Summary: Layanor, Carrie and Chris talk all about the new Big Battles announcement from the latest 20 Questions post and more! Listen now: What We Did in Game Layanor- Did 4 hours instead of 3 of the Middle Earth at War show Also did a show today and it got viewers right away. Did a live stream of Ost Dunoth just to play around and got even more random views. You guys really like live streams! I am 24% into my moors rank Cari - Changed Cyn name to Chakakhanriel - Alinniel I moved on both servers. Ali of Landroval has 1 Twinfall Path and Ali of Brandywine had a lovely standard house (she was broke) Ali of Brandywine is now level 70 Couldn't log into the server on Saturday night. :( Did some skirmishes to level. Did Icy Crevasse for the first time. Chris - Quest. Quest. Quest. Quest. Quest. MITHRIL COINS. Quest. Quest..... Spent 200+ Hytbolt tokens today. Gotta remember to look ALL AROUND Hytbold to spend them. News LOTRO 20 Questions: Big Battles https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?519694-20-Questions-%E2%80%93-Big-Battles Info on Helm's Deep Upscaling for lower level characters Non-Instanced you play your character Pre-Orders can not be announced just yet. Added Questions Will there be any normal instance added or is big battles the only instance type we get. Big battles are the only instance type in this expansion. Will mounted combat be in any big battle? No. To systems that are very complex need to be apart from each other for now. Will the big battles be available at launch? Yes. Will character scaling be applied to the moors? Right now, no. Later on it may be applied to other things once the system is ironed out. Will there be any housing upgrades in this expansion? There will be some upgrades before the expansion and on launch. How does scaling gear work? If you're level 20 with a level 7 sword, your sword will scale up to level 92. The stats on the sword will also scale but it will not get extra stats. Such as most max level weapons and gear get multiple stats, while lesser gear get one or two stats. With there being no tiers of difficulty, will everything just be easy for lower level scaled players to win. Big battles will not have tiers but they will introduce a medal system. If you defend an area, you get points added to your score. If you lose a area or do something wrong, you will lose points to your score. The higher your score, the better your reward will be. Forums Say Helm's Deep Fall 2013 Sapience confirmed. That doesn’t give us a firm date, but it does keep it from being pushed into 2014 No Turbine Presence at PAX this year. https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=6867571#post6867571 Sapience Suggests they come to our party. And so do we. www.mmoreporter.com/pax New forums are up with new community rules. http://www.lotro.com/en/content/community-guidelines Connection issues to LOTRO not their problem. https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?519601-Official-thread-Conntectivity-Issues Workaround seems to have fixed the issue. From Sapience: "Unless you want to try to argue that the Summer Festival took out LOTRO, DDO, AC, and IC all at once. In which case the festivals have become self aware and there is nothing we can do to stop them." - Different Post Did you Know I have had a few players tell me about the different potions you can get from the Ettenmoors. They said you can use them outside of the moors. However everytime I look at the vendors who sell them, they always say “must be in PvMP” to use them. Well I finally found the ones they were talking about. They can only be found in The Delving of Fror. That is the underground instance of the moors. These can be found on salamanders and wurms. However wurms are faster to kill. Each one gives immunity to something. The fact that the fear potion gets rid of three fears and give immunity for 5 seconds is very powerful.
