Fixed issue with flying horses. Sorry, no pegasi in Rohan.
Beta Only: Several minor fixes for the Tutorial Highlighter for the Warsteed Tutorial
If a player not in your group attacks a tapped monster you are fighting or heals you, you will no longer suffer any XP penalties. They will not get credit for killing it since it was still tapped to you but they will no longer hurt your rewards.
Classes
Captain
Captain's Shadows Lament skill will now cause 'a great deal of additional threat' as advertised.
Valiant Strike will always apply its healing effects even if you miss with your attack.
Guardian
(beta) Guardian's Brutal Assault with Haemorrhage traited will no longer have untyped damage for bleeds. oops!
(MC) Driving slash now correctly debuffs armor by 500 for 10 seconds.
Champion
(Bullroarer Only) Champion - Improved Bracing Attack's Heal over Time now pulses every 3 seconds for 21 seconds.
Rune-keeper
(MC) Ameliorating Oration now displays correctly.
-The Rune-keeper skill 'Debate Wrath' is unable to be affected by the capstone traits 'Wrath', 'Shields Will Be Splintered', and 'Spears Will Be Shaken' due to recent changes. As such, all mention of it has been removed.
The 5-piece set bonus on the ""Armour of Puignor"" has been changed due to functionality issues. It now causes Essay of Fire to restore a fair amount of morale to the caster.
Burglar
(MC)All in the Wrist, in riddermark will no longer have a string table error.
(MC) Ride by has two effects listed as bonuses for the skill. This issue has been rectified.
The Burglar skill 'Trick: Stratagem' will no longer be affected by the capstone traits 'Motivation through Aggression', 'Survivability', or 'Strong Willed' as it is now an out-of-combat toggle, and these traits are intended for use in combat
Hunter
Mounted Combat: Hunter - When Noble Arrow is used in Discipline: Red Dawn a critical strike will now apply a bonus damage effect. When Noble Arrow is used in Discipline: Rohirrim a critical strike will now apply morale and power restoring effects. (Essentially, these two effects have been flipped)
Mounted Combat
Forcible dismounting should now clear all effects and not allow the Disciplines to remain active.
Trait - Strong-willed, the trait from the medium trait tree for Mounted Combat will now work with all listed skills for your class.
Trait - Understanding, the trait from the medium trait tree for Mounted Combat will now work with all listed skills for your class.
Trait - Deadly Pursuit, the trait from the medium trait tree for Mounted Combat will now work with all listed skills for your class.
Trait - Shield Will Be Splintered, the trait from the medium trait tree for Mounted Combat will now work with all listed skills for your class.
Increased the boost to melee damage from 2% to 5% for Assault of the Eorlingas.
In Riddermark swapped the DoT damage with a speed reducing effect that lasts for 12 seconds.
Increases the ranged damage boost of Roar of the Eorlingas from 2% to 5%
Increased the damage benefit from Strike with Power from 10% to 20%
In Rohirrim, Clash of Steel and Willl now deasl AoE tactical damage to up to 4 targets within 20m of a melee target that the warden has healing the warden and draining morale from each target.
In Red Dawn, Clash of Steel and Will becomes a pulsing lifetap that deals damage to a target over time.
Warbands
(Bullroarer Only)Urush was feeling a bit left out, and how has his own box on his quest to kill him. Kramp has learned his colors.
Monster Play
-Stalker: Flayer Morale Bubble potency increased.
-Warleader: Power of Fear FX are now only visible the caster.
Commendations, Infamy Distribution, and Rank Multliliers
-Commendations: Base value per player has been reduced from 150 to 100. Distribution per contributor is: 100/50/35/25
-Infamy Distribution: Floor value for Infamy distribution has been reduced to 10%. Distribution is now: 1/.5/.33/.25/.2/.15/.1
-Rank Multipliers: Rank Multipliers have been reduced to the following: Starting at Rank 2: .03/.05/.08/.12/.15/.2/.25/.3/.35/.4/.5/.6/.7
-Lowered the floor value of Commendations from 25 to 15.
Troll & Ranger Sessions
-Troll and Ranger mitigations increased
-Ranger Parry and Evade chances increased
-Troll: Rampage increased incoming damage penalty from 10% to 50%.
-Troll and Rangers are now immune to most movement speed debuffs.
Blackarrow
-Steadfast Barrage: No longer has an induction
-Explosive Arrow: Polished FX to provided visual and audio queues when the skill is active and when it detonates
-Explosive Arrow: Keen Eye Stance now increases the upfront damage
-Screaming Shafts: Removed reference to Shadow Damage from the skill description.
