Clarification on Barad Guldur Gate Issues

Tony posted this on January 27th, 2010. It has No Comments »
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This morn­ing, LiuT­sieng posted a brief expla­na­tion on how the gaunt­let sys­tem for Barad Gul­dur is sup­posed to work. After the bug fix for the gate issue in this area, some things have been adjusted.

We don’t do a great job of com­mu­ni­cat­ing the way the gaunt­let works, so here’s what’s hap­pen­ing in that pic:

 — You have 40 min­utes from the time you kill the last two armored guards at the end of the gaunt­let to kill Durch­est with­out hav­ing to reclear the gaunt­let.
 — 39 min­utes after you’ve killed those guards, you’ll get a warn­ing mes­sage. Some­thing to the effect of, “You hear the sound of rein­force­ments in the halls, they are com­ing..“
 — A minute after that warn­ing mes­sage, you’ll receive a mes­sage stat­ing some­thing to effect of, “Rein­force­ments have arrived, this is your last chance.“
 — At this point you’ve had 40 min­utes of free attempts on Durch­est. Any cur­rent attempts will need to be fin­ished up, after which the gaunt­let will reset.

If you’ve been try­ing to pre­vent a respawn of the gaunt­let, you’ll see the sit­u­a­tion in that pic­ture. Sim­ply walk to the entrance (you don’t need to leave the instance, just walk to the door). You should see the front gate raise, an instance bill­board indi­cat­ing that you will have to reclear the gaunt­let, and then the gate should lower.

This is why most groups aren’t see­ing this. If you kill Durch­est before the gaunt­let timer is up you shouldn’t notice a thing. If you con­sis­tently attempt Durch­est with every­one dying and then reviv­ing at the entrance, you shouldn’t notice this. If for some rea­son you do though, walk to the entrance, let the gate raise, then lower, then reclear.

Hope­fully if you’ve been hav­ing some issues, this will clar­ify things a bit.

Update to Book 8, Servers Scheduled to Come Live at Noon EST

Tony posted this on June 23rd, 2009. It has 4 Comments »
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Well it’s June 23rd, which means all of us US/Oceanic play­ers will be updat­ing our client to Book 8. If you run the launcher now, you can patch and/or down­load all the nec­es­sary files. I down­loaded in advance (the files add up to about 600MB), but it’s still a pretty lengthy instal­la­tion process. Just keep that in mind.

Servers are still down and will not offi­cially go live until 12 EST. There’s always a chance it might be a bit ear­lier or a bit later than that.

For the Euro­peans out there, Code­mas­ters has not announced an out­right offi­cial time just yet. They are, how­ever, cur­rently aim­ing for Thurs­day. We’ll see.

Very excited to see some of the changes. I’m still largely play­ing as my Rune-keeper, who is pretty close to hit­ting level 40 now. I’m inter­ested in see­ing how some of the changes affect him. I might roll a new char­ac­ter to check out some of the Bree adjust­ments as well.

Does any­one else have any spe­cific plans? I imag­ine at least a few of you will be hit­ting the new raid. :)

Thoughts on Book 7 Patch Notes

Tony posted this on February 27th, 2009. It has 7 Comments »
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So I have to say that Book 7 has brought a hell of a lot more than I antic­i­pated. While I’m sure every­one will argue over alter­ations to their indi­vid­ual classes, I def­i­nitely can’t bring myself to say that Tur­bine has skimped here. They’re con­tin­u­ing to set the stan­dard for con­tent updates as far as I’m con­cerned, even if some­one will always unfor­tu­nately remain disappointed.

I fig­ured I’d talk a bit about things that caught my eye. You can also read the full notes to see how your class is affected (I’ve largely ignored that here as I’ve not played them all and don’t nec­es­sar­ily know what’s impor­tant) and what else might be hap­pen­ing in Mid­dle Earth. It’s long, so get some­thing to drink! A lot of what I note is from their high­lights, which per­son­ally I was most inter­ested in as a more “casual” player.

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