LOTRO Reporter Podcast
LOTRO Reporter Episode 232 - Layanor Likes Deeds
Layanor is back and we talk about Update 13.1. His love of deeds, and pants. Of course we talk about pants.
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What We Did in Game
Layanor
Moors rank is at 25%. Took 3 months I think. Possibly a lot longer :P
Finished off some deeds in west rohan
Finished the Epic book and working on Fangorn rep. Half way thru friend.
In Rohan I finished the Helmingas reputation deed.
Actually worked on my War-Steed
Pretty much have me First Agers where I want them
Cari
-  Working on my LI’s
Did some Lowbie Leveling
News
Bullroarer Client Installer Now Available
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?547565-BULLROARER-PC-CLIENT-INSTALLER-Now-Available
Update 13.1 Release Notes
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7159042#post7159042
 Auto-Fellow
There’s a new “Auto-Fellow” option on the right-click menu in your friends list. If you mark a friend as “Auto-fellow” and they mark you as “Auto-fellow”, then when one of you logs on, if the other is logged on and eligible to be in a fellowship, you will be automatically followed up. There’s a limit to how many friends you can mark as “Auto-Fellow”.
Automatically add tasks to quest tracker control.
There’s a new option on the “UI Settings” tab: “Automatically add tasks to quest tracker”. This option (set by default to true) controls whether you want tasks to be automatically added to your quest tracker when they are bestowed or advanced.
Inventory Sort Button
Added a new “sort” button to the bag 1 toolbar in the inventory. This button (after a suppressible confirmation dialog) will sort all your items, floating all empty space to the top (so that as you get new items, they are separated from your existing items). The sorting algorithm used is the one used for the “auto” sort in the vault, and it has been updated to correctly sort by level items of the same quality and type.
- Â Champions got a whole truckload of changes
- Â Made some changes to the area near the wall of Isengard, intended to make ‘The Breaking of Isengard’ less literal.
Taking the Hobbits To Isengard
What can you tell us about Beornings that you haven’t told us already
Rowan – The best part about Beornings for him right now is the massive amount of information and research he’s gotten from the Player Council regarding them.
Sapience – Yes, there’s already been an interesting thread about Beornings in the Players Council.
Rowan – One thing he can say about it, and he thinks he’s alluded to this in his producer’s letter, but they really view it as a mix of a race and a class, which makes it a unique thing, because of the racial characteristics that are specific to it, and the skills that they want to pair with that as well.
Sapience – Thinks that’s great because there have been questions about “Why are you calling it a class?†when it’s kind of a race, so that’s a great answer. Because Tolkien said he’s a man, but he’s also this other thing that is a little bit more than a man.
Rowan – The other part that they’re thinking about right now – part of the pitch for it – and this isn’t confirmed yet, is to start it at an advanced level, like level 50.
Sapience – Thinks this plays well into the “I’d like to play it through Moria†comment he made earlier.
Will mail in the wild ever become something available in store
It was developed especially as a VIP perk, so he highly doubts it
Rowan – That’s kind of what they’re thinking, because the Beorning homeland is kind of between Dale and the Misty Mountains, so the Misty Mountains seem like a reasonable place to start.
Is there really a LOTRO “jail” to send troublesome trolls
Yes there really is an in game jail GMs can send you to. There is actually a jail. Like you cannot get out of it until they release you. No maps, no ports, no summons. You stay until they let you go. Assuming they let you go. And if you log out, the next time you log in…still in jail.
Is it ever used to discipline trolls?
It has been in the past, yes.
Question about the new auto-fellow feature
Basically if you mark someone as auto-fellow, and if they mark you as auto-fellow, when you login, if your friend is also logged in and eligible to join a fellowship (not in a solo instance, not doing a solo skirmish or something like that, and one of you are not already in a fellowship) it will automatically put you in a fellowship.
Can you give us any further information beyond what’s already known in the 13.1 notes, about cosmetic pets and their future
Rowan – Right now they have in development a system that will enable us to collect groups of pets, collections of pets, and get rewards for those. He doesn’t know exactly what they have in mind for that yet. Obviously if they’re going to be doing that, they’re going to be adding more of them to the game. So it’s really about how much people enjoy them, how excited they are, and how much we want to see and what kind of things we want to see.
Sapience – Says, “Global chat channels – Yay, Nay?â€
Rowan – Says yes, they’re doing it, he believes for U14.
Did You Know
Did you know what the players council does?
Keep a eye out for my interview with a original Players Council member that no longer has a NDA.
We talk about the initial reaction of the skill trees, what the players council changed in game, and we even touch on the ideas turbine has on creeps outside of the ettenmoors.
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Monday’s at 9PST 12 EST.
Will be on YouTube and Twitch replay.
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