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Server Opening Time: Thursday, 04/13 ~7:30 PM ET
Server Closing Time: Saturday, 04/15 ~Noon ET (subject to change)
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- Character Copy is AVAILABLE. This can be accessed through the 'Transfer' button on any LOTRO Launcher.
- NOTE: The player database was wiped for Beta #1 on 03/29.
- If you have not purchased 'Return to Carn Dûm' on your live account you can purchase Preview Access through the Bullroarer LOTRO Store.
- LOTRO Points for only Bullroarer may be obtained from Aubergine, near the fireplace in the Eyes and Guard Tavern.
Update 35.1 - Gwathrenost, the Witch-king's Citadel!
Welcome to Update 35.1, and Gwathrenost, the Witch-king's Citadel, on the Bullroarer Public Preview server! This is a new Raid for Level 140 Players set in a re-imagined Carn Dûm.
"Once the seat of the Witch-king of Angmar, the dread citadel of Gwathrenost casts a long shadow upon the city of Carn Dûm. All but abandoned after the Steward of Angmar was deposed, the remnants of the Iron Crown have crept forth from the shadows, seeking to master a lost artifact of the Witch-king and reclaim dominion over the realm."
Angmar Reborn: Carn Dûm
- Raid:
- Gwathrenost, the Witch-king's Citadel - (Available to tier 3)
- Please post feedback here: Gwathrenost, the Witch-king's Citadel
- Known Issue: The second boss Castellan Obáshurz and end boss Shard of Tauressar mechanics are not active yet, coming soon!
Players who wish to aid in the fight against the Iron Crown should travel to Bail Avarc in Angmar. Bail Avarc can be reached via the stable-masters at Esteldín, Gath Forthnír, and Rivendell. Bail Avarc can initially only be accessed via stable-master routes. Travel skills are also available for barter from the Stewards of the Iron-home.
LOTRO is celebrating the uniqueness of every player!
Our latest update celebrates individuality with additional character customization options for the Race of Men (humans) that let players express themselves in new ways. We want to make as many players feel represented in the game as possible, and we are introducing new character creation options for your face, hair, and body! We know there is more work to do to offer a wider variety of character creation options, and we will be following up this release with additional options in the future.
Here are some things to know:
- Your existing characters remain mostly unchanged, although we have updated some textures to improve their look.
- There are now more shared options between genders, including hair and beard styles where applicable.
- The body proportion range has been increased.
- These new options are also available at the Barber for access to existing characters.
BULLROARER KNOWN ISSUES:
- The Race of Men are not displaying old avatars with "Avatar Update Visible" de-selected. This check box will be removed for the Race of Men with the release of Update 35.1.
- Race of Men female Rune-keeper combat animations are not working.
- Race of Men and Beorning female characters combat animations are not working properly.
Release Notes - Beta #3: New release notes are in violet.
Brawler:
- Brawlers now can barter for jewellery at the Dol Amroth Big Battle vendors, in addition to the Minas Tirith vendors.
- Fixed an issue where some Brawler jewellery was restricted to the Beorning class, instead of Brawlers.
Captain
- Healing from the Standard of Honour is now correctly improved by the 'Relentless Optimism' trait.
- Courageous Convocation no longer prevents Words of Courage from turning into Courageous Heart while Stand Alone is active.
- Stacks of At the Fore no longer suggest that they affect your Outgoing Healing.
- Blade-brother and Stand Alone now state that they will prevent the other from being used while active.
Minstrel
- The blue-line trait 'Improved Chord of Salvation' now makes Chord of Salvation an Immediate skill, in addition to adding the fellowship-wide heal.
- Toggled Melody/Echoes of Battle skill cooldowns reduced to 2s.
- The Call to Greatness tooltip once again refers to the correct Captain skills.
Warden
- The Gambit healing bonus from specializing in Determination now correctly affects healing from Conviction.
- The 'Fist Gambit Damage & Critical Chance' tracery now correctly improves the DoT from Resounding Challenge.
- The trait 'No Respite for the Wicked' no longer refers to the Offensive Strike Gambit line.
- The max range and AoE size of Deflection was reversed for its melee and ranged variants. The melee version is now correctly centered on yourself, while the ranged version has a smaller AoE centered on your target.
- The description of the trait 'On the Offence' has been corrected, and no longer suggests that Offensive Strike has a morale-tap.
- Desperate Combat now activates Desperate Spear/Shield/Fist for 90 seconds, rather than 30, so you can spend charges until all of them are consumed or the skill's cooldown has expired.
- The blue-line trait 'Never Surrender' now displays the correct cooldown reduction.
- Damage increased slightly for direct-damage gambits (The Boot - Wall of Steel & Offensive Strike - Boar's Rush).
- Several class traceries were giving the incorrect secondary stat on legendary quality versions. These now give the appropriate secondary stats, matching their lower-quality counterparts.
Pets:
- Bear and Herald Taunts no longer apply threat catchup.
- We've been having some issues with pets breaking instance encounters if they are able to hold agro on bosses, so until we have a more comprehensive fix ready we're reducing them to force-taunt only.
Delvings:
- Completing tier 11 or tier 12 Delving quests in Cardolan missions will now advance some tier 11 and tier 12 specific deeds.
- The tooltip for the Delving Malice "Lingering Fear" has been corrected to reflect that it affects both outgoing and incoming healing.
