Bullroarer Update 33 - Beta #2 - OPEN

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Bullroarer Update 33 - Beta #2 - OPEN
Link: https://forums.lotro.com/forums/showthr ... eta-2-OPEN

Bullroarer is OPEN

Server Opening Time: Wednesday, 03/30 ~1:30 PM EDT
Server Closing Time: Friday, 04/01 ~3:00 PM EDT (Subject to Change)

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The Yondershire
"Since the time of Bullroarer Took, the Yondershire has squabbled with the more comfortable parts of the Shire. The upstart Lotho Sackville-Baggins aims to bully the local Hobbits, but they’re none too keen on his designs. Explore the Yondershire, and experience some more delightful Hobbit adventures, our first expansion of the Shire in years!"

• Yondershire is a challenge level 20-23 zone
• You can get to Yondershire:
  • West out of Little Delving
  • North-west out of Needlehole through Rushock Gate
  • South-east out of Ered Luin past the Falathlorn Homesteads through the Eastway
  • South-west out of Oatbarton through Bullroarer's Sward

Release Notes - Beta #2:

New release notes in violet.

Classes:

• Beorning - Fixed description of Beorning Greater Swarm Trait. Now correctly indicates that only the dot component becomes AoE.
• Beorning - Execute now applies pip multiplier bonuses as BASE multipliers.
• Brawler - Removed text from the Brawler's Mettle tooltip that described functionality it doesn't have.
• Brawler - Updating icon for Brawler trait "Fulgurant Strike Cooldown" to match its skill icon.
• Brawler - Fist of the Valar now applies pip multiplier bonuses as BASE multipliers.
• Brawler - 'Gut Punch' now correctly states that it reduces the target's outgoing damage by 5%.
• Brawler - Share Innate Power skill unlock will not time out if not used within 15s of achieving max buff tier. Should now last as long as the buff itself is maintained.
• Brawler - One For All was only granting 1% mitigation bonus per nearby ally, now correctly grants 2% per (max 10%).
• Brawler - General skill damage bumped.
• Brawler - Fist of the Valar base damage reduced, but its pip mod increased to +15%/pip, and is now a Base damage multiplier (much more potent).
• Champion - Blade Wall base damage reduced ~25%. Champions blade wall skill has been significantly over performing in the DPS parses for a basic skill, and the class has been a tad OP in its AoE output compared to most others.
• Guardian - Fixed Catch a Breath set bonus to work properly with tracery (or other) buffs.
• Hunter - Fixed Swift Mercy trait not correctly reducing the focus cost of Merciful Shot with Swift Bow shots.
• Lore-master - Updated an old class template that had Lore-masters advancing their damage and healing progression slower than the other two classes from levels 1-50. Now mirrors the Minstrel & RKs progression.
• Lore-master - Sticky Gourd effects are now applied as an immediate AoE rather than a hotspot. The effects themselves now have a 20s duration. Sticky Gourd's hotspots were causing some serious performance issues and couldn't crit. This version should work a good bit more smoothly.
• Lore-master - Improved Sticky Gourd now immediately applies one copy of Improved Burning Embers, but does not continue to apply them thereafter. The hotspot version of burning embers wasn't getting some of the Lore-master's stats, such as crit chance, and would overwrite those cast normally, significantly limiting their damage. This version only applies once, but should work properly.
