Summary: Chris is back. He, Cari, and Layanor go over the most recent Producer's Letter, and talk about Update 10 in Bullroarer. Listen now: What We Did This Week Layanor- Maxed out my legendary items with empowerment scrolls and star-lit crystals. Found a nice place to farm some gold for when i'm broke. Helped some more lowbie kin cause thats my favorite thing to do. Cari- Hytbold Dailies 4 Pieces of Song Protector Armour Cyn the Mini on Brandywine is up to level 35. She just finished clearing out that bandit Camp Across the Brandywine. Not my favorite area. Killed Bugud a couple more times. Chris- Half Way through 83 and working my way through Sutcrofts. News Producer’s Letter http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/letter-kate-paiz-executive-producer-lord-rings-online%E2%84%A2 Player’s Council – We are doubling down this year on the conversation between Turbine and you, our players. We are going to start a Player’s Council, a group of players who participate in more regular & structured feedback sessions with the dev group. We want to make sure that as we grow and extend this game, that we are incorporating your likes and dislikes about what we are into what we release. The Community Team will be releasing more information about how we’re going to construct and run the Player’s Council in the coming weeks. Western Rohan – I am at this moment standing on the parapet of the Hornburg, looking out over Helm’s Deep as devs populate the landscape with hundreds (soon to be thousands) of Saruman’s Uruk-hai & Orcs. We will be bringing you the rest of Rohan in two installments – Wildermore, a northern region between the Wold and Fangorn, will be released this spring, after our 6th anniversary, and later in the year, you’ll be able to see Western Rohan, Edoras, and participate in battles of epic proportions. Much more on this to come… Housing – I am extremely pleased to say that this year we will be tackling a major revision to the Housing system. In February and March we will be gathering information about how Housing should change, and then we’ll be releasing revisions to the system in the latter half of the year. We look forward to leveraging our new Player’s Council to help shape and guide the extension of this feature! Class Adjustments – Later in the year, we will be making some significant changes to the skills and traits of the Free Peoples classes. We’ll be pruning out skills that just feel disappointing in play and increasing the potency of others. The end result will be fewer skills, but a more profound impact on moment-to-moment play. How you choose to specialize your class will make a real difference! Update 10 is live on Bullroarer http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?499276-UPDATE-10-PRELIMINARY-RELEASE-NOTES-Bullroarer-Only-%281%29-SUBJECT-TO-CHANGE The following NEW instances are now available The Bells of Dale (6 Player) Flight to the Lonely Mountain (12 player) The Fires of Smaug (12 Player) The Battle for Erebor (12 Player) In Their absence All of the instances in the “In their Absence” instance cluster have been scaled from level 65 up to level cap. Dread on Defeat effects removed. Players will no longer receive the dread effect when defeated. This applies to defeat dread only. Other forums of dead will continue to exist as before. Patch on Bullroarer http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?500173-UPDATE-10-PRELIMINARY-RELEASE-NOTES-Bullroarer-Only-(2)-SUBJECT-TO-CHANGE The Store now has three new property guards: the Rohirrim Knight, Shield-maiden, and Hound! Steed of the Khundolar Available 68% Speed 1995 TP War-steed Appearance PIctures can be found at http://casualstrolltomordor.com/2013/02/steed-of-the-khundolar-available/ There are surprises in the new Bree Revamp http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6653448#post6653448 Living Toys are Alive Go search for more The lotteries are back
