Summary: <br> <br> Cari is joined by the new old host Chris. We give a retrospective of what happened in LOTRO over 2015, and talk about the producer’s letter.<br> Audio Version:<br> <br> What We Did in Game<br> Chris<br> <br> Beorning, Beorning, BEORNING! (Can I jump from an Eagle into battle now?)<br> Undying Title<br> Got my Warden to almost Minas Tirith<br> Multiple other games while recovering<br> <br> Cari Mac <br> <br> Leveled my Bear 100% XP boost for VIP<br> Leveled my hobbit hunter.<br> Streamed some Bingo Boffin Quests last week<br> Fallout 4<br> Big Warg Update<br> <br> Retrospective of game changes over 2015<br> <br> <br> Beorning Class Added<br> <br> New Class<br> What roles does it play? How well?<br> My character has knees<br> Melee tanky class<br> <br> <br> <br> Imbued Weapons<br> <br> Level 100<br> Grows with you<br> Don’t have to destruct old LIs<br> <br> <br> <br> Bingo Boffin Quests<br> <br> Episodic Quests<br> Gives really cool items like goats, foxes, and sheep<br> <br> <br> <br> Made it to Gondor<br> <br> Pelargir<br> Minas Tirith<br> <br> <br> <br> Crafting in Housing Areas<br> <br> You can purchase workshops, studies etc with TP<br> <br> <br> Blessing of Valor that raises you to level 95 5995 TP<br> <br> Server Consolidations<br> <br> We are down to 5 US and 5 EU servers<br> There will be a chance to move between the remaining servers<br> You will get a token to move a character for free once.<br> <br> <br> <br> New Hardware Update Done<br> <br> After the first of the year the US servers were moved to the new data center<br> There have been issues. Going from a 32 bit to a 64 bit server system.<br> <br> <br> <br> News<br> Producer’s Letter<br> <a href="https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/letter-executive-producer">https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/letter-executive-producer</a><br> <br> Level Cap Increase to 105<br> New Instance Cluster including a 12 man raid<br> New Collections<br> Quality of Life Updates<br> What isn’t there is any list of updates coming. <br> <br> Free Transfer Schedule<br> <a href="http://mmoreporter.com/lib/from-columbus-to-castro-the-history-of-the-caribbean-1492-1969">From Columbus to Castro: The history of the Caribbean, 1492-1969</a><br> <br> Speculation on Downtime on the 20th? <br> <a href="https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?594797-Scheduled-Server-Downtime-6-00-AM-1-00-PM-Eastern-(-5-GMT)-Wednesday-January-20th">https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?594797-Scheduled-Server-Downtime-6-00-AM-1-00-PM-Eastern-(-5-GMT)-Wednesday-January-20th</a><br> <br> <br> From @gumpsgang: @<a href="https://hootsuite.com/dashboard#">lotroreporter</a> The root source of LOTRO server lag has been identified. Ent-play has been removed.<br> <br> <br> Community<br> Music Festival <br> <a href="https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?592075-Landroval-Greenfields-Music-Festival-Music-of-Middle_Earth-2016">https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?592075-Landroval-Greenfields-Music-Festival-Music-of-Middle_Earth-2016</a><br> Contact Information<br> Email: <a href="https://lotroreporter.podbean.com/mailto:lotro.reporter@gmail.com">lotro.reporter@gmail.com</a><br> Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/lotroreporter">@lotroreporter</a><br> Facebook:<a href="http://mmoreporter.com/lib/i-sing-the-body-electronic-a-year-with-microsoft-on-the-multimedia-frontier">I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier</a><br> <br> Voicemail: 616-666-6778 <br> YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork">http://www.youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork</a><br> <a href="http://www.croustiglam.com/lib/report-of-the-fifth-meeting-of-the-planning-group-for-the-coordination-of-acoustic-surveys-off">Report of the Fifth Meeting of the Planni</a>
