Cari and Layanor make their own news tonight. We have letters, and talk about Ice Buckets. Oh and Christ stops by for a minute.

Layanor (L’Homme sans Pantalon!)

Cari

Leveled on both Brandy and Landy

Level 98 and 96 respectively.

SHIELD Forum Post

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?550043-SHIELD-Dwarf-Runs-through-Moria-Q-amp-A-Notes-on-What-Was-Said

Sapience explained the cheesy poof. :)

Turbine’s ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7218573#post7218573

Monday’s at 9PST 12 EST.

Will be on twitch replay.

Edge of Fangorn

Mail from Jimel:

TC where you need a large group to enter and it has a huge number of elites with a nearly instant respawn rate.  I see people spamming for hours trying to get a group for that area with no success.  Seems once people have been in there they don’t want to come back. If this is already becoming a hated area that no one wants to do in just a few weeks, there isn’t much hope for those slower to level.

Fishing quests are like hemorrhoids too.

The dailies for the gold coins are very hard for light armor classes. There needs to be a npc to trade tokens for the ones you need.  I have over 100 Dol Amroth  90 library and 75 armory.  I still need rep for the bank and docks.

Listen to your podcasts while walking my dog and enjoy you show very much.  Great work!

Letter from Kevin 7.0

Well, after the horrible bug that denied me my full platinum Deeping Wall raid, I was hesitant to give it another shot. But I was doing the Dol Amroth dailies when I saw a group for the raid being advertised in World Chat. Seeing that I would not be leading it, I was fine joining and just taking a back seat roll. But as soon as the raid was full, the leader expressed that he did not know it very well, and wished to transfer leadership to someone more familiar with it. Still not wanting to take leadership, I remained quiet. But a member of my kinship was also in the raid, and nominated me, and leadership was passed to me.

I’ve attached two screenshots of the results of the raid. It was an amazing success! 3 first age symbols dropped, and two pieces of gold jewelry (one to me!) I now feel like I can relax the amount of HD instances I run. Since they were released, I’ve been only running them when it comes to instances. I’ve earned a platinum medal on almost everything, and now that I’ve gotten the raid, I really don’t feel the need to run them nearly as much. Revenge is so, so sweet.

And what are your thoughts on the music of Gondor? I am very pleased with it. It may even take the cake as my favorite of the entire game. I enjoy crafting in Dol Amroth just to hear the city music.

P.S. I did not use Game Genie codes to get a full platinum, either.

Letter from Andrew

Hi Cari and Layanor,

I enjoy all your Lotro Reporter podcasts. I was listening to episode 244 where you mentioned you don’t have episode 40. I checked my podcast files and discovered I have that episode on my computer. If you need it, you can download it from the email attachment. What was lost is now found.

Keep up the great work on the podcast,

Andrew

Adganion on Landroval​

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