Thread: The 1/17/12 Patch Note Thread

Loving the sardonic messages throughout the notes! Having a good laugh

Originally Posted by PANZERBUNNY

"Giant bosses will now start as Dunlendings and then grow. "


What on earth does this mean?

There was a bug in the Orthanc Fire and Frost boss fight. I think the story is that some Dunlendings have been corrupted into powerful giants, but the only time they appeared as Dunlendings was for one second at the start of the fight, when they quickly went giant->Dunlending->giant. They were giants before you activate the fight, during Saruman's boring chat, and during the fight, whereas I think it should have been a shock to the raid group, ie 'oh, Saruman's leaving us to fight 2 Dunlendings!! Awesome, faceroll time! [2 seconds later] WTFOMG!!??!?! GIANTS!!!!"

Originally Posted by SuaronTehMighty

Those are fake I assume. Still no official patch notes then? They were supposed to be made available during downtime.

And how long will downtime last in EU? until 15:00?

Why do you think they are fake? they're real, check twitter too, they tweeted those patch notes out.

from patch 5.1 notes

Minstrel Codas should no longer strip all Minstrels’ buffs from the fellowship when they are in fellowships together.

Now, lets get something done about these champ bubbles....

You will now be automatically dismounted if you try to collect a crafting resource node while mounted.

For the lazy people who dont like to click. :P

Scroll of Greater Empowerment has its price increased.

*cries*

/words

Originally Posted by Lythia

You will now be automatically dismounted if you try to collect a crafting resource node while mounted.

For the lazy people who dont like to click. :P

This is something that should have been added years ago. Just like they changed being unable to ride through an instance portal mounted. There was a time you had to dismount.

Anything that makes action more fluid should be added to the game. This helps.

And there're Known Issues as well.

Looking on the UI part in the patch notes, what is the Event Panel?

Damage on the Minstrel Codas has been returned near pre-U5 levels.

What happened with Revenge huh?
Why this dosen't surprise me, Turbine?

haha..now in order to gain more marks/medallion in skirmish we have to fight the counter attack..... no more skipping....

Originally Posted by nubcat

*cries*

/words

Maybe they did it because too many people were simply getting them cheap through skirms and selling them. If so, all this will do is drive UP the price of greater scrolls with no actual change in how people farm to sell them.

/thumbs down.

I think the price was right. compared to a delving scroll which is like 2K marks.

Silent Riders quest now back? Looking through the patch notes it doesn't seem so but they are also not in the known issues thread. Or did I miss something?

I don't see any information on the missing quest line in Gravenwood. But I don't see them listed as a known issue anymore either.
Have these missing quests been restored?

I have toons waiting to finish Isengard, but don't want to keep working in the area until this missing quest chain in restored.

Some good fixes in there.

Again can get LI's from other classes.
Can change the Moria rep items.
Skirm solider costs downgrade

Some more I can't remember

Originally Posted by PANZERBUNNY

This is something that should have been added years ago. Just like they changed being unable to ride through an instance portal mounted. There was a time you had to dismount.

Anything that makes action more fluid should be added to the game. This helps.

Oh I know. I kind of like this. I am one of the lazy peoples ^.^

Im not seeing Gravenwood fix or masterlooter fix :/

Interested in whether not there will be a refund for Marks.

Also, I'll believe the crafting relic bug has been fixed when I see it. It worries me that it says "unusable" when the issue was we couldn't purchase it to begin with..

Originally Posted by Followthelight

Im not seeing Gravenwood fix or masterlooter fix :/

The ML exploit was fixed

Originally Posted by Followthelight

Im not seeing Gravenwood fix or masterlooter fix :/

Parties assigning loot in Master Looter mode will now see who is receiving an assigned item.

at the top under general.

Originally Posted by Followthelight

Im not seeing Gravenwood fix or masterlooter fix :/

Parties assigning loot in Master Looter mode will now see who is receiving an assigned item.

General info. Not sure if its what you are looking for, but thats all I saw for ML.

