Update 15.2 Release Notes – Bullroarer Only

Update 15.2 is now live on Bullroarer.

You can read the full release notes here.

There area ALOT of changes to the Beornings

Some of the things that stuck out to me are as follows :

Beornings

• While a bear, a Beorning has twice the melee range.
• New Skill: Bear Up
  • Out of combat resurrection skill, unlocked at level 36.
• Bee Swarm unlocks at level 14, down from level 28.
• Rush unlocks at 24, down from level 36.
• Rush’s sprint duration is now 12 seconds, up from 8 seconds.
• Bear form now has a passive 10% Critical Defence while active.
• Reduced all tiers of Thrash’s damage by roughly 25%.
• When Beornings shapeshift, their main and ctrl quickslot bars now switch. You can turn off this behavior via an option on the “Quickslots” tab of the Options panel.
• Beorning Bear Form skills now shortcut to the “Ctrl” bar by default when they are acquired.
• Beorning heals should now be properly increased by out-going healing and Tactical Mastery.
• New Beornings who use the Gift of the Valar will now be able to speak with Rathwald outside the Walls of Moria. Accept the quest ‘Beorning: The Sudden Arrival’ and talk to Hundi at Echad Dunann to obtain your milestone skill (if you never got it outside of Archet).

Pelargir

• In Fellowship Retaking Pelargir, increased the time to earn platinum for Epic Foes Ugturu and Thisarti by a little bit
• In Retaking Pelargir, there are now prompts to lead the party forward if you just stand around for too long
• In Retaking Pelargir, there are now announcements of the arrival and defeat of Kisung Teng and Zagaroth, the non-secondary-quest Epic Foes
• In Retaking Pelargir, some typos, text errors, and audio that wasn’t playing have been fixed
• Retaking Pelarigr map notes are now correctly colored for secondary quests, and never overlap other secondaries –
• Retaking Pelargir- When enemies clear out as Aragorn arrives at the end should be cleaner and timelier than it had been
• Epic Battle promotion point cap raised from 216 to 236.
• Retaking Pelargir – the failure / incomplete notice for Ship-Slaves will now only appear when it should

Music
NOTE: In this build the ABC playback feature does not work so notes will need to be played manually. This should be corrected in the next build.

• The updates to the music system have once again been put into the game. Instruments have had their notes updated, cleaned up, retuned, and volume re-leveled to be consistent. Please let us know what you think.

New Roving Threats

• As the War of the Ring intensifies, new threats have come to Middle-earth! Powerful servants of the Enemy can now be found in Angmar, Forochel, Western Gondor, and the Misty Mountains. For those bold enough to stand against these foes, new and unique rewards can be obtained by claiming the brands they bear.

• Note: The existing Roving Threats of Central Gondor will also drop these brands.

General

• The Full Screen checkbox in Graphics Options has been replaced by the Screen Mode dropdown, from which you can select Windowed, Full Screen, and, in Windows builds, Full Screen (Windowed). The latter option runs the game in a borderless window at desktop resolution.
• A Reflecting Pool for Central Gondor can now be found in the town of Linhir, and it contains several instances from the region as well as ‘Even In Darkness.
• A New Reflecting Pool for West Gondor added to the Court of the Prince in Dol Amroth Many instances added to the West Gondor Reflecting Pools found near Morlad and in Dol Amroth
• When accepting quests, there’s a new indicator that shows you when the quest being picked up is repeatable.
• Dead Marshes – Warband: The Lone Hunter – Sorzur is easier to defeat solo now
• Moria Instance: Greet the Sun – You can’t go outside until after you talk to Svanr now
• Located a possible culprit for unexpected shallow-water dismounts. Please continue to inform us of situations/locations where you were improperly dismounted from a Warsteed or regular Mount — but hopefully now you won’t have to!
• Skirmish-specific stat breakdowns on the Skirmish Panel are sorted alphabetically by Skirmish name rather than randomly.
• Several of the NPCs in Tur Morva were mistaking Beornings for Hobbits. They’ve been given some instructional charts and diagrams and should now be able to tell the difference. The hairy toes were throwing them off
• The Clan Hunters around Aughaire were confused and believed they could drop pages for Beorning class books. They have been told otherwise, and they (and you!) should now be less confused.
• The textures for the Suitable Tinder in Volume IV, Book 2 have been cleaned up.
• Players who used Gift of the Valar can now pick up the quest “A Tortured Mind” in the Entwash Vale
• The name of the alert that informs you of new Epic Battle cashout loot no longer mentions “Helm’s Deep”