Update 9: Against the Shadow and the Rohan Instance cluster
This week, Update 9 will go live on the Bullroarer test server. In addition to a number of bug fixes and updates, this update will also include the first half of the Rohan instance cluster. The second half of the cluster will be released in 2013.
When we made the decision to delay the release of the Rider’s of Rohan expansion, we also made it clear that we would still honor our commitment to release the instances this year. Because of the delay in shipping Rohan, development time for the year was obviously reduced. This left us two options; either delay the entire instance cluster until 2013, or release those instances we felt could be completed with the highest degree of polish in December and delay the others until they are ready (currently expected to be February). We’ve chosen to honor our commitment as best we can with the limited time remaining in 2012 while still insuring the highest quality possible.
We want to be very clear that if you purchase the Riders of Rohan expansion, the entire instance cluster is free. You will have access to all instances listed below released as Part I in Update 9 and Part II when it releases at no additional charge. As long as you’ve purchased Rohan, you’ll get all of the instances listed.
We also want to share with you the full plan for all seven instances.
Instances shipping with Update 9: Against the Shadow
Riders of Rohan Instances (Part 1):
Iorbar’s Peak (Misty Mountains / Stone Giants-3-man)
Webs of the Scuttledells (Mirkwood 3-man)
Seat of the Great Goblin (Goblintown 3-man)
Shipping in 2013 (Currently Planned for February)
Riders of Rohan Instances (Part 2):
The Bells of Dale (6-man)
Flight to the Lonely Mountain (12-man; single boss)
The Fires of Smaug (12-man; single boss)
The Battle for Erebor (12-man; single boss)
Many of you have asked if we’ll ever see the Lonely Mountain. Hopefully this gives you the answer you were looking for.
The full release notes for Update 9: Against the Shadow will be available when Bullroarer goes live.
miam :icon_twisted:
Mais du coup a quand un raid sur le Gouffre de Helm ?
miam :icon_twisted:
Mais du coup a quand un raid sur le Gouffre de Helm ?
Ca me semble évident: au prochain add-on ;)
The instances are all set in the War of the Ring (our current timeline, not the Hobbit). It will make sense when you get the quest from Gandalf.
The 12-man instances are the Battle of Dale, and could be thought of as wings of the same raid. We separated them to give context to the story as the battle proceeds over the course of a week.
Smaug is dead, but the Easterlings have new challenges in mind for you (and new engines of war).
We are going to Dale and the Lonely Mountain as part of this story, but will not be adding new landscape in the area with these instances.
I hope this helps!
Ha ouais je plussoie: l'effet elastique en instance laisse tomber... D'un autre cote, en fevrier ca fera bien 8 mois qu'ils bossent sur le Rohan - et donc le combat monte. Je suis pas programmeur, mais debugguer un truc specifique pour permettre un format d'instance attendu par - je pense - plein de monde, ca me parait pas non plus une enorme prouesse.
Par ailleurs, "pack d'instances du Rohan", y'a aucune instance dans le Rohan, et ca c'est quand meme une sacree blague (ca m'est egal, c'est pour relever l'absurdite du truc).
Bullroarer Update 9.0 Release Notes
Of Special Note
New instances
3 new 3 man instances will take you back to some very familiar locales. Look for a full developer diary closer to the release of Update 9. These instances scale from level 20 – 85 (no, 20 is not a typo)
The Scaling of Dol Guldur
We have scaled the Dol Guldur instances. These instances now scale from level 65 – 85. Please note: Not all of the rewards are in this build. They will be added prior to Update 9 release.
Open Tapping changes
Open Tapping is now available across Middle-earth! We look forward to hearing your feedback.
Moria Revamp Part II
The second half of our Moria revamp is now complete! A full developer diary will be available prior to release.
It’s the Little things…
Graphical updates to Bree
Bree has received some graphical improvements! Be sure to visit your favorite landmarks and see how they’ve changed.
Release notes
Incredisoon...
Update 9 Itemization Information
Hello Bullroarers! (Bullroarees? Bullroarirhim? I dunno.)
Since loot isn't fully hooked up on the build you'll be seeing when Bullroarer goes Live and there's some substantial changes going in, I figured I could shed some light here on what is going on with the new 3-mans and the Dol Guldur cluster, and how you can continue to get the Warden Shields you all know and love!
(Kidding on the Warden Shield part. I swear! Please put that sharp object down!)
For Dol Guldur specifically:
Most of the loot from the Dol Guldur instances and raid has been cut. If you have it, great. If you want it, go get it now. It will no longer be available come Update 9. The level 65 DG sets will be available from the Classic skirmish vendor at <insert favorite camp of choice here>, as well as new level 85 versions. The new versions have stats more appropriate for today, but maintain the same set bonuses as before. Both the 65 and 85 sets will costs marks/medallions. The Unwelcome Mat will continue to drop out of the raid.
In general:
As mentioned in the Release Notes (blatant copy-paste incoming):
Remote Looting on Chests
We’ve added the ability for chests to support the Remote Looting tech introduced in Rohan. Within the new update, chests in scaling Dol Guldur and the new 3-mans will automatically create rewards for each member of the group’s pending loot-list as soon as the chest is opened by someone. Each person will get their own loot at their own odds, independent of everyone else in their fellowship. This completely bypasses the standard loot rules currently seen in game, such as Master Looter, etc. In addition, equipment rewards will be based off of your class. All equipment within your personal loot-list will be something your character can potentially use. As a result, most rewards will be Bind on Equip, to allow trading between players to still occur.
