Bullroarer Update 29 - Preview #1 - CLOSED

[LordOfTheSquids]

Bullroarer is CLOSED.
Server Closing Time: Thursday, 02/11 5:00 PM EST (Subject to change)

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Bullroarer is available for an early look at Update 29.
Beyond the Bree-fields lies the lightly travelled wilderness of the Wildwood. This heavily forested area has drawn the attention of two groups of Free Peoples who vie for its resources. The League of the Axe, a group of game hunters and miners down on their fortunes, seek to tap the land's resources and ferry their bounty down the Brandywine from Trader's Wharf to markets abroad. Meanwhile, a group of villagers in Trestlebridge have formed the Woodcutter’s Brotherhood, with the goal of taking advantage of the Wildwood to benefit the folk of Bree-land and rebuild Trestlebridge to its former glory. Both factions must decide the fate of the Wildwood as they work against unsavory Brigands and the Tarkrîp Orcs. The update also includes two new 3-player scaling instances set in Eriador, "Woe of the Willow" & "Agoroth, the Narrowdelve".

Wildwood
Visit Enid Nettlesting at the Trader's Wharf in Evendim or Aran Greenwith at the Trestlebridge Gate in North Downs to start the Wildwood questline

• These quests unlock as you finish various reputation tiers for the two factions in WildwoodI
  
  • KNOWN ISSUE: If you have completed Epic Book Volume 1 'Book 3, Chapter 6, Part III of III: The Free Peoples of Trestlebridge' you will not be able to enter Nellie's house to complete the quest 'Surveying the Wild Lands'. This issue will be corrected in a future update.
  • Update: 02/10 - This issue should now be corrected
  
  
• Missions, Landscape and Repeatable quests are available for testing.
• Quests have a Challenge level of 45
• Wildwood Deeds can be found on the Bree-land tab of the Deed Log
• Itemization is not done (mostly not present or placeholder) for Wildwood barter, Wildwood missions barter, and the instances.

Instances
The intro quests for these instances begin with Aragorn in Rivendell after completing Book 13, Chapter 10: A Triumphant Return and from Hob Hayward at the Buckland Gate

• Agoroth, the Narrowdelve
• Woe of the Willow
• Spring Festival: Boss from the Vaults: Naruhel the Red-maid

Release Notes
Classes:

• Burglar - Mischievous Glee healing Legacy fixed. Healing bonus value adjusted to properly reflect implementation.
• Captain - Reverted change that prevented Revealing Mark from targeting Creeps.
• Guardian - Shield-wall will no longer block the target from using Stamp.
• Guardian - Fixed erroneous placeholder text for the Bolster characteristic.
• Guardian - Added tooltip notes stating that Warrior's Fortitude traits from separate trees will not stack. This is just a text change reflecting the existing functionality.
• Rune-keeper - When the Closing Remarks buff is consumed by Epic Conclusion, it is replaced by the Aftershock buff, providing +20% Lightning Dmg & +25% Lightning Crit chance for up to 10s, or until it is replaced by a new instance of Closing Remarks.

Quests & Adventure Areas:

