Bullroarer Update 25.4 - Preview #2

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Bullroarer Update 25.4 - Preview #2
Link: https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread ... ost7991922

Bullroarer is OPEN.

Remmorchant, The Net of Darkness
"Far beneath the Ephel Duath, in the deepest caverns of Torech Ungol, lies the Remmorchant, the Net of Darkness. There, wreathed in webs of shadow only the Light of Earendil might hope to penetrate, lies the lair of Ungwetari, the last child of Ungoliant."

This update includes improvements to the new Remmorchant raid, some class tweaks, numerous bug fixes and more. Please yell at us about any bugs, balance feedback, or issues other you encounter!

News and Notes:

• Character Copy to Bullroarer will be available. Please let us know if you encounter any issues.
• Account Services are also available for copy. Please let us know as soon as possible if any of these services fail to copy properly.
• Bullroarer will remain open until Friday afternoon (02/21). Time subject to change.
• This update is a work in progress and the patch notes are not intended to cover every change. If you find something we left out you think is important, let us know and we can add it to the notes.

Instances:

• Remmorchant, The Net of Darkness - A new 12 person raid is available for preview.
• Tier 1 & 2 are now available.
• Known Issue: Quests associated with the instance are not able to be completed yet.

Classes:

• Several classes had their Stun removal skill cooldowns reduced to 60s. Trait and item effects on these cooldowns for the affected skills have also been adjusted.
• Virtues can now advance to a maximum of tier 68.
• Burglar
  - Burglar Red Line AoE damage is higher than expected.
  - Reduced Flashing Blades and Double Edged Strike dmg by ~10%.
• Captain
  - Noble Mark is triggering a lot faster than intended and is pretty severely overpowered.
  - We had to change the type of effect that triggers the heal on Noble Mark, which necessitated a significant redesign of the skill.
  - Noble Mark now allows the captain to heal up to 3%/3s when they land an skill attack against any opponent.
  - Noble Mark's range is now only 12m, requiring the captain to remain in close proximity to their marked target to maintain the effect.
• Champion
  - Bumped Blade and Strike skill dmg by ~10%.
• Hunter
  - The Hunter's poison curative abilities have been powerful enough to effectively negate any curable poison mechanic in runs for a while. We felt it was necessary to implement a more significant cooldown limit on how often they can be used.
  - AoE poison cure now has a longer CD [10s->45s], single target cure now has a cooldown [0s->5s].
  - Tweaked hunter direct dmg up slightly across the board to help compensate for the reduced utility.
• Rune-Keeper
  - Yellow Runekeeper damage efficiency is a bit too high atm.
  - Reduced Writ of Lightning (-~5%), Ceaseless Argument (-~5%) & Static Surge (-~10%) damage.

Items:

• Glimmering Ithil Relics are now available in Minas Morgul instances at all group sizes and difficulties.
• New Flooring (Carpets) for Housing can be purchased from Rolf Bracegirdle, Bill Twiggins and Galiana Squibb
• Raid Armour (Still working on a few remaining ones, and the stat assignments/names):
  - Beorning Red set bonus: chance to proc bonus crit chance (this is an old one).
  - Beorning Yellow set bonus: Transform Wrath bonus.
  - Burglar Red set bonus tooltip fixed.
  - Champion Blue set bonus Sudden Defense mitigation bonus.
  - Champion Red set bonus Champion's Duel reset proc chance.
  - Champion Yellow set bonus Great Cleave CD reduction.
  - Guardian Yellow set bonus tooltip fixed.
  - Loremaster Blue Set bonus Cat-mint switched from duration to CD reduction.
  - Burglar Yellow set bonus switched from duration to CD reduction.
  - Hunter Red set bonus changed to Heartseeker CD reduction.
  - Runekeeper Red set bonus Volcanic Runestond CD reduction.
  - Warden Blue set bonus Never surrender grants a 5% mitigation bonus, not 50%...
  - Warden Yellow set bonus +ranged damage (sry, I know it's not interesting, but making complex bonuses for wardens is tricky)

Crafting:

• Changes to Optional Crafting Ingredients: More than one optional ingredient can now be used at a time. If multiple optional ingredients are checked, one of each ingredient checked will be consumed upon recipe execution.
• Introducing Universal Optional Ingredients.
  - This optional Ingredient can be used in a crafting recipe to guarantee a critical success.
  - Universal Optional Ingredients will now be awarded for completing certain quests during Spring, Anniversary, Summer, Harvestmath, and Yule Festivals
  - Universal Optional Crafting Ingredients - Starting at level 20, players can get a Universal Optional Crafting Ingredient for completing tasks each week

Misc:

• Fixed tooltips for inaccessible stable routes.

PREVIEW ONLY:

• Budgeford in the Eyes & Guard Tavern now sells an E&G Tavern Minas Morgul Relic Pack. When deconstructed, you will receive 48 assorted relics (Settings, Gems, Runes, and Devices) appropriate for characters level 121 - 130. This includes Vales Carrock Devices, Ithil Settings, Runes, & Gems, Glimmering Ithil Settings, Runes, & Gems, and Darkened Remmorchant Settings, Runes & Gems.
• Edgecase (Minas Mogul Gear) vendor has been disabled for this round of Beta.