3-21-2011 new update 2 instance running
Mar 22, 2011 16:21:16 GMT -5
Post by Varda on Mar 22, 2011 16:21:16 GMT -5
Update 2 is now live!
New book section starts at Nar's Peak in Enedwaith, where the Thror's Coomb quests are.
New instances start with Barliman Butterburr at the Prancing Pony in Bree. These lead into 3-man instances and on into a 6-man instance. More on their locations below.
New raid starts at Harndirion for Ost Dunhoth.
Legendary Items were all re-set, removing relics and spent points. The relic crit crafting is bugged and the fix is tentatively set for Tuesday morning. Any relic put in an LI cannot be removed, so relics need to be worked up to level 6 before putting them in. This means many of us are trying to work with lower level equipment.
Locations for the new instances from the Prancing Pony are near their stones from the pre-Update precursor quest. Entering gives a medallion:
*Northcotton Farm (known bug keeps it from showing on the map today) is northwest of Oatbarton.
*The Town of Stoneheight is in Annundir of the North Downs, north of William Peake's farm going around the right side of the hill and up a slope. 3-man.
*Glacier Fortress is in Forochel west and north-west of Suri-kyla. The tent on the shore shows up first, then the boat is visible. Take the boat and go through the ice cave that faces the shore. 3-man.
*The Lost Temple is in the northern Trollshaws. Go through the bridges of the wight towns to Ost Chall and into that door that finally opens. Lovely view! 6-man
Monday 8pm EDT instance run:
Our undeveloped LI's leaving us at low strength should have made us cautious, but we were curious about the new content and looked at it anyway.
Some of those who hadn't already done the stone quest did that ahead of instance time.
Prancing Pony: At instance time we tried to make two groups to start the Prancing Pony instances. One group made with Maedhros (warden Maedhroc), Pippin (champion Avengelina), and Varda (hunter Fainan). Gorlim and Indis tried to start another group but other kinmates were more cautious and wanted to wait before going in. The first part is just travel, no problem. Merely going into each instance and discovering it gave us new medallions (barter for the new armor sets etc. at Harndirion).
The new instances were near the stones from the stone quest and each features the talent of a particular gaunt lord. For example, the first one at Northcotton Farm where four hobbits separately await rescue after a boss defeat is heavy on poison, so we started right off with spiders. It has four hobbits separately awaiting rescue, each found after beating a big bad.
Ost Dunhoth: For our larger group run, we went to Harndirion and picked up the Ost Dunhoth quest. Then three of us rode over over to the castle and summoned the other two party members, got our medallion for discovery, and then proceeded to successfully to do the kill 100 baddies quest on a platform just outside and down from the castle door. This quest is repeatable in two days with the same characters (meanwhile nice for letting us run the next day with those other 65 alts we've accumulated). This gave us a batch of medallions.
Participants for OD were Gorlim (minstrel Aeronwy), Indis (lore-master Alasse), Maedhros (warden Maedhroc), Pippin (champion Avengelina), and Varda (hunter Fainan).
New book section starts at Nar's Peak in Enedwaith, where the Thror's Coomb quests are.
New instances start with Barliman Butterburr at the Prancing Pony in Bree. These lead into 3-man instances and on into a 6-man instance. More on their locations below.
New raid starts at Harndirion for Ost Dunhoth.
Legendary Items were all re-set, removing relics and spent points. The relic crit crafting is bugged and the fix is tentatively set for Tuesday morning. Any relic put in an LI cannot be removed, so relics need to be worked up to level 6 before putting them in. This means many of us are trying to work with lower level equipment.
Locations for the new instances from the Prancing Pony are near their stones from the pre-Update precursor quest. Entering gives a medallion:
*Northcotton Farm (known bug keeps it from showing on the map today) is northwest of Oatbarton.
*The Town of Stoneheight is in Annundir of the North Downs, north of William Peake's farm going around the right side of the hill and up a slope. 3-man.
*Glacier Fortress is in Forochel west and north-west of Suri-kyla. The tent on the shore shows up first, then the boat is visible. Take the boat and go through the ice cave that faces the shore. 3-man.
*The Lost Temple is in the northern Trollshaws. Go through the bridges of the wight towns to Ost Chall and into that door that finally opens. Lovely view! 6-man
Monday 8pm EDT instance run:
Our undeveloped LI's leaving us at low strength should have made us cautious, but we were curious about the new content and looked at it anyway.
Some of those who hadn't already done the stone quest did that ahead of instance time.
Prancing Pony: At instance time we tried to make two groups to start the Prancing Pony instances. One group made with Maedhros (warden Maedhroc), Pippin (champion Avengelina), and Varda (hunter Fainan). Gorlim and Indis tried to start another group but other kinmates were more cautious and wanted to wait before going in. The first part is just travel, no problem. Merely going into each instance and discovering it gave us new medallions (barter for the new armor sets etc. at Harndirion).
The new instances were near the stones from the stone quest and each features the talent of a particular gaunt lord. For example, the first one at Northcotton Farm where four hobbits separately await rescue after a boss defeat is heavy on poison, so we started right off with spiders. It has four hobbits separately awaiting rescue, each found after beating a big bad.
Ost Dunhoth: For our larger group run, we went to Harndirion and picked up the Ost Dunhoth quest. Then three of us rode over over to the castle and summoned the other two party members, got our medallion for discovery, and then proceeded to successfully to do the kill 100 baddies quest on a platform just outside and down from the castle door. This quest is repeatable in two days with the same characters (meanwhile nice for letting us run the next day with those other 65 alts we've accumulated). This gave us a batch of medallions.
Participants for OD were Gorlim (minstrel Aeronwy), Indis (lore-master Alasse), Maedhros (warden Maedhroc), Pippin (champion Avengelina), and Varda (hunter Fainan).