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• Find Your Sea-legs With The Mariner
  
• Chart your own course with the Mariner, slashing through foes with slick swordplay, belting out rousing sea-shanties, and pulling off crafty moves that'll have enemies spinning in confusion.
  
• Explore the Shores of Umbar
  
• Discover the bustling Corsair haven, where sun-kissed shores meet the shadows of dark-bannered ships, and tales of legendary raids echo through its vibrant ports.
  
• Fight Fierce New Enemies
  
• From the striking coastlines of Outer Gondor to the sandy stretches of The Shield Isles, untold dangers and formidable adversaries lie in wait!
  
• Over 350 Unique Quests
  
• Venture deep into Umbar's heart, navigating political intrigues and ancient mysteries, as the formidable Kindred of the Coins rise, threatening the fragile peace King Elessar and Queen Arwen have fought so hard to achieve.
  
• Unique End Game Content
  
• Charge into an increased level 150 cap, dive into pulse-pounding instances, and gain access to an exciting new raid; prepare for an adventure like no other!
  
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News and Notes:

The Mariner:

• Mariners are confident melee fighters who wield swords deftly to challenge the forces of evil. Mariners have an innate sense of the flow of combat, and use their balance to adjust their fighting style to best fit the moment. Mariners also know how to use combinations of individual movements to create powerful skill chains. In fellowships, Mariners can use shanties to coordinate and motivate their allies, as well as craft strange concoctions to confound and disrupt foes.
  
• Balance - Mariner's use a forward-backward system called Balance. In that system, your three main states are 'Aftward' 'Steady' and 'Foreward.' You will default to a 'Steady' state, and the skills you use will push your balance Foreward or Aftward. Watch out, though! If you find yourself too far to either end of the balance spectrum, you become unbalanced, and will need to quickly move back towards Steady, lest you find yourself penalized for remaining off-balance.
  
• Swordplay - Mariners are practiced melee combatants, and their swordplay skills can be used to create chains of skill combos. Every individual swordplay skill will give you a short buff of your 'last used' swordplay skill, which will enhance one or more other swordplay skills. For example, using 'Thrust' will improve Step-back or Advance, if you use one of those directly after Thrust. On the Thrust skill tooltip, you'll also notice that it says 'Advance applies a bleed' in red text. That indicated that there is a trait in the red-line tree which will give Thrust that swordplay combo effect. Swordplay effects only impact your 'next used' swordplay skill. So if you use Riposte then Blade Shield, the Blade Shield swordplay combo effect will overwrite the one gained from Riposte. However, non-swordplay skills will not overwrite these effects, so you can use Haversack skills or Shanty skills without breaking a Swordplay combo chain.
  
• The Mariner has 3 trait specializations: The Shanty-caller, The Duellist, and The Rover:
  
• The Shanty-caller - The shanty-caller is a group-support specialist, with a focus on maximizing group damage. This line is built as a direct counterpart to the Captain's Master of War red-line. Specializing in the Shanty-caller tree gives you access to a number of otherwise-unavailable shanty skills, and will make all of your shanties more potent. Skills like the West Wind and Guided by the Stars will benefit your group, while skills like Marked Foes and the Breaking of Thangorodrim will cause your enemies to take more damage from all of your allies.
  
• The Duellist - The duellist is a flexible melee fighter, focused on maximizing your own damage output, while retaining a flexible kit of skills to help you avoid damage and escape unwinnable engagements. A duellist sacrifices most of the group-support potential found in other specializations, but gains much-improved swordplay damage and effectiveness.
  
• The Rover - The Rover is a group-support specialist, with a focus on controlling and debuffing enemies, and helping to keep the group alive. This line is a direct counterpart to the Lore-master's Ancient Master and the Burglar's Mischief-maker specializations. Specializing in the Rover tree will give you access to a number of potent debuffing and CCing skills which are otherwise unavailable. Though the Rover still gains several unique swordplay combos, most of their unique skills and effects are gained from Haversack skills.​
  

Classes:

• Buff Interactions:
  
• Oathbreakers Shame, The Breaking of Thangorodrim, and Murder of Crows Incoming Damage debuffs no longer stack with one another. The 'Oaths Fulfilled' effect has been renamed to 'Renewed Defences' and will prevent another potent debuff from being applied for 45 seconds.
  
• Caustic Brew, Ancient Craft, and Trickster each apply 'Major Rent Armour' and will not stack with one another.
  
• Pitch Pot and Sticky Tar each apply 'Minor Rent Armour' and will not stack with one another.
  
• Beorning
  
• Improved Nature's Wrath should now correctly give 10 Wrath while dual wielding.
  
• Greater Bee Swarm should leave the regular bee swarm DoT behind when it expires.
  
• Beorning armour is now correctly bartered from heavy rather than medium armour vendors in skirmish camps.
  
• Burglar:
  
• Trickster tricks now apply Major Rent Armour, reducing all enemy mitigations by 10% for 20 seconds.
  
• Location is Everything now increases Critical Chain Skills Damage rather than causing those skills to ignore some enemy Mitigations.
  
• Champion:
  
• Champion's Advantage now increases Blade Skills Damage rather than causing those skills to ignore some enemy Mitigations.
  
• Damage for Champion Blade skills has been increased by 8%.
  
• Damage for Champion Strike skills has been increased by 20%.
  
• Guardian:
  
• Bolstering Blocks can now only proc once per second. This entirely passive heal was capable of generating more HPS than intended for the guardian, and was not in line with reactive healing available to other tank specializations.
  
• Damage for most Guardian skills has been reduced by 5%.
  
• Rupture has been corrected to a 10 second duration at slightly reduced potency (10% max).
  
• Negative combat states will no longer remove the Guardian's Protection by the Shield toggle skill.
  
• Hunter:
  
• Bodkin Arrows now increases Induction Skill Damage rather than causing Hunter skills to ignore some enemy Mitigations.
  
• Damage for most Hunter skills has been increased by 15%.
  
• Lore-master:
  
• Murder of Crows debuff is now 10% Miss Chance but 20% Incoming Damage, and does not stack with Oathbreakers or the Breaking of Thangorodrim.
  
• Ancient Craft now removes 5% of all enemy Mitigations, rather than Armour rating. Enfeeble will increase this amount to 15% for 10 seconds and 10% thereafter.
  
• Forester Event:
  
• All movement bonuses are now suppressed as they should be.
  
• The synching issue with the event should be solved.
  
• All of the forester tools that can be made and upgraded as part of the event have been made account bound.
  
• The forester event will now run, regardless of participants, every 21 minutes.
  
• The quest for the forester event will no longer invoke the mithril coin reset on failure or cancelling.
  
• There was an odd race condition in the quest that could cause the quest to fail in the second step. This has been rectified.
  
• Guardians were able to bypass the speed restrictions in the forester event with Sprint. This has been remedied.
  

Miscellaneous:

• The Pure Seagull cosmetic pet now sounds like a seagull.
  
• Several avatar clothing models that had missing textures and were displaying as white are now fixed.
  
• War-steed combat fidgets now correctly play only in combat.
  
• Level 130 Shrews should no longer be able to sneak into 'Instance: Humble Beginnings'.
  
• Sarabeth Lowbanks has found her name again.
  
• The following emote animations have been updated for River Hobbits to use hobbit versions of these animations: Cheer, Laugh (lol), Mock, Wave.
  

Known Issues:

• The French language version of the Mariner introductory video in character generation has a freezing issue. The video will transition back to character  creation or players can cancel the video without issue.
  
• Mariner Known Issues:
  
• Mariner Pot Skills list incorrect effect durations (Caustic Brew, Fire Pot, Pitch Pot and Sludge Pot).
  
• There are currently some tooltip issues with the traits 'Test Defences', 'Rare Ingredients' and the skill 'Belly of Brine' not displaying properly.
  
