about fracking time for this as well :

Example: You are hit with a daze effect in PvMP. It is counted as the first application of a CC effect, and the daze effect duration is 50%. After it wears off, you are then hit with a stun. It is counted as the second application of a CC effect, and the stun effect duration is 50%. After it wears off, you are hit with a root. It is counted as the third application of a CC effect, and the root effect duration is 5%. After it wears off, you are hit with a fear. It is counted as the fourth application of a CC effect, and the fear effect duration is 1 second. Please note that the diminishing returns application counter is not permanent - if you are not hit with any crowd control effects for 45 seconds, the application counter will reset.

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holy molly batman, someone has been a busy bee :). This looks amazing :

Guardian

* Guardians may no longer retain the benefits/bonuses of shields while in Overpower stance. When Overpower is activated, your shield is automatically disarmed until Overpower is deactivated.
* With the change to Overpower to disallow the use of shields, existing Legendary weapons with Overpower-dependent legacies have become less useful. Guardian trainers throughout Middle-earth have acquired powerful scrolls that will allow Guardians to replace these Overpower dependent legacies with new legacies.
o Overpower Cost => Vexing Blow Damage
o Overpower Evade Chance => Bash Damage
o Stagger Attack Duration => Vitality
o Stagger Movement Speed Debuff => Might
* The Guardian legacy that extends the range of Engage is no longer functional. No ranks can be purchased in this legacy. Engage range is now extended by the Targeted Melee skills range legacy. Guardian trainers have a legacy replacement scroll for this defunct legacy that replaces the Engage range legacy with Overwhelm Critical chance legacy.
* The critical defense bonuses from Guardian's Fighter of Shadow trait set have been converted to use the new Critical Defence ratings.
* Shield Wall will now overwrite and toggle off Protection if applied to the same Fellowship member.
* Guardian's Blocking Force trait will now reduce the cooldown of Force Opening as well as giving a Block event on a critical hit.
* Overpower: It's now possible to use 1-handed swords with Overpower, but your shield will automatically be disarmed.
* Guardian's power costs have been reduced by 10% and their Overpower penalty has been increased by 10%.
* The debuffs from the Guardian's Stagger skill have been split into 2 effects. There is no change to the way the run speed debuff is applied. The attack speed debuff will now be applied 10% of the time regardless of position or critical hit status.
* Fixed a bug that was allowing the Corruption removal effect on the Guardian's "Improved Sting" skill to continuously overwrite itself on subsequent attacks and preventing it from actually removing a corruption after 10 seconds. Now you will be prevented from applying a new corruption removal effect until the previous one has expired.
* Guardians will be able to purchase an improved version of Charge, called Brutal Charge, from the Guardian trainer at level 62.
* The Guardian trait Litany Master will now trigger the threat-over-time effect on critical hits from the 2nd attacks of Shield Swipe and Sweeping Cut.

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Those changes will make all the difference . Awesome !

nah, people would rather just bitch and moan, then talk about some great improvement. As soon as i posted this , there was a lag and hitch post thast got more responses, prettylame when people blame games for their poorly built computers

Originally posted by Sovrath

However, in doing the watcher a few times I have to say that it just wasn't fun. Oh sure it was fun the first time but given that a player could make one mistake and essentially botch it for the entire group is just, well, "bad". So if I had to do raids all the time in order to get these coins I wouldn't ever get them.

And given that I don't raid it would seem that "yes" I would never get them.

in ending I will share with you that I don't like the word "sauce". It sounds exactly like what it is and that is just gross.

skills ! 

think this change is one of the best changes to impact level 60 players.  I'm absolutely floored with this change.

This new system can only be explained  in one phrase !

AWESOME SAUCE :D

funny how no one wants to talk about the positives , and owuld rather bring up old and tired posts from 2 years ago.

community.codemasters.com/forum/showthread.php

This is probably my favorite change in the game

pretty sad when trolls are writing columns for mmorpg.com. Shoot you might as well give me a column to sactify this entire website. The column would be called "When bad writers, get worse"

Another slandering article on mmorpg.com . The title is way off base to the content of the story. O noes , Cryptic has made mistakes, the game is ruined. blah blah, seriously fail at writing about mmorpg's. from what I gathered about mmorpg.com, they are here to give insightful information about up coming games, not stir the troll pot for a let bash cryptic today, day.

