Summary: Cari and Layanor are Chrisless this week. You know what that means, we wander all over Middle-Earth and to the south. Listen now: What We Did in Game Layanor - Leveled a captain on a second account to work on my power leveling guide. Busy rewriting and updating all the did you knows and posting them on my blog. http://layanor.wordpress.com/category/lotro-did-you-know/ Cari - Northcotton Farms and Stoneheight Came up with latest mount idea Warliphants Did some lowbie leveling - Champion News Update 11.4 Release Notes https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=6956631#post6956631 We've discovered that a very significant chunk of time is spent during logon to read and calculate your skirmish stats. Instead of doing these calculations during logon, we will now do them after. Your Skirmish stats will then update in the background, as you play. This should allow some characters who have been unable to login due to a timeout to get into the game. Please note, your Skirmish stats will not display correctly until all of the processing is completed after logging in. Please note: Exiting the game or logging out your character before the skirmish data has finished updating may cause your client to crash. No data is lost or damaged if this occurs. Fixed an issue where objects/textures would not render correctly on some machines. The Steed of Michel Delving war-steed appearances (Halter, Caparison and Leggings) can now be dyed! LOTRO Hardware Survey https://d12.parature.com/ics/survey/survey.asp?type=web&deptID=24038&surveyID=271 Dev Diary Trait Trees https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/developer-diary-trait-trees-helms-deep The buffet approach to putting together class builds was at odds with making different builds strong in their own right. If you go for DPS, you should really be doing significantly more damage than someone else who is choosing to spec as a tank in the same class. we’ve also been looking at ways to make the tempo of combat more exciting. we’ve created a bunch of brand spankin’ new animations and effects to speed things up http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/10/09/turbine-defends-lotro-class-changes/?a_dgi=aolshare_twitter Cari Talk with Cari!!! Tee Hee! Increasing Hunter Survivability http://flosiin.blogspot.com/2013/10/increasing-hunter-survivability-over.html Flosiin Nightson Ways to handle different number of mobs Has a couple of videos. Community At the Gates of Helm's Deep http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/at-the-gates-of-helms-deep-a-six-year-old-mmo-has-no-business-still-being-t LOTRO Fan Pic https://www.facebook.com/lotroreporter/posts/10151946525744031 Mailbag Roselinda: Random hypothetical lotro question -- perhaps a good topic for the show Free sample of the week: server transfer Good idea? Bad idea? Contact Information: Email: lotro.reporter@gmail.com Twitter: @lotroreporter Facebook: LOTRO Reporter Voicemail: 616-666-6778 or the widget on the right side of the screen when you visit the site. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork www.lotroreporter.com Cari Twitter: @thecarimac Layanor Twitter: @Layanor
