Summary: Cari and Layanor are joined by special guest Draculetta to talk about the Update 14, the Producer's Letter and the Paths of the Dead. Oh and War Oliphants. Audio Version: What We Did in Game Draculetta 4 Chars are questing through West Gondor and New Epic (All Are In Blackroot Vale) 2 Chars Are In Moria Crafting (still trying to get alt’s maxed out in guilds) Layanor Level 100 Cari Respeced my Character from the Update Visited MMO Reporter to talk about Update 14 Quested a little bit News LOTRO Update 14 Drops https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7200888#post7200888 New Zone - West Gondor Epic Story Volume IV - Strength of Sauron Essence System - Used to customize stats thought “essences” - Slotted Gear - Soft Launch Level Cap 100 Join the City Watch of Dol Amroth - Hytbolt 2.0 Friends list increased to 100 New World Channel LOTRO Producer’s Letter https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?552273-A-Letter-From-Executive-Producer-Aaron-Campbell-July-2014 Beornings are starting at Level 1 No Second Level cap increase this year BIg LI change - At level 100, you’ll be able to take a legendary item and specify it as “imbued”, locking in its current legacies and abilities. From this moment forward the item will earn experience (even through future level caps) but not require you to deconstruct it to attain a new item. Our goal is to take the early promise of an item that “grows with you” and fulfill that. Live Chat with the Executive Producer https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?552402-Live-Chat-with-Executive-Producer-Aaron-Campbell Join Executive Producer Aaron Campbell for a live Q&A Wednesday July 16 at 3:00PM Eastern time. He’ll be taking questions about Update 14 changes and his recent Producer’s Letter. Join us at http://twitch.tv/lotrostream SHIELD Forum Post https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?550043-SHIELD-Dwarf-Runs-through-Moria-Q-amp-A-Notes-on-What-Was-Said Vilya Will there be more skirmishes coming in the future He’s not heard any direct conversations about more and new skirmishes. He knows they are talking about changes and improvements to epic battles, and he knows Rowan had mentioned a new epic battle in one of his producer’s letters, but nothing about skirmishes. Discussion of the new fabric in Dol Amroth Yes, if you haven’t seen it on Bullroarer, there is a new fabric that is amazingly beautiful. It’s translucent blue fabric that is just pretty great, frankly. Did You Know! The second skirmish tutorial is busted! Take all the points out of the trees. Don’t put any points in the trees and then you can slot the skirmish soldier trees. 3-Mans Monday’s at 9PST 12 EST. Will be on twitch replay. Community Letter from Kazren Hi, I just wanted to thank you for the "Walk through" episode. I listened to it whilst driving and I can't wait to actually see it. I look forward to the next show, because I love hearing what Cari & Layanor have to say. I started on Elendilmir, and I have my largest clan of alts there, with several 95s. It seemed that people had just about stopped playing on that server and I was very sad. I even tried ESO, but it seemed rather a heartless game compared to LOTRO. Happily, several of my friends from Elendilmir have found new enthusiasm by either transferring characters or rolling up new ones on Brandywine. Since I'm an altaholic, with little clans on Elendilmir, Landroval, Crickhollow and Brandywine, I was set and I'm happily leveling again. We do skraid and skirm, but my first love is leveling. I really like the idea of smaller, more frequent updates with new levels to earn, and new places to see. Like many, I'm not a fan of Epic Battles. What they said about the ability to complete either solo or in fellowship for the new area seems like an excellent idea! Thank you again for all you do for us,
