There’s a mini-patch today in Lord of the Rings Online, which is good, cuz there was some NPC mischief going on — witness Athal_01 and Athal_02.
Or this unnerving sight, a gathering of deer outside the walls of Ost Guruth. If there was a deer faction in LOTRO, I’d be so dead right now.
Downtime expected until 1pm EDT; official patch notes are here. Full text after the jump.
(click for original, full-sized map of the online world)
Please note that Second Life has been banished to its own island, although all gamers are rather geographically isolated from the Bay of Angst. Thank God.
(via the wonderfully reblog-worthy Kottke)
Some cool tools to enhance your gaming life:
Antiarc’s WoW Armory Tools – My World of Warcraft guild is absolutely nuts for the sig generator, and more recently, we’re using the site’s Heroic Key Listing generator to apply peer pressure to the slothful among us. FCS, after four months, everyone should have their damn keys done, OR, be prepared to PUG it.
Here’s a sample of the sig generator output using one of my devoted fan’s characters:
Spoiler info is pretty hard to come by for Lord of the Rings Online at the moment, so Middle Earth Headquarters’ dynamic map is a must-use for those of us with shorter attention spans. I’ll spend SOME time exploring, but I don’t have all day to skip through meadows picking up twigs, hoping to run across the Black Fire Chest.
You’ll need to temporarily disable any browser no-script addons to enjoy MEHQ’s full ajaxy-java (whatever it is) goodness. If that’s too risky, there’s always the /advice channel, but I like to save /advice for charitable solicitations on behalf of the Buy Foton a Horse fund.