Frelorn, one of Turbine’s LotRO com­mu­nity man­agers, posted a big list of upcom­ing PvMP changes today.

I’m not a big PvMP player, so it’s very dif­fi­cult for me to say how good most of this is. The gen­eral con­cen­sus on the forums seems to be that this is a step in the right direc­tion, but that Creeps (mon­ster play­ers) are still underpowered.

Frelorn was quick to point out that this is not the full list of changes com­ing in Book 7 for PvMP, but rather just a por­tion. You can read the full list below.

Creeps

• The fol­low­ing skills no longer force auto-attack on or off: Blind­ing Dust, Blood Lust, Charge, Glory in Vic­tory, Ham­string, Time-Out, Upper Hand, Catch Prey, Cling­ing Webs, Entan­gling Webs, Feat, Necro­sis, Web the Earth, Call the Shadow, Flea Bit­ten, Rend Flesh, Shadow Howler.
• The fol­low­ing skills now force auto-attack on: Hatch­lings, Smoth­er­ing Web, No You Don’t, Vital Target.
• The fol­low­ing skills now force auto-attack off: Grasp­ing Web, Par­a­lytic Venom, Shadow’s Bite, Snar­ing Web, Sprint.
• Mit­i­ga­tion Cor­rup­tions will no longer have penal­ties. Addi­tion­ally, the val­ues for all non-common mit­i­ga­tion cor­rup­tions have been increased.
• Resis­tance pas­sives have been increased in value.
• Resis­tance Cor­rup­tions have been increased (for both bonus and penalty).
• Creep ven­dor and barter foods have been scrubbed. There will no longer be any issues where barter food is less desir­able than ven­dor food or where higher ranked vendor/barter food is less desir­able than lower ranked vendor/barter food.
• The heal and power restore val­ues for the Stink­ing Poul­tice, Bub­bling Potion, Blood of Man, and Blood of the Fair Folk potion sets have been increased.
  
• Mon­ster Play­ers will now have access to a set of new Crit­i­cal Pro­tec­tion Boost cor­rup­tions. These cor­rup­tions will decrease the chance that an enemy will land a crit­i­cal or dev­as­tat­ing crit­i­cal hit on the mon­ster player. The basic Crit­i­cal Pro­tec­tion Boost cor­rup­tion is avail­able at Rank 2 from the mon­ster player trainer. The advanced Crit­i­cal Pro­tec­tion Boost cor­rup­tion is avail­able at Rank 4 from the Core Cor­rup­tions trader.
• Armour pas­sives from Mon­ster Play­ers will now have a small bonus to crit­i­cal pro­tec­tion for both nor­mal and dev­as­tat­ing crit­i­cal attacks.
  
• Draught of Troll Bile no longer shares a cooldown timer with the track­ing talismans.
• Heal, heal over time, and dam­age over time skills will now prop­erly critical.

Four new cor­rup­tions have been added for Mon­ster Play­ers. These cor­rup­tions are avail­able at the fol­low­ing ranks and val­ues:

1. Rank 2 (Train­able): Weapon Mit­i­ga­tion Boost (Rank 1) – adds +270 Ancient Dwarf, Bele­riand, and West­er­nesse mit­i­ga­tion rating
2. Rank 3 (Barter): Weapon Mit­i­ga­tion Boost (Rank 2) – adds +360 Ancient Dwarf, Bele­riand, and West­er­nesse mit­i­ga­tion rating
3. Rank 4 (Train­able): Skill Mit­i­ga­tion Boost (Rank 1) – adds +270 Fire, Frost, Light, and Light­ning mit­i­ga­tion rating
4. Rank 5 (Barter): Skill Mit­i­ga­tion Boost (Rank 2) – adds +360 Fire, Frost, Light, and Light­ning mit­i­ga­tion rating

The Quar­ter­mas­ter NPC will now offer Mon­ster Play­ers sev­eral new potions.

1. Bot­tled Uruk Efflu­vium: removes one phys­i­cal and one wound effect
2. Bot­tled Orc Scream: removes one song and one dis­ease effect
3. Bot­tled Spi­der Chit­ter: removes one cry and one poi­son effect
4. Bot­tled Warg Breath: removes one tac­ti­cal and one fear effect

Please note that these new potions will only remove effects that show a resis­tance type in the effect’s tooltip. For exam­ple, Effect A lists Resis­tance: Tac­ti­cal; the Bot­tled Warg Breath will remove the effect. Effect B does not show any resis­tance type in the tooltip; none of the potions will remove the effect.

Freeps

• Lainedhal’s Insignias can no longer be used in areas out­side of the Etten­moors. These items now require that the player is inside a PvMP area.
• The Chest of Glain Vraig, Chest of the Sec­ond Mar­shall, and Chest of the First Mar­shall have had their loot tables updated.
• Boss mon­sters in the Delv­ing of Fror will now drop level appro­pri­ate loot.
• The slow por­tion of Dust in the Eyes will now be prop­erly removed on defeat.

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