Posts tagged lord of the rings online reporter
Early Patch Notes are Revealed!
Oct 30th
So, earlier this afternoon, Turbine showed us the November patch notes. I must remind everyone that these are still temporary and may change before the November release.
The notes are located in the lotro forums, so click here to read them.
There will also be a Developer Diary in the coming weeks explaining the Lore-master changes.
In the meantime, I’ll just paste the Lore-master related notes:
Lore-master & Minstrel Fellowship Manoeuvre changes
Lore-masters and Minstrels will now use the tactical versions of the “Ent’s Strength” and “Spider’s Guile” fellowship skills instead of the melee versions, just like Rune-keepers. This means that any time a Fellowship Manoeuvre is triggered, Minstrels and Lore-masters will no longer need to be in melee range to contribute.
Skills/Classes
General
- Lore-masters and Captains now have a new skill on their Companion’s skill bar immediately to the left of their active skills. This new skill, “Return to Master” for Lore-master and “Rally” for Captain, will summon an existing companion to the character’s location. It is not useable in combat and has a 5 second cooldown.
- Player Pets and Soldiers now get the benefit from the following
- Hunter skill “Find the Path”.
- Minstrel Tales.
- Rune-keeper “Rune of Restoration.”
- Captain’s Banners
- Lore-master’s Raven’s “Shield of the Raven’s Wing” and the Eagle’s “Nobility”.
LOTRO Reporter Episode 60a: Harperlla – Some Ales + Some Tales = Fun
Oct 29th
We’re lucky this time around to be joined by Harperella, of Ales and Tales fame (and so much more!). We had a great time talking about all sort of things, from Ales and Tales, to RP and much, much more.
The best place to follow Harperella is through the Ales and Tales website at alesandtales.com.
See you in-game!
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The Looking Glass
Oct 28th
It’s been a long time since we posted a new LOTRO video, so I thought I’d add something. Here is a great video about a hobbit burglar’s financial trouble. **Caution** the music has some “adult content” words!
Bullroarer Patch Notes for the November Update
Oct 27th
Sapience today release the patch notes for the build currently on Bullroarer. This is the content and changes that will be put on the live servers in November.
Take a look at the full patch notes after the break.
Lore-Master changes on the way
Oct 25th
Hello everyone.
Yesterday, there was a very interesting post at the oficial LOTRO forums, by Sapience, when someone asked about the next patch contents:
Funny you should ask! There are a lot of great changes coming for the LM in the next update. Graalx2 and I were just discussing the dev diary this morning in fact. You’re going to have to wait a little bit to read it, but we both think LM’s are going to be really happy with the changes (and new skills!).
So now you know two things due in the next patch. Vault updates (you should see the Developer Diary for that on Thursday) and Lore-master changes (Dev Diary probably a couple weeks from now). I’ll even throw you a bone and let you know Rune-keepers will get some attention this update as well.
So, seems like the Lore-master is next in line after the last patch updates to the Hunter and Captain classes. There where already a few tidbits of information flowing out from the devs. This is what’s already planned:
- The diferent Lore-master pet appearances will be changed to a skill. So no more using necklaces for that appearance you love so much.
- Blinding Flash will have an interrupt component to the skill. So even if a creature is immune to mezzing (Bosses, for example) they can still be interrupted. But there is a catch: The regular Blinding Flash immunities will apply, meaning that the Dead and Creatures of Nature will still be immune to the interrupt.
- New pet food. I was digging around the Lorebook and found these little items: Cut of Lean Meat, Handful of Hearty Seeds and Bowl of Fresh Water. I would guess that they will work just like the Honey and Oats work on the Bear pet.
Let’s wait on the Dev Diary in a couple of weeks.
LOTRO Reporter Episode 60 – 60 Episodes of … Awkward Pauses!
Oct 25th
This week, we discuss Kate Paiz’s first Producer’s Letter, the “imminent” release of EU F2P, the start of the Fall Festival, and Casual Stroll to Mordor’s great Festival Guide. We join out two favorite hobbits as they go fishing, and we have another great PvMP Tip of the Week from the fine folks over at Through the Palantir.
