The LOTRO game servers will be brought down on Tuesday April 21 from 6:00AM – 12:00PM Eastern (-4 GMT) for an update to the game. What about the Lothlorien reputation crafted item recipe crit trophies? Are they being added during the patch also? Or will they come in the next patch?
They are not in patch 2.
Lothlorien gift boxes never worked as intended, even on Bullroarer, if so is it possible to know what is their proper function?
They’re serving their ‘function’ but their loot table is wrong. On bullroarer they were too generous and on live they’re a bit stingy. I think the goal is something in between.
We won’t be able to run the “crafting” instances repeatedly anymore?
Volume II Book 7 Patch 2 is currently scheduled for next week. We’ll announce the exact date and downtime as soon as the schedule is firm.
The following release notes cover what is included in Volume II Book 7 Patch 2
Gameplay
The Quest Guide system is now out of Beta! The system will automatically be turned on for all players by default. If you would not like to use the system, you can toggle the system off in the options panel under the UI settings page.
Quests and Epic Story
If you had Volume II, Book 2, Chapter 4, ‘Enemies in the Ever Dark’ underway in your quest journal, it has been removed to correct an issue with the quest automatically completing before you return to the bestower.
Raids and Instances
The Strange Happenings raid is once again available. Turtle is back on the menu!
We have made a number of changes to the resource instances. This required they be versioned. If you currently have these underway they will be removed from your quest journal during the update.
“Kill Boss” quests must be underway in order to enter their associated instances.
“Kill Boss” quests can no longer be cancelled.
“Kill Boss” quests now have a 1 hour failure timer attached. If the quest fails, there is a 2 hour retry cooldown before you can accept the quest again.
All “Kill 20” and “Collect” quests now require the appropriate “Kill Boss” quest to be active in your quest journal before they are made available.
“Kill Boss” quests are exclusive and players will only be able to have one of the six active at any given time.
General
Several changes have been made to address server performance and stability.
The new 12-man raid, Instance Filikul, as Turbine has announced, will take teamwork and strategy with eleven of your friends to defeat the corrupt creature within known as Nornuan. This giant Turtle has 688k morale and no adds at all.
The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Tuesday, March 24 from 6:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) for an update to the game. The following release notes cover what is included in Volume 2 Book 7 Patch 1
General
Characters who logged into Book 7 with 0 or 1 maximum morale and no skills have been fixed.
A server stability Issue has been addressed.
New Player Experience
The ending instances for the new player experience in Archet and Ered Luin are now solo-only. This is in line with the intent for these instances and more importantly addresses an issue where players in a fellowship could sometimes be left in a bad state after the instance was completed.
Quests
We’ve addressed an issue where the quests in Volume2, Book 7, Chapter 3 and Chapter 8 instances would not advance for some players.
