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With Update 11, Lalia’s Market came to Bree. I really do like this idea. In the past, some people complained about the seamstresses putting mannequins out in the congregational hubs out in the world. I did notice some mannequins wearing the latest in fashion in Galtrev but otherwise, I am not looking for them so they never fazed me. In Galtrev, it felt like a shopping area under the gazebo

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It has been a fun week with the release of Update 11 and Wildemore! As usual, there are more changes than those given by the Release Notes (update-11-summarized-notes) and I will point them out as I gather them. I had the pleasure of being a Silent Podcaster on both CasualStrolltoMordor and LotroReporter last week! Ok, ok… I am no podcaster, but this week both podcasts picked up and

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Summarizing Update 11 to what I cared to read… For the full 11-page Notes, visit CSTM: update-11-release-notes/. (1) New Region: Wildermore, north of East Rohan – quests, epic story, warbands, and rewards. (2) Mounted Combat: Yellow trait tree integrated into the base Warsteed. In its place, each class will get their own specific yellow tree.  /will need to revisit (

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“In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!” Rarely in my blog or in my game will you see me complain. I love that GMs and Turbine employees come to read my articles and I have only nice things to say about life in Middle Earth. I

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Yay! It is May, and on cue, we have another steed available in the store! May steed is called the Obsidian Steed. I know, I know… with a name like “obsidian” you might be thinking black. Au contrarie mon ami! While this steed is on the darkish side, there are multiple things that will catch your eye before “black” enters the picture. With the horse, you will get the matching Warsteed

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Well, well… I hadn’t spent much time at the 6th Anniversary Party because there was nothing new to get other than the Reveller’s Warsteed appearance (revellers-gilded-warsteed). However, yesterday, the Anniversary Party was extended until May 6 and new items were made available for bartering. The top billing on my radar was the Teal Fireworks Laden Horse! There are also some new goodies

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Looking at some of the Update 10 changes... yeah, there were a lot of changes for Update 10 so I’m taking it apart one piece at a time. Scroll back over the articles from the past few weeks to see 1st Age LI bartering, Rohan Rings, New loot and Gear and instances, Mithril Coins and Hytbold, RK armor set comparisons, Virtues, and summarized U10 release notes. Today, I will turn my focus

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Party Time! The 6th Anniversary Party is fun! I must say that there is a certain relief that the festival is nearly identical to last year’s festival. Any deeds or quests or goodies that you didn’t get to do last year are still available. There is one exception: there is a new Reveller’s Wasteed appearance to be found in the envelopes quest in Bree. Most importantly, there is nothing broken

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Hmm… Here are a few things going through my head to write about… RK traits, RK skills, all the LI relics, RK LI building tactics, the lildanas, my Ost Dunhoth and Dar Narbugud adventures, random horses, New Moria, New Bree and the Bree surprise… But… the Anniversary party starts today and I decided to take the day off. Good news concerning Anniversary gifts… the Festive Azure horse

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1st Age Legendary Items for level 85: Update 10 brought symbols for crafting 1st Age LIs for level 85. The symbols drop in Erebor Raids at level 85. When U10 released (03/06), the symbols would drop in T1 Erebor Raids. Turbine, deciding that was no good, pulled the plug on 1st agers in T1 for update U10.02 (03/20) and now they only drop in T2 Raids. While I gave it a shot, I was 0 for 44 T1

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Battle for Erebor - Laugshat In continuing from the last few articles on Update 10 new information… Update 10 new items! Update 10 brought in 1 new 6-person instance called “Bells of Dale” and 3 new Raids: Battle for Erebor, Flight to the lonely Mountain, and Fires of Smaug. While these are fun, what I liked most about Update 10 was that great loot is spread across nearly every instance

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Steed of Dagorlad! While I do not know if “steed of the month” is the new mode for lotro, it has certainly worked out that way so far this year (steed-of-nightwood, steed-of-khundolar, steed-of-warden). For April, we have the Steed of Dagorlad in the lotro store!  Many thanks to Goldenstar (CSTM: steed-of-dagorlad-available-through-april) for advising that one needs to look for the steed

