Summary: Welcome to the Predictions show. We drag Bill out of retirement to see who's predictions were better from last year. Listen now: Last Year’s Predictions: Chris - Ent play darn-it! It’s gotta happen this year! Chris - Content will be coming in 3 month intervals - Next major content release will be in March. Chris - New expansion announced in May-June. Released September/October. Taking us into Rohan. Chris - Mounted Combat. Chris - No new classes with any expansion. Bill - cross server Instance Finder queuing (not sure if this is a cave, or if devs will realize the ppl complaining about cross server instance joining are a vocal minority) Bill - New PVMP zone (it has to happen eventually!) Bill - Update 6 in February, another RoI - like expansion in June (incl. Update 7), update 8 in late 2012 (Nov/Dec) Bill - Shape of mounted combat will be a game-within-game, and not just swinging your sword/casting spells/singing songs from your horse Bill - Creep mail! (via Isanni) Bill - Legendary Item revamp (again). Simplification trend - will make LI’s more cookie-cutter and easier to upgrade/replace. Fewer relic slots, and simpler/tighter legacy lists Final Score: Bill: 2 Chris: 3 Predictions for 2013 Cari's Predictions: War Goats in mounted combat in Rohan Rohirrim style cosmetics and hair styles will be made available in the store for purchase. PvMP will get some love in the next expansion with a tie in to Helm's Deep. Another instrument will be added. Perhaps a violin type. The Instance Finder will be cross server. There will be a store option to purchase summonable pets ala the style of the Avarc in Bree. Some kind of clickable summonable thing. Chris' Predictions: War-Steeds will get tons of emotes through the store Continued release schedule: Updates every three month and expansion in Late Summer/Early Fall Helms-Deep! Spring 2013 This year will see the addition of one more class with the expansion. Heavy Hobbit tie in post update 9. For F’s sake, I just want my damn Ent Play! Layanor's Predictions: The new expansion will be announced in April and will be the Wilderlands. This will include north mirkwood and new areas such as dale, and a explorable lonely mountain instance cluster. The Wilderland will be huge and will allow more warsteed combat. The new 12 man raids are already in this area. West Rohan will be an add on area and Helms deep will be a single 12 man raid. Much like the great river area. This will come out around July. The second hobbit movie 13 December 2013. So I am going to guess a flashback raid with Smaug. They have already with Durins bane The classes feel like they are just being rehashed over and over again. Even the revamps feel stale a few days after. There will be a new dwarf only class or elf only class. Everyone wants a housing revamp. And Turbine has said it is too big of a job to do it. So they will leave the old areas open as is. And open a new instance for higher level players. Houses in Moria, Lothlorien, Rohan, and Enedwaith will open up. Legendary items will get a update. Not a major one, just a UI update, such as a legacy tree of some sort to make the system make more sense from the casual player.
