LOTRO Release Notes

[TheArtilleryman]

This thread will contain the release notes for each patch.

If possible, I would like to ask please try and discuss the release notes in new threads, rather than posting loads of replies here, so the key information stays clear and easy to read (obviously, people can post what and where they like, it's just a polite request :))

I will be adding to the thread each time there is an update, so people here can see what is going on.

Note: I don't work for SSG, just doing this to help out, so it might not always get updated bang on time and I might miss something now and again :)

I also can’t answer support questions, so if you have any of these, please go to www.lotro.com and visit the official forums, or visit help.standingstonegames.com

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 28.2.2 Release Notes


Here are the release notes for Update 28.2.2, released on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021.


News and Notes:

Items

Stats have been boosted for Tier 2 and 3 Legendary Item titles found at levels 115 and lower.
Physical Mastery and Tactical Mastery values have been reduced on Tier IV Legendary Item Titles. Known issue: These values were over-reduced from ~40k -> ~16k. In a future patch, these values will be lifted slightly to ~30k.


Quests and Adventure Areas

Duo Mode has been restored to the following three-person Instances:
Gath Daeroval, the Shadow-roost

The Harrowing of Morgul

Gorthad Nûr, the Deep-barrow

Eithel Gwaur, the Filth-well

Glimmerdeep

Caverns of Thrumfall

Askâd-mazal, the Chamber of Shadows


Miscellaneous

Corrected an issue that was causing some English text to display instead of German in the German game client.
Removed an error in the French client with the phrase "Doomfold Armaments".
Various smaller typo and grammar corrections.

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 28.3 Release Notes


Here are the release notes for Update 28.3, released on Wednesday, January 20th, 2021.

News and Notes:
Items:
Physical Mastery and Tactical Mastery values on Legendary Item Titles are being increased across all tiers.

Note: These changes to bartered Scrolls of Empowerment will not affect items that have already been acquired:

Scrolls of Empowerment available to barter from the Dol Amroth Quartermaster will now cap at max-tier 44.

Scrolls of Empowerment available to barter from Narnaith in Minas Tirith will cap at max-tier 59.

Scrolls of Empowerment available to barter from the Rangers of Ithilien Quartermaster will cap at max-tier 59.

The newly added Quest "Scrolls of Empowerment for Host of the West Silver Pieces (Daily)" awards 1 Scroll of Empowerment - Max Tier 59 in exchange for 50 Host of the West Silver Pieces.

The newly added Quest "Scrolls of Empowerment for Host of the West Silver Pieces (Weekly)" awards 3 Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 59 in exchange for 100 Host of the West Silver Pieces.

Quest "Restoring the Three Kingdoms" now awards 3 Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 69.

Quest "Protecting the Beornings" now awards 2 Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 79.

Quest "Protecting the Elves" now awards 2 Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 79.

Quest "Protecting the Woodmen" now awards 2 Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 79.

The quest "March on Gundabad: Additional Steps (Daily)" now awards 2 Scrolls of Empowerment with a max-tier cap of 83.

The quest "The War Effort: Threats to the Battlefield" now awards 3 Scrolls of Empowerment with a max-tier cap of 83.

Tradeable, unbound reputation granting tokens now have appropriate region quests gating their usage.

Small Reputation Accelerator Tomes offered on Skirmish Vendors now Bind to account on acquire. Note: This change in binding to bartered Small Reputation Accelerator Tomes will not affect items that have already been acquired.

If you have completed the appropriate tiered instance deed, you can now barter for gear from Amdân Dammul, the Bloody Threshold and Shakalush, the Stair Battle. Barter vendors can be found at the bottom of the steps in Annâk-khurfu, and will accept Embers of Enchantment in exchange for gear.

The rare Three Peaks jewellery from Amdân Dammul, the Bloody Threshold and Shakalush, the Stair Battle now correctly binds to account instead of character when acquired.

Monster Play:
General ratings for Creeps have been toned down slightly to bring them more in line with the average Free Player.

Several creep mitigations and mitigation buffs have been reduced (varies by class).

Warleader heals have been improved.

Defiler heals have been reduced.

Creep area of effect healing has been reverted to affect Warbands (groups) only, to reduce issues caused by heal-tagging.

Osgilliath one-shotters now engage enemies at a 40 meter range.

Quests:
Elderslade: March on Gundabad: Additional Steps (Daily) now properly specifies that only completing 4 of the 7 quests is required to advance it.

Elderslade: March on Gundabad: Additional Steps (Daily) no longer auto-advances upon accepting the quest after completing it for the first time.

Misc:
Patching via the launcher should go much faster, especially if you have not played in a while.

The effect display system has been updated to improve client performance during group combat, particularly in raids.

Known Issues:
Characters are not receiving their proper heritage titles for their newly-selected nationality during a race change. This will be corrected in a future patch, and we intend to make the correction retroactive.

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 28.3.1 Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes for Update 28.3.1, released on Monday, February 1st, 2021.

News and Notes:

Cosmetic Pets
Summoning Cosmetic Pets will no longer break stealth. Your cosmetic pets are very sneaky.
Game Launcher
Corrected an issue with the game launcher that was preventing some unpatched Windows 7 and earlier operating systems to not be able to update the game client.
Housing
Suppliers, Provisioners, Healers, the Ambience Furnisher, and housing brokers should now give appropriate vendor discounts based on your housing passive skills in Rohan housing neighborhoods,

The supplier summoned with the Gondorian Supplier Horn housing decoration should now give the appropriate vendor discount (the highest discount from any of your housing passive skills, including Belfalas and Rohan houses).

Items
The Heavy Armour item "Winter-tusk Hide Helmet" now offers Might instead of Agility.

The Medium Armour item "Winter-tusk Hide Helm" now offers Agility instead of Might.

Legendary Items
The Dol Amroth Quartermaster now offers "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 59" for 15 Amroth Silver pieces instead of "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 44" for 20 Amroth Silver Pieces.
The Rangers of Ithilien Quartermaster now offers "Scrolls of Empowerment - max-tier 64" for 12 East Gondor Silver Pieces instead of "Scrolls of Empowerment - max-tier 59" for 15 East Gondor Silver Pieces.
Narnaith in Minas Tirith now offers "Scrolls of Empowerment - max-tier 69" for 3 Minas Tirith - Smiths' Tokens instead of "Scrolls of Empowerment - max-tier 59" for 4 Minas Tirith - Smiths' Tokens.
"Scrolls of Empowerment for Host of the West Silver Pieces (Daily)" now awards 2 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 74" instead of 1 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 59".
"Scrolls of Empowerment for Host of the West Silver Pieces (Weekly)" now awards 5 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 74" instead of 3 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 59".
Quest "Restoring the Three Kingdoms" now awards 5 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 79" instead of 3 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 69".
Quest "Protecting the Beornings" now awards 3 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 83" instead of 2 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 79".
Quest "Protecting the Elves" now awards 3 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 83" instead of 2 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 79".
Quest "Protecting the Woodmen" now awards 3 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 83" instead of 2 "Scrolls of Empowerment - Max Tier 79".
PvMP
Creep Core stats have had their range compressed. The difference between a core stat that was 1-5 is now 2-4.

