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This
year’s festival has all the makings of a truly memorable event;
everyone’s favorite bomb decorations will adorn the streets of the
three nations, specialty shops will deal in seasonal sundries , and both
classic and all-new costumes will debut!
The townspeople from San
d’Oria, Bastok, and Windurst are decked out in their most horrifying
ensembles and awaiting your arrival!

So go ahead and start stocking up on all those goodies that the monsters of Vana’diel can’t resist!

For
information on how to get involved in the Harvest Festival and more, be
sure to check out the Topics posted on the day the event begins.

The Lord of the Rings Online has enjoyed explosive growth since its
April unveiling. And it’ll probably keep doing so—if it remains true to
Tolkien’s vision

Jeff Anderson is not a nerd. The 40-year-old chief executive of
Westwood (Mass.) video game developer Turbine is six feet tall, with
the frame of an NFL linebacker. Nevertheless, he presides over a vast
and rapidly growing virtual world of elves, orcs, dragons, and hobbits.

In April, Anderson’s company took the wraps off the Lord of the
Rings Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG )
for PC, based on J.R.R. Tolkien ‘s classic books. The explosive growth
of the game—players have created some 4 million unique characters in
just five months—has vaulted the company into the top tier of online
game design companies and made it the largest privately held developer
of massively multiplayer games in the U.S.

In the game, players create avatars based on characters from the
books—hobbits or orcs, for instance—to pursue quests and battle
monsters in an expansive virtual world closely based on the tales’
locations and events. They can also chat with other players via an
internal instant message system, or join groups to play collaboratively
and virtually trade objects such as weapons or potions. A copy of the
game costs $29.99, with an additional $14.99 fee per month for
continued online access. Turbine also offers an alternative payment
option: A $299 lifetime membership with no subsequent fees.

It’s a good time to be introducing new products into the burgeoning
online games market. In May, the NPD Group reported that a growing
majority of all gamers prefer to play online. According to research
firm Strategy Analytics, the worldwide online games market, which
generates more revenue than other genres of games and either video or
music sales, currently rakes in nearly $4 billion a year. Strategy
Analytics reckons the online games market could triple in size over the
next five years, ballooning to $11.8 billion.

Adept at Dealmaking

With the Rings game, Anderson is attempting to transform Turbine
from an obscure game developer working on contract for big publishers
such as Microsoft (MSFT) into a well-regarded gaming brand of its own,
capable of competing with offerings from much larger companies such as
Vivendi’s (VIVEF) Blizzard Entertainment, maker of the current top
MMORPG title, World of Warcraft, which has 9 million subscribers
worldwide.

"We’re more nimble than a larger company," Anderson insists of his
team, which consists of about 200 employees including developers,
designers, support, sales, and administrative staff. Inking agreements
with European developer Codemasters and CDC Games for an upcoming
Chinese edition of the Lord of the Rings Online, Anderson’s team has
proven adept at the dealmaking crucial to extending multiplayer games
around the globe. Such deals allow the game to be operated according to
national regulations and to be translated into the appropriate
language.

Overview:

Welcome to the Month of the Minstrel! It’s the Minstrel’s turn in
the spotlight, as we reach the latest part of our continued updates and
additions to all of the classes in LOTRO.
To identify the aspects of the Minstrel class we should focus on, we
referenced player feedback, data collection , and our own experiences,
and decided on the high-level goals of increasing a Minstrel’s ability
to play solo, diversifying a Minstrel’s buffing/support role, examining
and improving healing, and adding some fun treats for our players.
These goals were addressed by adding new skills, modifying existing
skills and traits, and by adding new items to the game.

Solo Play:

Minstrels have always been most effective while supporting other
players, but haven’t been at the top of their game when playing alone.
We gave them some abilities that will let them solo better.

