Summary: Layanor and Cari talk about PvMP, shrews, and cosmetic pets. We also talk about the new slotted gear coming out and possible PVMP areas mentioned by the devs. Audio Version: What We Did in Game Layanor 33.42% moors Whent on Landroval and leveled. Draculetta helped me out. Cari I got a shrew pet in the festival, and a beer mug from fence walking. News Eldar won Taking the Hobbits to Isengard They get a festival of their choice turned on for a week. Eldar 46m 06s 0 Deaths LOTRO Community Update http://youtu.be/w9TXQbhCXi0 Dev Roundtable Incoming Extra Life $100K Sapience Gets a Tattoo Update 14 coming to Bullroarer in the next couple of weeks. Taking the Hobbits To Isengard https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?539143-Hobbits-to-Isengard-Q-A-with-Sapience-notes-on-what-was-said Will you be expanding on the /cpet commands for cosmetic pets Yes, they will be. The /cpet command was put in solely as a temporary measure so that players would have the ability to rename their pets while a proper UI is being worked on. There are a lot of plans for cosmetic pets. It’s pretty cool and very interesting and he thinks we will like it a lot. Question about Osgiliath being considered for a PvMP zone He cautions that they consider a LOT of things. Do not ever mistake that for “We promise it’s coming.” They are being honest when they say they’ve discussed it, but what comes of it remains to be seen. It’s possible nothing will come of it. Discussion about Dwarves in Moria runs, how will he get to level 50 The Gift of the Valar. Starting tomorrow, the Gift will return to the LotRO store, and will be 25% off for about a week. Moria will also be on sale for 20% off. The Moria runs will start the following week. It will be from the entrance of Moria to the gates of Caras Galadhon. Reminder that he promised he’d have Hobnanigans news for this run Yes, Hobnanigans will be coming back on the weekend of June 6th. The bugfixes won’t be coming until U14, but we can still play the game and have some fun with it. Rowan – He introduces himself, says that he’s working on disrupting the things HoarseDev is working on, and adding new things (laughs). Says right now it’s all about U14 and getting the new spaces put together. Working on some limited but cool group content – small fellowship content that can go onto the landscape, and new attention and thought around U14 toward the end of the year. Questions in the chat about slotted gear HoarseDev – It’s been done before in other games, and for LotRO it’s a pretty big step in terms of letting players customize their own armour. It’s not going to be nearly as crazy or involved or grindy as legendary items, but it will allow us to choose, on certain pieces of armour, exactly which stats we want. So for example if we wanted more crit rating but we didn’t really care about vitality (he thinks that’s probably a bad example), we could just choose to slot what they’re calling essences – which are just the pure stats into the gear as we want to. There will be some tie-in to crafting, though not completely – there will be certain things that we can craft with the system, across all the professions, but they’ll also be dropping all sorts of nuggets of this system into skirmishes, into end game content, into big battles, even into festivals – little one-off things. We might be able to find something in the Treasure hunt, even just landscape kills. Question about how many updates we are getting this year Rowan – In terms of major new regions, they have U14 and U15. Both of those are in Gondor. And they’re also going to do an interlude between the two that is going to take us into the Dead Marshes. Question about whether people will be able to make multiple Beornings Rowan – Believes you can make as many Beornings as you have character slots for. HoarseDev – Says that’s right,
