http://beta.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=73392#post73392Of Special Note
Players may now enter Ered Luin (Welcome to Ered Luin!)
New starter experiences have been added for Elves and Dwarves!
Red squirrels now look like red squirrels.
Gameplay
You now have a mood which is affected by where you are in the world and what's around you. Your mood will, in turn, affect your maximum morale, the damage you cause, the amount you are healed, and your chance to miss in combat.
The Monster XP awards to players in groups have been increased. Killing Signatures and Elites yields more XP than a normal monster, making them good targets for groups.
Auto-attack timing has been updated to improve responsiveness and interleaving with other skills.
Skills
Get your wallet or purse out when you visit the trainer. There is now a cost to training new skills.
Skills that aren't supposed to aggro monsters will no longer do so when you miss or they resist the effects.
The out-of-range indicator on skill quickslots will now show up for self-anchored area-of-effect attacks, e.g. the Champion's "Blade Wall" skill.
Increased the radius of monster tracking skills. You will be able to track monsters that are beyond what you can see on the client now.
Includes various balance tweaks to the Hunter, Champion and Guardian.
Buffs have been adjusted in many classes.
The Champion's Sudden Defence skill has had its description updated to reflect that it no longer prevents Fervour generation.
The Champion's skill descriptions now properly reflect the addition of an extra off-hand attack hook when you dual-wield where applicable.
Skills that you cast on your pet should auto-target the pet now.
Lore-master: Gust of Wind area of effect has been reduced to allow for a more tactical use.
Lore-master now has access to Wisdom of the Council at level 20.
Lore-master now has access to Light of the Rising Dawn at 18.
Lore-master: Burning Embers now has a slow effect on it, and it has a much bigger upfront pulse. The power cost has been adjusted accordingly.
Shoot skill for Guardian has been moved to level 30.
Crossbows can be used by Guardians at level 30.
Loremaster's Burning Embers skill is now an induction instead of a channeled skill.
Captains Mark Skills have a longer Cooldown.
Loremaster "Metal-Lore" has been removed and now is replaced by "Fire-Lore."
All the Lore skills are on a longer cooldown, however, they are now on a much faster cooldown.
Skill reset timers for the Marks have been adjusted.
Minstrels now have faster induction times.
The duration that a monster is stunned by the Burglar's 'Startling Twist' is increased to 8 seconds.
The Hunter's "Find the Path" run speed buff will now increase movement by 15% regardless of level.
The Captain's "Command: Make Haste" run speed buff will now increase movement by 25% regardless of level.
Traits/Accomplishments
Fixed an exploration bug that caused some exploration quests to incorrectly track landmark discoveries.
The 'Now For Wrath' accomplishment will bestow and advance correctly when 'Rallying Cry' is used.
The Captain's Banner of 'X' accomplishments will now bestow and advance correctly when your heralds are summoned.
The Hardy Bear accomplishment is now only advanced by summoning your bear. The required number of uses have been reduced accordingly.
Implemented 3 new exploration accomplishments for the Misty Mountains
User Interface
Tutorial hints added for Custom UI, Autorun and Fellowship forming.
There is a new mood display on the radar. Its icon changes to reflect your current mood. Mousing over the display will present a tooltip with details.
A dialog will now appear when you attempt to sell more than 16 items at a time to make sure you really want to sell.
Ignore now works with game specific communication (say, shout, emote, etc)
Added a double-click action to the guild, who, lfg, lfp, and friend panels.
Added context-sensitive menus to guild, who, lfg, lfp, and friend panels.
Added tooltips for guild, who, lfg, lfp, and friend panels.
The social panels now show your correct location when activating the LFG/LFM panels.
There is now an icon to indicate when voice chat is enabled, and for when you are transmitting voice data.
The ignore list is now case insensitive.
New improved social panel with resizing. All lists have similiar information.
The Ready To Complete checkbox should be the same in the quest tracker and in the quest journal.
Extraneous quest rings are gone from the minimap.
The normal player floating name color and fellowship floating name color are darker.
If you select an NPC or monster, then an inanimate object (i.e. Rowan Wood), then toggle the UI off and ON, the NPC portrait won't show up next to the description of the Rowan Wood.
Using the fellowship selection keys (f1-f6) selects your fellow.
