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The Developer Diary for Lord of the Rings Online brings us word of changes to the crafting system coming in tomorrow’s release of the Siege of Mirkwood Expansion.
Multi-output Recipes
You will be able to craft some items that are slightly different based on the same recipe using the new “Multi-output” option in the crafting panel. An example of this is given as a Malledhrim Sword of Striking being crafted as the Malledhrim Sword of Warding. The DPS of the sword remains the same, but the damage type and stats change from +20 fate, +85 maximum power, +95 maximum morale, +128 melee critical rating to +20 agility, +49.2 in-combat power regen, +95 maximum regen, +128 parry rating. This will certainly lead to more opportunities to sell your wares to different classes.
Second Age Legendary Weapons and Class Items
Recipes will be available to create these items. You cannot find these items through treasure drops and they cannot be chosen as rewards. You can only get these through crafting. Each item will require an ancient symbol, which is only found in “dangerous, dark places.” The ancient symbols are tradeable.
Fourth “Crafted” Relic Slot
Legendary weapons and class items will now have a fourth relic slot. This slot can only hold relics made by players. There are two types of relics: normal and legendary. The normal relics provide a bonus to your agility, fate, might, vitality, will, morale, or power. Normal relics are tradeable. Legendary relics provide bonuses to melee, ranged, tactical, or healing abilities. Legendary relics are bound to the crafter who makes them so they cannot be traded. It will be interesting to see if alternates can pick them up through the new shared storage system also being introduced tomorrow. Most relics will have a minimum item level requirement.
Guild Reputation Items
Guild reputation items can be traded up for the next larger size. You can trade in seven small guild reputation items for one medium guild reputation item. And three medium guild reputation items can be traded in for one large guild reputation item.
Existing Recipes and Craft Experience Updated
Many of the recipes that require “components” have had the quantity of components required reduced. Auto-granted recipes no longer use any components crafted by other professions One-shot recipes are now the most difficult and use the most resources and components from other professions. Crafting experience has been increased and coincides with the difficulty of the recipe. Auto-granted recipes will award 6 points while one-shot recipes will award 12 points of experience.
Check it out in the developer diary.
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Lord of the Rings Online is bringing servers down today between 9AM and 2PM. It appears they are prepping the launcher for downloading the Siege of Mirkwood Expansion. In addition, all servers will be brought down tomorrow, Tuesday, December the 1st at 6:00 am EST. When they are brought back up you should be able to login and try out the new expansion content.
The Siege of Mirkwood Expansion brings players:
- Mirkwood adventuring area
- Character advancement to level 65
- Level 70 Legendary Items
- Nazgul Lord, Lieutenant of Dol Guldur, 12-person raid
If you purchase the Adventurer’s Pack you will also get:
- Shared storage for 20 items, accessible by all your characters on the same server.
- Two additional character slots
If you purchase both the Siege of Mirkwood Expansion and the Adventurer’s Pack, for $40, you also get three stacks of ten consumable maps allowing you to travel to Michel Delving, Thorin’s Hall or Bree-town.
World of Warcraft announced this week that they are giving away loot for subscribers as a way of celebrating their 5th anniversary. Its hard to believe that its been 5 years since millions flooded the servers and “Wow” became known as more than an exclamation. Over 100 MMOs have started operation since then, some of them have ceased operation, and none have come close to matching the popularity of World of Warcraft. And while its not my favorite MMO, I do find myself resubscribing every expansion to at least level my toons and check out the new scenery before moving on to other games.
Starting this Wednesday and every Wednesday through the 2nd of December, if you were a subscriber on the 26th of October, and remain a subscriber through the sweepstakes period, you will automatically be entered in a weekly drawing for some awesome prizes.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009:
five winners will receive
- One “Charge of the Great Dragon Flights” stein.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009:
five winners will receive
- One set of PPK Gaming Glasses from Gunnar Optiks
Wednesday, November 18, 2009:
seven winners will receive
- One ASUS ENGTS250 DK/DI/1GD3 video card
Wednesday, November 25, 2009:
five winners will receive
- One SteelSeries QcK Limited Edition Mousepad
- One SteelSeries World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse
- One SteelSeries Siberia V2 Full-Size Headset
Wednesday, December 2, 2009:
three winners will receive
- One ASUS ENGTS250 DK/DI/1GD3 video card
- One year of World of Warcraft game time
- One Autographed Onyxia Print
two winners will receive:
- One ASUS Republic of Gamers 3D Vision enhanced laptop
- One game card for one year of World of Warcraft game time
- One Autographed Onyxia Print
Check out the full details here.
Looking for information on the number and types of achievements available in the new Everquest 2 Achievements System? Well, look no further.
Xalmat has compiled a super comprehensive guide and FAQ on all of the achievements and rewards that can be earned. How many of the more than 754 achievements have you completed?
Check it out and be sure to bookmark the page.
It looks like the change to a Free-to-play model with micro-transactions has worked well for Dungeons & Dragons Online.
Today Turbine announced that they are opening a new server, Orien, tomorrow to handle the growth. Character transfers will not be available at this time. But this is a great chance to create some new toons on a brand new server.
Check out the posting on the Dungeons & Dragons Online website.