• New Skill: War-Speech - This skill
  is the first in the new "Words of War" skill category. It is a toggled
  stance that powers up both "Piercing Cry" and "Chant of the
  Oathbreaker" (read on), but decreases a Minstrel’s ability to heal. In
  addition, it limits usage of two other powerful skills. The overall
  intention of this skill is to give the ability to defeat monsters
  faster to those players who are comfortable with the amount of damage
  they are taking. While in Fellowships, most Minstrels will want to keep
  this power toggled off, but if there are multiple healers available,
  the Minstrel may wish to begin chanting words of war!
• New Skill: Call to the Elder King -
  Gated behind War-Speech, this call to the chief of the Valar will
  damage your foes and make them more susceptible to further attacks.
• New Skill: Call to the Second Age -
  Gated behind War-Speech, this call to ages past will greatly damage
  your foes and increase the movement rate of your Fellowship.
• New Skill: Chant of the Oathbreaker
  - This skill calls upon the spectral weapon of an Oathbreaker to harry
  a foe. It will deal damage and decrease the foe’s resistance to Songs
  and Cries. While in War-Speech, the damage and resistance debuff will
  increase. This skill is intended to be a new hallmark of a Minstrel.
  Using it in solo play will increase the speed at which you can defeat
  foes and make more of your Ballads connect. In group play, your tanking
  allies will appreciate the resistance debuff, which will make their
  taunts fail less frequently.
• New Items: Damage-type Instruments – New instruments have been added to crafting and reputation which will change Chant of the Oathbreaker’s damage type.

Buffing/Support:

The buffs of a Minstrel are strong and varied already. We wanted to
provide more options without turning the Minstrel into a primary
buffer, so the new skills added tend to have longer cooldowns and very
potent effects. This way, while the skills are strong, they cannot be
used often.

Trait: Strength of Voice - This trait now increases the duration of all ballad buffs.

• Skill Revamp: Song of Aid – The
  combat events that this skill triggers now only show up on a class if
  it benefits that class. No longer will Guardians gain critical events,
  nor will Burglars gain block events.
• Skill Revamp: Tale of Heroism
  - This skill was made into a proper aura toggle skill, and is joined by
  two new aura skills, only one of which may be used at a time. A power
  upkeep cost was added to the Tales to emphasize that the Minstrel,
  while a strong buffer, must work more than other classes to maintain
  such effects.
• New Skill: Tale of Battle – A new aura in the Tale family, this increases Vitality and Wound Resistance.
• New Skill: Tale of Warding – A new addition to the Tale family, this aura increases Armour and Hope.
• New Skill: Call to the Fellowship – A shout to your whole Fellowship that increases the effectiveness of your next Fellowship Manoeuvre.
• New Skill: Call to Greatness
  - A word of power that bestows a class-specific buff on a target. Each
  class gains 15 seconds of benefit in a way that helps them. For
  example, a Call to Champions gives an immediate defeat event (to activate skills like Red Haze) and two Fervor pips. For the next 15 seconds, a point of Fervor will be granted every 5 seconds.

Healing:

Minstrels are, without a doubt, the kings of healing in LOTRO. We’re
very happy with the amount of morale a Minstrel can restore and the
amount of time it takes them to restore it. No new heal-over-time
skills will be added, since the Captain is more focused on
morale-over-time, and the Minstrel up-front heals. We also feel that
the power cost of that restoration is too low at higher levels.

Skill Revamp: Healing skills – We’ve increased the cost of
healing skills at higher levels. No change has been made to lower-level
players, but at a high level, the costs increase.

• New Skill: Chord of Salvation – The Minstrel now has an instant cast heal! Chord of Salvation heals more than Raise the Spirit but less than Bolster Courage. However, the price for being an instant cast skill is higher power usage, and a 30-second cooldown.
• New Skill: Gift of the Hammerhand – Minstrels can now put a shield on an ally, similar to their own Lay of the Hammerhand. This skill makes incoming damage reduce Power instead of Morale. The shield is instant cast, so combined with Chord of Salvation, a Minstrel can very quickly save a fellow who is about to fall.

