Summary: Chris, Cari and Layanor are a bit silly this week. Eventually we do get around to talking about forums, Updates, and class race restrictions. Listen now: What We Did in Game Layanor- I am 17% into my next moors rank. Got under 500k. I only need 498k now. Had a great run in Tower of Orthanc tier 2. Have done this for a couple of nights now and the group i'm with is determined to do it. We are on the wing right before Saruman. Cari - Cyn to 68. Got half a level with just the festival. Been doing the festival Kinship Festival Chris - Ally with the Wold and Entwash Vale! Ignoring the festival. Hytbold must be mine! News Community Site is down for a Revamp July 28-Aug 1 Estimated http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6858780#post6858780 On Monday July 29 at 10AM Eastern time, the LOTRO Forums will be placed into read only mode and a forum, “Temporary Discussions” will be created for each of our supported languages (English, German, and French). Here's what the new forums will look like: http://ow.ly/i/2KjJI Official Forums The forums will be upgraded to a newer version of VBulletin. Changes will include: The forum styling/appearance will be updated and will now scale to the full width of your browser window. A new “Community Digest” page that will have links to lotteries, forums, and updated news. Forum performance will be improved. Forums should perform better on mobile devices. LOTRO Lotteries The lottery widget is going away and a new Lottery page is taking its place. Character Copy for Bullroarer and Beta. The character copy system we use for Bullroarer and beta testing will be improved and easier to use. The following features are being discontinued: The LOTRO Lorebook Player Blogs PvMP leaderboards Skirmish Leaderboards Character and Kinship Data and Pages Referrals Signup Rewards Item Icons / Tooltips - This makes me really, really sad Signature System http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?505221-LOTRO-Companion-version-3.0 Update 11.2 Release Notes. http://t.co/Zj7uHicKCj Red Painted Skeleton Steed is now Account Bound Launcher fixes. Yes your log into last world choice is gone. It’s gone because you have allow multiple instances checked. Additions to the Store: Sapience: “We’d like to thank the Player Council for their assistance with the design and pricing the Advanced Riding Skill.” Apprentice Riding Trait (Account) - Upgrades all mounts on your account to +68% speed. Apprentice Riding Trait - Upgrades all mounts on your character to +68% speed. Journeyman Riding Trait (Account) - Upgrades all mounts on your account to have +78% speed! New Speed Buffs for Mounts http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?517972-11.2-New-RIDING-PASSIVES-%28-68-78-%29-Stop-and-Smell-the-Roses! Apprentice Riding Skill 995 68% Speed Journeyman Riding Trait 2995 78% Speed Doesn't Work in the Moors Account Wide Gives Riding Skill Can Toggle it off Returning Traveller – reduces the cooldown of your “return to” skills by 30 mins. Shared Wardrobe Space XIV (10 Slots) The current status of Character Transfers: http://t.co/YFKRDWei62 Character Transfers have been down since March. They are redoing the code to make them automated. However, it is taking more time than initially expected. Please note that Character Transfers will continue to be a Paid Service, not a Premium Service similar to Kinship renames or character undeletes. Character Undeletes are Back! -Carpe Noctem http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?517968-Character-Undeletes-are-available-again! Character Undeletes are again available! Free to all players who have VIP access or have purchased Turbine Points in the last 45 days Players can only have one Premium Service open at a time (Kinship renames included). We can only accept one character per Undelete Request. Be Patient