Originally Posted by Zbunka

An issue where greater crafted relic recipe scrolls became unusable after obtaining Westfold mastery has been fixed.

YES ! I know every one can read it but i`m jst 2 happy for it !!

Edit: Btw any1 knows what penrith`s skill is in foundry either on t1 or t2 ? Orc mob stuns , what is penrith suposed to do o_O

I think he puts the eye above you that makes you drop pools of flames?
Or is that the forge itself?

Originally Posted by DMor

At least it took until page 4 for this to start.....

As far as I remember, patch notes are posted by Sapience or Celestrata. Who work more regular hours than the server monkeys, so it's normally a couple of hours into the downtime before they get posted to the forums, as the downtime starts way early in order to minimise disruption/allow maximum time to fix anything unforseen.

I think Sapience starts before 9am on patch days, so they might be up soon. What Turbine say and what they do, regarding patch notes, is honest. They say that the notes will be posted during the downtime, so technically they don't have to post them until they're about to bring the server up.

I'm usually here about an hour into the downtime; so 7AM ish usually.. I was in a bit late today due to an insane Dunkin' Donuts Hot Chocolate Turbo craving. As a general rule we try to get the release notes and known isuses out before 8AM on a patch day or roughly half way through the maintenance. German and French translations usually make it up before lunch time, though we do try to get them up by the end of the downtime if we can.

Also, note that we changed how we name patches. Today's patch is Update 5.1. Point releases (.x) serve the same function as the old 'patch x', but as others pointed out we do sometimes slip more than simple bug fixes into patches so this makes a little more sense.

It's also much easier to type.

Originally Posted by Thomas-Gallant

Why do you think they are fake? they're real, check twitter too, they tweeted those patch notes out.

Because,
"Players successfully dealing with this will now be required to deal with that."
"Addressed a number of typos. Probably added some new ones."
sounds like lulz. IDK. Is that the style they usually deliver patch notes in?

Also,
"You will now be automatically dismounted if you try to collect a crafting resource node while mounted."
seems too good to be true. :P

Players successfully dealing with this will now be required to deal with that.

I guess it's an answer to the complaints about the newest addition to the store. Would have been hilarious if it were just a handful of loud whiners overblowing it, but answering a major community uproar with sarcasm in a patch-notes? I played a bunch of MMOs and I'm astonished, never saw something like that.
The way it is formulated really reads like a thinly veiled "#### you" to lifers and long-time VIPs who voiced their disagreement, way to treat the customer base who carried your now successful product to life. (I'm not trying to derail the thread to talk about the store again, just talking about Turbine's answer here).

Originally Posted by Sapience

I was in a bit late today due to an insane Dunkin' Donuts Hot Chocolate Turbo craving.

Consider your pay docked! :P

Originally Posted by SuaronTehMighty

Because,
"Players successfully dealing with this will now be required to deal with that."
"Addressed a number of typos. Probably added some new ones."
sounds like lulz. IDK. Is that the style they usually deliver patch notes in?

yes, this is their style and I love it - it makes me laugh everytime, so please stick to this style

but any news on isengard-teal-armor being dye-able?
it would make me cry, having to wear this awesome looking set in black for all time

Originally Posted by SuaronTehMighty

Because,
"Players successfully dealing with this will now be required to deal with that."
"Addressed a number of typos. Probably added some new ones."
sounds like lulz. IDK. Is that the style they usually deliver patch notes in?

They got a sense of humor today. And because it's probably true. Typos happen ^.^

Originally Posted by Sapience

I'm usually here about an hour into the downtime; so 7AM ish usually.. I was in a bit late today due to an insane Dunkin' Donuts Hot Chocolate Turbo craving.)

Yum...share? :P

It says :■Parties assigning loot in Master Looter mode will now see who is receiving an assigned item.

I read that to mean master looter only, he is the only one assigning loot, must be one of the new typos, for all of us to see it it should say Parties RECEIVING loot in master looter....ect etc

Originally Posted by SuaronTehMighty

Is that the style they usually deliver patch notes in?

