Update 43 Release Notes

Of Special Note:

Tier 1 of the new raid "Temple of Utug-bûr" releases 12:00 PM Eastern on Thursday February 27th!

Birding has been updated!

• Fangorn
  
• Lorien
  
• Mirkwood
  
• The Croftlands
  
• The Eastfold
  
• The Entwash
  
• The Great River
  
• The Westfold
  
• The Wold
  

The 13th Legendary Items Reward Track Begins!

The Deed Log has received a visual update!

News and Notes:

• Three new heritage options are now available when creating characters of the Race of Man: Harad/Ordâkh, Rhûn, and Umbar.
  
• Characters can now select an alternate heritage title appropriate to their race by speaking to a notary and completing the corresponding quest. Dwarves and Stout-axe dwarves should visit Wárr Ink-sleeve in Thorin's Hall. Hobbits and River-hobbit should visit Wistan Whitfoot in Michel Delving. Race of Man characters should visit Bonnie Milkweed in Bree. And Elf and High Elf characters should visit Lubathred in Duillond or one of the notaries in Rivendell.
  
• To facilitate character transfers to our upcoming new 64-bit worlds, premium homes will return 100% of their writ cost when sold. This applies to all worlds and will remain in effect through the end of the free transfer period, August 31st, 2025. Foreclosed premium houses will continue to refund 80% of their writ cost. Please note that only Kinship leaders who own premium kinship houses need to sell their homes prior to transfer.
  

Events

• Updated the Forester Event to correctly consume the axe you collect to engage with the quest.
  
• Veil of the Nine:
  
• Ringwraith arena space radar is now just black
  
• There are now items available through Amelia that can prevent event spawns for the player when equipped.
  

Hobbit Gifts

• The minimum level required to open the Universal Solvent packages from Hobbit Presents and the LOTRO Store has been reduced from 50 down to 15.
  
• The Virtue XP awarded by Hobbit Presents now has updated icons to differentiate between the VXP values.
  
• In Hobbit Presents, the Decorated Heritage Runes with a level 85 requirement have been replaced with Plain Heritage Runes that can be used as soon as the reward track is available (as low as level 45). These can be found in Uncommon and Incomparable Silver gifts and Common Gold gifts.
  
• The Large Box of Festival Tokens, Fall Injury immunities, Marks, Medallions, and +100% Mark Acquisition (90 min) boosts have been removed from Hobbit Presents.
  
• Silver Hobbit Presents will no longer drop Scrolls of Universal Crafting Lore and instead have a chance to drop a Universal Optional Ingredient.
  
• Gold Hobbit Presents will give three Battle Potions of Restoration rather than one.
  
• Power potions will drop less frequently than Morale potions from Hobbit Presents.
  
• Rally Horns and Landscape Soldier tokens will drop somewhat less frequently from Hobbit Presents.
  

Classes & Skills

• Brawlers, Burglars, Captains, and Mariners should now correctly be able to remove Fear effects with their CC-break skills: Slip Free, Find Footing, Withdrawal, and Sea Legs.
  
• The offensive buffs To Arms and The West Wind (including that applied by Keeper of Animals' Major skill) will now lock each other out from being used, and can no longer be stacked before their Exhaustion lockout period.
  
• Many skills across classes with cooldowns longer than 60 seconds have been updated so that they are reset by raid boss cooldown resets.
  
• Brawler
  
• When specialized in the Fulcrum, Brawlers can now block incoming attacks.
  
• Burglar
  
• When traited into 'The Quiet Knife' Knives Out will now correctly be reset by Call to Greatness, rather than Coup de Grace.
  
• The trait 'Focused Strikes' will now grant you a toggle skill rather than applying its effects directly. This toggle can be used to more flexibly apply or remove the effect of this trait.
  
• Back Stab's potency has been reduced, and now grants +7.5% Positional Damage at max rank. Burglar Damage overall has been increased by 7.5% to compensate for this.
  
• Captain
  
• Armour of the Brazen Call now correctly reduces the cooldown of your yellow-line Standard of Valour rather than the blue-line Standard of Honour.
  
• The To Arms skill reset granted by the Umbari Armour of the Commander 6-set bonus should now correctly reset the cooldown of Gallant Display.
  
• Champion
  
• When specialized in The Martial Champion, you can now block incoming attacks even while dual-wielding.
  
• The Deep Strikes bleed no longer deals initial damage, but will apply partial pulse damage if a new application of Deep Strikes overwrites an existing instance of it on your target.
  
• Deep Strikes Damage reduced by 5%.
  
• Blade Storm Damage increased by 15%.
  
• Fury of Blades Damage increased by 5%.
  
• Essence of the Red Storm no longer deals trivial damage.
  
• Guardian
  
• Guardians now benefit from 5% bonus damage when wielding hammers after level 5.
  
• Armour of Durin's Guard now correctly reduces the cooldown of Juggernaut.
  
• Hunter
  
• All Hunter Damage has been increased by 8% (Penetrating Shot by 15%, Rain of Arrows by 15%, Swift Bow by 10%).
  
• Bleeds applied by Barbed Arrow and Penetrating Shot will now apply partial pulses when overwritten.
  
• The Insignia of the Shagâni Hawks' bonus bleed (applied by Penetrating shot) will no longer remove your target's Barbed Arrow bleed when it is applied.
  
• The Insignia of the Shagâni Hawks' bonus bleed (applied by Penetrating shot) now has one additional pulse.
  
• Lore-master
  
• Staff Strike's bonus damage from consuming a flank now correctly scales based off of single-target critical magnitude rather than AoE critical magnitude.
  
• Flanked Strike's bonus damage now correctly deals Frost Damage.
  
• Corrected an issue with Flanked Strike dealing trivial damage while wearing the Stone-reader's armour set.
  
• Mariner
  
• The Dol Amroth Armour of the Sea-tamer now gives appropriate Mariner set bonuses.
  
• Duellist's Honour potency has been reduced, and now grants +7.5% Positional Damage at max rank. Mariner Damage overall has been increased by 7.5% to compensate for this.
  
• Minstrel
  
• Several healing skills can now target NPCs, including Triumphant Spirit, Perfect Ending, and Coda of Resonance.
  
• The expiration heal from Legend of the Hammerhand no longer heals a percentage of the target's maximum morale. It now uses a standard healing potency regardless of the target's max morale value.
  
• Rune-keeper
  
• Mystifying Flame's debuff is now an additive modifier rather than a multiplicate modifier.
  
• The trait 'Fire Affinity' now reduces your Lightning Damage bonus by 10%.
  

Combat & Monsters

• Wolves in the Weather Hills of the Lone-lands will no longer stand around in a very large group.
  
• The rare monsters inside Sarnur will now respawn one hour after they have been defeated.
  

Crafting

• 'Tattered Langflood Parchment' and 'Langflood Sealed Wax' are now using the proper icons.
  
• The crafted Elegant Mariner's Flute and Exquisite Elegant Mariner's Flute have been corrected to no longer require clarinet use or Galadhrim reputation. The min use requirement has been lowered from 60 to 40.
  
• The crafted Elegant Ilex Mariner's Flute and Exquisite Ilex Elegant Mariner's Flute have been corrected to no longer require clarinet use or Galadhrim reputation.
  
• Addressed an issue with recipes offered by Old Bauman.
  
• Adjusted the names of the recipes offerings from Old Bauman to call out the recipes which are modifiable.
  

Quests, Deeds, & Adventure Areas

• Quests - Umbar - Catacombs - Temple - Bits and Baubles - Induction bar now says "Collecting" when recovering 'valuable goods
  
• Defacing the Ruins no longer references ruins in the bestowal or the induction.
  
• Adjusted VO on several quests to have them conform with standards for general quests and instance spaces.
  
• Updated directions in the following quests in Khud Zagin: To Be His Eyes, A Vengeance of Sight, Ration, Recovery and Retribution, Shelters for the Road.
  
• Updated quest directions for Awkward First Steps.
  
• Updated Intercept the Courier to ensure that the courier spawns when you reach the hiding location. Also added the defeat of the courier as an objective in the quest.
  
• Silirtas should now have her correct appearance during her visit to Urmakh.
  
• The Western Gondor dailies in Tarlang's Crown, Kêr Izel, and Kêr Bras can now be reset using Mithril Coins.
  
• Corrupt Wolves associated with the Eryn Lasgalen quest Along the Rhachló are now classified as Beasts to be consistent with the other enemies in this quest.
  
• Reputation earned from completing Survivors of Wildermore dailies has been increased to 900 points. Wildermore's Recovery, the daily wrapper for these quests, now awards 1200 reputation points.
  
• The unusual physics in the Caves of Ghalburu have been corrected, so now it should be easier to pass through.
  
• Players will no longer see a quest ring where there is no NPC inside Girhazi's Lodge.
  
• Due to popular demand, the ladder up to Ashagir in Urash Dar no longer has a quest requirement on it, so you can now use it whenever you like!
  
• The quest 'Voice on the Wind' now rewards Ikorbani Faction Experience.
  
• The quest 'Intercept the Courier' had its quest guide location radius increased to make it appear clearer on the map.
  
• The instance version of the quest 'Across the Ikorban' now has a level of 150 associated with it.
  
• The quest 'Respite at Shonith' now grants Kintai Faction experience.
  
• The counter for total number of Ordakhai to eliminate in the quest 'Flowers of the Floodplain' now correctly reflects the 12 eliminations needed to advance when announcing the number of kills.
  
• Elendil now has VO when turning in the Mordor Besieged quest Lost Lore of the Great Alliance.
  
• In Elderslade, the name of the interior of the cave Tithzagáf on the island of Grytholm will now display correctly. Two quests, Striking Grytholm and Assisted Research, which have objectives inside the cave have been versioned. Players who logged out with these quests in progress will need to return to the quest-givers to have them re-bestowed.
  
• An issue has been resolved that would cause invisible physics to be present in the Stout-axe Intro.
  
• Updated the Umbar-môkh catacombs quest "Stolen Mementos" to flow better narratively. Note: this quest will be versioned upon release.
  
• Floating footprints in Instance: The Great Goblin in Exile have been grounded.
  
• Urash Dâr tortoise and sandstorm enemies now correctly drop trophy items.
  
• In the hobbit tutorial instance Bounder Boffin is no longer holding two weapons in the same hand.
  
• In the Wildwood quest The Tomb of Haudh Eglan, the quest guide now directs you to the Writhenset entrance closest to the objective.
  
• In the Udûn instance The Fatal Prize, it should be more apparent that it is Captain Lachír's men who are attacking you.
  
• In the Bree-land quest By Axe and Fire, Walt Whitrose now recalls directions more accurately.
  
• Scraps of Paper associated with The Secret Stone quest The Lost Pages will now disappear momentarily after you pick them up. They will reappear a short time later, should you want to view the clue again.
  
• In the Welkin-lofts Instance: The Giant's Den the dialogue and VO has been adjusted so that it does overlap or get cut off during the scene with Hórin and Chieftain Hrungrod.
  
• The barrels in the Hytbold Armoury no longer try to kill players.
  
• Snowdrifts in the Misty Mountains associated with the quest The Missing Fragments are now only present while that quest is underway.
  
• In the level 30 Brawler instance, The Melee in the Square, Neighbor Ned has learned to chill out and stop swinging his sword once his enemy is defeated.
  
• The Mirkwood quest "Scattered in the Forest" now properly shows Sterkist and Langhár at the Forest Gate for completion.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Imhûlari Spider Shades in the Mûkh Bahora fight in Tûl Zakana not rendering properly.
  
