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Welcome to our third open preview of Update 21.3. These notes are for Bullroarer, released on Friday November 10th. Both the notes and the update are a work in progress, so you should expect things will change over time. We look forward to hearing your feedback and receiving your bug reports. The server is expected to remain available through noon (server time) Tuesday 11/14.
Please feel free to copy your current live character to Bullroarer using the LIVE transfer wizard. Any characters created or copied over the last two weekends remain intact. Please remember that deleting a character will not allow you to re-copy from live worlds.
Focus for this Beta:
Please join us this weekend and provide feedback on The Abyss of Mordath Raid. The first boss fight is now complete and difficulty / balance feedback on tier 1 and tier 2 would be greatly appreciated. The second boss is present but does yet have all of the final fight mechanics implemented. Reward chests are hooked up for both bosses and we would love your feedback on the new chest time locks and Fellowship Tradeable tech.
Known Issues:
- After defeating the second boss in The Abyss of Mordath, the door will not open to allow you to proceed beyond that point in the raid.
- For testing purposes only The Abyss of Mordath chests have been set to a daily, rather than weekly, lock.
- On test worlds only, copies of the first and second boss chests have been placed near the start of the raid. This will allow you to experiment with the new raid lock mechanics... you may choose to loot these early chest copies, at which point you should be unable to loot the same chests again (either there or after boss defeat) until after the lock resets. Chest locks should be visible with the player "/raid locks" command.
- Daily repeatable quests allow immediate repetition of the quest.
New in this build:
- Instance chests can now drop items that are "Fellowship Tradeable". These items can be freely traded amongst fellowship / raid members that were present in the instance space when the chest was created, until the Fellowship Tradeable timer expires. These items will list a "Item binds in:" timer in their tooltip. These items cannot be mailed or auctioned. These items cannot be stacked until the Fellowship Tradeable timer expires. Currently only The Abyss of Mordath chests use this new tech.
- Preview only - In order to test the functionality of the system, this Bullroarer build includes a higher currency cap (10,000) on Ash of Gorgoroth in addition to having Ash automatically go into the Barter Wallet. This functionality is still being assessed.
- Gorgoroth Steel-bound lootboxes now carry new housing items, including statues of Sauron, watcher statues, and a way to play "The floor is lava".
- The respawn timers on the Haunted Burrow Poorly Hidden Chest, Out-of-Place Strongbox, Out-of-Place Lockbox, and Out-of-Place Chest have been halved.
- Dungeons of Naerband - A new chest has been added for players who make it out of the Dungeons of Flame section of the Instance. The loot in this chest is currently placeholder.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Thraknûl's Chains of Malice attack includes an induction and different effect icon.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Damage done by the anti-healing debuffs has been reduced.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Fewer trash mobs will spawn between the first and second boss fights. Additionally, area-of-effect damage from Thraknûl and the Flame-spirits has been further reduced.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Thraknûl is more resistant to unintentionally resetting when being kited.
- Kite cosmetic pets will now settle at a lower height when you are indoors.
- Level 106 - 115 landscape mobs will no longer have a chance to drop incomparable equipment that can be disenchanted into Ash of Gorgoroth.
- A variety of landscape bugs were fixed including rock texture missing in Lhingris, a stuck spot in the Ruins of Barad-dur, a floating pillar in Udun, an area in Dum Boha that was tagged as part of Mordor rather than as part of the Wastes, a bridge in Dum Boha that you could fall through, floating resource nodes in various areas, and an unintentional underwater slag pile hidey hole.
- Sighterseer's Trousers will no longer change color based on the dye applied to your chest piece.
- The High Sorcerer of Harad in the High-elf starting area has been given an appropriate weapon.
- You can no longer disenchant items if you do not have room for the resulting Ash of Gorgoroth.
- Cooks have a few new Doomfold recipes automatically granted to them.
- Some gloves and helmets available at the skirmish camps, as well as cosmetic rune-keeper satchels are no longer invisible on High-elf characters.
- Mounts - Steed of Agarnaith now offers 68% move speed and 250 Morale, an improvement from its previous stats.
