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LOTRO Dev Chat, Wednesday March 11

The LOTRO Dev Team will be participating in a Stratics House of Commons chat on Wednesday March 11 at 8pm EDT (-4 GMT). Join us in the #straticshoc channel on Stratics IRC for an hour of questions and answers about our upcoming release of Volume II: Book 7: Leaves of Lorien.

You can connect to one of Stratics IRC servers through the use of your favorite IRC client, such as mIRC, ircle, xchat, trillian or whichever you prefer. Connect to irc.stratics.com port 6668

Can't make the chat? Submit a question early!

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Episode 3 Developer Interview Shownotes

The latest episode of LOTROCast, Episode 3 -- Dev Interview, has just gone live. You can find at LOTROCast.blogspot.com. Moormur had a chat with the Live Producer of LOTRO, Rowan, about everything from Book 7 and Book 8 to a little PvP and "The Wall!"

Most of the questions were fielded from the community, so if you asked one make special sure you listen and find out the answer!

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Book 7 Galadhrim Horse

There are only 4 rep quests you can do now that have 2hr cooldowns and those all take place along the road in those orc/goblin camps which are going to be heavily decimated come release!
You need ~ [30 Lothlorien Gold Leaf] & [50 Lothlorien Silver Branch] and  Kindred Standing with Galadhrim to get Galadhrim Horse

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Dev Chat Transcript

The Dev Chats have returned for Lord of the Rings Online. On Wednesday 4th March was the first of this years Dev Chats with Turbine, the developers of The Lord of the Rings Online. Turbine devs answered a lot of questions about all things LOTRO!

  • Will there be any new cosmetic items & haircuts in the near future?
  • Will we soon see the other side of Anduin?
  • Will we go south straight ahead? Or will we go and see all of Rhovanion before we turn south to Rohan and such?
  • Are there any plans about changing the system of distributing legendary weapons?

Continue reading Dev Chat Transcript March 4th 2009.

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Book 7 Crafting Instances

To start off there are 6 crafting instances separated in pairs of 2, (based on the crafting materials you can get) in 3 different location in Moria. I myself was confused how this worked at first but I figured it out with a bit of trial and error!

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Lothlorien Screenshots

New Screenshots of Book 7: Leaves of Lorien now available

Today we updated our gallery with screenshots from Lothlorien, the new area available in Book 7. You can check out the rest of these great images in our Lothlorien gallery now.

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Lothlorien Maps

KatashiTakishiro made Lothlorien Map Location for anyone to use, especially if you get lost easily like so many players 🙂

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New Book 7 quest guide

For those unable to get on Bullroarer

Book 7 Below is an image of the map in the starter instance. You can see on it a blue icon with an X, and a pair of pale white circular highlights. The blue icon is used for single stationary targets (people, items, etc.), while the highlighted fields are used for targets that roam. Hovering your cursor over the quest name highlights its icon further, by turning the blue icon green, or brightening the white fields. Hovering over map areas displays the coordinates on the map that your cursor is pointing to (which display in the lower left corner).

Also, please note the checkbox for turning the system OFF. By unchecking it, the highlights and icons vanish, the box with quest names (which is movable like a window) as well. The map reverts back to the standard, aside from the running Coordinates display in the lower left.

Book 7 On your radar, you can have a quest pointer active to point toward your goal. These usually activate automatically based on the most recent addition, though I think I've seen them switch automatically based on proximity to a goal. Regardless, if you're in or near an area for a quest, the location name with highlight in yellow, and hovering your cursor over it gives a readout of what quests you're near. You can also manually choose which quest pointer is active by the same method you remove listings from it: the ring on the side.

To be honest, as I've said many times: it's no better nor worse than looking up locations on MMODB, MEHQ, or the ruslotro Dynamic Maps. Nor is it any worse than people giving out coordinates or directions in game. It's simply an optional mechanical method of these that can just as easily be turned on or off.

by Jadzi

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Book 7 Minstrel

Book 7 Minstrel set Today something new for Minstrels:

Enjoy!

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Announcing Bullroarer

Do you like trying out new things and seeing new places? When something is broken, are you excited by the thought of fixing it? Are you always the first person to try out a new technology? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Bullroarer might be the server for you!

Bullroarer is a public test server which will be opened periodically to test new content, still in development, before it is completed and approved for the live servers. Bullroarer is now live with Book 7! Click here for the patch notes. Please keep in mind these are NOT FINAL and are subject to change!

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