LOTRO Daily News for Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The following is a summary of LOTRO news and events for Tuesday, May 22nd.

Today’s highlights include a sneak peek into the creation of Shores of Evendim, more developers posting what they’re playing, a tease about server events, and more!

News of the Day
~ what’s happening in The Lord of the Rings Online

• Evendim - A Taste of Twilight
  A sneak peek at the steps involved in the creation of Shores of Evendim.

From the Developers
~ what the LOTRO developers are talking about

• Do the Devs Play?
  A continuation of the previous day’s question with responses posted by more developers:
  • Avon posts how he plays almost nightly and has a Burglar, Champion, and a Guardian. The Burglar and Champion get all the love.
  • floon plays a Captain and shares some insight into what motivates the the developers working on the game.
    im in ur middle-earth mining ur ore –floon
  • Marlowe plays a Hunter (but might be leveling up another race/class) and watches Heroes!
  • Denour enjoys playing the Lore-master.
  • Ragtop also plays a Lore-master and warns players to watch out or “my Raven will hunt you down and eat you!“
• Guardians
  Zombie Columbus discusses the role of the tank class vs. the dps class and shares the following: In other mmo’s, there is kind of an unwriten rule that you wait to unload full dps on a target untill the tank has generated some nice baseline threat.
• Quest Levels and Fellowship Sizes
  When asked about the small fellowship icon shown on quests in the quest log, MadeOfLions tells us that we’re probably going to see more in the future. He also mentions the three tiers of quests: Solo, Small Fellowship (~3 people) and Full Fellowship. He also asks players to report inconsistencies in regards to quest levels and the icon. MadeOfLions started a new thread asking players for help, along with the preferred format for reporting inconsistencies.
• Battle for Helegrod
  Just an FYI, Scenario tells us that the Battle for Helegrod does not take place in Evendim but rather in the Misty Mountains.
• Server Events
  When asked when to expect events on the North American servers, Patience teased with “Pretty soon, actually. Stay tuned…”

From the Postmaster
~ avoiding those nosey hobbits

• How to Spot a Gender Faker
  AJ Glasser, MMORPG.com’s new staff writer, comes out of the gates with a winner! In her first article for the site, she shares some pointers on how to spot a faker! *Tee hee*
• Blizzard & Make A Wish bring WoW to life
  This is really an awesome story of one child’s wish coming true.