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Movie Watch: Order of Middle Earth
4 Apr 2009I am a HUGE fan of user created art, both still and of the machinima variety. Coming back to LotRO from WOW one thing that has eluded my appetite is the amount of great movies made by the LotRO user base. You see, in WoW, the community cranking out wonderful videos is amazing. One could [...]
As many already know, Turbine was hit with some major network issues Wednesday. In the middle of a busy day most servers started to report rubber banding (when trying to move forward you got shot back and could not make headway). OOC and Kin chats started to buzz with reports of others being stuck [...]
LotRO for WoW Players: What Class Should I Be?
25 Mar 2009If you spend any time at all on the official Turbine forums, one question that comes up over and over by wow players coming to the game is:
What class is like (fill in the blank here)?
Most MMO’s are comprised of the trinity of class makeup for grouping. Tank, Healer, and DPS. The tanks job is [...]
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- Tags: Classes, lotro, mmo trinity, wow
LotRO on MSNBC
In: Offical News
24 Mar 2009Check out LotRO Live Producer Aaron “Rowan” Cambell on MSNBC.com.
MSNBC Video
My first impressions where. . .hmm. . “I hope this is not to corny.” But I think they did a good job, great shots of the gaming world.
What do you think about in game interviews? Do you think the public at large will accept or [...]
Rant: Don’t Make me Pull this MMO Over!
In: Uncategorized
18 Mar 2009Book 7 has come out. And the QQing has begun in force. Normally I try to let it all go, I do, no really, someone tell my wife to stop laughing at that statement. But after reading several things like this on the official forums and in game:
Turbine sucks
If the programmers where not so [...]
LotRO Combo – and Make it Super Size!
In: Fansites
16 Mar 2009
Our friend over at MMeOw took to heart a conversation that began over at LotRO Follower’s blog. What a great couple of weeks it has been for the community!
They have put together a wonderful RSS feed that takes all the LotRO blogs and puts them in one great big tube. It’s easier than ever [...]
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- Tags: blog, community, rss
Book 7 to come out Tuesday March 17!
In: Offical News
13 Mar 2009You heard it. Right from Turbines own Twitter.
LOTRO: Aren’t you glad you’re following us? You’re the first to know that Book 7: Leaves of Lorien arrives in NA on Tuesday, March 17!
And now the mad race this weekend begins to get caught up.
Cant wait to get into 7.
What Turbine Can Do for Fansites.
In: Developer Notes| Fansites| Lorebook
12 Mar 2009
We were able to get a question into the LotRO Dev chat hosted by Stratics last night.
Zephenia - *Manorton-UTB* Hi, this is Mike with Under the Banner blog. Many of us in the LotRO blog community have been trying to put our heads together on a way to help promote the lotro community. One [...]
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- Tags: dev, Fansites, Lorebook
LotRO for WoW Players: Dude! Where are my Talents?
In: Deeds| LotRO for WoW Players| Traits| Virtues
11 Mar 2009After coming back to LotRO I tend to still try to do things the same way I did them in WoW. For example, when I see that magical swirl of light around me informing me that I made another level, DING!, I find myself hitting my N key to open my talent sheet. DOH! [...]
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- Tags: builds, lotro, Traits
New Build on Test Realm Tomorrow
In: Offical News| Test Server
10 Mar 2009According to our favorite Community Manager, Patience, we should expect to see a new build on Bullroarer tomorrow. They will be opening up Eyes & Guard Tavern, which means you will be able to level a toon to several level ranges, including 60, for testing purposes. Provided Eyes & Guard act like it did [...]
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- Tags: lotro, new patch, test realm
- LuckyShot: Seeing how the balrog chain & Thorog axe have been changed from +3 hope to only +1, this is a ne [...]
- Josh W: Another very welcome change! The more I look at the preliminary Book 8 notes, the more I like them! [...]
- Mystwolf: My heart is heavy with this loss. I miss you my friend. [...]
- Seraphym: Good bye Iri - I miss you. [...]
- earthrowan: Wow, so sorry to the sad news. My condolences. [...]
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- A Remedy for the D.O.T. Blues
- OTG Loses a Friend
- STOP with the 360 Missinformation allready!
- Book 8 Brings End Game
- Anti-Exploit is All Wet - How to Fix
- Bonus XP through June!
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