The new 3-mans and the Dol Guldur cluster (raid included) will offer players level-scaling equipment based on their class. The chance to see equipment will be based on the difficulty of the space. The quality of the equipment will depend on the size of the space being run: 3-mans will mostly give Rare quality gear with a chance for Incomparables, 6-mans will have a higher chance for Incomparables, and raids will always give Incomparables.
You might even get lucky enough to see a Legendary quality piece of equipment, specific to your class! Each class will have two within this update, one shared among the new 3-mans, one shared among the DG cluster.
Interior revamps: Yes. Auction Hall, Bree-town Hall, Mess Hall, Bree-town Jail, Bank, Mandrakes House, Root's House all had their interiors and lighting change.
New Interiors: Training Hall where the Mess Hall used to be (this has all the trainers and bard in one place). I also moved the Mess hall to behind second watcher Heathstraw.
Are there Children: Yes
Chairs: The majority of spaces had /sit chairs added to them throughout the space and even a bunch more added on landscape for RPers. The best place for lots of chairs is the Mess Hall or the newly designed Town Hall.
Does the jail have working doors - Yes
Prancing Pony - Exterior has been revamped, but I did not touch the interior due to time constraints and the large amount of lore checking I would need before messing around. Would I like to update the Prancing Pony interior in the future? Yes.
Bullroarer Update 9.0 Release Notes
Of Special Note
New instances
Three new 3 man instances are now available in the instance finder: Iorbar’s Peak, Seat of the Great Goblin, and Webs of the Scuttledells. These instances scale from level 20 – 85 (no, 20 is not a typo). Look for a full developer diary closer to the release of Update 9.
The Scaling of Dol Guldur
We have scaled the entire Dol Guldur instance cluster. All of these instances now scale from level 65 – 85. Please note not all of the rewards are in this build. They will be added prior to Update 9 release.
Open Tapping & Remote Looting
Open Tapping and remote looting are now available across Middle-earth! We look forward to hearing your feedback.
Remote Looting on Chests
We’ve added the ability for chests to support the Remote Looting tech introduced in Rohan. Within the new update, chests in scaling Dol Guldur and the new 3-mans will automatically create rewards for each member of the group’s pending loot-list as soon as the chest is opened by someone. Each person will get their own loot at their own odds, independent of everyone else in their fellowship. This completely bypasses the standard loot rules currently seen in game, such as Master Looter, etc. In addition, equipment rewards will be based off of your class. All equipment within your personal loot-list will be something your character can potentially use. As a result, most rewards will be Bind on Equip, to allow trading between players to still occur.
Moria Revamp Part II
The second half of our Moria revamp is now complete! A full developer diary will be available prior to release.
Combat Revisions
Deflection
NPC Monsters that are 4+ levels higher than their attackers have a chance to negate incoming attacks. When this happens the player will be notified that their attack has been 'Deflected'.
Interruption Revision
We've altered how Interrupt skills function in the game to give them more impact. When an induction is now interrupted by an Interruption Skill, the induction will be canceled and the skill will go on cooldown.
In PvE, we have adjusted many monsters so that they will generally not hit a player with an interrupt more than once every 15-20s.
Miss Chance Revision
1H and 2H Swords now grant bonus Parry chance instead of Hit-chance. 1% for 1Hand Swords and 2% for 2H Swords.
Base Miss Rate
We have removed the base miss rate for all classes (freep & creep) and pets. This means, when fighting an on-level or lower level monster, you will not miss. It's important to note that Miss Chance can still be debuffed, so in some cases missing will be possible. Due to this change, the following have been altered:
Champion: Deadly Storm 2-set bonus no longer reduces AoE Miss Chance.
Burglar: Hidden Dagger trait no longer reduces Miss Chance.
Hunter: Precision Stance no longer reduces Miss Chance.
Induction Setback
To ensure that Induction Setbacks are applied equally to all skills, we are adjusting the policy so that when a player is hit during an induction the induction will be extended by .5s. This penalty is only applied once. These changes have been made to all player and monster player skills that are usable in combat.
It’s the Little things…
Graphical updates to Bree and Archet
Bree-town and Archet have received some graphical improvements! Be sure to visit your favorite landmarks and see how they’ve changed.
Experience Added to Craft Nodes and Recipes
Use of craft nodes and crafting recipes now awards characters with experience upon use for nodes or completion for recipes.
Fast Travel Stable-master System
The Stable-master system underwent a structural and functional change. The UI will look very different and is not entirely finished. You will now see ALL available travel options, regardless of any restrictions on going to each location. You will be able to travel to locations for gold/silver/copper as usual, with all restrictions applying, or use a specially made writ to go anywhere, regardless of restrictions.
Travel to Quest NPC tech
You will now see little check marks next to your quests at the quest tracker if your final quest objective is to go talk to an NPC to complete the quest. You should be able to use these check marks to get the option to fast travel back to the Quest NPC.
Festival Currency Unification
If you use a character previously present on Bullroarer, or copy a character in, you’ll notice that your festival currencies from the different festivals transforms into a single festival currency. It should convert on a one to one basis (one old token for one new unified token). Race tokens obtained from running festival races in Bree and the Shire will also convert into this new unified token, but at a higher rate.