• Lore-master - Fierce Lightning can now be applied by any Lore-master lightning skill.
• Lore-master - Fierce Lightning now directly applies its fire dot to targets, rather than setting the ground on fire.
• Lore-master - Fierce Lightning's pulse rate reduced to every 2 seconds, but damage increased. Duration unchanged. Another change to help prevent Lore-masters from melting down our servers and your GPUs. Should also make it a good bit more useful, and help pull skills like Lightning Strike into rotation.
• Minstrel - Song of the Hammerhand base bubble value reduced [80%->35%]. This bubble was just too strong. We'd rather get the Red Mini on a stronger DPS standpoint so they're not dependent on it.
• Minstrel - Enduring Morale now scales properly with level. At its third tier Enduring Morale grants Call of the Second Age a 2s stun effect that increases to 3s by tier 5. To help counter some of the loss of survivability, we've fixed scaling on this morale trait, and added a new CC source for the Minstrel for when they over pull.
• Minstrel - Fixed racial animation discrepancy for Call of the Second Age.
• Minstrel - Traits Inspiring Finish and Emboldened Finish now each scale to a 100% application chance at max tier (25%->50%->100%) was (10%->20%->30%). In practice these bonuses took too many skill plays to build and tracking your stack build wasn't really feasible without plugins, and all that for a relatively short buff that negated your other stacked buffs. Now you can build them dependably with fewer skill plays, allowing you to take more reliable and effective advantage of your stacked buffs.
• Minstrel - Base damage of Echoes of Battle increased by ~50%.
• Minstrel - Echoes of Battle damage bonuses from Cacophonous Timeless Echoes (red trait) and Weakening Echoes of Battle (yellow trait) have been swapped.
• Minstrel - Base skill damage increased ~10% for most attacks.
• Minstrel - Echoes tick rate sped up from 5s-3s (this should offset the damage per tick, but not the actual DPS).
• Minstrel - Finesse trait becomes Song of Arda, which grants up to +25% light damage.
• Minstrel - Piercing Ballads now includes the Finesse buff that Song of Arda replaced.
• Minstrel - Concentration trait changed to a -10% attack speed passive. Was a setback preventing trait, which is not very useful for a spec with almost no inductions.
• Minstrel - Coda of Fury cry reset chance increased [30->50%] chance.
• Minstrel - Emboldening Finish damage bonus improved [15->25%]. Bracing Finish damage bonus increased [7.5->15%].
• Minstrel - Coda Finishing buffs extended [10->12s].
• Minstrel - Echoes of Battle based damage increased substantially. Tweaked Echoes of Battle to tick faster (3s) and to allow partial ticks, as playing ballads frequently causes it to reset, interrupting its ticks. There is a known issue where changes to tactical damage will cause Echoes toggle to refresh, interrupting its pulse timer and substantially reducing its damage potential. This is a partial fix for that.
• Warden - Determination skill 'For the Free Peoples' buff now reduces incoming damage by 2.5% per stack, up to a maximum of -25% incoming damage.

