A Casual Stroll to Mordor

If you look at the screenshots of both my minstrel and RK’s setup, you’ll see that I leave many of the basic elements in the same places.

Today’s release of the Rune-keeper Developer Diary by Zombie Columbus covers their upcoming changes in the Rise of Isengard expansion. His goals with the class this time around were:

The following items are on sale from September 9-15th, 2011. Turbine sales run from midnight to midnight eastern.

Ah, my Rune-keeper. This class is always so refreshing because I have a DPS class that can also do some reliable healing (even if I only use it for myself). It is always a much appreciated change of pace by the time I get to it in my leveling schedule.

Turbine is having daily sales throughout the month of July in addition to the normal weekly sales. These sales are valid only for one day and run from 12am to 3am Eastern (-4 GMT).

The Rune-keeper Roundtable was recorded on March 24, 2011. This episode is with special guest Rune-keepers; Glomi of Brandywine, Decimmus of Gladden, Ketani of Brandywine, and Ariandial of Gladden

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We welcome you to join us on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 9:00pm EST for a discussion all about the Rune-keeper class.

I’m always blown away when I bring out the Rune-keeper, or any DPS for that matter really, with how easy it is to drop a mob.  It’s astonishing to me how quickly things can die when you play a class that’s actually meant to do damage!  Before I met my wife, I purely played DPS [...]

Rune-keepers are usually regarded as a very powerful class when it comes to damage. It’s also been my experience that they make pretty decent healers as well. That being said, a Developer Diary from Brian “Zombie Columbus” Alosio was released talking about the changes that are coming to the class later this month.

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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Today the Bullroarer Patch Notes were updated with the Rune-keeper changes (I’ve included a PDF with the new notes as well for downloading).

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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“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. These “Tell the Community Team” questions focus on Rune-keepers. They [...]

The Rune-keeper makes me nervous. In fact, any class that wears cloth usually makes me nervous. Why?

Just a short post to list a few things that aren’t huge or impact everyone but that you may be interested in knowing about. Enjoy!

So you used to play World of Warcraft and now are interested in this amazing game called Lord of the Rings Online. You loved your character in WoW and would like to play something similar to that, if possible. This post is to try to help you find that similar class in LOTRO.