Release notes
General
Hytbold Armour can now be placed in shared storage and be accessed by any character on your account.
Players will no longer be able to equip Mounted Combat bridles until they have completed the quest "Devastation in the North"
Picking up items in the world while mounted will now auto-dismount you.
Fixed a bug that caused Sticky Gourd, Sticky Tar, Warding Lore, and Press Onward skills to be interrupted when setback. These skills will now suffer setback penalties, but the induction will not break.
A number of NPCs and Monsters have had a good talking to and will now show up where they were intended to show up and not wherever the heck they darn well pleased.
Classes
Burglar
The Gambler 5 Set Trick Resist Rating trait bonus now properly reduces the target's Trick Removal resist chances
Champion
Rune of the Second Age - Incoming Healing Rating now increase properly when going up to Rank 5.
Guardian
Several skills in Overpower were not properly incrementing deeds. They should work correctly now.
Salt the Wound skill description now properly reflects that it interacts with the bleeds from both Thrust and Sweeping Cut
Hunter
The hunter legacies “Induction Bow Threat Down” and “Focus Bow Induction Down” should now have a Rating 19, as well as a reasonably priced rank up cost for Rating 20.
Books and Tomes of the Wind-rider now reduce the Power Cost of Split Shot and Improved Split Shot.
Mounted Combat: Seeking Arrow, Noble Arrow, and Spread of Arrows now maintain the appropriate stance bonuses when using oils.
The “Intent Concentration recovers all Archer's Art skills” set bonus will properly reset Archer's Art skills again.
Minstrel
Fixed a bug that was preventing 'Anthem of the Third Age' from changing to the 'Anthem of the Third Age (Warspeech)' when traited 4 into Protector of Song.
Rune-keeper
Mounted Combat: Fixation of Flame now properly displays the Damage Over Time information on skill examination
Warden
The 5-piece bonus from the Warden's Lady's Favour armour set should now appropriately grant a 10% increase to Tactical Mitigation while using Shield Tactics
The Boot, Onslaught, and Wall of Steel share a single interrupt effect which can only be triggered once every 12 seconds.
“Muster in...” skills will no longer be usable in combat.
Mounted Combat
The 3 discipline skills (Red Dawn, Riddermark, and Rohirrim) are now usable outside of Rohan and areas not supporting mounted combat.
Burglars can no longer stealth and ride a war-steed.
Slightly changed the wording of the War-steed level increase string.
Revised the wording of the warning seen when changing character traits at a bard to reduce confusion around legendary traits
The 20% steed speed buff sold in the LOTRO Store will no longer work on war-steeds. The speed increase is only to affect standard horses & goats.
The buff provided from the mounted relic “Insignia of Ending” should now accurately provide the next Resolution cast with an additional 25% crit chance.
The “Break Free” Mounted Combat skill should now work on all movement impairing effects.
The “Knocked Down” and “Stunned” Mounted Combat debuffs should now accurately describe their effects.
Warsteed jumping should be smoother.
The Ettenmoors
Removed the 80 meters distance check on PvMP kill credit. Now grouped players anywhere in the Ettenmoors will receive credit for PvMP kills, in the form of Commendations and/or Infamy/Glory.
The Weaver's Scytode Brood Hatchling will now properly respect the 1s cooldown on its default attack. No, really.
Potions and Consumables no longer drop from bosses and other mobs in the Ettenmoors.
Set Trap for Black Arrow's will now give information on what the trap does instead of nothing...
Improved Punctured Target for Black Arrows should properly keep the armour debuff from Punctured Target.
Eye Gash should now properly gain the additional 20% chance to apply its Brute Bonus from the skill Brute.
Penetrating Arrows Trait for Black Arrows should no longer reference the hunter skill Penetrating Shot.
Continuous Blood Rage's Morale cost should now scale appropriately.
Several skill adjustments have been made to Player and Monster Player interrupt skills:
Burglar Addled cooldown has been increased from 15s to 20s.
Champion Clobber cooldown has been increased from 5s to 10s
Hunter Blindside cooldown has been reduced from 20s to 12s.
Reaver Gut Punch cooldown reduced from 15s to 10s.
Warleader Fracture cooldown increased from 10s to 15s. Brawler Stance now reduces Fractore cooldown by 5s.
Stalker Pounce and Sudden Pounce cooldowns increased from 10s to 15s. Raking Claw Brute bonus has been replaced with a 50% Induction Duration debuff.
Freep Off-hands, Shields, and Class Items
Level 85 versions of the PvMP Off-hands, Shields, and Class Items have been added to the class vendors. The new items cost 4000 Comendations each, but players can turn in the level 75 versions for a 10% discount.
Troll & Ranger Sessions
Removed the Min Range requirements from the Troll's ranged attacks and the Ranger's ranged auto-attack.
Stalker
Eye Gash brute bonus BPE debuff now scales with level.
Defiler
Fixed a bug that was granting the Reaver's Relentless buff to existing Defilers.
Raids, Instances, Skirmishes
You are now able to start the Helegrod Dragon Raid with more than 12 players in the raid.
Players can no longer join instances that have been scaled to more than 10 levels above their current level.
The original Barad Guldur sets are now available from the Classic skirmish vendors. New level 85 versions, with updated stats and different appearances are also available.
Legendary items
Players will be unable to use Experience Runes on IA weapons until they have completed all quests in Volume II Book 1.