• Mariner Class Deed 'Spitting Techniques' is not properly advancing when 'Breath of Ice' is used.
  
• Mariner skills 'Advance' & 'Sweeping Advance' display "Dramatic Flourish Critical Magnitude Buff" but should display "Dramatic Flourish Critical Buff Potency".
  

Update 37 Release Notes

Of Special Note:

Introducing the River Hobbit​

The Humble Homes of the Holbytlan​

Forester Crafting Event - Begins September 15th!

News and notes:

• Outside of the Prancing Pony in Bree
  
• Near the Stable Masters outside of the 21st Hall
  
• Just inside of the exit of Post-Raid Archet
  
• Just outside of Mossward
  
• Along the road Northward out of Celondim
  
• Just outside the door to Thorin's Hall
  
• Down the road from the Hobbit starter area exit waypoint
  

• Several player stun-removal skills were inappropriately flagged as 'Immediate' causing them to occasionally cancel themselves and fail to free you from stuns. These skills are now correctly 'Fast' rather than 'Immediate' skills.
  
• High Elf, Beorning, and Stout Axe Dwarf racial recall skills can now be used while mounted on any steed.
  
• Beorning
  
• The Beorning Trait "Battle Born" now correctly gives additional critical damage for off-hand weapons.
  
• Brawler
  
• The Brawler mounted combat skill "Take Breath" will now properly update the incoming healing rating when active.
  
• Innate Strength: Raw Power
  
• Fixed description of the trait to state that it grants +2.5/+5/+7.5/+10%.
  
• No change was made to the actual bonus granted by the trait, This is purely a tooltip change to have it reflect real values.
  
• Tracery Innate Strength: Damage/Threat
  
• Skill bonus has been modified [+10%->+5%], but is now added directly to the value of Innate Strength: Raw Power buff, which makes it considerably more effective than it was previously.
  
• Burglar
  
• Aim skill now works with 'Throw Knife'.
  
• Captain
  
• Fighting Withdrawal can now be used while rooted to free yourself.
  
• The class deed "Fear the Darkness" should now properly advance even if "Courageous Convocation" is traited.
  
• Captain skill "Defensive Strike" is now properly affected by the tracery "Single Target Attack Damage".
  
• The buff from Inspire: Self-motivation should now correctly overwrite itself rather than failing to apply when you still have a few seconds of duration remaining from your previous skill use.
  
• Champion
  
• Blood Rage and Continuous Blood Rage are now both correctly labeled Fast, rather than Immediate, skills. This prevents you from accidentally double-clicking the skill and putting it on cooldown without gaining the CC-removal effect.
  
• Tracery Swift Strike: Damage & Power Cost
  
• Renamed to Swift Strike/Blade: Damage & Power Restore
  
• Tracery now increases the Power restored by Swift Strike rather than reducing the (now non-existent) Power cost. Magnitude changed from [-33%->+20%].
  
• Guardian
  
• The Cardolan Essence of Retaliation effects' durations no longer benefit from the War-chant duration legacy.
  
• Lore-master
  
• Clever Escape is now a Fast skill. This prevents you from accidentally double-clicking the skill and putting it on cooldown without gaining the CC-removal effect.
  
•  Rune-keeper
  
• The skill "Do Not Fall this Day" no longer breaks the target of the skill out of Stealth.
  
• Warden
  
• "Forced March" will no longer be toggled off when you enter combat. It still only applies a bonus to your out of combat Run Speed.
  
• Seared Flesh now appropriately benefits from bonuses to your Fire Damage.
  
• Readied Blade's buff now provides Disarm Immunity for its duration.
  
• The trait 'Movement Training' now correctly increases Mitigation ratings from the Conviction and Dance of War buffs.
  
• Damage dealt by the trait 'Taking Advantage' increased.
  

• The crafting ingredients "Tuft of Torahammas' Fur", "Great Hoary Aurochs Hide" and "Speckled Shell Fragment" can now all be stored in crafting carryalls.
  
• Beasts in the Ettenmoors that drop crafting hides will now correctly drop Gundabad Hides instead of Eorlingas Hides.
  
• Crafters can now make two new tiers of selectable craftable essence boxes.
  
• Gundabad Skarn Deposits have been renamed to Brilliant Skarn Deposits.
  
• Frost-rimed Black Ash Branches have been renamed to Heavy Wind-swept Black Ash Branches.
  
• Items & Rewards
  
• The Homestead Steed can now be correctly placed on a hitching post by hobbit, dwarf, and Stout-axe dwarf characters.
  
• Might-based selection boxes no longer reference or contain medium armour.
  
• Many medium Might-based armour pieces obtained from quests from levels 1-75 have been updated from medium to heavy armour.
  
• Enemies in Moria no longer drop obsolete Legendary Item rewards.
  
• The Distillation set now properly identifies itself as a Distillation set and not a Crock Pot.
  
• Incomparable Earrings received from the 3-stack instances from Return to Carn Dûm have had the names of their set bonuses changed to reflect the stats given by the items in their groups.
  
• The "Dwarf-make Helm" cosmetic has been renamed to "Dwarf-make Circlet".
  
• The Champion Legendary Item Tracery "Brutal Strikes Damage" now only appears in The Berserker barter profiles.
  
• The decorative band on the Sightseer's Straw Hat will now correctly display dye colors.
  
• The weapon Candelleth's Hammer is now categorized correctly in the Auction House.
  
• The Veteran of Helm's Deep Quartermaster now offers items for Beornings and Brawlers.
  
• The Homestead Steed can now be used in Zirakzigil as well as in Caras Galadhon and other appropriate areas in Lothlórien.
  

• We have reworked the Landscape Difficulty setting system introduced originally to Treebeard and made it available as an option to the general game worlds!
  
• We've added a new Faction and reward structure called The Paths of Valour that can be advanced by playing on higher difficulties.
  
• You can activate your difficulty setting by speaking with the Hardened Traveller that can be found in major hubs and new player zones who will offer you an array of quests representing the different difficulty levels.
  
• Upon accepting and completing one of these quests, your challenges on the roads of Middle-earth will increase substantially.
  
• The difficulty system turns itself off in group instances (3+), in the Ettenmoors, and any time the Delving system is activated. It will reactivate when you leave any of these areas.
  
• There are titles available for activating a difficulty of 3 or higher and keeping it there from level 10 to level 50, and then to level 130 respectively. The title granted depends on the class you play through with, but can be used by any character on your account.
  
• In order to earn these titles, you must keep the difficulty system active for the entire leveling span from level 10 thru 50/130. Entering areas of the game world where it is temporarily suppressed will not invalidate your title attempt, however turning it down or off via the Hardened Traveller will.
  
• Existing characters above level 10 will not be able to earn the titles themselves, but will be able to use those titles if they are earned by another character on your account.
  
• When playing at Fearless or higher, enemies of your own level or higher may drop Tokens of Heroism.
  
• These can be turned in to complete weekly tasks from the Hardened Traveller, which will increase your reputation with the Paths of Valour faction.
  
• At Fearless difficulty (3-6), these tokens can drop for up to 3 members in a Fellowship.
  
• At Heroic difficulty (7+) they can drop for up to 6 members in a Fellowship.
  
• The drop rate of these tokens increases somewhat with higher difficulties.
  
• The difficulty settings and effects are pretty much the same as they were on Treebeard, though we've changed up the names a bit, and added a few variations to the hotspot effects you can encounter under the Eye of Sauron.
  
• The Hardened Traveller has a menu of barter rewards that include a small set of Reputation accelerators for the faction and Morale/Power potions. More importantly, he also offers an array of 8 new Epic variations of familiar emotes which you will be able to find on the Collections panel.
  

• Court of Celeborn now has a map.
  
• Floating objects in the Allegiance Halls and in Mordor have been grounded.
  