• 'On A Mission (Weekly)' will be versioned when Update 29 is released. If you intend to complete it without having your progress interrupted (for the week of the patch), please complete it before the patch is deployed. If it was not bestowed or completed, it will bestow normally upon completing a qualifying mission.
• Fishing works properly in the Elderslade region now.
• Suppliers, Provisions and Healers in the Rohan Neighborhoods now have the correct discounts.
• Removed bush from base of stairs in Frostbluff.
• Grounded floating column in Anghumu-ru in Moria.
• Stable-master in Annâk-khurfu no longer sounds like a Beorning.
• Fixes stuck spot at r3 lx1646 ly1828 ox136.24 oy98.05 oz355.48 h234.8.
• Gandalf is no longer floating in pre-battled Minas Tirith (r3 lx1277 ly586 ox119.37 oy59.72 oz419.97 h199.7).
• Random Water plane will no longer appear above the players in the Kidzhul-Kalah Mission.
• Fixed depthcarving issue in Elderslade Angmarim Tower (r2 lx816 ly1624 cInside ox0.11 oy11.39 oz-46.15 h4.2).
• Fixed stairs issue in Gates of Gundabad (r2 lx792 ly1636 ox5.99 oy86.99 oz926.58 h241.9).
• Fixed patrol issue at the Orc Encampment in Lothlorien (r2 lx754 ly1142 ox52.25 oy139.69 oz565.30 h42.2).
• Fixed sunken resource node in Fanuidhol (r2 lx755 ly1154 ox66.24 oy43.75 oz559.06 h293.9).
• Grounded floating resource node in Kingstead (r2 lx793 ly664 ox35.10 oy10.32 oz236.22 h253.1).
• Dug up buried resource nodes and quest objects in Kingstead (r2 lx788 ly688 ox81.43 oy11.23 oz281.93 h173.0 , r2 lx792 ly687 ox19.92 oy140.50 oz272.50 h210.9).
• Fixing some major holes in the impassables of the southern section of Western Fangorn (r2 lx687 ly808 ox157.68 oy0.32 oz491.22 h250.3).
• Thrymm Redbeard grew taller in Throne of the Dread Terror, but perhaps it was just his legendary status. Now he's back to his normal height (but his legend remains undimmed).

Housing:

• In Rohan housing neighborhoods, the Ambience Furnisher and housing brokers should now give appropriate vendor discounts based on your housing passive skills.
• The supplier summoned with the Gondorian Supplier Horn housing decoration should now give the appropriate vendor discount (the highest discount from any of your housing passive skills, including Belfalas and Rohan houses).

Items:

• The cosmetic pet Huorns now have a more appropriate set of sounds while moving.
• You can now use your hobby horse mounts in more areas of Middle-earth.

Monster Play:

• Warleader - On Your Feet reverted to a non-fellowship effect.
• Warleader - Quitters Never Win changed to a fellowship effect
• Defiler - Slick Flesh changed to a fellowship effect.
• Fixed some stretched textures in the Ettenmoors.
• Removed LoS breaks on barriers near Gramsfoot to prevent Freeps avoiding the ranged NPCs.

Misc:

• For Wildwood, the virtue cap has been increased to 74 (for characters who are level 130).
• LOTRO lighting has been updated! A new Advanced Graphics option named "Per Pixel Lighting Attenuation" has been added for DirectX 10/11 that increases the lighting quality. Toggling this option to true will enable softer lighting as well as more consistently used normalmaps and specular highlights.

[Riddim The Legend]

• Warleader - Slick Flesh and Quitters Never Win changed to a fellowship effect.

Slick Flesh is Defiler's skill. Someone had to say it, it's not funny anymore.

[Freenen]

Bullroarer is CLOSED

Server Closing Time: Thursday, 02/11 5:00 PM EST (Subject to change)

• Report A Bug
• Character copy is AVAILABLE. This can be accessed through the 'Transfer' button on the Bullroarer Launcher.
• Guide to the Eyes and Guard Tavern

Update 29 - Wildwood

Bullroarer is available for an early look at Update 29.

Wildwood
Visit Enid Nettlesting at the Trader's Wharf in Evendim or Aran Greenwith at the Trestlebridge Gate in North Downs to start the Wildwood questline

• These quests unlock as you finish various reputation tiers for the two factions in Wildwood
• Missions, Landscape and Repeatable quests are available for testing.
• Quests have a Challenge level of 45
• Wildwood Deeds can be found on the Bree-land tab of the Deed Log
• Itemization is not done (mostly not present or placeholder) for Wildwood barter, Wildwood missions barter, and the instances.
• Please let us know if you see any instances of 'DNT' in the text

Instances
Visit Aragorn in Rivendell

• Agoroth, the Narrowdelve
• Woe of the Willow
• Spring Festival: Boss from the Vaults: Naruhel the Red-maid

Release Notes

Classes:

• Burglar - Mischievous Glee healing Legacy fixed. Healing bonus value adjusted to properly reflect implementation.
• Captain - Reverted change that prevented Revealing Mark from targeting Creeps.
• Guardian - Shield-wall will no longer block the target from using Stamp.
• Guardian - Fixed erroneous placeholder text for the Bolster characteristic.
• Guardian - Added tooltip notes stating that Warrior's Fortitude traits from separate trees will not stack. This is just a text change reflecting the existing functionality.