Creepside corruptions now grant less BPE, and modestly less Physical Mitigation. Creeps will need to use more corruptions to achieve particularly "tanky" values.

Warleader On Your Feet has been reverted to a non-Warband effect.

Warleader Slick Flesh and Quitters Never Win has been changed to a Warband effect.
Quest and Adventure Areas
The following quests will now be available twice per week rather than just once a week, with resets on Thursday and Sunday at 3am Eastern time: Protecting the Beornings, Protecting the Elves, and Protecting the Woodmen.

Gandalf is no longer floating in pre-battle Minas Tirith.
Fixes for some floating and buried resource nodes in Rohan.
Fixed an issue with some stairs in the Gates of Gundabad.
Some French and German translations have been updated.
Fixed an issue where the quest "Elderslade Supply Packs" was asking you to turn-in the quest to the wrong NPC.

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 28.4 Release Notes


Here are the release notes for Update 28.4, released on Tuesday, February 8th, 2021.



News and Notes:
Ill Omens Skirmish event:

The Ill Omens event returns on Wednesday February 10th through March 7th!

The yearly quest "Skirmish -- Ill Omens" will award a Positive Portent token that you can barter for a Portent of Strength, Vitality, or Deftness appropriate to your level. These Portents are inventory items that apply a powerful temporary buff when used. These items are not consumed when used and are Bound to Account on acquire.

This year you can also use Tokens of Ill Omens to barter for two new cosmetic pets: Ill Omened Hound & Ill Omened Worm.

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 28.4.1 Release Notes


Here are the release notes for Update 28.4.1, released on Wednesday, February 17th, 2021.



News and Notes

Items
Obvious Portent of Strength's maximum equippable level has been reduced from 140 -> 135.

Obvious Portent of Deftness' maximum equippable level has been reduced from 140 -> 135.

Obvious Portent of Vitality's maximum equippable level has been reduced from 140 -> 135.

Portents of Vitality will now heal the player for approximately the full value of the bonus Maximum Morale granted over 2 seconds. This makes the item more useful to players who don't have a healer on standby. We are reducing the duration of the Maximum Morale bonus to 30s from 45s to balance.

The bonus duration for Portents of Strength has been reduced to 15 seconds from 45 seconds. We found this item to be a bit too powerful in some scenarios.

Portents of Deftness now grants - incoming damage (37.5% for maximum level 135) for 15 seconds instead of granting Block, Parry, and Evade percentage points for 45s.

We found the BPE bonus to be hard to feel in combat, and didn't necessarily protect players from being one-shot in certain situations. A flat damage reduction buff for a shorter duration requires more judicious use and has a more tangible effect.

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 29 Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes for Update 29, released on Wednesday, March 17th, 2021.

Of Special Note:

The Wildwood of Bree

Beyond the Bree-fields lies the lightly travelled wilderness of the Wildwood. This heavily forested area has drawn the attention of two groups of Free Peoples who vie for its resources. The League of the Axe, a group of game hunters and miners down on their fortunes, seek to tap the land's resources and ferry their bounty down the Brandywine from Trader's Wharf to markets abroad. Meanwhile, a group of villagers in Trestlebridge have formed the Woodcutter’s Brotherhood, with the goal of taking advantage of the Wildwood to benefit the folk of Bree-land and rebuild Trestlebridge to its former glory. Both factions must decide the fate of the Wildwood as they work against unsavory Brigands and the Tarkrîp Orcs. The update also includes two new 3-player scaling instances set in Eriador, "Woe of the Willow" & "Agoroth, the Narrowdelve". Free to VIPs and now available in the LOTRO Store!

Visit Enid Nettlesting at the Trader's Whardf in Evendim or Aran Greenwith at the Trestlebridge Gate in North Downs to start the Wildwood quest line. The quests have a challenge level of 45. An introductory questline for the new instances is available from Aragorn in Rivendell after completing "Book 13, Chapter 10: A Trimphant Return" and from Hob Hayward at the Buckland Gate. These quests are not required to enter the instances.

The deeds, 'Agoroth, the Narrowdelve -- Tier 3 -- Leading the Charge' and 'Woe of the Willow -- Tier 3 -- Leading the Charge' will be available for completion through May 2, 2021, turning off at 3am server time on May 3rd. Tiers 4 and 5 of Agoroth, the Narrowdelve and Woe of the Willow will be available starting on April 1, 2021.


Spring Festival

A new Boss from the Vaults arrives with this year's Spring Festival! Naruhel the Red-maid will become available on March 18th starting at 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) along with a new Festivity Instance called Bee's Big Business! This year's Spring Festival features new rewards as well, and runs through April 6th.



News and Notes:


