November Update: US
So I decided to play LotRo only to find out that today’s the Maintenance Day in Europe. Fortunately now I can avoid those by playing on Landroval. And what do you know November update is live in there, so after a while of patching I got in.
First thing I noticed are the advanced skirmish deeds for killing 50 Lieutenants. They required the Mirkwood expansion before but since that is now free (bar the quests and deeds) and 30 levels away I have access to them. As far as Hunters are concerned there isn’t anything new, and having now checked the release notes there really isn’t apart from a quest that comes around level 50 and a class consumable.
Next thing which is only cosmetic (as is most of the update) – the vendor interaction panels look different, there are now icons assocciated with the actions instead of simple bullet points.
Unfortunately this update also means more Store buttons in places they have not invaded before like the character panel, or the new crafting panel. Or the quest log, which brings us to another part of this update – Tasks.
Tasks basically equal turning vendor trash in for XP and reputation (and I don’t think there is a piece of vendor trash that doesn’t have a Task associated with it which means I am now afraid to throw away anything). Faradwen is currently in North Downs so I only scouted around there, unfortunately she is also level 33 and thus ineligible for most of the Tasks except for Othrikar and Esteldín (although there is a task bulletin at every other quest hub – Trestlebridge, Meluinen and even Amon Raith).
Yes, unfortunately Tasks have max level restrictions, and another thing is that you can only complete 5 tasks a day (unless you sell your soul and buy a reset or cap increase). Now there are also some rewards, the first one is a special gift box with unknown content and a title (Up-and-Comer) for completing 100 tasks (and I suspect also a +1 cap increase). That’s twenty days at least, oh well. Next deeds should be at 200, 300 and so on. I did 2 for Othrikar (there only are 2 in there, requiring the beaks and feathers of the hawks that are quite abundant in the area) and 3 for Esteldín (skins, ears and leather from various beasts) that got me 300 reputation with the Rangers each.
There is now also a barter wallet – currently only storing the various skirmish marks though it has it’s own search bar (like you couldn’t find a mark among only 10 different pieces) and newly yet again upgraded vault, but I’m going to appreciate those two much more when the update arrives in Europe (which won’t be sooner than next week).
Buttons! Buttons everywhere!
I mentioned the crafting panel – the good thing is that you no longer need to go through various tabs to see everything, on the other hand it covers almost my whole screen but of course the option to hide it when crafting is still there.
Last thing: while I haven’t seen the Ered Luin revamp, the new Dourhands have been given adjustments all over Middle-earth, so I got to see those new models in North Downs. They do look good though I am not sure where in the North Downs did they get so dirty.
All in all not a bad update, looking forward to have it on Laurelin.