Summary: Cari and Layanor were on their own this week. Will Chris never learn? They talked about Update 10, Sapience's beard, Twitter chats, and Layanor hummed a lot. Listen now: What We Did This Week: Layanor- Did a surprise Fornost run to help shake off some of the raiding rust we have. I am 50% for rank 11 in the moors. Cari- Finished up the Eaves of Fanghorn Quest Line - It was pretty fun. Still working on dailies for Hytbold. - An ent killed me in one of the public instances. Purchased my first Hytbold gear Piece Helped kill Bugud - Received a broken old ring. Broke down, bought keys and opened up my level 80 loot boxes. Got 5 Compendiums of Middle Earth IV, A really neat cloak, a universal tool kit, and some crafting crit scrolls. Ran some Moria Instances with the Wednesday night deed group. Finished Dark Delvings for the first time ever, Chris- Working through the Eaves of Fangorn. Got ahead of myself with the epic story. Started heading south before I was done Fangorn. News: 9.1 Release Notes http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Update_9.1,_Official There’s a new “Find Items” dialog which allows you to find items by typing in part of their name. Space Combat has been removed from the game. Travel mounts are no longer invisible to players. Classic Instances Drop rates on Star-lit crystals and 2nd Age Symbols have been slightly reduced. Barad Guldur Reduced the quality of the regular boss chests for Durchest and the Twins on Tier 1 and Tier 2. They will no longer drop 2nd Age Symbols, among other things. Challenge chests and the Lieutenants chest remain unaffected. Reduced the chance of getting equipment drops for each player on T1 and T2 difficulty slightly. Mirkwood Vendors in Mirkwood and elsewhere have finally gotten the news that Medallions of Dol Guldur have been replaced, and are now willing to accept Medallions for their wares. Dev Diary: New Currency Mithril Coins: http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/update-10-mithril-coin-qa Replacing some of the writs and tomes See picture revive will cost more than one Coin a travel writ will cost one. We should be able to see this on Bullroarer when it goes up. Dev Twitter Chat: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6635899#post6635899 Forced Emote Toggle is coming!!! For Free!!!!! Getting a new area that isn't the expansion. Wardens are switching to Agility Community asked if the Galuhad's Kinship proposal will be considered. Turbine replied with the order they will be doing requests this year. Class revamps, housing revamp, and kinship revamp. http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?385713-Kinship-Revamp-Proposal Turbine has no plans to use any of the faction rep mounts for warsteed cosmetics. They are looking for player ideas on how to update and change the character models. Second ages will be available for Marks, Medallions, and/or Seals Sapience lost his face! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzGOsLq8VWk&feature=player_embedded https://twitter.com/rickheaton/status/295996539128668160/photo/1 Talks about update 10 this week on Bullroarer. Did You Know™ Crafting Toward Mordor with the Universal Crafting Kit http://www.danania.net/2013/01/crafting-toward-mordor-with-universal.html?m=1 The Universal Toolkit is Bound to Account. The Universal Toolkit can get passed through the Shared Storage or if you are lazy like me they are 150 TP. Crafters are getting quite a few levels Froma Danania's Post: At Yule festival 2012 a month ago, the five main lil-dana crafters were all level 25, now they are level 35 to 38. There is a level 38 farmer who has zero kills. She has been leveled by crafting alone. http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Dyes Community: Classic LOTRO Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_-qrHFVMN8 Contact Information: email: lotro.reporter@gmail.com twitter: @lotroreporter