Doubletapping the fellowship keys (e.g. f2,f2) will select that fellow's pet if one exists.
Please let us know if you see more instances of floating names for equipped items... they shouldn't appear anymore.
Added the dressing room UI. Activate it by ctrl-left clicking on any item, and it will equip it to your character in the dressing room. It will keep updating the appearance until you push the "reset" button.
Added a new option to allow you to disable the ability for skills to automatically enable auto-attack when executed.
Chat
Tons of changes have been made to the chat system, so many that we had to make a whole new post! Click here to read it.
Archet once again has its own set of chat channels. Players in the Archet area will have access to Archet specific LFG, OOC, General and Auction channels.
When talking to the channels and hearing from the channels, the game now displays the short name for those channels (OOC instead of Breeland - OOC for example).
Fixed the "Cannot Connect to the Chat Server" error on startup.
Inactive chat tabs will now change appearance if they have new text.
Crafting
Fixed an issue causing crafting resources on the landscape to vanish.
Overhill should now have a selectable woodworking bench and Woodworking crafting NPC.
Thanks to the magical difference between "True" and "False", advanced farming recipes were unavailable. Fixed!
Tailoring: All light armor recipes have been updated to include the use of various types of cloth.
Tailoring: New crafting ingredients added: Bolts of cloth!
Tailoring: Removed Metalworking ingredients from all Light and Medium Armor recipes.
Tailoring: The various bolts of cloth used in tailoring should now be using the correct icons.
Optional Ingredients: The first pass for Optional Ingredients is now complete. Players will be able to add an optional ingredient to virtually all normal Jeweller, Metalworking, Scholar, Tailor, Weaponsmithing, and Woodworking recipes. The optional ingredient will significantly increase the chances for producing a critical result.
Critical Crafting products: Many critical crafting products were either the same as their non-critical counterparts, or had the wrong stat and quality settings. Except for the critical crafting products produced by the Scholar profession, players should find the critical items they are producing are noticeable superior to their non-critical counterparts.
Items
You can no longer merge stackable items into containers that shouldn't accept items, e.g. mines.
Elven, dwarven, and Westernesse armor now have unique icons for all armor.
Scatha's Axe has had its description and damage type tweaked for lore purposes.
The cloak from "Heading West" now works properly.
Coin drops from monsters have been lowered across mid to high levels. The amount dropped by mid and high level monsters were too large and had to be scaled down.
Reduced odds of finding uncommon/rare items from most elites. However, an uncommon or rare item will now always drop from rare spawns. Elites used in quests and instances and raids still have the same drop rate for uncommon/rare items.
Another round of price adjustments were done to resolve a series of bugs, the most notable were those that caused items of different levels to be valued the same. This adjustment in prices will be seen for almost every item that can be bought or sold. Some prices have been lowered while others raised.
The Battle Lore and Battle Ward scrolls now apply effects to those in your fellowship as long as the members are within 20 meters of the caster. These scrolls also have a 30 minute cooldown timer. The magnitude of the effects have been reduced to give no more than a 5% increase to magic, melee, and ranged defense/offense.
Some rare items were still set to bind-on-acquire and now they are set to bind-on-equip.
Books of Lore (Loremaster items), Pennants (Captain items), and Instruments (Minstrel items) have increased durability. Price and repair cost have increased on these items.
Fixed description errors and/or typos on Hammer of Baldor, Gauntlets of Westmarch, Brigand dagger sheaths, several Crawler trophy items, Club of the Adventurer, and the Mace of Moria.
Dagger of the Serpent and Club of the Adventurer now do shadow damage.
Rivermaiden Cloak, Cloak of Megoriath, and Cloudmantle now appear correctly on male Elf avatars.
More adjustments to item wear to make common items cheaper to repair so that the cost of repair should never be more than buying a brand new item.
All items should wear less often during combat.
Curing salves now sold at the provisioner. These can heal conditions on you, pets, and other players.
Spears are now being sold at one-handed weapon shops. These were mistakenly being sold at two-handed weapon shops.
Halberds now available at level 15 and can be found in some two-handed weapon shops.
Fixed a bug that caused rare trophy items to not be valued as such. All trophy items were being priced as common items before this change. Now those trophy items which are considered more rare than others will be worth more money.
Cloth is now available at the provisioner.
