rank 12 and because of the way certain stat changes are being implemented, we’ll be seeing a change in what many virtues do.

Kelsan posted today on the forums a short, but informative Questions and Answer post concerning some additional PvMP changes that we will be seeing with the Rise of Isengard expansion.

Orion is continuing his proposed changes for the Minstrel class and today has a nice summary post of what he suspects will be on the test servers for us to try out first.

A second blog post covering proposed minstrel changes has been posted by Orion late last night. This post focuses on trait sets, legacies and Anthems.

Orion has posted the proposed changes for the Minstrel class on his blog yesterday. These are proposed changes, as in there is nothing done to test servers or anything for us to try out.

Kelsen released a number of proposed changes to the Creep classes today in the official Creeps forums

Tim “Raskolnikov” Lang has a new dev diary out today about the changes they are making to the character panel.

Dynamic layering is a new technology rolled out in the last patch. It addresses a very real and concrete problem – server load and client side lag.

Its been a very challenging launch with the latest Book 2 update. There are many threads in the forums pointing out this or that problem. I thought I’d summarize it all here with what has changed since Monday:

September 8th was the day that Turbine took down their web sites to unveil their brand new lotro.com and community pages. I for one was excited. I was eager to see what sort of new features and options we’d have with the new community site.

This is our Beta Roundtable that was recorded Tuesday, August 3rd. We have with us five special beta testers who agreed on very short notice to talk about their experiences. We appreciate them taking the time to share their adventures in the beta so far.

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The new skill upgrade at level 64 changes a lot for the hunter class. Sure it has some down sides (For those who don’t play smart), but for the most part this gives hunters a chances to make some decisions that could change the course of battle!

Bullroarer will be down for scheduled maintenance today (February 17th) from 10am – 2pm EST.

Tomorrow starts the new and improved Yule Festival and there is a brand new dev diary released today talking about the goodies we will find. I plan to write up a full guide on the events to be found once I’ve experienced them all for you to help you get things done. Today we get to simply bounce around in excitement over what is to come!

It seems there is a bit of questions concerning the changes happening to how you obtain festival mounts so I’ll do my best to spell it out and explain why I feel it is not such a big deal.