-Enhanced Set Trap: Fixed a but that preventing the incoming damage debuff from applying.
-Centre: This is now an instant skill that restores 800 power initially and 200 power every 2s for 10s. 2min cooldown.
-Screaming Shafts: reduce the miss chance
-Keen Eye: now provides increased damage to effects (Flaming Arrow, Vital Target DoT, Fire Trap)
-Improved Punctured Target: Fixed a bug that prevented the skill from gaining Keen Eye bonuses.
Weaver
-Scytode Brood Hatchling: Reduced the critical chance and critical damage multipliers on the auto-attack.
-Strong Brood Hatchling: All skills now do Acid damage. Likelihood of the Moderate auto-attack increased.
-Catch Prey: Cooldown reduced to 15s
-Catch Prey: No longer applies an initial buff/debuff. After 4s 2% Block, Parry, and Evade are taken from the target and applied to the Weaver. Every 4s that effect tiers up to a cap of 10% Block, Parry, and Evade.
Stalker
-Crippling Bite slow will no longer overwrite the Torn Muscle slow.
Auction House
The Relic Removal Scroll has been added to the Legendary Scrolls auction house category.
Items
Many scaling items have been re-named.
User Interface
The Barter menu will now show details of what incomplete quest or quests are blocking the purchase of an item.
When you encounter a monster that can grant you a quest when you kill it or approach it, you will now see quest icons over their heads that, like NPC quest icons, will change state depending on if the quests are fully available, part of the epic book, require a purchase from the LOTRO Store, or are on cooldown.
Legendary Items & Legacies
(Bullroarer Only) Legendary Items - Legendary Items should now be assigned Item Experience correctly when many are slotted at once.
Legacy Replacement scrolls that are granted through deconstruction should now all have max levels listed appropriately in the tooltip
Player stat legacies should now be upgradeable via scrolls of empowerment after having been placed on LI bridles
- Steed restrictions have been removed from LI bridles. Light, Medium, and Heavy bridle classification will instead denote the intended playstyle and will dictate which legacies appear on identification.
- All legacy scrolls provided from the deconstruction of level 75 LIs can now be used on legendary items up through level 85.
LI Bridles will now restrict major legacies to specific steeds. Minor legacies and relics will still function across all steeds, but the major legacies granted through identify and replacement scrolls will only function while using the steed indicated in the description.
The following skills should now be augmented properly by all Rohirrim/Riddermark/Red Dawn specific legacies while utilizing the respective discipline:
Champion: Mounted Strike
Guardian: Serrated Edge
Loremaster: Metal and Mettle, Radiant Burst
Runekeeper: Inspirational Verse
Festivals and Events
- Stuck/death spot in Dwarf Keg Race fixed
- Treasure Hunt NPCs now have deco around them for when event is active.
- Players now retreat to Michel Delving if defeated in the Taste of Hobbiton Race space.
Quests
Great River -- The Battle of Ost Celebrant -- Doron can now be summoned again from the horn if you lose him after completing the Omen from the East instance.
Lua
- Added Crafting classes to Lua! New classes and enumerations: CraftTier, Profession, ProfessionInfo, Recipe, RecipeIngredient, Vocation.
- Added GetVocation, GetProfessionInfo, and VocationChanged event to FreePeopleAttributes.
- Changed how events are fired from native code. The objects registered as an event handler can now be a callable table. The Turbine.Event lua class has been updated to make use of this functionality as an example.
- Changed Control.SetBackColor so that it can accept Nil. This can be used to reset the back color so that it will be transparent again.
- Added TextChanged event to TextBox.
- Added Sort to ListBox. Takes in a function that is callback with two list items for comparison.
- Fixed a text positioning issue with Labels when they were below a minimum size.
- Added GetFilter, SetFilter to TreeView. The filter is used to filter the displayed tree nodes. The filter is a function that is called back with each treeview item.
- Added GetSortMethod, SetSortMethod to TreeView. The sort method is a function that is called back to perform node sorting.
- Added Refresh to TreeView. This will force filtering and sorting to be reapplied. Useful if you change the data the filter relies on.
- Added SelectedChanged event to TreeNode.
- Fixed an issue with constructing TreeNode heirarchies and then adding the root of that tree to a TreeView. This now works as expected.
- Added Get/Set Minimum/Maximum Width/Height/Size methods to Window. This allows constraints to be set on resizable windows. These constraints affect calls to SetSize as well.
- Added ItemInfoControl. This is similar to ItemControl only it accepts an ItemInfo object and the quantity can be specified manually. This also supports a grayed out state when SetEnabled(false) is called.