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Chis is back, Cari and Layanor join him in discussing Update 11 and Ents. Listen now: What We Did in Game Layanor- Finished Update 11. Have a few deeds to do. 22% into rank 12. Need 292k Renown. Cari - Hytbold Dailies 10 more Days Baby Cyn to Level 56 Opened a Hobbit Present and got a Skirt. Re did my LI and War-steed traits. Chris - I played the “take 61 kids on a 5 day band tour” game. I lost my sanity somewhere, has anyone seen it? Finished the first couple of quests for Wildermore. Ooooo, snow. News MMO Reporter Update 11 Preview http://mmoreporter.com/2013/05/12/lotro-update-11-preview/ Update 11 Dropped like its hot http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?511377-Update-11-Treachery-of-the-White-Hand-Release-Notes-Official New Launcher http://support.turbine.com/ics/support/kbanswer.asp?deptID=24001&task=knowledge&questionID=3914 New Region New crafting recipes for every guild and new rep recipes. Epic Story Continues Mounted Combat Update Lailia's Market Hobbit Presents The new Alerts Panel is intended to allow you to see all of your alerts at one time. Housing Upkeep now allows for paying further in advance and adds the option to pay with Mithril Coins. Reputation acceleration, Deed acceleration, Armour and Weapon repair services, task resets, and task limit increases can now be purchased with Mithril. Amongst their standard rewards, Warband Reward boxes should now also provide players with a chance to obtain new warsteed cosmetics and Warband Barter Tokens, which will be used to purchase the legendary pocket upgrades. Whereas the cosmetics will be a very rare drop from each reward box, the barter tokens will drop at a rate relative to the difficulty of the warband. Quests and Deeds that require the defeat of Players or Monster Players will now advance for all contributors, not just the player who dealt the final blow. When you are on a quest which is advanced by emoting, the quest tracker will now contain a quick-slot to trigger the emote. LI Points Refunded You should no longer get a “A failure has occurred in submitting your support request” error message on login. It has been replaced with a more meaningful error message, which will hopefully help us figure out what's going on. Mounted Combat 2.0 http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/mounted-combat-20-tale-problems-solutions Remove all movement based traits (Max Speed, Acceleration, Turn Rate) from the trees and build them into the base functionality of the War-Steed Replace the removed movement branch with a new branch that is class specific. Ensure this new branch Heavy-Steeds lost 0.5 meter per second off their max speed but gained increased Armour and Endurance to help reinforce their role as a tank. The light steed was given boosts to their max power and power regeneration to help them support our support classes more efficiently. In turn, the medium steed was tuned to provide a good balance of both. we took a long look at DPS and power usage to ensure things were balanced across the board. reinforces the identity of each class through skills and traits. Known Issues Update 11: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?511371-Update-11-Treachery-of-the-White-Hand-Known-Issues The Play button in the launcher will sometimes not work, preventing you from accessing the game. Changing your language setting and then changing it back will allow you to log in properly. Infinite Cowbell! Using a cowbell while in mounted combat will cause the audio to infinitely loop until logout. You did want more cowbell, right? Broken quest. Hot fix incoming. Until then devs can no longer help. https://twitter.com/ehefkae/status/334384123735064576 "The Rescue in Cuthbald's Farm" has been disabled.  LOTRO Store Update http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?511406-LOTRO-%E2%80%93-Store-offer-update-11-5-13-2013 New Items:

Harry and Layanor join PR Guru Leo Tan and Producer Hannah Foell talk about Update 11. They introduce the the new Epic Book, talk about the mounted combat updates, and sneak a peak at mounting fishing! We had problems with the client and recording the video., but we did salvage the audio! If you would like some visuals of update 11, you can check out PvMPAndang's preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYArAeWn9cQ Big thanks too Leo and Hannah for taking the time to demo the new content for our listeners! Listen now:  

