Bullroarer - Update 48 - A Glorious Hunt - Beta #2 - OPEN - Monday (04/06)

[Nova]

Bullroarer - Update 48 - A Glorious Hunt - Beta #2 - OPEN - Monday (04/06)
Link: https://forums.lotro.com/index.php?thre ... 4-06.26002

Bullroarer is OPEN

Server Opening Time: Monday, April 6 ~5:00 PM ET
Server Closing Time: Friday, April 10 ~3:00 PM ET

• Report A Bug
  • /bug may also be used from the Chat in the game.
• Guide to the Eyes and Guard Tavern
• Character Copy is AVAILABLE. This can be accessed through the 'Transfer' button on the BULLROARER LOTRO Launcher.
• Player database was wiped on March 31, 2026

Welcome to Update 48 - A Glorious Hunt!

While we have a lot more in the works for U48, we're excited to bring you a first look at our latest update.

'A Glorious Hunt' is included in a VIP subscription. For Premium and Free to Play you can purchase the quest pack on the Bullroarer LOTRO Store for 10 LOTRO Points. This purchase will only affect your account on Bullroarer.

Pahar Hatokáli

Welcome to Pahar Hatokáli, the Hatokáli Fells on the southern slope of the ridge of Mûr Ghala. It is into this land that Shâra Mizâdi has pursued the Ordâkhai forces of the villain Bârshud... but that's not what we're here to look at (yet). Today we're here for roughly thirty sidequests sprinkled across the fells. These are in a first-pass sort of state, so there will be additional polish and some VO to hook up, but they should be ready for an initial look! Visit the northern village of Hanamíku to get started, and then explore! -MoL

Feedback Thread

Rivendell Steadings

Welcome to the Rivendell Steadings! Perched high up in the mountains just to the west of the vale of Imladris, this premium neighborhood welcomes all seeking to live on the eaves of the Trollshaws, looking down towards The Last Homely House itself! For those looking to trying their hand at living in Rivendell, you can find the entrance to the neighborhood south of the Rivendell Stables. The neighborhood can also be accessed via the Broker's Office and Lalia's Market in Bree-town.

Don't forget to stock up on decorations! The neighborhood broker Hirthamel offers an assortment of decorations - as well as an introductory quest that leads you on a tour of the neighborhood. You can also find a selection of new decoration bundles for sale from the Rivendell Decoration Vendor in Lalia's Market.

Feedback Thread

UI Scaling and Lua

Plugins are now supported by UI Scaling. Adjusting the Global Scaling option will update any plugin that has Global Scaling enabled. Plugin authors can manually create scaling overrides for their plugin windows to scale independently from the Global Scaling option.

For more information and discussion, please see the Feedback Thread.

And lots more to come! Please stay tuned for patches and updates for U48!


Release Notes - U48 - Beta #2 (New notes in yellow):
Of Special Note

• The underlying data structures for Kinships have been adjusted to enable future work on the system. This should result in no visible change to kinships and kinship commands.
  
  • This work should alleviate many of the issues regarding promoting, demoting, changing message of the day, getting a new Kinship house, etc. that have been plaguing Kinships for several months.
• Some MTX bundles were incorrectly binding their cosmetic contents to character instead of account, and are fixed now:
  • Fate of Gundabad Collector's Edition - Bonus Items
  • Fate of Gundabad Ultimate Fan Bundle - Bonus Items
  • Cosmetic Armour of the Gundabad Reclaimer
  • Fateful Gundabad Cosmetic Armour
  • Minas Morgul Collector's Edition - Bonus Items
  • Minas Morgul Ultimate Fan Bundle - Bonus Items
  • Cosmetic Armour of the Great Alliance
  • Cosmetic Armour of the Dead City

Festivals & Events

• The TBD's in all three tiers of the Spring Festival wrapper, 'A Bustling Bloom' have been fixed.
• When the Midsummer Festival returns, Furtherholm will have a fishing supplier who sells fishing rods.
• Rowan Raspberry & Lootbox Refresh
  • Adventurer's and Traveller's Steel-bound lootboxes contain new "Rivendell" cosmetic items including avatar cosmetics, oryx cosmetic pets, and a variety of housing decorations. These items are also available on Rowan Raspberry for Figments of Splendour.
  • Adventurer's and Traveller's Steel-bound lootboxes also now contain a Humming Sunbird cosmetic pet, Forges of Imladris, Rivendell Stove, and Rivendell Kitchen Set crafting facility decorations, and Replica of the Imladris Stables and Last Homely House decorations. These items are not yet available for barter.
  • The following pet and housing items are now available on Rowan Raspberry for Figments of Splendour: Mushroom Hunter's Pack and Mushroom Hunter's Corgi cosmetic pet.
  • Several old items were moved off of Rowan Raspberry and onto the Curator including Hidden Peaks cosmetic clothing and many housing decorations.
  • Filbert Fig has retired for the season.
  • Newly acquired Adventurer's lootbox gear, for level 160 characters, will now scale to item level 562 - 564.

