Turbine is gearing up to release the Prince of Rohan update for The Lord of the Rings Online, announced this morning to be launching on December 12th.
One of the many new features and updates in The Prince of Rohan update is the updated Reputation system. Turbine's Elliot 'Avon' Gilman took to the Lord of the Rings Online blog to discuss:
The reputation items have seen a slight revision in Update 5 that significantly changes the way they work. Gone are the days of holding onto a stack of reputation items to turn into the appropriate reputation NPC to gain some faction points! Gone are the days of having an inadequate stack size to turn in! Gone are the days of completing a series of quests before turning in a greater tier of reputation item!
Welcome to the new world of instant-rep-gain items!
In Update 5 your reputation items can be used in your pack to instantly gain faction points associated with the item. Simply use the item and your reputation standing will increase.
Obviously, this change has made some of the barter NPCs obsolete. We have removed those NPCs and the quests that required you to collect and turn in a number of reputation items from the game. Other Barter NPCs and their associated quests will still exist in the game world. These NPCs will still accept your reputation items and will happily offer you other rewards for them, like potions.
Avon goes on to provide an in-depth Q&A section where he explains some of the sytems finer points and features. Check out the full post at http://www.lotro.com/ and be sure to stay tuned as we move closer to the launch of LOTRO's 5th content update, The Prince of Rohan.
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