Layanor and Cari are on their own this week. Shenanigans are incoming. We talk about Update 11, Winged Horses, and things people want to see changed. Listen now: What We Did in Game Layanor- More Moors. I am 12% into my next rank. It is movin right along. Took Roselinda to the moors for her first rank. Looked at Bullroarer briefly  Cari - Dawning Eclipse 6th Anniversary Party with Goldenstar Hytbold Dalies Envelope Quests LOTRO Hated me on Monday and wouldn't let me log in News Video Dev Diary Update 11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2VJiDC7HYw&sns=em Update 11 Drops May 13, 2013 http://www.lotro.com/en/u11 The epic story continues as you are called to the remote region of Wildermore! This Eastern Rohan area has been hard hit by an unnatural and deadly winter. A Stone Giant named Núrzum, under the control of Saruman, is rumored as the source of this icy tragedy. Throughout Wildermore, villages have suffered ravage and townsfolk have become refugees. Follow in the chilly footsteps of evil as you attempt to restore this once thriving region. New class-specific traits now enhance your mounted combat skills, while bonuses to mobility have been removed from traits and added to your base steed. NEW! Hobbit Presents NEW! VIP Benefits Custom character portrait frame Bonus experience: +100% xp for 30% of a level (daily upon login) Free weekly Gold Hobbit Present with increased chance of rare rewards New for Mithril Coins Item repair in the field Personal Housing Upkeep Kinship Housing Upkeep Daily Task Limit Increase Task Reset Reputation Acceleration Deed Acceleration Lalia’s Market new in Update 11 http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?510167-Focus-Lalia-s-Market&p=6769792#post6769792 Market Exclusive Items Not available in the LOTRO Store Mitrhil Coins Housing Changes Coming with Update 11 http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/update-11-developer-notes-housing-foreclosure-and-escrow-changes Here’s the skinny: With Update 11, if you own a home that has been locked for more than 180 days you will be issued a final foreclosure warning. At that point you’ll have 60 days to get your finances in order and pay down the upkeep or your home will be foreclosed and put back on the market. All your items that were stored in the house will be put into escrow. These items in escrow will stay there indefinitely but you will need to clear out your escrow before you are allowed to buy a new home. Later this year we will likely shorten the grace period but seeing as this foreclosure business is new to a lot of players we figured we’d give some extra time when the feature goes live. The hope here is that by putting all of the long-dormant homes back on the market current players will find it easier to build close-knit communities with their friends. We’ll have more info on future improvements to the housing system down the road a bit! Obsidian Warsteed http://www.danania.net/2013/05/obsidian-steed.html?m=1 Looks like wings to me. Forums are being Streamlined http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?510761-Forums-Consolidation-and-Streamlining The German and French Forums will also take on this new format and layout of forums. No posts will be deleted, they will be rolled into the existing or replacement forums. Server forums will be condensed to just the server forum and its PvMP forum. The Trade and Kinship sub forums will be going away and all of those posts rolled into the general server forum. Store announcements will now be included in the Announcements forum with all other announcements. Crafting will now have a single forum instead of a forum for every craft. UI Skinning and Lua Scripting will now share the "UI Skinning and Lua Scripting" forum. Player Events (in and out of game) will share a single forum. Player council was instrumental in getting these changes set up. LOTRO Support is Now on Twitter

This week Cari, Chris and Layanor are joined by Bill himself (that will teach him to join the chat room) as we talk about Helm's Deep, the Council of the Players, cloaks, and the forum changes. Listen now: What We Did in Game  Layanor- Ranked to level 11. Starting the next rank. At 10k a day I should be rank 12 in two and a half months. I average 3 - 8k a day so it will be awhile I did the beer bash game for awhile to get the new teal horse. Cari - Cyn to 55. I can now equip some of my new LI's to level. Hytbold dailies a couple of days. Chris - Dailies for Hytbold PvMP with Layanor. I didn’t die.... Working on Reputations in Rohan. Bill - Maxed his rep with all the factions of Rohan. News LOTRO Announces Helm’s Deep http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/warner-bros-interactive-entertainment-and-turbine-announce-lord-rings-online%E2%84%A2-helm%E2%80%99s Experience the Battle for Helm’s Deep – Fight to defend Helm’s Deep starting at level 10, as your character enlists as a soldier in the Battle of the Hornburg, the most massive conflict yet in The Lord of the Rings Online.  