Fun Stuff!

It’s fun stuff, and it’s full of surprises! We’ve also made the following non-combat additions:

• New Skill: Irresistible Melody – Playing a melody of such beauty, a Minstrel can now inspire those nearby to break into dancing.
• New Instruments: Bagpipe, Cowbell and Moor Cowbell -
  Minstrels can now play the bagpipe, cowbell (because too much cowbell
  is never enough) and the Moor Cowbell. All players will be able to
  learn the Cowbell, but the Bagpipe and the Moor variety of Cowbell will
  be Minstrel exclusives. Until they use the next skill, that is…
• New Skill System: Mentor system
  - A Minstrel will now be able to teach other players how to play any of
  the Minstrel-specific instruments. Yes, you read that right: now anyone
  can be taught how to play any instrument in the game! Once a Minstrel
  has acquired the ability to teach an instrument (keep in mind, this
  will require more work then just going to a trainer), they’ll be able
  to teach it to any other player, but with a very long cooldown. All
  Mentor skills share the same cooldown, so once you’ve taught someone an
  instrument, you won’t be able to do so again for five days.

Conclusion:

Well, these are the big things you will likely notice in Month of
the Minstrel. There are more changes, but none as big as those
described above. We think this will make an already fun and functional
class even more interesting!

Lotro Crafting Guide: Forester

A forester gathers and treats wood for the Woodworker and boils
looted hides for the Tailor. This profession only produces
subcomponents for other professions but it is a necessary and vital
role.

Associated Vocations: Explorer, Woodsman

Required Tools

• Forester’s Axe (e.g. Bronze Forester’s Axe)
• Workbench
• Superior Workbench (for tiers above Journeyman, found in Esteldin)

Materials

• Forester items

Lotro Crafting Guide:Prospector

Prospectors gather and smelt metal ore or gems for the Metalsmith, Weaponsmith, and Jeweler professions. Prospectors
also occasionally find items in the ore nodes they mine that are of use
to other professions. These can be gems, dye salts or similar
components.

Associated Vocations: Armourer, Armsman, Explorer, Tinker

Requirements to Use the Prospecting Skill

A Mining Pick (e.g., Bronze Mining Pick) is
required to mine ore, smelt the ore into metal ingots and to refine
iron into steel.

For Smelting and Refining, the Prospector also requires a Forge. At higher levels of skill, a Superior Forge may also be used, if the Prospector
has unlocked access via a quest for another Profession. The Superior
Forge is found in Thorin’s Hall, and also serves as a regular Forge for
those who have unlocked its secrets.

Prospecting

This profession grants a toggled skill which
is used to find Resource Nodes that are able to be mined. The first
such node you will run across is likely to be Copper or Tin, as they
are the primary ingredient in low-tier metalworking and jewelry- craft .
Finding these resource nodes is as simple as turning on the ability and
wandering around the game, as they will pop up on your mini-map as
another icon.

Lotro Crafting Guide:Cook

Food provides benefits from increased morale regeneration out of combat to temporary stat bonuses. The Cook profession creates the best food available but is largely dependent on the Farmer profession to supply it with ingredients.

Associated Vocations: Tinker, Yeoman

Required Tools

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• Cooking supplies (e.g., Bronze Cooking Supplies)

• Oven (found in Bree, Combe, Bywater, and many other places)

• Superior Oven (for tiers above Journeyman, found in Michel Delving)

• Campfire (made with Campfire Materials, which are produced by woodworkers, or by a Hunter)

Materials

Many ingredients can be bought from a Farmer or from a novice or expert cook npc.

• Novice cooks sell common ingredients, and are found near normal ovens.

• Expert cooks sell rare ingredients, and are found near the Superior Oven in Michel Delving.

