Casual Stroll to Mordor

Andang is spreading his wings from just writing here on CSTM (he’s still planning on continuing to contribute here) to making some weekly videos on his new YouTube Channel: PvMPAndang.

After finding out that there are no major changes coming to the champion with Riders of Rohan; I decided now was a good time to make a case for the tanking champion.

The Champions Dev Diary was released today. Jonathan “RockX” Steady once again graces us with his notes on what changes Turbine will be making to the class in Riders of Rohan.

Turbine has announced the window the new store exclusive Steed of the Champion will be available. This steed will be available for purchase from the LOTRO Store from April 19 – May 3, 2012.

Ardin was kind enough to send in a photo of the new Steed of the Champion to share with the CSTM audience.

The Champion’s Horn By katia stef Your screenshots could be featured on CSTM as well! Join the Share Your LOTRO Screenshots Flickr group and submit your screenshots. Each week we will pick out a screenshot to share with the community!

This week it took us not one, not two but THREE tries to actually record the “What We Did” segment so please forgive if our hearts are not in it by the time we actually got it recorded!

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Every player has some classes that they play well and others that they find challenging. For me, the Champion definitely falls in the latter category.

Allan “Orion” Maki released today the Developer Diary for Champions for the Rise of Isengard expansion (and boy is it a long one at that).

The Champion has always vexed me a little. When I started the class I was a bit confused as I had thought it to be a whirling deathstorm of blades; hacking its way through orcs, trolls, and any other nasty denizen of Middle-earth that got in my way.

This week we have special guest, Haakon on the podcast. We specifically asked Haakon to come on and discuss the proposed Champion changes Orion is blogging about since we felt we were doing a bad job of explaining it ourselves.

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I have gone through various aspects of building a Champion. I discussed the builds, stats, armor selection, skill sequences, but it occurred to me that I never really spent time discussing how playing a Champion is different from other classes. You can’t really play your Champion like any of the other classes or you will die. A lot.

In a further update to the proposed upcoming changes to Champions, Orion has laid out information about Traits and trait lines for the champions as well as their stances.

He was ordered to clear the camp out and plant a Malledhrim banner on the wall. The Elves plan was to lay in wait in the woods all around and ambush the troops sent here from the other garrisons as they received word of the “attack”.

This week we discuss role-play with the global services merger, proposed changes creep classes, champions and hunters, weekly store sales, coupon code deals and more!

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