• Incorrect textures in Minas Tirith has been resolved.
  

• Stablemaster map text has been updated for the German game client.
  

• Delving Barter Vendors and Mission Givers have also been added to all our Skirmish Camps. We did this to make it easier to turn in delving quests no matter where players are. Delving Mission Givers have also been given that title as a role to make it easy to spot them.
  
• Created a Selectable Delving Extraordinary Box that only drops in instances at tiers 7+. While still rare, new instances have a significantly higher drop rate for this item.
  
• The Delving Tracery Archive Travel Skill no longer has any reputation requirements.
  
• Mission: Jorthkyn and the Hounds
  
• The Mission now appropriately identifies that you need to kill 8 wargs along with the 8 Jorthkyn to advance the quest.
  
• The Mission had some pesky low-level monsters that really wanted to get in on the fight. They have been reprimanded to stay in their lanes.
  
• Fixed an issue with the mission "Dangerous Deliveries" where the player would pick the pie up twice upon completing the induction to pick up the pie.
  
• The bridge in the mission Patrol the Township that was bereft of physics has found its physics and will now support your character as it should.
  
• Before the Shadow missions that referred to previous mission givers have been updated with references to current mission givers.
  
• The mission "The Nettinglade" had a single cocoon that decided it didn't want to sparkle. The spider responsible has been admonished and though it pledged to swallow all Light in the world, it relented and allowed it's cocoon to sparkle once again.
  
• Delving Reward Changes:
  
• Delving Selectable Crafting Boxes that drop at tier 7 and above can now be disenchanted instead for 20 Delvings Writs. These boxes now have a six hour expiration timer on them. These changes do not affect existing Crafting Boxes.
  
• Changed how many writs completing Delving quests give. Tier 1-3 now give 10 writs, Tier 4-6 give 20 writs, Tier 7-9 give 30 writs and Tier 10-12 give 40 writs.
  
• Two new cosmetic pets added to Delving Barter.
  
• Delving armour will now be disenchantable for more Delving Writs. Common armour will disenchant for 10 writs, rare armour will disenchant for 20 writs, incomparable armour for 30 writs.
  
• Added Tier 1 and Tier 2 Essence Boxes to the Delving Barter for Writs, and removed Tier 0.
  
• Added Morale and Power Potions to the Delving Barter for Writs. Morale and Power potions also drop as rewards from high tier instance Delving Chests.
  
• Delving Mission Givers in Skirmish Camps now give Weekly Delving Quests.
  
• Mission - Defilers in the Dale - Corrected a visual bug where the cauldron's contents and bubbles could become visibly offset after being destroyed.
  
• Rewards that drop from Delvings have been updated with new Delving-specific icons.
  

• We have adjusted the distribution of Infamy/Renown while grouped. In the past, there was a modifier that increased the value of player kills when more than 6 kill contributors were involved. This resulted in the value of a single kill, while in a raid, to be valued over 2x what the kill should have been worth.
  
• We have adjusted this modifier to make these values - in the absence of any other modifiers - equivalent to equal distribution of the infamy value of the kill.
  
• We have adjusted the bonus modifier to infamy/renown gains when killing ranked players. This change rewards a higher contribution bonus for killing players of a higher rank.
  
• The War-spoils Carry-all icons have been updated and no longer display a bottle of liquid
  
• Lootboxes found by monster players now always drop 3 items from three specific tables:
  
• Table 1 includes potions, barter lockboxes, and the potential for 500 commendations with weighting toward the barter box, and then equivalent draws for the remaining items.
  
• Table 2 includes an equal chance for random perk items from a pool of 5 items.
  
• The 3rd table has an equal chance to drop a single Audacity upgrade scroll, 2 Audacity upgrade scrolls, Lord's Symbols, Captain's Marks, 1k Commendations, 1.5k Commendations or a new Cosmetic Selection Box.
  
• The Cosmetic Selection Box contains 2 new skins for each class. Previews are available on NPCs present near the Gramsfoot retreat circle.
  
• The Selection Box also contains several new cosmetic weapons: Thrâng's Sword, a silvered scimitar, a spider-clan trident, an off-hand Gundabad mace, a Spider-clan staff, an Easterling Ghost Bow, and a new Dunharrow Shield.
  
• The Box also contains a new cosmetic type that can be slotted into appearance Corruptions to change the style of your 'March!' skill emitted effects. These include: a white glow, fire trail, acid trail, and a "blue-foot" trail.
  
• The eggs around Grodris in the Isendeep Mine will now hatch if disturbed during the battle against the matron.
  
• Fixed an issue with the first and second marshal rewards not providing keys to the chest. The quests for First and Second marshal now correctly reward the key to the chest.
  
• Tokens of Valour will now go into the War-spoils Carry-all.
  
• Updated the new Monster Play tutorial to reference using skills on training dummy Kelsen, Jalessa, or Light training-dummy Orion. If you choose the other training dummies you are locked in combat for the full duration of the spawn - which is five minutes. This is bad. Please use the safety dummies. Use those initial skill training dummy Kelsen, Jalessa, or Light training-dummy Orion.
  
• First Marshal An and Tyrant Uzulthrang are back in action and ready to rush Tol Ascarnen when the opposition is in control. The rewards on the quests to use these two is increased significantly. Each has also been buffed appropriately.
  
• All values and costs for Lainedhal's Insignias were reduced. You can now purchase the old versions for nostalgia, but the tier 15 version is available to all rank 1 players and better for 2000 commendations and has a 1m cooldown just as the monster player brand.
  
• The Rank 9 mount available in monster play now has a full +68% movement bonus because it should have been upgraded along with all other mounts that are this hard to get.
  
• We adjusted the damage done by Spider Hatchlings to be more in line with creatures that are level 140.
  
• There was a bug introduced when we lowered the cost of monster play potions where we did not lower the amount purchasable from the barter NPC. This has been corrected and now you can only purchase in stacks of three.
  
• Mazauk and Old Goldhead have been refreshed and stand ready to help you capture Lugazag or Tirith Rhaw.
  
• Old U21 gear was using old Audacity values. This has been reduced to 1.
  
• Freepside Ettenmoors quests now award considerably more IXP when completed.
  
• The Freepside weekly quest, 'Battle Across the Ettenmoors' now gives slightly improved rewards.
  
• Many monster player skill power costs have been adjusted. In particular, several healing skills cost substantially more power.
  
• The base critical heal multiplier for most Creepside heals has been reduced from 1.5 to 1.2.
  
• Increased damage of ranger session play skills.
  
• Orc Defiler
  
• Cooldowns reduced for Fertile Slime and Fungal Spores.
  
• Fungal Spores initial heal potency reduced.
  
• Enhanced Fungal Spores now rolls for a critical heal on each pulse, rather than following the critical outcome of the initial skill use.
  
• Fertile Slime no longer has an initial heal.
  
• Healing from Improved Blessing of Darkness now occurs every 1 second, rather than every 2 seconds.
  
• Constant Pain now pulses healing every 2 seconds, and will restore some power to the defiler when it does.
  
• Orc Reaver
  
• Blade Toss now only applies its slow and/or knockdown effects to targets facing away from you.
  
• Spider Weaver
  
• Several spider animations should no longer slow down when you gain attack speed buffs.
  
• Trapdoor Sanctuary now lasts 10 seconds; when traited, it will heal 5% of your max health each second.
  
• New Potions (of Bravery and Essence) are now correctly usable by the Free Peoples. 
  
• Insignias now have a 3 minute cooldown and provide 15 seconds of combat state immunity (Tyrant Brands still have a 1 minute cooldown and only provide 5 seconds of immunity for now).
  
• Alwuld the Item Trader now carries the updated Morale and Power potions.
  
• Potions of Essence now correctly restore different amounts of Power, according to their quality and rank requirements.
  

