I acutally turned it up for the vids cus my vid usually end up too dark. guess i went to far in the other direction.

I took a vid of mine too cus i thought it was a bug. It's horrible. I made a vid too cus i thought it was a bug.

They started at 5PM (that's when graf starting advertising for it saying he has 15 Reps ready to got for it and ppl started dropping our ops group for it) and were still ppl doing it at 5 AM when I logged on Saber of Exar. I know this cus i was on for that whole time queuing to get my last 26k for BM and some ppl on my friends lists never left ilum.

This is NOT my buddy's video he is still at work but this is a vid i found showing ppl doing it. Again, I'll ask him for a link to his vid when he logs on. Oh and i stand corrected. The person I was referring to was valor rank 30 prior to it. I double checked with this person.

Buddy of mine frapsed it. I'll talk to him later and get u copy of the vid if u like.

It's funny how someone posted that but when i called and spoke to someone at BWs they said it was an exploit and to report everyone doing it.

THis Occured on saber of exar kun over the weekend. Ppl were openly recruiting on both sides and it lasted for 12 hours. I was told they were getting 7k Valor every 5 minutes (5 minutes being the timer on the lock out for no valor i guess...this wasnt explained to me). I know of a few fresh 50s who are now battle master from the exploit. Ppl were being linked to a post someone screen shotted of a GM saying it was alright. I called to check because this did not seem right and had a paniced CSR saying it was an Exploit and asking me for details and to start reporting incidents but nothing happened anyway. I'm ticked off because I refused to join in and spent the day grinding out the last 26k of my rank in huttballs to Hit BM. What does someone say to? "Oh look another BM Exploiter, Grats on cheating your way to it." Of corse they got a piece of my mind and appologized but way to make the title i worked to get a badge of shame and so easily accessible to everyone. I had one of the ppl who exploited tell me they did it just for the title and agrue that now they would have ppl with skills that they could fight without gear being a factor. I dont believe this for a second. Though the fight with geared vs ungeared is brutal i think fighting your way to that rank teaches you how to be better (not saying rank = skill just saying working at it while being underpowered CAN improve you skill because u have to work at it just to survive or accomplish anything). In addition to that, while there was probably 30-50 ppl their getting their free BM rank there will be new 50s or players who didnt exploit who will now be at a huge disadvantage to the ones who did. While yes the new BMs will have to work for their gear, those BM bags drop Champion marks when u dont get a BM token, the Champion bags drop centurian and the drop rate is idiotic. I have 2 pvp sets of everything and a companion geared with everythign EXCEPT a skirt. I have never gotten a skirt. So in all actuallity I think that these exploiters will be geared with a BM/Champion set way before ppl who didnt exploit can get a full champion set. Ok rant over.

Yeah straight healing sucks for medals but my tank buddy guarding me had 4 within the first few seconds of a good fight and can finish with 10. I go a hybrid to start getting more but that just means the group loses out on potential heals cus i wants my medals too. Mo Medal Mo Valor

At this point I'd be satisfied with a "Ok we misunderstood the situation in the CSR reply that person posted. But Now we're gonna say It is an Exploit so since there was some confusion, from now, Dont do it." That would make me happy.

QFE - Would like to see something from a dev as well. From what I was told in my phone call it is an exploit. But i see no dev responce or action. Tonight I gridned out the last 20k of my rank to BM by painfully Queueing with the left overs, noob and few "white knights" (as ppl are calling them) to get my rank while ppl all around me were telling me they got 7k every 5 minutes while they watched movies. This started at 5PM EST and its still going nearly 12 hours later. When I saw the person who had started the groups in a WZ sporting his brand new BM Title it made me sick. When I finally got it, I didnt want to even turn it on anymore cus it now feels like a badge of shame and I dont want ppl thinking I Lazied my way to a rank I busted my butt to get.

Everyone was linking me to this post and telling me it was ok. I am so close to BM but I didnt want to risk a ban so I called cus that just didnt seem right. And I explained to the CSR what was going on to try to confirm it was alright. He put me on hold and came back in a dither and told me it was an exploit and absolutly not alright and that i should report anyone I see. Dont listen to anyone saying it's ok. it's just not worth the ban.

Hey all you Lotro-Branywiner, I figured (since turbine blocks it on their forums) we could post out servers and char names for our fellow fegative so you can find old friend and level on their server with them before their level gets to high. So I'll go Ahead and put a few i know to get us started: Saber of Exar Kun: EMPIRE:: Roktata Muzfuz Agro Seph me- Click/Onirei/Balsaa/Deedlitt Xenther Ignoramous Motorolla Iron Citadel: EMPIRE:: Zam Phophesy of the Five: Republic ROk Me Nightfall Muz? Mask of Nihlus: Xenther Ada THe Fatman Elynole Brodster Jeff

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We're trying to invite as many ppl as possible from brandywine to join us on the Saber of Exar Kun Server. Most of us will be going Empire on this server. A few others of us will Also be going to The Proph. of the 5 for our Republic toons. Please feel free to join us on either server. If you are a lotro player but not from brandywine but would like to hang out with some other fellow players feel free to join us as well.