Crafted class insignias for IA Bridles will now denote that they can be equipped to any relic slot.
The “Spears Will be Shaken Slow Duration” legacy replace scroll should now work with heavy bridles, not medium ones.
The names of various class legacies have been updated. The legacy, legacy replacement scrolls, and store offers should all reflect the same name now.
The Heavy Hytbold armoursmiths have decided to stop making the sets they were awarding out of paper. They are now more durable.
Crafting
Clicking the “Make” or “Make All” crafting buttons when mounted will now dismount you automatically
Players can expect to receive xp while gathering from Farmer, Forester, Prospecter, and Scholar nodes and will also receive varying amounts of xp through the completion of all crafting recipes.
Bulk crafting recipes should now be on the Crafting skirmish vendor and on the Eastemnet Miscellany Quartermaster.
Added a heavy shield option to the auto-granted and vendored metalsmith recipes in tiers 3-5. These recipes have been converted to multi-output.
The medium armor outputs on the Wayfarer's Recipes (Tier 7 Raid) have had their name changed from "Wayfarer's" to "Ranger's" to distinguish them from the light armor outputs.
Items
The stats on Leofmar's Broad Axe have been adjusted to make it fall in-line with other weapons of the same level and quality.
Some Store-purchased perks have had their durations increased to 90 minutes.
A small number of heavy shoulders had far too much armour. Those have had their armour values reduced to a more expected amount. Also adjusted the armour values of rare and uncommon heavy shoulders slightly.
The Silver Box of Sutcrofts Spoils will now call the correct relics.
The Entwash Iron Necklace will no longer have the same stats as the Entwash Brass Necklace. It will now give Incoming Healing in place of Physical Mastery.
Quests
New auto-bestow quests are now available as you level up through the game (pre-moria).
Some of the quest rewards in the Redhorn lodes have been updated/changed.
Patching Friendships now has “Brunstan's Copper Ring” as a potential quest reward, in place of the “Failed Assassin's Ring.”
'The Corrupted Matrons' will reward players with the Light Halter of the Norcrofts. Those who have already completed the quest will be given the appearance as well.
The quest rewards from “The Tourney Field: Mounted Combat Tutorial” can now be used at Level 71
Langhold - quest flow fix: “An Unnerving Display of Confidence,” crucial to the quest chain of Langhold, is no longer a remote-bestowed quest. It has switched places with “Brigands of the Wold”. Unnerving Display is now offered by Dala, and Brigands is remote-bestowed.
Three changes have been made to quest items for better use with the war-steed in Rohan:
Quest items can now be used while mounted.
Quest items no longer require that you face them in order to use them.
Quest items now have a broader usage range.
The following quests have been removed as part of the second half of Moria's revamp, replaced as new quests.
The Carver's Stash
Gredbyg in the Camp
Thoughts Left Behind
Piercing the Walls
Expulsion
Balin's Camp in Nud-melek is ready to reward those brave enough to explore!
For the later zones that previously had little organized content, much of the content will be exploration-based. Quest chains won't vector there, but quests can be discovered using the new Remote Bestowal tech by finding interesting locations in the second half of Moria.
In case you want to visit Balin's camp in Moria, it will be a bit easier to get to now. The monsters have been thinned out along that path.
The quest “Back and Forth” from the 21st Hall has been removed. This quest was a prerequisite for part of the Moria instance cluster, and this content will now be open without the trip from the 21st Hall to the middle of the Redhorn Lodes. No rewards were associated with this quest.
Some quests in Zelem-melek are being deleted and replaced with similar versions of themselves so that new quest arcs are not confusing to players who have already completed the quests. Affected quests took place in the monster camp Gazatu-ru in Zelem-melek. Quests that have been replaced are as follows: “Giving the Durub a good Drubbing,” “A Multitude of Durub,” “The Killing Blow,” and “Death to the Puny Mine Dwellers.” Some titles have been retained in the replacement quests, but others have been changed.
Limlight Gorge rep will now have deeds and titles associated with it.
Tasks
Great River tasks can now be turned in through level 80, and can be started at level 68.
User Interface
The objective information for the second stage of the quest 'The Cat's Meow' will no longer disappear automatically unless the player moves out of range.
The experience bar on the main toolbar has been updated to show experience gained and required relative to the player's current level, rather than the overall total.
The XP bar tooltip was showing information that overlaps with what was already displayed by the bar itself. This duplicate information has been removed from the tooltip.
Attempting to use an item or NPC which is outside usage distance will now trigger autonomous movement into range This will work for mounted or dismounted players.There is a new game option which can be used to toggle this functionality called Move To Use, which you will find on the Misc section of the UI Settings Option page.
When a skill is re-learned it will attempt to go back to it's last known quickslot bar location.
Encounters within Instance Finder are now sorted alphabetically.
If you are in an Instance Finder queue and attempt to join a session play you will now be warned that doing this will kick you from the queue.
The escape key now functions properly when a browser window is open
Fixed a problem that would sometimes cause Quest Guide colors on the map to all become red.
“Next/Previous Item” keyboard shortcuts will now start over with the nearest item when you have a non-item selected.
You can now see up to four escort vital UIs in instances
Fixed an issue with the keyboard shortcuts like “select next item” where there was potential for them to not cycle through all the available choices
“Track Nearby Quests” no longer adds trivial quests to the quest tracker if the option “Show Trivial Quest Icons in Radar” is turned off.