Guardian can now use crossbows at level 30.
Horns (Champion items) are available at the trainer. Horns can be used to stun multiple targets.
Using curing potions and salves will no longer have the potential of causing item wear.
Greatly reduced the chance of item wear happening when using bear traps and multi-traps (Hunter items).
Graphics/Animation
New 'Ultra High' graphics quality level! This is still a work in progress.
Many other graphics options have been changed to allow for 'Ultra' settings, such as 'Frill Distance', 'Object Draw Distance', 'Stencil Shadows' and 'Model Detail'.
The 'Landscape Object Shadows' preference has been changed to allow the quality of the shadows to be customized. Additionally, landscape shadows can now be rendered in 'Ultra' quality.
The Green Dragon bartender's no longer wipes the air.
All Avatars now have their base Facial Animation Idle.
The Human Male now has a landing when he jumps on the run.
Only the Icon for your own trainer will display when you have overhead iconics on now.
Hobbit Male/Female will no longer run when "riding" a horse.
World
Thorin's Hall map now works right proper-like.
Hobbiton Mill now has a door.
The travel route from Forsaken Inn to East Bree should be repaired.
Various objects and structures have been moved to reduce the liklihood of players getting stuck on them.
Some quest targets (items) have had their placement adjusted to reduce the likelihood that they would generate and float above the ground.
Various Garth Agarwen fixes
Keys now work properly
Doors no longer lock people out of Boss fights
Bypass is now blocked off by locked door both ways.
The entrance to the brigand and orc cave in Cirith Nur has been adjusted to make it easier to enter.
Fixed spots where players can get stuck in the Forsaken Inn, Tom Bombadil’s House, several spots in the Jailbreak instance, Nain Enidh, Ost Guruth, and Esteldin.
Fixed the floating skull in Skunkwood’s caves.
Added dungeon map for Ost Guruth.
Fixed the floating doors on the Prancing Pony.
Helegrod drake cave has been given an animating entrance & exit.
Misty Mountains landmarks now have names.
The confusing mishmash of names in Haragmar has been cleaned up.
The sky and weather for Garth Agarwen have resumed their wonted redness and moistness.
Fixed a bug where a player could get stuck in the brigand hideout.
Fixed a floating NPC in the Prancing Pony.
Fixed a minor terrain issue at Leecher Cartwell's house.
Lit torches in Brigand HQ in the Chetwood Northeast.
Fixed various minor bugs around Breeland.
Adjusted cliffs around Bree-town.
Fixed an area where a player could get stuck in the terrain near Rivendell.
Removed duplicate vendors in Bree, added missing ones, and consolidated them to two areas.
Fixed an area where a player could get stuck in Skunkwood's Hideout.
Players should now be able to enter the Trollshaws caves.
Character Creation
Naming Guidelines have been added to Character Generation. These are based on Race, Gender, and Nationality. These guidelines are intended to encourage names that "sound" like "real" Middle-earth names, not actually generate "real" names.
All avatars have preliminary build scaling, to alter body shape.
Various new additions and fixes to charcter generation face options.
Your appearance won't change when flipping between choosing a class and an appearance.
No longer drawing multiple characters on top of each other in character generation.
Deleting your last character now erases it from the character generation scene.
Mail System
You can now have four Letter windows open at once.
Added a reply button to the Mail UI.
Updated the Help UI.
Miscellaneous
The orcs in the eastern section of the Lone-lands have learned to be a little nicer to their foes. Their leader has lost his elite status as a result, but hey, they are just orcs.
The wolves near the ruin-piles targeted by Candac and Falster have seen a rash of mange that has lowered their levels to something more manageable.
The Earth-kin in the Lone-lands are no longer sending you to your doom against the Trolls in the southern bog. The trolls have sufficiently shrunk in difficulty.
In the Trollshaws, Vile-filth spiders are now Trapdoor-spiders and Flesh-gnaw spiders are Flesh-gnawer Spiders.
Players will be able to see their titles again.
French, British, and German versions of the game now point to the correct help page.
Fixed a bug where examining certain traits/skills could crash your client.
Big Tom should no longer spew string table errors when defeated.
Quest items should no longer disappear when you go into combat.
NPCs no longer 'shout' at players.
Fixed a condition that could result in Effects not being removed on expiration correctly.
