Casual Stroll to Mordor

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Today’s Developer Diary by Joe “jwbarry” Barry and Sleepy centers on the instance changes coming in Update 10.

RockX released a new Developer Diary (of sorts) that is pretty short and to the point. In it he discusses the upcoming conversion of Seals to Medallions coming in Update 10.

I missed the announcement but as of around 9:30pm Eastern yesterday, the LOTRO store (and all other Turbine services) are restored.

This week we talk about Rohan Instance Cluster, temporary public instance closings, bullroarer updates, store news and more!

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Turbine announced today they are temporarily disabling the the following public instances…

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We have two Developer Diaries that have recently been released covering changes to the Instance Finder system coming in Update 6.

Update 3′s new Instances are explored… and found to be exciting adventures!

With all the changes we’ve seen since the Free to Play launch, we thought it was about time to update our Instance Join Reference Sheet. This listing shows all the available instances in LOTRO and the following information: the recommended level or scalability of the dungeon what typical abbreviation is used in-game when looking for [...]

Anyway, the point is, Turbine, if you want us to play your game, you have to let us… play the game. Make the instance rewards proportional to the time, make them fairly short (20-30 minutes for three mans), and make them all fun.

Joe “jwbarry” Barry is the author of the latest Dev Diary focusing on the new raid, Ost Dunhoth, in the Echoes of the Dead (update 2).

TsiengLiu released today a Dev Diary focusing on the instances that are being released in the upcoming Update 2, Echoes of the Dead. As you recall strange things have been occurring around the world of LOTRO and as TsiengLiu states, “…it falls to heroes such as yourself to keep the peace.”

Last night a few writers of CSTM were able to meet up together on Bullroarer to run one of the new instances. We chose The Lost Temple.