Bullroarer Update 29 - Preview #2 - Open

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Bullroarer Update 29 - Preview #2 - Open
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Bullroarer is OPEN.
Server Closing Time: Thursday, 02/25 5:00 PM EST (Subject to change)

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Character Copy is AVAILABLE. This can be accessed through the 'Transfer' button on the Bullroarer Launcher.[INDENT]Please note: If the 'Remember Me' option is checked on the LOTRO launcher your copy attempt will not work. Please assure this option is not checked when when applying to copy.[/INDENT]

Bullroarer is available for an another early look at Update 29.

Beyond the Bree-fields lies the lightly travelled wilderness of the Wildwood. This heavily forested area has drawn the attention of two groups of Free Peoples who vie for its resources. The League of the Axe, a group of game hunters and miners down on their fortunes, seek to tap the land's resources and ferry their bounty down the Brandywine from Trader's Wharf to markets abroad. Meanwhile, a group of villagers in Trestlebridge have formed the Woodcutter’s Brotherhood, with the goal of taking advantage of the Wildwood to benefit the folk of Bree-land and rebuild Trestlebridge to its former glory. Both factions must decide the fate of the Wildwood as they work against unsavory Brigands and the Tarkrîp Orcs. The update also includes two new 3-player scaling instances set in Eriador, "Woe of the Willow" & "Agoroth, the Narrowdelve".

Wildwood
Visit Enid Nettlesting at the Trader's Wharf in Evendim or Aran Greenwith at the Trestlebridge Gate in North Downs to start the Wildwood questline

• These quests unlock as you finish various reputation tiers for the two factions in Wildwood
• Missions, Landscape and Repeatable quests are available for testing.
• Quests have a Challenge level of 45
• Wildwood Deeds can be found on the Bree-land tab of the Deed Log
• Itemization is not complete (mostly not present or placeholder) for Wildwood barter, Wildwood missions barter, and the instances.

Instances
NOTE: An intro questline for these instances is available from Aragorn in Rivendell after completing 'Book 13, Chapter 10: A Triumphant Return' and from Hob Hayward at the Buckland Gate. These quests are not required to enter the instances.

• Agoroth, the Narrowdelve
• Woe of the Willow

Spring Festival

• Boss from the Vaults: Naruhel the Red-maid
• Bee's Big Business

Release Notes

Items:

• The Rare Crafting Component selection box now also allows selection of the Tier 13 Ithilharn Shard as an option.
• Some changes have been made to barter for the Remmorchant class set gear at the Remmorchant Quartermasters in Estolad Lân:
  • The armour exchange, allowing exchange of a piece of set gear for an equivalent piece for a different trait specialization, will no longer be deed gated, since you have already earned an equivalent piece of gear.
  • Barter for class set gear hands and feet pieces will no longer be gated by any deed (removing the tier 3 deed requirement).
  • Barter for class set gear chest pieces will be reduced to Tier 1 gating (down from tier 3 deed requirement).
  • Barter for class set gear legs and shoulders will be reduced to Tier 2 gating (down from tier 3 deed requirement).
  • Barter for class set gear legendary helms will remain Tier 3 gated, but with a reduction in the Ember cost to match the other incomparable class set pieces.
  • The barter profiles have been reorganized and renamed in accordance with the altered required deed completion.

Monster Play:

• Creeps were getting +30% partial damage reduction from their Partial BPE events from 'nowhere'. This has been removed.

Misc:

• U29 - Valar Virtue XP Quest restructure:
  • To resolve issues caused by the quest starting items, such as 'Virtues of the Valar - 105 and above', being unique, the various Valar levelup packages have been updated to use a single quest to give information about using virtue tokens.
  • The Valar virtue granting items have been removed as quest rewards and are instead granted inside a coffer delivered from Valar packages.
  • Completing that quest allows the player to open any virtue token coffer(s) they have received from any Valar packages.
  • While the virtue token coffers are bound to character, the virtue XP awarding items received on opening the package are bound to account.
• PREVIEW ONLY: Resolved an issue where virtue XP awarding items received from Valar package Virtue Token Coffers were incorrectly bound to character.