Join me tomorrow for a Q&A with Severlin on Twitch!

[Hierok]

Are there plans on a virtue rework, if yes what is the vision on this?
Is there a timeline on class reworks?
Regarding LI's, are there plans to decrease the grind or make the grind fun?
Why is Bind to Character still a large thing while Bind to Account for items is so much more appealing?

 

[Mach]

Will we see a larger amount of LI upgrade options over the Umbar expansion? In Gundabad everyone received enhancement runes in very large quantities but had very few options to spend them on upgrade levels, leaving them to just collect in their wallet. It'd be nice to get to spend these earlier and faster.

 

[Happy Kirby]

Can you Make optional instance level scaling? It will solve the current grouping problem by scaling higher level players down and lower level players up to the instances level. And it makes older instances more viable too

 

[Grotmaggot]

MFA?

THIS!
To elaborate, Is there any news about Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). It was mentioned in previous streams, this is important.

 

[yloollo]

Is there any intend to cut the fat from random tracery rewards? There are so many useless/strait up duplicate traceries and it is kind of frustrating to have that much clutter in an otherwise already large loot pool
Alternatively, any chance that tracery tokens will be more commonly available during Umbar compared to Gundabad?

 

[Ish#1698]

What is the biggest draw for a player to be VIP? There's not really special or interesting incentives beyond checking your mail box anywhere or having the town services. Again, we've heard about VIP rewards coming (and hobbit presents were okay, but felt like it only existed to point to the new xpac release)... what are you doing for VIPs in U38 or beyond?

 

[Mach]

Will Umbar introduce more traceries for LIs? I'm always looking to craft new builds and try things and would love even more variety in LI traceries.

 

[Mach]

Can we get Umbar boat housing?

 

[Ish#1698]

We've had a weird relationship with Bullroar recently... seems that there is less content put on there and the feedback loop has severely gotten worse as bugs and reports in the BR window don't get addressed or touched. (Also there seems to be more ambiguity in how many BRs we can expect, and when they will turn on). In many ways, BR is solely a preview server, and not much feedback is implemented after we see something on BR.

Is Bullroar still helpful for its intended use? Are you thinking about a new way to go about previewing and implementing feedback for content?

 

[yloollo]

Given how low the density of players is below level cap, are there any idea's to help people in the process of leveling to engage with the multiplayer part of this MMO?

 

[Happy Kirby]

do you have any plan to do alternative, quicker leveling path? For example, leveling to cap through epic story line. it would be great as some players having alt account that want to reach the end game but still want to enjoy the main story. it would be no problem if this is tied to VIP too

 

[Ghyn]

When would you expect the instances to release for Umbar? What different time frames for the 3mans, 6man and raid do you have approximately?

 

[Ish#1698]

Everyone's favorite topic: Bind on ___

Players have begged, begged, and begged to make more gear bind on account, yet through portents and gear we're starting to see for U38 we're seeing more bind on character gear pop up. Official stance on this? Can we keep it consistent, please? (and alt friendly...)

 

[Ish#1698]

The Lengadry Reward Track has been a helpful way to replenish LI resources but falls short. For the first 7 seasons, we earned Gold Enhancement runes that took up space until Legendary Items reached 490+, Are there any changes to Reward Track so players are getting resources they actually need/can use? And how are you thinking about implementing more legendary item resourcing in different spots of the game? Through 140, the only way to get teals/golds outside of the reward track was to farm instances (sometimes spending 2+ hours to get 1 token)

The currency and system don't seem sustainable or very rewarding. What are you fixing about it?

 

[Ish#1698]

Speaking more broadly to currencies, some players have capped marks and medallions and are still earning them via instances at end-game. How will these be useful? Can we see more end-game rewards for end-game currencies?


Any broader plans to revamp or merge currencies? Seems like they're still being introduced (i.e. Delving Writs) without anything further to simplify.

 

[Lyran]

Severlin in January 2023 during a Cord of the Rings live stream on Twitch you said you did not expect plans to change to offer VIP Subscribers a discount on the next expansion for LOTRO. Corsairs of Umbar did not offer a discount to VIP Subscribers. What changed and where do discounts stand in future for VIP? Thanks

 

[Elmagor]

We have player poppulation declain during Before the Shadows because we don't have cap level content. Developers admit it was mistake, they quickly add Gondor Renewed Content and Carn Dum Return, but amount of players keep decreasing. Did you think Umbar release will be enough to at least bring back amount of players from 2019-2021, or SSG have some additional moves in plans for that?

 

[Exogenesis]

Brawlers who are race of man are 15-20% slower in their setup skills. This has been bugged for ~6+ weeks and many brawlers are USING $$ to race change because the bug is not being fixed. Is this ethical? Why is this change not being prioritized?

I just want to call out this as being incorrect. Man Brawlers are not 15-20% slower with setup animations, the range is more along the lines of 28-78% slower depending on setup.

 

[Ish#1698]

Tomes have increasingly become a more regular pain point for end-game, almost becoming necessary for many forms of content. Most t5 raid scaling basically requires most classes to have a tome of defense, attack, and max morale. These are expensive in the Lotro store and priced expensively on the AH due to old accounts and accessibility from earlier levels caps that are unbound. In PvP, you'll rarely see a competing freep or creep without tomes.

Have Tomes gone from being a helpful addition to basically necessary? This certainly has to be an issue from a balancing perspective. Are you open to creating more in-game ways to collect and purchase tomes?

And why do we still have varrying durations? The hope-token tome is just 90 minutes while others were moved to 6 hours. (And of course, the hope token is one of the better ones....)

 

[Ish#1698]

The Delving System has been rolled out to a few instances now, but I've never seen anyone actually run them and the rewards look like a time sink.

Why not invest time into scaling old raids and instances instead of trying to add WoW-like modifiers? Mythic+ system isn't going to work in LotRO, but we'd love to play old content if it was brought up to par.