Yeah, they have fun with some of the notes. One of the recent ones was like "The hostile mobs in iforgetwhere that were added due to overwhelming player feedback have been removed due to overwhelming player feedback". It's funny.

What about the armour items that show a different texture after U5 ? For example Ornamented Dunleding Surcoat ... ?! No fix ? UGH.

Adjustment to logic that should lessen the likelihood of him going braindead

Makes me wonder who they're talking 'bout ??

"You can once again barter for LIs that don't match your class."

Thank god this was fixed *cheers*


"You will now be automatically dismounted if you try to collect a crafting resource node while mounted."

Like this idea


"Scroll of Greater Empowerment has its price increased."

D'oh

Originally Posted by Jarnos

I think he puts the eye above you that makes you drop pools of flames?
Or is that the forge itself?

The Eye thingy is normal penrith action. I`m asking about whats happening when Penrith goes to the forge , like when the orc goes to pray or w/e he is doing , u get an AoE stun on the whole group. What does penrith do xD

I wonder how much Greater Empowerment scroll costs now. B4 the update, I needed to run, on average, 9 solo skirmishes for one scroll...

Lol ic so guess they are real after all, and that also means the autodismount to harvest is also in. That's pretty awesome.

Originally Posted by SuaronTehMighty

Because,
"Players successfully dealing with this will now be required to deal with that."
"Addressed a number of typos. Probably added some new ones."
sounds like lulz. IDK. Is that the style they usually deliver patch notes in?

Also,
"You will now be automatically dismounted if you try to collect a crafting resource node while mounted."
seems too good to be true. :P

Patch notes always have a bit of cheek and humor in them here and there.

Originally Posted by Liliaceae

I guess it's an answer to the complaints about the newest addition to the store. Would have been hilarious if it were just a handful of loud whiners overblowing it, but answering a major community uproar with sarcasm in a patch-notes? I played a bunch of MMOs and I'm astonished, never saw something like that.
The way it is formulated really reads like a thinly veiled "#### you" to lifers and long-time VIPs who voiced their disagreement, way to treat the customer base who carried your now successful product to life. (I'm not trying to derail the thread to talk about the store again, just talking about Turbine's answer here).

um I think we have a reading comprhension issue here, it's about the move assist bug being fixed... as in if you were sucesfully dealing with (move assist bug) you now must deal with this ( move assist bug fix)

Hehe many fun things in there, and some good and needed updates.
Well dont think you can dye armor from Orthanc, sadly as the hunter set is black with red details, but Gloves are dark blue! :/
Fixed Hunters fleetness stacking?? never seent that, and i use it all the time.

Dosent seem Champs new AOE set is getting fixed either.. i know a few kin champs that will cry their eyes out *-*

Originally Posted by Followthelight

It says :■Parties assigning loot in Master Looter mode will now see who is receiving an assigned item.

I read that to mean master looter only, he is the only one assigning loot, must be one of the new typos, for all of us to see it it should say Parties RECEIVING loot in master looter....ect etc

I'm wondering about this, too. Plus, I still wish we could see what drops from the chest no matter who opens it. Biding time and waiting for people to leave the raid could still end up meaning people can ninja. "That's it everyone...thanks for coming, I am gonna craft now..." waits for people to leave raid... "Yippee! Two symbols!"

" - Slightly increased the Currency rewards in "Attack at Dawn", "Battle of the Way of Smiths", "Stand at Amon Sul", "Siege of Gondamon" and "Rescue in Nurz Ghashu".
- Defenders will now properly grant Currency when a Skirmish is completed. The more defenders you protected, the more you will receive. Such Skirmishes have had their rewards distributions adjusted. In general, if you keep the majority of the defenders alive, you will be granted an above average award for the Skirmish.
- Protecting the defenders in a Skirmish will now properly award Marks and sometimes Medallions."

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