• Cook items

Item:Hard Biscuits

Item:Bronze Cooking Supplies

Item:Inferior Cooking Supplies

Item:Iron Cooking Supplies

Oven

Item:Pie Crust

Quests

• Cook quests

[10] A Taste of Skill, part I

Reward: Allows you to progress to apprentice mastery and journeyman proficiency.

Any novice cook gives you this quest, which requires you to speak with Alken Chubb in The Green Dragon in Bywater, in The Shire.

[20] A Taste of Skill, part II

Reward: Allows you to progress to journeyman mastery and expert proficiency.

Any novice cook gives you this quest, which requires you to speak with Alken Chubb in The Green Dragon in Bywater, in The Shire.

He wants you to cook him a Serene Stew (He provides the one-time recipe).

• Cut of Beef and Hearty Stock are sold by the novice cooks.

• Tater and Green Onion can be obtained through farming, or found in the wilderness.

• Mountain Basil grow at the top of Weathertop, and look like this:

[30] A Taste of Skill, part III

Reward: Allows you to progress to expert mastery and artisan proficiency.

Any novice cook gives you this quest, which requires you to speak with Rollo Hamson in northern Buckland, in Bree-land.

[30] The Short Order Cook

Reward: Allows you to use superior ovens.

Rollo Hamson gives this quest. He wants you to fill the orders of five tavernkeepers in The Shire.

• Esmerelda Burrows – Michel Delving – The Bird and Baby Inn

2x Salted Beef Delights (Trail Food, Artisan)

2x Shire Rations (Cooked Food, Artisan)

• Alken Chubb – Bywater – The Green Dragon

3x Pork Sausages (Trail Food, Journeyman)

2x Vegetable Medley (Trail Food, Expert)

• Pansy Proudfoot – Stock – The Golden Perch

2x Marinated Chicken-cutlet (Ingredient, Artisan)

3x Spiced Potatoes (Ingredient, Journeyman)

• Rollo Hunce – Brokenborings – The Plough and Stars

1x Mushroom-pie (Cooked Food, Apprentice)

3x Stuffed Cabbage (Cooked Food, Journeyman)

1x Spiced Apple Pie (Cooked Food, Artisan)

• Ruby Hollowbanks – Frogmorton – The Floating Log

3x Complete Hobbit -breakfasts (Trail Food, Journeyman)

2x Blueberry -muffins (Cooked Food, Journeyman)

• Shopping list

From Novice Cook

13 Chicken Egg

10 Coarse Flour

2 Cut of Beef

6 Fine Seasoning

2 Fresh Butter

2 Hearty Stock (This can be cooked, but is far cheaper bought)

3 Honey

7 Lard

3 Pork Shank

6 Raw Pork Sausage

8 Salt

6 Shire Seasoning

3 Uncooked Bacon

7 Vegetable Oil

4 Water

From Master Cook

3 Cinnamon

2 Sharp Cheese

6 Shire Apple

4 Uncooked Chicken

From Grocer/Supplier (or Farmer)

11 Common Mushroom

1 Fresh Carrot

6 Yellow Onion

From a Farmer or gathered in the wilderness (can no longer be purchased)

2 Blueberry

3 Cabbage

2 Cauliflower

4 Green Onion

12 Taters

 [40] A Taste of Skill, part IV

Reward: Allows you to progress to artisan mastery and master proficiency.

Any expert cook gives you this quest, which requires you to speak with Pasco Grubb at the Crafting Fair in Michel Delving.

He wants you to cook him a Roast of Heroes (recipe is provided).

• Savory Seasoning are sold by the expert cooks.

• Giant
  boar-flank is however another business. As the provided note writes,
  you must find a specific boar which lives in eastern Trollshaws. The
  boar itself is level 37 and not elite, but it wanders in an area with
  level 40-42 elites. It is entirely possible to reach without
  encountering more than one elite, and without having to kill any. Its
  location and appearance is shown here:

Trainers

Lotro Crafting:Equipment Locations

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