Classes:
Burglar - Mischievous Glee healing Legacy fixed. Healing bonus value adjusted to properly reflect implementation.
Captain - Reverted change that prevented Revealing Mark from targeting Creeps.
Guardian - Shield-wall will no longer block the target from using Stamp.
Guardian - Fixed erroneous placeholder text for the Bolster characteristic.
Guardian - Added tooltip notes stating that Warrior's Fortitude traits from separate trees will not stack. This is just a text change reflecting the existing functionality.
Hunter - The DoT from Heart Seeker will no longer over-write the DoT from Barbed Arrow's when the trait "Shot Through the Heart" is active.
Rune-keeper - When the Closing Remarks buff is consumed by Epic Conclusion, it is replaced by the Aftershock buff, providing +20% Lightning Damage & +25% Lightning Critical chance for up to 10 seconds or until it is replaced by a new instance of Closing Remarks.
Warden Skills Shield-slam, The Boot, and Ranged Boot now apply their interrupt at the start of the skill animation instead of at the end.
Warden Trait "Shattered Javelins" is undergoing a few changes. Right now it can affect a high number of targets. If this ability is triggered on multiple nearby targets at once, the amount of bonus damage generated is more aggressive than we'd like. To address this, we're increasing the per-target damage of Shattered Javelins while decreasing the number of targets a single burst of Shattered Javelins can hit.
The burst damage from Warden Trait "Shattered Javelins" now affects 4 enemies down from 12.
The weapon damage multiplier for "Shattered Javelins" has been increased by 25%.
The Warden trait Indefatigable gives a larger bonus now. The tooltip has been slightly reworded to say "base block rating" instead of "block rating" to reflect the way multiple sources of bonuses interact with a base buff.
Warden Trait Aggravating Wounds should now work on all damage over time effects.
The Warden skills The Boot, Onslaught, and Wall of Steel used to have an invisible internal cooldown on their ability to apply their Interrupt. We are removing this internal cooldown with Update 29. This cooldown created some confusion when an expected interrupt effect wouldn't fire correctly. The time it takes to build and deploy a gambit is sufficient to prevent Wardens from becoming unstoppable interrupt-machines.
Crafting:
Recipes to make Ember-worthy crafts are now available in the Minas Ithil crafting tier. These recipes have been automatically added to your crafting panels.
Housing:
In Rohan housing neighborhoods, the Ambience Furnisher and housing brokers should now give appropriate vendor discounts based on your housing passive skills.
The supplier summoned with the Gondorian Supplier Horn housing decoration should now give the appropriate vendor discount (the highest discount from any of your housing passive skills, including Belfalas and Rohan houses).
Items:
The icons for the Ill Omens Portent, usable inventory items, have been recolored according to their benefit, making them easier to distinguish from each other in inventory or quickslots.
You can now upgrade Remmorchant set armour pieces. Speak to the Remmorchant Quartermasters in Estolad Lân and trade in your existing set pieces along with Tokens of Resolution, earned in Agoroth, the Narrowdelve and Woe of the Willow, to receive upgraded greater Remmorchant set armour pieces.
Gragarag's Chest - Tier 1, Guruthang's Chest - Tier 1, and Gamnagol's Chest - Tier 1 now have a chance to drop random Remmorchant class set hand, feet, and chest pieces.
The Spider-queen's Hoard - Tier 1 chest now has a chance to drop Remmorchant class set hand, feet, and chest pieces appropriate to your class.
The Spider-queen's Hoard - Tier 2 chest now has a chance of dropping Remmorchant class set shoulders, legs, hands, feet, or chest pieces appropriate to your class.
Some changes have been made to barter for the Remmorchant class set gear at the Remmorchant Quartermasters in Estolad Lân:
The armour exchange, allowing exchange of a piece of set gear for an equivalent piece for a different trait specialization, will no longer be deed gated, since you have already earned an equivalent piece of gear.
Barter for class set gear hands and feet pieces will no longer be gated by any deed (removing the tier 3 deed requirement).
Barter for class set gear chest pieces will be reduced to Tier 1 gating (down from tier 3 deed requirement).
Barter for class set gear legs and shoulders will be reduced to Tier 2 gating (down from tier 3 deed requirement).
Barter for class set gear legendary helms will remain Tier 3 gated, but with a reduction in the Ember cost to match the other incomparable class set pieces.
The barter profiles have been reorganized and renamed in accordance with the altered required deed completion.
The Dol Amroth and Central Gondor reputation granting tokens now require completion of 'Volume IV, Book 1, Chapter 1: The Muster of the Rohirrim' instead of the 'Dol Amroth City Guard' or 'Introduction: Central Gondor', so that the minimum level required for the quest matches the minimum usage level on the tokens.
Individual Steed items purchased from the LOTRO Store will no longer auto-consume, making it easier to use on any character on your account.
The Anfalas Star-lit Crystal granted when opening the Aria of the Valar item Pack will now be bound to account instead of character.
The Imbued Legacy Replacement Scrolls granted when opening the Valar Level Boost - 120 Item Pack will now be bound to account instead of character.
The Steed of the Citadel item granted when opening the Blessing of the Valar, Aria of the Valar, or Valar Level Boost - 120 Item Packs will now be bound to account instead of character.
The Dusky Nimblefoot Goat item granted when opening the Gift of the Valar Item Pack will now be bound to account instead of character.
The Piles of Silver Scraps found in Gift and Blessing of the Valar packages now correctly bind to account.
The Tomes of Extraordinary Experience granted when opening the Aria of the Valar package now correctly bind to account.
The Aria of the Valar item Pack and Valar Level Boost - 120 Item Pack no longer have a required minimum level to open.
The cosmetic pet Huorns now have a more appropriate set of sounds while moving.
You can now use your hobby horse mounts in more areas of Middle-earth.
The Rare Crafting Component selection box now also allows selection of the Tier 13 Ithilharn Shard as an option.
PvMP
Creeps were getting +30% partial damage reduction from their Partial BPE events from 'nowhere'. This has been removed.
Warleader - On Your Feet reverted to a non-fellowship effect.
Warleader - Quitters Never Win changed to a fellowship effect
Defiler - Slick Flesh changed to a fellowship effect.
Fixed some stretched textures in the Ettenmoors.
Removed LoS breaks on barriers near Gramsfoot to prevent Freeps avoiding the ranged NPCs.
Quests & Adventure Areas:
The correct music should once again play during the "Interlude: No Other Way" session play.
Floating Rubble in the Volume 2, Book. 4, Chapter 7 Instance has been grounded.
Stuck spot in Skarhald has been fixed.
Beorning NPCs will no longer become invisible after shifting out of bear form.
Fixed an issue with quest Retribution of the Trees not being able to complete if Cultivating the Wildwood advances too far.
Removed the quest prerequisite for The Easterling Menace bestowed by Náin the Slakeless in Járnfast.
The object to teleport from Minas Tirith (After-battle) to the Hall of the King has become a banner and slightly moved position.
As long as you do not have 'Crannog's Challenge' currently underway, you should now be able to accept and complete 'Present Yourself to the Chieftain', even if you have previously completed 'Crannog's Challenge'. This resolves issues with usability of Bone Amulets and Wicked Daggers.
The quest "Craft for Embers" may now be obtained and turned in at a Mote and Ember Trader in Bree, Galtrev, Moria's Twenty-first Hall, or Mózhek near the Stable-master in Skarháld.
The quest "Craft for Motes" may now be obtained and turned in at a Mote and Ember Trader in Bree, Galtrev, Moria's Twenty-first Hall, or Mózhek near the Stable-master in Skarháld.
'On A Mission (Weekly)' will be versioned when Update 29 is released. If you intend to complete it without having your progress interrupted (for the week of the patch), please complete it before the patch is deployed. If it was not bestowed or completed, it will bestow normally upon completing a qualifying mission.
Fishing works properly in the Elderslade region now.
Suppliers, Provisions and Healers in the Rohan Neighborhoods now have the correct discounts.
Removed bush from base of stairs in Frostbluff.
Grounded floating column in Anghumu-ru in Moria.
Stable-master in Annâk-khurfu no longer sounds like a Beorning.
Fixes stuck spot at r3 lx1646 ly1828 ox136.24 oy98.05 oz355.48 h234.8.
Gandalf is no longer floating in pre-battled Minas Tirith (r3 lx1277 ly586 ox119.37 oy59.72 oz419.97 h199.7).
Random Water plane will no longer appear above the players in the Kidzhul-Kalah Mission.
Fixed depthcarving issue in Elderslade Angmarim Tower (r2 lx816 ly1624 cInside ox0.11 oy11.39 oz-46.15 h4.2).
Fixed stairs issue in Gates of Gundabad (r2 lx792 ly1636 ox5.99 oy86.99 oz926.58 h241.9).
Fixed patrol issue at the Orc Encampment in Lothlorien (r2 lx754 ly1142 ox52.25 oy139.69 oz565.30 h42.2).
Fixed sunken resource node in Fanuidhol (r2 lx755 ly1154 ox66.24 oy43.75 oz559.06 h293.9).
Grounded floating resource node in Kingstead (r2 lx793 ly664 ox35.10 oy10.32 oz236.22 h253.1).
Dug up buried resource nodes and quest objects in Kingstead (r2 lx788 ly688 ox81.43 oy11.23 oz281.93 h173.0 , r2 lx792 ly687 ox19.92 oy140.50 oz272.50 h210.9).
Fixing some major holes in the impassables of the southern section of Western Fangorn (r2 lx687 ly808 ox157.68 oy0.32 oz491.22 h250.3).
Thrymm Redbeard grew taller in Throne of the Dread Terror, but perhaps it was just his legendary status. Now he's back to his normal height (but his legend remains undimmed).
Virtues:
For Wildwood, the virtue cap has been increased to 74 (for characters who are level 130).
U29 - Valar Virtue XP Quest restructure:
To resolve issues caused by the quest starting items, such as 'Virtues of the Valar - 105 and above', being unique, the various Valar levelup packages have been updated to use a single quest to give information about using virtue tokens.
The Valar virtue granting items have been removed as quest rewards and are instead granted inside a coffer delivered from Valar packages.
Completing that quest allows the player to open any virtue token coffer(s) they have received from any Valar packages.
While the virtue token coffers are bound to character, the virtue XP awarding items received on opening the package are bound to account.
UI:
LOTRO lighting has been updated! A new Advanced Graphics option named "Per Pixel Lighting Attenuation" has been added for DirectX 10/11 that increases the lighting quality. Toggling this option to true will enable softer lighting as well as more consistently used normalmaps and specular highlights.


