Tag: LOTRO Players News

LOTRO Players News Episode 588 “Melon!” He Said

 

This week we talk Update 42.1 Releases Notes, Monster Players Updates and more!

 

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Game News

Update 42.1 Release Notes

A look at the Monster Player updates for Update 42

The 12th Legendary Item Reward Track has arrived

The third episode of We Have a Cave Troll

 

Store Sales

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  • Free Skill and Slayer Deed Boost
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Week In Gaming

Crister

  • Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul – getting back into the gaming saddle, attempted to do a full inventory purge, and I have a lot of work to do!  Looking forward to exploring the new expansion.
  • A little SM2, a tad of KSP, a splash of DRG and a dash of ESO
  • Ready for some good gaming!!!!!

 

Pineleaf

  • My Lore-master completed the second region of the latest expansion.
  • My Warden reached Iridir and started questing there.
  • My junior Lore-master reached Edoras.

 

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We currently have 11 supporters on Patreon. If you would like to join this illustrious raid of players and help support LOTRO Players, Simply go to the donation page where you can support The Players Alliance on Patreon. Your money is used for our podcast hosting, website hosting, and paying for our live shows.

 

If you wish to support us without joining Patreon, just send Drac an email drac@lotroplayers.com

 

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The Players Alliance LIVE Shows

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Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. Eastern – LOTRO Players News

 

Join us for our live shows at lotroplayers.com/live

LOTRO Player’s News Podcast can now be found on Amazon Music and Audible

LOTRO Player News Episode 562: Walk Like Gandalf

This week we cover Update 40 Release notes, ALL OF THEM and Whimsical Patrons Coffer

 

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Game News

LOTRO Update 40 Release notes: Beneath the Surface

This summer, the machinations of the Kindred of the Coin continue

The Whimsical Patrons Coffer is available in the store until May 26.

 

Store Sales

The Whimsical Patron’s Coffer is available in the LOTRO Store through May 26th!

 

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  • Now through May 23rd!

 

Weekly Coupon

  • Free Dye: Rose x1
  • Coupon Code: SPRINGFLOWER
  • Now through May 23rd!​

 

Week In Gaming

Crister

  • Captain Tinkerings and Ponderings – contemplating getting ready to raid t2.
  • Some Helldivers, some shipbuilding, a bit o’ Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Cosmetics – my true motivation.

Pineleaf

  • My mariner headed beneath Umbar and completed the quest lines there.
  • My warden ran about a third of the new quests beneath the city.
  • My Lore-master helped the rather friendly Falcon Clan to prepare for war.

Donations

Top Supporter for this month:

We currently have 12 supporters on Patreon. If you would like to join this illustrious raid of players and help support LOTRO Players, Simply go to the donation page where you can support The Players Alliance on Patreon. Your money is used for our podcast hosting, website hosting, and paying for our live shows.

 

If you wish to support us without joining Patreon, just send Drac an email drac@lotroplayers.com

 

Feedback

Reviews

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This week we did not receive any emails.

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Final Thoughts

The Players Alliance LIVE Shows

Record Day/Time Varies  – DDO Players News  –

Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. Eastern – LOTRO Players News

 

Join us for our live shows at lotroplayers.com/live

LOTRO Player’s News Podcast can now be found on Amazon Music and Audible

LOTRO Players News Producer Raninia Interview

 

Some LPN Crew have a chat with Producer Raninia

*Note this episode was recorded April 21st, the day after the Runekeeper Satchel Issue So there is some talk of downtime, that was in the past*

 

 

