Bullroarer Update 37 - Beta #3 - OPEN

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Bullroarer Update 37 - Beta #3 - OPEN
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Bullroarer is OPEN

Server Opening Time: Tuesday, August 1 ~5:15 PM EDT
Server Closing Time: Friday, August 4 ~5:00 PM EDT (subject to change)

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• Player database was wiped on 08/01.

[HEADING=2]Welcome to Update 37![/HEADING]
Stat Crunch!
[INDENT]Focus Thread: Stat Crunch[/INDENT]

Guardian Class Update
[INDENT]Guardian traits and skills will version as part of this update. [/INDENT]
[INDENT]GUARDIAN CHARACTERS WILL NEED TO RETRAIN THEIR TRAITS UPON UPDATE. [/INDENT]
[INDENT]Focus Thread: Guardian Class Update[/INDENT]

Beorning Class Update
[INDENT]PLEASE NOTE: All trait lines are ready for testing.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]Beorning traits and skills will version as part of this update. [/INDENT]
[INDENT]BEORNING CHARACTERS WILL NEED TO RETRAIN THEIR TRAITS UPON UPDATE. [/INDENT]
[INDENT]Focus Thread: Beorning Class Update[/INDENT]
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Forester Event
[INDENT]Focus Thread: Forester Event[/INDENT]

Updated LOTRO Store
[INDENT]Store will be unavailable for Beta #3.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]Focus Thread: Updated Store[/INDENT]
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Lyndelby Housing
[INDENT]Focus Thread: Lyndelby Housing[/INDENT]
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New Race: River-hobbits
[INDENT]River-hobbits may start their journey in a new, unique tutorial by selecting the "Shadows of Angmar" tutorial option during character creation![/INDENT]
[INDENT]Focus Thread: River-hobbits[/INDENT]
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[HEADING=2]Release Notes - Beta#3 - (New notes in yellow)[/HEADING]
Classes & Skills:

• Autoattacks for all characters have been returned to a normal speed.
• Burglar:
  • Crafted consumable items such as marbles and caltrops can now be used while moving.
  • Serrated Knives and Throwing Hatchets can now correctly be used while moving.
  • Skill delay has been removed from all consumable items and burglar signals.
  • The debuff 'Bust' has had it's finesse decrease changed to match the increase from the Burglar skill 'All In'.
• Captain:
  • At the Fore should no longer loop around to 10 stacks when you consume your last stack of Melee Healing.
• Champion:
  • Champions can now wield Two-handed Clubs beginning at level 10.
• Lore-master:
  • Air-lore now lasts 20 seconds and has a 90s cooldown, but is much more likely to reduce and reflect damage.
  • Wisdom of the Council's reflect now has a 50% chance to trigger on all damage types, and lasts 10 seconds.
  • Wisdom of the Council cooldown reduced to 3 minutes.
  • Pet damage has been increased across the board, so pets should now deal a significant amount of damage through level 140.
• Minstrel:
  • The trait 'Cacophonous Echoes' now correctly improves the damage of Coda of Fury's echo.
• Warden:
  • Passive Critical Defence bonus now gives the correct post-stat-crunch value.

Quests, Deeds, & Adventure Areas:

• The text for 'Men, Elves, Dwarves, and Hobbits' has been revised to more accurately describe the location of the Allegiances panel.
• Fixed some text timing issues within 'Instance: Memories of Mithrandir' so the dialogue of several characters will appear properly
• Implemented a fix to keep players from falling through the physics during 'Interlude: A Secret Return'
• A number of NPCs will no longer float above the ground during 'Instance: The Melee in the Square'
• Fixed some bad punctuation in IV.1.2, 'The Ruthless Dead'
• Fixed the double animation for picking up the torch in 'Instance: Mists of Anduin'
• War of Three Peaks - Quest: March on Gundabad: Additional Steps (Daily) - This quest will no longer credit the incorrect quests as being completed.
• Deeds - Wells of Langflood - Slayer of the Wells of Langflood - This Deed now properly requires completion of the Advanced Slayer Deeds in this region.
• Mordor - Talath Urui - Quest: Drakes of the Ghashghurm - Dragon-kind involved in this quest now properly display that information on their mouse-over panel.
• Farmer's Faire - Thrâng's Challenge - Tier 2 - This quest no longer refers to the level cap being Level 120. Thrâng has been duly informed of the launches of Minas Morgul and Fate of Gundabad and sends his congratulations to the team.
• Eregion - Quest: The Worm-keeper - The quest item involved in this quest is now automatically added to your inventory.
• Far Anorien - Quest: Instance: Honour and Treachery - Crumgam no longers steals a line of dialogue from Reeve Fastred. Various visual effects in this instance have been polished.
• Elderslade - Quest: The Necklace of Undoing - Thrain I now has his proper appearance, and a missing line has been re-added to his dialogue.
• Archet - Quest: Instance: The Assault on Archet - Atli Spider-bane now has an appearance consistent with his other appearances elsewhere in-game.
• Western Gondor - Quest: The Roving Threats of Western Gondor - This quest is no longer overly insistent that you "Speak with Aelnir", instead only suggesting (once) that you "Talk to Aelnir".
• Made some adjustments to clear up confusing objectives in III.11.9, 'Seeds of Treachery'
• Quest "Toss a Coin" - Fixed a string that was showing up in the wrong place
• For the weekly mission quests, "On A Mission (Weekly)" and "On A Continuing Mission (Weekly)", the "1,000 Virtue XP" consumable item reward has been replaced by a direct 1,500 virtue xp grant when you complete the quest. You can still choose a "1,000 Virtue XP" consumable item from the "Missions: Bonus Character Boosts" package selectable reward offered by these quests.
• King's Gondor - The Deed Log page for Update 36: Gondor Renewed has been renamed from "Renewal of Gondor" to "Eastern King's Gondor".
• King's Gondor - Quest Log sorting has been updated for quests included with Update 36: Gondor Renewed. For example, "Lossarnach" has been changed to "King's Gondor: Lossarnach".
• The Temámir Dwarves in King's Gondor now use the appropriate appearances
• The Lute Dance can now be used in the dancing competition for 'Boffins On The Loose' in Yondershire.
• Elda in Wildermore couldn't decide if he had long hair or not. He does, for the record, and now he will also have it in 'Instance: The Bloom.'
• One of the Loose Rock quest items for 'Legacy of Durin Chapter 4.3: Think Like a Goblin' was stuck on an inaccessible cliff. It has been moved to a better location.
• Removed Celeborn's accidental kicking animation in 'The Further Adventures of Elladan and Elrohir, Chapter 5'
• Quests with Hobbit-specific text have been updated for River-hobbits. You may need to pick up such quests again from their bestowers if they were currently underway.
• Gwynna's location in Tal Methedras has been adjusted so he isn't trying to spawn inside a boulder.
• Fixed the placement of a hotspot for Bingo Week 16, 'A Hospitable Home'.
• Unearthed a Loose Rock quest item from where it was buried in a cliff for Legacy of Durin Chapter 4.3, 'Think Like A Goblin'.
• Fixed an issue where Delving Mission quests on Tier 8 counted toward the weekly delving quest "Delve Deepest", and 6-person tier 8 Delvings did not.
• NOTE: DELVE DEEPEST (WEEKLY) HAS BEEN VERSIONED. THIS QUEST WILL RESET ANY PROGRESS MADE ON UPDATE.
• Added new deeds for completing 3 and 6-person Delving instances on Tiers 8, 10, and 12; which reward Delving Barter Writs and Virtue XP.

Housing & Decorations:

• Doormats can now be used on Furniture Hooks.
• Small Rug decorations can now be used on Doormat hooks.
• Floor hooks have been consolidated with Furniture Hooks.
• Firepits now accept Furniture and Yard deco items.
• Yard Hooks now accept all Furniture Decorations.
• Furniture Hooks now accept all Yard Decorations.
• Samwise Gamgee - Loyal Attendant could previously give you some fish that, due to lack of recipes, would need to be eaten raw - completely against the advice he provides. This has been remedied.

Items & Rewards:

• Power potions now display a warning and are barred from use by Beornings, as using them as a Beorning has no effect.
• 16th Anniversary Festival Violet Explosion and Incandescent Lightning Fireworks have had their plural names and descriptions corrected.
• Dummies labeled 'No Mitigations' were erroneously still mitigating Orc-craft, Fell-wrought, and Morgul-forged damage types. This has been fixed, so these dummies should truly have no mitigations now, regardless of what damage types your skills deal.
• The Elderslade travel skills are now available from the delving barter.
• Beorning Armour and Jewellery is now correctly on the heavy armour vendor in Dor Amarth in Mordor.
• The Beorning Armour Set of the Forest Bounder and Brawler Armour of the Peerless Hand-fighter both now have correct armour values for each armour piece.
• Beorning armour rewards in the quest "Sworn to Secrecy" have been corrected to heavy armour, rather than medium.
• Enemies in Moria no longer drop obsolete Legendary Item rewards.
• Items from the Ettenmoors that were placed into players banks were throwing a string table error when added to bank inventories. This has been fixed.
• The Forochel reputation items Ajokoira Shoes, Leijona Boots, and Mammutti Boots now have a max level of 75.
• 'Steel Boots of the Mighty Warrior' has had its item level increased to 86.
• 'Dwarf-made Treasure' will now no longer drop from Chests, Backpacks, or Corpses within King's Gondor.
• Small and Medium Essence and Tracery Carry-alls can now hold up to 400 of any given essence, tracery, or enhancement rune.
• Large Essence and Tracery Carry-alls can now hold up to 1000 of any given essence, tracery, or enhancement rune.
• Rohan barter vendors for Maelstrom and Fulcrum Brawler gear now properly barter for their respective sets.