• Quest items in the Wildermore quest "The Deadly Freeze" are no longer buried.
  
• Quest items in the Silkenhold quest "A Kindly Rescue" are no longer hidden.
  
• A Cargûl-rune associated with the Wold quest The Ford: Defiled Runes is no longer inside a tent players cannot enter.
  
• In the Seregost quest Banners of the Lady of Blight, the Banners of the Stained are nnow easier to click on.
  
• In the Khutra quest "Healing Khutra, Part 3" the Good Fishing Spots now respawn properly while in a duo fellowship.
  
• In the Anniversary Scavenger Hunt quest Year 5 Tales: Merry, players now carry a pack to the ponies instead of a bucket.
  
• Gwin Curhonon will no longer be seen out and about in the Gloomglens of Enedwaith before he has been freed from captivity.
  
• The Moria quest "Strange Creatures" now correctly lists multiple "Flesh Samples" when collected.
  
• The Orc leader Hoital in Instance: In Defence of Eaworth will no longer have a ring over his head during his dialogue with Ingmar, son of Ingbert.
  
• In the Osgiliath instance The Ruined City, players who are defeated after defeating Thrug will now be teleported to the correct checkpoint.
  
• The quest guide is now easier to see on the map for several quests in Dunland.
  
• The Ered Mithrin quests Trusted Tools and Crafts of Old will no longer remote bestow to qualifying characters while they are inside Mission: Area of Interest.
  
• The catergory of the quest Instance: Dawn's Arrival has been corrected to Vales of Anduin: Duskenvale.
  
• In the Ered Mithrin quest Expect the Unexpected, the wording of the first objective has been adjusted for clarity and an issue has been resolved where a Gundabad Black-arrow was in the wrong place causing it to not count toward quest advancement.
  
• Corrected a typo in the name and related deed of the "Spirit of Remembrance" in the Limlight Gorge. Note: the deed "The Spirits of the Limlight" will version upon release.
  
• The amount of Gaunt-men in the Song-house of Lindalire in Minas Morgul has been increased to speed completion of the quest Sigils of Sorrow.
  
• Fixed multiple typos in quest Instance: A Captive Audience.
  
• Tasks
  
• The completion of tasks in Zigilgund in Forochel now awards reputation with Thorin's Hall.
  
• The completion of tasks in Aughaire and Tyrn Lhuig in Angmar now awards reputation with the Council of the North.
  
• The completion of tasks in Gabilshathûr in Angmar now awards reputation with Thorin's Hall.
  
• The completion of tasks in Ost Forod in Evendim now awards reputation with the Wardens of Annúminas.
  
• The bestowal text of the Eorlingas Tasks in West Rohan now specifies that the items are found in the Broadacres.
  
• There are now five level 63 tasks in Southern Mirkwood that award reputation with the Malledhrim. The task board is located just outside of The Haunted Inn.
  
• There are now five level 60 tasks in Lothlórien that award reputation with the Galadhrim. The task board is located near Rohiril, the Stable-master just outside Caras Galadhon.
  
• The Ents of Fangorn Forest now offer four level 95 tasks. These can be acquired and turned in at Derndingle in Fangorn Forest and at Neighborhood Task Boards.
  
• Tasks in East Rohan now award reputation with either Men of the Wold, Men of the Norcrofts, Men of the Entwash Vale, or Men of the Sutcrofts.
  
• The completion of tasks in Eregion now awards reputation with the Elves of Rivendell.
  
• Duplicate tasks for the Elves of Rivendell have been removed from the level 31-40 Neighborhood Task Boards
  
• Housing neighborhood task collection boards have been updated to include Ikorbâni, Adúrhid, and Phetekâri faction task quests.
  
• There is now a new task collection box for 141-cap task quests. This collection box has been added to Umbar, Ikorbân Valley and housing neighborhood locations.
  
• Task collection boxes in the Ikorbân Valley now allow players to turn in quests acquired from housing neighborhood task boards.
  
• Due to these changes, all 141-150 faction task quests will version upon release.
  

Instances & Skirmishes

• The Depths of Makhda Korbo: Menacing Tentacles can now drop on tier 3, and have improved drop rates on tier 4 and tier 5 soft locks.
  
• Skirmish NPCs had become a bit fragile over successive general balance updates. They've been made someone more resilient to compensate.
  
• Barad Gularan Castellan's Chest Key will now be deleted from your inventory when you exit Barad Gularan.
  
• When running instances on Solo/Duo difficulty, the "Enhancement -- Solo/Duo" buff no longer incorrectly suggests that it reduces Target Mitigation Ratings.
  
• In the instance Eithel Gwaur, the Filth-well, the final boss will now wait until after she says 'You have been warned! to attack you.
  
• An issue has been addressed in the Minas Morgul instance Ghashan-kútot, the Halls of Black Lore that could cause npc's to get stuck.
  

Ikorban Instances

• The Ikorban Instances quartermaster will now allow you to barter Sand-worn Copper Tokens and a few rare instance barter items in exchange for an incomparable instance barter item (Impenetrable Scorpion Carapace, Phial of Glistering Well-water, or Fallen Burial Ward).
  
• Instances in the Ikorban valley should now correctly be able to drop any type of jewelry, regardless of your class.
  
• Tul Zakana, the Well of Forgetting
  
• The dual cursed hotspots in the Hands of Forgetting fight now extend their visual effects to the entire hotspot.
  
• Bahadring's Blessing of Rising Strength/Crescendo of Strength now correctly repeats regularly in the Hands of Forgetting fight.
  
• The Ordâkhai Sorcerer ability "Consuming Shadow"  now shows a countdown tooltip when standing in the hotspot before the damaging pulse effect of the same name fires. Updated the Consuming Shadow hotspot to have more vivid visual effects.
  

Missions & Delvings

• A change has been made to make consistent that all enemies inside missions, including the Legacy of Morgoth missions, will drop trophies except for enemies that respawn and enemies that are summoned by another enemy.
  
• The Mission Twist "Crushing" now includes a 4 second induction. Monster animations for "Crushing" have been updated.
  
• The Ice Pillars in Mission: Drive a Wedge no longer shimmer after they are destroyed.
  
• The explosive barrels in Mission: The Gate Captain now have more boom! The barrels are also no longer visible post-explosion.
  
• The Mission Twist "Crushing" now includes a 4 second induction. Monster animations for "Crushing" have been updated.
  
• The Elderslade mission "Abandoned Supplies" no longer incorrectly announces "You have bested the goblin leader!" on mission conclusion.
  
• Clarified the wording in the Swanfleet mission "Patrol the Township" to indicate that (and how many) brigands must be defeated before the scout spawns. Note: The mission "Patrol the Township" will version upon release.
  
• The Cardolan quest "Unlikely Friends" has been updated to clarify that Rendal needs to be summoned within the ruins of Gaervarad to advance the quest. Note: "Unlikely Friends" will be versioned upon release.
  
• In the Ikorbân Valley mission "Securing Kûr Anzar", several barricades no longer float and Barkhûshim no longer patrol through barricades.
  
• In the Elderslade Mission "Collapsing the Old Paths", a duo fellowship can no longer have their progress blocked by having the non-channeling player trigger a tunnel explosion without advancing the quest objective.
  
• On the Umbar Mission "The Beast of Belfalas", only Tarasâd will now return to the middle of the cave if drawn out. 
  
• Two new cosmetic pets are now available for Delving barter, the Tome of the White Hamster and the Tome of the Ruby Sand Worm.
  
• Delving pets are now arranged in barter by price.
  
• Delving pets and housing items have been split into two separate barters.
  
• The Extraordinary Delving Chest, found in tier 7 and higher Delving Chests, now drops a level 150 portent as an additional reward.
  
• In Mission: The Zhelruka Clan: Chapter 1 the Cave Rats and Scavenging Gredbyg will now appear on the radar.
  
• In the Gundabad mission "Hall of Ice", impassable ice blockades now reset if players are defeated by Hartung.
  

Housing & Decorations

• The Mushroom Hunter's Hearth has been made a bit larger to better fit various homes.
  

Items & Rewards

• Added new cosmetic weapon inventories for the Utugi adds and Utugi-phase Mukh Bahora boss in Tul Zakana. 
  
• Herbalist's Shoes from the Fane of the Accursed now have a classic essence slot they were intended to have.
  
• The following skill/emote granting items received from the Treasure Hunt event will now disenchant into Buried Treasure Tokens for those who have already earned the skills/emotes: Cave-claw Steed, Rich!, Treasure Laden Goat, Treasure Laden Steed, Counterfeit, Gem Inspection, Coin Flip, Dowse, and Gold Panning.
  
• There is now a Mariner Armourer in the Court of the Fount at Dol Amroth who will barter for minimum level 100 Mariner armour with a set bonus.
  
• Portents from the Ill Omens event now share a cooldown.
  
• 'Further Adventures of Elladan & Elrohir' Themes is now available for barter from Celeblír in Rivendell.
  
• The Ikorbân Valley Instance Reward Vendor now has music boxes available featuring music from the IkorbânValley Instance Cluster.
  
• Characters who already completed the Quest The Secrets of Sarch Vorn will receive the updated quest rewards including a small statue housing decoration.
  
• Fixed some tooltips in the Collections Bauble Page which erroneously referenced Mounts.
  
• Trophy items collected from enemies now have a line in their description detailing whether those items can be collected into task or junk carry-alls to prevent confusion.
  
• PvMP/Ettenmoors
  
• The War-leader tutorial has been updated to allow for using the Brawler stance or normal version of the Cleave skill.
  
• The quest Cultivation: Selfish Request is now listed as a small fellowship quest.
  

Landscape

• An Anduin Moss associated with the Duskenvale quest The River Provides has been moved from inside of a rock to on top of it.
  
• A floating Treasure Cache at Zamarzîr in the Shield Isles has been grounded.
  
• Combined multiple structures in the Tor Gardens to help improve physics performance.
  
• Floating objects in Ikorban Valley have been grounded
  
• Stuck spots in Nirgambar have been resolved
  
• Fixed radar in Dil-irmiz
  
• Fixed painting floating off the wall in Hubo Clayhanger's house
  
• Enemies and Pets should now path correctly in the Vault of Celebrian's Legacy.
  
• The Iron Garrison Guards giving directions to the Chamber of the Crossroads are now more specific.
  
• Task boards for the Adúrhid, the Ikorbâni, and the Phetekâri are now marked on the map.
  
• Misc boulder issues in Wildermore have been resolved
  
• Misc floating objects have been grounded
  
• The Mission Stable-master in Annak-kurfu will now automatically discover all other mission stable-master locations.
  
• Housing neighborhood task collection boards have been updated to include Ikorbâni, Adúrhid, and Phetekâri faction task quests.
  
• There is now a new task collection box for 141-cap task quests. This collection box has been added to Umbar, Ikorbân Valley and housing neighborhood locations.
  
• Ikorbân Valley task quests have been updated to accept paper task quests from housing neighborhoods.
  
• Due to these changes, all 141-150 faction task quests will version upon release.
  
• Misc deco issues in Khud Zagin have been resolved.
  
• Misc deco issues in Khutra have been resolved.
  
• The marsh mud that slows you in Southern Mirkwood was unintentionally giving you a bonus to your evasion, which doesn't really make sense. So now it won't!
  
• Misc floating or improperly intersecting deco has been resolved.
  
• The giant intersecting foliage of Telain Bangad has been removed.
  