Earn rewards for your contribution to the war effort – win or lose, your aid makes a difference! Explore new landscapes across Western Rohan - Explore the Westemnet of Rohan and rally each of the five Ridings as Rohan returns to glory. Traverse the capital of Edoras, mysterious Dunharrow, and the fortress of the Hornburg, deep within Helm’s Deep. Advance from levels 85 to 95 - Experience 10 new levels, from 85 to 95, with new skills and completely updated class specializations. Both mounted and un-mounted combat will challenge you as you war against the evil of Saruman. Continue the Epic Story - Encounter beloved characters such as Aragorn, Éowyn, and Éomer. Restore King Théoden to his rightful lordship and defend the peoples of Rohan at Helm’s Deep. New Player Council Members http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?509600-Introducing-the-2013-LOTRO-Player-Council And the forums and social media have blown up. 75 players have been chosen They come from all servers though according to Sapience this wasn't intentional VIP Players Charged Multiple Times http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6761650#post6761650 CarpeNoctum said that there were a few players who were charged multiple times for their VIP subscriptions. They are aware of who they are and are working to fix the issue and give credits to those affected. You will get a free month of VIP for your trouble if you were affected. FYI this also affected DDO. Important changes coming to the LOTRO Forums and MyLOTRO Forums The forums are going to be upgraded to a slightly newer version of VBulletin. Changes will include: The forum styling/appearance will be updated. We will be adding a new forum home page that includes forum category navigation and feeds of recent turbine announcements/recent player discussions. Forum performance will be improved. Our bug reporting system is being revamped. We will update the bug reporting links as soon as the new system is available. The Character Copy tool is being revamped and migrated to LOTRO.com. The LOTRO referral system is being revamped and migrated to LOTRO.com. Please note that if you currently have active referrals, you will continue to accrue bonus points from your existing referrals, but you will be unable to redeem bonus points from your referral wallet or add new referrals until the new front-end of the referral system is launched.  Discontinued Features The current player blog functionality will be discontinued. We are investigating ways of bringing blogging to players in the community site. The LOTRO Lorebook will be discontinued. The reputation system will be discontinued. PVMP leaderboards data will be discontinued, Character Signatures, and API functionality (data.lotro.com).

Chris, Cari, and Layanor are waiting for Hobbits to bring gifts, and turtle tokens. We are anxiously awaiting Update 11 on Bullroarer. Listen now: What We Did in Game Layanor- More Moors. Agility warden build is a lot of fun. High dps and high morale. Last raid I was in had seven wardens. We wiped the creeps almost repeatedly. Cari - Got a couple of levels on Cyn Level 54 Did Hytbold dailies a couple of times Did some Anniversary stuff. I can't get excited for it this year since there are no new shinies. Chris - Anniversary Quests. Finding the perfect place for fireworks sucks. Hytbold Dailies Got my anniversary stuff. Ho hum... News Sapience lets us in on Update 11 details. http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?507799-Update-11&s=3de581209b44de40f547223e53447ff6&p=6755068#post6755068 Bullroarer could be out next week. Hobbit Presents Epic story New Region Housing upkeep and escrow changes (foreclosure) New launcher tech (say bye bye to .net 1.1) Bug fixes So where is the new moors armour sets? Sapience Tweeted on 4/23 that player council invitation e-mails should be coming out on 4/24 *crosses fingers* Hobbit Presents are Coming http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/faq-hobbit-presents-2http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6756124#post6756124 Log in to get your Silver Present ever 24 hours VIP's get gold presents Similar to the DDO Daily Dice? Forum has blow up with questions/comments/hate. Will be on Bullroarer with update 11 to test. Sapience says the Anniversary festival will be extended due to extended downtime. http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6757439#post6757439 No news on exactly how long it will be extended. Cari talk! With Cari! Tee hee! http://casualstrolltomordor.com/2013/04/help-the-hobbit-altoholism/ One suggestion was to rotate every 10 levels. One suggestion is to concentrate on one alt and if