The pre­lim­i­nary Book 8 patch notes will be up tonight, some­time before Bull­roarer opens with the patch at 7PM EST. Sapi­ence warns that Bull­roarer is going live with a ver­sion of the game that has some things that the final ver­sion of the patch will not actu­ally have.

As an exam­ple, he cites that on Bull­roarer First Age Leg­endary Items will be bind on acquire. This change will be noted in the pre­lim­i­nary Book 8 patch notes that will go up today. This change was reverted the other day and is too new to be part of the ver­sion of the game that will be on Bullroarer.

Despite this, once the final ver­sion of Book 8 hits all the nor­mal servers this note will no longer be true. First Age Leg­endary items will not be bind on acquire at that time.

So what­ever hap­pens with these notes, it’s impor­tant to remem­ber these are not nec­es­sar­ily final. Things could be removed, added or adjusted. Sapi­ence says the notes won’t con­tain all the new addi­tions to the game either … but he’s cut us a bit of slack with this one:

Well, I guess it wouldn’t hurt to give you one lit­tle sneak peek.

• All rep­u­ta­tion tokens now stack to 100.

No more piles of Math­oms for me!

And later this bit of nice news (and impli­ca­tions)… I used bold for emphasis:

It’s funny you should men­tions ‘tasty secrets’. See­ing as most food items will now stack to 50 and travel rations to 100.

Did I say that out loud?

Seri­ously, my hands are tied right now. Patience is review­ing my rough draft to make sure I didn’t do any­thing stu­pid like spell my name wrong or some­thing (it hap­pens! That i before e thing really trips me up some­times!). Until she gives me the green light I’m forced to be a big ol’ meanie and tell you absolutely noth­ing about the new barter tokens for first ages. Not a word!

If you’d like to test every­thing out on Bull­roarer, you have to down­load a dif­fer­ent client. You can get read more about that at this link: http://​forums​.lotro​.com/​s​h​o​w​t​h​r​e​a​d​.​p​h​p​?​t​=​2​6​8​325.