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Bullroarer Patch Notes Update

Tony posted this on March 11th, 2009. It has No Comments »
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Eyes & Guard Now Open on Bullroarer

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As noted in my last post, Eyes & Guard was set to go live today.  There was a bit of a delay, but the tav­ern is now avail­able in-game. Patience offers a warn­ing, how­ever:

The Eyes & Guard Tav­ern is now open for busi­ness! How­ever, as many of you have found, the level-up process is not work­ing cor­rectly; Keth is only tak­ing char­ac­ters to level 49 with approx­i­mately 15% left to get to 50.

Here is the workaround from our QA team:

Workaround for Keth

1. Use Keth to get to level 49
2. Use Tens and take Book 1 Vol­umes 1 – 5. This will get you to 50
a. You will be ported to Combe after Book 1. You will have to Map back.
b. Do not go past Book 5. This will give you too much XP if you wish to use Liu Tsieng.
c. Assure it is Vol­ume 1 you are doing. If you take the Vol­ume II quest it will give you too much XP to use Liu Tsieng.
The only other way is to grind the XP to 50 manually.

You can then pro­ceed to Level 60 if you wish:

1. Go to Liu Tsieng and take the 5 quests that will level you to 60
2. Go back to Tens and take the Vol­ume II Book 1 level Up
a. This will give you Moria access
b. This will place 2 unde­stroy­able Leg­endary Items in your bags
c. This will port you to the Hollin Gate
Sorry for the incon­ve­nience, and be care­ful out there!

There are appar­ently at least a cou­ple Eyes & Guard tav­erns in the game, but the one I used is in Frerin’s Court out­side of Thorin’s Hall. The screen­shot above is of the entrance.

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Bullroarer Updates to New Build Tomorrow, Eyes & Guard to Open

Tony posted this on March 10th, 2009. It has No Comments »
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Thought this might be of inter­est to some of you test server fans out there:

The Bull­roarer Test Server will be brought down on Wednes­day, March 11 from 6:00 AM — 12:00 PM East­ern (-4 GMT) for an update. All live servers will remain up and avail­able dur­ing the down­time. We’re com­pil­ing a list of changes and will have them for you shortly. Thanks for your patience.

And …

We have news! Assum­ing the new build passes QA, we’ll be updat­ing Bull­roarer tomor­row, and will be open­ing the Eyes & Guard Tav­ern as well. So, while not 100% guar­an­teed that we won’t run into a delay, that’s the cur­rent plan.

So these updates tomor­row will bring the server up to date with a new build. Exact changes will be posted on the site at some point and the Eyes & Guard Tav­ern will be open­ing up. For those not famil­iar, the Tav­ern allows you to level up your char­ac­ter so you can test out higher level content.

Wednes­day Update: The changes are live, but E&G and the patch notes have yet to appear. Patience has posted that both will be avail­able soon. I’ll edit this post when it’s time.

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Testing Out the New Quest Guide

Tony posted this on March 7th, 2009. It has 1 Comment »
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Yes­ter­day I decided to try down­load­ing the nearly 10 GB test client so I could access Bull­roarer. Nor­mally I would not have both­ered, but I thought at the very least it would be good to see first­hand how the new quest guide works.

I know this has been a point of con­tention. Per­son­ally I fall in the camp of peo­ple who feel that the quest text in the game is almost always detailed enough to get the job done. I have found that some peo­ple do not feel this way for one rea­son or another, how­ever. Sur­pris­ingly I’ve even seen some peo­ple describe the quest text as “hor­ri­ble” on the forums, which is some­thing my mind can’t even really grasp. I guess it just shows you how much opin­ions can dif­fer on almost anything.

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Bullroarer Public Test Server

Tony posted this on February 27th, 2009. It has No Comments »
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