Cari is joined by the new old host Chris. We give a retrospective of what happened in LOTRO over 2015, and talk about the producer’s letter.
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What We Did in Game
Chris

Beorning, Beorning, BEORNING! (Can I jump from an Eagle into battle now?)
Undying Title
Got my Warden to almost Minas Tirith
Multiple other games while recovering

Cari Mac 

Leveled my Bear 100% XP boost for VIP
Leveled my hobbit hunter.
Streamed some Bingo Boffin Quests last week
Fallout 4
Big Warg Update

Retrospective of game changes over 2015

Beorning Class Added

New Class
What roles does it play? How well?
My character has knees
Melee tanky class

Imbued Weapons

Level 100
Grows with you
Don’t have to destruct old LIs

Bingo Boffin Quests

Episodic Quests
Gives really cool items like goats, foxes, and sheep

Made it to Gondor

Pelargir
Minas Tirith

Crafting in Housing Areas

You can purchase workshops, studies etc with TP

Blessing of Valor that raises you to level 95 5995 TP

Server Consolidations

We are down to 5 US and 5 EU servers
There will be a chance to move between the remaining servers
You will get a token to move a character for free once.

New Hardware Update Done

After the first of the year the US servers were moved to the new data center
There have been issues. Going from a 32 bit to a 64 bit server system.

News
Producer’s Letter
https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/letter-executive-producer

Level Cap Increase to 105
New Instance Cluster including a 12 man raid
New Collections
Quality of Life Updates
What isn’t there is any list of updates coming.

Free Transfer Schedule
From Columbus to Castro: The history of the Caribbean, 1492-1969

Speculation on Downtime on the 20th?
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?594797-Scheduled-Server-Downtime-6-00-AM-1-00-PM-Eastern-(-5-GMT)-Wednesday-January-20th

From @gumpsgang: @lotroreporter The root source of LOTRO server lag has been identified. Ent-play has been removed.

Community
Music Festival
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?592075-Landroval-Greenfields-Music-Festival-Music-of-Middle_Earth-2016
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