you get burned out try other games. Through Moria there was a high road one round and the low road the next time through. Community CSTM Article how to Export your My.LOTRO Blog http://casualstrolltomordor.com/2013/04/export-your-my-lotro-blog/ Sapience has given a heads up that when the new community site goes live the blogs will be going away. CSTM has given us instructions on how to export those blogs. Weatherstock will be Held on June 15 on Landroval at Weathertop Weatherstock 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCDgr_ySRnE   Contact Information: Email: lotro.reporter@gmail.com Twitter: @lotroreporter Facebook: LOTRO Reporter Voicemail: 616-666-6778 or the widget on the right side of the screen when you visit the site. Youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork www.lotroreporter.com   Cari  Twitter: @thecarimac Layanor  Twitter: @Layanor

The Three Amigo's are back again. Chris, Layanor, and Cari are back from PAX, Real Life, and the plague. We get pretty silly and there may be a search for pants. Listen now: What We Did in Game  Layanor- Nothing but the moors! Going for rank 11. Only need 52,293 renown to rank up. Cari - I was out of town most of last week, and had visitors until Tuesday morning. I gave my Mum a tour of LOTRO. It took forever even with quick travel to get from the Shire to Isenguard. I picked up Lottery winnings and paid housing maintenance. Chris - Hytbold dailies Played on my hunter for a little while. Super busy with day job stuff and the whole plague thing. News: Updated 10.1 Patch Notes http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Update_10.1,Official Flight to the Lonely Mountain is Back. Some Fate Adjustments have been done The Spotted War-steed and Orc Head on a Pike mounted cosmetics are back on the Warband lootboxes. Raids will no longer bestow Seals if the player is below cap. It is no longer possible to join an instanced public questing area if you do not meet the entrance prerequisites (e.g. having exceeded the per-hour instance limit). 10.1 Known Issues http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?507214-Update-10.1-Known-Issues The Ceremonial Mark of the West Trousers doesn’t look right. 10.1 Store Updated http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?507230-LOTRO-%E2%80%93-Store-offer-update-10.1-4-3-2013 Bullroarer Took Day Screenshot Winners http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/bullroarer-took-day-2013-screenshot-contest-winners Fashion Week Screenshot Winners https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/fashion-week-screenshot-contest-2013-winners The Festivals are Coming: http://forums.lotro.com/calendar.php?year=2013&month=4&c=1 According to the Official LOTRO Calendar: Anniversary Festival 4/16/2013-4/30/2013 Spring Festival 5/23/2013-06/04/2013 6th Anniversary is Live http://www.lotro.com/en/6anniversary 6 Year's VIP or Premium get an Azure War-Steed Appearance 3 years get 3-Loot Box Keys April 18-21 Double XP on all Monster Kills The Keg Battle is Back Horse Racing is back!!! Monsters will drop Anniversary Tokens There were some issues with people getting their Anniversary gifts, but @LOTRO reports those issues have been fixed. CSTM has their festival guide up. http://casualstrolltomordor.com/2013/04/lotro-6th-anniversary-festival-guide/ Did You Know This weeks did you know is about multiboxing. This is when you open up more than one client with multiple accounts to do something. In the past you had to go into some setting in my documents and change some options. You also had to copy your entire client over to a new location. You do not need to do any of this anymore. Turbine now allows you to just click the client again and you can run multiple games of LOTRO all the same time. You will need a decent computer to run more than one game. I have never done more than three clients at once. With multiple clients open, you can do a lot of things. You can have alts you made join a kin incase it is about to get disbanded by members who have left. You can have a alt follow you around in group for extra loot. I use a free account character to grind for lootbox keys right now. Cause i'm cheap and do not want to pay for keys! Community Message on our Facebook Page James Ford Hello, I would like to show you what I have made and it would be great of you could mention it on your page. The best place to look at my projects is http://www.facebook.com/myshirehouses Cheers and I hope you can help me get the word out. I am going on TV soon as well. Channel 4 loved it. My Shire Houses Mini Oak timber framed Shire houses From Tarpilion: In my opinion about the recent exploiting and bans, they don't really have the right to ban.

