Summary: 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.