• Tier 4 of Gwathrenost, the Witch-king's Citadel is available.
  
• All slayer deeds in the Wells of Langflood, will now properly reward players with LOTRO Points.
  
• Gwathrenost, the Witch-king's Citadel - The final Objective of 'The Storming of Gwathrenost' now functions similarly to 'Into the Hiddenhoard, allowing the Player the choice of whether or not to abandon the quest after completing it. The option to complete the quest via the Quest Actions panel was causing some players to mistakenly erase their progress in a given reset cycle, so this has been removed.
  
• Azanulbizar - Quest: Death in the Dale - The quest guide for this quest has been corrected to highlight the proper area.
  
• Azanulbizar - Quest: Elusive Prey - The quest guide now properly highlights the general locations of all the Rare foes in Azanulbizar.
  
• Sagroth - The Sewer Water debuff that can be applied to players during the Gárvadach encounter now carries the resistance type "disease" instead of "corruption".
  
• Several fading or overlapping combat music bugs have been fixed in the Race of Man and hobbit tutorials, the Archet raid, and the Trouble at Tuckborough skirmish.
  

• The Allegiance panel can now be resized an additional horizontal distance.
  
• Certain Brawler Belt Buckles were appearing under the Lore-master class in searches in the Auction House. That has been fixed.
  
• Upgraded the compiler used to compile the 32 bit game client to make it compatible with upgraded OpenAL.
  
• Clydesdale mounts can now be used in Thorin's Hall and the Hall Under the Mountain
  
• The Assistant Stable-master at Elrond's Stables in Rivendell douses the horse less frequently.
  
• Facepaint rewards acquired from Hobnanigans now correctly shows on Human avatars.
  
• The Draught Horse cosmetic pets received in the Homesteads and Harvests Coffers have been renamed to "Miniature" Draught horses.
  
• Matching full size Draught horse cosmetic pet tomes have been granted (account-wide) to everyone that purchased the Homesteads and Harvests Coffers.
  
• The Homestead Steed mount scale has been increased to match the expected size of a draught horse. Many animation issues have been resolved for the Homestead Steed mount as well.
  
• Updated the icon for the Stoorvales/Clegur Milestone and for the Clegur travel skills.
  
• Several Run Speed buffs and debuffs were overwriting effects of greater potency. Player-applied Run Speed Effects should now only overwrite effects of the same kind (out of combat speed buff, in combat speed buff, or debuff) and the most potent effect should always be the one which is actively applied.
  

• In French and German the Tokens of Heroism may display as Tokens of Valour. 
  
• The Stable-master panel in Collections has not been updated to include King's Gondor.
  
• The Deeds "Boar-slayer of Lower Lebennin" and "Boar-slayer of Lower Lebennin (Advanced)" are not bestowing/advancing properly.
  

Of Special Note:

Angmar Reborn: Carn Dûm

• Small Fellowship:
  
• Sant Lhoer, the Poison Gardens - (Available for tiers 1-3)
  
• Thaurisgar, the Vile Apothecary - (Available for tiers 1-3)
  
• Fellowship:
  
• Sagroth, Lair of Vermin - (Available for tiers 1-3)
  
• Raid (COMING SOON):
  
• Gwathrenost, the Witch-king's Citadel
  

Updates to the Last Homely House

Update 34 Release Notes

• Treasure Bugan
  
• The Treasure Bugan’s base spawn chance is now 75%, an increase from 25% - 33%.
  
• The "Theodore Gorse’s Lucky Feather" item has been changed:
  
• Now guarantees that a Treasure Bugan will spawn when used in a qualifying instance.
  
• Still lasts 90 minutes, but expires in real-time.
  
• Can no longer be purchased for "Coins of the Bugan".
  
• Now costs 10 Mithril Coins, an increase from 5.
  
• Daily Quest “Seeking the Treasure Bugans!” has been updated:
  
• Now requires you to slay 3 Treasure Bugans instead of 4.
  
• Now offers the following rewards:
  
• 400 VXP
  
• Picker Box of basic crafting Materials
  
• 1 "Treasure Bugan's Cache", which offers a choice of the following:
  
• "Enhancement Runes" x3, Incomparable
  
• "Sealed Tracery": Incomparable
  
• "Universal Optional Ingredient"
  
• "Universal Solvent"
  
• Picker Box of crafting shards
  
• The once-per-event quest “Thwarting the Treasure Bugans” now offers the following rewards:
  
• 2000 VXP
  
• "Crate of Crafting Materials"
  
• 1 "Treasure Bugan's Cache", which offers a choice of the following:
  
• "Enhancement Runes" x3, Incomparable
  
• "Sealed Tracery", Incomparable
  
• "Universal Optional Ingredient"
  
• "Universal Solvent"
  
• Picker Box of crafting shards
  
• Classes
  
• Brawler
  
• Brawlers now have a visible proficiency skill in the Skills Panel for battle-gauntlets.
  
• 'Fist of the Valar' base damage increased to be more in line with other mettle spenders.
  
• 'Follow Me!' is no longer an attack speed buff, it is now a group combat run-speed buff, increasing speed by 20% for 15s.
  
• 'Come At Me' has several updates:
  
• Now 'fast' rather than 'immediate', to mitigate a skill cancellation issue encountered during periods of lag.
  
• Taunt duration increased [5s->10s].
  
• Base target count increased [5->10].
  
• When 'Bellicose' is utilized, "Come At Me" will now generate Mettle even if no targets are hit.
  
• 'Weather Blows' has several updates:
  
• Now an incoming damage set effect that will no longer stack with other incoming damage buffs. 
  
• Base value has been set to 35%, -6% for trait, -9% for Mettle (Max 20%).
  
• Lasts 15s with a 75s cooldown. 
  
• Note that this still acts as a separate multiplier from standard armor damage mitigation.
  
• The instant heal component has been moved to 'Bracing Guard'.
  
• 'Gut Punch' no longer reduces the target's outgoing damage, but now increases incoming damage by 20% for 20s. The skill has a short cooldown, but a given target cannot be affected by it for 70s after the effect wears off.
  
• 'Innate Strength' buffs use shorter animations [1.5s->1.0s], several other buffs have had their animations shortened or reduced to FX only.
  
• Many Brawler buffs were still using placeholder effect icons, many of these have been replaced with a more diverse set of effect icons for clarity.
  
• Most Brawler group buffs now have a radius of [10->15m].
  
• Most Brawler group buffs will now affect raid members.
  
• 'Vulnerability' has had its base debuff increased [1%->3%]. Item set bonuses to the effect have been increased similarly.
  
• 'Brash Invitation' has had its range increased [25->40m].
  
• The 'Iron Will' skill was redundant to "Weather Blows". It has been replaced by "The Best Defence". This skill buffs the fellowship's damage by 30% for 15s, and has a 120s CD.
  
• "Strong Jaw and Nimble Feet" no longer refer to "Iron Will".
  
• Using 'The Best Defence' now overwrites previous active instances.
  
• The 'Armour of Nature's Striker' 2-set bonus has been changed to +5% Melee Damage.
  
• Other Brawler's 'Share Innate Strength' skills should no longer overwrite your own.
  
• Champion
  
• The 'Hiddenhoard Storm' 4-set bonus buff "Increased Critical Ratings" duration should no longer be affected by the "Great Cleave Duration" tracery.
  
• Lore-master
  
• Pets can no longer be renamed many times in a short period of time.
  
• Blue-line capstone trait set bonus 'Tutelage of the Brown Wizard' no longer references 'Sic 'Em'.
  
• 'Essence of the Beast' no longer affects 'Sic 'Em', now reduces cooldown of 'A Murder of Crows' by 5 seconds on procs.
  
• Hunter
  
• The 'Upshot Damage' tracery no longer erroneously double-applies to devastating hits.
  