Just quit writing, save the database space for people who actually can write. I'm so fed up with people who think they have a right to something that isn't even in closed beta, the right to drive companies names in the dirt for a quick thrill of posting articles that do nothing positive for a community, the  right to act like a high and might authority of mmorpg genre, and yet these people crawl right back in Wow and pretend they are the end all be all of mmo gaming. Fuck off, really. Sick of these weak ass articles, would rather have mmorpg podcast back, then this crap.

Welcome to LotrO !

These post are SOE Gurilla posts. Turbine is about to release another Xpac and SOe, Blixzzard  are using third partoes to discredit the game in any way possible. THese threads open up with a question of  buying the game or resubscribing to the game. It happened when Moria was about to go live.

Fans of LotrO, shouldn't even be wasting there time clicking these posts. seriously. If someone needs to come to an mmorpg forum and make posts like this, it should immediatley raise a red flag.

Originally posted by someforumguy

Originally posted by Gestankfaust

Originally posted by Erxi

I`ve been doing the free trial, but the game seems so similar to WoW I`m totally put off. I can`t get myself to progress through the newbie area, even.

I know lotro is less endgame-heavy, more pve-oriented, has different graphics, somewhat different profession templates - but that`s not enough for me, atleast not from what I can tell.

What`s unique with this game? Why should I play it, and not others?

 

If you seriously think that LotRO is in any way like WoW?

 

Quit gaming.....please....

Im surprised that you couldnt find MANY similarities to WoW.

Here are some that I remember from my first and only month in LOTRO :

• Pricing of skills, mounts (and riding skill), crafting recipes are lvl based and insanely high if you want to keep them updated during lvling. The only way to do this is to grind gold.
• Recource gathering. Nodehunting like in WoW , with also lack of nodes during peak hours. Also higher tier nodes are found in higher tier zones, so you have to lvl adventuring in addition to crafting.
• Resource processing. Click your stack of resources and wait. Idle time is time per item x amount (I really wanted to kick that dev who copied that from WoW).
• Crafting. Recipes same as in WoW with part looted, part bought. It doesnt matter really. All very tied up in adventuring. Dont expect to craft directly for your lvling character (without the help of a sugardaddy anyway), but start it when you are higher lvl just for trade purpose.

The hightlighted , is misinformation.  Everything I can craft, I can use, resource gathering ? can be done at the Auction house. "Click a stack" what fuck are you even talking about, there is no clicking stacks and wait in this game. Crafting recipes, are sometimes one of a kind. Some are one use recipes, and some are reusable. Got to say this is the most blantant trolling Ive see in a while in this forum section :(

Originally posted by Erxi

I`ve been doing the free trial, but the game seems so similar to WoW I`m totally put off. I can`t get myself to progress through the newbie area, even.

I know lotro is less endgame-heavy, more pve-oriented, has different graphics, somewhat different profession templates - but that`s not enough for me, atleast not from what I can tell.

What`s unique with this game? Why should I play it, and not others?

I think you should just return to wow, I find when ever someone can't let go of a game, they tend to ses their old game in any game they play. IF you are seeing WoW in LotrO, most likely you just aren't ready to let go of Wow and actually play a real mmorpg.  I mean tis in the most sincere way possible :) .

We will be waiting for you when your ready to close your mind to WoW . :D

It is funny, cause at around level 30, you will be relieved to hunt animales lol.. at least I was hehe ..

Having more tools  to be my own hero. Looking forward to the new tweaks to combat system.

In my opinion the community is spread to far apart across to many servers. AoC could flourish with 3 servers or maybe 4.

I would agree. I was on Agony and was just that to find anyone to pvp. And when you did find someone, there was like 10 people with them lol. Would love to see 4 servers, one Full Loot PVP, one RP PVP , one PVE with Seiging PVP  and a EURO PVP. Think you would attract more people wanting more of a ruthless shadowbanish pvp element .

I would join soon, cause you need to grind Loth points

yay ! Good Job ! What resolution is your pc screen ?