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  • 01:14 Get To Know Raninia
    05:19 15th Anniversary
    07:41 Yondershire Timed With Anniversary?
    09:56 Are there any special announcements related to the downtime from yesterday? *Note this episode was recorded April 21st, the day after the Runekeeper Satchel Issue*
    17:00 Now that the Yondershire has been released, are there any serious plans relating to River hobbits?
    21:40 Any hints about where we would be going next?
    23:20 With the first LI rewards season winding down, are there any lessons you have learned that we can expect to be applied to the next iteration?
    26:53 Any chance for a friendlier interface for the rewards track?
    28:16 Anor is expected to head for Gundabad in three months. Has any decision been made yet on the plans for when Legendary worlds catch up with the main worlds?
    33:09 Speaking of other worlds, how is the progress going for allowing transfers off the retired worlds?
    36:28 Any hope for a boost to the skirmish soldiers?
    42:03 Any plans to look at power scaling?
    45:40 Raid Drops So You Get What You Need? RNG FIX?
    54:50 Hobby horses for the Shire stable masters?
  • Questions From LOTRO Players Readers/Listeners
    71:11 Are there any considerations about revamping the movements and animations for our characters to make them feel more weighty and grounded?
    71:12 What can we expect in terms of graphical changes for LOTRO?
    74:40 Server Issue/Lag
    82:22 Can we expect any changes to Mounted Combat after the Legendary Item changes?
    85:39 Console?
    86:07 Any plans for more evergreen and challenging solo or small group content?
    89:27 Any plan for returning 1-off content such treasure goblins, Event servers like Bombabil?
  • Reddit Questions
    91:31 Customer Support
    93:44 Automatch LFG?
    98:05 Any new hobbies planned?
    99:44 Any plans to make all instances scalable?
    104:04 Will birds and small critters ever be able to rest on the player’s shoulders?
    105:39 The burning question of Treebeard, are they ever going to fix 105+ ixp runes dropping in lower level instances?
    107:01 When will we see UI scaling?
    107:41 Brawler trainer at 21st hall and a brawler Moria set

 

 

The Music Of DDO/LOTRO Crossover Special With DDO Players News

This is a very special episode of the podcast this week! We have the very first crossover with our sister site LOTRO Players News!

Drac is joined by LOTRO Players News Hosts Pineleaf (Also of DDO Players) and Teriadwyn we have a chat with several members of the Standing Stone Games Team

  • Community Manager Cordovan
    Bill Champagne LOTRO Lead QA (Darth Celtics)/LOTRO/DDO Music Composer
    Artemist Content Designer/Music Composer

We cover a wide range of music topics, form LOTRO to DDO we also spend the last part of the show talking about the new DDO Raid “The Dryad and the Demigod” and how music plays a major part in the raid!

  • LOTRO music talk starts about 15:00 minute mark
  • DDO music talk starts about 27:15 minute mark
  • DDO Raid talk starts about 40:15 minute mark

 

 

 

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Celebrate LOTRO Players 5 Year Anniversary With Giveaways!

 

*Nothing like take 2!* Sorry folks, not sure why it did that, this was the best option to make sure as many could have a shot at the giveaways.BUT this does mean if you entered already you will have to RE-ENTER. BUT you can really pick which one or all of them. SORRY! – Drac

 

LOTRO Players has turned 5 years old! We want to thank you so much for all your support over the last 5 years.!

To help celebrate this milestone, we are going to have some giveaways for all of you!

 

 

As these are in-game codes, the winner can be from ANYWHERE in the world, as long as you have an active LOTRO account you can win!

 

The Prizes: (A Big Thank-You, To Standing Stone Games, for providing us with the codes to giveaway)

  • Bardic Fiddle
  • Lonely Mountain Fiddle
  • Sprightly Fiddle
  • Traveler’s Trusty Fiddle
  • Mordor Collector’s Edition

 

 

And Thanks to our Patron supporters, we are giving away

  • 1500 Lotro Point Code

 

 

 

To enter any of the above, enter via the widgets below: Entries will close on June 19th, 2018

NOTE – You can enter as many of these giveaways as you want.







 

 

And as a SPECIAL THANK YOU to all of our Patron Supporters, we will be having a special PATRON ONLY giveaway! As a Patron Supporter, you are automatically entered into this giveaway!

 

Battle-Worn Steed Of The White City – NOTE – One steed per account, bound to character

 

 

 

The winners will be selected using the random winner selection tool in the Rafflecopter widget. The winner will be sent their code(s) through the email attached to the entry.  It is up to the winner to provide a valid email, check their spam folders and receive the email with their code.

LOTRO Players reserves the right to add or remove entry methods and entries before, throughout and after the giveaway.

All LOTRO Players website/podcast past or current staff and immediate family are not eligible for this contest.

Help Us Have More Giveaways!

 

Want to see more giveaways? We need your help! Giveaways are funded by supporting The Players Alliance on Patreon.

Become a Patron!

 

And once again, thank you so much for all the support you have shown the site and podcast over the past 5 years, and a special thanks to all our great Patrons for without you the show and site would not be here!

Drac

Lead Director

  • Players Alliance
  • LOTRO Players