Chris and Cari go over Episode 189 of CSTM. We discuss Merric and Goldenstar talking about Tier 3 Skirmishes and questing together. Listen now: You are listening to CSTM  Reporter on the MMO Reporter Network brought to you by Pine Leaf’s Skirmish Guides, and Andang’s Gaming Commentary. From the March 18 Episode 189 of CSTM: They have been on vacation. Their loyal fan-base misses them terribly. Oh well, let’s go over episode 189 see if we can find nuggets of wisdom from Merric and Goldenstar. It’s Pine Leaf’s Skirmishes on CSTM http://casualstrolltomordor.com/category/guides/skirmish/ Andang's Gaming Commentary http://www.youtube.com/user/PvMPAndang

Chris is back from PAX. Oh that rhymes. He's not quite recovered. Layanor and Cari go along for the ride. Listen now: What We Did This Week Layanor- Power leveled a few friend but mostly planning for my trip. Got a new steed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7alSI1XH4OU Cari- Power leveled in Moria with Layanor Worked on my epic books Cyn has her first LIs, and on her way out of Moria Chris- PAX! PAX! PAX! Turbine Party! Ent Play Confirmed!!!!!! News Player Council Announced http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/we-are-very-pleased-announce-lotro-player-council Requirements for Applicants and Nominees Be 18 years of age or older at the time of their application, nomination, or selection for the council. Must be an active player of The Lord of the Rings Online for at least the previous six months. Must maintain an active play style during the council’s term of service. (“Active” to be determined by Turbine at its sole discretion). Account must be in good standing with no significant violations of Turbine’s Terms of Service, End User License Agreement or Community Guidelines. Accounts must remain free of said violations during the period of service. Applicants may be from any geographic region officially supported by The Lord of the Rings Online. Council business will be conducted primarily in English. Therefore we request applicants have the ability to communicate with the team and each other via written and spoken English. The ability to interact with other members of the Council and Turbine employees in a mature, constructive, and mutually respectful manner. Things to Talk About: Council members must agree to the terms of our NDA and agree that any information will not be shared out of the program at any point during or after their service. Members of the press or those acting in a journalistic/editorial capacity are not eligible to participate on the council. - This means us Dev Twitter Chat 3/21 http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?505854-Transcript-LOTRO-Developer-Twitter-Chat-Thursday-March-21-2013 Skill trees are coming U11 is for solo players and has a new epic story There are two new healer rings being released with Update 10.1 – one that is might-based and another that is will-based, both with on-heal procs Player created relic contest staring after PAX EAST Unexpectedly Lose VIP Access? http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6722683#post6722683 Since our billing system update in February, Turbine has received reports from players with accounts that did not have the correct Free, Premium or VIP subscription status. Yesterday we implemented a fix that makes sure that all players have the correct, up-to-date subscription status. Before yesterday's fix, some players may have received additional VIP access incorrectly. VIP access will be dropped for these players, as it should not have been available in the first place. If you unexpectedly lost VIP access yesterday or today, please check your bank statement and make sure that your most recent VIP payment went through. After checking, if you believe you have the wrong account access level, please contact Account Support and they will be happy to investigate further. Did you Know From Rose: Did you know that there was search functionality hooked up in game to let you search through your bag space? I've played LOTRO for over 5 years...and I JUST discovered that you can search your bag space.  Can't find that item you just picked up or your crafting bit?  Search for it. How do you do it? Just to the left of the X that closes the window for your bag there is a small icon for a magnifying glass...click on it and that triggers the "find items" interface.  Now you can type in the new window the name or partial name of items and you can help find things in your bags. A small did you know this week. I have people logging in my kin.