• Candur's Hideout is no longer accessible in King's Gondor.
  
• Misc terrain texture and landscape seam issues have been resolved.
  
• Cross-server physics issues between Lone-lands/Cardolan.
  
• The travel route from Zaduru to Jirush will no longer get stuck on a rock.
  
• Umbari Housing Stable-masters and Dock-masters will no longer wander.
  
• Misc placement and terrain issues in the following areas have been fixed: Ambarul,  Khud Zagin, Imhular, Umbar Baharbel, Gundabad, Forochel,  Wildwood, Anfalas.
  

Localization

• For those selling Kinship houses in German, please use Ess-Zett and umlaut forms of street names.  
  
• Voice Over - Several characters from Update 42 now have German VO that's been altered to more closely match the English VO in tone
  
• FRENCH
  
• The Sangemekh - turn-in dialogue with Turah now displays properly
  
• The Dialogue with Erna during the quest "A Stern Lesson" in the Dale-lands now displays properly
  
• Corrects text to make French text respond correctly when using /jdr oui.  
  
• Secure the Landing of Kur Anzar - turn-in dialogue now displays properly
  
• GERMAN
  
• The Quest bestowal dialogue for the 'Finding Blue' Quest in Blackroot Vale (renewed)  now displays properly in English.
  
• The character sheet tooltip for Burglar for the Might stat now properly refers to Burgler.  
  
• Corrected extraneous space after character name in the title "The Wary" 
  
• In the quest "Beauty of the Land" Ravaedron now describes the correct direction in his dialogue. 
  
• In the quest "Crafting: The Maker's Hall"  dialogue with Egil Altbart now displays properly
  
• The translations for "Wandalb Grayhame" in German have been updated.
  
• Text for the Frerin's Court intro quest, "Silver-lined Cure" has fixed.  
  
• Updates the translation for the "Bledu" crop, for the "Aldburg - Quick the Crops! "quest.
  

Art & Avatars

• High-elf have received a visual update, including new avatar creation flexibility and options. All High-elf characters will automatically utilize their new looks when they log in, and many players will find their new look very similar to their old look. However, players who wish to further adjust the look of their characters can visit a Barber, located in many major settlements including Bree, Thorin's Hall, The Dale-Lands, Erebor, Minas Tirith, and Rivendell.
  
• Elves now have softer head model variants, a new softer face complexion, and a new mouth.
  
• Fixed many more Human and Elf female animations that had head movement and shape errors. This pass includes many emotes and combat weapon types.
  
• Generic skin tone palette, used by Race of Man and Elves, now supports more olive tone variants.
  
• Elves and High Elves once more have sneezing SFX when performing the /sneeze emote
  
• Elves and High Elves have had their unique sheathing animations restored.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Race of Man and Elf auto attack animations to play incorrectly
  
• High Elf character selection scene now has a brighter light for better color matching
  

Miscellaneous

• New UI Setting - "Show PvMP Rank Icon" allows you to turn on / off the PvMP Rank Icon on the Nameplate UI.
  
• Updated Yondershire Reputation Barter to include Yondershire Music Boxes
  
• Updated Cardloan Reputation Barter to include additional deco options
  
• An Auctioneer and a Master of Crafting Guilds have been added to the Swain's Guild-hall in Umbar Baharbêl.
  
• Bashem, an NPC found at The Pot and Quill in Umbar Baharbêl now has feet.
  
• Fixed an issue where Foreman Otur in the dwarf introduction Instance: Into the Silver Deep would randomly start kicking during his drama.
  
• Two NPC's in Galtrev, Dunland, who were kicking the air for no reason are now instead having a conversation.
  

Known Issues:

• Deed Log:
  
• The Deed panel's search bar is title-only and does not search other parts of the Deed nor rewards for text matches.
  
• Text matches must be exact matches to the text entered including spaces.
  
• Autocomplete features are not available in the Deed Log's search bar.
  
• Deed categories and subcategories in which the character has no Deeds remain shown.
  
• Opening the Deed Log prevents the Escape key from closing the panel.
  
• Plus and Minus arrow indicators for collapsing and expanding categories and subcategories animate incorrectly when opening and closing other UI panels.
  
• Minstrel: 
  
• The heal on expiration for the blue line Minstrel skill 'Legend of Helm Hammerhand' is not working properly.
  

Update 42.4 Release Notes

Of Special Note:

• VIP accounts with active subscriptions will have access to 12 free player character slots (increased from 7).
  
• Premium accounts will have access to 10 free player character slots (increased from 5).
  
• Character slots for free accounts and for Monster Play characters are unchanged.
  

News and Notes:

Events

• The Ill Omens event returns this year with new level cap 150 Portents! These portents will also be available via Delvings in the future. The Ill Omens Skirmish Event begins at 10:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) on January 30th and runs until 3:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) on February 19th.
  
• Adventurer's and Traveller's Steel-bound lootboxes contain new "Mushroom Hunter" cosmetic items including avatar cosmetics, a war-steed accessory, a frog cosmetic pet, and new housing items including a hearth and wallpaper.
  
• These items are also available on Rowan Raspberry for Figments of Splendour.
  
• Adventurer's and Traveller's Steel-bound lootboxes now contain a Mushroom Hunter's Pack and Mushroom Hunter's Corgi cosmetic pet. These items are not yet available for barter.
  
• The following pet and housing items are now available on on Rowan Raspberry for Figments of Splendour: Tome of the Sea-side Sand-lurker, Macaque Rock, Tall Macaque Palm, and Macaque Palm.
  
• Filbert Fig has retired for the season.
  
• Angmar and Mordor advance to level cap 65 on April 30, 2025.
  
• The "In Their Absence" Instance cluster will become available to play on June 4th, 2025.
  
• Yule Hobbit Presents have been retired for the season.
  

General Notes

• Most Lothlorien items bartered with Lothlorien Silver Branches and Gold Leaves now cost 20-50% fewer of those items. Since players now experience Lothlorien for shorter periods than when it originally released, it can be hard to collect enough branches and leaves before Lothlorien is no longer relevant for their characters. This change should make many Lothlorien rewards more attainable for players experiencing this zone at level 60.
  
• Bartered class-based ranged weapons from the new Ikorban instance cluster can now only be equipped by the class they are designed for.
  
• The Blue Dragon Frame, available from community events, will now display on Monster Play characters as well as Free People characters.
  
• Clipping issues with the Rohirrim Patron's Coffer steed have been corrected.
  
• Fixed an issue where Favoured Standing bonuses were not checkpointed properly. Your Favoured Standing status will now be saved between client sessions.
  
• We have adjusted the wording on Favoured Standing to reflect that this benefit increases the Reputation earned for Ally tier as well.
  
• A typo in the description of the new Favoured Standing page of the Reputation Panel has been corrected.
  
• The newly added stable-masters in Moria now appear on Radar and Maps.
  
• All stable-masters in Moria now display their title in Map tooltips.
  
• Swift rides from Dol Amroth (original) to Bree-town, Twenty-first Hall, and Aldburg have had their level usage requirements adjusted.
  
• Fixed an issue where several of the collection tabs titles were cut off in French and German.
  
• GERMAN: Corrected a string table error in the German localization of the turn-in objective for the Song of Waves and Wind chapter 12.5 quest: Not An Enemy, If Not A Friend.
  
• An issue where personal Skirmish Trait bonuses were sometimes applying in non-Skirmish instances has been corrected.
  
• Boars in the the instance 'Raphuz's Challenge' now correctly advance the Imhular diseased boar Deed instead of incorrectly advancing the Ambarûl boar deed.
  
• Champion: Armour of the Axe-handler no longer erroneously refers to an unspecific set of "Defensive Skills." It now correctly states that it reduces the cooldown of Adamant.
  
• Many Lothlorien reputation items were set to a higher-than-intended item level, and some were giving inappropriately high morale bonuses. These items have been adjusted down to item levels 59-60 with the appropriate stat budgets.
  
• Cuguru (from the Halls of Crafting) now grants Vitality in addition to its other stats.
  
• Fixed some tooltips in the Collections Bauble Page which erroneously referenced Mounts.
  
• The Ered Mithrin quests Trusted Tools and Crafts of Old will no longer remote bestow to qualifying characters while they are inside Mission: Area of Interest.
  
• Instances
  
• Nirgambâr, the Restless Tomb
  
• Sakhârshag's Frustration buff will no longer inappropriately wrap back around to Tier 5 when it hits more targets than its current tier.
  
• Tûl Zakana
  
• Fixed an issue wherein additional enemies were not being properly removed on player death in the Utûgi stage of the Mûkh Bahora fight.
  
• Fixed a graphical issue with the Imhûlari Spider Shades in the Mûkh Bahora fight.
  
• Fixed an issue wherein the player skill Smite Evil was not smiting Imhûlari Spider Shades, despite their quite evil nature.
  
• Animations now play correctly for Utûgi Devastators and Utûgi Shades in the Mûkh Bahora fight.
  
• Attacks from shades in the Mûkh Bahora fight now play different animations for weak, medium and heavy shadow attacks.
  
• Moria/Lothlorien Instances
  
• Moria instance challenge chests now have an improved chance to drop rare rewards.
  
• Medallions of Lothlorien can now be bartered to receive silver branches and gold leaves.
  
• Medallions of Moria and Lothlorien can now be bartered to receive basic Legendary Item components. 
  
• Dark Delvings
  
• Fixed several issues with Void-eater's class-based debuff tooltips.
  
• Fixed an issue with Doom-speaker's phase buffs.
  
• Both Void-eater and Doom-speaker now benefit from being in the shadows (gaining Primal Darkness, which is still fully negated by the light from rune-stones.)
  
• Primal Darkness now enhances enemies' offence and defence slightly (it is still completely negated by light from rune-stones.)
  
• The duration of Bleeding Ears has been reduced to 8 seconds.
  
• Forges of Khazad-dum
  
• Water pouches now drop twice as frequently.
  
• The initial hit damage and critical magnitude of Thrug's Forestorm ability has been reduced significantly.
  
• The damage over time applied to allies when Thrug targets you with Firestorm is now much shorter, and will fall off when combat ends.
  
• Fil Gashan
  
• Commander Greb's Counter Attack no longer triggers on DoT damage.
  
• Some equipment from Fil Gashan had lower-than-intended stat values. These items have been buffed slightly to give the intended amounts of their stats, matching similar items from other instances.
  
• Commander Greb's counterattack duration has been reduced to 10 seconds.
  
• General Talug's encounter has been adjusted slightly to make the core mechanics a little less finicky and speed up the overall speed of the encounter:
  
• General Talug now moves slightly faster even when his shield is up.
  
• General Talug's Vulnerability (from successfully luring him into a fire trap) now increases his Incoming Damage by 50% (rather than only negating his immunity).
  
• General Talug will now be susceptible to fire traps even if a player has ignited him after he is doused in oil (he will stop being vulnerable after the burning oil expires).
  
• Talug's Fang-caster will now drop his fire trap a little closer to himself (which ought to reduce the frequency at which it spawns under walls, pillars, or other objects in the encounter space).
  
• Burns applied by fire traps and fire damage while doused in oil (dropped after the Fire-fist is killed, not the effect applied by the Fire-fist's targeted skill) are slightly more potent and can no longer be cleansed by skills or potions, but will require you to run into the waterfalls on either side of the room.
  
• Waterfalls will now cleanse burns as soon as you step into them, and no longer require you to stand in them for several seconds.
  
• Halls of Crafting
  
• Thaguzg's max morale has been reduced significantly.
  
