The team at Turbine has posted a blog update on the official Lord of the Rings Online developer blog to discuss a brand new addition to PvMP; Audacity.
Audacity is the solution to three problems that Turbine had with the way that PvMP currently works. First, Turbine felt that PvMP rewards were either too hard to aquire or weren't worth the effort. Next, the team noticed that PvMP was too fast-paced for their liking. Finally, the last thing Turbine felt was that PvMP lacked a seasonal mechanic that helped to keep things fresh between expansions. Their answer: Audacity.
Audacity is a new “stat” that shares a lot of functionality with ranked traits like virtues. In addition, it has some aspects of a rating. Increasing ranks of Audacity will reduce incoming damage and crowd control durations while in the Ettenmoors. Freeps and Creeps will spend Commendations to improve their Audacity, though in different ways. With Update 6, the War panel will have some cosmetic updates as well as a place for the new Audacity trait. All Creeps will gain rank 1 of Audacity automatically and all Freeps will get rank 1 when they hit level 40. Mousing over Audacity will show the current rank benefits and the benefits of the next rank, much as virtues do. The current max rank of Audacity is 7, but this will change over time.
For more on the Audacity update, you'll definitely want to check out the official blog update over at http://www.lotro.com/.
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