Bullroarer Update 32 - Beta #7 - OPEN

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Bullroarer Update 32 - Beta #7 - OPEN
Link: https://forums.lotro.com/forums/showthr ... eta-7-OPEN

Bullroarer is OPEN

Server Opening Time: Wednesday, 02/09 ~12:15 PM EST
Server Closing Time: Friday, 02/11 ~12:00 PM EST (Subject to Change)

• Report A Bug
• Guide to the Eyes and Guard Tavern
• Character Copy is AVAILABLE. This can be accessed through the 'Transfer' button on any LOTRO Launcher.
  • PLEASE NOTE: The player database HAS been wiped (on 02/02).
    

Raid: The Hiddenhoard of Abnankâra [12-Player]

"Beyond the falls of Amgaruslun in the Clovengap lies Abnankâra, the Hiddenhoard. Once an ancient treasury wrought in secret by Mótsog and the Greymauls during their rebellion against the Longbeards in the Elder Days, it has become the lair of Hrímil Frost-heart, a dreaded cold-dragon of Morgoth. Within this frozen retreat, Hrímil tends her wounds and slumbers, dreaming of vengeance upon Prince Durin and the dwarves of the Gabil'akkâ..."

• The Hiddenhoard of Abnankâra will initially be available to play on both Tier 1 and Tier 2 difficulties at launch, with Tier 3, Tier 4, and Tier 5 difficulties unlocking in the weeks to come!
• In addition to featuring three exciting new boss encounters including the final confrontation between Durin and Hrímil Frost-heart, this raid also features new rewards, a suite of new deeds, and new, time-limited titles for completing Tier 3, Tier 4, and Tier 5!
• Boss 1 and Boss 2 on Tiers 1-3 are currently available for feedback on Bullroarer.
• The Discovery Deed for this encounter has NOT been bypassed. You can complete the Deed for Gundabad instances with Javatar in the Eyes and Guard Tavern

Release Notes - Beta #7:

New release notes in Violet.

Legendary Item Reward Track:

• Access the Reward Track through the Menu on the left of the Toolbar Slots on the Main Toolbar - (^) - Character > Reward Track.
• Please note this system is functional but very much a work in progress; we want your feedback but please understand that not everything is complete.
• The Reward Track is seasonal. At the end of the season, an all new track will replace the current one. Since this is LI focused, some rewards - Traceries, Token, Ancient Scripts - will reappear season to season, but their frequency and drop value will change over time. More detail on how this works will be provided at a later date.
• Rewards must be claimed in sequence at this time due to technical limitations. This is something we hope to improve in the future.
• Runes applied in bulk is not functioning at this time. We know it's a valuable Quality of Life feature and is a big focus for implementation.
• There will be a repeatable reward at the end of the Reward Track - this will be implemented in a later build.
• We are looking at ways to improve the scroll bar. Your feedback will definitely help drive how this feature will be finalized!

New Housing:
One of Smaug’s last treasure hoards has been opened and the Dwarves of Erebor have moved to reclaim it! Join them in owning a piece of Middle-earth, in the Great Hall under the Mountain!

• This new premium neighbourhood will include twelve Base Premium Houses, one special Base Premium House, six Deluxe Premium Houses, and one Premium Kinship house, along with a full suite of town services and social spaces for you to enjoy with your kinship and neighbors!
• In addition to the new neighbourhood, Erebor Housing introduces new exterior music and Dayfile hook types to allow players even more customization options for their homes.
• NOTE: The Permissions for Private Yards feature announced in previous betas has been removed at this time and will be revisited at a future date.
• Known/Intended Issue: In order to prevent decorations from intruding on other player's properties, the mobile hooks in the lower courtyard of Deluxe Erebor Houses, and the Huge/Enormous Hooks in all Base Erebor Houses have their vertical movement restricted.

The Abodes of Erebor introduce the following new features to housing:

• Cave Dayfiles! Change how you experience subterranean living with a set of Dayfile objects to change the lighting in your front yard!
• Exterior Music! Music Boxes are now available for yards!
• Full suite of town services/travel options!
• Take the high dive into swimmable gold coins!
• Get your friends, enemies and spectators to participate in a life-sized game of chess or checkers!
  - Preview Only:
  • Erebor Broker and Real Estate Ledger are accessible in the E&G Tavern basement next to the Rohan Housing Brokers.
  • Decoration items can be purchased from Trotter in Tavern.