Classes: Skills & Traits

• Burglar
  • Mischievous Delight's power restore actually really genuinely truly fixed.
• Brawler
  • The Plant Feet skill description no longer states a specific, incorrect interval value for its defensive bonuses.
• Guardian
  • Smashing Strike now properly inherits your weapon's damage type.
  • The tooltip for the trait Reckless Attack now correctly refers to Reckless Attack, rather than Reckless Strike.
• Hunter
  • Plant Feet trait no longer incorrectly increases induction times.
• Lore-master
  • Lore-master Brooches and Stickpins "of Rage" have been renamed to "of Nature", and now provide offensive pet benefits of +10% Pet Health +5% Pet Damage +2.5% Pet Crit Chance.
  • Lore-master Brooches and Stickpins "of Regrowth" now provide defensive pet benefits of +10% Pet Health +10% Pet Health Regen -2.5% Pet Incoming Damage.
  • Lore-master non-crit crafting Brooches and Stickpins at Westemnet (T9) and lower now provide additional Vitality, but no longer provide Power.
  • Burning Embers tier 2 DoT effect has been renamed to 'Flaming Embers' to distinguish it from the skill and its initial hit (still called 'Burning Embers').
  • The 'Fellowship Friend - Cat' effect now correctly shows its bonus as being +3% Melee Damage, and not +3% Outgoing Damage, which was incorrect.
• Rune-keeper
  • Rune-keepers once again gain the 'Charged' FX when the charged effect is applied or tiers up.

Combat & Monsters

• Ensorcelled Vessel enemies in the "Houses of Lamentation" encounter can now be selected with mouse.

Quests

• Burning Brush in the North Ithilien quest Saving the Wilds will now actually be burning.
• In the Minas Morgul Instance: The Harrowing of Morgul, the barricades now have sound when they collapse.
• In the Morgul Vale quest The Trees of Taurlingol, the webbed trees will now have appropriately sized flames.
• Quest objective directions in "Crocodile Hunting (Daily)" have been corrected.
• Horses for the quest "Riders of the Storm" should now respawn faster.
• We have added a second quest using Embers of Enchantment to acquire Virtue XP. This quest resets daily.

Deeds & Reputation

• Hamât Renewed now extends to the Celebrated tier.
• The Favoured Standing for Hamât Renewed now grants a 25% bonus for the Honoured tier and 30% for the Celebrated tier.

Instances & Skirmishes

• The Isle of Storms instance now scales from level 150-160.
• The Folly of Nagakhêdi
  
  • Badharál the Gorger - Plump Spiderling morale has been reduced.
  • The Unnerving Spider's "Spores of Fear" ability range has been reduced.
  • Cristhir the Night-shadow adjustments:
    Increased initial cooldown and cooldown of Nightfall.
    Increased cooldown of Assassination on Tier 3.
    Increased initial cooldown and cooldown of Call Stalkers on Tier 3.
    Reduced health of Assassins and Nightsingers.
    Nightfall damage now ramps up every 25 seconds (was 20).
  • Maukhorn Maukhorn's Max Morale reduced by 3%. Blighted Bloom Max Morale reduced by 20%. Zamaktar Suffocating Spores on T3 (that spawn when a player dies) now have smaller AoE that deals less damage. Terrible Roar debuff duration reduced from 60s to 45s.

Items & Rewards

• Title-granting consumables will fail on use if you already have the title.
• The Pouch of Black Mushroom Spores for the Farmers Faire quest 'Planting the Seeds for Harvest' will no longer go into crafting carry-alls.
• New rewards are available from Delving Quartermasters! Use Delving Writs to obtain the Tome of the Cobalt Grodbog Protector, the Tome of the Tan Wolf-dog and several new housing decoration items.
• Guardian: Armour of the Hytbold Defender 2 piece set bonus now properly upgrades Turn the Tables to grant immunity to all disables for 10s.
• Daegoth, in Ost Galadh, will now exchange Medallions of Dol Guldur and Dark Emblems for Marks and Medallions on worlds where the level cap is 85 or higher, allowing players to acquire some level 65 challenge rewards that are otherwise unavailable.
• Ashes of Osgiliath: Instance Gear Updates
  
  • The armour sets available from the Ashes of Osgiliath instance cluster (The Sunken Labyrinth, The Ruined City, and The Dome of Stars) have been updated.
  • The gear set is now fixed at Level 100 / Item Level 202 and will no longer scale with your character's level at the time of the drop, ensuring consistent stats on every piece you earn. Class specific set bonuses have been re-added to these new versions.
  • There is now a unique set for the Brawler and Mariner.
  • Set pieces now have a chance to drop exclusively from the Level 100 Challenge versions of all three instances. Specifically the "Osgiliath Labyrinth Armour", "Osgiliath Ruins Armour", and "Osgiliath Dome Armour".
  • Previously acquired gear is unaffected, and will keep its current level but not gain set bonuses. This old non-set gear can be exchanged for their new set equivalents via barter at the Osgiliath Rewards Vendor Quartermaster.
• New Baubles: For new Baubles, the item that played the animation will now be a consumable scroll that teaches you the Bauble skill permanently, and brings it to the Baubles tab of the Collections (SHIFT + C) panel.
• The Rotten Fruit re-usable item, available from Frostbluff Rotten Fruit -- Tier 3, is now a Bauble.
• The Dragon Fireworks re-usable item is now a Bauble, and is available from Daily and Weekly Login rewards during the Yule event.