• Beginning at level 20, all Free People classes can ride into the Ettenmoors. 
  
• Free People players entering the Ettenmoors from level 20 through 129 will scale to 140 and have 25 Audacity until level 120, then that Audacity is reduced by 1 rank until level 130 where it reaches 0.
  
• Four new tasks have been added to the Ettenmoors for Free Peoples and Monster Player players, including a base task to defeat five members of the opposition and three meta tasks to complete the base task a number of times for a greater reward.
  
• To obtain these tasks you must purchase the Task Starter from barter vendors at Glân Vraig for Free Peoples and Gramsfoot for Monster Players.
  
• The "Commendations" cap has been increased to 20,000.
  
• Monster Players
  
• All monster player classes are free to all players and available once a player completes a new player experience or increases a Free Peoples character level to two within the game world.
  
• In an effort to provide newly minted monster players with more survivability in the Ettenmoors, we've made changes to the starting skill loadouts for Monster Player characters.
  
• We have reduced the rank necessary to obtain all monster player skills. All monster players complete their kits at Rank 5.
  
• Acquiring the rank gated appearances remain in place.
  
• Acquiring the first map to Gramsfoot is a necessity in Monster Play - the map is now rewarded on a revised version of the new player quest taking place almost entirely in Gramsfoot.
  
• All Corruption trait slots are now available to Monster Players without an added LOTRO Point cost.
  
• Reduced the cost to slot all monster skills, corruptions, appearances, and racial abilities.
  
• Audacity - Audacity has been revised to improve PvMP player experience.  
  
• Audacity now has 36 levels.
  
• Monster Players gain Audacity by spending 'Commendations' into the virtue.
  
• Free Peoples gain Audacity by spending gold and 'Commendations' to acquire armor and jewelry with Audacity.
  
• Audacity gear for Free Peoples is bound by rank.
  
• Crowd Control has been reduced to 5% at Rank 1 and scales to 60% reduction at Rank 36.
  
• A new item, 'Tincture of Audacity', is available from barter vendors for Monster Players and Free Peoples.
  
• The benefit is 5 Audacity potions which can stack up to 10 with duration of 60 minutes each.
  
• Sold in stacks of 1, 5, and 10. Cost is 200, 1000, and 2000 'Commendations' respectively or 10, 35, 70 Mithril Coins.
  
• Audacity follows a linear progression track along three axis:
  
• Crowd Control Duration Reduction
  
• Incoming Damage Modifier
  
• Outgoing Damage Modifier
  
• LOTRO Store
  
• New appearances are now available for each Monster Player class! Monster Player Class Appearances have also had their cost reduced to 795 LOTRO Points.
  
• The cost of individual Monster Player Class Corruptions, Traits, and Skills has been reduced based on their tier.
  
• Racial, Class, Mastery and Resistance, Mititgation, and Trade-off Corruption Bundles have been added to the LOTRO Store that contain all relevant skills or related benefits.
  

• Fixed a bug that reduced player's mastery slightly against lower level foes.
  
• Pets can no longer be in the Aggressive stance, which has been removed. Pets set to the Aggressive stance have been reset to the Guard stance.
  
• Quests and Adventure Areas
  
• Sari-Suma (Instance)
  
• Frozen Wights in a particular area in instance 'Sari-surma' should no longer spawn over level.
  
• The Shire
  
• Frills in the Rushock Bog in have been adjusted to no longer float.
  
• Some riverbanks in Bindbole Wood have been smoothed out to look more realistic.
  
• A few caves in the Bolestones have had their physics adjusted to be more accurate.
  
• Yondershire
  
• Several Yondershire interiors now have more appropriate ambiances for their environment.
  
• The Upset Hobbit in the gazebo in Nobottle should no longer find themselves disappearing under its floor.
  
• The radar now correctly directs players in the direction of local towns.
  
• Grounded the sprung net for "Instance: Springing the Grand Plan".
  
• The quest item in "Tying the Knots" has been corrected to 'Spool of Rope'.
  
• The Red Flag Spots in "The Tale of Ashenfell" now have the correct tooltip.
  
• A land seam present on a mountain has been smoothed out.
  
• A resource node between Long Cleeve and Nobottle that was in a river gorge is now in a more accessible location.
  
• Hobbit children that can be questioned during the quest "The Wayward Child" can no longer be questioned after you complete the quest.
  
• Parts of the landscape that were erroneously changed due to object replacement for Gundabad have now been fixed, reverting them to appropriate appearances for their biome.
  
• Rocks on the Falconer's Tower in the North Downs have been adjusted to use local, native rock.
  
• Fell Beasts can no longer break free of the Roost and spawn in the landscape.
  
• Forsting in Gundabad has been repositioned slightly to no longer fall through the floor.
  
• The "Prologue Emissary" quest has had its reward of a Will bracelet replaced with a Vitality bracelet.
  
• Miscellaneous Z-fighting in Mattugard has been resolved.
  

• Bree-land Homesteads
  
• Hooks in 8 Long Street and 6 Chestnut Street now align correctly with the terrain.
  
• The sign and fence of 3 High Road have been lifted out of the ground.
  
• A stretched texture in the garden of 8 Long Street has been smoothed.
  
• Ambient Music now works on the exterior of 5 Cape Road in Belfalas.
  
• Doormat in 1 Filly Lane in Kingstead now aligns correctly with the terrain.
  
• Visiting Bankers and Barbers can now be placed in Yard Hooks in Erebor.
  

• The White Goose cosmetic pet now correctly appears in the Collections panel.
  

• German
  
• Updated the deed title for completing the Legendary Sentinel's challenge in German.
  
• French
  
• Fixed mistranslation of "close" in the tracking UI for the "Passage of Foes", "Passage of Nature", "Passage of Shadow" and the 'Tome of Tracking', changing 'fermer' to 'proche'.
  
• German and French
  
• Updated the map translations for the Cape of Belfalas and Cape of Belfalas Homesteads in French and German. 
  
• Updated map translations for the Gondor Regional maps
  
• Updated translations that use a character's Ancestry and Class, such as titles, to better function in French and German. 
  

• The Farmers Faire Cosmetic Categories on Caltha Tunnelly have been rearranged to be in the correct order. Additionally, the Other category will now be listed last.
  
• Festival Vendors now have a profile for "Essences" rather than "Essences and Legendary Items" since the obsolete legendary items were previously removed
  
• Forge-masters and Relic-masters
  
• Relic-masters and their services have been removed from the world as there are no plans to use relics or shards in the future.
  
• Combination Legendary Item services are now only available from Forge-masters.
  
• A few Relic-masters that bestow quests or are related to quests have been turned into Forge-masters so as not to break those quests.
  
• These remaining Relic-masters (now Forge-masters) are near South Bree, in Gundabad, in Rivendell, and in Thorin's Gate.
  
• The Relic-master function has been removed from the town services item.
  
• Relics and shards will not be usable or convertible into LI2 ingredients.
  
• Forge-masters in Rivendell and Thorin's Hall can now be used for reforging outside of the Volume II Book 1 quest sequence.
  

• Minor improvements to reward track messaging for IXP runes.
  
• Instance and Skirmish chests will no longer drop Heritage Runes.
  
• Obsolete Relic Packages have been removed from several instances and raids.
  
• Ill Omens Essence Bounty packages that have not yet been used can now be used by characters above level 130. They will grant a level 130 essence selection package to any characters level 130 and higher.
  
• "Remembered Rivals" Featured Instance gear now binds to account rather than character.
  
• Raid Groups playing on Landscape will no longer benefit from "Open Tapping", and will also no longer receive gold, loot, XP, reputation, quest advancement or deed advancement from monster kills on landscape.
  
• "Sealed Tracery" boxes will once again deliver traceries to level 45 - 49 characters.
  