You should now see all of the contributions your Fellowship makes to a Conjunction attempt.
Fixed a bug that was preventing the client from displaying the effects on the player that were present when they last logged out.
Quests
Fixed directions to "Avorthals' Favourite Haunts"
“Sickening the Land” is now a pre-requisite to the quest “A Grisly Task”
Players can now get the “Old Bloodtusk” quest before or after the raid on Archet.
‘Cat's Meow’ now has the player find an old bear den; then the player must free the trapped lynx cub and bring it to the dwarf hunter.
Constable Bolger has had his logic checked and should no longer break when someone does a poor job of protecting him.
When you visit Cal Sprigley at his farm in Archet, be sure to say hello to Wil Wheatley. He's new... kind of.
Now, when you are sent off to visit Goldberry from the Red Swamp, you will actually have the ewer you need her to cleanse.
When delivering the statue to the Eglain Guard you will receive guidance to her location.
When collecting the water at the Last Bridge, you will no longer end up with a full and an empty bladder. (Yes, we know that sounds wrong.)
Though the spider elders in the Lone-lands, who are targets of the Elders in the Shadow quest, are not elites we took to heart the request to flag the quest as a one better completed in a fellowship.
Added a description to the crate for ‘Our Greatest Find.’
We agree, Killing Jagger Jack is more fun and much easier in a fellowship!
We fixed an error in a billboard for collecting the Ancient Tome for the ‘Malevolence in the Swamp’ quest. On another note, items can spawn in more than one location; some even drop off the monsters along the way in the quest.
Emelin no longer sounds like he hosts a cooking show. He now has the more appropriate name: Baradrhoval. (Say that one ten times fast!)
Cartwell's False Poison, used to poison the nasty wolves found in the Chetwood, is no longer labeled false.
The destroyed cart you find for Anlaf the lorn no longer has the descriptions associated with a barrel of nasty goblin food.
Doing ‘A Dwarfs Duty’ is a pretty rough ordeal, so we're trying it as a fellowship step for the moment.
There was an extra set of dialogue for Men in Jon Brackenbrook's completion dialogue for ‘Assault on Archet’ that contained errors. This has been removed.
Gurdring the Gauntman now stalks the ruins of Nan Tornaeth during both the day and the night, so he should be easier to find.
'The Old Dourhand City' quest has been reworked.
Something creepy has been added to the final encounter in 'The Last Refuge.'
'The Thickest of Skins, Part II' should now be completeable. Speak to a Novice Tailor at any crafting center to receive the quest.
Certain quest arcs in the Misty Mountains have been restored to their original length with the new access to Ered Luin.
'A Scholar's Lesson' should now be completable.
The quest "Stolen Treasures" can now be completed after finishing the "Assault on Archet" instance.
Uruk-general in Master of the Black Tide now drops the correct quest loot.
William Skunkwood's Hounds now have his namesake.
Removed "fixme" text from objective in the New Trouble In The Old Forest quest.
Fixed typo in ‘Getting the Blade Back’ quest.
Fixed "guidance tbd" string in the ‘To Mr. Butterbur’ quest.
Glambaen the Lore-master in Lin Giliath has arrived, supporting local lore training as well as the Rune-kenner quest.
The chest in the quest ‘Treasures From the Field’ is now openable with Colbert's Key.
The fell spirit Olnathron is now a much more dangerous foe.
Bad crates in the ‘Founder's Book’ quest now stop flashing after they are opened.
Directions changed for the quest ‘Off to Staddle’ - wolves for the quest are in the Old Forest now.
Fixed stringtable errors in Rivendell’s north gate guards.
Removed unuseable clone vendors from the front of Elrond's house. As quest NPCs, they should be present elsewhere in the Vale of Imladris.
Chapter 5 book 1, ‘Goblin Memories’ now advances properly when Gurzmat is defeated.
Gurzmat has been set to be a signature foe, as intended.
The quest ‘Quality and Character’ was tweaked so that the objectives of killing bears and speaking to the Widow Froghorn are sequential, not simultaneous.
The Northdowns now has quest loot hooked up.
Quest loot added for Ered Luin starter experience.
Ered Luin quests now have quest treasure.
Changed quest target creature in 'Coat of Shadow' to Warg Stalkers.
Added rewards to Coat of Shadow quest.
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