Quests & Adventure Areas:

• 'On A Mission (Weekly)' will be versioned when Update 29 is released. If you intend to complete it without having your progress interrupted (for the week of the patch), please complete it before the patch is deployed. If it was not bestowed or completed, it will bestow normally upon completing a qualifying mission.
• Fishing works properly in the Elderslade region now.
• Suppliers, Provisions and Healers in the Rohan Neighborhoods now have the correct discounts.
• Removed bush from base of stairs in Frostbluff.
• Grounded floating column in Anghumu-ru in Moria.
• Stable-master in Annâk-khurfu no longer sounds like a Beorning.
• Fixes stuck spot at r3 lx1646 ly1828 ox136.24 oy98.05 oz355.48 h234.8.
• Gandalf is no longer floating in pre-battled Minas Tirith (r3 lx1277 ly586 ox119.37 oy59.72 oz419.97 h199.7).
• Random Water plane will no longer appear above the players in the Kidzhul-Kalah Mission.
• Fixed depthcarving issue in Elderslade Angmarim Tower (r2 lx816 ly1624 cInside ox0.11 oy11.39 oz-46.15 h4.2).
• Fixed stairs issue in Gates of Gundabad (r2 lx792 ly1636 ox5.99 oy86.99 oz926.58 h241.9).
• Fixed patrol issue at the Orc Encampment in Lothlorien (r2 lx754 ly1142 ox52.25 oy139.69 oz565.30 h42.2).
• Fixed sunken resource node in Fanuidhol (r2 lx755 ly1154 ox66.24 oy43.75 oz559.06 h293.9).
• Grounded floating resource node in Kingstead (r2 lx793 ly664 ox35.10 oy10.32 oz236.22 h253.1).
• Dug up buried resource nodes and quest objects in Kingstead (r2 lx788 ly688 ox81.43 oy11.23 oz281.93 h173.0 , r2 lx792 ly687 ox19.92 oy140.50 oz272.50 h210.9).
• Fixing some major holes in the impassables of the southern section of Western Fangorn (r2 lx687 ly808 ox157.68 oy0.32 oz491.22 h250.3).
• Thrymm Redbeard grew taller in Throne of the Dread Terror, but perhaps it was just his legendary status. Now he's back to his normal height (but his legend remains undimmed).

Housing:

• In Rohan housing neighborhoods, the Ambience Furnisher and housing brokers should now give appropriate vendor discounts based on your housing passive skills.
• The supplier summoned with the Gondorian Supplier Horn housing decoration should now give the appropriate vendor discount (the highest discount from any of your housing passive skills, including Belfalas and Rohan houses).

Items:

• The cosmetic pet Huorns now have a more appropriate set of sounds while moving.
• You can now use your hobby horse mounts in more areas of Middle-earth.

Monster Play:

• Warleader - On Your Feet reverted to a non-fellowship effect.
• Warleader - Slick Flesh and Quitters Never Win changed to a fellowship effect.
• Fixed some stretched textures in the Ettenmoors.
• Removed LoS breaks on barriers near Gramsfoot to prevent Freeps avoiding the ranged NPCs.

Misc:

• For Wildwood, the virtue cap has been increased to 74 (for characters who are level 130).
• LOTRO lighting has been updated! A new Advanced Graphics option named "Per Pixel Lighting Attenuation" has been added for DirectX 10/11 that increases the lighting quality. Toggling this option to true will enable softer lighting as well as more consistently used normalmaps and specular highlights.

Please also fix the "Aggregating Wound" trait in the red line warden, it doesn't give any crit chance at all.

[SingularityNow]

Sorry man, but it seems you missed a bullet point:

Monster Play:

• Fixed the issue where the freeps stay on the GV steps and the PVMP has completely died out across all servers.

[AaylaKheledlire]

Little old suggestion: Please add Dead Marshes map title and zoom option to maps: Gondor map, The Wastes (To Dead Marshes at west side). Thanks thanks!

[SingularityNow]

Good grief, these three items were already done!!

