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LOTRO Reporter Episode 96 – Community Week LOTRO Edition
Aug 7th
Community Week continues on the MMO Reporter Network. For LOTRO Reporter, we talk to Rick Heaton, a.k.a. Sapience, community specialist for Turbine, specifically Lord of the Rings Online.
Don’t forget that we’re going to PAX. Check out our announcement here.
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LOTRO Reporter Episode 92 – Call the Doctor!
Jul 10th
This week, Bill’s away, so the mice will play! Josh aka Doc Holiday join Chris to talk about some upcoming changes to Loremasters and Barter Tokens. We also discussed some new websites, as well as answered an email from Lyschko.
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LOTRO Reporter Episode 91 – They’re taking Chris to Isengard!
Jul 2nd
This week, Bill and I discuss the upcoming changes to the Guardian class, the LOTRO lotteries, Casual Stroll to Mordor’s Summer Festival Guide, and the aftermath of Weatherstock.
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Guild Launch – The newest LOTRO Reporter sponsor
Jun 7th
We’re happy to announce that Guild Launch has become the newest sponsor of the MMO Reporter Network and LOTRO Reporter!
Guild Launch is a Kinship Site Hosting service, which will allow your Kinship to create a great looking, useful site to keep those adventurers up to date on the latest Kin news. Cor Pethroni has had it Kinship site through Guild Launch for a while now, and we’ve always been happy with it. You can also take a look at the Rift Reporter guild’s site – The Collegium, to get an idea of what you can do with a paid guild site.
You can use Guild Launch to create an ad supported free site, but by upgrading to a paid site, you get access to new features, including:
- Kinship Roster Imports from Lotro.com
- Character Profile Imports including Stats and Gear from Lotro.com
- LOTRO Item Stats Hovers from the Lotro Lorebook
- Server Status
- Raid/Dungeon Progression Info
- Customized templates and headers
- Daily Automated Imports of Roster Data and Profile Data from Lotro.com (Subscription Only)
- Full features forums and all of our other features!
If you like what you see, head on over and create your own kin site and use the coupon code MMOREPORTER for your first month free!
LOTRO Reporter Episode 84 – Code-who?
May 6th
In this episode Chris and I discuss Turbine taking over operations of LOTRO in the EU, RP-ification of Landroval (or lack thereof), upcoming Champion and Creep changes, Dawning Eclipse’s 4 year anniversary celebration and more!
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Decide the fate of Point of Screwage!
Mar 25th
We’ve come to a crossroads in the lives of the aged hobbits and the intrepid reporter, and we’re not quite sure how things will work out. Perhaps you know?
Decide the fate of our aged hobbit and intrepid reporter.
- Apocalypse now! The hobbits and the intrepid reporter should meet their doom! (31%, 29 Votes)
- I like things how they are. Everyone should miraculously survive! (28%, 26 Votes)
- The hobbits should come to an unfortunate end, but the intrepid reporter should survive to tell the tale. (25%, 23 Votes)
- The intrepid reporter should have his final, and ultimate, "accident" but the hobbits should survive. (16%, 15 Votes)
Total Voters: 93
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LOTRO Reporter Episode 73 – Turbine loses its Patience
Feb 10th
Show notes incoming as soon as the flu leaves the house. For now, enjoy the show!
Edit – show notes have arrived – Bill
- http://www.lotro.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/1015-update-2-minstrel-developer-diary
- Who was the bright fellow to predict the minstrel? Oh yeah… Bill!
- Feedback thread – already huge (216 posts, as of Wed – haven’t read this thread yet)
- http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?380027-Dev-Diary-Feedback-Update-2-Minstrel-Changes
Another Dev Diary coming tomorrow (Thursday, Feb 3)
Update named – Echoes of the Dead
- Was a twitter contest – ended in 15 minutes! (What a smart community!)
- http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=5210015#post5210015
Cheeky hint about Map-Home leaving inventory coming Soon (TM)?
