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CHECK OUT MY POSSE EVERYONE. My herd of dwarf friends!!  Lmfaoooooo the way they all come shuffling up in a solid mass of twitchy, spazzy, wtf-ing dwarves. ILOVEIT.

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ITS-A HIM, MARIO!!!

There is just so much that’s A+ about this. Magically levitating on a fence, honking away on a bassoon, literally dressed in fucking overalls like Mario, referencing mushrooms in the player title, and of course being a dwarf. I don’t care what anyone says.. if Mario were in Middle Earth, you bet your ass he’d be a dwarf.  Fight me. 

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Wow!!! Does this mean I defeated myself!? Ok but seriously this was way too hilarious to NOT screenshot.

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Okay Ontamo, when did you become my mother? Goddamn.  That description text though. lmfaoooooo Also, just to spite him, I wore his fucking disappointment with pride, for as long as I could. 

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HOLY SHIT IT’S THE FUCKING BOY WONDER. HI ROBIN!  Er... Girl Wonder? Elf Wonder? WHAT U DOIN IN THE MORGUL VALE? Also I love you please be my bff forever ;____;

I MEAN LOOK ITS PERFECT. UHNF MY HEART.

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FINALLY A FELLOW CAPTAIN THAT FEELS THE SAME WAY. THIS GUY, HE GETS IT. Even after the changes and buffs to Red Line Captains, heralds are still useless, man. WorthlessMofo indeed... though I am also fond of “MeatShield” or “SacrificialPeon”. 

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The Couple Hours when Champs Ruled Them All

Soooo was anyone else around in early June of last year (2020)? Did you happen to remember the almost legendarily ridiculous Champion bug that had INSANE exploit potential?  Honestly I do not remember the context around how I heard of it, but I did spot a forum thread demanding, “Take the game down immediately” and clicked on it for shits and giggles.  It was not what I was expecting.

In case Tumblr decides to be stupid and squish the crap out of that screenshot, the jist is the following. On June 3rd, an update which included a tweak to Champions caused the skill “Champion’s Challenge” to incorrectly interact with an LI Legacy, specifically “Fight On Critical Rating”. Champion’s Challenge is meant to reduce the target’s outgoing damage along with briefly force-taunting. Instead, it was increasing the target’s outgoing damage, based on the legacy’s rating x 100, then - 30.. which maxed out at +859970% increased damage. G O D D A M N.   But since it buffed the target, you might ask, how could it be exploited? Well.. one, damage reflecting skills. Two, sparring another player, who could then take that insane buff and go ape-shit with it. Normally the effect only lasts for 5 seconds, but there were reports that the “debuff” was also bugged enough to be permanent until death/defeat, and that someone could very easily take this into an instance and one-shot everything, “including T5 Remmorchant” which was the latest raid at that point.  I have a champion, but he is parked at level 50 with an XP disabler for SoA instance funtimes, which means no LIs for him, which means I could not replicate this. Buuut thankfully someone provided a screenshot. 

*snort* ohmygod. Meanwhile here’s my Burn Hot with its measly +74.8% damage. 

I am really not sure how this got past beta testing (if there even was any...) but to their credit, this was temporarily disabled / hotfixed within a few hours of the forum post. I am not sure if anyone actually managed to use this to any nefarious intent, but personally I found this to be hilarious.  FEAR THE ALMIGHTY CHAMPIONS. Here’s a link to the thread my screenshots are from if you are curious: https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?680590-Take-the-game-down-immediately

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HI EVERYONE I’M NOT DEAD I SWEAR.

My apologizes for the two month absence. My new job stomped a big old mudhole in my ass, but I have recovered! I’ll try to post some stuff soon, but for now, have one of Paam’s numerous musical debuts!