- Preview only - Mount collection deeds will no longer show both the horse and pony verions of the steed skills.
- Preview only - Stained glass housing decorations are now visible from both sides.
- Eyes & Guard tavern - Dust requested a make-over. She no longer looks like a swirling dust cloud.
Notes:
- To enter the new Raid, you will need to Discover the Abyss of Mordath. Find the door in the Chamber of the Watchers in the lower levels of Barad-dur (Western edge of the Barad-dur map on the lower corridor branching).
- Abyss of Mordath - For testing purposes, the quests that allow you to bypass a boss that you have already defeated have been set to daily rather than weekly reset. Note that this is a new mechanic to allow for a new, less prohibitive, style of raid locks. The raid group will be able to skip past the the bosses defeated by the first member of the party to cross the line at the beginning of the instance.
- Preview - PvMP: Many Monster Player stats and attributes have been adjusted as a start to achieving better balance in the Ettenmoors and Osgiliath. THIS WORK IS NOT DONE and we welcome continued feedback!
- The npc "Dust" in the Eyes & Guard tavern stairwell offers a quest that rewards Ash of Gorgoroth.
- Eyes & Guard tavern: Vastin's Mordor Relics T1 box now has Rare and Incomparable Vanguard Runes of Force, Healing, and Power.
- Preview - Eyes & Guard: 'Cursed' gear in the "Mordor I <armour type> Abyssal" & "Mordor I <armour type> Wyrm" boxes available from Vastin has been replaced with non-cursed pieces.
- Preview - New quests in the Eyes & Guard tavern:
- Ransroth in the tavern now has 'Mordor - Conquest of Gorgoroth' reputation quests.
- Karst in the tavern now completes the Throne of the Dread Terror deeds and grants Throne of the Dread Terror tokens.
- Rock in the tavern basement now has quests for Silver Signets of the Thandrim and North Ithilien barter items.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Voice over and dialogue text was added to major Boss attacks. Dialogue text has been added to Orc and Uruk mobs for some of their attacks.
- Dungeons of Naerband - The door to Thraknûl's area should reset more reliably when the fight resets.
- North Ithilien Essences are now bound to account by default.
- Missing farming ingredients were added to some Crafting Suppliers.
- Steed of the Moon Moth naming inconsistencies are cleaned up.
- The mount collections that previously granted titles have been replaced with deeds. To advance one of the mount collection deeds, you must use that mount skill (from the mount collections panel or from skill panel, mounts tab.) New mount collection deeds/titles have also been added for the 2015 & 2016 Festival steeds, Goat mounts, and Gondor mounts!
- The 2017 Festival Steed deed has been added.
- Lore-master Class Items "Book of Beasts", class items at level 20, level 30, and level 40, now give minor bonuses to pet stats.
- Skills - Lore-master - Inner Flame - Duration halved from 10s to 5s. Fire Damage buff increases at an accelerated pace to compensate. Healing increased.
- Tier 10 Captain Armaments may now be bartered for exchange receipts.
- Crafting - Universal Ingredient Packs may now be used on select Westemnet Guild Recipes.
- Crafting - Certain Jeweller recipes which did not allow you to inscribe critical outputs now allow it.
- Crafting - Westemnet and Doomfold Captain Armaments now provide significantly more armour to heralds.
- Crafting - The Anorien Expertise Token may now be consumed in a recipe also available from skirmish barterers.
- The stable travel route to the First Hall should now drop you off in the correct spot in front of the stable master.
- The first door in The Court of Seregost can now be opened in combat (but remains locked during the boss fight) to prevent players from getting stuck inside.
- The quest "Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: Agarnaith" now rewards the correct reputation.
- Human female mood animations have been updated.
- Players who have logged out in the Vales of Anduin may be sent to Archet upon logging in. This is because the absolute location of the Beorning starting area has been moved. Other than this possible teleport, you should notice no difference in the Vales of Anduin.
- Equipment - Level 105 Featured Instance Armour sets will once again be item level 222.
- Crafting - Fragments of Gorgoroth Dungeons will have the proper plural name when stacked.