Service Outage January 30
- Update thread – power outage and some kind of love this weekend
- http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=5206753#post5206753
Patience Lost – Patience (70ms, Meghan) is leaving Turbine
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LOTRO Reporter Episode 67: Stupid Steed Stays Stylish in the Store
Dec 15th
This week, we discuss the Yule Festival’s arrival, the possibility of Volume 2 becoming soloable soon(tm), the Steed of the Night permanently returning to the store, and Kate Piaz’s Producer’s Letter. A short show this week, reasons for which you’ll find out at the very last moment.
See you in-game!
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LOTRO Reporter Episode 66: Hobbits in Hoardale
Dec 5th
Before we get to the show, I have to apologize for the audio quality this week. This situation has been resolved, and it won’t happen again. For those of you keeping score at home, yep, Chris screwed up again. Sorry!
This week, we discuss the November update going live, the Steed of the Night, and the Turbine contest for 100,000 Turbine Points. We also have a special collaborative PvMP tip of the week, and we discuss the LOTRO Reporter for the Holidays contest, and the Random Acts of Kindness contest with some cool Taverncraft prizes!
We also have some email this week:
From Mosshammer:
This is hilarious! It’s one of the line under “items” in the release notes. It reads:
- The tooltip for the thingy no longer incorrectly claims it is a whatchamacallit.
http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Release_Notes_November_2010_Update_Official
Awesomeness all around!! If I see anything else I’ll let you know!
From Hoss:
Hey guys, I was catching up on some old episodes that I’d missed and in one of the shows you were complaining about not being able to bind commands to a key. There is a way, although it’s not an eloquent solution.Bind the command to a quick slot, for example: /shortcut 49 /bow
This will put the bow emote in your number 49 quick slot. Then open your options panel and go to the key bindings section. Change the key binding for slot 49 to whatever key you’d like. Pressing that key will now trigger the corresponding slash-command.
This, of course, eats up a valuable quick slot. What I do to free up slots is keep my consumables, map, alternate weapons etc all together in one inventory bag. I play with this bag open all the time and activate those items straight from the bag. Voilà, instantly pick up an extra 15 quick slots.
See you in-game!
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LOTRO Reporter Episode 65: The scenic route to Isengard
Nov 30th
This week, we discuss the announcement of “Rise of Isengard” , the November Update patch notes, the Dev Diaries for Class Consumables and the Ered Luin re-vamp, and the funny post that Zombie Columbus made that hint about future hunter changes.
We also have a great submission from the guys over at Through the Palantir with another PvMP tip, and we visit our two favorite hobbits as they open a letter from Syrdeth about horseshoes and luck.
We have two announcements in this show:
1) Call for submissions: If you send in your favorite moment from the year, you’ll be entered into a chance to win 500 Turbine Points. You can find details here.
2) We announce our annual “Random Act of Kindness” contest, with prizes from Taverncraft. You can find details here.
Email:
From Nick:
Dear LoTRO Reporter,
I just wanted to send a quick e-mail thanking you for the site. The weekly podcast is a great listen while I play the game. I also like the articles on the different classes. I am an admitted altaholic and LotRO Reporter has helped me get all the info I need for an informed class decision. That said, I don’t know what I want to main just yet, but I’m leaning towards a Captain. Hopefully I’ll stick with it, but I promise nothing!
Again, thanks for the podcast and your site’s articles. I really appreciate having the resource.
From Hudd:
Morning, hope all is well up north.
Random thoughts on skirmish soldiers:
I would like to have a “Scroll of Skirmish Soldier Renewal”, much like the reset of all soldiers in one of the expansions. This would allow me to try out other soldier types, switching from a warrior to a protector or any soldier type. It would also give me the ability to try out different training and skills to make a better skirmish soldier to my style of play.
I believe I would use these scrolls many more times than the “scrolls of renewal” or “lesser renewal” for points on the legendary weapons.
Have a good one!
See you in-game!
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