Todays patch notes?

[AaylaKheledlire]

Great, thanks for share! Any info about the next Producer's Letter?

[MarkNH]

"Reduced the quality of the regular boss chests for Durchest and the Twins on Tier 1 and Tier 2. They will no longer drop 2nd Age Symbols, among other things. "

Looks like AH prices for symbols are going to go up.

[Andlac]

I probably should have farmed Durchest more

[Peter_Pan]

Brosh's embroidered cloak STILL not in game?? Is it really that hard to add something to the loot table?

I'd like to get some clarification on this as well before I start farming Seat of the Great Goblin.
Additionally, I didn't see anything about the gold items dropping from the wrong instances (Malledhrim items dropping from the Erebor instances, instead of the Exemplary items). Has this been addressed?

[Saphyrra]

inb4 the - "OMG I CANT FARM DURCHEST T1 ANYMORE" :P

some nice changes can see its going to make some rage threads ofcourse.

Atleast now the erebor challenge chests should drop the exemplary content instead of the malledhrim like its doing.

[Thronst]

TBH, I'm glad Durchest has been nerfed. I became sick of the runs. In fact, everybody on my server did. For the last week or 2, the number of durch farms a day had dropped massively. Before, there seemed to have constantly been at least one durch farm, and Gladden's a server which has large off-peak times. Now people will hopefully actually run BG and people will have a chance at getting the loot for the twins and Lieutenant. That, or people just return to skraids.

[Siegfriedpf]

Then if Turbine wants to be honest and forthright about it they ought to change the message on the launcher (and elsewhere) instead of relying on a technical but ultimately misleading interpretation ("Patch notes will be available during the downtime" is accurate, even if they're posted with only five minutes to go in the patch).

Lessee--downtime started at 7. Thread opened at 7:12. Notes posted at about 8:05. Sorry--what's the problem again?

[Sapience]

Before we get too far down the road of "loot was nerfed!", let me point out that we told you it would be in some instances (and improved in others) the day update 9 went live. It was listed as a known issue.

Instances

• Certain instances are currently dropping incorrect loot. While some are overly generous, others are overly conservative. This will be addressed in a future update.

[Edwar368]

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The patch notes have traditionally always been available within about an hour of the game servers going down. On rare, very rare, occasions they are posted in advance of the down time. "Patch notes will be available during the downtime" is accurate. Because it may be earlier or later than we expect we don't put a time on it, but they always (again with rare exceptions) go up at some point during the downtime.

Sorry, but I disagree ... They were NOT accurate because at the time I read it, they were NOT available. I never asked for a time to be included in the text, what I asked for was a general comment that would not need to be updated every time, plus a url link to a location people could monitor for the patch notes.
As can be seen from other peoples comments, find the patch notes is not exactly intuitive. The "release notes" page is a mess and you need to know to scroll to the bottom right for the most recent, plus the teasing link at the top that says "Release/latest" ...isn't. As the patch notes so often like to say .... "its the little things"

[arghh]

nothing is said about fixing the loot dropping from wrong instances. (like Darkened Lieutenant's Earring dropping from Warg Pens instead of Cruelly Spiked Bracelet for the Guardian). Did you look into that? hope it got fixed also.
love the updates Turbine! Keep up your neverending good job.

[destraru]

I can see reducing the drop rate for symbols in BG Durchest and Twins but removing it entirely wow, I didn't get a symbol from there until my 100th run, sure some people get incredibly lucky with the RNG but not everybody...and an increase to the boulder damage in IP seriously? a 1hit quit for most light and med wasn't enough damage? I do like the increased gear drop and relics/ixp runes at least I wont do runs where all I get is a frigging bounty anymore. On the bright side I dont think I will have to worry about getting into raids anymore since everybody is only going to want t2 fulls with well geared players

[TinDragon]

Sorry, but I disagree ... They were NOT accurate because at the time I read it, they were NOT available. I never asked for a time to be included in the text, what I asked for was a general comment that would not need to be updated every time, plus a url link to a location people could monitor for the patch notes.
As can be seen from other peoples comments, find the patch notes is not exactly intuitive. The "release notes" page is a mess and you need to know to scroll to the bottom right for the most recent, plus the teasing link at the top that says "Release/latest" ...isn't. As the patch notes so often like to say .... "its the little things"

Or you could just watch the Dev tracker for Sapience to post the link (which he always does!) or keep an eye on Twitter/Facebook (where the link is also posted).

[ElricM]

What about wardens sword parry bonus with grandmaster weapon training and sword training? And the buggy ToO Thamen Set? These are very easy things to fix and yet again nothing.Thank you very much turbine. You break class stuff and let players wait for months or half a year for a fix again.

[Edwar368]

Or you could just watch the Dev tracker for Sapience to post the link (which he always does!) or keep an eye on Twitter/Facebook (where the link is also posted).

You are sort of missing the point. My suggestion is minimal effort to implement with a larger positive impact. If it is added to the launcher, so anyone trying playing the game, see's it there and then and can click it. Not everyone follows Facebook, not everyone has twitter, not everyone knows (or wants) to follow the dev tracker. As you might be able to see from my "join date" I have been playing less than a year. One of the problems with people who have being playing a long time is that they have learnt these little tricks about what to look for where and accept them as "normal", but there are players who don't know them, and it can put newer people off when they don't know how to find things. The problem I mentioned above about knowing the work arounds is common across all software and systems and is OK for a period of time, but the mistake comes if a company continues to ignore the issues and accept the work around as "part of the system". When the solution to the problem is so simple to implement, will bring benefit to both the product and its customers, to ignore it, is just wrong.

[Thodorin]

Thanks for the german and french patchnotes for 9.1. But i'm still missing the german and french patchnotes from Update 9. They are still only in english.

[Chris91]

Nothing about an increase in Gold Item drop chance? Especially in BG T2 those should drop far more often

[Sapience]

You are sort of missing the point. My suggestion is minimal effort to implement with a larger positive impact. If it is added to the launcher, so anyone trying playing the game, see's it there and then and can click it. Not everyone follows Facebook, not everyone has twitter, not everyone knows (or wants) to follow the dev tracker. As you might be able to see from my "join date" I have been playing less than a year. One of the problems with people who have being playing a long time is that they have learnt these little tricks about what to look for where and accept them as "normal", but there are players who don't know them, and it can put newer people off when they don't know how to find things. The problem I mentioned above about knowing the work arounds is common across all software and systems and is OK for a period of time, but the mistake comes if a company continues to ignore the issues and accept the work around as "part of the system". When the solution to the problem is so simple to implement, will bring benefit to both the product and its customers, to ignore it, is just wrong.

I think you're missing the point. The notice of downtime, with the notice that the release notes will be available during the downtime is updated once the release notes go live with a link directly to the release notes.

This has always been the case. And is the case today and will be the case next time.

Anyway, this is all moot as the notes and all associated links are up and so are the servers. Enjoy the game!