Beornings not on the main page?

[humble4848]

Just curious, but is there a reason why LOTRO's site doesn't have Beornings on the possible list of races to play?

[Oelle]

because its outdated and they dont want to promote the weakest class.

[daedalusAI]

Just curious, but is there a reason why LOTRO's site doesn't have Beornings on the possible list of races to play?

Would you want to promote a class released with U15 november 2014 which still has non-functioning abilities and traits and gets 0 love - even burgs and hunters are getting some now?

[Theandil]

At last this trait have full meaning of Beorning race ingame:

https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Few...eorning_Trait)

[Cordovan]

That page is in serious need of updating. It's on my longer-term to-do list.

[daedalusAI]

That page is in serious need of updating. It's on my longer-term to-do list.

Your new slogan as seen in the beorning thread in the bullroarer forum: "When time permits".

[Cordovan]

Your new slogan as seen in the beorning thread in the bullroarer forum: "When time permits".

It's true, things have to be done when there is time to do them over other priorities. I've been keeping an eye out for a time machine, but you'll never know if I succeeded, because I will have gone back and addressed the issue, so you'll never have noticed the problem nor posted about it. But if I make a time machine to fix a problem that then doesn't exist at the time I build the time machine, do I actually build the time machine to begin with?

[Joedangod]

To be fair Cordovan came in as community manager after most of the attempts to get devs to notice the Beornings took place on these forums. Most of the threads containing pertinent information about the class were old when he came in, these threads are still relevant but since they didn't get much if any new posts it wouldn't surprise me if they tended to slip under the radar.

I understand that you can't really give more much than "when time permits" in regards to the dev side of things but I would like to ask is there anything we can do as players that might help reduce the dev load in this case. The bug list seemed to be a decent start so would it be helpful if I went back through the list and provided evidence for each of the issues? Would structured evaluations of the performance of Beorning in end game roles help improve chances of updates in terms of trait trees/skills? Are there other additional player side acts that could be done in order to help resolve the issues that the Beorning has?

[Cordovan]

I have spent time talking to some team members about the Beorning, and it's pretty clear that the community's feedback is to prioritize work to improve the class' balance compared to other classes in addition to fixing a bunch of bugs. I can't give any sort of ETA on the when, but hopefully sooner rather than later.

Regarding the web pages in particular, I want to go through the front page and adjust pages in a way that is more supportable in the future. The current setup strangely requires updating the web site to do things that should be possible through simply editing a page, so I will instead rebuild the page to be more up-to-date in the future.

[gripply]

Just curious, but is there a reason why LOTRO's site doesn't have Beornings on the possible list of races to play?

Please provide a link, your question is confusing. Where do you not see it, and expect to? "LOTRO's site" is just too vague. The home page (ie. clicking the logo?) or what?

[Joedangod]

I have spent time talking to some team members about the Beorning, and it's pretty clear that the community's feedback is to prioritize work to improve the class' balance compared to other classes in addition to fixing a bunch of bugs. I can't give any sort of ETA on the when, but hopefully sooner rather than later.

Thanks for the additional info on what might get looked at, was a little worried that it might be purely bug fixes. At least this gives a slim thread of hope for some changes, something that has been missing from the Beorning forums for quite some time.