PvMP/Ettenmoors:

• The old 'Return to Gramsfoot' map now has a 1 minute cooldown, matching the newer version available from the updated intro quest.
• Updated the Ettenmoors quest to auto-bestow correctly.
• Players are now directed to head north to the Captain-General in Glan Vraig as part of the new player tutorial in the Ettenmoors.
• The Tarkrip blessing now correctly gives you +7.5% Max Morale (it was previously giving you +10%, despite stating 7.5% on its tooltip).
• Halglis, the Guardian barter vendor at Glân Vraig, has been informed that his attire was inappopriate. The dwarf, under minimal protest, relented and donned his armour once again. Huzzah!

Landscape:

• Implemented some additional safety nets to prevent Gloin and friends from sinking into the rocks behind Limlok.
• Increased the playable space for 'The Divided Loyalties of Glurkub the Goblin' to eliminate an inconvenient wall.
• Misc Travel Issues to and from King's Gondor have been resolved.
• Misc placement issues in King's Gondor have been resolved.
• Swift Travel Routes from various Stable-masters in The Shire no longer have level usage restrictions.
• Goats in Ost Norhir are now appropriately sturdy.
• Mithril Traders now properly display their names on the Radar.
• Players will no longer be able to fall through the wall/floor of The Last Homely House while in Instance: Messages from Lorien.
• Misc floating objects have been grounded in King's Gondor.
• Players should no longer fall through the floor when exiting The Splintered Shield in Minas Tirith (Midsummer).

Localization:

• German: Bestowal text for Akshir the Unrelenting now displays properly in English .
• The Following Titles now display properly in German:
  Láoch
  Spinner of a Good Yarn
  Invader of Gwathrenost
  Ally to the League of the Axe
  Friend to the League of the Axe
  Known to the League of the Axe
  Neutral to the League of the Axe
  Scout of the Mighty Court

Miscellaneous:

• The Illumination Garments - Gift-wrapped Selection Box now also includes the Hooded Cloak of Illumination as a selection option.
• Fixed an issue in the Before the Shadow Mission "The Jaws of Death" that allowed wargs to travel outside the instance space but still use delving skills.
• Dummies labeled 'No Mitigations' were erroneously still mitigating Orc-craft, Fell-wrought, and Morgul-forged damage types. This has been fixed, so these dummies should truly have no mitigations now, regardless of what damage types your skills deal.
• On smaller resolutions, the Rhovanion sub-menu will now have a scrollbar if it is too tall for the game client.
• Collection Panel information on where to acquire the following cosmetic pets has been updated: Formal Corgi, Toffee Goat Kid, Mottled Craban, Ashen Eagle, Copper Goat, Spotted Pig, Two-toned Sheep, and Red Gecko.
• Updated Strength of Morale to restore a value based on your current level.
• Stoop for a Stone, Head-butt, and Upper-cut have each been updated to deal more damage, but now have a 3 minute cooldown.
• All racial traits which modify your characters stats now give appropriate values. Traits which reduce a stat should always give smaller values than traits which increase a stat.
• Various Hobby Trout now specify that they can be used in crafting by Apprentice Cooks.
• Human female and Beorning female were playing a male laugh at the end of the /drinkboot emote - they now play a female laugh instead.
• Emotes - Many race/gender combos were incorrectly playing two burp sound effects during the /burp emote animation; the extraneous burp at the start of the animation has been removed.
• Emotes - the /attack emote now has sound effects for all races and genders.
• Emotes - Human females and Beorning females now play the correct sounds for the following emotes: /drinkboot, /sneeze, /stone, /paper, /scissors, and /wipesweat.
• The Dwarf-candle cosmetic consumables have been retired from the LOTRO Store.