Monster Play:
Warleader - On Your Feet reverted to a non-fellowship effect.
Warleader - Quitters Never Win changed to a fellowship effect
Defiler - Slick Flesh changed to a fellowship effect.

from 28.3.1
PvMP

• Creep Core stats have had their range compressed. The difference between a core stat that was 1-5 is now 2-4.
• Creepside corruptions now grant less BPE, and modestly less Physical Mitigation. Creeps will need to use more corruptions to achieve particularly "tanky" values.
  
• Warleader On Your Feet has been reverted to a non-Warband effect.
• Warleader Slick Flesh and Quitters Never Win has been changed to a Warband effect.
  

[PointyEaredBowTwanger]

Any news on when LM 'Share the Power' skill will have the cooldown removed? The limiting factor on that skill should be 'Do I have enough power to share?' not 'Has a timer finished ticking down?'

[aljbookworm]

Cannot enter Nelly Boskins' house for the surveying the wildlands quest, just get a using that has no effect error.

[HolyDuckTape]

Bullroarer is OPEN

Classes:

• Guardian - Shield-wall will no longer block the target from using Stamp.
• Guardian - Fixed erroneous placeholder text for the Bolster characteristic.
• Guardian - Added tooltip notes stating that Warrior's Fortitude traits from separate trees will not stack. This is just a text change reflecting the existing functionality.

[HolyDuckTape]

Bullroarer is OPEN

• For Wildwood, the virtue cap has been increased to 74 (for characters who are level 130).

Why? We are already having max offensive stats, overcapped crit rating and 600k+ morale on dps classes....... The stats have gone so nuts this level cap and now you're adding even more virtue levels, it's just crazy. Revert this change

[Freenen]

Bullroarer is OPEN

Server Closing Time: Thursday, 02/11 5:00 PM EST (Subject to change)

• Report A Bug
• Character copy is AVAILABLE. This can be accessed through the 'Transfer' button on the Bullroarer Launcher.
• Guide to the Eyes and Guard Tavern

Update 29 - Wildwood

Bullroarer is available for an early look at Update 29.

Wildwood
Visit Enid Nettlesting at the Trader's Wharf in Evendim or Aran Greenwith at the Trestlebridge Gate in North Downs to start the Wildwood questline

• These quests unlock as you finish various reputation tiers for the two factions in Wildwood
• Missions, Landscape and Repeatable quests are available for testing.
• Quests have a Challenge level of 45
• Wildwood Deeds can be found on the Bree-land tab of the Deed Log
• Itemization is not done (mostly not present or placeholder) for Wildwood barter, Wildwood missions barter, and the instances.
• Please let us know if you see any instances of 'DNT' in the text

Instances
The intro quests for these instances begin with Aragorn in Rivendell after completing Book 13, Chapter 10: A Triumphant Return and from Hob Hayward at the Buckland Gate

• Agoroth, the Narrowdelve
• Woe of the Willow
• Spring Festival: Boss from the Vaults: Naruhel the Red-maid

Release Notes

Classes:

• Burglar - Mischievous Glee healing Legacy fixed. Healing bonus value adjusted to properly reflect implementation.
• Captain - Reverted change that prevented Revealing Mark from targeting Creeps.
• Guardian - Shield-wall will no longer block the target from using Stamp.
• Guardian - Fixed erroneous placeholder text for the Bolster characteristic.
• Guardian - Added tooltip notes stating that Warrior's Fortitude traits from separate trees will not stack. This is just a text change reflecting the existing functionality.

Quests & Adventure Areas:

• 'On A Mission (Weekly)' will be versioned when Update 29 is released. If you intend to complete it without having your progress interrupted (for the week of the patch), please complete it before the patch is deployed. If it was not bestowed or completed, it will bestow normally upon completing a qualifying mission.
• Fishing works properly in the Elderslade region now.
• Suppliers, Provisions and Healers in the Rohan Neighborhoods now have the correct discounts.
• Removed bush from base of stairs in Frostbluff.
• Grounded floating column in Anghumu-ru in Moria.
• Stable-master in Annâk-khurfu no longer sounds like a Beorning.
• Fixes stuck spot at r3 lx1646 ly1828 ox136.24 oy98.05 oz355.48 h234.8.
• Gandalf is no longer floating in pre-battled Minas Tirith (r3 lx1277 ly586 ox119.37 oy59.72 oz419.97 h199.7).
• Random Water plane will no longer appear above the players in the Kidzhul-Kalah Mission.
• Fixed depthcarving issue in Elderslade Angmarim Tower (r2 lx816 ly1624 cInside ox0.11 oy11.39 oz-46.15 h4.2).
• Fixed stairs issue in Gates of Gundabad (r2 lx792 ly1636 ox5.99 oy86.99 oz926.58 h241.9).
• Fixed patrol issue at the Orc Encampment in Lothlorien (r2 lx754 ly1142 ox52.25 oy139.69 oz565.30 h42.2).
• Fixed sunken resource node in Fanuidhol (r2 lx755 ly1154 ox66.24 oy43.75 oz559.06 h293.9).
• Grounded floating resource node in Kingstead (r2 lx793 ly664 ox35.10 oy10.32 oz236.22 h253.1).
• Dug up buried resource nodes and quest objects in Kingstead (r2 lx788 ly688 ox81.43 oy11.23 oz281.93 h173.0 , r2 lx792 ly687 ox19.92 oy140.50 oz272.50 h210.9).
• Fixing some major holes in the impassables of the southern section of Western Fangorn (r2 lx687 ly808 ox157.68 oy0.32 oz491.22 h250.3).
• Thrymm Redbeard grew taller in Throne of the Dread Terror, but perhaps it was just his legendary status. Now he's back to his normal height (but his legend remains undimmed).

Housing:

• In Rohan housing neighborhoods, the Ambience Furnisher and housing brokers should now give appropriate vendor discounts based on your housing passive skills.
• The supplier summoned with the Gondorian Supplier Horn housing decoration should now give the appropriate vendor discount (the highest discount from any of your housing passive skills, including Belfalas and Rohan houses).

Items:

• The cosmetic pet Huorns now have a more appropriate set of sounds while moving.
• You can now use your hobby horse mounts in more areas of Middle-earth.

Monster Play:

• Warleader - On Your Feet reverted to a non-fellowship effect.
• Warleader - Quitters Never Win changed to a fellowship effect
• Defiler - Slick Flesh changed to a fellowship effect.
• Fixed some stretched textures in the Ettenmoors.
• Removed LoS breaks on barriers near Gramsfoot to prevent Freeps avoiding the ranged NPCs.

Misc:

• For Wildwood, the virtue cap has been increased to 74 (for characters who are level 130).
• LOTRO lighting has been updated! A new Advanced Graphics option named "Per Pixel Lighting Attenuation" has been added for DirectX 10/11 that increases the lighting quality. Toggling this option to true will enable softer lighting as well as more consistently used normalmaps and specular highlights.

Can you please revert that Virtue Exp from Valars is bound to char with U29, just because one person felt not rewarded for doing deeds is just very upsetting, it is horrendously expensive to use valars just fort virtue exp and if ppl wanna do it, let them. You dont got any disadvantage if you just get your virtues through deeding, I just dont want to do deeds on any single one of my alts, its just boring I just want to raid, if people have fun deeding Iam happy for them but just leave the Valars be srsly.

[Joedangod]

Why? We are already having max offensive stats, overcapped crit rating and 600k+ morale on dps classes....... The stats have gone so nuts this level cap and now you're adding even more virtue levels, it's just crazy. Revert this change

Guess we know why.

[Seregthol]

[*]You can now use your hobby horse mounts in more areas of Middle-earth.

Really? Why?

[Morgahad]

Really? Why?

i think they mean more cities or something like shire

[Kehleyr_SSG]

Cannot enter Nelly Boskins' house for the surveying the wildlands quest, just get a using that has no effect error.

Thank you! We have discovered this is a conflict with the Epic Book Volume 1.

This should be fixed with the next update.

[Amerya]

[*]Captain - Reverted change that prevented Revealing Mark from targeting Creeps.

What took you so long? x)))
Seriously, this is something that should have been (hot)fixed within days after the change not YEARS!

Anyway, I´m glad you finally fixed it after all...

[Laurelinarien]

Thank you! We have discovered this is a conflict with the Epic Book Volume 1.

This should be fixed with the next update.

