Summary: Chris, Cari and Layanor talk about Social Studies, and go back to school about "easy" changes in MMOs. Listen now: We recorded Farewell to CSTM so this ended up being Episode 190. What We Did in Game: Layanor- I am 78% into my next rank Have been running Fires of Smaug and Battle for Erebor every night, along with working on Wildemore dailies. Ran Battle for Erebor at tier 2 with no luck. I am looking to get a Saruman tier 2 run. Cari - Leveling Cyn Wlidemore on Ali Picked up Lottery winnings and ran through VIP experience on some Alts. Chris - LOTRO? What’s LOTRO? Grease is the word! News: 20 Questions with the Devs: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?515600-Twenty-Questions-with-the-LOTRO-Dev-Team Systems Maintenance: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6830966#post6830966 LOTRO Card Sale at Participating Wal-Marts: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6828417#post6828417 20% off Small update Re the Forums: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6828276#post6828276 Sapience: I'm in between meetings about the new lottery system and wanted to give you a quick heads up on a couple of things. As most of you have seen, the revamp is now slated for early July, after the US July 4 holiday. Lotteries will be part of this new site, I just sat down and filled up two pages of legal pad with the dev team about new things, missing things, and bugs in the system they're working on. Now I'm off to another meeting about the lottery. In the middle of all this I managed to get someone to kick the character data update tools. So you should be seeing your character data update over the next few days. Which means I can throw some lotteries up for this weekend without too many bad things happening... I hope. @Lotro Is you Kinship or Fansite planning an #event in LOTRO? Send Sapience a PM on the forums with details and we might be able to help! Did You Know: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?485191-Map-of-the-Delving&p=6487564#post6487564 Community: MMO Troll LOTRO Articles: http://www.mmo-troll.com/out-with-the-old/ http://www.mmo-troll.com/a-open-letter-to-the-lotro-community/ Got the community riled up. All false Weatherstock Concert Series is Coming: http://lotroplayers.mymiddleearth.com/2013/06/24/weatherstock-concert-series-the-chosen-few/ http://t.co/H7J8Wykq4c First Concert is Wednesday night. Vraeden Hates Hunters on CSTM: http://casualstrolltomordor.com/2013/06/vraeden-hates-hunters-2/ @lotro Windy Acres Ranch is hosting a rodeo on Landroval this Saturday at 3pm server/EST in Rusham, Shire homesteads. Win prizes! Supergirl Writes about Wildemore Relics: http://www.danania.net/2013/06/u11-wildemore-relics.html LOTRO Geek 30 Day Photo Challenge: http://lotrogeek.tumblr.com/post/51779690479/lotro-geeks-30-day-picture-challenge One of the pics: http://hipstalotro.blogspot.com/2013/06/6-lotrogeeks-30-day-picture-challenge.html We've Got Mail: From Saurio Hi Chris, Cari, and Layanor: Sorry to bother you all, but I have a question about the way threat is generated in Lotro and thought you three scholars of the game would be able to help. My questions is: When does threat accrue when using a heal or damage over time skill? Is it immediate or incremental with each pulse of the effect? Example: I cast a skill that does 100 damage/healing per second for 30 seconds. Do I generate 3000 threat immediately because that is the eventually output of the skill? Or, do I only get 100 immediately with another 100 with each passing second? My guess is that it is the second way, but sometimes my mini's soliloquy of spirit seems to draw a lot of attention at the beginning of a fight, even though it is a fairly low output heal. Thank you for your assistance! -Saurio Hello minion Saurio Your second guess is correct. More threat is added every pulse. As for your heal.
