If you log off while the quest,"An Invitation to the spring festival" is being bestowed, you will lose the quest. Players can still participate in the spring festival events by visting Maengamiel in Duillond's Garden. Maengamiel can be found in the new spring garden of Duillond, the entrance of which is nestled in the base of a hill near the festival area.

Will Peartree, the festival horse barter NPC for the Spring Festival, has been temporarily removed due an unforeseen issue. Players will still be able to complete the quest, but they will not be able to collect the final reward until we have resolved the issue.

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New Spring Festival has started today and new Housing items screenshots are waiting for you. We would like to thank Jadzi for these great screenshots.

Gardenboar	Greenstool
Greentable	Shrewd sculpture

The Turbine Account Maintenance site at http://myaccount.turbine.com will be brought down for maintenance on Monday, March 22 from 6:00AM to 10:00Am Eastern (-4 GMT). During this time, players will be unable to log into the game or make changes to their accounts. Players already in the game when the site is brought down will be unaffected unless they log out or are disconnected.

The my.lotro.com Lottery system has returned! Turbine’ll be hosting lotteries on a predictable schedule everyone can follow! Now you’ll know when new lotteries are ready to enter and when to check in to my.lotro.com to see if you’ve won.

Monday Lottery (Level 26-65)
Starts Monday at 3:00PM Eastern. Ends Wednesday at 9:00AM Eastern.

Hevensday Lottery (Level 26-65)
Starts Wednesday at 3:00PM Eastern. Ends Friday at 9:00AM Eastern.

Highday Lottery (Level 26-65)
Starts Friday at 3:00PM Eastern. Ends Monday at 9:00AM Eastern.

Welcome Wagon Lottery (Level 1-25)
Three times per week! Starts Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3:00PM Eastern and ends on Wednesday, Friday, and Monday (respectively) at 9:00AM Eastern.

What can I win?
We’re not going to ruin the fun -- you’ll have to check in to see what items are up for grabs! The Monday, Hevensday, and Highday lotteries will constantly change. You never know what we might slip in there! We can tell you the Welcome Wagon Lottery will always have items that are useful to players from level 1-25 to help them along their way.

LOTRO Lottery Known Issues

Session Characters
Currently, session play characters (those with a ~ in front of their names) can register for lotteries. Again...

Transferred Characters
This is a known issue in the my.lotro.com system where transferred characters are overly sentimental about their first home. You should not sign up characters for lotteries unless they are listed in the world they currently reside; we will be unable to deliver prizes to them. We are working on the underlying issue.

Monster Play Characters
Monster play characters are currently able to enter the lotteries and win. This is not working as intended. Creep characters should not be able to enter lotteries. We are unable to award any winnings in the event your creep character should win.

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From 8th until 15th March, 2010 Codemasters Online invites all players to come back and play LOTRO for an amazing Welcome Back Week. The doors will be open for former players to re-enter the world of Middle-earth for a week of FREE game play.

All you have to do is download and patch up to the most recent version and log in starting 8th March. Your account will have been re-activated ready for you.

If you have noticed that  Monsters frequently resist your skills, these information might clear things up:

Shortly after Mirkwood’s launch, we found an unexpected bug. Between the Moria and Mirkwood updates, monster resistance rates had been accidentally altered in strange way. From level 1 to 42, the resistance ratings were correct. These ratings translated to around a 1% resistance rate at low levels that slowly rose to the expected rate, which is around 10%. However, at level 43 the ratings dropped down by exactly half, and stayed that way all the way to level cap. This means players leveling with a tactical character would see monster resistance rates raise slightly as they leveled, even out at 10%, and then suddenly drop away at level 43. This is contrasted by classes that fight against Block/Parry/Evade for damage, who saw their rates stay the same.

Monster resistance rates have been fixed in Book 1 to stay around 10% for all levels past 43. There are a number of trait, gear and legacy options that can be used to reduce this number. B/P/E classes are in the same boat, but have always been dealing with higher rating numbers to fight against. Reports of resistance rates 20% or higher are likely caused by small sample spaces, fighting up-level or against creatures with specific resistance buffs.

Unfortunately, this fix was not properly documented, which led to its omission from the release notes. It was never our intention to hide this from players or perform any kind of ‘stealth nerf’. We apologize for the communications breakdown and will make every effort to avoid similar issues in the future.

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The following are the Known Issues for Volume III: Allies of the King, Book 1: Oath of the Rangers

Burglar

• Mischievous Delight - There is a delay between the skill's use and the actual application of the associated buff.

Rune-keeper

• Armaments of Storm / Flame / Frost - Other players' melee weapons, when buffed with this skill, do not give proper tooltip feedback.

Captain

• Watchful Shield Brother incorrectly uses the icon for Courage when the buff is applied to a fellowship member.

Legendary Items

• Incoming Healing values on unidentified items may display higher than expected on that item's tooltip.

Skirmishes

Soldiers

• Any traits with a Damage over Time component list that damage as a negative number in its tooltip.
• Dwarf Bannerguards make no noise.
• The armour debuff applied by a Warrior's Whirling Wounds appears 10 points higher than stated in the tooltip.
• Warrior - "Quick Sweep" - This melee skill has arrows in its icon.
• Cosmetic - Not all outfit traits listed in the Attributes panel are obtainable at this time.

