A Casual Stroll to Mordor

This week we talk about Draigoch guides, lotteries, horse emotes and more!

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Turbine has announced today that a new LOTRO Store offering is coming! Emotes for your mounts! No mention of the cost at this point. All weekend long we’ll be running lotteries for the brand new, unreleased, Mounted Rear Up emote. That’s right, Mount Emotes are coming to the LOTRO Store! Enter the lotteries this weekend [...]

Turbine has been testing the LOTRO Lotteries to make sure all servers are running them including the new (well new to Turbine) EU servers.

This week Merric forgot to press record! So this is different than the episode broadcast live on Middle-earth Network Radio. We did the entire episode over without a chat room just so we would still have a podcast to put out!

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This week there is actually little in the way of LOTRO news to cover so this week we decided to crack some beers and chat anyway.

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With the migration of our EU friends to join us on Turbine service scheduled to start tomorrow, May 31st, Turbine is suspending the lotteries on the my.lotro system until migration is completed.

Sapience posted a response to several complaints and assumptions concerning the 4th Anniversary Events that I thought worth mentioning.

This week we take time to discuss the PVMP Manifesto, changes to the /bug tool, the lotteries, store sales and more!

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The LOTRO Lotteries were having a bit of an issue that has affected granting the winnings to recent lottery winners including those who were listed as winning a Steed of Minas Ithil.

This week we talk about the newly announced Steed of Minas Ithil, the new naming violation policy, contests and more!

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Turbine is giving its players a chance to win the new store exclusive Steed of Minas Ithil before it even appears in the store!

Are you frequently missing flash lottos and wish there was a way to be alerted when one pops up? We’ve got some suggestions!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011 from noon until midnight EST you can enter the LOTRO Lottery to win the famous fall festival filly, the Painted Skeleton Steed.

Turbine has announced that new lotteries have been scheduled. They have also released a regular schedule along with an FAQ.

LOTRO Lotteries are making a return in the new my.lotro system today. They currently have a trial run up that ends at 8PM EST so get in there and give it a try.

This week we talk a lot about the recently released November patch notes, we discuss the LOTRO Lotteries, more about Fall Festival and the news with Codemasters.

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This week we spend time to go over all the dev diaries released lately. We spend some time trying to plan out what soldiers we should pick for our RK/Hunter duo.

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Digero on the forums has posted an absolutely wonderful script to help with the display of lottery entries and winnings on your my.lotro page.

Merric is working on his burglar and figuring out if his new leveling plan is the one that works. Goldenstar crushes his dream of the burglar eventually coming his main.

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Both of us have attempted our first try at Sammath Gul and we made it to the second boss before things went bad. Goldenstar feels a bit responsible for not being able to heal everyone. We briefly discuss small changes that may make the encounter easier.

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This week we try one of the old Angmar Battle Instances, Battle for Aughaire. We found it to be very skirmish like for being a regular fellowship quest. We think at least the one we ran would make a great skirmish in the future.

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April 15th in the United States is the day our federal (and for most people state) taxes are due. Turbine had “Tax Refund Lottos” running this week due to this fact. This was a pretty cute way to incorporate this generally grumpy day with something fun. Goldensun, my minstrel in Cor Pethroni on Brandywine, was [...]

This week we duo The Battle in the Tower and have issues with the Frigid Squall lieutenant. Yes, I understands that the Frigid Squall is supposed to switch targets but chasing me around the room isn’t exactly “switching targets” and so I blame Merric.

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