• The items "Tome of Greater Deed Acceleration" and "Slayer Deed Accelerator (60 min)" now last for 6 hours. "Slayer Deed Accelerator (60 min)" has been renamed "Slayer Deed Accelerator (6 hours)".
  
• The item "Slayer and Skill Deed Boost (90 min)" now lasts for 6 hours. Its name has been updated to "Slayer and Skill Deed Boost (6 hours)".
  
• Name restrictions have been loosened around words similar to "Defender".
  
• "Helm of Crystal Resolve" no longer clips the tops of the followings heads:
  
• Human male
  
• Dwarf
  
• Stout-axe
  
• Beorning male
  
• "Chestplate of Crystal Resolve" has been adjusted to better fit Hobbits.
  
• Using LIXP Runes for the Reward Track now provides better indications of success, failure, and the related reasons.
  
• Added an option to update your graphics display adapter from the v -> Options -> Repair tab of the game launcher. 
  
• If the game client doesn't appear to start, and there is no error of any kind, please take a look at this option. 
  
• For those familiar with the workaround of setting the DisplayAdapter value in UserPreferences.ini, this is intended to be a supported way of setting that value.
  
• Improved messaging for when the worlds are down.
  
• Improved the backend around the chat system, which should reduce frequency of disconnects.
  
• Added an 'Embers of Enchantment' barterer for the Hiddenhoard of Abnankâra. In order to acquire a piece of gear from the barterer, you will often need to have the completion deed for the tier following where the gear is introduced. Below is a breakdown:
  
• T1: Jewelry (Neck, Pocket), Off-hands
  
• T2: Jewelry (Rings, Earrings), Feet
  
• T3: Legs, Chest, Shoulders
  
• T4: Hands, Head, Cloak
  

• Training Audacity as a Creep from 35 to 36 will offer the player to train to 37. You cannot train beyond 36. If you log out and log back into the game this issue is resolved.
  

Update 33 Release Notes

Of Special Note

Celebrate 15 Years of The Lord of the Rings Online!  

The Yondershire beckons you! 

• West out of Little Delving
  
• North-west out of Needlehole through Rushock Gate
  
• South-east out of Ered Luin past the Falathlorn Homesteads through the Eastway
  
• South-west out of Oatbarton through Bullroarer's Sward
  
• Quest, explore, and craft your way to level 95 to your heart’s content!
  

News and Notes:

Classes

• Beorning
  
• Fixed description of Beorning Greater Swarm Trait. Now correctly indicates that only the DoT component becomes AoE.
  
• The bonus damage from Execute's rage consumption is now a base multiplier rather than a mastery multiplier, and is much more potent.
  
• Brawler
  
• General skill damage bumped, in many cases quite substantially.
  
• Removed text from the Brawler's Mettle tooltip that described functionality it doesn't have.
  
• Updated icon for Brawler trait 'Fulgurant Strike Cooldown' to match its skill icon.
  
• 'Gut Punch' now correctly states that it reduces the target's outgoing damage by 5%.
  
• 'Share Innate Power' skill unlock will not time out if not used within 15s of achieving max buff tier. Should now last as long as the buff itself is maintained.
  
• 'One For All' was only granting 1% mitigation bonus per nearby ally, it now correctly grants 2% per (max 10%).
  
• 'Fist of the Valar' base damage reduced, but its pip mod increased to +15%/pip, and is now a Base damage multiplier (much more potent).
  
• 'Pummel's' duration has been reduced [5s->3s], but it now pulses faster [1s->0.5s]. Damage rebalanced for faster duration.
  
• Fixed multiple bugs with innate strength buff timing and shared innate strength application.
  
• Innate strength personal buffs increased duration [15->20s]
  
• The skill 'Iron Will' no longer consumes any mettle when used.
  
• The effect from 'Iron Will' now correctly matches its skill tooltip. This skill's effect was incorrectly reducing incoming damage more than the skill tooltip stated
  
• if cast while you had 4-9 mettle. This has been resolved, and only reduces damage by 2% per mettle.
  
• Burglar
  
• The Gambler trait 'Swift and Subtle' now correctly increases the potency of the heal from Bob and Weave.
  
• Captain
  
• Fixed bug that the Captain's 'Hiddenhoard' yellow-set bonus was erroneously applying to the skill even if the set was not equipped.
  
• 'Standard of Honour' now scales properly with weapon damage at trait ranks 1-4. It also now gains the listed healing bonus from its trait.
  
• Champion
  
• 'Blade Wall' base damage reduced ~25%.  
  
• Trait "Strong Armed Swings" now correctly applies to all Strike skill hits.
  
• This trait was erroneously applying a buff to off-hand hits made by AoE champion skills, which only occurred if dual-wielding. This has been fixed.
  
• This trait was only applying to second and third hits from strike skills, despite suggesting otherwise. It will now correctly apply to the first hit as well.
  
• Guardian
  
• Fixed 'Catch a Breath' set bonus to work properly with tracery (or other) buffs.
  
• Hunter
  
• Fixed 'Swift Mercy' trait not correctly reducing the focus cost of 'Merciful Shot' with 'Swift Bow' shots.
  
• Lore-master
  
• Lore-masters now advance their level 1-50 damage and healing progressions in line with the Minstrel & Rune-keeper progressions.
  
• Damage of Red Line skills and effects in general has been improved.
  
• 'Sic'em' retired and 'Gust of Wind', 'Burning Embers', and 'Sticky Gourd' reworked due to attempt to reduce or eliminate severe performance issues they were causing.
  
• 'Sticky Gourd' effects are now applied as an immediate AoE that applies its own DoT/Debuff directly to targets, rather than a hotspot. It can also apply tier 1 Burning Embers when improved. The effects themselves now have a 20s duration. 
  
• 'Improved Sticky Gourd' now immediately applies one copy of Improved Burning Embers, but does not continue to apply them thereafter. The hotspot version of burning embers wasn't getting some of the Lore-master's stats, such as crit chance, and would overwrite those cast normally, significantly limiting their damage. This version only applies once, but should work properly.
  
• 'Fierce Lightning' can now be applied by any Lore-master lightning skill. It now directly applies its fire DoT to targets, rather than setting the ground on fire.
  
• 'Fierce Lightning's' pulse rate reduced to every 2 seconds, but damage increased. Duration unchanged.  This effect can stack up to 2x per caster.
  
• 'Sic'em' replaced with 'A Murder of Crows'. This skill summons a cloud of crows around the target for 15s, with a 2m CD. While they persist the crows inflict enormous damage and disorient their victim, reducing hit chance and increasing the damage of other attacks made against the target. Enemies within 7m of the main target also take constant morale damage from the cloud of circling crows, but are not debuffed.
  
• 'Burning Embers' is now a single effect with 4 tiers (smouldering->burning->searing->blazing).
  
• Successive casts of 'Burning Embers' will upgrade the DoT.
  
• Each caster may have one copy of it on a given target.
  
• All other variants (crossfire, sticky version etc.) are gone.
  
• Each tier now has its own variations in visual FX and icon.
  
• Damage of the single instance of 'Burning Embers' has increased greatly.
  
• When Lighting skills trigger 'Burst of Flame' on a target 'Burning Embers' is only downgraded one tier rather than being consumed, unless it was tier 1, in which case it is removed.
  
• 'Gust of Wind' can now only spread burning embers from its main target to others in the AoE- it no longer tries to spread from every target, to every target - this was a big performance issue.
  
• 'Gust of Wind' can upgrade embers one stage on any targets it hits.
  
• Chance of spreading/upgrading has been increased.
  
• Resolved issues with the interaction between 'Kindred Flame' and the 'Hiddenhoard' set bonus. 
  
• Minstrel
  
• Base skill damage increased for most skills.
  
• 'Song of the Hammerhand' base bubble value reduced [80%->35%]. 
  