Known Issues:

Instance - Woe of the Willow - Manually closing vine doors will prevent you from progressing further into the instance

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 29.0.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 29.0.1, released on Thursday, March 25th, 2021.

News and Notes:

Quests and Adventure Areas

Fixed Tom Bombadil's size in "The Woe of the Willow".
The cooldown of Gulmúk Dampmould's skills has been slightly increased.
The yellow eye effect from Gulmúk's Corrupted Pool effect has been removed.
The quest "Cultivating the Wildwood" no longer requires "Retribution of the Trees" to have been completed.
Thornmane now has the ability to grant side quests if his main quest lines have advanced.
Fix issues with Thornmane and Minda phasing at the wrong times.
Minda Heathertoes will no longer give two quests at once and then vanish, making turn-in impossible.
All Wildwood Hoppers are now able to be collected. Happy hunting!
The quest "Punishing the Poachers" now has a shorter respawn time.
The NPC Laugi will stick around to bestow "Clearing Enemies in Zarkul-sulûn even if "Scouting for the Scout" has been completed.
Farewell to TBD BRAWLER, who was entirely too eager to see Trader's Wharf.
Non-physical ruins in the Weather Hills now have their proper physics.
Fixed a floating edge of the shipwreck in Forochel.
Corrected a texture issue in Cirth Ungol.
Placed a missing post in the Kingstead Meadows neighborhood.
Grounded floating ballistas in South Ithilien.
Corrected a rock placement issue in Wildwood.
Fixed an issue where a resource node was not displaying corectly in Malenhad.
Corrected stuck spots in Erebor and Glimmerdeep.
Corrected a terrain issue along the water's edge in Ered Mithrin.
Landscape treasure chests in Minas Morgul have had their respawn timers set to be in-line with other landscape chest spawns.
Enemies in The Circle of Sorrow are no longer trapped below ground.
Fixed a radar issue in Celondim.

UI

New UI animations released in Update 29 for active abilities in the quickslot bar have been reverted for now. In the future, we intend to make a toggle available for players to select between the older UI animations and our newer UI animations.

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 29.5 Release Notes


Here are the Release Notes for Update 29, released on Monday, April 19th.



Of Special Note:


The Further Adventures of Bilbo Baggins

One of the most famous of all the hobbits has gone missing, and it seems Bilbo's adventuring days are not yet behind him! Speak to Celeblír in Rivendell, not far from the Last Homely House, to begin 'The Further Adventures of Bilbo Baggins,' the first of our new story-based Missions quests available starting at level 20 through 130! The Further Adventures of Bilbo Baggins is FREE to VIPs and available in the LOTRO Store. ALSO, for a limited time, all players can get The Further Adventures of Bilbo Baggins for FREE: More information arrives Monday, April 19th, 2021.

Completing all ten missions will complete a Deed that awards a title, virtue xp, and Tokens of Further Adventure, which can be bartered for level-appropriate rings, cosmetic items, and housing decorations! Tokens of Further Adventure will also be acquired by running the Further Adventures missions. Tokens are Bound to Account and go into your Barter Wallet. There is a cap of 500 Tokens of Further Adventure.

Legendary Worlds - The Wastes

The Legendary Worlds of Anor and Ithil are being updated level cap 105. Areas up to the Black Gates of Mordor will be accessible, including the Battle of Pelennor Fields, the March of the King through North Ithilien and the Wastes, and the Battle of the Black Gate. Legendary Worlds are exclusive to VIPs, and you can learn more at LOTRO.com/Legendary.

Anniversary

Thanks to you we are celebrating our 14th Anniversary this month! From April 21st, 2021 through May 11th, 2021, players can celebrate 14 years of LOTRO with the Anniversary Festival, milestone rewards based on how long you have been playing the game, and more! Among the new rewards in the Anniversary Festival are cosmetic torches that can be wielded by your characters! The 2021 anniversary yearly gift will be awarded to your account upon first logging into a character between April 21st, 2021 and March 30th, 2022. Thank you for your continued support of The Lord of the Rings Online.