When you first open up the Mounted Combat panel, the player should have the correct weapon displaying,
Players can now map a new action key to Follow Selection. This works exactly the same as /follow. The new mapping is present on the Key Mapping portion of the Options Panel, under the Miscellaneous header.
Clicking on the New Title alert should properly open and scroll to the new title in the Titles panel
Milestone skill names will now include the region name of the destination, e.g. “Return to The Prancing Pony (Bree-Land)”
We now have a track mounted XP button on the mounted combat stats page which will give you an floating XP bar.
A new radar mapnote which tracks nearby enemies, the Enemy mapnote, is now available.
Any nearby character (player or non-player) which is a valid combat target will be tracked in this way. Stealthed enemies are handled correctly - the mapnote will disappear as the enemy enters stealth, re-appear when the enemy is detected, and disappear again when the enemy re-enters stealth.
This new mapnote has ONLY an on-screen indicator. When the tracked character moves off the radar screen, thee is no arrow pointing to it.
Note: The track enemy mapnote is not shown in the instance clusters and any other private encounters without instance quests. Public instances and private enounters with instance quests (such as skirmishes) retain the track enemy mapnote.
Note: The track enemy mapnote is not shown for enemies that will not aggro on you (trivial or neutral mobs).
Town Services
The Bartenders in Ered Luin, The Shire, Breeland, Evendim, The Trollshaws, and Rohan should now all offer draughts and salves for all levels.
The Eastemnet Shields, Weapons, Jewellery Quartermaster will now offer Silver Necklaces and Baubles for each of the 4 major areas.
A Relic-master, Forge-master, and Healer can now be found in Feldburg.
A cooking fire has been added in Harwick, located between the crafting hall and mead hall.
Maps, Travel, and Travel Steeds
Festival mounts no longer require Documents of Mount Ownership or Race Tokens for purchase. The current festival mounts will, however, require a new currency - the Golden Festival Token which can be achieved through completing new festival related deeds. Our mount vendors, Will Peartree in Hengstacer Farm and his new associates Dawson Berwick and Amanda Browning in Frostbluff, have updated their inventory to reflect the new pricing. The festival horse races will still be present, but now will only award normal festival tokens.
The Steed of the Captain's coat has been changed to match the color shown in promotional material. It is no longer a blonde-sorrel, and has been changed to a rich brown color.
You can now ask the stable-masters to take you somewhere while you are mounted. This will dismount you and mount you on the stable horse.
Est ce que ces jetons de festival sont partages (compte ou perso)?Le jetons sont liés au perso.
General
(Bullroarer Only) The BG sets should now be accessible without requiring Hytbold deeds.
(Bullroarer Only) Travel to Quest NPC: Will no longer be allowed when the quest objective is nearby, to prevent accidentally wasting writs.
Warden
Grand Master Weapons Training will now enhance Swords' parry chance.
Monster Play
Defiler - There was a small chance that a Defiler could overwrite another's Plague of Flies cast. This should no longer occur.
Skirmishes
The original Barad Guldur sets are now available from the Classic skirmish vendors. New level 85 versions, with updated stats and different appearances are also available.
Fornost
(Bullroarer Only)Wraith of Earth is available again
User Interface
(Bullroarer Only) "Next/Previous Item" keyboard shortcuts will now start over with the nearest item when you have a non-item selected.
Tasks
Completing Tasks should now work properly when in a raid group.
Crafting
(Bullroarer Only) Crafting XP values have been reduced.
You now get chat spew whenever Pending Loot Items are removed for a reason other than you putting them in your inventory
Items
The following weapons have received Slayer Types:
- Coldfells Vengeance
- Seeker's Blade
- Inquisitor's Edge
Yule Festival
Festival mounts no longer require Documents of Mount Ownership or Race Tokens for purchase. The new festival mount will, however, require a new currency - the Golden Festival Token which can be achieved through completing new festival related deeds. Our mount vendors, Will Peartree in Hengstacer Farm and his new associates Dawson Berwick and Andy Brown in Frostbluff, have updated their inventory to reflect the new pricing. The festival horse races will still be present, but now will only award normal festival tokens.
Existing Yule Festival Tokens, Frostbluff Coins and all festival Race Tokens will be versioned in to Festival Tokens, a new currency. Documents of Mount Ownership will version in to a Festival Ticket.
There are three new deeds tied to the Yule Festival that are advanced by completing quests within Frostbluff and Winter-home. These are The More the Merrier, tiers one, two and three. Completing these deeds will grant you Golden Festival Tokens and unlock access to a new vendor in Winter-home.
Auto-bestow quests will now indicate when the festival is active, and help you get right to Frostbluff without bother.
All quests in Frostbluff and the Festival Races are now daily quests and can be reset with Festival Tokens. The Eating Contest advances your festival completion deeds on the first step, but will not grant a free re-try on failure.
There is a new war-steed appearance set of the festival mount. This set is available for those who complete Tier 3 of The More the Merrier!
Update 9: Against the Shadow PRELIMINARY Release Notes(B3) - SUBJECT TO CHANGE
The following release notes are for the Bullroarer public test server only and may not reflect the final list of changes or updates included at release.
Please be aware that everything listed here is subject to change. These notes are not final.
Warden
"The Boot", "Onslaught", and "Wall of Steel" will each have their own Interrupt effect with cooldowns of 8s, 10s, and 12s respectively on the Interrupt portion ONLY!
