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Hello all!

We are planning an open Beta on Bullroarer next week (probably Wednesday) for 16.1 testing.

A few (1-2?) weeks after 16.1 goes live, we will switch Bullroarer back to a closed (Palantir) testing schedule for 16.2 development, so keep your eyes open for that announcement.

Here's a sneak peak at some 16.1 release notes (not complete):
Misc:
Add the ability to use multiple rep items at once: Shift-right-click on a stack of rep items to get a dialog which allows you to choose how many items you want to use. You can remap the mouse button/modifier for this action through the options/key mapping panel.
Make it so that the base right-click/doubleclick to use an item functionality never kicks in when you hold one of the modifier keys (alt, ctrl, shift, win).
Reputation acceleration tomes can now be multi-used via shift-right-click.
The third-person camera now follows your character more loosely while using a travel route, making camera movement feel a little smoother.
The radar map will now animate more smoothly while moving. To restore the previous behavior, which may yield a marginal performance improvement, uncheck "Radar Animation Smoothing" in Options -> UI Settings -> Miscellaneous -> Radar Animation Smoothing.
Many commands listed in /help are now grouped by category, such as Emotes and Communication.

Class Traits and Skills:
Champion:
- Second Wind's Imbued Power Restore legacy has been fixed and should now properly give you a moderate amount of power.
Loremaster:
- Amour Debuff Potency should now properly display and increase the debuff of Ancient Craft.
- The Lore-master traits Enfeeble and Force of Will can now both affect Ancient Craft at the same time.
- Lore-masters with both the Enfeeble and Force of Will traits will now have the correct duration on their Ancient Craft skill.
Burglar:
- Fixed issue with Dust in The Eye Miss Chance legacy not properly increasing the potency of the debuff.
Minstrel:
- Minstrels with the Harmonious Anthems trait will now consume their anthems when using a coda.
- Minstrels can no longer use Harmonious Anthems to stack three anthems per Minstrel for the whole group. Non-Harmonious Anthems Minstrel anthems still stack with each other.

Items:
The Springfest vendors now have new rewards for 2015.
Items - Star-lit Crystals' max stack size has been increased to 50
Beornings can now get appropriate gear from the In Their Absence instance chests.
Might-based agility armour has been added to a number of multi-output Tailor recipes.
Beornings now have both Eastemnet and Westemnet guild crafted Mounted Combat class bridle insignias.
The gear that drops from Hobbit Presents has been changed. Now, rather than getting a single piece of random gear from the 10-level band below you, you will get a box that lets you choose a specific piece of gear that is automatically set to your level, and is appropriate for your class. This box is bound to account, so you can send it to your other characters if you'd like.
The stats of some Hobbit Present gear have been slightly altered, especially past level 70. The gear should still be roughly the same power, but may have slightly different stats.
New level 50 Beorning gear is available at the Last Homely House.

Regions and Quests:
Shire - Instance: A Gift for the North - fixed issue where killing the troll early broke the instance
Rohan - Sutcrofts - Quest: Borrowing Barricades - changed how players loot the barricades for scrap
Great River - Eorlsmead - Deed: Stangard Exploration - players can now enter the the Abandoned House once they reach Ally with the Riders of Stangard
Bree fairground stage for RPers - Travel has been added from the Western Bree Stables and the Prancing Pony Stables to the Bree Festival Grounds. A large stage has been added to the festival grounds for performances throughout the year!
Endgame - Dol Amroth - Training Exercise: When accepting quests from an NPC during the Training Exercise instance, that NPC will now bestow all six quests instead of two quests at random.
Quests - Eastern Gondor - Lost, but Not Forgotten - Mablung's rangers will no longer stealthily disappear when you finish their quests. They'll now wait until you aren't looking to sneak away back to the culverts.
Mablung now has a Healer among his men in the culverts of Osgiliath who is ready to sell you potions and repair your equipment.
Osgiliath -- Hunters can now make use of a camp site fire in the Osgiliath Culverts.
Eastern Gondor - Upper Lebennin - Sworn to Secrecy - Corrected a typo in Angbor's story.
Central Gondor - It is now easier to obtain reputation with the Men of Ringlo Vale, Dor-en-Ernil, and Lower Lebennin. The bounty quests found in Dor-en-Ernil and Ringlo Vale now award more reputation on each of their three possible completions, and all of the repeatable quests available after finishing the main storyline of each area now award substantially more reputation.
Limlight Gorge - Limlight landscape monsters now drop Limlight Rep and daily repeatables can be reset.
Angmar
- A milestone has been added to Iorelen's Camp
- A stable master has been added to Iorelen's Camp

