Casual Stroll to Mordor

Orion has changed Wardens enormously with the latest update. The three stances of Conservation, Determination, and Recklessness have morphed into Assailment, Determination and Recklessness and have become very distinct play styles. Today, I’ll focus on Recklessness.

The following items are on sale from April 13-19th. Below you will find the sale listings as well as our recommendation on purchasing.

April is a big celebration month for LOTRO! This month marks 5 years of playing online in Middle-earth! To celebrate, Turbine is having special sales each weekend in addition to the weekly sale.

The Warleader Roundtable was conducted by Ivaneus of Through the Palantir and is being redistributed with permission to the CSTM listening audience!

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The Defiler Roundtable was conducted by Ivaneus of Through the Palantir and is being redistributed with permission to the CSTM listening audience!

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Turbine is asking for player input on classes and possible changes that could be made to them with the Riders of Rohan expansion.

Similar to our past roundtable discussions, this is a lengthy episode but it is full of Captain information. We discuss soloing, grouping, skirmishes, skills, traiting, legendary items and much more!

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The following items are on sale from February 24 – March 1, 2012.

The following items are on sale from January 27 – February 2, 2012.

Thanks to Daniel on Facebook for alerting us to this unannounced sale on the creep classes. They are all currently 20% off but it is unknown for how long.

s your warden starts getting into the higher levels and you finally start to get a feel for how to build your gambits, it all gets shaken up once you earn your “Masteries”.

Today, Raskolnikov posted an update for the Captain class and where their upcoming changes in the Rise of Isengard currently stand. As always, everything is subject to change.

Orion is continuing his proposed changes for the Minstrel class and today has a nice summary post of what he suspects will be on the test servers for us to try out first.

A second blog post covering proposed minstrel changes has been posted by Orion late last night. This post focuses on trait sets, legacies and Anthems.

Orion has posted the proposed changes for the Minstrel class on his blog yesterday. These are proposed changes, as in there is nothing done to test servers or anything for us to try out.

The Rune-keeper Roundtable was recorded on March 24, 2011. This episode is with special guest Rune-keepers; Glomi of Brandywine, Decimmus of Gladden, Ketani of Brandywine, and Ariandial of Gladden

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A collaborative project that we want to do is to accept challenges from the CSTM readership. The kind of challenges we’re looking to take on should be difficult in-game feats but not so difficult as to be completely impossible.

This spreadsheet is analogous to the Champion Armor Spreadsheet I released previously.

I thought it would be fun to sort some of the characters from the books into LOTRO Classes.