A Casual Stroll to Mordor

Today Turbine has released some new screenshots for Update 5, which released today!

A Developer Diary, written by Joe ‘”jwbarry” Barry, was released today focusing again on the Isengard Cluster that came with Update 5. And although I thought it was strange that we would see another diary focusing on the cluster it appears that while the Roundtable was focused on the process of designing the cluster, today’s focuses on the end result.

This week we talk about Update 5 information and what we’ve been playing with on Bullroarer!

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Sapience has posted on the forums the following which I think will be very good news to the folks worried about paying for the next set of instances releasing after Rise of Isengard.

This week we talk about the announcement of closed beta starting, new screenshots of Dunland, weekly store specials and more!

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This dungeon run was recorded on June 15, 2011. Our dungeon runners today were Kiarane (hunter), Goldenstar (minstrel) and the camera is being run by Merric (guardian).

Celestrata has confirmed that the two new dungeons, Halls of Night and Inn of the Forsaken, are now available in the LOTRO store for free and premium players to purchase.

Devonna at LOTRO Stylist blog checked the the skirmish vendor and found some new cosmetics that are tied to the two new dungeons.

Today Turbine released some official screenshots with the launch of Update 3: Lost Legends of Eriador which is now live on Turbine servers!

Run of Northcotton Farms with Merric (Guardian), Goldenstar (Minstrel) and Kiarane (Hunter). Instance run as tier 1 level 65. May 11, 2011.

Two developer diaries were published today for the two new instances coming with Lost Legends of Eriador (Update 3) next week.

This was an email we received from one of Merric and my kinmates, Rufidoc of Landroval. He asked if it was ok to send submissions like this in for CSTM and I thought that there would certainly be folks out there who would love to read his poem!

Update 3′s new Instances are explored… and found to be exciting adventures!

With all the changes we’ve seen since the Free to Play launch, we thought it was about time to update our Instance Join Reference Sheet. This listing shows all the available instances in LOTRO and the following information: the recommended level or scalability of the dungeon what typical abbreviation is used in-game when looking for [...]

Joe “jwbarry” Barry is the author of the latest Dev Diary focusing on the new raid, Ost Dunhoth, in the Echoes of the Dead (update 2).

Last night a few writers of CSTM were able to meet up together on Bullroarer to run one of the new instances. We chose The Lost Temple.

The Echoes of the Dead update will have five new instances. There is one new raid, two small fellowship and two full fellowship instances.

I applaud this decision, and look forward to bringing Haakor and some old friends along on the new raid (once we hardcores figure it out, of course).

Ever thought about figuring out strategies for yourself but never really knew how to go about it? “Continue Reading” for some basic tips from Elb…

We mentioned the post on Wandering Through Middle-earth on this topic on episode 70 but today we have photos of our own to share with you sent into us by Rudyjarkon of Windfola.

Thanks to the reflecting pool, you can create your own private instance in which you can kill the mobs therein and advance your deeds without competing with other players or disrupting other’s quest time.

This week’s poll asks for your primary motivation for running a dungeon.

In this episode we discuss our first run of Glinghant. This didn’t go so well for us with some issue with re-spawning ghosts. We also made our first visit to the Turtle, another first for us. A very successful and smooth run.

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