One Shots: They cannot cease here One Shots: They cannot cease here. This is bat country!
Not all is bright and sunny in the lands of Telara. Never mind the rifts popping up all over the place -- there's corners of the world in RIFT that are basically naturally eerie and foreboding -- when you recognize this area is populated with giant spiders, vampire bats, and other monsters. Today's spooky screenshot comes to us from Massively reader Tizmah, who writes in to tell us of his recent adventures: "Hey, this is Tizmah. My Dwarf gal Septerra was enjoying the gloomy view of a town in the distance in Gloamwood -- all right, through her peripheral vision -- but I enjoyed it!"
Lord of the Rings Online: "Solofication" is the word of the day
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Ever since Turbine modified the first volume of its epic storyline for Lord of the Rings Online, players have eagerly anticipated the same revamp of Mines of Moria's Volume II. With the upcoming Echoes of the Dead patch, this will in fact happen, and Turbine's prepared with another illuminating dev diary to shed some light on the method on the "solofication" of Volume II.
It turns out that reworking Volume II wasn't as simple as scaling down mob health or slapping Inspired Greatness (a huge buff) on characters. Every stage of the journey -- which contained plenty of huge group instances -- had to be reconsidered, and Turbine's Bob Hess details how the content team broke down the journey, adjusted it and then reassembled it to be a more solo-friendly experience. "Overall, I feel as though the changes made will permit a huge number of players who historicallyin the past could not proceed through the epic to see the remainder of the story unfold," Hess said.
Volume II's solofication includes taking battle instances and transforming them in to skirmishes, adjusting the levels of the different books and making quest objectives simpler. You can read the whole editorial over at LotRO's net site, and don't miss out on three new screenshots from Echoes of the Dead below!
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