A Casual Stroll to Mordor

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 [...]

Anyway, the point is, Turbine, if you want us to play your game, you have to let us… play the game. Make the instance rewards proportional to the time, make them fairly short (20-30 minutes for three mans), and make them all fun.

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).

TsiengLiu released today a Dev Diary focusing on the instances that are being released in the upcoming Update 2, Echoes of the Dead. As you recall strange things have been occurring around the world of LOTRO and as TsiengLiu states, “…it falls to heroes such as yourself to keep the peace.”

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.

As the dev diary said, it was the implementation which was lacking. How could Radiance have been implemented in a better fashion?

This week we talk about the new dev diaries, bullroarer patch notes, some items not found in the patch notes, store sales, and more!

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

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…

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.

Elborigorn guides us on the Helegrod: Giant Wing in a post F2P world.

The classic instance, “Great Barrow –The Maze”, has been closed until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience.

When we first published the instance join list from part five of the instance dev diary we quickly had a comment from Chuck Steel saying it would be a great reference with a bit more information. I mentioned in Episode 51 that I was working on building that reference sheet.

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

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.

Today’s post from Joe “jwbarry” Barry is all about Helegrod and the changes that we will be seeing with the upcoming changes in Free-to-Play. This is a fairly long and detailed post, mostly because it was a fairly detailed process.

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.

Released today was the Developer Diary by jwbarry concerning instance “re-vamps” that we’ll be seeing with the upcoming Free-to-Play (F2P) changes later this year. So what can we take away from this part of the discussion?

Sapience has very helpfully stepped in to clear up some confusion from the articles and information we’ve gotten this week via E3 interviews from Massively and Ten Ton Hammer as well as the LOTRO Store screenshots released earlier this week.

This is a special between episodes episode where we talk to Azz, Gor and Geiri from our kinship. They are our kinship’s primary players that will organize and lead group content.

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This is a guest post by Azz of http://wizzardofazz.blogspot.com. He graciously wrote up his experience in Barad Gularan for our little site.