Monster Play:
- Fixed an issue where the skill to Return to Glán Vraig will now correctly execute and advance the tutorial quest.
- Updated the responses in the Ettenmoors to extend the bonus granted by controlling the mine to all territories in the Ettenmoors.
- There were a handful of quests that were blocked behind completing the old version of the monster player tutorial. These are now available to monster players who have played the new or old versions of the monster play tutorials.
- A grammatical issue in the new free people tutorial in the Ettenmoors was fixed.
- Defeating Tyrant Burzgoth now properly advances the Weekly objective in the Ettenmoors weekly quest.
- The second tier of the weekly Free People Ettenmoors quest now requires 21 Ettenmoors general quests to complete - this is technically the same number as before, as the previous version of the weekly counts toward the completion of the second weekly quest.
- Audacity now correctly multiplies damage by 0.55, reducing incoming damage by 45%, rather than by 55%.
Quests & Instances:
- Return to Carn Dûm - Repeatable quests for Sant Lhoer, Thaurisgar, and Sagroth now properly require Level 140 to be accepted.
- Return to Carn Dûm - Various quests at Bail Avarc now provide an option to open the Instance Join panel directly to the related Instance or Raid. NOTE: These quests have been versioned and will be removed from your quest log, so you will need to accept them again at Bail Avarc.
- Sagroth, Lair of Vermin - Cleansing devices are now usable earlier into Rádarríg's fight.
- Quest 'Into Sant Lhoer, The Poison Gardens' has be updated so that if a player missing talking with Dolag outside of the greenhouse and kills the boss first the quest can still be completed.
- Fixed a bug in quest 'Into Sant Lhoer, the Poison Gardens' where only one member of a Fellowship was able to advance the quest at certain locations.
- Sagroth, Lair of Vermin - Players may return to the quest hub in Carn Dûm by leaving through the instance's entrance.
- The Heavy and Superior Heavy Iron Mace of Sagroth, Lair of Vermin, with might as a granted stat, should no longer drop from the instance chests for Burglars and Hunters.
- The Balanced and Superior Balanced War Hammer of Sagroth, Lair of Vermin, with agility as a granted stat, should no longer drop from the instance chests for Champions.
- The final boss in Thaurisgar, the Vile Apothecary on T4 now drops correct chest.
- Sant Lhoer - Venom-twisted Reavers in the Oganuin encounter are no longer eligible to become Scions.
- Thaurisgar - Bile Tanks are no longer eligible to become Scions.
- Quest 'Into Sant Lhoer, The Poison Gardens' has been adjusted so that it shows up in the Angmar Reborn category in the Quest Log.
- Repeatable quests for Sant Lhoer have had their quest items adjusted so that they don't show up as highlighted on the landscape map.
- Fixed a bug in the Poison Gardens where the boss and other monsters sometimes spawned in at level 1.
General:
- The Delver's Vivid Essence Box will correctly display as Item Level 481.
- Both the "Carn Dûm Drum of Deep Doom" and "Carn Dûm Drum of Aged Secrets", including all rarity levels, have had their Ballad and Coda damage increased to 30%.
- All Class items from the Return to Carn Dûm instance cluster are now Bind to Account.
- All Class items from the Return to Carn Dûm instance cluster now have max levels of 144.
- "Finely-strung Lute of the Veteran Minstrel" now has a max level of 115.
- Carn Dûm Travel Skills have been moved to their own Return to Carn Dûm barter profile without any prerequisites.
- Adjusted physics in portions of Sagroth.
- Fixed Zfighting in Under the Drearspire.
- Removed portal FX from Bail Avarc.
- Grounded floating deco in Bail Avarc.
- Shadows on water now only affects the water debris layer (algae, seafoam, etc) and not the water itself.
- Ocean water in Belfalas and Pelargir now correctly retains is green color in the dawnless day.
- We've backed out the monster mitigation changes, as they were exacerbating the differences between DPS classes' armor penetration too much at higher levels.
- The heath adjustment is changing from [+25% -> +15%] so it's less impactful on high end instance difficulty as well.
- The following shields have their armour value updated to correctly reflect Incomparable rarity:
- Superior Broad Targe of Sagroth, Lair of Vermin
- Superior Stout Targe of Sagroth, Lair of Vermin
- Superior Reinforced Aegis of Sagroth, Lair of Vermin
- Superior Bright Aegis of Sagroth, Lair of Vermin
- Superior Reinforced Targe of Sagroth, Lair of Vermin
- Superior Restorative Shield of Sagroth, Lair of Vermin
- Superior Resilient Shield of Sagroth, Lair of Vermin - Newly acquired Wayfarer Shields from Traveller's lootboxes will now have the appropriate amount of stat bonuses, which increases the stats at levels 10-40.
- Adventurer's and Traveller's Steel-bound lootboxes contain new "Alchemist's" cosmetic items including avatar cosmetics, housing items, a steed and matching war-steed appearances.
- These items are also available on Myrtle Mint for Figments of Splendour. Adventurer's and Traveller's Steel-bound lootboxes also now contain a Rust Corgi cosmetic pet.
- Adventurer's Steel-bound lootboxes now have a chance to drop Delving Adventurer's Vivid Essence Boxes.
- Newly acquired Adventurer's lootbox gear, for level 140 characters, will now scale to item level 478 - 480.
- Some older avatar cosmetics and steeds have been moved off of Myrtle Mint and onto the Curator.