Ettenmoors
The block rating on the Coldfells Warden Shield and the Guardian's Barricade has been increased.
Curse of Deadly Sorrows and Banner of Terror should now debuff Tactical Mastery instead of Will.
Players are now allowed to loot each other in the Ettenmoors! Player will drop items based off their race. Now is the time to collect trophies of your enemies!
Crafting
Crafting Guild Reputation Items are now only useable by players who are actively a member of the respective Crafting Guild.
Instances, Raids, Skirmishes
The Vile Maw -- The Lost to the Deeps deed now bestows upon entering the Vile Maw, instead of bestowing outside the actual instance entrance in Water-works.
Quests
BULLROARER ONLY: Reset Quest Cooldowns: There is now text on the confirmation dialog to show the name of the paper item that will be used.
Dressage: The Rohirrim is now on a horse.
Travel to Quest Objective
Bullroarer ONLY: Travel to Quest Objective: You will no longer be able to accidentally switch which quest objective you will travel to by mistakenly clicking on another travel button while the panel is already open.
Bullroarer ONLY: Travel to Quest Objective: Added a display of the name of the item to the panel, so it's clear which item you will be using.
User Interface
Eregion and Enedwaith map - Zoom in and player marker should now function correctly for those using the French client.
Update 9 is currently expected to release on Monday, December 17th:albino
The last day of the Yule festival was originally January 1. We've extended that to January 3 due to the service interruption last week. So you have a couple of more days to get things done.
Ce week-end seulement ! Recevez plus de coffres à butin verrouillés en acier et de clés en acier solide dans toute la Terre du Milieu !
Ce week-end, nous augmentons vos chances de trouver des coffres à butin verrouillés en acier et des clés en acier solide sur vos adversaires malheureux ! Une fois un coffre à butin récupéré, vous pouvez soit l'ouvrir à l'aide d'une clé pour obtenir de formidables récompenses, soit le mettre aux enchères à la salle des ventes pour qu'un autre joueur en fasse l'acquisition. Les clés peuvent être obtenues sur les corps de vos ennemis, en tant que récompense dans un coffre à butin, à la salle des ventes, dans des loteries spéciales les weekends, ou au magasin SdAO. Alors plongez-vous dans le SdAO ce weekend pour avoir une chance d'obtenir l'une des magnifiques récompenses contenues dans les coffres à butin !
Plus de coffres, plus de butin !
Objets exclusifs :
Dévoilez la monture squelettique peinte en rouge
Boucles d'oreilles, anneaux, bracelets et autres bijoux exclusifs !
Armes exclusives !
Clés :
Les coffres à butin verrouillés en acier contiennent maintenant plus de clés !
Autres récompenses :
Tomes de statistiques, bonus d'XP d'objet légendaire, parchemins de suppression de reliques, objets échangeables, objets de réputation, bonus, objets d'artisanat, et bien plus encore !
Item Search Functionality
There’s a new “Find Items” dialog which allows you to find items by typing in part of their name. This dialog can be brought up using a customizable shortcut (set to Alt-F by default), or by clicking the new magnifying glass icon on the inventory bags next to the “x”. The dialog will also search in vendor windows, scrolling the window as appropriate. The vendor windows also have the magnifying glass icon next to the “x”.
The items are highlighted using the “New Item” Overlay, and the highlights go away when the “Find Items” dialog is closed. You can also search by using the “/fi” player command.
Release Notes
General
Space Combat has been removed from the game. (We know…)
As part of the Miss Chance revision, we have removed Miss Chance from Dread.
Monster Play
Fixed a bug that prevented the Tracking Talisman Box from being usable by Creeps. These items can now be opened by all Creep players.
Items
Padded Robes of the Entwash now give Tactical Mastery, in place of Physical Mastery.
Hauberk of Reclamation will now give Might
Cargaraf's Ring will now give some Fate, at the cost of some Vitality.
Shield of Shattered Manacles now gives players some Might, in addition to everything else.
Blade of the Exemplary Lore-master -- Now with 100% more hyphens!
The level 85 Dol Guldur armour sets now have the correct amount of armour for each piece.
Uloga's Bangle and Uloga's Golden Bangle and been renamed to reflect where they drop.
Mounts & Travel
Travel mounts are no longer invisible to players.
Festivals
Festival quests will now be removed from your quest log when the festival ends. If you currently have festival quests from previous festivals in your quest log, these will be removed in the next update. Please note: Frostbluff winter festival quests will also be removed from your log in a future update.
Raids, Instances, & Skirmishes
Hytbold
Addressed an issue that would occasionally cause NPCs to not appear to players.
Iorbar's Peak
Greatly increased the damage of the falling boulders thrown by giants
Slightly reduced the cooldown of Helf's 'Hammerfists' skill on tier 2
Greatly increased the damage of Helf's ranged attacks
Increased the magnitude of Helf's protective bubble
Increased the frequency of Helf's bubble skill in the final phase
“Helf's attacks too puny. Now, Helf strong. HELF SMASH!" Increased Helf's overall damage output.
Scaling Instances (Classic)
Drop rates on Star-lit crystals and 2nd Age Symbols have been slightly reduced.
The tier of relics dropped from chests has been increased, usually by 1 step (where level 85 chests gave Tier 4 and 5 relics, they will now give 5 and 6).
Increased the quality of IXP runes which can be dropped from level 85 content.
