Twenty Questions – Helm’s Deep Expansion. Ask your own question!

[Ithrien]

1. Will each trait line (so, will each classes 3 trees, individually) have its own full LI set-up designed specifically for it?

2. What is going to happen to armor sets that currently give bonuses to our skills? Scrapped? Revamped?

3. What about proc items? "Every single target heal" and "Every Captain healing skill", "Every harmful attack" will still be around, even if the name of the skills/the code gets changed. Will these still be triggered by our skills?

[Thrabath]

How many 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12-mans will the Big Battles cluster have?

[Tirian-Hammerfist]

at $40 or $60 for Helm's Deep, why isnt it all inclusive? Helm's Deep should include all previous content and expac's. Thats the only way Im buying it.

Don't be ridiculous - this is the same ballpark figure as has been charged for all previous expansions.

[VeryBeary]

Can you/will you please add one or two additional outdoor and indoor "hooks" to all housing with the Helm's Deep expansion, to tide us over until the full housing revamp arrives?

[Danchir]

What is the 'threat/tanking revamp' going to be, essentially?

Once the 'tech' is already in place, what is the price for developing 'Epic Battles' content compared to that of traditional instances?

How many 'Epic Battles' instances are we going to have and what will be their group size distribution?

Are there any (and what exactly) housing changes coming with HD?

[SatinKnight]

What was the design intent of going with the skill trees? From what has been announced it appears to be reduce the number of skills we have available in any one build. Will the new weaker characters be able to go back and do old content?

[Lettice9]

How will threat management work after Helm's Deep ?

[Ayaria1988]

When you go back to start with your lucky loot system? I can't be that is only luck with that golden items.

[dori_bolger]

1. Will LI legacies be changed to match the new tree system abilities?

2. What is the justification for switching from the current system to the ability tree model?

[Saniko]

These would be my top three, thanks!

The Guardian Developer Diary raised some questions in the feedback thread about threat management. Can you explain what is changing and how threat and tanking is expected to work (not just for Guardians, but for Wardens and tank-traited Champions and Captains)?

How have you solved the landscape connection between the Eriador and Rhovanion landmasses in the Ford of Isen area? With a loading screen?

With introduction of up-scaling, any plans for down-scaling to fixed instance levels in the future?

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at $40 or $60 for Helm's Deep, why isnt it all inclusive? Helm's Deep should include all previous content and expac's. Thats the only way Im buying it.

Don't be ridiculous - this is the same ballpark figure as has been charged for all previous expansions.

Aye, or wait a year or so, I'm sure Turbine will have a bundle offer with HD, like this one. Things like this tend to get cheaper with time :P

[Thruili]

Will (scalable) instances/raids/skirmishes require at least one tank, one healer and one or two support classes per fellowship and thus be more challenging than what we have played for the last months?

[Freyjo]

Any changes (or a return) to hunter solo survivability coming any time soon?

I second this question.

[Anolus]

Do you have any plan to avoid people from looting 2x or more of the same 1x class gold items ?

[Eldarian_Grace]

With HD we get class trait re-do's and big battles, but the big battles have us playing as three new roles, separate from our classes. what's the thinking behind this?

[Arodion]

Quoting this: Based on the captain developer diary, why are support classes forced to specialise and lose key support abilities when in fact lack of specialisation is entirely the point?

[Zvim666]

I have always enjoyed exploration and at times there have been very difficult encounters which needed a great deal of survivability and versatility to resolve alone, will specialisation in HD make these a lot harder or not possible to do solo?

[Firenoah]

Will there be any re-scaling, or re-doing of the Rune-Keeper's Ice side of things? It seems like it's worse compared to fire and lightning.

[Razorlan]

We have all heard rumors that there may be a mounted combat revamp coming out with Helm's Deep. What, if any, changes can we expect to mounted combat?

[Razorlan]

With the new talent tree coming out, is there any danger that we might lose some of our favorite skills, or will they all survive in some form?

[Hudson7]

What has changed in the development process that has allowed a release of an expansion with only 2 months of beta testing far shorter then Isengard or Rohan?

[Eored88]

Alternatively...
Why is it that in Epic scenes that come straight from the books, the dialogue is almost always paraphrased rather than directly quoted? Copyright issues or something similar?

This! This! This! This! I have always wondered why the epic scenes from LOTR don't seem to remotely resemble Tolkein's work.

Also: will low-level (i.e. level 10) characters gain leveling experience through engaging in Big Battles?

[Inkfinger]

Please explain the changes to threat management in a clear concise manner as it concerns tanking

[Crell_1]

Also: will low-level (i.e. level 10) characters gain leveling experience through engaging in Big Battles?

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...t=#post6868414

You earn xp and all other scalable rewards at your true level. So in your question, a level 10 character who completed a quest in a Big Battle would earn experience as if he just completed a level 10 quest. Marks and medallions would be at level 10 earn rates. And any items potentially acquired would be munged to level 10.

[Honvikuk]

Will 1st ages be avalaible for level 95's on release and how will we be able to get them?

What raid will be upscaled for release of Helms Deep.

Thanks!

[Hudson7]

Can you break out the Turbine point cost of HD, or provide a timeline of when this information will be available?
Why wasn't this available with the Pre-order announcement like it was for Rohan?