Crafting & Hobbies

• Recipes for Mûrai Hunter Tomes now have more generic names so that it is clearer that they are multi-output recipes.

Housing & Decorations

• The Housing Deco item Umbari Property Guard now correctly summons an Umbari Property Guard when called upon.
• Added two Enormous and 5 huge mobile yard hooks to the Lyndelby Kinship Smial.
• All Yard hooks now use smaller visual representations to mitigate usage issues in locations where hooks visually overlapped.
• Mobile Yard Hooks have a uniform coloration to help make them distinct from standard Yard Hooks.
• Fire Pit House Hooks now use Furniture-sized Hook Artwork to make using them and other hooks around them easier.
• Added a third property fence hook for the upper ring of fences in the Lyndelby Kinship Smial.
• All properties in Eastfold and Kingstead neighborhoods now have property fence hooks.
• All Belfalas Houses now have interior light hooks (NOTE: With the implementation of this system, most static lighting has been removed from Belfalas housing interiors. Players will need to purchase Light decorations from Ambience Furnishers to update the lighting in their homes).
• Minor adjustments have been made to the entrance locations of each Belfalas house interior to help mitigate the issue where players could fall through the floors upon entering from landscape.
• The following items can now be used on Yard hooks:
  • Hobbit Stable
  • Farmer’s Gazebo
  • Renewed Gondorian Fountain
  • Large Gondorian Scaffolding
  • Ruined Arnorian Bridge
  • Simple Ruined Arnorian Wall
  • Small Destroyed Round Arnorian Wall
  • Destroyed Wide Arnorian Wall
  • Ruined Wide Arnorian Wall
  • Arnorian Arch-wall
  • Ruined Arnorian Gate
  • Ruined Full Arnorian Arch-wall
  • Full Arnorian Arch-wall
  • Ruined Filled Arnorian Arch-wall
  • Filled Arnorian Arch-wall
  • Destroyed Arnorian Arch-wall
  • Dispersed Arnorian Rubble
  • Crumbling Dwarf Fountain
  • Flooded Deeps Aqueduct
  • The Wreck of the Thoroval
  • Ruined Stone Pillars
  • Stone Pillars
  • Lórien War Tent
  • Large Pipeweed Field
  • Large Wheat Field
  • Large Dry Wheat Field
  • Round Gondorian Reflection Pool
  • Blue and White Tent
  • Red and Gold Tent

Landscape & Adventure Areas

• Numerous stuck spots across the game world have been resolved
• Numerous floating objects across the game world have had their placement adjusted
• Numerous inaccessible resource nodes and monsters have had their placement adjusted
• Camels can now be used in Thorin's Hall and the Hall Under the Mountain.
• The appearance of the entrance to the Understaddle in Bree-land when the Farmers Faire is not in progress has been changed.
• Fixed a bug that caused Frill Terrain Color graphics option to show incorrect colors on frills.
• Dread 5, 6, and 7 no longer claim they cause cowering in their tooltips
• Adjusted landscape scaling loot drops on monsters level 61-80 to more consistently scale their equip effects. Primarily effects Soothe Wounds and the other status removing effects to always be level 80 removal, as well as the Intermittent Power and Moral which also now have a flat restoration amount.

UI & Miscellaneous

• Players are now able to use the "loot all" button to loot bind-to-account items from containers when they are in a fellowship. A confirmation window will appear to allow them to confirm their decision.
• Confirmation windows for bind-on-acquire items are now able to be suppressed via a checkbox.
• Added "Edit UI" buttons to both the System Menu and the UI Settings page of the Options panel in order to increase visibility of UI customization. This was originally only accessible by the Ctrl+\ hotkey.
• Ctl+L no longer opens a broken version of the deed log.

PREVIEW ONLY

• Captain: Shield of the Dunedain effects now correctly surface the strongest version of the buff.
• Guardian: Guardian's Whirlwind Alacrity now correctly reduces only offensive skills.
• Hunter: With the Silver Arrow 4-set effect, Moonlight no longer erroneously resets Heart Seeker.
• Warden: Heroic Spear of Fate effects are now correctly removed when Spear of Fate or Javelin of Fate is used.
• Minstrel's Triumphant Spirit bonus heal now gets player healing potency correctly and restores more than 1 morale.
• Rune-keeper healing stone explosion "Shattering Rune-stone" damage reduced slightly.
• The festival-related music issues inside the Boat and Basket tavern in Clegur have been resolved.