• 'Enduring Morale' now scales properly with level. At its third tier 'Enduring Morale' grants 'Call of the Second Age', a 2s stun effect that increases to 3s by tier 5. To help counter some of the loss of survivability, we've fixed scaling on this morale trait, and added a new CC source for the Minstrel for when they over pull.
  
• Fixed racial animation discrepancy for 'Call of the Second Age'.
  
• 'Call to the Second Age' animation has been adjusted and can now be affected by speed multipliers. The skill will also blend with locomotion animation.
  
• Traits 'Inspiring Finish' and 'Emboldened Finish' now each scale to a 100% application chance at max tier (25%->50%->100%) was (10%->20%->30%). 
  
• Base damage of 'Echoes of Battle' increased by ~50%.
  
• 'Echoes of Battle' damage bonuses from 'Cacophonous Timeless Echoes' (red trait) and 'Weakening Echoes of Battle' (yellow trait) have been swapped.
  
• 'Echoes' tick rate sped up from 5s-3s (this should offset the damage per tick, but not the actual DPS).
  
• 'Finesse' trait becomes 'Song of Arda', which grants up to +25% light damage.
  
• 'Piercing Ballads' trait now includes the Finesse buff that 'Song of Arda' replaced.
  
• 'Concentration' trait changed to a -10% attack speed passive.
  
• 'Coda of Fury' cry reset chance increased [30->50%] chance.
  
• 'Emboldening Finish' damage bonus improved [15->25%]. 
  
• 'Bracing Finish' damage bonus increased [7.5->15%].
  
• 'Coda Finishing' buffs extended [10->12s].
  
• 'Echoes of Battle' base damage increased substantially. Tweaked 'Echoes of Battle' to tick faster (3s) and to allow partial ticks, as playing ballads frequently causes it to reset, interrupting its ticks.  (This is a partial fix for a known issue where changes to tactical damage bonuses will cause 'Echoes of Battle' toggle to refresh, interrupting its pulse timer and substantially reducing its damage potential.)
  
• Warden
  
• Determination skill 'For the Free Peoples' buff now reduces incoming damage by 2.5% per stack, up to a maximum of -25% incoming damage.
  

Crafting

• Brawler Zircon Belt Buckles will have enhanced stats when they are crafted with a critical success.
  
• The crafted headpieces for the Beorning Abyss armour sets now correctly count towards their set bonuses.
  
• T9 Cook reputation trail food recipes will now display their names correctly when multiples of the recipes are stacked.
  
• Fixed extraction recipe for Bit of Pure Anórien Ore, so you can no longer use a Bit of Pure Anórien Ore or Universal Optional Crafting Ingredient to boost crit chance of extraction.
  
• The master jeweler "Beryl Belt Buckle Recipe" icon and description now correctly identify the recipe as being part of the master tier.
  

Items

• New and Changed Word of Craft Set bonuses:
  
• Perfect Accuracy renamed to Heroic Alacrity and now provides a set bonus of -3% Attack Speed.
  
• Perfect Precision renamed to Heroic Precision and now provides a set bonus of +3% Crit Chance.
  
• Grand Armour now provides a set bonus of +1.5% physical mitigation.
  
• Grand Willpower now provides a set bonus of +1.5% tact mitigation.
  
• Perfect Healing now provides a set bonus of +3% outgoing healing. - Perfect Recovery now provides a set bonus of +3% Incoming Healing.
  
• New Beorning Traceries:
  
• Counter Dodge & Counterattack Damage (+5% dodge, +50% dmg)
  
• Shake Free Cooldown (-10s)
  
• Slash Damage (+35%)
  
• Thrash Damage (+35%)
  
• Nature's Mend Healing (+20%)
  
• Encouraging Roar Instant Heal (+15%)
  
• The following Beorning Traceries have been updated:
  
• Slam Bonus Wrath Chance tracery now also adds damage to that skill (+25%)
  
• Bonus DoT Pulse tracery now also extends the Swarm debuffs by a similar duration so they match.
  
• One specific effect change to complement the tracery changes:
  
• Crippling Stings base duration extended [8->12s] to match the other swarm debuffs, but its base slow magnitude was reduced [-30%->-15%]. Now maxes at [-50% -> -35%].
  

Quests and Adventure Areas

• The Angle of Mitheithel will now act the same as other regions do regarding Event-based and Festival-based effects/bonuses.
  
• Fate of Gundabad
  
• Pit of Stonejaws - Dwarf-wights that appear during Tombs of the Old Lords will no longer spawn inside their sarcophagi and have updated entrance animations.
  
• Black Book of Mordor Chapter 13.8 'Guardians of the Tower' will now have billboards that update with each monster kill.
  
• The deed 'Quests of Azanulbizar' was only awarding a single package of "Enhancement Runes, Incomparable" instead of two. Beginning with Update 33, this deed will instead award 2x "Enhancement Rune, Lvl 121". Players who have already completed the deed will be retroactively granted these Enhancement Runes upon logging after Update 33 goes live. Thank you for your patience on this matter.
  
• Welkin-lofts - Instance: The Tipping Point - Corrected an issue where Gorgar's Orcs were sometimes not appearing at the conclusion of the instance.
  
• The Hiddenhoard of Abnankâra
  
• Brittle Chains and Hobgoblin Totems can no longer become Scions on Tier 4+.
  
• Dushtalbúk's 'Absolute Clarity' now tiers up every 7 seconds on Tier 4+, up from 5 seconds.
  
• Monster stat mods have been adjusted slightly downward for Tier 4. Health is now multiplied by 3.5, down from 3.75. Damage is now multiplied by 3.25, down from 3.5.
  
• Mordor
  
• Gorgoroth - Continue the Conquest: If you have completed the Deed: Tales of Gorgoroth and are at least Level 115, but did not receive this quest, you can now obtain the quest by travelling to any of the Mordor Allegiance Halls, the Udun Foothold, the Ruins of Dingarth, or Magh Ashtu in Gorgoroth.
  
• A variety of Doomfold, Ironfold, Minas Ithil, and Gundabad Draughts and Salves have been added to appropriate Healer and Tavern Keep vendor NPCs.
  
• The Coldfells vendor has been updated with new Poison, Disease, Fear, and Wound potions as well as new rations.
  
• The exit portal for Mission: Clearing a Path is now clearly marked with the customary visual FX. This should reduce the frequency of players going "Hmm I wonder what's back here?" and accidentally leaving the mission.
  
• The Zhelruka Clan - Quests for the Zhelruka Clan that allow use of Mithril Coins to swiftly travel to certain Objectives now properly place the player at the proper location instead of outside the Hall of Vérnozal.
  
• Urugarth - Deed: The Orcs of Urugarth - This Deed and its 'Advanced' variant now advance from defeating Goblins in Urugarth. If you previously had either of these Deeds underway but not completed, their progress will be reset at the time of this Update. However, they will be much quicker to complete. If you have previously completed these Deeds, you will see no change.
  
• Adjusted a Hungry Hobbit patrol in Little Delving.
  
• One of the drakeling eggs in Kordh Gurat needed for the Deepscrave quest "Drake's Cradle" is now reachable.
  
• Bee's Big Business: Challenge: Flower Power - Players can now complete the Small Fellowship and Fellowship versions of this quest on Legendary Servers.
  
• Bee's Big Business: Challenge: Bee's Big Business - Players can now complete the Small Fellowship and Fellowship versions of this Deed on Legendary Servers.
  
• Deed Vanguard of Central Gondor now rewards players with a Cracked Rohirrim Tracery rather than an obsolete Blemished Symbol of the Elder King.
  
• Missions: Bonus Legendary Item Boosts will now award players with an incomparable tracery, rather than heritage runes which are unusable by any players below level 115.
  
• Removed obsolete travel route from Hrimbarg.
  