There is now an additional chance to get a relic or IXP rune. The Tier of the relic/quality of the IXP rune will depend on the level of the space, ranging from Tier 2 to Tier 5. This is a guaranteed drop from final bosses, and will drop commonly from other bosses.
Many instances have seen the amount of marks, medallions and seals they give changed. Some have been reduced while others have been increased.
Scaling Instances (Erebor and Dol Guldur instance 3/6mans)
Adjusted the chance to get equipment drops. T1 will see a higher chance to get a piece of gear, which is most likely Rare, for each player. T2 will see a slightly higher chance to get equipment drops, with a higher chance to get a piece of Incomparable gear for each player.
Scaling Instances (Challenge chests):
Each challenge chest will offer additional chances at getting Tier 5 Relics and XP runes. The chances increase with the group size.
Barad Guldur
Reduced the quality of the regular boss chests for Durchest and the Twins on Tier 1 and Tier 2. They will no longer drop 2nd Age Symbols, among other things. Challenge chests and the Lieutenants chest remain unaffected.
Reduced the chance of getting equipment drops for each player on T1 and T2 difficulty slightly.
Sammath Gul
Completing the challenge mode will reward the expected number of marks, medallions and seals. Challenge mode previously gave too many medallions and seals, but no marks.
Guldur Goblins will no longer drop scaling equipment
Town Services
Vendors in Mirkwood and elsewhere have finally gotten the news that Medallions of Dol Guldur have been replaced, and are now willing to accept Medallions for their wares.
EDIT: Je sais de source sure que tous les drops de Celebrimbors 85 (coffres d'instances/raids, Bugud, coffres scellés 80...) ont été réduits de d'au moins 50% "pour équilibrer le nombre de Celebrimbor distribués"...
Maintenance programmée : Mercredi 13 février
Tous les serveurs de jeu de Turbine et http://myaccount.turbine.com seront indisponibles le mercredi 13 février 2013 pour cause de maintenance. Nous estimons la période d'indisponibilité à environ 12 heures, et celle-ci devrait commencer à 10 heures du matin heure française.
Important : Les forums et les wikis seront toujours disponibles pendant la période de maintenance, mais en mode lecture seule. Veuillez suivre nos fils sur Facebook et Twitter pendant la période de maintenance afin d'obtenir les dernières informations et mises à jour. Nous vous rappelons que vous n'avez pas besoin de devenir membre de ces réseaux sociaux ni de vous y connecter pour suivre les fils.
Indisponibilité prévue des serveurs : lundi 11 février, de 007h00 à 10h00 (GMT -5)
Les serveurs SdAO seront indisponibles le lundi 11 février de 07h00 à 10h00 (-5 GMT) heure française pour des raisons de installation des correctifs . Merci de votre patience et à très bientôt dans le jeu !
General
Addressed a specific issue related to server performance.
Quests
Volume 1 - Book 11 - Chapter 4 instance: Remembrance - Drama breaks and prevents completion
Instances, Raids and Skirmishes
Adjusted the drops found in certain public instances. Trophies and loot are no longer available in these spaces. Landscape monsters will continue to drop all rare items removed from the instances.
Increased the drop rate of legendary crafting recipes from bosses in the Rohan crafting instances.
Fornost
Addressed an issue that was allowing players to receive marks with little or no effort.
Generalheu ça me laisse perplexe ...
Addressed a specific issue related to server performance.
[...] et ne veulent pas mélanger l'update 10 de cet maj là pour être sur de qu'est-ce qui corrige quoi[/li]Où as-tu vu que la maintenance de mercredi est pour l'update 10?
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La maintenance de mercredi (demain) est repoussée à jeudi.CiterMaintenance programmée : Mercredi 13 février
Tous les serveurs de jeu de Turbine et http://myaccount.turbine.com seront indisponibles le mercredi 13 février 2013 pour cause de maintenance. Nous estimons la période d'indisponibilité à environ 12 heures, et celle-ci devrait commencer à 10 heures du matin heure française.
Important : Les forums et les wikis seront toujours disponibles pendant la période de maintenance, mais en mode lecture seule. Veuillez suivre nos fils sur Facebook et Twitter pendant la période de maintenance afin d'obtenir les dernières informations et mises à jour. Nous vous rappelons que vous n'avez pas besoin de devenir membre de ces réseaux sociaux ni de vous y connecter pour suivre les fils.
Pas de jeu à prévoir mercredi prochain ;)
Tous les serveurs de jeu de Turbine et http://myaccount.turbine.com seront indisponibles pour cause de maintenance du jeudi 14 février à midi heure française (GMT +1) au vendredi 15 février à midi heure française (GMT +1).
qu'est-ce que tu entends pas là ?Réponse 2: réorganisation d'infra, voir peut être changement de ferme.
déplacement de populations ? ils auraient annoncé le truc quand meme ...
ou reorganisation d'infrastructure ?
La maintenance est toujours en cours et les équipes sont encore au travail. Malheureusement, nous n'avons pour le moment pas d'ETA (Estimated time of arrival - horaire d'arrivée estimé) pour la fin des opérations.
We're performing significant back-end systems maintenance and have run into a couple of issues we're working through.
I fully expect lag to still be there and zero improvement to the game
As this maintenance does not include any changes to the game or the game client, you should not expect any.
lol ! mais alors pourquoi ils changent des trucs sur l'infra si c'est pour ne rien arranger !!Par indiscrétion, j'ai ouïe dire qu'il s'agit de la mise en place d'un COS unifié pour tous les produits Turbine.