General:

• Brawler Belt Buckle icons should now be consistent across crafting tiers.
• Achieving a critical success when crafting Dwarrowgleam Belt Buckles now adds 2 ilevels to the resulting item.
• Achieving a critical success when crafting Dwarrowgleam Stickpins now adds 2 ilevels to the resulting item.
• Class, Race, and Virtue trait slots will now automatically unlock when a character hits the required level, regardless of subscription status or purchase. This does not apply to monster play characters.
• New Adventurer's gear for level 140 characters will now scale to item level 461 - 463.
• Updated German Translations and copyedits for U32.
• Updated French Translations and copyedits for U32.
• A number of quests are now available in The Angle of Mitheithel.
• In the new LI system control UI, the system refers to traceries correctly instead of calling them essences when unslotting and with tooltips of the buttons.
• Bound to Character Traceries and Essences now actually bind the legendary item or slotted item to the character when slotted.
• PvMP Rank cloaks are now gated by Monster Play, and may not be used outside the Ettenmoors.
• Stablemasters in Trollshaws, parts of Eregion, Lothlorien, Southern Mirkwood, and Eryn Lasgalen now use the Elk Travel Mode.
• Added some clarifying dialogue to 'Chapter 6.1: The Artist and the Apprentice' to make it clear which character will advance the quest.
• Enemies in Elderslade and Gundabad missions now execute their induction skills in 5s down from 10s.
• All shields will now offer the Crit Defence and Ranged Defence bonus previously only granted by Heavy (Guardian) shields.
• The reforge UI now has a summary that is accurate and the reforge UI has had it's text updated to reflect the new system.
• Brawlers who complete the class quest "Brawling Lessons" will now receive a new title, "Fearsome Fists", in addition to the existing title. This title will be awarded retroactively to Brawlers who have already completed the quest.
• Players who have achieved the highest reputation with their crafting guild now have access to a recipe that will allow the creation of a Sunstone Shard once every 7 days. See your "Improved Recipes" vendor.
  • Please note these recipes require Gundabad (T14) Crafting.
• The Brawler Abyss Raid Set Armour pieces bartered from the Master of Mordor Lore in Dor Armarth on the Plateau of Gorgoroth are now actually usable by Brawlers.
• Display error on classic essence examination has been fixed.
• Added a vector from Thorenhad in the Trollshaws to guide players to the Angle of Mitheithel.
• Now when you have a unique essence or tracery in two different weapons, you can equip the second weapon without first unequipping the first.
• The Featured Instance rotation has been updated to now include: Dungeons of Dol Guldur, Fornost: Wraith of Water, Seat of the Great Goblin, Iorbar's Peak, Sword-hall of Dol Guldur, and Barad Guldur. The Featured Instance reward packages have been updated, including new armour that will scale to your character level. In order to support this scaling, the reward packages will now decay, so they must be opened within 1 hour or be lost. The Featured Instance (Cap) quests will now require tier 2 completion of the instance. The Featured Challenge quests have been removed.
• The Delver's Essence boxes now allow selection of a vitality essence.
• The Adventurer's Quartermaster and lootbox now offer Delving Adventurer's Essence Boxes.
• Monster Balance - Monsters above level 60 now have a small base Critical Defense rating.
• Legendary Item Rewards
  - Older scaling instances made it much too easy to farm legendary rarity LI items. As a result scaling instances have had their top end LI drops reduced to Incomparable rarity. Non-scaling instances remain unchanged.
  - Players are ending up with lots of inc. or leg. rarity enhancement runes that they have little current use for taking up inventory space. At cap level, rune rewards are now limited to the highest rarity required by a maximum level legendary item. This has no effect on any drops below cap.
• Legendary items may now reach item level 475.