• Skumfil
  
• Hwandrin's health has been reduced by 20%.
  
• Globsnaga Guard (Spider) health has been reduced by 20%.
  
• Brumbereth and Grimreaver have had their stats adjusted slightly to bring them closer to one another and reduce the overall difference of choosing one side vs the other.
  
• Brumbereth's mitigations have been reduced, but her health increased slightly to compensate.
  
• Grimreaver's health and mitigations have both been reduced dramatically, but his offense increased slightly.
  
• Filikul
  
• Nornuan's health has been reduced by 8%.
  
• Nornuan's rewards have been improved.
  
• Dar Narbugud
  
• Chests in Dar Narbugud now have a slightly greater chance to reward you with more than one elf-stone.
  
• Chests in Dar Narbugud are now more likely to reward you with a piece of jewelry (rather than the non-set armour pieces).
  
• The Mistress of Pestilence's health has been reduced by 11%.
  
• Several Mistress skills now have slightly longer cooldowns.
  
• Spores in the Mistress of Pestilence encounter now spawn half as frequently.
  
• Reflective Spores now only return 10% of player damage (previously 20%).
  
• Ravenous Newborn health has been reduced by 20%.
  
• Some fixes have been made which will alter the way Zholuga's encounter plays out:
  
• Zholuga's max morale has been reduced by ~17%.
  
• Fixed a problem with the way Zholuga was summoning spores.
  
• Caster's, Fighter's, and Defender's Bane summoned spores each now have -60% Morale.
  
• Bane debuffs applied by spores are now significantly shorter but slightly more potent.
  
• Bane debuffs will now run a check against player disease resistance every 10s and a single effect will be removed if the player passes that check.
  
• Fixed Zholuga's color/phase-based skills and effects.
  
• Istum's Fungal Crawlers now deal slightly less damage
  

Update 42.3 Release Notes

Of Special Note:

The Yuletide Festival begins on Thursday, December 12th starting at 10:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT)!

News and Notes:

• Account-based reputation boosts for Legacy of Morgoth factions will now function properly for all types of VIPs. For now, you will still need to log in a qualifying high reputation character before the Favoured Standing activates for alt characters on the world. 
  
• Dozens of fixes have been made to Elf and High-elf armour models to correct clipping and other issues.
  
• Toned down the healing from the Bounty Hunter's Guild potions as they were significantly stronger than intended.
  
• The buff and healing potions from the Bounty Hunter's Guild no longer share cooldowns with each other.
  
• Added a new set of level 60 Essences with a minimum level of 56 that are available through the Moria Bounty Hunter's Guild.
  
• Malgama in Urash Dar can now be travelled to via the Stable-collection panel.
  
• The Annak-kurfu Mission Stable-master now has the new mission destinations that were added as part of the Legacy of Morgoth expansion pack.
  
• Milestones have been added to Shonith and Vartúlin.
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause some UI elements including vertical Quickslot bars to become incorrectly scaled.
  
• French + German: Fixed some sizing issues of various buttons on the different collection panel pages.
  
• GERMAN: The term for "Miner" has been consolidated into "Bergarbeiter/Bergarbeiterin"
  
• Task boards for the Adúrhid, the Ikorbâni, and the Phetekâri are now marked on the map.
  
• Nud Melek was overlooked in the list of regions where Moria spawns should occur rather than wraiths, and has been added to the list.
  
• PvMP: Falgashud will now correctly display the barter entry for "Ancient Boons" the defiler trait.
  
• Warring Horse-lords cosmetics (shoulder, chest, and legs) should now equip to the proper slot and display correctly.
  
• Brawler Battle-dancer's and Uncompromising set gear has been corrected. The pieces can once again be equipped by a Brawler, and the stats on the Battle-dancer's items have been increased to be comparable to other classes.
  
• Various pieces of Beorning Stone-hide, Iron-tooth, and Stone-claw set Armour, were accidentally granting agility as a primary stat. These have been corrected to granting might as the primary stat.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Mûkh Bahora fight in Tûl Zakana wherein sometimes the crocodile and serval enemies were not resetting properly upon defeat.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Mûkh Bahora spider fight in Tûl Zakana wherein players could end up in separate areas when retreating.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Imhûlari Spider Shades in the Mûkh Bahora fight in Tûl Zakana not rendering properly.
  
• Fixed an issue with some Imhûlar missions porting players out of their mission instance erroneously.
  
• The Caparison of the Treasured Wellspring has its correct appearance once again.
  
• The Grand Relic of Ikorbân and Large Seed Pod can now really be used while mounted.
  

Known Issues:

• Some characters exhibit clipping of the legs to the sides of the mount when using the milestone_rohan emote.  This will be corrected in a future game update.
  
• The Annak-kurfu mission stable-master will not automatically discover the mission destinations that were added as part of the Legacy of Morgoth expansion pack. Other mission stable-masters will automatically discover those destinations, at which point Annak-kurfu will have access to them. This issue will be resolved in update 43.
  

Update 42.2 Release Notes

Of Special Note:

Mines of Moria has arrived on our 64-bit Veil of the Nine worlds Angmar and Mordor!

The Legendary Server Treebeard Reaches Level 105!

Yule-tide Hobbit Gifts have Returned!

News and Notes:

• End game group content has been updated for the release of Moria on the new Legendary Servers. Base Health, Mitigations, and Damage have been increased for most monsters found within level 52-60 endgame instances, including those from the Mines of Moria and Lothlorien content clusters. In a handful of boss fights, more targeted adjustments were made to improve the gameplay experience. This is intended to combat player power creep over the years, and should help make those instances harder to complete without full groups when played on-level.
  
• Moria Instances:
  
• The Forgotten Treasury (6 players)
  
• The Grand Stair (6 players)
  
• The Forges of Khazad-dum (6 players)
  
• Fil Gashan (6 players)
  
• The Sixteenth Hall (6 players)
  
• Skumfil (6 players)
  
• Dark Delvings (6 players)
  
• Filikul (12 players)
  
• The Vile Maw (12 players)
  
• Lothlorien Instances:
  
• The Water-works of Nala-dum (3 players)
  
• The Mirror Halls of Lumul-nar (3 players)
  
• The Halls of Crafting (6 players)
  
• Dar Narbugud (12 players)
  
• We discovered an issue with the new reputation system where the applied bonuses were starting and stopping. We have rectified this issue and the functionality will be restored as follows:
  
• When a character on a VIP account achieves a rank of Friend with any of the new reputation factions in the Legacy of Morgoth release, all subsequent characters on that server will earn a bonus 10% toward that reputation until those characters reach the Friend tier.
  
• When a character on a VIP account achieves a rank of Ally with any of the new reputation factions in the Legacy of Morgoth release, all subsequent characters on that server will earn a bonus 17.5% toward that reputation until those characters reach the Ally tier.
  
• When a character on a VIP account achieves a rank of Kindred with any of the new reputation factions in the Legacy of Morgoth release, all subsequent characters on that server will earn a bonus 25% toward that reputation until those characters reach the Kindred tier.
  
• The way that Faction Account Modifiers are applied has been adjusted so that the characters receiving the bonus always receive the highest bonus unlocked by the lead character.
  
• The Moria Stable-master network has been revamped for Update 42.2.
  
• All Current Stable-masters now have a more robust list of Normal and Swift Travel Routes to help players traverse Moria.
  
• Several new Stable-master destinations are now available in areas of Moria to help support players accessing and returning to out-of-the-way questing destinations.
  
• The Vile Maw, Nameless Places, Hudnul-meden instances and the Twenty-first Hall now form a Moria Instance Cluster Swift Travel Network.
  
• A new Far-Ranging Stable-master has been added to the Twenty-first Hall for all travel routes leading out of Moria.
  
• Items
  
• Most instance and raid armour sets from levels 60-100 will once again allow you to barter for pieces even if your current class is not able to equip them (allowing you to place these items in your wardrobe, despite not being equipable).
  
• Endgame equipment for level 60 has been revised, and some items now have slightly different stats. to better reflect current class designs.
  
• Mariners now have a 6-set of rare instance equipment that you can acquire with Medallions of Moria, since these sets now confer class-based bonuses. The minor, 3-piece rare sets found on the same vendors are still shared with Burglars.
  
• Rare 6-piece instance sets acquired with Medallions of Moria now cost 5, 7, or 10 medallions per piece (previously 4 medallions).
  
• Several new music tracks have been added to the Stories from The Valley of Ikorbân' Themes and The Valley of Ikorbân Landscape' Themes housing music boxes
  
• The new Warden Ikorbani Spear carving now also increases Light Damage and its Bleed bonus is improved to 5% (from 3%).
  
• The new Warden Ikorbani Shield carving now correctly increases Shield Gambit Healing instead of Bleed Damage and also increases Light Damage.
  
• The new Minstrel DPS instrument, Woe-singer, now correctly gives +3.5% Coda crit chance in addition to its existing bonuses.
  
• Burglar Signal's now give more appropriate Fellowship Maneouvre bonuses:
  
• Blue signal gives +Guile
  
• Red signal gives +Strength
  
• Yellow signal gives +Conviction
  
• Dune-hunter leggings now correctly give Tactical Mastery rather than Physical Mastery.
  
• Legendary Server Ringwraith Event
  
• Ringwraith health has been reduced by about 30%.
  
• Ringwraith skill damage has been reduced, particularly for the high spike skills (EG: Umbral Nova and Shadow Lance.)
  
• Wraith Portals now last 30 minutes.
  
• The Wraith Arena will now teleport all players out shortly after victory or time expired.
  
• This is so that players attempting to enter the portal later can reach other still active layers.
  
• There is no restriction to players re-entering the portal after victory/defeat inside one - only that they cannot claim another victory for ~3hrs after a win.
  
• As a rule you should give the portal about 30 seconds to clear out a layer after it empties out or you may re-enter it instead.
  
• Accumulated Dread no longer falls off with death! If you allow them to accumulate you'll become exceedingly fragile as the fight progresses.
  
• Glimmers of Hope no longer have a limit to how many players may use them at a time.
  
• Arena layers no longer reset after victory, but should shut down fairly quickly after players are gone.
  
• Glimmers of Hope now heal 10% morale per second.
  
• The Lesser Rings will now only drop for players within two levels of the current cap level (eg: 58-60.)
  
• Instances
  
• The rarest barter items from the new instances (Carapace Pieces, Glistering Phails, and Burial Tokens) now drop as fellowship-tradeable items which must be opened to add them to your barter wallet. This will mean that groups can choose to redistribute these barter drops among the players who completed the instance, but also means you may need to be on the lookout for these items in your pending inventory. 
  
• The Ikorban Instance barter exchange now trades crafting materials for sand-worn tokens in 1:1 ratio, half the cost they were before.
  
• Ashanug, Fane of the Accursed
  
• Kizurdal's Damage has been reduced slightly.
  
• Increased the frequency at which torches will remove the shadow buff from scorpions.
  
• The Crippling Sting debuff now has a movement slow.
  
• Toxic Clouds no longer tier up their DoT immediately when you enter their area. They will still tier up if you linger in them for more than 2 seconds.
  
• Venomous Sting - 4 can now be cleansed down to Venomous Sting - 3.
  
• Reduced Serrated Strike's damage over time potency.
  
• In the Anakhi Ensemble (boss 2) encounter:
  
• Kizurdâl's damage has been reduced significantly.
  
• Sharâtu's damage has been reduced slightly.
  
• Hashûga's damage has been reduced slightly.
  
