Interview with LOTRO Producer Aaron “Rowan” Campbell

Episode 9 of the podcast is a special episode as I get the chance to talk with Rowan about the Echoes of the Dead update coming next week.  It certainly was a good chat as I was able to get a feel for why Turbine did some of the things they did and there were a number of things that they’re going to check into.

Main topics include:

• Class revamps
  • Goals and how they impact the DPS to Tank relationship
• Legendary Items
  • Relic changes
    • New bonuses available
  • New store options including the Scroll of Removal
• New Instances
  • Switch to quest based
    • Expectation of how long to get the armor sets
  • Rare drops in instances
    • Here’s the link for the items I’m talking about (Under the “new proc heal armor)
  • Difficulty of the instances
  • What people liked from the Rift raid and how that carries forward
• News on the Anniversary update
• Server Transfers (question from @wickedpt)