A Casual Stroll to Mordor

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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 week we talk about things we did this week was quite a bit!

Goldenstar got the new spring festival mount on three of her characters. Goldenstar also made two new alts a Lore-master and a Hunter. The hunter is absolutely adorable so picture has been included so you can enjoy the cuteness. She also participated in a run of Barad Gularan with the kin.

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So here’s the challenge: Check every single quest against the entry in the lorebook and fix it (if it needs fixing).

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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In this episode of CStM, we talk about: Merric’s first attempt at playing Goldenstar’s minstrel. Merric is closer to getting his remaining alts to level 20. We are both level 61 and inching closer to level cap! We have also have purchased PAX East tickets so we will be down in Boston this March!

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In this episode of CStM we go over all the patch from last week, the hardware upgrade event currently running and other news. Our main topic this week is talking about things to do with the latest expansion/patch when you’re not level 60+ yet.

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Siege of Mirkwood data has been added to the Lorebook as well as some other new features. Yay! Read about the changes in the release notes.

>A new lorebook entry has appeared listing the lieutenants you will run across in the new skirmish system and what skills they have. They state it is only very useful if you are not doing solo tier one skirmishes but the tier two and three skirmishes definitely need some planning when you meet these foes.