Chris is back from PAX. Oh that rhymes. He's not quite recovered. Layanor and Cari go along for the ride. Listen now: What We Did This Week Layanor- Power leveled a few friend but mostly planning for my trip. Got a new steed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7alSI1XH4OU Cari- Power leveled in Moria with Layanor Worked on my epic books Cyn has her first LIs, and on her way out of Moria Chris- PAX! PAX! PAX! Turbine Party! Ent Play Confirmed!!!!!! News Player Council Announced http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/we-are-very-pleased-announce-lotro-player-council Requirements for Applicants and Nominees Be 18 years of age or older at the time of their application, nomination, or selection for the council. Must be an active player of The Lord of the Rings Online for at least the previous six months. Must maintain an active play style during the council’s term of service. (“Active” to be determined by Turbine at its sole discretion). Account must be in good standing with no significant violations of Turbine’s Terms of Service, End User License Agreement or Community Guidelines. Accounts must remain free of said violations during the period of service. Applicants may be from any geographic region officially supported by The Lord of the Rings Online. Council business will be conducted primarily in English. Therefore we request applicants have the ability to communicate with the team and each other via written and spoken English. The ability to interact with other members of the Council and Turbine employees in a mature, constructive, and mutually respectful manner. Things to Talk About: Council members must agree to the terms of our NDA and agree that any information will not be shared out of the program at any point during or after their service. Members of the press or those acting in a journalistic/editorial capacity are not eligible to participate on the council. - This means us Dev Twitter Chat 3/21 http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?505854-Transcript-LOTRO-Developer-Twitter-Chat-Thursday-March-21-2013 Skill trees are coming U11 is for solo players and has a new epic story There are two new healer rings being released with Update 10.1 – one that is might-based and another that is will-based, both with on-heal procs Player created relic contest staring after PAX EAST Unexpectedly Lose VIP Access? http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6722683#post6722683 Since our billing system update in February, Turbine has received reports from players with accounts that did not have the correct Free, Premium or VIP subscription status. Yesterday we implemented a fix that makes sure that all players have the correct, up-to-date subscription status. Before yesterday's fix, some players may have received additional VIP access incorrectly. VIP access will be dropped for these players, as it should not have been available in the first place. If you unexpectedly lost VIP access yesterday or today, please check your bank statement and make sure that your most recent VIP payment went through. After checking, if you believe you have the wrong account access level, please contact Account Support and they will be happy to investigate further. Did you Know From Rose: Did you know that there was search functionality hooked up in game to let you search through your bag space? I've played LOTRO for over 5 years...and I JUST discovered that you can search your bag space.  Can't find that item you just picked up or your crafting bit?  Search for it. How do you do it? Just to the left of the X that closes the window for your bag there is a small icon for a magnifying glass...click on it and that triggers the "find items" interface.  Now you can type in the new window the name or partial name of items and you can help find things in your bags. A small did you know this week. I have people logging in my kin.