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With these elven eyes, when I meet dwarves, I am sad to say that I usually cannot recall their names. I often just call them That Dwarf and That Other Dwarf. I can recall Gimli because… well, he is Gimli. Also, there is Thorin; he has a large Hall named after him. Past those, it gets sketchy. So, I enlisted the talent of McFarlane, Master of Lore (Lotrolorenuggets) to provide a guide to

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In continuing with U10 changes… Recently, I was looking for better RK ring options and found the lovely new gold upgrade rings from the barter guy in Snowbourn. Look for the guy over in the west part of town whose name is “Eastemnet Shields, Weapons, Jewelry Quartermaster”; I guess we can call him “EsWe JeQ” for short. Rohan Rings Battered: To build a barter ring, start with a “

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In continuing to look at changes for Update 10, I will dissect what the new RK armor sets are and how existing armor sets changed. For this article, I will consider the Runemakers’ set, the three level 85 Moors armor sets, the three Hytbold sets, the three Erebor sets, and the three Greater Erebor sets. Some general observations: (1) The armor sets have been standardized to not offer

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With Update 10 release, some of the stats (power) changed wildly, some of the calculations (tactical mitigation) changed also, and it appears that some of the character baselines might be different than they were before. To fully diagnose changes that are not included in the Release notes and are not gear related, I will take the character to no gear or traits and rebuild it. Assuming I don

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   I took the Update 10 Release Notes, ripped out all the parts that didn’t seem interesting, and reorganized it into a more coherent set of information. I interspersed a few comments of my own as I went (in blue). I will dig deeper into some of the stat number changes in a follow-up article. BTW... sorry that the text looks wonky, Blogger is refusing to accept the fonts the way I am

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Here it is. Throw the confetti. Danania.net came online just over one year ago! Woohoo! Some data review (because that is what I do…): As of February 28, 2013, According to Blogger, the site had received, 101 posts, 92,000 visitors, 580 comments, 34 "followers". Because of you early readers, I was blessed to have a great following before I even made the jump from

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Steed of Nightwood is here! New month, new steed! I don’t know if this is Turbine’s new action plan to deliver a new store steed every month, but the Steed of Khundolar was released in February and ran the entire month, and now the Steed of Nightwood is released the first of March and will run the entire month. Does 2 months constitute a trend? We shall see. I first saw this steed on

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I once said that I really needed a Who’s Who guide to Thanes and Reeves of Rohan. I got my chance when the Witan was called to convene on the matter of what to do about the enemies that threatened our land. What is a Witan? Good question… I had the same question of Edgal when he was telling me about the meeting. “The Witan is an ancient rite, a meeting among the leadership of the plains.”

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I held off writing about Hytbold for a while because I didn’t want to give away too much. The end of the Hytbold quest line is one of my favorites in lotro. Over this article I will touch on some of it but promise not to give too much away. :) Gather round kiddos and I will show you some pictures of how I became a Thane. My thane-ness happened a few months ago on December 23rd. I didn’t

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Yay for the continued celebration of Middle Earth Horses! Picking up where I left off in (rohan-land-of-horses), here are a few more horses hanging out in Cliving. Ok, sometimes I get more excited than some visiting with the Stable-Master’s horses. Here is one I met north of Eaworth, at the lone location between Eaworth and Fangorn Forest. He is wearing the Steed of the Champion

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For certain, one of my favorite things about Rohan was the horses!  Sure, I liked the Warsteed. I liked playing with the warsteed, optimizing the warsteed and writing the Warsteed traiting guide (rohan-warsteed-traiting-part-5), and surprisingly for me, I really enjoyed playing with the cosmetic options of the Warsteed (rohan-warsteed-cosmetic-looks).   However, Rohan was not all about

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Does calling the title an “interlude” seem more interesting than calling it “random pictures I really liked that are discontinuous from rohan-scenes-from-rohan-part-3 such that I didn’t really see it as a part 4”? The interlude term would also indicate that I haven’t finished the series. Well, I haven’t even mentioned Hytbold yet, and have lots of random horse pictures, so it kind of works!

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Hello again! These scenes pick up from rohan-scenes-from-rohan-part-2. Why did I start this set off with a picture of a Rohirrim helmet? Was it because I had just pounded that wearer straight into the ground? hahaha! No no... I just thought it was cool looking. It is just sitting out in the grass. I think someone must have dropped it? Yeah... that is very random, lol. I could have

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