Crafting:

• Brawler Zircon Belt Buckles will have enhanced stats when they are crafted with a critical success.
• The crafted headpieces for the Beorning Abyss armour sets now correctly count towards their set bonuses.
• T9 Cook reputation trail food recipes will now display their names correctly when multiples of the recipes are stacked.
• Fixed extraction recipe for Bit of Pure Anórien Ore, so you can no longer use a Bit of Pure Anórien Ore or Universal Optional Crafting Ingredient to boost crit chance of extraction.
• The master jeweller "Beryl Belt Buckle Recipe" icon and description now correctly identify the recipe as being part of the master tier.

Quests & Adventure Areas:

• Gundabad - Pit of Stonejaws - Dwarf-wights that appear during Tombs of the Old Lords will no longer spawn inside their sarcophagi and have updated entrance animations.
• Black Book of Mordor Chapter 13.8 'Guardians of the Tower' will now have billboards that update with each monster kill.
• The deed 'Quests of Azanulbizar' was only awarding a single package of "Enhancement Runes, Incomparable" instead of two. Beginning with Update 33, this deed will instead award 2x "Enhancement Rune, Lvl 121". Players who have already completed the deed will be retroactively granted these Enhancement Runes upon logging after Update 33 goes live. Thank you for your patience on this matter.
• Mordor - Gorgoroth - Continue the Conquest: If you have completed the Deed: Tales of Gorgoroth and are at least Level 115, but did not receive this quest, you can now obtain the quest by travelling to any of the Mordor Allegiance Halls, the Udun Foothold, the Ruins of Dingarth, or Magh Ashtu in Gorgoroth.
• A variety of Doomfold, Ironfold, Minas Ithil, and Gundabad Draughts and Salves have been added to appropriate Healer and Tavern Keep vendor NPCs.
• The Coldfells vendor has been updated with new Poison, Disease, Fear, and Wound potions as well as new rations.
• The exit portal for Mission: Clearing a Path is now clearly marked with the customary visual FX. This should reduce the frequency of players going "Hmm I wonder what's back here?" and accidentally leaving the mission.
• The Zhelruka Clan - Quests for the Zhelruka Clan that allow use of Mithril Coins to swiftly travel to certain Objectives now properly place the player at the proper location instead of outside the Hall of Vérnozal.
• Urugarth - Deed: The Orcs of Urugarth - This Deed and its 'Advanced' variant now advance from defeating Goblins in Urugarth. If you previously had either of these Deeds underway but not completed, their progress will be reset at the time of this Update. However, they will be much quicker to complete. If you have previously completed these Deeds, you will see no change.
• Adjusted a Hungry Hobbit patrol in Little Delving.
• One of the drakeling eggs in Kordh Gurat needed for the Deepscrave quest "Drake's Cradle" is now reachable.
• Bee's Big Business: Challenge: Flower Power - Players can now complete the Small Fellowship and Fellowship versions of this quest on Legendary Servers.
• Bee's Big Business: Challenge: Bee's Big Business - Players can now complete the Small Fellowship and Fellowship versions of this Deed on Legendary Servers.
• Gundabad - Welkin-lofts - Instance: The Tipping Point - Corrected an issue where Gorgar's Orcs were sometimes not appearing at the conclusion of the instance.
• The Hiddenhoard of Abnankâra
  - Dushtalbuk's attacks that can Critical Hit now deal 1.25x for a Crit and 1.5x for a Devastate, down from 1.5x and 2x respectively.
  - Dushtalbuk's basic attacks have had their base damage variance lowered from 20% to 10%. Combined with the changes to Critical Hit, this should make his damage output more consistent and less spiky.
  - Hrimil's attacks that can Critical Hit now deal 1.25x for a Crit and 1.5x for a Devastate, down from 1.5x and 2x respectively.
  - Hrimil's basic attacks have had their base damage reduced slightly. In addition, they have had their damage variance lowered from 20% to 10%. Combined with the changes to Critical Hit, this should make her damage output more consistent and less spiky.
  - Fangs of the Frost-heart has had its base damage reduced slightly.

Misc:

• The word Gundabad has been removed from the Legendary Items Reward Track panel title.
• For the remaining 2022 Festivals, the dyes that were bartered for mithril coins last year can be acquired for the appropriate festival tokens this year, while the dyes availale for festival tokens last year are now available for mithril barter.
• Akúlhun's Brand of the Tyrant and Lainedhal's Insignia of the Captain-General now correctly apply immunity to slow, disarm, and silence effects for 5 seconds, rather than 10 seconds.
• Fixed typos in Great River, Gondor, Mordor, Rohan, Vales of Anduin, Evendim, Warden Class quests, Bingo quests, food items and Big Battles.
• Shimmering Dust and Monstrous Scale item descriptions incorrectly stated that they could be turned in for tasks. Their descriptions now correctly state that they can only be sold to vendors.
• LUA: Fixed an issue where using the "Subscriber Town Services" would not clear LUA bank data between character logins.
  
• The Subscriber Buffs and Town Services item granted by the VIP Rewards daily quest will now last for two weeks.
• The "Valar 130 trait points - Minstrel" item will, going forward, now give the correct amount of class trait points, and stack with previous Valar level boost 120 use.
• When using the Flame of Ancalamír, the confirmation dialog now correctly states that it will deconstruct the entire stack of target items at once.
• All relic of Gundabad items now correctly state that they are only sought after by the Zhélruka, and cannot be used to advance other allegiances.
• Yondershire: Corrects mistranslation of "Huge Wings" During hte Thorin's hall Questlog
• Fixed some typos in Evendim, Urugarth, Weathertop, Wildwood, Great River, and Big Battles.
• Corrected several spacing and word typos relating to "Thorin's Hall" quests in Mirkwood.
• Rangers and Ruins: Corrects translation of "Map of Bree-town" in French for the Spring Festival.