Legendary Items:
Imbued Legendary Weapons should now show correct "damage" text in examination tooltips from chat links or inspect windows
The Advancement Trackers will now show the same XP bar and Level values as in the Legendary Items panel for Imbued items.
You can now correctly see the main legacy for class items in the "inspect" legendary item displays
Imbued Legendary Items no longer show the upgrade stars in their examination tooltip
IMBUED LI: the potency of passive effects on Imbued Legendary Items (e.g., the +Parry Rating on a Champion's Greatsword of the First Age) is now tied to the tier of the Default Legacy on those items. This conforms to pre-Imbuement behavior, where applying a Star-Lit Crystal to an item would increase both the DPS and Passives: now, when your DPS (or equivalent) Legacy tiers up, the passives will increase as well.
IMBUED LI: Items ready for reforge must be reforged before they can be imbued.
Burglar:
- Critical Chain Skills Critical Rating was not properly applying to a couple skills second attacks.
Champion:
- Fixed an issue that was causing Fury of Blades Damage legacy to not affect the second or third attack of Fury of Blades.
- Ebbing Ire's Tactical Mitigation buff was not properly applying to the player, this has been fixed.
- Horn Damage legacy should properly affect Horn of Champions.
- Dire Needs Cooldown imbued legacy was not properly reaching its pre-imbuement levels and now should reach -60 seconds around rank 30.
Guardian:
- Reactive Parry Damage should now properly apply to the Guardians Parry response skills.
- Light Damage Legacy should now affect Cataclysmic Shout.
- Simplified the cooldown legacy progression of Catch A Breath.
- Turn the Tables Cooldown legacy should now cap at rank 35 at 30 seconds.
- Upped the Damage Stamp gets per rank from its legacy.
- Guardian's Pledge should now reach -60 second cooldown reduction at rank 35.
- Shield Damage should properly cap at 25% damage at rank 35.
Warden:
- Spear- Shield Gambit Power cost legacy should now properly decrease power costs instead of increasing them.
- Fixed an issue that was causing Hampering Javelin Reset Chance legacy to not properly apply to the skill reset.

Instance and Epic Battles:
Deeds for the Ashes of Osgiliath instance cluster can now be found on a new tab on the "Instances" panel in your deed log.
Osgiliath Instances - Monsters in scaled versions of the instances will no longer aggro from a huge range and will wait until you are close to begin attacking.
Ruined City:
- Deeds will now correctly bestow
- text for Challenge quest is now worded more clearly
- fixed an issue where sometimes Lumithil's first drama line wouldn't play.
- Added a chest to for defeating Jukotor
- the door to exit the Palace of Eldacar is now locked until you have defeated Lumithil
- Fixed an issue where the Mysterious Stranger would occasionally refuse to step forward and reveal himself
- Fixed a potential issue where defeating Lumithil too soon after the second Harrowing Fell-Spirit appears could result in eternally spawning Fell-Spirits
- Thrug boss fight:
- Respawning Orc adds now turn off and on correctly when the boss fight respawns.
- A cosmetic issue with the exit gate where it could get closed (but would then be ethereal) now fixed.
- The wooden lever no longer has silly mouse-over text.
Dome of Stars:
- Upal-Keng's adds will no longer continue to spawn endlessly if he is killed within 20 seconds of starting the fight.
- Deeds - Deeds for completing Tier 1 and Tier 2 will now properly complete at the end of the instance.
Dargnakh Unleashed - Dargnakh's Pounded attack does a more reasonable amount of damage.
Carn Dum - Gurthul has practiced his fell magics and now knows how to stun Rune-keepers, Wardens, and Beornings.
Sari-surma - Drugoth - Drugoth has learned to wield the power of Beornings. Hint: It involves bees.
Raid - Tower of Orthanc - boss hitpoints have been adjusted.
Epic Battles - Deeping Wall (Raid) - Legolas now always returns to the wall after Assault on the East Tower ends.
Epic Battles - Secondary quests in all group sizes should now properly award Marks and Medallions.
Epic Battles - Deeping Wall - Raid - The arrivals and locations of each of the three Shak-hai are now announced during the Epic Battle.
Epic Battle, Instance, and Skirmish Mark and Medallion gains have been rebalanced. Epic Battles should give a little less, and Instances and Skirmishes should give significantly more. This should mean that Epic Battles no longer give so many more marks than other instances. The goal of this change is to give you more options for what content to run to get Marks.
Some instances have had their Mark drop rates increased less. These instances include Sambrog, School at Tham Mírdain, Library at Tham Mírdain, Iorbar's Peak, Ost Elendil, and Stoneheight. These instances should still give more marks than before, but other instances should now give similar Marks per hour.

Player Music:
You can now hear player music from 30 meters away (Used to be 15 for most instruments).
Lute of Ages has been added to the game. This instrument can be purchased from any bard and plays the musical notes of the lute before Upate 15.2.
The Misty Mountain harp has been added to the game. You can purchase this instrument from any bard.
Gléowine's Harp now displays properly for minstrels in combat, has a corrected icon, and for player music uses Misty Mountain Harp notes.