The second round of Bullroarer testing for Update 13 has started, and with it have come a new set of patch notes. There aren’t too many this time around as you’d expect, but there are a few quite significant changes that are worth noting: Might, Will and Vitality will no longer contribute to our Physical or Tactical Mitigations. This means that as...

Update 13 has finally made its way onto Bullroarer, and with it has come some significant changes to PvMP, both Freep and Creep. In order to show off some of these changes, our very own PvMPAndang(subscriiiiiiibe!) has released a video detailing them: For my part, I am mostly pleased with these changes. While I personally would’ve liked a more permanent...

With U13 well on the horizon, its appearance on Bullroarer for testing is coming very soon. In light of this, Sapience has posted a thread detailing a couple of changes to how testing on Bullroarer will be conducted for this year. Starting with our next update, some changes are being made about how Bullroarer testing will happen. Bullroarer will only be open...

There aren’t too many news titbits this week, mainly relating to Rowan’s intentions for the game and himself as the new Executive Producer and the pushback of U13 on BR.   U13 Bullroarer testing pushed back to next week Bullroarer added to the list of Taking The Hobbit to Isengard participating servers + schedule changes Plans for Rowan to...

Turbine has been alluding to this change for a long time, as far back as 2012 with references to ‘speeding up the transfer process’. Now they have finally achieved their goal. From today character transfers, for both Freeps and Creeps, will be completely automated. You will be able to purchase ‘Transfer Tokens’, which are applied to your...

It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these, largely due to the recent layoffs that resulted in the departure of many of Turbine’s most communicative developers. Still, there’s a fair amount of stuff said this week that I thought it prudent to mention them. Sapience’s Stream Link here. Part of the inventory changes will allow...

It’s been a long while since we’ve heard anything from Turbine regarding upcoming content, leading to much concern from people after the recent layoffs. Finally, however, we’ve gotten an update on things, and it comes from no other than Aaron Campbell. He talks about some of the content to come with Update 13, highlights his personal...

It’s been a long wait, but we are finally able to look upon the finished Bounders Bounty statue in its full glory. I’ve taken the liberty of including some screenshots, and remember that interacting with it will give you a list of the quickest servers to complete the contest and the top contributors for your server! Here we see the Hobbit workers...

You may be familiar with LOTRO’s 20 Questions, where Turbine answers some player questions, either via the official forums or Twitter. This time around they ended up answer far more than 20, 42 in fact, so they went ahead and renamed the whole thing. Naturally there are too many for me to go through here, so again I’ll make notes for some of the...

Seems like just yesterday we got a patch in LOTRO, and already the next one, Patch 12.3, is up for testing on Bullroarer. As always, I’ve listed a couple of the more notable changes, but be sure to check the link for the full list. Remember folks; these are very much subject to change!: Of Special Note As we continue to balance and adjust the difficulty...

This week have we have an assortment of news pieces, coming from both the official forums and Sapience’s weekly stream. Dev Posts   Jinjaah – Creepside getting another healing pass with Update 13 Jinjaah – Creepside base stats and Corruptions to be adjusted with Update 13 Sapience – LOTRO will not have a booth at Pax East  ...

These notes are for the most part the same as the ones posted for Bullroarer. Still, there may be some minor details that have changed or been added. Be sure to look through yourselves for anything that piques your curiosity. Below are the ‘Of Special Note’ changes and a few that I personally found interesting: Addressing “Macroing” issues Certain...

Nice to get *one day’s* notice for server downtime, but I guess these fixes are better sooner rather than later. On Thursday January 23 all LOTRO Game worlds will be unavailable from 7:00AM – 11:00AM Eastern time (-5 GMT) for an update to the game. [Click Here] for Update 12.2 Release Notes.

This week most of the Dev responses have been regarding things more appropriate for a full article. As a result we only have a couple of PvP related posts by Jinjaah. LI Weapons for the Ettenmoors aimed for release in Update 13: link Bullroarer specific: Creep Morale pots being lowered(due to Inc Healing bonus): link Schedule for first 11 sessions of Take the...

Earlier this week Sapience posted the preliminary notes for Patch 12.2, which has as of this writing been uploaded to the Bullroarer test server for.. testing. There are a goodly amount of changes and fixes with this patch, so instead of listing the whole thing I’ll pick out the most notable and interesting changes(to me) and put them below(Italics are my...

Yes, it seems we can never quite get away from this topic. Over the past many months there’s been concerns from some people over the LOTRO license, as it was previously set to expire sometime this year. While I personally never doubted that it would be extended, we now have official confirmation by Sapience: I just wanted to drop in and address the...

This week’s edition of Dev Snippets is largely concerning Jinjaah, the Dev responsible for the development of the Hunter, Rune-Keeper and Champion. He’s been posting quite a bit recently, answering questions, responding to suggestions and all that good stuff. To be frank, there are way too many posts made and different things talked about to list...

You may have noticed from our recent review of Helm’s Deep that I like LOTRO’s landscape. A lot. So it should come to no surprise to you guys that I jumped at the chance to possibly make the game look even better. And boy does this one deliver. The program in question is SweetFX. This thing improves your visual experience in a number of different...

This week there were no Dev posts to cover. That said, Sapience recently ran a stream playing a low level Hunter. He also addressed numerous question asked by the chat, and some interesting titbits came out as a result. I’ve taken the liberty of listing some of the more notable ones below. Take them with a grain of salt, as with all things they are not...

It’s every so often that Turbine starts up screenshot contests, usually with Turbine Point prizes, among other things. This is one of those contests, with a Christmas theme! There are several categories available for applications, listed below: Most Festive Individual Most Festive Couple Best Caption Individual Best Caption Couple Best Caption Kinship You...