• Vicious Scorpion damage has been reduced slightly.
  
• Prowling Scorpion morale has been reduced slightly.
  
• Checkpoints have been added to Ashunug, the Fane of the Accursed before the second and third boss encounters.
  
• Nirgambar, the Restless Tomb
  
• Standard mobs in this instance no longer have baseline crowd control immunity.
  
• All three bosses are now immune to Fellowship Manoeuvres.
  
• Cavernous Shout has been reworked under the hood and should now behave as expected: it will only deal damage while the boss is actively channeling.
  
• Cavernous Shout Damage has been reduced slightly.
  
• Sakhârshag health has been increased 25%.
  
• Imanak-tûr health has been increased 15%.
  
• Cursed Spirit inductions now have an additional 0.5 delay before they begin.
  
• Cursed Spirits should now more reliably start inducting when they're supposed to after they spawn.
  
• Added a warning shout to Sakharshag that occurs right before he begins Cavernous Shout.
  
• Aura of Death radius increased by 0.1m (the corner of the platform is no longer safe).
  
• Tul Zakana, the Well of Forgetting
  
• A one second delay has been added to Consuming Fire in Well of Forgetting B1.
  
• A five second duration has been added to the Consuming Fire hotspot.
  
• Bahadring's health has been increased by 50%.
  
• Gorthorog Devastator's health increased ~15%.
  
• Reduced the damage of Find Enemy slightly.
  
• Reduced the damage of Spear of Shadow slightly.
  
• Gorthorog Crusher Damage mod reduced from x0.7 to x0.6. This does not impact their tankbuster skills.
  
• Memory of Contempt now reduces Bahadring's Incoming Damage more than before. This should make it more imperative for players to remove this Memory via the Waters of Forgetting.
  
• Players should now reliably gain a skill each time they leave the well of forgetting (only once per pull of a lever).
  
• Several fixes have been implemented to prevent cases of players getting stuck on death during the Mûkh Bahora fight.
  
• Several effects are now cleansed properly when enemies are standing in the Well of Forgetting in the Bahadring the Unmindful fight.
  
• Fixed a rare case wherein players could not progress if two groups of players separately restarted the Mûkh Bahora fight and simultaneously defeated the Utûgi version of the Mûkh Bahora.
  
• Corrected an issue with the way Bauko targets players with Sickening Water.
  
• Mûkh Bahora's Utugi form now has a warning induction when using Thrash.
  
• Elf Avatar Update
  
• Some overly exaggerated facial features have been reduced in certain emotes for Human, Elf, and High-elf male and female avatars.
  
• A bug has been corrected that caused High-elf avatars to have a larger physics scale then other races. High elves can now move through the same low ceiling environments as other Elves or Humans.
  
• Classes
  
• Beorning
  
• The new Slam Heal now benefits from Outgoing Healing modifiers.
  
•  Brawler
  
• Fixed a missing connection in Brawler's Fulcrum specialization so they now correctly gain bonus threat generation from damaging skills.
  
• Mighty Upheaval's radius has been increased from 7m to 10m.
  
• Captain
  
• Routing Cry's radius has been increased from 7 meters to 10 meters.
  
•  Champion
  
• Fixed a tooltip display issue with the Dual-wield buff from red-line's Weapon Master.
  
• The Insignia of the Shagâni Blade-wall bonus now gives +7s Invincible/Adamant Duration rather than +10s Invincible Duration. This means the effect now buffs your defensive bonus significantly at the cost of 3 seconds from the original offensive bonus.
  
• Guardian
  
• 'Reactive Parry Damage' has been renamed to 'Parry Chain Skill Damage' to better reflect the skills it impacts.
  
• Hunter
  
• Penetrating Bleed (the Barbed bleed upgrade) now deals ~36% more damage.
  
• Lore-master
  
• Gust of Wind now properly benefits from bonuses to 'Gust of Wind Damage.'
  
• Rune-keeper
  
• Fixed a tooltip display issue with Linnod of Flame.
  
• PvMP
  
• Reaver
  
• Glory in Victory's tooltip now correctly states that it is enhanced by a Defeat Event rather than requiring a Defeat Event.
  
• Warleader
  
• Banner of Terror now correctly reduces Ranged and Tactical Damage by 15%.
  
• Ambush and Marching Orders can now be used while swimming.
  
• Quitters Die now correctly consumes Clinging Fear.
  
• White-hot Whip is now correctly classified as a Melee skill (but still deals Fire Damage).
  
• Custom music has been added to The Dog-catcher, Part 3, The Dog-catcher, Part 4, and Salve for a Ravaged Land, Part 5.
  
• A new landscape track can now be heard in any of the outdoor areas of Ikorban, and Kûgrun, the Golden Sanctuary now also has a custom track.
  
• Improved quest flow and animations for the Imhûlar quest The Dog-catcher Part 4.
  
• The bucket Rook is looking for in 'Natural Refreshment' should once again appear properly.
  
• Fixed text error on Superior Tools of the Umbari Armsman stating an incorrect Forester Chopping Duration.
  
• Fixed a typo on Scholar scrolls for Umbar Guild Recipes that improperly stated they were jeweller recipes.
  
• Gundabad mote worthy crafts now have their recipes auto-granted to players with the Gundabad crafting tier unlocked.
  
• Small stone frills in Moria have been updated.
  
• Stuck spots in Umbar-môkh have been fixed.
  
• Fixed radar in Dil-irmiz
  
• Fixed a painting floating off the wall in Hubo Clayhanger's house.
  
• Made it somewhat easier to obtain "The Lion's Roar". Note: this change will version this Deed, so any progress will be lost.
  
• Bingo's dialogue has been restored to 'Instance: Bingo's Burden' in Week 36 of The Ballad of Bingo Boffin.
  
• Generic voice over audio has been corrected on Shagani and Kintai fishing trainers and furnishers.
  
• Ikorbân Valley tasks are now available from the Neighborhood Task Boards, listed with the level 141-150 quests.
  
• GERMAN: Typos on the German World map have been corrected.   
  
• Mounts - Oryx no longer plays horse sounds, and instead has sounds that are more appropriate for the animal.
  
• Fixed a longstanding bug where sound effects in the Paths of the Dead would get stuck on the player until a subsequent log out and back in.
  
• We made a quality of life adjustment to the new Reputation containers you can find on landscape for the Tale-wardens and Kintai factions. The change allows you to now use the containers while mounted.
  
• Corrected Known Issues
  
• Inaccessible Treasure Caches in Urash Dar can now be reached.
  
• Sellable items found in the reputation containers in the Legacy of Morgoth expansion will now appropriately filter into Junk Carry-alls.
  
• The Battle For Hytbold end drama sequence has been repaired and the instance should once again be completable.
  
• 'Instance: Short of Stature, Great In Deed' is once again completable.
  
• 'Session: The Point of Decision' is once again completable.
  
• Reduced overly exaggerated facial features in certain emotes for Human, Elf, and High Elf male and female.
  

Known Issues:

• Rotating an undocked Quickslot bar and then scaling bars will display properly for that session, but upon subsequent log in the bars will not display their full image.
  

Update 42.1 Release Notes

Of Special Note:

News and Notes:

Characters:

• Elf appearance versioning has been added for 42.1. If your Elf has already logged in, you will see no change.  If you have not yet logged in any Elf characters, when you do login they will update with headpieces and other options to more closely match your old Elf appearance.
  
• High elves now have improved neck textures.
  
• High elf female characters now correctly use the elf body type slider.
  
• Elf male and female hat hair no longer has a gap and now use elf ears flat instead of human ears.
  
• When out of combat, High Elf female handheld equipment now correctly stays in hands and no longer floats.
  

Classes:

• Brawlers, Burglars, Captains, and Mariners should now correctly be able to remove Fear effects with their CC-break skills: Slip Free, Find Footing, Withdrawal, and Sea Legs.
  
• Hunter: In for the Kill now accurately reflects the potency of Heart Seeker's Incoming Damage debuff.
  
• Lore-master:  Minor Call - Flank (the red-line skill) has been returned to the correct cooldown of 15s.
  
• Captain: Words of Courage now stacks only once per Captain on a single target.
  
• War-leader: The Lead the Charge trait description has been corrected and now refers to cooldown rather than induction.
  
• Quests, Deeds & Adventure Areas:
  
• Veil of the Nine event (on Angmar and Mordor):
  
• Changed the maximum wraith arena size from 45->36.
  
• Reduced the Gloom of Nurn's max health to match the other Nazgûl.
  
• Guardian Harrowing Wraiths will no longer appear outside the portal allowing entrance to the Ringwraith arena space to prevent these guardians from spawning in multiple locations.
  
• The rock blocking access to Nona's Cave has been removed.
  
• The quest 'Voice on the Wind' now rewards Ikorbâni Faction Experience.
  
• The quest 'Intercept the Courier' had its quest guide location radius increased to make it appear clearer on the map.
  
• The instance version of the quest 'Across the Ikorbân' now has a level of 150 associated with it.
  
• The quest 'Respite at Shonith' now grants Kintai Faction experiece.
  
• The counter for total number of Ordâkhai to eliminate in the quest 'Flowers of the Floodplain' now correctly reflects the 12 eliminations needed to advance when announcing the number of kills.
  
• Floating objects in Ikorbân Valley have been grounded.
  
• Stuck spots in Nirgambâr have been resolved.
  
• The following Imhûlar missions now correctly show quest inventory items while on their respective missions. These missions will be versioned in this update, meaning that any charactes with these quests underway will need to pick them up and start them again: "Recovering the Past", "Vanished In Zahûmakh".
  
• The following Imhûlar quests now correctly show quest inventory items while on their respective quests. These quests will be versioned in this update, meaning that any charactes with these quests underway will need to pick them up and start them again:
  
• "Salves for a Ravaged Land, Parts 4 & 5", "Nursing a Wounded Land", "Full Bellies and Warm Hearths", Becoming a Tree-bearer", "Fresh Shoots and Rich Soil".
  

Items & Rewards:

• Season 12 of the Legendary Item Reward Track will launch on November 14th at 10am Eastern Time. Season 11 ends November 14th at 9:59am Eastern Time.
  
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• The minstrel and mariner instruments available from instance cluster barter are now item level 525.
  
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• The legendary quality set item rings, bracelets, and earrings available from instance cluster barter no longer have a disenchant value.
  
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• The legendary quality set item rings, bracelets, and earrings available from instance cluster barter are now Bound to Account, not Character, but can only be equipped in one equipment slot. This means you cannot equip a pair of identical legendary rings, earrings, or bracelets at the same time.
  
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• All weapons dropping in the instance cluster now do non-common damage (Westernesse, Beleriand, or Ancient Dwarf).
  
• 
  
• All bows dropping in the instance cluster now correctly disenchant into Embers.
  
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• Several armour rewards from Ikorbân instances now have the appropriate essence slots that they were originally missing.
  
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• The Ikorbân Valley Instance Reward Vendor now has music boxes available featuring music from the Ikorbân Valley Instance Cluster.
  
• Class barter vendors at the fishing village of Bej Mâgha have been re-enabled, and will now barter class items, bows, and instruments related to the new Ikorbân instance cluster. These items now require 3 of each relevant barter item to account for their higher than intended drop rate. The cost in Sand-worn Copper Tokens for each item remains unchanged.
  
• Instances:
  
• Tûl Zakana, The Well of Forgetting instance:
  
• Fixed an issue where the Hands of Forgetting did not always reappear properly on player reset.
  
