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More LOTRO Yule Festival Changes for Update 9
Turbine announced today that they are making SOME changes to how things will work for this year’s Yule festival. Still sounds a little grindy for a festival for me, but we shall see what else they tweak.
- Deed Quest amounts are dropping from 100 to 60 for Tier 2, and from 200 to 120 for Tier 3
- They did clarify that quests for Tier 2 do count for Tier 3
- Golden Festival Tickets don’t expire
- so you’ll be able to do save them for next year
Perhaps I’ll just run the festival every other year? Although I’m still not real sure what’s in each Tier or what I would really want for this festival. It just sounds like more work then I really care to put in for fluff.
Does this make things better, or did they not reduce things far enough?
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#2 written by DocHoliday 6 months ago
Thanks for the info, I haven’t checked it out yet at all. And I agree, I can’t imagine running all that (assuming you can even fit it in) only to have to do it again on Live.
It does seem like its around 10 days with about a 15 day run-time, so at least you can take a couple days off during the holidays
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The adjustment has moved it from boycotting it out of principle to possible. Its still quite a lot to do, but I seem to remember the quests there are mostly quick and easy. If it turns out that I’m around for enough days over the festive period (hehe may need an excuse to disappear at times
) and it takes around 1/2 hour to do per day, I could probably cope with that. only on one character though… Having said that, I haven’t seen the appearances, so I don’t know if its worth the effort yet
I’m still not sure why turbine thinks that festivals = grind though.
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#4 written by DocHoliday 6 months ago
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#8 written by Dapper 6 months ago
Unfortunately, the whole game has become a grind and if you want out of the trap, so to speak, you can “buy” your way out through the LOTRO Store. They have to continue to find ways for people to spend and/or buy more Turbine Points. I’m waiting for the day I can buy a Tarnished Symbol. I’m sure if I’m willing to spend enough money they will let me have it for a price. I love the festivals, but as a player with Alts, I have been forced to pick and choose which character I want to grind for the “stuff” there is just not enough time to get stuff for more than one or even two toons anymore.
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#9 written by DocHoliday 6 months ago
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#10 written by Beryline 6 months ago
I’d been leveling a bunch of alts before Isengard, but now they just stay parked in the crafting hall. It’s true that the grind is just not worth it any more. Can you imagine doing Hytbold for more than one character?
I’m also finding that the store prices are just too prohibitive, further widening the gap between lifers and everybody else. Lifers just wait a month or two and buy the item they want. For the rest of us, every single item costs us, whether through subscription or points. Turbine’s desire to get lifers to use up their points is just pricing out the people who would still give them money.
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#11 written by DocHoliday 6 months ago
I know quite a few that are going through Hytbold on multiple alts, and yes they’re crazy
But hey, to each his/her own.I think the lifer comment has some truth to it, but I’ve (I’m a lifer) also bought 2 of the big $50 point bundles and the Isengard pack that had points in it. Now granted, I didn’t need that many when I bought my second so now I’m still using those up. So while I agree with you to some extent, I also would be curious to see the percentage of players that buy points per subscription type. Not that we’ll ever see that, but it would be interesting. My guess is that its closer to even then we might imagine.
However, I didn’t buy Rohan (used points) and I will still have enough left over to get the Warden steed. So Turbine certainly lost out on money from me, and I’m guessing there were others that did the same. And the longer we wait for them to release ANY numbers relative to how many copies Rohan sold, the more I wonder how much it dropped compared to Isengard.
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#12 written by Dapper 6 months ago
Thanks for deleting my double post, sorry about that. As of yesterday I have 3 85s, but you are right I won’t be Hytbold”ing” 3x a day. My main a Captain is close to finishing, which means I can use that toon to get the gear for the one that is just starting. The problem right now is it only takes 30 mins to do the Hytbold dailys and maybe pick off Bugud and Kramp in there as well, so without raid content there is nothing else to do, so I go to an alt. I’m reaaally waiting for the new 3 mans. I have akimate who was in Bullroarer who told us that the challenge for the new 3 mans will award tarnished symbols, Yea!
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#13 written by DocHoliday 6 months ago
No worries, my site can be quirky at times
I too am looking forward to the 3-mans as without the mounted defense dailies you can really rip through things really quick. And most times when Krampt and Bugud are up there’s already a group there when I get there so it comes down really quickly. Krampt is pretty easy to solo, but he just takes time if you’re alone.
Good news about the symbol, it will be nice to have viable and repeatable ways to get the items.
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#14 written by Dapper 6 months ago
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#16 written by Lorraine 6 months ago
One of the biggest issues I have with the current beta version of the Yule Festival is the 24 cool down times. Last I checked all the quests in Frostbluff (Winterhome) are 24 hours. That includes the Theatre, Snowball Fights and Eating quests. If these three quests have such a long cool down time Frostbluff will be deserted most of the time, which will make it next to impossible to find someone with whom we can do the theater and snowball fights. And more importantly (to me anyway) it will suck the fun out of the festival. If they do not drastically reduce the cool-down times then, “RIP Yule Festival”.
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#18 written by Dapper 6 months ago
Yeah, they are having a hard time keeping people in the game these days. My raiding kin is just deserted without a raid to run. Even the skirmish raids which were once “kin only” because we had enough on all the time, have become a few of us to start and then PUG for the rest. We desparately need the next update to get people playing again. I understand Turbine’s need to clean up stuff before its released, but Rohan has really failed the end gamers. This huge gap between a release that was suppose to happen in September adn then delayed and it being February before the raid content comes, is really causing people to desert the game.
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#20 written by Dapper 6 months ago
I love Mounted combat and wish the new “Raids” imployed that mechanic, but right now even the supposed mounted raid of Bugud, doesn’t require grouping. I think its going to take a separate instanced raid with many, many mounted mobs with 12 people forced to group to make mounted combat the challenge it needs to be. Focused targeting, group heals, a mounted tank on a mob that hits hard enough to dismount, etc. Right now I have the 2nd age Light Bridle on three 85s, a Captian, Hunter and LM (so I have light, medium and heavy armor represented) and its just DPS, DPS, DPS, change stance to Rohirrim or Riddermark to get back morale and/or power, then back to DPS.
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Well, it’s a bit better, but I’m still am upset about having to deed grind for a regular travel steed. I have never cared to do deeds during festivals – some people enjoy it, but it’s just not my thing. It’s sad because Yule is my favorite festival and this is really going to suck the fun out of it.
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#25 written by Crell of Riddermark, Vanguard 6 months ago
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Trying to remember what I saw today, but the regular festival mount was in tier 1, plus a cosmetic, tier 2 had two other cosmetics plus the option to buy golden tokens with normal festival tokens, tier 3 was the warsteed cosmetics plus two other cosmetics (hillbeast cloak and shoes I think).
It seems better.. but given I can’t character copy and I don’t feel like rerunning the beginning of Frostbluff, I have no idea how easy it is to get the quests done each day or what sort of cds you run in to.