Classes:

• Burglar - Purge Corruption can now crit.
• Burglar - Hedge Your Bet now heals 5% per pulse on all rolls. It now has a 15-30% chance of applying on each attack, based on the roll.
• Brawler - Changed the builder attacks to all have an animation time of 0.75s. Previously varied from 1.0 to 1.5 depending on the builder.
• Brawler - Come at Me has been buffed. Taunt radius increased (7->12) and base targets increased (3->5).
• Brawler - Weather Blows can now be used in motion.
• Brawler - Strike Towards the Sky range increase (2.5->3.5).
• Brawler - All group buff effects smaller than 10m have been expanded to 10m.
• Brawler - All attack AOE's shorter than 7m have been extended to 7m.
• Brawler - Eager Challenger trait in Blue line changed [-30 -> -20s].
  -- The other 10s is now available on a tracery that also increases the mayhem bubble magnitude.
• Brawler - Critical Chance Increase in Red line now has an additional effect at Tier 5: Critical hits with Finisher skills generate 1 mettle.
• Brawler - Base heal percent for Joy of Battle - Heal increased (1%->3%).
• Brawler - Pummel will no longer cancel early if used with 5 or less mettle.
• Champion - Bracing Attack can no longer miss or be BPE'd. Damage reduced ~20%.
• Champion - Merciful Strike's crit multipliers were raised to match the default for most skills (x1.5 crit, x2.0 dev).
• Champion - Partially reverted the Bracing attack changes - the skill will now simply apply its self-heal regardless of whether the attack is BPE’d.
• Guardian - Flash of Light now scales with weapon. Damage will now scale up much more effectively into the higher levels.
• Guardian - Flash of Light will now ONLY proc off of your active Take to Heart target. No more exponential AoEs.
• Guardian - Catch a Breath CD timer should no longer bug out when war-chant is reducing it.
• Hunter - Lingering Wound skill now applies its DoT again.
• Hunter - Rapid Fire should now properly reduce the cost of Split Shot.
• Lore-master - Commune With Nature now has a 180s CD. Nature's Light duration is now 20s. Nature's Gift initial CD has been removed so it can be used immediately. Both these pet skills have an internal CD of 180s.
• Rune-keeper - Some Rune-keeper dot pulse rates increased. Number of pulses is unchanged, so the durations are now shorter, the total damage is the same, but DPS is higher.
  -- Writ of Fire [4->3s]
  -- Scathing Mockery [6->3s]
• Rune-keeper - Fire, Frost, and Lightning skills are all now labeled as such in their tooltips.
• Warden - Tracery Mastery CD has been improved [-3 -> -5s], while Remmorchant set bonus reduced [-5s -> -3s].
• Warden - For the Free Peoples now grants an incoming damage% reduction that increases to -25% at full stack. This replaces its old effect.
• Warden - Heals generally increased.

Instances:

• Raid: The Hiddenhoard of Abnankâra
  General:
  • Cold-drakes are now Immune to CC.
  • Enthralled Guardians are now Immune to CC.
  • Enthralled Frost-callers now have Adaptation on T3+.
  Heirs of Thyrstath:
  • Certain skills will now target players correctly.
  • Various fixes.
  • Blizzards should no longer stay open between attempts.
  • Damage over time to the target of the Blizzard has been reduced.
  • Blizzard size has been reduced.
  • Avalanche skill damage has been reduced.
  • The timing for skills for both Avalanche and Blizzard have been increased, for more chance for players to move out.
  Dushtalbuk:
  • Dushtalbuk now moves 25% faster.
  • Maul's cooldown has been reduced from 15s to 10s (10s to 5s during the 'Warlord Phase') and its range has been increased from 3m to 5m.
  • Maul's slow now begins at 20%, up from 10% and increases by 5% per rank of Maul.
  • Brittle Chains have had their health reduced slightly.
  • Dushtalbuk no longer flinches when being hit.
• Houses of Rest - Vethug Wintermind will no longer become unattackable on Duo and Fellowship group sizes after being reset.

PREVIEW ONLY:

• Drachyn in the Eyes & Guard Tavern will now barter gear from the Hiddenhoard of Abnankâra Raid. The raid completion deeds required to barter for this gear can also be completed by speaking to Drachyn.
• Dust in the Eyes & Guard Tavern stairwell will now sell boxes ("Tavern Chest of Embers (10k)") containing Embers of Enchantment, making it easier to quickly barter for gear in the test tavern.