Question: have the changes you applied to the client updating process been applied to BR update downloads as well? If so, I'm not seeing it. Had to resort to an older back up copy I had of the server and the dat files download pace seems really slow.

Also, any updates to the issues that pop when copying characters from a client that has the "remember me" option ticked? Does it still fail?

[Elmagor]

Why? We are already having max offensive stats, overcapped crit rating and 600k+ morale on dps classes....... The stats have gone so nuts this level cap and now you're adding even more virtue levels, it's just crazy. Revert this change

Every DPS class in the game have 600K morale, LOL? Stop thinking about yourself

[ConsistantRager]

Why? We are already having max offensive stats, overcapped crit rating and 600k+ morale on dps classes....... The stats have gone so nuts this level cap and now you're adding even more virtue levels, it's just crazy. Revert this change

Yeh, think about the 200k r15 hunters who are still struggling to clear t1 roost. Stop being so inconsiderate.

[cbfan14]

Any news on when LM 'Share the Power' skill will have the cooldown removed? The limiting factor on that skill should be 'Do I have enough power to share?' not 'Has a timer finished ticking down?'

Unfortunately, this is a nerf the devs likely have no intention of reversing. The logic they used for this nerf was that they wanted power issues to be a thing and didn't want LM to be able to give out free unlimited power all the time (*shrug*). Kinda frustrating imo as it gives us yet 1 more thing that we have to keep track of, on top of debuff maintenance, pet cycling, and water lore maintenance.

[Magnumum]

Thank you! We have discovered this is a conflict with the Epic Book Volume 1.

This should be fixed with the next update.

Can you report this problem with DX9 to developers?

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...ground-effects

It's since July 2020 and no news.

[Osglinthor]

How are you even getting ideas about some of these changes.

Explain logic behind touching wardens momentum trait instead of fixing already broken stuff that has been asked for?

On live one of rarely usefull warden traits granting 20% melee dmg for 8 sec when swaping into melee stance that works decent with current warden rotation.

On beta half of tooltip is same rest is 50% dmg for every 5th ranged gambit/skill wich makes absolutly zero sense,not to mention that current version on beta is bugged and it gives 50% RANGED DMG for 8 sec when swaping to MELEE stance.


Why are you doing stuff like this?Also good job on killing your valar sale and decent income wich people used for virtues considering there is no sensible way to max all even if passive bonuses are irelevent.

Some big brain logic,I mean how can you not see insane valar sale with that discount few months ago and reason why it was bought only to proceed to remove it and increase virtues level.Who the hell is in charge of these braindead changes.

[gildhur]

Wildwood
Visit Enid Nettlesting at the Trader's Wharf in Evendim or Aran Greenwith at the Trestlebridge Gate in North Downs to start the Wildwood questline

• These quests unlock as you finish various reputation tiers for the two factions in WildwoodI
  
  • KNOWN ISSUE: If you have completed Epic Book Volume 1 'Book 3, Chapter 6, Part III of III: The Free Peoples of Trestlebridge' you will not be able to enter Nellie's house to complete the quest 'Surveying the Wild Lands'. This issue will be corrected in a future update.
  
  
• Missions, Landscape and Repeatable quests are available for testing.
• Quests have a Challenge level of 45
• Wildwood Deeds can be found on the Bree-land tab of the Deed Log
• Itemization is not done (mostly not present or placeholder) for Wildwood barter, Wildwood missions barter, and the instances.
• Please let us know if you see any instances of 'DNT' in the text

Instances
The intro quests for these instances begin with Aragorn in Rivendell after completing Book 13, Chapter 10: A Triumphant Return and from Hob Hayward at the Buckland Gate

• Agoroth, the Narrowdelve
• Woe of the Willow
• Spring Festival: Boss from the Vaults: Naruhel the Red-maid
  

Exciting! Does this mean Wildwood is a level 45 quest zone? (Did we really need another one of those? There are already 3.) And there are new instances set in the zone at that level? And scalable Missions in the zone?

[Daniyel]

Little old suggestion: Please add Dead Marshes map title and zoom option to maps: Gondor map, The Wastes (To Dead Marshes at west side). Thanks thanks!

Seconded!

[BinaryTertiary]

ice textures arent loading properly on bullroarer