• Fixed an issue where players were not released from combat in the final stage of the Mûkh Bahora boss fight.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Mûkh Bahora did not always respawn in the initial area on player reset.
  
• Broadcasts to pull the lever in the Bahádring the Unmindful boss fight now stop when Bahádring is defeated.
  
• Bahádring's player blessings no longer do a small amount of damage to the player.
  
• Nirgambâr, the Restless Tomb
  
• Cursed Nirgambâr Spirits are now immune to Fellowship Maneouvres.
  
• Cursed Nirgambâr Spirits no longer erroneously knock players back before completing their induction.
  
• Cursed Nirgambâr Spirits now induct for longer on lower tiers.
  
• Cavernous Shout can now be interrupted on Tier 2 (not Tier 3).
  
• Fallen Nirgambâr Spirit Auras of Death now deal more Damage.
  
• The Deeds for completing Tier 1 or Tier 2 of the Sunken Labyrinth instance will now complete after defeating Muzgásh and no longer requires players to follow the NPC for completion.
  
• The Castellan of Barad Gularan now drops only one key, and it is destroyed upon leaving the instance.
  

Miscellaneous:

Known Issues:

• Due to a bug preventing completion, 'The Witan: The Battle for Hytbold' has been locked. This quest will be fixed and re-opened in a future patch.
  

Update 42 Release Notes

Of Special Note:

Legacy of Morgoth has arrived!

• The Song of Waves and Wind continues! Speak to Jaith outside the Meeting-hall of Dar Laja in Umbar Baharbel to begin Chapter 10. This is a new on-ramp for the story; completion of the first nine chapters is recommended, but not required.
  
• Discover the striking lands of Near Harad! This is a challenge level 150 region, with 4 new zones packed with new quests, Deeds, Missions and Delvings for you to explore.​
  
• Experience more than 350 unique quests! Additionally, a new raid will debut at a later date that is associated with this content, and included with your purchase.
  

Elf Update​

Reputation Enhancement​

Baubles!​

News and Notes:

Classes and Skills

• Brawler
  
• Brawler 'Rush' trait tier 2 should now properly increase out of combat movement to 15%.
  
• Champion
  
• Punishing Strike's Bleed damage has been reduced by 10%.
  
• The debuff from Devastating Strike can now be overwritten, and no longer requires you to wait for it to expire before it can be reapplied.
  
• Unbreakable's tiered buff will now reapply at the highest tier if you are hit while at the highest tier of the buff.
  
• Hunter
  
• Hunter base Damage has been increased by 5%.
  
• Lore-master
  
• If combat ends while consuming a lightning charge, you should no longer lose your remaining lightning charges.
  
• Reduced Ring of Fire Damage by 10%.
  
• Ring of Fire now has an innate 10% Resistance penetration in PvP and 30% in PvE since it does not benefit from players' finesse.
  
• Damage over Time from Burning Embers has been reduced slightly:
  
• Reduced Searing Embers Damage by 10%.
  
• Reduced Burning Embers (second tier) Damage by 5%.
  
• Smouldering Embers Damage is unchanged.
  
• Pet command skills can now correctly be used on Monster Players.
  
• Pets now have an innate threat modifier that matches non-tank player specializations.
  
• Pet commands are now only usable when you have an active companion summoned. This is intended to prevent you from wasting these skills if your pet is not present.
  
• Staff Strike's bonus damage applied when it consumes a flank now correctly benefits from Single Target, rather than area of effect Damage bonuses.
  
• Mariner
  
• The 'Sail to' skill that returns you to the fishing village in Bej Mâgha should now correctly bring fellows along with you when used.
  
• Mariner 'Fire Pot' now has an innate -30% Resistance penetration since it does not benefit from players' Finesse.
  
• Rune-keeper
  
• Epic Conclusion's lightning VFX should once again appear as intended.
  
• Combat and Monsters
  
• Various Fell-beasts are no longer immune to Power of Knowledge, since this skill no longer drains enemy Power.
  
• Some stat crunch clean up erroneously caused many monster modifiers to incorrectly use negative values for mitigation bonuses, causing those buffs to turn into debuffs. This has been corrected, so monsters will once again receive the appropriate mitigation increases that they used to have. This mostly impacts monsters throughout the lower game levels, and especially boss monsters at those levels.
  
• Avanc Swamp Bite attack now properly displays its vitality reducing effect. This effect is no longer curable so that it doesn't block cures on the main damage over time.
  

Crafting

• Uncut gems are now less likely to drop from enemies throughout the world. Gems found in containers and prospecting nodes are unchanged.
  
• Umbar's Crafting Guild has loosened its restrictions on bartering for items to improve your Eriador Crafting Guild standing.
  
• Recipes for crafting Sea-farer's Lively Crafted Essence Boxes, allowing selection of a Lively Sea-farer's Essence, has been automatically granted to Umbar tier cooks, jewellers, metalsmiths, scholars, tailors, weaponsmiths, and woodworkers.
  

Quests, Deeds, and Adventure Areas

• In the Vales of Anduin quest Wood for the Walls, the Damaged Walls should now be easier to click on when floaty names are off.
  
• The corpse that bestows the Bree-land quest The Failed Delivery will no longer be selectable after the quest is completed.
  
• The Dol Guldur "hard mode" quests "Let Them Hunger" and "One Fell Swoop" will now only be bestowed to characters that can complete them.
  
• The Evendim quest 'A Friend to the Kings of Old' now states clearly that to advance the objective you must complete two other quests. It also shows the locations of the bestowers of these quests on the map.
  
• The Udûn quest The Lonely Look-out has been revised to correct several issues. There are now quest guides to help locate objectives and some text has been changed for clarity.
  
• PLEASE NOTE: Players who logged out with The Lonely Lookout in progress will need to re-accept the quest and start it over due to versioning
  
• The North Downs quest A Request to the Earth-kin is now bestowed by Gondranc in Esteldín.
  
• The placement and appearance of the Tar Sand used in the Cape of Umbar quest The Black Sand has been adjusted.
  

Instances and Skirmishes

• The Rift of Nurz Ghashu
  
• Thaurlach is now immune to crowd control effects.
  
• Sari-surma
  
• Drugoth now has an appropriate Mariner-specific skill.
  
• Missions and Delvings
  
• 28 new missions will be coming in Legacy of Morgoth! Visit mission givers in Iridír in Ambarûl, Urmâkh in Imhûlar and Ub Nishir in Urash Dâr for new missions. Most new missions are compatible with Delvings.
  
• In the Gundabad Mission "Sting Like a Grodbog" the mucous quest objects now behave correctly.
  
• The Elderslade mission "Into the Crystal Tunnels" now has a usable exit portal in the mission space.
  
• The following Cardolan and Swanfleet Missions have been updated due to a performance fix. These missions will be removed from your Quest Log if underway.
  
• "Caranost Command Post"
  
• "Caranost Courtyard"
  
• "Haunting at Dol Ernil"
  
• "The Hand, Out!"
  
• "Signs and Sigils"
  
• "Sifting Through Time"
  
• "Secrets and Plans"
  
• "Not as Many Heads"
  
• "Before They Bond"
  
• "Brigands in Nímbarth"
  
• "The Ruins of Gaervarad"
  
• "Jorthkyn and Hounds"
  
• "The Tombs of Gond Orchal"
  
• "Aberrations of Nature"
  
• "Dangerous Deliveries".
  
• The Following locations are now a part of the Mission Stable-master Network:
  
• Gerwyn's Convoy
  
• Clegur
  
• Herne
  
• Iridír (available only on servers with a level cap of 150 or greater)
  
• Urmâkh (available only on servers with a level cap of 150 or greater)
  
• Ub Nishir (available only on servers with a level cap of 150 or greater)
  
• Bloody Eagle (available only on servers with a level cap of 150 or greater)
  

Housing and Decorations

• A few housing rewards from the 'Dragon and the Storm' instance were smaller than intended, and are now slightly larger. This affects the Dragon and the Storm Painting, Tapestry, Chair, and Hearth items.
  
• Items and Rewards
  
• The following items will now go into the Junk Item Carry-alls: Jade Gemstones, Mithril Dust, Old Arrowheads, and Ancient Spearheads.
  
• Ornamental PvMP appearances from the recent event reward track should now correctly take clothing dyes.
  
• Osgiliath instance cluster equipment should now have an appropriate minimum level requirement when it fails to scale correctly to your character's level.
  
• Newly acquired Adventurer's lootbox gear, for level 150 characters, will now scale to item level 521 - 523.
  
• The following skill/emote granting items received from the Treasure Hunt event will now disenchant into Buried Treasure Tokens for those who have already earned the skills/emotes: Cave-claw Steed, Rich!, Treasure Laden Goat, Treasure Laden Steed, Counterfeit, Gem Inspection, Coin Flip, Dowse, and Gold Panning.
  

PvMP/Ettenmoors

• Fixed a bug with the radar where Players and Monster Players would be labeled as a Warband instead of a Glory Seeker.
  
• The Armies of the Coldfells and Mount Gram have both called upon some of their allies to strengthen the area immediately outside their main bases.
  
• Effects which confer immunity to slows should now work more reliably.
  
• Monster Player ratings from items and traits have been increased from item level 515 to item level 520 equivalent values.
  
• Audacity Incoming Damage buff for both Free Peoples and Monster Players has been increased from x0.55 to x0.5 (this means you will take approximately 10% less damage than before).
  
• Monster Player DPS has been increased approximately 4.5%.
  
• Chests of Gramsfoot and Glan Vraig should now correctly reward you only with items relevant to your side of the war.
  
• Chests of the First Marshal and Second Marshal have been deprecated. If you happen to have any of these keys, they can be exchanged at Quartermaster Ash for a portion of their original Token of Valour cost.
  
• The quest 'Valourous' is now a daily quest. After completing the quest for the day, you may barter for more keys at an increased cost.
  
• Orc Reaver
  
• Reduced Thrash Tier 3 Damage by 25%.
  
• Increased Jagged Wound DoT Damage by 50%.
  
• Increased Mutilation DoT Damage by 60%.
  
• Blade Toss now Stuns rather than Knocks Down your target.
  
• Blade Toss's positional angle has been reduced from 160 degrees to 120 degrees. This means you must be more directly behind your opponent when using Blade Toss in order for its positional effects to apply.
  
• Reduced auto attack damage by 20%.
  
• Increased most skill damage by 15% (excludes thrash, blade toss, gut punch, and impale).
  
• Blinding Dust now multiplied Outgoing Melee and Ranged Damage by x0.1 (-10% from baseline) and Tactical Damage by x0.975 and has no impact on miss chance.
  
• Disarm duration reduced from 5s > 3s.
  
• Disarm is no longer an Immediate Skill.
  
• Severing Strike is now an Immediate Skill.
  
• Defiler
  
• Increasing Efflorescence Base range to 15m; enhanced range to 30m.
  
• Efflorescence base cooldown increased 20s > 45s.
  
• Efflorescence healing increased by 166%.
  
• Fire Gourd and Explosive Gourd Damage reduced by 20%.
  
• Plague Gourd Damage tripled (+200%).
  
• Plague Gourd cooldown increased from 8s > 16s.
  
• Tenderize's daze effect now has a 10s base duration and 100% chance to daze.
  
• Tenderize cooldown increased from 5s > 15s.
  
• Enhanced Blessing of Darkness trait now negates 50% of absorbed damage.
  
• Blessing of Darkness can no longer be interrupted while channeling. It can still be broken by movement or crowd control.
  
• Boon of Toxic Flesh cooldown increased from 20s > 45s.
  
• Boon of the Blackened Heart duration reduced from 30s > 5s.
  
• Boon of the Blackened Heart Damage buff increased from 7.5% > 25%.
  
• Boon of the Blackened Heart cooldown increased from 20s > 45s.
  
• Frugal cursing now reduces Boon and Curse cooldowns by 5s.
  
• New trait: Ancient Boons causes your boons to apply a more potent buff for the first 5 second.
  
• New skill: in Curse-shouter, Efflorescence becomes Miasma, a long-induction skill that deals damage to enemies within 10m of the defiler. Within 6m of the defiler, Stinging Spores explode on their targets, dealing potent instant damage and healing the defiler.
  
• Fell Restoration Power cost increased 30%.
  
• The Trait 'Enhanced Skill: Fell Sacrifice' now improves Fell Restoration instead. It reduces the cooldown of Fell Restoration by 10s and reduces its Power cost by 15%.
  
• Fell Sacrifice cooldown reduced to 2s.
  
• New skill: Acrid Salts, a single-target combat revive with a 3m cooldown.
  
• Warleader
  
• New trait, Clinging Fear: causes your shouts to have a 30% chance to apply 'Clinging Fear' to your target. Your melee skills will transform this clinging fear into a potent damage over time effect.
  
• Quitters Never Win cooldown reduced from 3m to 60s.
  
• Quitters Never Win active CD reduction (from Quit Whining and Crack the Whip) reduced from -10s to -2s.
  
• Get a Grip Healing increased.
  
• Several area of effect heals now apply only to the war-band (6-player group) of the skill's target. This does reduce area of effect out-of-group healing considerably but will also give you much greater control of who is healed by these group-heal skills within groups.
  
• On Your Feet now revives only 3 targets.
  
• On Your Feet is now a targeted skill with 20m range. It will revive up to 3 targets in a 15m radius around your selection.
  
• All Melee skills now cost no Power and restore some Power when used.
  
• Power cost increased moderately for healing skills and some shouts.
  
• New skill: Scold Slackers: out-of-combat revive. 30 meter range, 3 second cooldown.
  
• New skill: White-hot Whip (Brawler version of 'Crack the Whip' is a 10 meter range melee skill).
  
• New skill: Condemned (Brawler version of 'On Your Feet' is a targeted and potent debuff).
  
• New skill: Cleave (Commander version of 'Cleave' heals the fellowship for each target hit).
  
• New skill: Petty Criticism is a weak instant healing skill in Commander stance, and a weak, low-cooldown Shout in Brawler stance.
  
• New skill: Scorn is a more potent Single-target heal with a short induction, and a moderately damaging shout in Brawler stance.
  
• New skill: War-forged Uruk (sets incoming damage to 10% and tiers up another defensive buff if you continue to be targeted while active).
  
• New skill: Marching Orders applies a tiered corruption, which is either defensive or offensive depending on your current stance.
  
• New skill: Roaring/Crushing Shield (heals self and debuffs enemy in commander; buffs offense in brawler).
  
• New Brawler skill: Mobilize > Ambush grants your war-band +20% speed and critical chance. this effect is removed upon being hit by an attacker.
  
• Mobilize speed buff now gives +40% speed for 10s.
  
• Imposing Presence now heals 7.5% of Maximum Morale of affected allies when cast.
  
• Banners of Terror and Horror are now usable in combat by default.
  
• Banners of Terror and Horror now last 30 second.
  
• Banners of Terror and Horror now share a 2m cooldown.
  
• Banners of Terror and Horror now apply a more potent effect lasting 10s to enemies around the Warleader.
  
• Banner of Terror now deals 7.5% Power Damage to nearby enemies.
  
• Banner of Horror now deals 5% Morale Damage to nearby players.
  
• Command Post and Point Defence no longer have inductions.
  
• Command Post and Point Defence now last 45s.
  
• Command Post and Point Defence now share a 2m 30s cooldown.
  
• Command Post and Point Defence now apply a more potent effect lasting 10s to group members around the Warleader.
  
• Aura of Command buff now improves all Damage types by 20% (previously buffed Melee Damage by 25%).
  
• The trait 'Lead the Charge' now reduces all Banner skill cooldowns by 30s. (known issue: this currently displays in-game as -30s inductions, rather than cooldowns).
  

Landscape

• Texture issues in Umbar Mokh have been resolved.
  
• Z-fighting issues in Umbar Mokh have been resolved.
  
• Floating asset issues in Umbar Mokh have been resolved.
  
• Misc decor placement issues have been resolved.
  
• Misc stuck spots have been resolved.
  

Localization

• GERMAN: Several VO lines from Blackroot Vale, Gondor Renewed and Umbar are now playing correctly in German.
  
• FRENCH: The command "/jdr oui" will now properly indicate that the player is roleplaying.
  

Miscellaneous

• Character Select Screen - Avatar Update Visible checkbox is only visible for avatar races that use it. These races are currently only Dwarves and Hobbits.
  
• Barber Shop panel is now larger.
  
• Barber Shop panel can now be dynamically scaled.
  
• Character panel can now be dynamically scaled.
  
• System Menu and Options panel can now be dynamically scaled.
  
• We plan on releasing more hair styles for the Elves in the future.
  

Known Issues:

• Known issue: Certain hats for Elves have a hair gap.
  
• The Minstrel and Mariner instruments available from instance cluster barter were set to item level 520. They should be item level 525. This will be fixed in a future patch.
  
• The legendary quality set item rings, bracelets, and earrings availble from instance cluster barter were accidentally set to have a disenchant value. This will be removed in a future patch.
  
• Some bows and a club dropping in the instance cluster were set to common damage type instead of Westernesse or Beleriand damage. This will be fixed in a future patch.
  
• Some bows dropping in the instance cluster are lacking the option to disenchant into Embers. This will be corrected in a future patch.
  

Update 41.3 Release Notes

Legacy of Morgoth is now available to pre-purchase!

News and Notes:

• Veil of the Nine
  
• Nazgul Marks now last up to one hour to create larger windows for special event formats. The mark will still be removed when a reward is acquired.
  
• Nazgul are now immune to Forced Taunt effects.
  
• Year of the Dragon
  
• Fixed some issues with monster summons and stats in the solo and duo versions of this instance. Solo enemy morale has gone up ~15% but enemy defences have been reduced slightly.
  
• The Solo/Duo enemy enhancement buff is now visible to players.
  
• Avatars of War no longer summon group-difficulty shades in solo/duo.
  
• Ragrekhul no longer summons group-difficulty Grims in solo/duo.
  
• Hard Tack Event
  
• An issue that was causing the event to get out of sync has been addressed.
  
• Title descriptions have been adjusted to match the new number of completions needed to earn them in the Hard Tack event. We have also addressed a typo.
  
• There should no longer be an errant broadcast occurring in the Hard Tack event space. Additionally, all event announcements should occur in the event space proper.
  
• All Crafted food should now correctly display the correct duration.
  
• Birds collected while Birding are not intended to be trade-able. They should auto-consume and add to your Collections panel. In the rare cases where these birds do appear in inventory, they will now be bound to character, and can simply be used from inventory.
  
• On Mordor and Angmar, the adventures of Bingo Boffin can now be completed through "A Change of Name". Further quests will unlock once the level cap increases.
  
• Force Taunts can once again overwrite one another without waiting for the active force taunt to expire on your target.
  
• Fixed a typo on the radar where Players & Monster Players would be labeled as Warband instead of Glory Seeker.
  
• The Rune-keeper skill Fulgurite Rune-stone FX is now affected by the Enable Avatar Hit Effects game option.
  
• The Monster Player Reward Track - Season 1 will be temporarily re-enabled for final advancement and claims starting at 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) on October 3rd for thirty days. The end time count down should now correctly display in the reward track as well.
  

Update 41.2 Release Notes

Of Special Note:

Before the Shadow is now free - and a free coupon!

We're celebrating the Year of the Dragon with a new free Instance - and a free coupon!

Lootboxes and Filbert Fig have been updated!

News and Notes:

Classes and Skills:

• For all classes, the inherent threat multiplier for non-tank specializations has been reduced slightly.
  
• In update 41, a change was made to Force Taunts to prevent players from chaining taunts together. However, without broader changes to the threat system overall, this had a net negative impact, and has been reverted. Force taunts should once again overwrite one another as you are accustomed to.
  
• Brawler
  
• Strike to the Sky no longer knocks enemies upwards in PvMP.
  
• Captain
  
• Reform the Lines no longer has an uncapped target count. It is now a fellowship-wide effect, in line with other group heals.
  
• In the U41.1 healing adjustment, Valour heals were not compensated. The missed ~11% compensatory bump has now been added to Valour heals.
  
• Champion
  
• The Rend bleed and the Punishing Blow bleed will no longer overwrite one another.
  
• Hunter
  
• Trait 'Pathfinder' now properly displays it's percentage increases inside it's tooltip.
  
• Lore-master
  
• Corrected an issue with the Spirit pet's 'Nature's Bounty' effect description.
  
• Call to the Valar no longer erroneously resets the cooldown of Gust of Wind/Burning Gale.
  
• Lore-master pets now take a further -20% Incoming Damage when summoned while specialized in the Ancient Master.
  
• Sticky Gourd no longer reapplies the Burning Embers DoT for its duration: it will apply or tier up an existing Embers DoT once, when applied. Sticky Gourd's uptime was greatly overshadowing Gust of Wind, which was less efficient and requires non-trivial trait investment to help spread the Embers DoT in AoE situations.
  
• Deep Graspers can heal once again.
  
• You may now safely use the skill 'The Ancient Master' while you currently have one 'Ancient Master' charge. Using the skill while you had a single charge was breaking the skill and leaving you with 5 charges but without your skills being modified by them. This has been corrected, so the Ancient Master should function as intended regardless of the status of your current Ancient Master charges.
  
• Ring of Fire's 'barrier' Damage has been reduced in PvMP.
  
• Nature's Fury is now a cleansable Wound effect.
  
• The Eagle's major skill 'Fan the Flames' no longer tries to tier up any existing Burning Embers DoT on the target. This effect was experiencing issues and at times applied a version of Burning Embers that dealt 0-1 Damage. Where it previously tried to tier up an Embers DoT, it now deals bonus instant Damage each time it pulses when a Burning Embers DoT is present on its target.
  
• The Raven skill 'Distraction' once again applies a version of the enrage effect that includes a 10% reduction to the target's Ranged Damage.
  
• Lightning-charged Staff Strike no longer erroneously benefits twice from the 'Staff Skill Damage' tracery bonus.
  
• Warden
  
• Warden's Desperate Combat is once again correctly disabled when your last charge is used up.
  

Crafting:

• Recipes for crafting Sea-farer's Crafted Essence Boxes, allowing selection of an item level 520 Sea-farer's Essence, has been automatically granted to Umbar tier Cooks, Jewelers, Metalsmiths, Scholars, Tailors, Weaponsmiths, and Woodworkers.
  

Events:

• Hard Tack Event
  
• There is now a message in Ered Luin that the Hard event starts in 10 minutes, and another message that the event begins in 5 minutes.
  
• There is now a message in the event space that the Hard Tack Event has begun.
  
• There is now a message in the event space that the Hard Tack Event will end in 15 minutes.
  
• There is now a message in the event space that the Hard Tack Event will end in 10 minutes.
  
• There is now a message in the event space that the Hard Tack Event will end in 5 minutes.
  
