A Casual Stroll to Mordor

A Legacy Tier Upgrade will upgrade one legacy on your legendary item one tier (max tier of 6).

All characters get six slots to put legendary items in but sometimes you need more. Legendary Item slots 7 and 8 are on sale today for 20% off.

Today, Turbine released a batch of new screenshots from The Rise of Isengard expansion; this time featuring new items and armor.

The following are the sales for May 27th – June 2nd, 2011. All items listed are 20% off.

When you first speak to the Relic-master the UI that pops up may seem a little daunting. I mean you’re suddenly faced with a huge UI with four tabs and a lot of choices. What do you do? What choices do you need to make? What if you make a mistake or if you’re unlucky?

Relics, what are they good for? Well, quite a bit in-fact!

In Update 2, Legendary Items are undergoing some rather large changes. And while it would be easy to just start laying out the changes, I would rather just start at the beginning and explain fully what Legendary Items are, how they work and all that needs to be known about their functions in order to start getting into the system and making use of it.

Yesterday, we saw the release of a combined Dev Diary by Ken “Graalx2” Burd and Brian “Zombie Columbus” Aloisio concerning the Legendary Item Revisions. Love them or hate them, Legendary Items (LI’s) are a pretty elaborate system that needed some love.

So it will now be the legacies which are maintained (in some fashion) from weapon to weapon, and the relics which are destroyed, but quickly replaced. Interesting changes which I am looking forward to seeing go live.

I do think Turbine has at least heard our complaints so I am looking forward to the updates to the system. If they keep moving in the right direction, as they did with Mirkwood, I think this could become a great end-game system, instead of the ok system it is now.

Love it or hate it, I think most LOTRO players would agree that the legendary item system is one of the most confusing in the game. I’m not going to go over all the intricacies of the Legendary Item system, but I would like to point out a couple things that I learned only recently.

The Guardian Roundtable was recorded on December 17, 2010

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log in this evening just sort of putzing around. I thought about playing on my Runekeeper or making a new character who’s story I have partially figured out in my head when Azz spoke up in Kin chat announcing that we were going to visit the Turtle tonight.

Texborn of Landroval sends Elb questions concerning the use of skirmish marks and about crafted legendary items.

“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.

Our latest project is a Runekeeper / Hunter combo that is level 27 and working through the Lone Lands area. The Lone Lands revamp is old news for Merric with all his alts but is a new experience for Goldenstar. We talk about where we think we will go next.

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Our main topic this week is discussing how we handle changes that do or do not happen in an MMO. With Orion’s recent bad news in our minds we discuss the process and promises of changes in our games today.

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A recap of today’s Dev Diary and a list of the new legacies and those that have been removed.

Turbine is having a stress test on the Bullroarer server on Tuesday November 17th. For us, it’s a chance to get a sneak peak of the skirmishes, mount system and legendary item updates we’re so eagerly awaiting!

In episode 11 we have a special guest host, Azz from Wizzard of Azz!

Azz was nice enough to come on to help explain the Legendary Item system and answer your questions! We also make sure to discuss what changes we know to be coming with the upcoming expansion. From crafting to drops in Dar Nurgerablakalasfd (as Azz would say) we discuss the various ways to obtain items and how you use them.

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The main topic of this week’s podcast is going to be about Legendary Items (LI). This is a fairly new concept to most people, even seasoned MMO players and I know that Merric and I were forced to pick our first LI we stood there stupefied.

We talk about the latest Dev Diaries concerning Legendary Items and Skirmishes. We have finally entered Moria and give our first impressions of the mines. We also have a very special interview with LOTROHerald creator, Howard from Odd Duck Computing.

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The Developer Diary on Legendary Items was updated last night. The following is a re-cap of what additional information was included.