Cari and Layanor are Chris-less this week. It's not the same thing as pant-less trust us. We talk about herding cats, fashion extravaganza's and hot fixes. Listen now: What We Did This Week   Layanor- Working on my first age. Farming Battle of Erebor Cari-  Seat of the Great Goblin T2 Hytbold - Still Iober's Peak T2 - We beat the challenge mode. Questing with Cyn Level 48 Chris- Packing for PAX   News   PAX East WB Event is Sold Out http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6717655#post6717655 Don't forget your ticket and get there early.   Dev Twitter Chat March 21 http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?505069-LOTRO-Developer-Twitter-Chat-Thursday-March-21-3-00PM-Eastern-Time Come chat with members of the LOTRO Team! When: Thursday March 21, 2013 at 3:00PM Eastern time. Where: http://www.twitter.com/lotro Members of the LOTRO dev team will be answering your questions live on Twitter starting at 3:00PM Eastern time. To ask a question, just tweet it to us @lotro and be sure to include the hashtags #LOTRO and #DEVCHAT. The following members of the LOTRO Team will be answering your questions. Aaron “Rowan” Campbell - Senior Producer Derek Flippo – Design Director Matt "Hoarsedev" Zimmitti - Lead Systems Designer Lauren “Budgeford” Salk - Senior Content Designer (Region Gameplay and Content) Matt “Scarycrow” Fahey - World Builder Evan "Verizal" Graziano - Associate Systems Designer (Classes, Items, Mounted Combat) Rick “Sapience” Heaton - Community Manager   Game Down http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6717517#post6717517 The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Wednesday, March 20th from 7:00 - 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) for a hotfix. Hotfix notes will be available during the downtime. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon! Sapience Reports the Flight to the Lonely Mountain will not be part of this fix.   Update on the VIP Points Award Cari - I got my VIP points for February on March 14. It showed up as steam. There also seems to be an issue where multiple awards are happening. If you put in a ticket or made a call you may get extra points.   Did You Know Did you know you can lock items in your inventory when not at a vendor? Alt-click the item in inventory to target it and use ctrl-t to toggle lock on/off.  You can also lock them at a vendor by clicking the lock on the item. You can equip locked items and when you unequip them they are still locked. Community   LOTRO Reporter Fashion Show http://mmoreporter.com/2013/03/17/lotro-reporter-fashion-show/ Winners: Best Casual Wear Grand: Luicious Second: Cierranior Third: Annarose Best Battle Wear Grand: Mince Second: Mallis Third: Cierranior Worst Dressed Grand: Mellowan Second: Casebrandstone Third: Donnion Thank you to Morrganie (aka www.candicepizzo.com  the store is www.candicepizzodesigns.etsy.com)   The Extra Life Codes have gone out. Sapience reported that all the Extra Life codes for those who donated to him. There were horse codes and forum titles.   Raging Monkey's Article http://raging-monkeys.blogspot.com/2013/03/tunes-of-magic-v-my-top-10-songs-to.html Syl From Raging Monkey's top 10 songs to Play in LOTRO   Comment from Episode 174: Tapkoh The tarnished symbols of the elder king are gated behind 3 deeds. The most expensive requiring completing all 3 new raids on tier 1, the next less expensive for completing them on tier 2, and the cheapest for completing the challenge modes as well. You can see this by selecting the item and then hovering over the barter button. A tooltip will say you are ineligible (if that is true) because you have not completed the appropriate deed/quest and will then list them. Many gated barter items hide their information there.   Please join us on www.mmoreporter.com/live on Tuesday nights at about 8:15 PST.

Cari and Layanor are Chris-less this week. It's not the same thing as pant-less trust us. We talk about herding cats, fashion extravaganza's and hot fixes. Listen now: What We Did This Week   Layanor- Working on my first age. Farming Battle of Erebor Cari-  Seat of the Great Goblin T2 Hytbold - Still Iober's Peak T2 - We beat the challenge mode. Questing with Cyn Level 48 Chris- Packing for PAX   News   PAX East WB Event is Sold Out http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6717655#post6717655 Don't forget your ticket and get there early.   