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Make Your Character All It Can Be With Traits...

On the Lord of the Rings Online Site today, the trait system was unveiled and explained. Taking more steps to let you make your character unique is always good...

In The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™, a Trait is an interchangeable ability that alters your character in some fashion. Traits allow a great deal of skills customization, so two characters of the same class and the same level can still be significantly different from each other depending on how their players have used Traits to modify their character's skills.

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It's that time of the week again. Here's what they're working on for Dungeons & Dragons Online.

Release note: this is just the third installment in the extremely lengthy list of fixes and changes that we are working on for the Twilight Forge Module. This is just the beginning.

UI Improvements

* NEW - The latency meter will be located in the main menu bar. Also, the latency meter will no longer want to be on top of everything (tooltips, for example).
* NEW - Apostrophes and spaces will once again be allowed in player surnames and guild names.
* NEW - The player biography panel will be adjusted to allow for more punctuation and printable character types.
* NEW - The alive/incapacitated/dead state of members of your fellowship will update properly even when your group members are far from you.
* NEW - The tooltip for feats will display how many times you have acquired the feat if you have acquired it more then once.
* NEW - The tooltip for "Sneak Attack" will display how much extra damage you cause when performing a sneak attack.
* NEW - Correcting a text error with the tooltip for Greater Bane items that improperly states that Greater Bane is a +2 bonus instead of a +4 bonus.
* Alerts for "Missing Spell Component" will now list what the missing component is.

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Turbine is doing a great job of revamping this game to appeal to the average people.

The Patron System

With the launch of the Twilight Forge Module, we will be introducing a new system through which players gain favor with different groups by completing specific adventures. Favor allows you access to special items and rewards; the higher your favor, the greater the rewards. This will be a dynamic system – as DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE™: Stormreach™ grows, the Patron system will grow, offering the chance for new and better rewards as well as greater ties and involvement within the various patron groups.

Most adventures in the game will be assigned a patron organization. By completing an adventure you will gain favor with the affiliated patron group. The amount of favor each completed adventure grants you is determined by the Challenge Rating (level), length, and difficulty setting (Normal, Hard, Elite etc.) of that adventure. When you have gained enough favor with a particular group you will gain a new rank (i.e., "Friendly" or "Honored") and a corresponding reward (for example, gaining favor with House Kundarak will allow you to earn additional bank space and gaining favor with the Coin Lords will give you access to expanded inventory slots). Representatives from each of the patron groups will be responsible for giving out new ranks and the accompanying rewards. These Representatives can be found in various locations throughout Stormreach.

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DnD Vault has a preview of the upcoming solo content in Dungeons & Dragons Online.

Having been given a preview of the upcoming solo content options in the Harbor I have a few thoughts I would like to share!

When I first started playing DDO I played around with most of the different classes to see which one I enjoyed playing the most. Getting through to the GoodBlade quests was no problem with any class. It was more challenging with a sorcerer, wizard, or rogue to get through the Wavecrest Tavern quest, but was still well within the realm of possibilities. The Goodblade quests were where I first experienced the need for grouping in order to simply move forward in the game. Out of necessity I started playing a paladin. As a new player to the game back then it was somewhat difficult to find a group to do the GoodBlade quests. The REAL defining quest for solo play for me back then was the Low Road. This quest really could not be played solo by a rogue, sorcerer, or wizard.

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