Summary: Chris, Cari and Layanor make the best of a slow news week, and discuss LOTRO fashion. Listen now: What We Did in Game Layanor- 66.68% into my next rank. 124,946 more renown needed. Found a night owl to play with in game. Doing a lot of the Wildermore dailies, War-bands, and older content. Like CD and 2 man Turtle just for fun! Cari - Leveled Cyn with Layanor Edited Podcasts Chris - Working my way through update 11. How many times do I have to run back and forth between the farms and Forlaw anyways? News Turbine Network Maintenance June 19, 2013 http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6825073#post6825073 The LOTRO Game Servers and myaccount.turbine.com will be unavailable on Wednesday June 19, while we perform network maintenance. The LOTRO forums may also be unavailable to players for all or part of the maintenance period. Maintenance will begin at 5:00AM Eastern US time (Click here for your local time) and is expected to take approximately 2 hours. Lotteries http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6824818#post6824818 Remember, we need to make adjustments to character information tracking to support character copy for Bullroarer and Betas. So it's work that has to be done. As far as I know, the beta version of the new lotteries was sent to the QA team. I'll probably get my first look at it today or tomorrow. Tentative Date for Forum Update They are tentatively aiming for late June for a forum Update. Pre-Order Late Last couple of years the Pre-Order dates were in early June. Those dates exactly corresponded to the Thursday of E3. Follow LOTRO on Twitter @lotro Follow us on Twitter, Get 100 Turbine Points Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:32:43 GMT 250 people who start following @lotro before 3:00 AM Eastern Time July 19, 2013 will win a code valid for 100 Turbine Points. This offer is for new followers only. http://bit.ly/11lzfrO Did You Know http://layanor.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/relic-gallery/ This weeks did you know was so huge, I had to make it into its own article! This is a guide that will let you compare relics side by side. The games menus are not well thought out and you have to keep scrolling thru them just to look at two relics. This article will help you look thru them, compare them side by side, and let you see the combined relics as well. Each one of these relics are from screenshots of the game. Each relic is opened first because the closed relic on some have text cut off of them. A lot of the crafted relics are all cut off, and I may need help getting screenshots of them all. Community CSTM is Ending http://cstm.mymiddleearth.com/?p=73650 June 29 last show. It will be a call in show. https://medium.com/p/583ed7a004ba Crime Story Contest! http://cosmeticlotro.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/mugshot-contest-2013/ To enter the crime story-contest you must first enter the mugshot-contest. Write up a short story or description of the crime that the villain in the mugshot has been accused of and include it with your mugshot entry. The story may not exceed 200 words. Prizes Four prizes will be awarded: - Mugshot First Prize: 1500 Turbine Points - Mugshot Second Prize: 1000 Turbine Points - Mugshot Third Prize: 500 Turbine Points - Crime Story Prize: code for in-game title “The Sociable” + code for account wide “Cremello Mount”. All prizes courtesy of Turbine. What if I'm Three Expansions Behind? http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/06/15/the-road-to-mordor-but-what-if-im-three-expansions-behind/ Talks about entering LOTRO from the beginning. Explains what you may need, and what to expect from questing and the turbine store. Also gives some opinions on if the game is worth playing all the way thru. Elvin Tailor has pics of the Store Exclusive Outfits http://theelventailor.blogspot.com/2013/06/store-exclusive-outfits.html