We are working to resolve ongoing issues with our system maintenance. At this time we do not have a specific estimate for when the game servers will be available. Our goal is to make the games available as soon as possible. However we would like to advise players that the service may continue to be unavailable this evening. We will continue to provide updates as we have them.
As a thank you for your understanding and patience during this downtime, all Premium and VIP players who have logged into their account in the past 30 Days (as of 6:00AM Eastern time on 2/14/2013) will receive 250 Turbine points. In addition, all VIP players who have logged in during the same period will have their accounts credited 1 day of VIP time for each day of downtime, plus 1 additional day. All points and additional time will be granted automatically as soon as our regular service is restored and stable.
Maintenance Update
We will not be able to restore our services this evening, but our night shift crew will continue to work on these issues throughout the evening/morning. Currently, we still have no estimated time for when the servers will be available.
We will, as always, update you with new information as we receive it.
Thank you very much for your patience and understanding as we continue to resolve these issues.
Mouarf, ça devient ridicule la ...
Mais bon, c'est comme ça partout maintenant, les types compétents se barrent ou sont virés parce que trop payés, rentabilité / profits / etc., tant que ça fonctionne ça peut aller, mais au premier gros pépin, ça pleure devant la baie de serveurs en gueulant sur les stagiaires ou les femmes de ménage :icon_twisted:.
We continue to work on issues related to our billing update and systems maintenance. We do not currently have an ETA for when the game will be available. We will post updated information as soon as it becomes available.
"Il parait que tout ça ce n'est pas pour améliorer les performances des serveurs, ni mettre la mise à jour prévue, cela serait pour le système de facturation et la boutique F2P [...].Cela a été hurlé, annoncé, quoté des centaines de fois, mais comme le français (ou le jolien) moyen rale sans lire, il faut encore le répéter tous les 4 posts ^^
Certains parlent de 15 jours d'arrêt, vu qu'ils donnent 250 points, ce qui représente la moitié d'un mois d'abonnement.Mais quelle bande d'idiots !
Certains encore plus pessimistes parlent de la fin de lotro à cause du fiasco des ventes de l'extension du Rohan.
Par ailleurs, sachez d'une grosse partie de l'équipe Tutu a même annulé leurs soirées de St Valentin avec leurs douces pour aider.
:)) :))
Par ailleurs, sachez d'une grosse partie de l'équipe Tutu a même annulé leurs soirées de St Valentin avec leurs douces pour aider.
A tous les coups le technicien en charge du truc a découvert que son rencard de st valentin avec une mystérieuse inconnue était en fait avec une certaine Gahia. Il a fait quelques recherches et après considération de sa taille (pas très grand) et de sa couleur de cheveux (roux) il a pris une saine décision: saboter les serveurs pour être retenu au boulot...
Par contre, je shop est down (et risque de l'être jusqu'à lundi/mardi).
Mise à jour d'entretien 17/02/13
MyAccount et le magasin SdAO sont désormais disponibles. Nous vous remercions de votre patience!
Il ya une chance qu'après la mise à niveau de votre compte, passant de GRATUIT ou PREMIUM à VIP, que votre ancien statut continuera à afficher après votre achat. Ce n'est pas exact, et nous avons bien reçu votre paiement et mis votre compte à jour. Cliquer sur le bouton Home dans MyAccount forcera la page à actualiser et affichera votre statut nouvellement mis à jour.
Si vous payez votre abonnement via PayPal, vous devrez vous connecter à http://myaccount.turbine.com et entrer à nouveau vos informations PayPal. Si vous n'entrez pas ces informations, votre abonnement ne sera pas automatiquement renouvelée lorsque le temps payé se terminera. Une fois que vous ajoutez à nouveau vos informations PayPal, le renouvèlement automatique fonctionnera normalement.
Les codes de points Turbine doivent êtres appliqués par le biais de myaccount.turbine.com, plutôt que par l'intermédiaire du magasin SdAO dans le jeu. Pour ajouter un point de code de Turbine, connectez-vous avec vos identifiants de compte à myaccount.turbine.com, entrez le code dans la section Product Key de la page, et cliquez sur "Submit". Suivez les instructions.
Une tentative d'ajout de nouvelles cartes de crédit par l'intermédiaire du magasin SdAO dans le jeu pourrait ne pas produire une page de confirmation. Si votre carte de crédit n'est pas correctement ajoutée, vous pouvez ajouter vos informations de carte de crédit par le biais de myaccount.turbine.com.
Il est n'est pas possible en ce moment d'ajouter la clé de produit pour Asheron's Call sans ajouter un autre compte de jeu Turbine. Afin d'ajouter la clé de produit pour Asheron's Call , créez d'abord un compte F2P soit pour Dungeons & Dragons Online ou Le Seigneur des Anneaux Online. Les comptes DDO et/ou SdAO peuvent être créés gratuitement en visitant DDO.com ou LOTRO.com.
Pour vous remercier de votre patience, nous vous offrons un bonus d'XP de 100% et un bonus s'appliquant aux coffres à butin, en vigueur jusqu'au 26 février. Alors ne perdez pas de temps ; parcourez les contrées de la Terre du Milieu dès aujourd'hui en quête d'aventures et de trésors !
Yes, ce week end, je pexe :grin