News and Notes:


Housing

An issue with gloss properties for many housing floor textures has been resolved.
Items
Simple Carrying Torches consumable items can now be bartered for Steel Tokens at any Keeper of Gifts vendor.

The Facepaint stencil consumable items available from Hobnanigans and the Buried Treasure Event now trigger a Consume Consumables deed on use. These stencil items now have a 20 second cooldown between uses as well.

The Host of the West Quartermasters now offer housing music boxes 'The Wastes' Themes and 'The Wastes Epic' Themes.

Fixed some naming inconsistencies between items, skill, and cosmetic pet names for the Red Gecko, Two-toned Sheep, Ashen Eagle, Toffee Goat Kid, and Mottled Craban.
NPCs
The Curator has returned and is available through May 2nd, 2021.
Quests and Adventure Areas
Woe of the Willow - Increased Gulmúk Dampmould's skill cooldowns.
Removed misplaced door in Trestlebridge.

Removed stuck locations in Naruhel the Red-maid instance.

Fixed render issues in Dol Guldur.

Floating resources in Lonelands have been grounded.

Hall of Memories dungeon and wallpaper/floor have been updated to support Per Pixel Attenuated Lighting.

Adjusted entrance to second boss of Shakalush to better support encounter reset mechanics.


Miscellaneous

The legacy game client once again runs on Windows XP.
Resolved an issue in the French client where mail replies would not send with the error "Le nom spécifié contient des caractères interdits. (StringCensored)"


Known Issues:

Occasionally, a door in The Further Adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Chapter 9, will remain unusable. This can be fixed by running back to the start of the tunnel and then running back to the door, which should become interactable at that point.
An issue was corrected in our last patch related to the quest Retribution of the Trees that prevented quest completion. This issue has been resolved for new encounters as of the last patch, but players whose characters were impacted by this bug will need to contact Customer Support in-game.

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 30 Release Notes


Here are the Release Notes for Update 30: Blood of Azog, released on Tuesday, June 8th, 2021.

Of Special Note:

Interlude: Blood of Azog

After the escape of Gorgar, son of Bolg, and the sealing of the gates of Mount Gundabad by Hrímil Frost-heart, Prince Durin faces his first true test as the leader of the Gabil'akkâ. As Durin weighs whether it will be vengeance or wisdom that guides his hand, Lord Glóin's thoughts turn to conflicts of old. All too familiar with the triumphs and sorrows of Durin's Folk, Glóin hopes that a lesson in history might temper Prince Durin's desire to bring the War of Three Peaks to an end heedless of all cost.

Blood of Azog introduces a new story set after the events of the War of Three Peaks that allows the player to experience historical moments in Middle-earth’s history as Prince Durin and the Gabil'akkâ make ready to reclaim Mount Gundabad. Meet new characters, see additional Dwarf-folk clans, and prepare for the adventures to come in Gundabad! Players can begin this story by talking to Glóin inside Annâk-khurfu in Elderslade.

Tales of Yore: Azanulbizar

Among the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain, studious scholars have kept detailed accounts of the history of Durin’s Folk. Within these lengthy volumes is the tale of the Sixth War of the Dwarves and Orcs, which ended with the Battle of Azanulbizar. Players will experience the momentous events of the battle as their own characters, but through the eyes of Hermáth Stormhammer, a hero of Durin’s Folk, as recounted in his written works. Players can begin the Tales of Yore: Azanulbizar content by following the Blood of Azog interlude questline from Glóin at Annâk-khurfu in Elderslade. Players who wish to jump immediately into Azanulbizar, can travel to Akrâz-zahar in the Dwelling-halls of Erebor and click on the Tales of Yore: Azanulbizar collection of books to travel to the new quest area.

As part of the addition of Azanulbizar, T.A. 2799, Update 30 also includes a small visual update to The Lord of the Rings Online’s Dimrill Dale, first introduced in the Mines of Moria Expansion.

Raid: The Fall of Khazad-dûm

Although the fate of Khazad-dûm was all but certain by the year 1981 of the Third Age, the Dwarves of Durin's Folk resolved to make a final stand against the Balrog of Morgoth better known as 'Durin's Bane'. In this new 12-player raid, players will join King Náin I and his vanguard, including Nafni, as they valiantly attempt to drive Durin's Bane from the Second Hall. Can the Dwarves of Durin's Folk prevail against this ancient foe or do they merely delay the inevitable? Witness a battle against Durin's Bane like you've never seen before in the Lord of the Rings Online!

Players can gain access to this new raid by approaching the gates of Khazad-dûm at Azanulbizar. In addition, players who have finished the main questline in Tales of Yore: Azanulbizar are granted an additional quest to complete the raid and earn unique rewards!

Tiers 1-3 are now available! The "Leading the Charge" Deeds will be available to earn through August 11th, 2021. Tier 4 is expected to open at Noon Eastern (-4 GMT) on June 17th, with Tier 5 opening at Noon Eastern (-4 GMT) on July 1st.

News and Notes:

Classes

Beorning

Expose is now a target debuff that increases incoming damage by about 7.5% for melee and 5% for ranged. In human form it buffs Tactical and Ranged instead.

Vigilant Roar no longer taunts by default, and instead only taunts when the first rank of the Vigilant Roar trait is taken (similar to Biting Edge).
Vicious Claws (tank version only) can no longer miss, nor be blocked, parried, or evaded.
Damage has been increased for the following skills:
Slam
Nature's Vengeance (initial hit)
Bee Swarm (initial hit)
Vicious Claws, particularly in red line.
Grisly Cry
Vigilant Roar
Thrash, particularly for its lower tiers
Expose
Bash
Execute
Cooldown on non-combat resurrection has been reduced from 20 seconds to one second.

Burglar

In line with some other classes that have seen reductions in raid debuff skills, a few of the yellow line trickster debuffs are being similarly trimmed.

Trickster debuff reductions:
Trick: Dust in the Eyes has had its maximum miss rate reduced from ~39% to ~15%.
Trick: Disable Damage reduction has been lowered from -15% to -10%. and the Attack Speed reduction has been lowered from -20% to -10%.
Disable has been reworked to correct various buffs.
Finesse's debuff is now -33% of the target's Finesse, rather than a level scaled value.
Legendary Item bonus to Addle tactical damage has been reduced to 5%, unimbued bonus to induction time reduced to 16%.
Burglar Bob & Weave and Relish Battle trait heals tick faster (1/second).

