Test the Mirkwood Patch, Skirmish Exploit Found

Tags : Siege of Mirkwood Patch 1, Skirmish Exploit, mirkwood patch

Siege of Mirkwood Patch 1 is now available for testing on the Bullroarer test server, so be sure to log on if you'd like to check out the changes before they go live in Lord of the Rings Online. Keep in mind they're a work in progress and could change before the patch is approved.

In addition, Turbine has announced that it is "aware of an exploit that can allow a player to acquire more skirmish marks than intended. This issue is very easy to track, and any player found using the exploit will have their account immediately banned without appeal." Keep that in mind if you happen to come accross the exploit.

Release Notes

General

Resolved an issue that was causing tactical critical defense rating to affect incoming healing crit chance. You will no longer defend against heals!

Addressed a number of issues resulting in unintended gameplay.

Fixed a number of typos. <--Including that one.

Classes

Hunter

Hunter's Travel to Mirk-eaves skill now tells fellowship members you are travelling to Mirk-eaves. No more freaking out the other members of your fellowship.

Skirmishes

Skirmish Captains now have a dialog option that will explain how to open Skirmish Join.

Item wear on defeat has been reduced while inside Skirmishes.

The monster kill XP buff inside Skirmishes now has a buff icon associated with it. The Skirmish Monster Kill XP buff will remain in effect until the release of Volume 3 Book 1.

Herbalist and Bannerguard healing will no longer be reduced by armour.

Token of the Alliance no longer buffs enemies.

The Skirmish Lieutenant 'Thunderstone Smasher' will no longer stun people within melee range and will no longer target NPCs. Watching Candaith get 1-shotted is a depressing way to lose a Skirmish.

Non-Siege of Mirkwood players are no longer limited to 3 skirmishes.

Summoning a pet after summoning a soldier will no longer cause the soldier's vitals to disappear.

Smoke Before the Fire will now appear in your deed log.

Ford of Bruinen

Troll bosses no longer drop loot.

When the boss dies the trolls will be less interested with staying aggrod to Elladan and Elrohir.

Necromancer's Gate

The second counterattack at the final CP was getting triggered too quickly for groups.

Fixed a stuck spot.

Battle in the Tower

The door to Mazog's room now drops once he is defeated.

Ringwraith's Lair

Significantly reduced the number of Fell beast flybys.

Cucheron is no longer affected by the flybys.

Strike Against Dannenglor

You will no longer get a third encounter occasionally.

Stand at Amon Sul

Fixed a case where if the boss was defeated too quickly the skirmish would stop.

Legendary Items

After reports that Forge-Masters have been unslotting Legendary Item relics even though the players had the "Unslot Relics" checkbox unchecked, the offending NPCs have been given a stern talking-to and should hopefully stop such shenanigans.

Characters will be refunded all legacy points on all legendary items when Book 9 Patch 1 goes live.

The Burglar's Off-hand Critical Chance legacy has had its ratings values at Tier 6 corrected.

The Lore-master's Sticky Gourd Direct Damage legacy has had its values and costs at Tier 6 corrected.

Fixed an issue where the Guardian's Threat legacy was not affecting the Guardian's Threat skill.

The Champion's Increased Critical Damage Multiplier legacy has had its rank values and costs at Tier 6 corrected.

The Hunter's Barbed Arrow Bleed Damage legacy has had its rank values and costs at Tier 6 corrected.

The following legacies have had their tier 6 costs corrected:

Captain

Maximum targets for Pressing Attack.

Guardian

Challenge Targets.

Guardian Area Effect Melee Targets.

Hunter

Maximum Targets for AOE Skills.

Lore -master

Fire-Lore Targets.

Bane Flare Targets.

Ancient-Craft Targets.

Minstrel

Call to Second Age Targets.

Still as Death Duration.

Rune-keeper

Vivid Imagery Targets.

Mounts & Travel

The Nimble Redhorn-goat and Tame Redhorn-goat will no longer require the Basic Riding trait to use their associated mount skills. These goats never required the skill prior to the release of Siege of Mirkwood.

Shared Storage

Quest items are no longer allowed in shared storage. Quest items that were stranded in Shared Storage are destroyed the first time you login a player on the account. Players who have the related quest underway will need to cancel and re-acquire the quest to receive a new quest item.

Raids & Instances

Fixed mini-map issue causing client lag spike during the 2nd boss in the Dol Guldur 12 Man

After a brief visit to Lothlórien and Mirkwood, Sigurd the traveling quest NPC has returned to the 21st Hall where he rightfully belongs. He will now take all of your old Challenge Mode quests but he has decided to no longer bestow any new quests. He is tired after all.

Dol Guldur Instances: Fixed challenge mode quest exploits.

The Lieutenant of Dol Guldur can no longer be enraged.

Warg-pens

Fixed an issue where the first boss wasn't resetting properly.

Sammath Gûl

The first two bosses will now reset if they go near their doors. This is to prevent a reset issue with players stuck in combat.

Skeletons will no longer drop into the acid pools.

Dungeons of Dol Guldur

Prisoners and players should be ported to their appropriate jail cells whenever (and wherever) they are spotted by the patrols.

Quests

A Cornered Foe: Shatog's encounter will now reset properly if he leaves combat.

King of the Hill: You will no longer fail unless you die while actively defending the flag.

The Last Vestiges: Critter kills will no longer count towards this quest.

Vengeance Comes is once again available to players who chose to complete the solo version of the Epic Story Quest "The Passage to Agamaur".