Lord Of The Rings Online: Patch Notes & Known Issues - July 11, 2007

Patience has posted the patch notes for tomorrow's update:

The following changes will be made in the July 11 patch:

• Audio
  • Shouts and cries are back by popular demand! Additionally, new shout and cry sound effects have been added for some races.
  • The placeholder sound for blocking, parrying, critical hits, and a few other skill feedback sounds has been replaced with the proper sound effects.

• Helegrod
  • The Spider now has greater reserves of his signature deadly poison, and a willingness to use it.
  • The Angmarim and his Drake servitors are more dangerous now. The drakes are more likely to use their wing flap skills to send players flying away from them.
  • The chest containing Drugoth's crown in Helegrod will no longer destroy itself if it is opened and then closed.

• Misc
  • The generation ratio between Smithing and Precious ores has been restored to their pre-patch weightings of 3:1
  • Guards located at the ressurection circles throughout the Ettenmoors will no longer be affected by fear.
  • Fixed an issue with NPCs that were showing the pending quest ring and displaying a list of pending quests that had an invalid retry time.
  • Captain: Herald Armaments will now increase your Herald's ability to mitigate damage (they were doing the opposite before).
  • Captain: Telling Mark will once again enable your Herald to use his skills.
  • If you are defeated in the "The Thief-taker's Bane" you will no longer reappear where you were defeated. Instead you will be taken to a nearby defeat circle (rally point? whatever we call these in-game.)
  • Added admin commands to free items stuck in Landroval's mail system
  • Additional server-side maintenance

Patience has also updated the list of known issues for the patch:

• The quest “A True Friend of Holly Hornblower” is not giving players the pie recipe when selected as a quest reward. Players who already have the pie recipe cannot take it from their vault or learn the recipe.

  In Book 10, anyone who has the recipe will be able to remove it from their vault and learn the recipe. Anyone who has previously completed “A True Friend To Holly Hornblower” will be able to speak with Holly Hornblower and complete the quest again to receive the recipe.

• All tyrants that are designated as raid targets are supposed to "run home" if taken out of their designated area. This is designed so that players in multiple raids can all get credit for the quest if they are in the area when the tyrant is killed. However, if players are outside the area they won’t get credit.