Captain

The Captain's ability to maintain high and extended degrees of invulnerability has made them irreplaceable in high challenge content, so we've needed to limit a few of their most powerful abilities.
Yellow Line:
Captain Yellow line morale bonus reduced from 25->10%.
Shield of the Dunedain LI legacy cooldown bonus reduced from (+10->+5s) (total duration reduced from 20->15s), Shield of the Dunedain can only be used on others.
Stand Tall Duration bonus reduced from (+10->+3s), Proc cooldown reduced from (1.0,2.0,3.0->1.0s,1.5s.2.0s)
Red Line
Telling Mark base effect reduced from 5% to 3%, The traited bonus has been reduced from 5% to 2%, total 10% to 5%.
As a 100% uptime debuff with no action time cost, Telling Mark's group effect was too powerful.
Kick can no longer miss, nor be blocked, parried, or evaded.
Fixed: Captain banner heralds were not correctly inheriting offensive bonuses from their summoner.
Fixed an old 'Make Haste' duration change that was never processed correctly.
A few captain buffs are now raid-wide. As part of this change Motivating Speech needed to be turned into a duration buff in order to make it raid-wide. Motivating Speech now has a five minute duration with a one minute cooldown.
Champion:
Clobber can no longer miss, nor be blocked, parried, or evaded.

Guardian

Protection by the Sword's group melee damage buff has been increased from 2% to 5%.

Sting has had its cooldown reduced from 3 seconds to 2.5 seconds, which will allow it to be more conveniently slipped between skills with longer attack executions.
Heavy Weapons Training now increases skill damage by 10%, up from 5%.
Relentless Assault now grants a modest amount of Finesse.
The following skills have received a damage boost, listed approximately from the smallest boost to the largest boost:
Brutal Assault
Whirling Retaliation
Redirect
War-chant
Hammer Down
Shield-blow
Smashing Stab
Bash
To the King
Sweeping Cut
Shield-swipe
Force Opening
Overwhelm
Guardian's Ward
Stamp
Turn the Tables
Stamp can no longer miss or be blocked, parried, or evaded.

Hunter

Hail of Arrows has been fixed to properly proc 50% of the time at the first skill tier, and 100% of the time at the 2nd.
Blindside no longer causes the player character to move into melee range with their target if Combat Movement Assist is active.
Blindside can no longer be parried, bringing it into alignment with other ranged Hunter skills.

Lore-master

The magnitude of fire and frost lore debuffs were considerably above where we were comfortable with them being for large group content, so Fire Lore's traited effect has been reduced from 35% to 15% and Frost Lore has had its traited effect reduced from 30% to 15%.

Wind Lore has had its effect increased from 1/2/3% to 3/4/5%.
Wind Lore's duration has been increased to 30 seconds to free up other skills for rotation.
The following skills and effects have received an approximate 20% increase in damage:
Burning/Searing Embers (direct and DOT)
Wizard's Fire
Test of Will
Gust of Wind
Cracked Earth
The interaction between the trait Fierce Lightning and the skill Lightning Storm has been refactored to address frame rate drops caused by the skill.
The tooltip for Lightning Storm no longer erroneously states that the skill consume Morale.

Minstrel

Anthems should now be Raid-wide.

Anthem of War's unimbued Legendary Item bonus to physical/ranged has been reduced from about 10% to about 5%, and Anthem of War's base Tactical bonus has been reduced from 15% to 10%.
The tooltip for Major Ballad now correctly states that it is a damaging skill in the Dissonance form instead of the Resonance form.

Rune-keeper

Most red line skills have received a damage increase.
Mystifying Flames now affects all incoming damage, not just fire. Its damage multiplier has been reduced from 15% to 5%.

Mystifying flame no longer stacks different tiers on a single target.

Mystifying Flames and Molten Flame are no longer able to be resisted.
Fiery Ridicule's damage over time has been changed from seven pulses/2 seconds to 7 pulses/3 seconds, along with an increase in damage per tick.
Essence of Flame has had its cooldown decreased from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.

The induction on Essay of Fire has been decreased to 2 seconds.

Smouldering Wrath has had its cooldown increased from 15 to 17 seconds.

Frost affinity now grants +20% outgoing healing rather than force setting the bonus value to 20%, which prevented any other bonuses from stacking.

Warden

Shield Slam can no longer miss nor be blocked, parried, or evaded.

Combat

Update 30's new raid introduces a new mechanic called Revive Counters, which put a limit on the number of revives available to accept during boss fights in the new raid at Tier 2 and above. During boss fights, you may see a "Revives Available" icon in your buff bar, which will track the number of revives available for the entire Fellowship. Accepting a revive effect decrements the counter. If the counter is currently at zero, all revive skills will become greyed out. During the fight, your Fellowship will receive additional revive tokens, up to a maximum of five.

Various difficulties start with additional revives and timers:
T1: N/A
T2: 3 Revives, +1/60 seconds
T3: 2 Revives, +1/120 seconds
T4: 1 Revives, +1/180 seconds
T5: 1 Revives, +1/240 seconds
When a boss fight ends, all revive tokens clear.
All boss and encounter monsters in level 130 group instances have had their damage output reduced to offset the adjustments to player-cast outgoing damage debuffs.

Crafting

Players can obtain a new recipe from their Craft Guild Improved Recipes vendors. The output of this recipe can be disenchanted for several Ithilgalad Crafting Components.
The Doomfold recipe for "Braised Oxtail with Roasted Potatoes" now requires the Westfold recipe "Loaf of Barley Bread" as a component. Previously, it required the Apprentice recipe "Barley Bread", which is gated behind Men of Bree reputation.

Housing

When you 'Sell' a premium house, you will now receive 90% of the purchase price in premium housing writs, up from 70%.
Enormous Yard Items should now render at a greater distance.
Using the housing decoration Gammer's Cozy Hobbit Bed will now randomly change the bedding color to one of 8 different options.
The Small Obsidian Wall Carving housing decoration has been made just a bit smaller, to better fit its small wall decoration hook.
The Door to Mazarbul Replica and Free-standing Door to Mazarbul Replica housing decorations will now open and close on use. You may wish to remove and replace these items on their decoration hooks in order to properly update the physics.
Fixed some gloss and glow issues for several housing floor surfaces.
Items
Anniversary, Eagle, and Summerdays Fireworks can now be used while mounted.
Adventurer's gear, when opened at level 130, will now create at item level 432, with the chance to create at up to item level 434.

Crafting materials received from Adventurer's lootboxes will now drop in slightly greater stack sizes.

A Small Cache of Ithilgalad Crafting Components is now available as a rare crafting resource drop from Adventurer's lootboxes, while the Elderslade Supply Pack has been removed as a possible drop.

NPCs

Rowan Raspberry has returned and has new cosmetic items available for figments of splendour, including avatar cosmetics, housing decorations, cosmetic pets, and a steed and matching war-steed appearances.

Quests and Adventure Areas

Remmorchant, the Net of Darkness
Shelob - Shelob's Enrage timer has been increased to 20/21/22/23 minutes on Tier 2/3/4/5, respectively.
Thossulun the Massive - Acidic Ichor Pool's duration has been increased from 30 to 50 seconds.
The spawn of the next Daughter after one is killed has been delayed by 20 seconds.
Bâr Nírnaeth, the Houses of Lamentation - Slightly lowered the damage of Torment, Flense, and Shadow-burst.
All Boss and encounter monsters in level 130 group instances have had their damage outputs reduced to offset the adjustments to player-cast outgoing damage debuffs.
Adjustments related to balance have been made to the following Instances: Shadow Roost, The Harrowing of Morgul, Shakalush, the Stair Battle, and Remmorchant. Additional, some tank DOTS have been reduced in Shakalush, the Stair Battle.
War of Three Peaks - Quest: A Crack in the Iron Crown - Bandrauth Adder-fang has been reduced to Signature difficulty.
Gabil'akkâ Stable-masters are now named 'Mission Recruiters' and will allow lower-level players to access assorted Mission content across Middle-earth.
The Mission Recruiter Stablemasters have networked! You can now travel between Trestlebridge, Elderslade, and Erebor for your daily mission needs.
Yule Festival - Quests - A Mission to Bring Good Cheer: It is now possible to use Mithril Coins to return to Mara Sandydowns.
Eryn Lasgalen - Quests - New Thievery/Ambushed on the River: It is now possible to use Mithril Coins to return to Lorndúr.
Elderslade - The Master of Tur Agal: Breaking combat will no longer cause Bandrauth to become unresponsive.
The Wastes - Camp of the Host: Players will no longer get stuck on invisible objects at certain points in the Camp of the Host.
Midsummer - Quest: A Cure for All Ills: Disciplining noisy revellers on Ioreth's behalf in the Houses of Healing is now more Fellowship-friendly.
Several stuck spots in Minas Morgul and Elderslade have been fixed.
A floating staircase has been grounded in Erebor.
Some region impassability has been refined in parts of The Wastes.
Wildwood - Release the Hounds - The quest's location has been corrected from southwestern Wildwood to the southeastern Wildwood.

Virtues

Virtues can now go up to rank 75 at level 130.

Miscellaneous

Elf female avatars now use their correct base idle.
Torch-carrying Elf/High-elf Rune-keepers no longer T-Pose.
The game credits have been updated.

Known Issues:

Credits in the German Client will temporarily appear in English.

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 30.1 Release Notes


Here are the Release Notes for Update 30.0.1, released on Wednesday, June 16th.



News and Notes:


Items

Fixed an issue where the new proc essences could be deactivated if a player disconnected while defeated.
Adjusted the names and flavor text descriptions of several cosmetic and housing item rewards in Blood of Azog.
Striking Essence Bugfixes
Fix for AoE Runic essences to keep them from chaining/spamming.
Fixes an issue where the new essences could be deactivated if a player DC'd while defeated.
Runic Essences should no longer trigger on heals or hit nearby allies.
Quests and Adventure Areas

Fall of Khazad-dûm - Durin's Bane Encounter

Fixed an issue where Shadow Zone's effect may not apply if two zones are overlapping.
Shadow Zone's damage effect now has a cap of three.
Chasing Shadow and Chasing Darkness are now attackable but undefeatable.
Pyroclastic Flow now ticks every two seconds (was three).
Increased Explosive Line's "warning" time by 1 second.
Increased effect radius of Apocalypse Cleave.
Durin's Bane will now Enrage if he is too near The Bridge of Khazad-dûm, allowing access to the Annihilation skill.
Building Flames will now apply to the second threat target regardless of if they have Mark of Challenge or not.
The effect radius of Apocalypse Cleave has been increased.
Tier 4 of The Fall of Khazad-dûm raid is now expected to open at Noon Eastern (-4 GMT) on June 24th, with Tier 5 opening at Noon Eastern (-4 GMT) on July 8th.
The Leading the Charge and Original Challenger deeds will now be available through August 18th.

Amdân Dammul, the Bloody Threshold

The Chest of the Beasts (Tier 1 - 5) from Amdân Dammul, the Bloody Threshold is again named correctly.
Raid Revive (Fall of Khazad-dûm & Amdân Dammul, the Bloody Threshold)

Fixed an issue where the raid revive counter display caused it to appear to be capped at 3 instead of correctly capped at 5.

The 'No Revives Available' effect will now clear properly when a fight ends.

Tales of Yore: Azanulbizar:

Quest: Deadly Rain in Cloudyhead Pass - Orc respawn time has been increased from 30-45 seconds to 120-180 seconds. Orcs have also been spaced out more into smaller groups.

NPC - Thromur - Thromur's appearance is now properly consistent through all of his roles in quests.

NPC - Gori Stone-setter - Gori no longer improperly spins to greet you at Amdan.

Missions:

Mission: Enemies at the East-gate - Orkish Gate no longer slightly offset incorrectly.

Mission: Securing the Redhorn - A few bonus level 60 Moria-orcs no longer make a surprise appearance at the end of the Mission.

Mission: Trinkets of the Lost Garrison - Defilers and a few extra Orcs were incorrectly spawning in addition to the expected enemies this mission. They no longer spawn.

Mission: Trouble at the High Crag - NPC Dwarves now properly wield weapons.

Mission: Claws of Gabilshathur - NPC Dwarves now properly wield weapons.

Fixed gloss and glow issues on several housing floor surfaces.
Fixed stuck spots in Minas Morgul.
Fixed floating stairs in Erebor.
Fixed stuck spot in Elderslade.
Refined region impassability in parts of The Wastes.
The Dimril Dale no longer has an errant restricted area to teleport you away.
An errant stable-master has been removed from Azanulbizar.

Skills

Fixed a motivating speech tooltip error

Fixed Striking Essence tooltip errors

[ArathoriaTTV]

is there going to be a patch that will allow hundreds of players to actually log into the game? because atm many cant even log in. and support doesnt seem to care.

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 30.1.1 Release Notes
Here are the release notes for Update 30.1.1, releasing on Thursday, July 15th.

Items
Scholars will automatically earn a recipe to convert Tattered Langflood Parchments to Tattered Minas Ithil Parchments.
The following item Set Bonuses will not be active on a character level 106 or higher: First, Second, Third, and Fourth Class (Beorning's, Burglar's, etc.) Jewellery of Helm Hammerhand.

Medium and Heavy Golden Benefactors Armour will no longer have Will as a stat. Will has been replaced by Might, Agility, or Fate, as appropriate.

