Summary: 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:
