LOTRO Reporter Podcast
LOTRO Reporter Episode 216 - Fashion and Festivals with Goldenstar
Cari’s special guest this week is Goldenstar. We have a blast talking about epic things like fashion, festivals, burgling and some LOTRO.
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What We Did in Game
Goldenstar-
I’ve done nearly nothing on Goldenstar. She’s still 85.
Yule Festival
Burglar has hit level 77
Attempted Deeping Wall 12-man raid with Dum Group
Finally protected the stupid horses in Helm’s Dike but only in 2-man
Cari
Yule Festival
I had totally forgotten that the Yule festival was more than Winterhome
Instances Finder Instances to use up the rest of my VIP bonus
Ali of Brandywine is 91.5
Ran around as a chicken for about 45 minutes for “researchâ€
News
LOTRO License Agreement Runs through 2017
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7071749#post7071749
The license has been renewed
There is an agreement that runs through 2017
Sapience answers more questions
Fredelas to nice notes and CMP shared them
http://www.containsmoderateperil.com/taking-the-hobbits-to-isengard-gilrain/
Regions getting updates are definitely part of the plan. Don’t know what area/areas.
New areas that come out will be free to V.I.P.s
The team has found that things may be too easy, we may see raids, big battles, and skirmish difficulties get harder.
Many players are asking to live in new areas, such as Rohan. However thats not in the plan for now, until the housing revamp is done.
Housing revamp is so complicated that it has been pushed off many times. One of the reasons is that a Kinship revamp would have to be included as well. At least a small update.
Some devs have expressed interest in being on future livestreams. The most enthusiastic among them so far are jwbarry, RockX, and Jinjaah. Sapience may also just grab random people to chat.
Turbine employees enjoy free VIP subscriptions for the duration of their employment, and also receive a small quarterly stipend of Turbine Points.
Changing the “Recommended World†in the launcher is usually done during a maintenance period, because additional login server hardware is dedicated to that world. The next “Recommended World†for new English-language players is likely to be Gilrain, later this month.
Turbine will never release official player population or participation numbers. “Unless we can say we have 10 million players and are bigger than WoW, what’s the point?â€
The art department is shared across LOTRO, DDO, AC, and IC. LOTRO may have as few as 6 or 7 artists dedicated at one time, or as many as 15 to 20. Several other teams at Turbine work this way.
Sapience is unaware of any plans to add more content specifically related to the Hobbit films. In his opinion, the game is primarily about Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
New Twitch Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/lotrostream
Take the Hobbits to Isengard Leaderboard
“Taking Sapience to Isengard leaderboardâ€
Gilrain Server – Hour,22 minutes,55 seconds. No Deaths.
Turbine announces a DDO Player Council
http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/01/10/turbine-announces-ddo-player-council/
New Quarterly Wallpapers
https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/new-quarterly-wallpapers-are-here-q1-2014-edition
Bullroarer Patch Notes 12.2
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7072017#post7072017
Freeps: The new level 95 ring sets should now be available from your class vendors
Freeps: The Guardian’s Armour Trade-up for lvl 95 gear should now offer the correct gear
Creep Health pots now heal for a percentage of their max health instead of a flat value. These range from 5% to 45% of their max health.
Burgle’s base chance to burgle an item has increased slightly. In addition, you’ll be told when attempting to burgle a target you’ve already burgled (which will fail).
Items and monsters that can advance a hidden deed by using or killing them will no longer display information about the hidden deed in their tooltip. Because, you know…hidden.
The stack size limit for Crafting and Hobby barter items has been removed.
We now save/restore the state of your quickslots automatically when you change class trait configuration slots.
Community
The Extra Life e-mails should be coming out this week.
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7068814#post7068814
I got mine today.
New Orchestra in Middle Earth
http://starlightorchestra.guildlaunch.com/index.php?gid=360711
Debuting at Winterstock on the Landroval server.
We will be performing at 5pm, Sunday, January 19th.
Find us outside of Thorin’s Gate by the pond following the performance of The Andune Ensemble.
Show your support for what we are trying to do with the Orchestra by showing up and cheering!
Winterstock is up to 22 bands.
MJ from Massively played LOTRO for her Stream Team Broadcast
Ran Thievery and Mischief with a Protector
She also spent some time doing the Yule festival
Whiteberry Updated the Completionist Tracker
Syp’s Massively 2014 Wishlist for LOTRO
http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/01/11/the-road-to-mordor-my-2014-wish-list-for-lotro/
He didn’t get most of what he wanted in 2013
Here’s his hopes for 2014
1. A new class
2. Additional class-race combinations: Hobbit Lore-masters. Hobbit Captains. Hobbits EVERYTHING.
3. Rohan housing
4. A new hobby
5. A new mid-level zone
6. A revamp to the deed system
7. Free expansions for all
8. More roleplayer tools
9. An in-game wiki
10. Kinship-wide achievement announcements
11. Kinship improvements
12. A stable travel map
13. More mini-events
14. Vanity pets
Hobbit House
http://themindunleashed.org/2014/01/man-builds-fairy-tail-home-family-3000.html
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