Episode 177: Yule Stool

This week we have Update 9, Yule Festival, Dev Chat, tons of sales and more to discuss!

Goldenstar this week has been doing the Yule Festival and actually hit level 81 with just yule festival. Dum time this week we were missing Dumidum so we did a 5-man skirmish of Assault in the Tower. We then did a tier 2 Battle of the 21st with our friendly agent of Sauron, Blitz.

Merric did not play again. /mock.

We hope you all have a very happy holiday!!

Town Crier

Official News

• Letter from the Producer 2012
• Update 9 Release Notes
• New Update 9 Screenshots
• Dev Diary- Yule Festival
• Turbine Dev Chat Questions and Answers
• Community Update December 18, 2012

Store News

• LOTRO Market 50% Off Sale!
• Steam LOTRO Packs 50% Off
• Double Bonus Points Until January 1, 2013
• Weekly Store Sale Starting December 21, 2012
• December Deals- December 21-23, 2012
• Steed of the Warden Available
• Steed of Victory & Steed of Dol Baran

CSTM News

• Lost Texts- Under The Eaves, Part 1
• Vraeden’s Introductory Guide to Raiding, Part 3
• Yule Festival Guide 2012
• Crafting XP- Yay or Nay-
• A Casual (and Comfy) Stroll to Mordor Giveaway

Community

• Harperella has won the Top Guild Leader Contest!
• Anglo-Saxon and Viking Designs in LOTRO by Khazad Guard

Weekly Poll

• Poll- LOTRO’s Minas Tirith
• Poll- LOTRO Store Purchasing

Raise Your Glass

Letters

Gwathel of Landrovol

Hey maybe u guys can answer this i keep trying to log into my lotro i have a premium account and the log in screen says error doesnt reconize my user name is this because im a premium account holder

Gwathel of Landrovol

Shaun S.

HI Merric and Goldenstar. I’m playing through the Rohan content and am currently during quests in Cliving in the Norcroft area. I was wondering if you noticed a couple of the quests have a nursery rhyme theme – “An Uncharitable Feast” has you talk to a butcher and a baker and “Silver Tongues” has you talk to a candlestick maker. Quite amusing!

Ssenir of Landroval

Hey CSTM!

Hate to bother you again for the second time in just a few weeks, but I hadn’t seen this mentioned yet anywhere, so I thought I’d bring it to your attention. Now, I did miss the last two festivals due to technical difficulties, so maybe this is an old change and I just never got the memo, but if this is new, I think this is a pretty significant change. All festival quests are now on-level!

Please see my blog post here. Thanks for all you do!

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Recorded December 23, 2012

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