Summary: Cari and Layanor talk about turning into a bear, Epic Battle shtuff, and spooky scary Halloween Concerts. Audio Version: What We Did in Game Layanor Touched on the moors Epic Battles Going to start the festival Cari-Mac Leveled on my Landy Mini I hate the Dead Marshes - The Quests Suck News Beorning Question https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7253515#post7253515 But a question are we going to get class armour npcs, LI vendors for moria LIs and the Iron Garrison Guards 'old legendary trait' now class point deed book? Made of Lions: I believe that the old traits/Class Points from Moria are instead distributed through the L15, L30, and L45 Beorning Class Quests -- other classes don't get points from those quests, but Beornings do. I don't know about vendors or class armour, though. Fall Festival is Live Another Blanket Horse Frelorn is livestreaming. https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?554350-Frelorn-Q-amp-A-from-Livestreams&highlight=livestream October 21 – November 2nd: Fall Festival November 7 - 9: Hobnanigans 14-16: 25% Mark Acq. Boost 21-23: Lootbox Weekend 26 – December 4th: 25% Bonus XP December 5 - 7 : Hobnanigans 12 – 14 : Buried Treasure 16- January 15th : Winter Festival 3 Mans Community Letter from Kevin 8.0 You were absolutely correct in assuming I am anxious to try out the new Epic Battle. I wanted to bring up a couple complaints that I've heard about Epic Battles: 1. I don't get to play my class in them. I don't intent to sound harsh here, but what are people doing in them if not playing their class? In the 3-person, 6-person, and especially the raid, all the classes are needed. When adds are attacking squishy targets, a tank forcing aggro off of the targets is key to a successful run, and healing those targets is also necessary. Can't do that as a hunter! And lately as a hunter, I've been playing as Vanguard, and it boosts my DPS so high, it makes me feel like an atomic bomb. DPSers should love Epic Battles. 2. I just stand around and wait for the instance to complete. With some careful use of a catapult or ballista, you end up flipping this into an offensive attack. By doing this in the raid, I have been able to get a full platinum run with only 10 people. There is no standing around at all, even with all 12. I also do this in Helm's Dike duo, and have been able to squeeze this instance down into a short 12 minutes. 3. They are too long. Same answer as above. Every single instance can be sped up to complete much faster, sometimes too fast. 4. I keep getting the same rewards over and over. I totally agree with this, and it seems to be getting a nice change in the next update. One thing to add here: if you only do the duo size Epic Battles, it will take a long time to get any rewards. But since my kin has been doing the raid about 3-4 times a week, I have been seeing on average 1 gold jewel drop each run, and two 1st age symbols. The best run I've seen for rewards was 3 gold jewel items and 5 1st age symbols all in one run. My biggest fear with the new reward system for Epic Battles is that it will be too easy to get gold jewelry. These are the best items in the game, and deserve hard work to get. I'm not just an Epic Battle player, I enjoy some of the classic runs as well. Lost Temple is a very unique instance, and Bells of Dale is gorgeous. And I have high hopes for the Minas Tirith instances, if there are any. I would love to see an Epic Battle/Classic Instance mix in the future. Best case scenario: a raid where some players are mounted on the Pelannor Fields, fighting Oliphaunts, while others are driving the orcs out of the city, and others are in towers, firing catapults out into the field, helping the mounted players. Thanks for listening, and keep up a great podcast. PS. Anaconda was terrible.
