Summary: Cari and Layanor cover server down times update 9 and cosmetics. Listen now: What We Did This Week ; Layanor- Finished Layanorvill Have done all of the new 3 mans Tried to do the new Tier 2 swordhalls Building up 300 gold to buy a new second age weapon. ; Cari- Ran Carn Dum with my guild. I can’t imagine how people ran that on level. Did some more questing in the Wold Tried to update the game on Monday. Ended up doing a clean install. ; News ; Hotfix Today Server Downtime: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6577965#post6577965 UPDATE: Sapience has given reasons for the quick schedule and the update in a forum post They had two options to fix the new 3 man instance quests. Today or as late as January. They decided to do it as soon as possible and not make everyone wait. However the LOTRO community is reporting many other reasons why the the server is down. The elves were too drunk. Rivendell Tuesday rave is doing a vampire theme this year and the server just could not be on during that. It is very lore breaking. Rowan has decided to make the game run at 48 frames per second to match the theme of the hobbit movies. This broke the server and they have since cut him off from the spiked eggnog table. Gandalf was throwing a bring your own brown bag party. You shall not! Play beer pong. Sapience ran out of marshmallows for his cocoa and close the place down till he got back. He then got caught up in a flash mob at the mall and was last seen at Walmart dancing to "Call Me Maybe" Aragorn was hitting on to many women in the house of healing again. "Hey baby. Come here often? Hail to the king baby." jewahe @Layanor Bugud went to see The Hobbit. a hacker caused shirtless, hotpants wearing dwarves to spawn endlessly around middle earth ; Twitter Developer Chat Coming Dec 20 http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6577596#post6577596 Casual Stroll to Mordor is going to ask the devs some questions over twitter. The devs are Senior Producer Aaron “Rowan” Campbell Lead Systems Designer Matt “HorseDev” Zimmitti World Designer Matt “Scarycrow” Fahey Senior Content Designer Lauren “Budgeford” Salk Senior Content designer Joe “JWBarry” Barry LOTRO Community Manager Rick “Sapience” Heaton They ask that you make the question short so they can tweet the full question back with a answer. ; Dev Diary talks about the Travel to Quest Giver Mechanic https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/travel-quest-location-behind-scenes Explains what the new system is and how it works. In your quest tracker you can click a new icon to travel directly to your NPC to turn in that quest. The item you need to do this with is called Traveller's Writ and can only be bought in the lotro store. This article also talks about how ho x1: 20TP, x5: 50TP, x25: 225 TP ; Instance Cluster Part 1 Dev Diary http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/update-9-riders-rohan-instance-cluster-part-i Gives background story and design ideas about Webs of the Scuttledells, Seat of the Great Goblin, and Iorbar’s Peak. Also talks about Dol Guldur, and the new loot in chest rule changes. ; Update 9 Combat Revisions Dev Diary http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/update-9-combat-revisions Interrupt Revision Interrupts will now cancel the induction and disable the interrupted skill for 4s They want interrupts to be something used at key moments, not just another rotation filler. Burglar Addled cooldown has been increased from 15s to 20s. Champion Clobber cooldown has been increased from 5s to 10s Hunter lindside cooldown has been reduced from 20s to 12s. Warden Boot, Onslaught, and Wall of Steel share a 15s interrupt cooldown. Reaver Gut Punch cooldown reduced from 15s to 10s. Warleader
