Belefriends Raids / Minastir i Armenelos

Tybur hat geschrieben:Welcome to our second open preview of Update 21.3. These notes are for Bullroarer, released on Friday November 3rd. Both the notes and the update are a work in progress, so you should expect things will change over time. We look forward to hearing your feedback and receiving your bug reports.

Please feel free to copy your current live character to Bullroarer using the LIVE transfer wizard. Any characters created or copied last weekend remain intact. Please remember that deleting a character will not allow you to re-copy from live worlds.

Focus for this Beta:
Please Join us this weekend and provide feedback on Monster Player changes that are underway. The base Creep stats are being reworked from the ground up. This should help in the endless quest to balance Monster Player offensive and defensive power with their Free Player opponents. Please keep in mind that these changes are still very much in progress (not complete).

Known Issues:

• The second boss in The Abyss of Mordath has not yet been placed, so you cannot proceed beyond that point in the raid.
• The Abyss of Mordath chests have not yet been completely hooked up to the raid loot mechanics.

New in this build:

• Preview - PvMP: Many Monster Player stats and attributes have been adjusted as a start to achieving better balance in the Ettenmoors and Osgiliath. THIS WORK IS NOT DONE and needs your feedback!
• Abyss of Mordath raid - Various bug fixes for the first boss and trash mobs. We would love your feedback on the flow through the first boss.
• Dungeons of Naerband - Voice over and dialogue text was added to major Boss attacks. Dialogue text has been added to Orc and Uruk mobs for some of their attacks.
• Dungeons of Naerband - The door to Thraknûl's area should reset more reliably when the fight resets.
• Skills - Lore-master - Inner Flame - Duration halved from 10s to 5s. Fire Damage buff increases at an accelerated pace to compensate. Healing increased.
• Portions of Agarnaith should no longer be overrun with limitless cave claws.
• 'Daily Request: An Errand for Frodo' has been restructured. Now the random spawns of Imprisoned Nurnhoth in Naerband have been replaced with static spawns, and should be a less frustrating experience.
• Additional quest guide info has been added to Mordor quests: The Caretaker, Treasures Forgotten.
• During the quest 'Stolen Supplies' Viznak and the Ranger will no longer occasionally disappear before you can interact with them.
• Inn League members should once again be able to obtain the Inn League Notable and Senior Inn League Member deeds/titles.
• The 2017 Festival Steed deed has been added.
• Minor texture adjustments have been made to the Autumn Leafmail Dress.
• The background image for the credits has been updated and the credits music updated to 'Ever On'.
• All Gorgoroth leg armour pieces now have the correct light or medium armour values for their weight.
• Corrected the icon for Mordor's Bane and Expedition's Vanguard leg armour.
• Preview - In order to test the functionality of the system, this Bullroarer build includes a currency cap on Ash of Gorgoroth in addition to having Ash automatically go into the Barter Wallet. This functionality has not been approved for an update, but we want to test versioning and other parts of the change.
• Preview - Eyes & Guard: 'Cursed' gear in the "Mordor I <armour type> Abyssal" & "Mordor I <armour type> Wyrm" boxes available from Vastin has been replaced with non-cursed pieces.
• Preview - Large Wall versions of the stained glass windows were made in response to player feedback. Both small and large wall versions are available on the barter vendor. Binding status was also fixed for some Gorgoroth housing items.
• Preview - New quests in the Eyes & Guard tavern:
  • Ransroth in the tavern now has 'Mordor - Conquest of Gorgoroth' reputation quests.
  • Karst in the tavern now completes the Throne of the Dread Terror deeds and grants Throne of the Dread Terror tokens.
  • Rock in the tavern basement now has quests for Silver Signets of the Thandrim and North Ithilien barter items.

Previous U21.3 Notes:

• To enter the new Raid, you will need to Discover the Abyss of Mordath. Find the door in the Chamber of the Watchers in the lower levels of Barad-dur (Western edge of the Barad-dur map on the lower corridor branching).
• Abyss of Mordath - For testing purposes, the quests that allow you to bypass a boss that you have already defeated have been set to daily rather than weekly reset. Note that this is a new mechanic to allow for a new, less prohibitive, style of raid locks. The raid group will be able to skip past the the bosses defeated by the first member of the party to cross the line at the beginning of the instance.
• The npc "Dust" in the Eyes & Guard tavern stairwell offers a quest that rewards Ash of Gorgoroth.
• Eyes & Guard tavern: Vastin's Mordor Relics T1 box now has Rare and Incomparable Vanguard Runes of Force, Healing, and Power.
• North Ithilien Essences are now bound to account by default.
• Missing farming ingredients were added to some Crafting Suppliers.
• Steed of the Moon Moth naming inconsistencies are cleaned up.
• The mount collections that previously granted titles have been replaced with deeds. To advance one of the mount collection deeds, you must use that mount skill (from the mount collections panel or from skill panel, mounts tab.) New mount collection deeds/titles have also been added for the 2015 & 2016 Festival steeds, Goat mounts, and Gondor mounts!
• Loremaster Class Items "Book of Beasts", class items at level 20, level 30, and level 40, now give minor bonuses to pet stats.
• Tier 10 Captain Armaments may now be bartered for exchange receipts.
• Crafting - Universal Ingredient Packs may now be used on select Westemnet Guild Recipes.
• Crafting - Certain Jeweller recipes which did not allow you to inscribe critical outputs now allow it.
• Crafting - Westemnet and Doomfold Captain Armaments now provide significantly more armour to heralds.
• Crafting - The Anorien Expertise Token may now be consumed in a recipe also available from skirmish barterers.
• The stable travel route to the First Hall should now drop you off in the correct spot in front of the stable master.
• The first door in The Court of Seregost can now be opened in combat (but remains locked during the boss fight) to prevent players from getting stuck inside.
• The quest "Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: Agarnaith" now rewards the correct reputation.
• Human female mood animations have been updated.
• Players who have logged out in the Vales of Anduin may be sent to Archet upon logging in. This is because the absolute location of the Beorning starting area has been moved. Other than this possible teleport, you should notice no difference in the Vales of Anduin.
• Equipment - Level 105 Featured Instance Armour sets will once again be item level 222.
• Crafting - Fragments of Gorgoroth Dungeons will have the proper plural name when stacked.
• Instance: A Trap for the Creature should no longer break when using the flat stone too soon.
• The Court of Seregost: Black Númenórean-slayer deed now indicates how many need to be defeated.
• The Weeping Reeds in Agarnaith for the quest Flora Investigation are now visible above ground.
• Coldan and Hithgol in Dor Amarth have been cosmetically adjusted to better suit their role and surroundings.
• Camp site fires in Taur Druadan, Lossarnach, and the Wastes now allow Burglars to Contact Pedlar.
• The Lossarnach quest "The Smoke Lures" no longer requires Orcs to be defeated.
• Recent mounts such as Steed of Elessar's Host, Sunflower Steed, Rescued Steed of Agarnaith, Goat of the Harvest Sky, and Steed of Eldar Autumn have been added to the Mounts Collection display.
• The Lossoth Steed and Steed of the Dusk-watch now have correct source information in the Mounts Collection panel.
• The Skeleton Steed Rider Bundle can now be used (opened) even if you already have the Riding trait.
• Minor performance improvements were made to the loading of the mounts collection page. Please let us know if you notice anything failing to load properly.
• The Quartermaster "Conquest of Gorgoroth Rewards" now carries a slate of new housing items including statues, stained glass, and decorative flower garlands.
• The character panel no longer hides equipped items that are in the loot filter.
• The cat wander sequence plays smoothly now.
• When a quest is filtered but underway, characters can still interact, advance, and turn in the quest.
• Players should no longer see a Free Hobbit Present button immediately following the redemption of a free present.
• To fix an issue that could prevent their use, the Poorly Hidden Chest, Out-of-Place Strongbox, Out-of-Place Lockbox, and Out-of-Place Chest in the haunted burrow will now disappear and respawn after each opening.
• Gorgoroth Scourge Spoils boxes no longer include Gondor Silver Pieces or Anórien Sealed Wax.
• Dungeons of Naerband - Thraknul's and Flame-spirits' area-of-effect attacks have had their damage lowered.
  [*Dungeons of Naerband - Some monster skills were adjusted to affect Lore-master pets and Captain heralds.
• All bosses in the Tier 2 Dungeons of Naerband and Tier 2 Court of Seregost instances have an increased chance of dropping incomparable gear.
• Rare spawns have been added in Agarnaith and Dor Amarth. This allows Hidden Threats of Gorgoroth to be able to be completed.
• Captain Skills - Dropping power cost from motivating speech and improved motivating speech.
• Items - Took in the Hole Hobnanigans recipe now properly provides +5% incoming healing.
• Lore-master pets and Captain soldiers were collecting mobs from a greater area of landscape than desired. Their aggro radius has been halved.
• Collections panel model views are now slightly bigger.
• Kinship leaders are no longer required to abandon a premium kinship house to receive housing writs prior to disbanding a kinship.
• Various small bug fixes for Ilex branches spawned in tree, the exit to Boffin Manor, two patrons in a Bree auction house are sitting on nothing, an invisible water volume, Ralthat's awkwardly positioned shield, floating planks of wood, a floating bush, an oddly misshapen rock formation, and an npc floating over bench.
• The quest bestowal UI in German should now correctly fit the indicators for solo, small fellowship, fellowship, and raid quests.