LOTRO Players News Episode 132: Middle-earth Makeover

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   Barnabras / January 11, 2016

   How about that new server…..Yikes!

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     Kaleigh Starshine / January 12, 2016

     Hopefully, this is just a small bump in the road! 🙂

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   Kaleigh Starshine / January 12, 2016

   Great show, everyone! 🙂

   For gearing up at level 100, the new crafted gear is very easy to acquire and can cover all armor slots save for cloaks and all jewelry slots save for your pocket item. Many essences sell for less than 1 gold piece on the auction hall, or you can barter for any level 95 purple essence in the skirmish camps for 500 marks apiece.

   A trick for the Dol Amroth Training Exercises is to buy 10 of whatever faction’s exercises you would like to do at the auction hall, along with 5 Tomes of Reputation from the Curiosity vendor in any skirmish camp (300 marks, 30 Medallions total). Once you complete the prerequisite quests and are ready to begin the exercises, you can do them for any faction with whom you have earned Acquaintance standing. They only give you enough reputation for the Library’s exercises to begin with, but you do not even need to do those once as long as you have the same standing with any other faction. The Armoury’s exercises are the quickest, in my opinion, and also can get you morale essences.

   Regarding Burglars…

   The Burglar’s greatest weakness lies in group content, and there are so many reasons for this weakness that, as dramatic as this sounds, it would likely require a complete remaking of the class to fix things. Two of the many reasons for this…

   [i]1. The overall nature of the game has changed drastically since the classes were first conceived[/i]

   Since the game began, we have two entire new systems (Skirmishes and Epic Battles) in which area attacks have virtually no limitations and are extremely useful. Even beyond these, most instances have become area of attack paradises. A Burglar, who is limited almost exclusively to single target damage, crowd control, and debuffing, simply cannot hold their own against the classes that have the ability to affect multiple foes at once.

   [i]2. Burglars lack the overall class flexibility that most classes gained with the trait tree changes[/i]

   Whereas a Champion can use area attacks (for most of the Dome of Stars instance) before switching to single-target attacks (for the Black Blade at the end), and then to a tanking line if an off-tank is needed or a tank cannot be found, all three Burglar lines do the exact same things (single target damage, debuffing, and crowd control) with only a small degree of change between the potency of those things depending on the line.

   I think the need to keep Burglars in balance out in the Ettenmoors has caused issues as well. There almost needs to be a PvMP filter for Burglars once they go out into the Ettenmoors, so they can stay balanced for both sides.

   I would like to see Turbine offer those playing the Burglar class a one-time option to switch to another class while keeping all of their deeds, virtues, and so on in tact. Very, very few play Burglars in PvE end-game content anymore

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     Andang / January 12, 2016

     I personally think that devs of any MMO should never balance PvE for PvMP stuff. They should always put PvE at the priority and adjust PvMP accordingly. Classes shouldn’t have to suffer just because of PvMP & PvMP should not be neglected.

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   Hallagon / January 14, 2016

   The “Public Endgame Space” is a throwback to the Riders of Rohan dailies that loaded you into an instance but could still interact with other players.

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