Barter

• The drop-down list for the Barter Profile says 'Dwarf-kind' instead of 'Dwarf.'

Rewards

• The shirt on the Medium Footman Armour of Adlan has the wrong default color.

Duo Skirmishes

• Some monsters may be more difficult than intended for 2 people.
• The Skirmish leaderboards do not yet display data for Duo Skirmishes. This will be addressed in an upcoming my.lotro.com update.

Rescue in Nûrz Ghâshu

• If your fellowship wipes during the boss fight, your escort will still ask you to perform Fellowship Maneuvers.
• More Caerogs than intended are summoned in the boss fight when on Fellowship setting.
• The target of your excursion may be inadvertently defeated during Fellowship Manoeuvres.

The Battle in the Tower

• The radar does not display Control Point direction icons.

Crafting

Cooking

• Expert Cook NPCs do not properly filter the new Campfire recipes by tier.
• Due to the treachery of The Enemy, some vendors are selling Tomato seeds. There is no Tomato recipe and no way to grow these poisonous items! Do not be fooled!

Quests

Volume 1

• Book 10, Chapter 14 - Instance: The Eye of Angmar - Lozudurkh will occasionally perform a stun move as his first attack, causing the player to drop the Palantír and fail the quest.
• Book 14, Chapter 1: The Heraldry of Lindon - The exit to Dolendath doesn't reopen once you collect Laerdan's breastplate. If stuck, player can wait for instance to shutdown to leave.
• Book 4, Chapter 6: The Knowledge of the Onodrim - An elite Curr-olog Heaver can path close enough to aggro solo players speaking to the Onodrim.

Volume 2

• Book 1, Chapter 8: Before the Doors of Durin - Dwarves may have trouble entering into their proper dramas, stalling the instance.

Volume 3

• Book 1 - Deed - Allies of the King - There is no description or information about the eventual completion of this deed.
• Book 1 - Instance: Lothrandir of the Frozen Wastes - Ice walls disappear on low settings.

Mirkwood

• Sign of the Malledhrim - The quest can fails if you leave the platform the flag is currently on.

Spring Festival

• Multiple raid members consuming Extra Deliciously Tasty Biscuits at the same time may cause them to not earn the associated deeds.
• Stomp-A-Shrew - Players may get stuck in combat until the session is finished.

Graphics/FX

• Annuminas - Barad Tironn & Glinghant - Instance areas will appear pitch black with Ambient Lighting slider set to Default.
• Player and monster combat weapon flash effects will occasionally get out of sync and display erratically.

The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, March 1,2010 from 6:00AM – 10:00AM Eastern (-5 GMT) to launch the latest free content update, Volume III: Allies of The King, Book 1: Oath of the Rangers. Click here for the release notes.

The scheduled downtime for EU players has been moved from Thursday, March 4 to Tuesday, March 2, so we hope it means Book 1: Oath of the Rangers will be live on Tuesday on EU servers.

Turbine periodically asks players about their gaming habits, favorite games, pastimes, what they like to do most when they play Turbine games, and similar information. This time Turbine is sending out a survey link to a random group of players. If you receive this survey, please fill it out.

As an incentive for completing this survey, Turbine will be giving out a $50 American Express Gift Card to some players (selected at random from completed surveys).

Reminder: No one from Turbine will ever ask you for your account password!!!

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The Isengard Private Preview Program is taking applications for new members. Unfortunately Turbine is unable to open applications up to Codemasters subscribers at this time. 

• Do you gain a sense of pride when you file bugs, knowing that you’ve helped us improve the game by doing so?
• Do you have a few hours of free time a week that you would like devote to helping us test LOTRO?
• Do you enjoy seeing things in an unfinished state and watching them develop?
• Do you like the idea of having an influence on how those same things turn out in the end?
• Can you keep a secret? No matter how many bribes of <insert favorite vice here> you may get?

If you answered ‘YES’ to all the above questions, then Isengard may be the place for you!

Requirements:

1. Must be at least 18 years of age
2. Must have a current, valid Turbine* subscription to The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood registered under your name
3. Must have a clean forum and game history
4. Must be able to interact with the community in a mature and constructive manner
5. Must be able to communicate well through forum posts and bug reports
6. You must accept the terms of the Private Preview Program Non-Disclosure Agreement, the full contents of which will be provided during the registration process should you be accepted to the program

Please send an email to LOTROIsengard@turbine.com. In this email, please include the following information:

1. Your full Real Name (please do not provide nicknames)
2. Your Username for LOTRO (this is the account name you use to log in to the LOTRO launcher)
   • NOTE: Please only provide ONE account. If you have multiple accounts/subscriptions, please provide information for only 1 of them.
3. Your Live Forum name (the name that displays on these boards) tied to the account in Bullet 2
4. The email address registered to the LOTRO Live account provided in bullet 2.
5. An explanation why you would like to participate in the preview program. This can be a summary of why you enjoy the game, what kind of bugs you've filed in the past, what kind of forum posting history you have, or any other way you think you can contribute to the program.

Assure this information is sent via email only. Please do not use Private Message.

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