A Casual Stroll to Mordor

In today’s Developer Diary, Brian “Zombie Columbus” Alosio (ZC) discusses the much debated Currency Consolidation that is coming in Update 5 on Monday.

Elliot ‘Avon’ Gilman released a Developer Diary covering a subject that was actually brought up in our recent interview with Turbine, which is the change of reputation items into consumable items.

Leo “Ransroth” Zelevinsky wrote a great Developer Diary about the new Instance Finder coming up on Update 5. Actually, it’s not so much a traditional Developer Diary as much as it is a tutorial similar to Goldenstar’s about how to use the Instance finder utilizing a system of questions and answers that he has received from the community.

Released today was a Developer Diary that takes a different perspective and instead of coming from one source it comes from a number of Turbine employees

A Developer Diary was released by Jeff “Made of Lions” Libby who touches on the upcoming Epic Storyline that is coming with Update 5.

In a truant, but welcome Developer Diary Jeff “MadeOfLions” Libby discusses the new Epic Storyline released with The Rise of Isengard expansion as well as some of the technology used in creating it.

Did you think that the Developer Diaries were over? Well, frankly so did we. However, proving us wrong yesterday saw the release of a Developer Diary containing information about Dunland itself by Jessie “Vastin” King.

Today, in a short and very cryptic Developer Diary, Fellowship Maneuvers are discussed along with their functionality within raids.

Another Developer Diary has been released; this time focused on Draigoch, the dragon who is the boss of Rise of Isengard’s new 12/24-man raid.

In today’s Dev Diary on crafting in the Rise of Isengard expansion, we get a look at the new tier of crafting called “Westfold”. So what is some of the information that is divulged to us?

In today’s release of the Warden Developer Diary by Allan “Orion” Maki we get a look at the upcoming changes with the Warden class. He states that the assignment came as a bit of surprise to him,

Today’s release of the Rune-keeper Developer Diary by Zombie Columbus covers their upcoming changes in the Rise of Isengard expansion. His goals with the class this time around were:

Hunters are the subject of today’s Developer Diary by Brian “Zombie Columbus” Alosio. And although it hasn’t been a long time since Hunters were last updated there are still some “major changes” coming for the Hunters in Rise of Isengard.

Jared “Kelsen” Pruett has delivered one of the first of apparently several PvMP themed Developer Diaries concerning changes to the system in the Rise of Isengard. This post specifically focuses on the changes to the Free People’s side (Freeps) and what players can expect once the expansion is released.

In what can almost be described as a novella, Orion has released the latest Developer Diary regarding Minstrels in the upcoming expansion, Rise of Isengard. The changes are, at the very least, extensive and intricate.

Ken “Graalx2” Burd released the Guardian Developer Diary for the Rise of Isengard expansion today, and I have to say I enjoy most of the changes. As someone whose “main” character is a Guardian, I’ve been eager to see what changes would make it in comparison to their previous announcement earlier this year.

Lore-masters are the subject of today’s Developer Diary by Tim “Raskolnikov” Lang. In it he describes the Lore-master has having “a lot of breadth in the skills that they have access to.”

Allan “Orion” Maki released today the Developer Diary for Champions for the Rise of Isengard expansion (and boy is it a long one at that).

In another Developer Diary by Tim “Raskolnikov” Lang, we take a look at the Burglar changes that are upcoming in Rise of Isengard.

Tim “Raskolnikov” Lang has put out the first of the upcoming Developer Diaries covering the class changes in the upcoming Rise of Isengard expansion. This one is all about the Captain class!

Today, The LOTRO Systems Team has released another diary about Itemization (the creating and distribution of items throughout the game).

This past week Raskolnikov has issued not one, but two different posts concerning Lore-masters. Let’s take a look and see what he proposed and my thoughts on them. Skill Changes: Wisdom of the Council: Reduced cooldown from 10m to 5m. Call to the Valar: Reduced cooldown from 10m to 5m. Increased Power cost. Ancient Wisdom [...]

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.