• There is now a message in the event space that the Hard Tack Event has ended.
  
• Accomplishment completions for the competitor rewards for Prospectors and Cooks reduces to 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 for each tier.
  
• Mining nodes now require the use of a mining pick in the event space.
  
• Recipes should now all execute at 1 second.
  
• Using the oven now requires the use of Cooking Supplies in the event space.
  
• Using the oven now has a 25 second induction reduced by eating the foods crafted in the event space as with other inductions in the event.
  
• Duration of effects granted by all crafted food is now 4 minutes to match the cooldown on using the food.
  
• Ore extracted from the nodes now remains available for collection for 120 seconds instead of 90 seconds.
  
• Forester Event
  
• The final reward on the Forester event has been increased to 20 Participation Ribbons.
  
• The Veil of the Nine
  
• Nazgul will no longer reset their vitals on leaving combat.
  

Monster Play:

• Reward titles for monster players and for players now have purchase restrictions blocking players from errantly repurchasing a title they already acquired.
  
• Lainedhal's Insignia should no longer remove beneficial effects from store purchases when used, the effects should instead be briefly suppressed.
  
• Lainedhal's Insignia now has a cooldown timer equal to the Tyrant's Brand.
  
• There were a number of quests in the Ettenmoors allowing players to use Mithril to travel. The Mithril travel has been disabled.
  
• Increasing Monster Player health by 5%.
  
• Increased the mitigation bonus for almost all blessings (more offensive blessing receive a greater benefit - Ongburz mitigations technically reduced a very small amount).
  
• Increased damage bonus for Scara and Krahjarn blessings by 5% and 10% respectively.
  
• Increased DoT Damage bonus of Shelob blessing by 5%.
  
• Increased Physical Mastery bonus from the Ongburz blessing.
  
• Corrected Lugazag and TR ingress/egress flags so that only the appropriate side may interact with their banners.
  
• Glory-seeking should no longer allow stealth.
  

Questing and Adventure Areas:

• The Eryn Lasgalen quest Mending the Mirkwood can now once again be completed. PLEASE NOTE: Players who logged out with Mending the Mirkwood in progress will need to re-accept the quest and start it over due to the required versioning to address the issue.
  
• The following quests in Cardolan have had their level changed from 20 to 25: Dousing the Flaming Farm, Farmer Hove's Tools, Goblins in Haudh Narui, and A Report for Taeras.
  
• The Rift of Nûrz Ghâshu
  
• Some Rift Iron and Obsidian barter items have been added to Rift chest containers. This is so raid groups (where you can not earn these items from defeating enemies) are still able to earn some of these currencies.
  
• Thrang's Sword and Thaurlach's Broken Chain Link now drop from their corresponding chest containers, so you will only receive one of each per victory, which will also be obtainable by raid groups.
  
• UI:
  
• Custom names for Carry-alls now display properly in shared storage, vault, and housing storage. Note that alphabetical sorting will continue to sort according to the default carry-all name.
  
• Miscellaneous:
  
• Rivendell level 50 consumable potions now have their intended Shadow and Fire Mitigation typing.
  
• Added public layering to several of the early regions of our game that were not previously covered. This should help prevent severe mobbing and perf issues during Nazgul encounters or other crowd events in these areas.
  
• There were a number of quests in the Ettenmoors allowing players to use mithril to travel. The mithril travel has been disabled.
  

Update 41.1 Release Notes

News and Notes:

Veil of the Nine Legendary Servers

• We have made changes to the conditions in which a lesser wraith can spawn:
  
• When a player is in an instance and NOT in a Fellowship, no lesser wraiths can spawn. This means that solo/story instances will no longer be interrupted by wraiths, but note that joining a group with another player will still re-enable wraith spawns.
  
• While you are in a group with at least one other player, even if that player is not nearby, lesser wraiths are re-enabled inside of instances.
  
• The chance for a wraith to spawn has been reduced by half.
  
• The wraith spawn cooldown has been updated to 7 minutes.
  
• Being attacked by a wraith now prevents you from spawning an additional wraith when the first is killed. Note that if you are not struck by the wraith, you may still spawn a new one, so you might still see multiple in a row if you're ganging up on them.
  
• Wraiths below level 20 now remove their corruption when they spawn. Players at level 20 and above all have access to Corruption removal, and will be expected to handle these corruptions through skills.
  
• Low-level wraiths now use shadow bolts less frequently.
  

Forester Event - Rewards

• We adjusted the rewards on the Forester Crafting event. Delivering the refined wood to Aldith awards 10 participation ribbons. Delivering the refined hides to Aldith awards 10 participation ribbons. Lastly, completing the caber race awards an additional 10 participation ribbons.
  

Classes

• Beornings and Captains healing at low levels has been corrected. Both of these classes were found to be erroneously using a pre-stat-crunch base healing curve. The effect of this bug is increasingly diminished at higher player levels, at low levels, both classes were healing much, much more than their intended values. At level 50, healing was more than 850% higher than intended. Low-level healing has now been brought back into its intended range.
  
• Beorning Healing increased 11% across the board to counteract the effect (which is about ~10% at level 150) of the above bug fix for level capped players. At level 150, your healing should now be slightly higher than it was before this change.
  
• Nature's Mend Healing increased a further 17%.
  
• Maul / Aid the Assault Healing increased a further 44%.
  
• Captain Healing increased 11% across the board to counteract the effect (which is about ~10% at level 150) of the above bug fix for level capped players. At level 150, your healing should now be slightly higher than it was before this change.
  
• The Exhaustion effect that follows To Arms, West Wind, and SotW: Protection now properly applies when the first of these effects expires on a character. That means that even if multiple effects are used on you at the same time, you will become Exhausted when one of them expires, even if that effect has been temporarily suppressed by another.
  
• Lore-master
  
• Ancient Master stacks should now be removed on defeat.
  
• Lore-master special cosmetic pets will no longer prevent you from summoning a combat pet.
  
• Pet command skills and 'Call to' skills will now apply their beneficial and pet effects even if their initial skill hit is resisted.
  
• Raven's Fear No Darkness no longer applies its heal twice.
  
• Ancient Master's Brittle Frost (applied by Gust of Wind) now applies its effects properly.
  
• The Bear pet's Shatter Arms debuff tooltip no longer shows a duplicate line for Melee Damage.
  
• Yellow-line Lynx and Lurker Minor Command debuffs are now additive, rather than multiplicative, Incoming Damage debuffs.
  
• Remmorchant Armour once again improves the potency of Water Lore's incoming healing buff.
  
• Wild Sigils will always be applied to your companion, even if the damging component is resisted by your target.
  
• Wizard's Fire no longer consumes flanks, but will always restore a small amount of Power when used.
  
• Insult to Injury effects now have proper descriptions rather than DNT.
  
• Lore-master Combat Pet cosmetic tomes purchased with Mithril Coins now have accurate minimum level requirements.
  
• Sign of the Wild: Protection cooldowns now match player command skill cooldown. These pet skills should always be off-cooldown when your corresponding player skill is available.
  
• Rune-keeper
  
• The Incoming Crit debuff applied by Flurry of Winter is now called Brittle Frost.
  

Miscellaneous:

• We updated the title of the Bree-land birding accomplishment to remove a typo.
  
• All movement boosting skills and effects should now be suppressed during the Farmers Faire Egg Scramble and Mushroom Hunt experiences.
  
• Game Launcher: the -password command line parameter should work once again.
  
• We have fixed the issue preventing the 'Protector of Life' title to bestow on players purchasing the item.
  
• Monster Player Rewards related to the Season of Strife Reward Track available on the barter vendor were mistakenly blocking monster players from purchase. This has been rectified.
  
• We addressed an issue where items in the Thorin's Hall Hard Tack Event could not be picked up.
  
• Kinship naming rules have been adjusted to allow some common words including steward, merry, and green to be used. These words still will not be allowed as character names.
  
• Fixed a number of Tier 5 crafted items which were still set to item level higher than 50. Crafted gear from this tier should cap out at item level 50.
  
• Adjusted low-level essences (level 50 - 95) which now give slightly less stats so as not to outshine unique expansion pieces in the 50-85 level range.
  
• Reintroduced some level 50 items back into reward tables on rare monsters.
  
• Lava damage in "The Rift of Nûrz Ghâshu" is now much more deadly.
  
• Most level 45-50 monsters found in group/challenge areas now have slightly improved stats.
  
• Most rare (shard dropper) monsters found in level 50 areas now have improved stats.
  
• Skirmish camps will no longer allow you to barter for Carn Dûm and Urugarth class items until the server's level cap is at least 60.
  
• Skirmish camps will no longer allow you to barter for rare crafting shards until the server's level cap is at least 85.
  
• The Eryn Lasgalen quest Cleansing the Mirkwood is once again completable.
  
• Ironfold and higher tiers of crafted Light and Fire oils have had the names of their effect changed to match each other.
  
• Several Raid and Instance Items have had their names adjusted to better fit the appearance of the item.
  
• "Emerald Belt Buckle Recipe" now has a proper icon for its tier of crafting as well as a proper description.
  
• Jill Brushwood at the Combe Crafting Hall in Bree-land will now talk to you about the quest Builders, Bookworms, and Blacksmiths.
  
• The Farmers Faire Restocking the Market quests will now correctly advance the daily festival wrapper A Sunny Faire Day.
  
• Fixed an animation issue with Champion's Brutal Strikes/Ferocious Strikes.
  
• An issue has been corrected with the male race of Men, Beorning, and River-hobbit only animating above the waist.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the dismount animation to get stuck in a loop for female Race of Men, Beorning, and River-hobbit characters.
  

Two New VIP Legendary Worlds Have Arrived – Angmar and Mordor!

What are Angmar and Mordor?

How do the nameless wraiths and Nazgul appear?

• Receive the Mark of the Nazgul in battle with them.
  
• Be within five levels of the current server cap.
  
• Be logged in within a few minutes of the Nazgul’s defeat.
  

What do I get for defeating these wraiths?

What is this about the lesser Rings of Power?

Frequently Asked Questions:

What is the current level cap of Angmar and Mordor?

Is PvMP available on Angmar and Mordor?

What happens when Angmar and Mordor reach the same level cap as the rest of the game?

Is Landscape Difficulty available on Angmar and Mordor?

Where will Ringwraiths and Lesser Wraiths appear?

When will Ringwraiths appear?

How do I know a Ringwraith has appeared in the world?

How long do the Ringwraiths appear if they are not defeated?

Can I play instances and skirmishes on the Legendary server?

What happens if I am no longer VIP but want to access Angmar and Mordor?

Will the 64-bit servers come to the rest of the game worlds?

If I am not located in Europe can I play on the Mordor server?

If I am located in Europe can I play on Angmar?

What will happen to the other European-recommended game worlds (Sirannon, Belegaer, etc?)

What is the difference between a Legendary server and a standard server?

Can I access the LOTRO Store on the Legendary server?

Will I get anniversary gifts when I make a new character?

Can I transfer my Shared Account items from a Legendary server to a non-Legendary server?

If I purchase an account-based service or item from the LOTRO Store on the Legendary server, does it apply to the non-Legendary servers as well?

Do I need to download a different game client to play on the Legendary server?

Will legendary weapons be available on the Legendary server?

Does the Legendary server have festivals and anniversary events like the other worlds?

Can I use character boosts on the Legendary server?

If I previously purchased Expansions or Quest Packs, will I be able to access them on Legendary once the server progresses to them?

Is the Legendary server a “Classic” or “Vanilla” server?