We also have an email from Mossgammer:
Just was listening to podmoot2 and fury was talking about mmo guilt and that is a great point! Luckily I’m a lifetimer so I don’t mind skipping a night or two to play other games like league of legends.
We also have a iTunes 5 Star Review from David Starr. Thanks David!
See you in-game!
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Save Second Base!
Oct 25th
We’ve got another great submission for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this time from the Pheonix Reborn Kinship on Imladris. They not only posed for these great screenshots, but they also held a march through Bree! Click on the thumbs for full sized versions of the images. Thanks for the great shots!
You can find out more about Breast Cancer Awareness Month here.
Wardens – Learning to Tank
Oct 22nd
The primary role of the Warden is tanking, but if you haven’t done it before you may be wondering how to learn and practice tanking. Now there’s the obvious “go get in a group” answer that while true, isn’t always possible nor is it always the best option. Luckily over the past few updates and expansions, there have been a number of additions that make learning how to tank an easier process.
EU Free-to-Play Preview Event Oct 25th!
Oct 21st
Wow. David Solari wasn’t kidding yesterday when he said that news about the EU transition to Free-to-Play was imminent in his post to players, was he?
Today Codemasters announced that they would having a Free-to-Play Preview Event starting on October 25th. This will be the typical stress test, etc. event for them to get a feel for how the system will work. They will also launch the full free to play “shortly thereafter”.
You can sign up for the Preview Event here.
More news on the LM update
Oct 21st
Yesterday the Executive Producer for LOTRO, Kate “Nereid” Paiz addressed the players with an open letter. From that letter there are some news for us Lore-masters. The next update, that will bring the mentioned Lore-Master changes, is slated for aNovember launch! You can read the full letter here.
Also, the developer who’s in charge of the Lore-Master revision, Tim “Raskolnikov” Lang, has hinted a few more on the changes to the class. So, besides the changes i mentioned in my earlier post, it is suggested that the trait “Hardy Bear” could be changed to “Hardy Pet”, although that’s not confirmed there is a strong hint leading to that conclusion in the forums (check the bold letters).
Also, in the recent Warcry Dev Chat, Rask said:
Question: The class revamp month’s will we see buff’s to each class or nerf’s? for example currently I find my Minstrel lacking compared to the rune-keepers ability to keep the group healed for less power usage.
Raskolnikov Mostly buffs! I can’t speak to specific changes for the Minstrel (as we haven’t gotten to that class yet). But having made a lot of changes to the Lore-master, I can say that 90% of those changes have been buffs. Our goal is to polish each class, and nearly all of the time when we polish it’s by buffing a class (because nerfing stinks, even though it is sometimes necessary).
So, 90% are buffs… that leaves 10% for nerfs? This is what Rask answered:
We’re not nerfing Lore-masters because of Cold-bear.
We’re not nerfing “Master of the Staff”.
We’re not nerfing “Sword and Staff”.The only reason I’m not saying “We didn’t nerf anything,” is because I’m sure some people will perceive something as a nerf. “I can’t believe you nerfed ‘Knowledge of the Lore-master’ so that it can’t be used in combat anymore!”
That’s that mean the the Knowledge of the Lore-master skill will be made out of combat only? Or was that just an example? Let’s hope it’s the later, since i use that skill a lot when doing new dungeons.
Also, and maybe more important, there was a hint to new skills in an earlier Sapience post. Ever since the recent “skill upgrades” that came with levels 62 and 64 (which most Lore-masters found to be, at the very least, uninteresting), the forumites took that sentence with a grain of salt. Biggest concern was that the new Summoning Appearance Skills would be the new skills hinted and, as such, would not bring anything new to the Lore-master combat arsenal. This is what Rask had to say:
The “new skills” are not just the pet appearance skills.
Also, if you’re looking for more clues about what will be in the Dev Diary, just read through the “Tell the Community Team – Lore-master Feedback” thread. That’s where we got most of our ideas.
The “Tell the Community Team – Lore-master Feedback” thread is here, if you are interested. There are some good ideas there, so I’m hopeful.
As always, I’ll try to keep you posted if any more news come up.
One more thing. Yesterday i forgot to mention, but you can also follow the Staff-Strike’s posts at the Staff-Strike site.
