This week we have quite a few Dev Diaries released for us to go through. Information on store exclusive steeds and cosmetic offerings, the Farmer’s Faire and more!
This week Goldenstar’s Dum Group completed two hard modes. The Forges and Skumfil hard modes. Done! She also has been gathering Farmer’s Faire data for the new guide. Here’s my favorite picture from the festival: a teenie tiny Goldenstar Hobbit standing in front of an enormous Nazgul!
Merric has been working on the epic story line in Moria with his Captain.
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Official News
- LOTRO Community Update July24, 2012 [Video]
- Dev Diary: Burglars in Riders of Rohan
- Developer Diary: Mounted Combat [Video]
- Dev Diary: East Rohan
- The Farmer’s Faire is Live!
- Behind the Scenes Episode 3 and New Screenshots
- ZAM’s Hand-on With Mounted Combat
- The One Ring.net Inside the music of LOTRO: The Riders of Rohan
Developer Bites
- Turbine’s web team thinks they have resolved the “An error occurred while processing request” issue on the website in most cases.
- Hunter 5-Piece Bonus changes
Store News
- Daily Summer Specials for July 27-31, 2012
- Weekly Store Sale Starting July 27, 2012
- Determine Your Discount
- Buy a Premium Mount–Get a Matching Warsteed Appearance
CSTM News
Raise Your Glass
Smallskin
Hi
I am a player who doesn’t have a credit card.(that has its own
problems) so I buy the turbine point cards. I just wanted to ask you is a skirmish worth the money and if so which one do I get.
Thanks
Kheled
Hello!
I’m Kheled, an active CSTM reader:), I love your blogs and I just show you my Character’s story video. Hope you ‘Ll love it.
I maked it 3 years ago. and I lost 2 episodes from my long film:( . My dream was making a very long lotro fan film, but after when i lost the 2.-3. episode I stopped. I think i’ll remaking again. I cant upload to youtube, because in video have LOTR film musics. So i found it an other site, little low quality, but hope you will like it:)
Here is the link: http://indavideo.hu/video/The_Necromancers_Force_Part1
The story is: Aayla’s daughter missed, The Lieutunant of Dol guldur catch her. Aayla will reform a strong fellowship, and start an epic adventure to defeat the Nazgúl and find her daughter. 20episodes , 10mins /episode.
Sorry for my English:) and gl for the blog!!
Best wishes,
Branick
Greetings Merric and Goldenstar,
I’m not sure if you’ve heard yet, but Achazia (of the LOTRO band, The
Shades) recently released a 5 song EP of songs she originally composed for The Shades. The EP is called Lost Pages and can be found here:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/achazia
I just learned that she’s been unable to promote it herself due to RL circumstances, so I offered to help spread the word. I gave it a plug on the next LOTRO Academy, and thought you might want to give it a plug in a future CSTM.
Regards,
Jordie
hey guys, i love listening to your pod casts but my bro, or sister hog the computer when ever i wanna listen to your podcasts.
i was wondering if u could make the live pod casts some time when younger players can listen.
well thanks for opening this email if you did thanks!!!
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July 30, 2012 at 5:32 am
Great show guys!!
July 30, 2012 at 9:43 am
Thank you
July 30, 2012 at 7:48 am
This is certainly interesting. Unfortunately it won’t fix anything for me. My problem was never solved when I left the kin.
Turbine’s web team thinks they have resolved the “An error occurred while processing request” issue on the website in most cases.
Also, now that I’m logged out of my.lotro.com (to test it), I’m getting the maintenance page? Have you heard anything about this?
Oh, and thanks for the Farmer’s Faire guide! Wonderful as always!
July 30, 2012 at 3:36 pm
I haven’t seen the maintenance page after logging out, no.
Hopefully the web team will resolve the issues soon.
July 30, 2012 at 9:48 am
You are right, Burglars already did get a revamp a while back, but the main complaint that burg players had with it was that it *completely* avoided any changes or updates to the mischief trait line. So it makes sense that this one would focus on what was completely missed last time.
Goldenstar,thanks so much for your work on the Farmer’s Faire guide!
And I agree Merric, I think its bull that we don’t get the exclusive steam horse or the steed of Minas Ithil for warhorse cosmetics. I thought about it and the only justification i could think of was with the dangling blanket/banner thing on the sides of the horses. The steed of night, preorder Rohan steed, and class steeds don’t have that,(and are the only announced steeds that will give horse cosmetics) and so maybe the warhorses simply wont have a cosmetic slot for that part, so that might be why the steam/Minas Ithil horses aren’t included.
July 30, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Ah, that’s a good point. It’s possible that it’s a system issue with drapes, etc. I’m not saying that they won’t eventually get them out there or that it should be prioritized; I just think it sucks that I’m limited due to what purchases I’ve made on a per-character basis. Those horses are not cheap. But I’ll be patient and see.
And thanks so much for the Burglar info; the update makes a lot more sense now.
July 30, 2012 at 5:13 pm
I figured the blanket would be either part of the saddle slot or the gear slot.