LOtRO: Dev Chat Transcript

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Warcry had a chance to chat with the developers of Lord of the Rings Online. If you missed the chat, don't worry here is a part of transcript of it.

WarCry JaredB: I've heard there will be a special 'Inspired by Greatness' mode in SoM that will enable players to more easily complete Epic Quest content by specially beefing up your stats. Could you elaborate more about this special mode?

Orion Let me start by saying that when I put together the blog about 'Inspired Greatness' I never expected so much response. I figured that some folks would be interested in the system but it turned out that this was going to be a hot button issue for a great deal of folks.
Orion In the current implementation, the buff increases your statistics to allow you to readily handle the foes present within instance spaces. Since the writing of the blog I have been putting in some extra cycles to see if there a better way to handle these moments.
Orion What that means, in the short term, is that a player deciding to take the solo version of an epic quest that contains an instance will be bumped up to the approximate level of an Elite creautre. This also includes some bonuses to regen that make it possible for players to survive against multiple opponents.
Orion In future iterations, I will likely be coming to a more scalable design that will *fingers crossed* address some of the small group concerns as well. For these first tentative steps into the new world, this will require a different - solo - version of the current epic instance quests to be chosen by the players.

WarCry Icemasta: Will all items be available for a certain amount of skirmish marks or will there be a need for higher grade marks from 3-6-12 man skirmishes to get certain items? Will the skirmish barter system be similar to that of PvMP in which you can buy lowest item by just using the lowest marks and buy the best quality item using normal marks, and a combination of purple, blue and yellow marks?

jwbarry All items will be available for purchase for all players. Small Tokens come from and 3 man skirmishes. Large Tokens come from 6 and 12 man skirmishes. Some rewards require Small Tokens and some require Large Tokens, in addition to an amount of Skirmish Marks.
jwbarry Large Tokens can be downgraded into Small Tokens with no additional cost. Small Tokens can be upgraded into Large Tokens with an additional amount of Skirmish Marks.
jwbarry The goal is that with enough time, everyone, regardless of playstyle or preferred group size will be able to get all the rewards they are striving for.

WarCry LongascHi! This is my question for the upcoming dev chatWhat kind of legacies for champion legendary weapons can we expect in replacement for the stance (fervor e.g.) legacies that will be discontinued in SoM?
Graal The Champion legacies were worked over the most of any of the classes due primarily to the reduction and consolidation of Stance based legacies. Champions gain several legacies that give damage bonus to individual skills, a critical magnitude legacy and several more utility type legacies.
Graal In addition all of the Ardour/Glory legacies have been combined to affect both stances.

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