Dev Twitter Chat March 21 http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?505069-LOTRO-Developer-Twitter-Chat-Thursday-March-21-3-00PM-Eastern-Time Come chat with members of the LOTRO Team! When: Thursday March 21, 2013 at 3:00PM Eastern time. Where: http://www.twitter.com/lotro Members of the LOTRO dev team will be answering your questions live on Twitter starting at 3:00PM Eastern time. To ask a question, just tweet it to us @lotro and be sure to include the hashtags #LOTRO and #DEVCHAT. The following members of the LOTRO Team will be answering your questions. Aaron “Rowan” Campbell - Senior Producer Derek Flippo – Design Director Matt "Hoarsedev" Zimmitti - Lead Systems Designer Lauren “Budgeford” Salk - Senior Content Designer (Region Gameplay and Content) Matt “Scarycrow” Fahey - World Builder Evan "Verizal" Graziano - Associate Systems Designer (Classes, Items, Mounted Combat) Rick “Sapience” Heaton - Community Manager   Game Down http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6717517#post6717517 The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Wednesday, March 20th from 7:00 - 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) for a hotfix. Hotfix notes will be available during the downtime. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon! Sapience Reports the Flight to the Lonely Mountain will not be part of this fix.   Update on the VIP Points Award Cari - I got my VIP points for February on March 14. It showed up as steam. There also seems to be an issue where multiple awards are happening. If you put in a ticket or made a call you may get extra points.   Did You Know Did you know you can lock items in your inventory when not at a vendor? Alt-click the item in inventory to target it and use ctrl-t to toggle lock on/off.  You can also lock them at a vendor by clicking the lock on the item. You can equip locked items and when you unequip them they are still locked. Community   LOTRO Reporter Fashion Show http://mmoreporter.com/2013/03/17/lotro-reporter-fashion-show/ Winners: Best Casual Wear Grand: Luicious Second: Cierranior Third: Annarose Best Battle Wear Grand: Mince Second: Mallis Third: Cierranior Worst Dressed Grand: Mellowan Second: Casebrandstone Third: Donnion Thank you to Morrganie (aka www.candicepizzo.com  the store is www.candicepizzodesigns.etsy.com)   The Extra Life Codes have gone out. Sapience reported that all the Extra Life codes for those who donated to him. There were horse codes and forum titles.   Raging Monkey's Article http://raging-monkeys.blogspot.com/2013/03/tunes-of-magic-v-my-top-10-songs-to.html Syl From Raging Monkey's top 10 songs to Play in LOTRO   Comment from Episode 174: Tapkoh The tarnished symbols of the elder king are gated behind 3 deeds. The most expensive requiring completing all 3 new raids on tier 1, the next less expensive for completing them on tier 2, and the cheapest for completing the challenge modes as well. You can see this by selecting the item and then hovering over the barter button. A tooltip will say you are ineligible (if that is true) because you have not completed the appropriate deed/quest and will then list them. Many gated barter items hide their information there.   Please join us on www.mmoreporter.com/live on Tuesday nights at about 8:15 PST.

Chris, Cari and Layanor stumble their way through this weeks episode. Rabbit trails may have been followed. Listen now: What We Did This Week Layanor- Didn't play much LOTRO this week. Did get into one of the new 12 men's The Battle for E...

Chris, Cari and Layanor stumble their way through this weeks episode. Rabbit trails may have been followed. Listen now: What We Did This Week Layanor- Didn't play much LOTRO this week. Did get into one of the new 12 men's The Battle for E...

Hello MMO Reporter listeners! We're going to PAX East! Here's a quick recap of our previous PAX coverage, to give you a heads up on what to expect. We'll be putting all of the content out on the MMO Reporter podcast feed, so make sure to subscribe (details here) to get all of the audio sent right to your computer. for our videos, check out the main site  or our Youtube Page to get them as soon as they're posted. But we also need your help! Harry and I want to record a video for the song attached below, but we need an acoustic guitar to borrow for a few hours on Sunday! We won't ACTUALLY be playing it, but we need Harry to mime along as we record the video. If you can help us, please send me a message at chris AT mmoreporter DOT com and let me know! See you in-game!

Hello MMO Reporter listeners! We're going to PAX East! Here's a quick recap of our previous PAX coverage, to give you a heads up on what to expect. We'll be putting all of the content out on the MMO Reporter podcast feed, so make sure to subscribe (details here) to get all of the audio sent right to your computer. for our videos, check out the main site  or our Youtube Page to get them as soon as they're posted. But we also need your help! Harry and I want to record a video for the song attached below, but we need an acoustic guitar to borrow for a few hours on Sunday! We won't ACTUALLY be playing it, but we need Harry to mime along as we record the video. If you can help us, please send me a message at chris AT mmoreporter DOT com and let me know! See you in-game!