- Instance: A Trap for the Creature should no longer break when using the flat stone too soon.
- The Court of Seregost: Black Númenórean-slayer deed now indicates how many need to be defeated.
- The Weeping Reeds in Agarnaith for the quest Flora Investigation are now visible above ground.
- Coldan and Hithgol in Dor Amarth have been cosmetically adjusted to better suit their role and surroundings.
- Camp site fires in Taur Druadan, Lossarnach, and the Wastes now allow Burglars to Contact Pedlar.
- The Lossarnach quest "The Smoke Lures" no longer requires Orcs to be defeated.
- Recent mounts such as Steed of Elessar's Host, Sunflower Steed, Rescued Steed of Agarnaith, Goat of the Harvest Sky, and Steed of Eldar Autumn have been added to the Mounts Collection display.
- The Lossoth Steed and Steed of the Dusk-watch now have correct source information in the Mounts Collection panel.
- The Skeleton Steed Rider Bundle can now be used (opened) even if you already have the Riding trait.
- Minor performance improvements were made to the loading of the mounts collection page. Please let us know if you notice anything failing to load properly.
- The Quartermaster "Conquest of Gorgoroth Rewards" now carries a slate of new housing items including statues, stained glass, and decorative flower garlands.
- The character panel no longer hides equipped items that are in the loot filter.
- The cat wander sequence plays smoothly now.
- When a quest is filtered but underway, characters can still interact, advance, and turn in the quest.
- Players should no longer see a Free Hobbit Present button immediately following the redemption of a free present.
- To fix an issue that could prevent their use, the Poorly Hidden Chest, Out-of-Place Strongbox, Out-of-Place Lockbox, and Out-of-Place Chest in the haunted burrow will now disappear and respawn after each opening.
- Gorgoroth Scourge Spoils boxes no longer include Gondor Silver Pieces or Anórien Sealed Wax.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Thraknul's and Flame-spirits' area-of-effect attacks have had their damage lowered.
- Dungeons of Naerband - Some monster skills were adjusted to affect Lore-master pets and Captain heralds.
- All bosses in the Tier 2 Dungeons of Naerband and Tier 2 Court of Seregost instances have an increased chance of dropping incomparable gear.
- Rare spawns have been added in Agarnaith and Dor Amarth. This allows Hidden Threats of Gorgoroth to be able to be completed.
- Captain Skills - Dropping power cost from motivating speech and improved motivating speech.
- Items - Took in the Hole Hobnanigans recipe now properly provides +5% incoming healing.
- Lore-master pets and Captain soldiers were collecting mobs from a greater area of landscape than desired. Their aggro radius has been halved.
- Collections panel model views are now slightly bigger.
- Kinship leaders are no longer required to abandon a premium kinship house to receive housing writs prior to disbanding a kinship.
- Various small bug fixes for Ilex branches spawned in tree, the exit to Boffin Manor, two patrons in a Bree auction house are sitting on nothing, an invisible water volume, Ralthat's awkwardly positioned shield, floating planks of wood, a floating bush, an oddly misshapen rock formation, and an npc floating over bench.
- The quest bestowal UI in German should now correctly fit the indicators for solo, small fellowship, fellowship, and raid quests.
- Portions of Agarnaith should no longer be overrun with limitless cave claws.
- 'Daily Request: An Errand for Frodo' has been restructured. Now the random spawns of Imprisoned Nurnhoth in Naerband have been replaced with static spawns, and should be a less frustrating experience.
- Additional quest guide info has been added to Mordor quests: The Caretaker, Treasures Forgotten.
- During the quest 'Stolen Supplies' Viznak and the Ranger will no longer occasionally disappear before you can interact with them.
- Inn League members should once again be able to obtain the Inn League Notable and Senior Inn League Member deeds/titles.
- Minor texture adjustments have been made to the Autumn Leafmail Dress to address the dark skirt underlayer.
- The background image for the credits has been updated and the credits music updated to 'Ever On'.
- All Gorgoroth leg armour pieces now have the correct light or medium armour values for their weight.
- Corrected the icon for Mordor's Bane and Expedition's Vanguard leg armour.
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