Update 3: Lost Legends of Eriador

[Cheddar]

Whoa, patch notes.  One thing stuck out to me:

■Critial Success during relic forging now has a small chance to provide additional relics in addition to bonus shards.
■Three new Community Designed relics have been added to the melding panel!

[Stormwaltz]

Known Issues are up.

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?387100-Known-Issues-Update-5-23-2011&p=5288236

Personal grievance: "With either DX10 or DX11 options enabled, players may notice a harsh shadow off in the distance that should not be there." This has been broken since Enedwaith shipped, and ruins nearly every screenshot vista in the most screenshot-friendly MMG ever released. I don't know who should be fixing this, but pretty please with sugar on it, could you schedule them some time for it?

EDIT: But more seriously, they still haven't fixed the disappearing raid boss. 

Dol Guldur Tower
If a player has DX10 enabled Morskor, the Fell beast, may disappear sometimes even though he is always present.

[Stormwaltz]

New Summer Festival deeds discovered by someone with consumables left over from last year.

Seems that completing them gives you a skill to use consumable ability once per hour, indefinitely.

[Yegolev]

Sounds great.

[Ivanneth]

The two new skirmishes are pretty difficult. Not impossible, and the challenge was a welcome surprise, but I wasn't expecting to die several times through the course of completing Attack at Dawn when I tried it the first time. One of the encounter bosses handed me my ass 3 times before I gave up on him - he kept healing himself and my level 45 captain just doesn't have enough interrupts to stop them all.

[Soln]

can you solo? or are they 2, 3, 5, 6 person scales?

[Ivanneth]

can you solo? or are they 2, 3, 5, 6 person scales?

Yes you can solo.

[Rishathra]

I had my ass handed to me several times on the Icy Crevasse before I gave up.  I like the overall design of the new skirmishes, but holy shit, my squishy hunter has trouble sometimes dealing with one elite, let alone two, especially in a skirmish with a zone effect that boosts everyone's damage up 50%.

[Ivanneth]

I got my ass handed to me in Icy Crevasse as well. The damage buff coupled with almost every trash mob being "Hale" made it so difficult that I have yet to complete that one.

[Ingmar]

I need to get around to trying these with my champion. What do you guys use for your skirmish buddy?

[Ivanneth]

I need to get around to trying these with my champion. What do you guys use for your skirmish buddy?

With my captain I use a warrior and the herald that increases morale. The warrior puts out a respectable amount of damage and I spec for healing. It works pretty well in most situations.

I haven't run these new skirmishes on my champion yet (he's level 29) I run with an herbalist on him usually and that works well. 

[proudft]

My loremaster has been using a warrior, and I settled in at level-1 skirmishes being doable but kinda hard.  I might switch to the tanky-guy if they don't get easier (I'm level 34, I think).  I haven't died in one YET but it has been mighty close in about every other combat (my health/morale/whateveritscalled is ludicrously low).   

[Ingmar]

I ran both the new ones last night and they were definitely on the hard side, particularly the frost canyon one - I died twice on that one, but was able to finish. The only part that was a real issue was the counterattack groups, most of the other stuff I could avoid fighting more than one or two at a time. The other one was easy until the final fight, which was a little rough, I had to pop cooldowns on it which isn't normal for solo skirmishes. I use an herbalist. I don't think I could succeed with any of the other ones.

[Rokal]

I use an herbalist for my Champion, and an archer for everyone else.