Legendary Servers
Difficulty quests are numbered so they will appear in the correct order on Berthadan's bestowal panel.
The Difficulty VFX have been disabled for the time being as they were proving too intrusive during extended play, and were frequently getting stuck.

Quest and Adventure Areas
The Fall of Khazad-dûm - Durin's Bane Encounter
Picking up Liquid Gold will now also cause a debuff called Heavy Metal Poisoning that prevents you from picking up Liquid Gold again for 60 seconds. Fixed an issue where this debuff was invisible and lasted for 108 seconds.
Mark of Challenge will no longer prevent you from picking up Liquid Gold.
Reduced morale of Debris Piles.
Tiers 1 - 5 of Liquid Gold now give increased Fire Mitigations
Some Erupting Earth locations in Phase 5 have been moved closer together.
Fixed an issue where one of the Erupting Earth locations in Phase 4 was not functioning correctly.
Fixed an issue where Durin's Bane and Debris Piles could be hit twice with AOE attacks
This was causing false reporting in the Combat Log of double damage and healing, and was eating up "slots" for attacks that have a limited number of targets.

UI
Corrected a difficulty display issue in French for the Landscape Difficulty NPC UI.

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 30.1.2 Release Notes
Here are the release notes for Update 30.1.2, released on Wednesday, July 21st.

Of Special Note:

The Treasure Bugan Event Arrives This Week!
The Treasure Bugan Event is here! World Renowned treasure seeker Theodore Gorse needs your assistance. All his priceless relics have gone missing! To participate in the Treasure Bugan Event, seek out Theodore Gorse in any Scaling Instances set to your level. You can even bring your friends and kinmates. Theodore will offer you a selection of cosmetic rewards for your help! Make sure to look out for a sneaky Bugan trying to escape with stolen treasures. Help stop many sneaky Bugan to receive even more rewards!

The Treasure Bugan Event begins on Thursday, July 22nd starting at 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) and runs through Monday, July 26th. Every time you play a scaling instance around your level there is a chance for a Treasure Bugan to appear. Defeat the Bugan and reclaim its stolen treasure before it flees. The Bugan does not attack you, but instead runs around evading your attacks. Turn in your Coins of the Bugan to Barter Vendor Theodore Gorse at the start of any scaling instance to pick up various rewards. Also, complete "Seeking the Treasure Bugans!" four times to earn Virtue XP, a Virtue Acceleration Tome, an assortment of crafting supplies.

News and Notes:

Items
With U30.1.1, several Epic Battles item Set Bonuses were changed so they would no longer function on a character level 106 or higher. This change is now being made to all Epic Battles item Set Bonuses.

Quests and Adventure Areas:
The Fall of Khazad-dûm

Lockdown will now be removed between phases.

Tier 5:

Morale of Summoned Blazing and Abyssal Regmyl has been reduced.

Summoned Blazing Regmyl will no longer apply Suffocating Smoke.

The cooldown and initial cooldown of Summoned Blazing Regmyl's Fulmination has been reduced.

Summoned Abyssal Regmyl will now only use Chasing Shadow during Phase 1.

Floid and Dewitt have been moved to a nearby accessible area in Nanduhirion.

[TheArtilleryman]

Update 30.2 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 30.2, released on Tuesday, August 10th.
 
News and Notes:
 
Housing
* Neighbourhood For Sale signs will now correctly display their address in the French game client.

Events
* The Farmers Faire is now available through August 30th! Get new avatar cosmetics, steed, pet and housing item rewards this year, including a new cosmetic pet for Festivity Tokens. The new items available this Farmers Faire include Green Grocer avatar cosmetics and Steed, cosmetic pet Woodland Hart, Woodland Doe, and Woodland Fawn, and a variety of housing items such as crates of food, bread baskets, and troughs with different contents: empty, with feed, and with water!
Items
* Deed-gated Fall of Khazad-dûm raid gear barter is now available from the Fall of Khazad-dûm Rewards Quartermaster for Embers of Enchantment. Deed-gated cosmetics are also available for Figments of Splendour. With tier 1 raid completion, you may barter for some housing item cosmetics and item level 434 Fall of Khazad-dûm armour. With tier 2 raid completion you may barter for additional cosmetics and the Khazad-dûm's Fall gloves and cloak set items. With tier 3 raid completion, you may barter for the Chest of Durin's Bane housing item and the legendary Khazad-dûm's Fall boots. The gloves and cloak set items are also offered on the tier 3 barter profile at a reduced cost.

Quests and Adventure Areas
* The number of bats and trolls that spawn in Azanulbizar has been increased.
* Difficulty System (Shadowfax and Treebeard): The Champion difficulty title has been changed from 'Apprentice of Blades' to 'Novitiate of Blades' to prevent duplicating a crafting title.
* Fall of Khazad-dûm raid Durin's Bane encounter:
* Pyroclastic Flow now does Lightning-type damage.
* Mark of Shadow will now also apply Combat State immunity 2 seconds after the initial effect application.

[TheArtilleryman]

Submitted by Cordovan on Fri, 09/24/2021 - 18:32

Update 30.2.1 Release Notes

Here are the release notes for Update 30.2.1, released on Monday, September 27th, 2021.

Of Special Note:
Pre-Purchase Fate of Gundabad!

Following the grueling battles and heavy tolls of the initial assault, Prince Durin and his allies now regroup and prepare their final offensive on the mountain-home of Gundabad, seeking to reclaim their ancestral legacy from the corruption of the Orcs, hobgoblins, and Angmarim that have been infesting it. As the great dwarven army musters, tensions remain high between the Longbeards, Stout-axes, and Zhélruka, threatening to break the already fragile alliance before they can recover and restore their birthright. Meanwhile, thought to be fractured and pushed back by the dwarven victories, the host of Orc-Chieftain Gorgar the Ruthless now unites under the true Lord of Gundabad - the fearsome, great dragon Hrímil Frost-hearLt - who will stop at nothing to bring an end to Prince Durin and his followers.

Take on new foes, battle as the new Brawler class, forge new Legendary Weapons, and stand at last against Gorgar the Ruthless and Hrímil Frost-heart in a final, decisive battle. Achieve victory and Gundabad will belong to the dwarves once again, and forever! The Fate of Gundabad expansion will be available to pre-purchase starting at Noon Eastern (-4 GMT) on Monday, September 27th, 2021.

News and Notes:
Items
Instrument Carry-alls have had their maximum stack sizes increased. Small and Medium Instrument Carry-alls now hold up to 20 of the same instrument (up from 5), while the Large Instrument Carry-All now holds up to 50 of the same Instrument (up from 12).