• Dug out hobbit hole in Breeland.
  
• Added Mailboxes to Belfalas and Eastfold Housing Social Spaces.
  
• Adjusted placement of Forsting
  

Miscellaneous

• The word Gundabad has been removed from the Legendary Items Reward Track panel title.
  
• For the remaining 2022 Festivals, the dyes that were bartered for mithril coins last year can be acquired for the appropriate festival tokens this year, while the dyes available for festival tokens last year are now available for mithril barter.
  
• Akúlhun's Brand of the Tyrant and Lainedhal's Insignia of the Captain-General now correctly apply immunity to slow, disarm, and silence effects for 5 seconds, rather than 10 seconds.
  
• Fixed typos in Great River, Gondor, Mordor, Rohan, Vales of Anduin, Evendim, Warden Class quests, Bingo quests, food items, Urugarth, Weathertop, Wildwood, Great River, and Big Battles.
  
• Shimmering Dust and Monstrous Scale item descriptions incorrectly stated that they could be turned in for tasks. Their descriptions now correctly state that they can only be sold to vendors.
  
• LUA: Fixed an issue where using the "Subscriber Town Services" would not clear LUA bank data between character logins.
  
• The Subscriber Buffs and Town Services item granted by the VIP Rewards daily quest will now last for two weeks.
  
• The "Valar 130 trait points - Minstrel" item will, going forward, now give the correct amount of class trait points, and stack with previous Valar level boost 120 use.
  
• When using the Flame of Ancalamír, the confirmation dialog now correctly states that it will deconstruct the entire stack of target items at once.
  
• All relic of Gundabad items now correctly state that they are only sought after by the Zhélruka, and cannot be used to advance other allegiances.
  
• Yondershire: Corrects mistranslation of "Huge Wings" During the Thorin's hall Questlog
  
• Symbols of Celebrimbor and Symbols of the Elder King should not be disenchantable for ancient script. The 'Blemished' level 100 versions of these items can no longer be disenchanted. They may still be used to craft obsolete legendary items for their cosmetics.
  
• Forge-masters will no longer offer to tell you about imbuement.
  
• Fixed stat scaling on several Captain standards. In particular, Anórien standards were providing too much morale, and have been corrected down to what they should be. Gundabad-tier standards were providing morale that didn't scale properly, and now provide the correct amount of Vitality instead. Captains using Gundabad-tier standards should see their maximum morale increase slightly as a result of this fix.
  
• The size of the housing decoration item 'Hrímil Frost-heart in Effigy' has been appropriately increased.
  
• The spear's innate bleed "Spear-pierce" now correctly scales with item level.
  
• Future world shutdown messaging should be more visible.
  
• The launcher will now ask you to switch to the 64-bit game client if you are still using a 32-bit one.
  
• Updated several typos and mistranslations in the French and German, including in titles, quests, and maps.
  
• Updated localization for a number of strings in the launcher,  making the text clearer for indicating and selecting which game client being used.
  
• Fan Bundles - Some of our fan bundles granted LI2 tokens that could not be bartered properly at Rivendell.
  
• The broken tokens' description has been updated to reflect their status and let owners know where to trade them in. 
  
• Existing 'bad' tokens from already opened packages can be bartered at the Rivendell Archive for packages with working tokens.
  
• These now grant packages that will give character bound tokens that will work correctly. These tokens will scale to the level of the character opening the sub-package.
  

Celebrate 15 Years of LOTRO!

The Anniversary Event Returns!

• Cloak of Crystal Resolve
  
• Boots of Crystal Resolve
  
• Gloves of Crystal Resolve
  
• Helm of Crystal Resolve
  
• Pauldrons of Crystal Resolve
  
• Chestplate of Crystal Resolve
  
• Crystal Resolve Garments - Gift-wrapped selection box
  
• Steed of Crystal Resolve - Festival/Mithril Barter
  
• Saddlebag of Crystal Resolve
  
• Caparison of Crystal Resolve
  
• Head-piece of Crystal Resolve
  
• Legs of Crystal Resolve
  
• Saddle of Crystal Resolve
  
• Tail of Crystal Resolve
  
• Crystal Resolve War-steed Cosmetics - Mithril Barter
  
• Tome of the Golden Crystal Beetle
  
• Tome of the Fireworks Corgi - Mithril Barter
  
• Fireplace of the Dragon's Hoard
  
• Firepit of the Dragon's Hoard
  
• Soaring Pinwheel Fireworks - consumable - Steel token barter
  
• Flaming Pinwheel Fireworks - consumable - Steel token barter
  
• Willow Fireworks - consumable - Steel token barter
  
• Enemy Tears Fireworks - consumable - Steel token barter
  

• Anniversary Blue Sparkler
  
• Tome of the Tri-colour Corgi
  
• Teal Anniversary Fireworks Banner
  
• Purple Anniversary Firework Banner
  
• Explosive Fireworks Crate
  
• Lamp post with Celebratory Yellow Banners
  
• Post with Celebratory Teal Streamers
  
• Celebratory Red Banner Wall Hanging
  
• Celebratory Yellow Long Banner Wall Hanging
  
• Teal Ceiling Streamers
  
• Green Ceiling Streamers
  

More FREE!

• High Elf Race
  
• Classes:
  
• Rune-keeper
  
• Warden
  
• Beorning
  
• ALL Quests, Instances, areas, and expansions released between April of 2007 and the release of Helm's Deep. Quest, craft, and explore your way to level 95! Includes:
  
• Expansion Quests: Helm's Deep
  
• Expansion Quests: Isengard
  
• Expansion Quests: Mirkwood
  
• Expansion Quests: Moria
  
• Expansion Quests: Rohan
  
• Instance Cluster: Isengard
  
• Instance Cluster: Rohan
  
• Instance: Halls of Night
  
• Instance: Inn of the Forsaken
  
• Quest Pack: Eriador Bundle
  
• Quest Pack: Angmar
  
• Quest Pack: Enedwaith
  
• Quest Pack: Eregion
  
• Quest Pack: Evendim
  
• Quest Pack: Forochel
  
• Quest Pack: Great River
  
• Quest Pack: Lothlorien
  
• Quest Pack: Misty Mountains
  
• Quest Pack: North Downs
  
• Quest Pack: Trollshaws
  
• Quest Pack: Wildermore
  
• Raid: Draigoch's Lair
  
• Skirmish: Attack At Dawn
  
• Skirmish: Defence of the Prancing Pony
  
• Skirmish: Ford of Bruinen
  
• Skirmish: Stand at Amon Sul
  
• Skirmish: Storm on Methedras
  
• Skirmish: Survival: Barrow-downs
  
• Skirmish: The Icy Crevasse
  
• Skirmish: Thievery and Mischief
  
• NOTE: Eriador Bundle includes Quest Pack: Angmar, Quest Pack: Enedwaith, Quest Pack: Eregion, Quest Pack: Evendim, Quest Pack: Forochel, Quest Pack: Misty Mountains, Quest Pack: North Downs, and Quest Pack: Trollshaws.
  

• Standard Edition – Mordor Expansion
  
• Standard Edition – Minas Morgul Expansion
  
• Standard Edition – War of Three Peaks
  
• +5 Quest log limit
  
• The benefits of the Subscriber's Jug (VIP Town Services) now last for two weeks instead of one day.
  

15th Anniversary Special Gift: Log in during the event!

• Chestnut Corgi Pet
  
• Steed of Starlight (This skill also auto-grants the Starlight Caparison, Head-piece, accessory, leg-guards, and saddle.
  
• Collector’s Edition – Mordor Expansion
  
• Collector’s Edition – Minas Morgul Expansion
  
• Collector’s Edition – War of Three Peaks
  

• Starlight Cloak
  
• Hooded Starlight Cloak
  
• Light Weapon Aura
  

A Letter from Producer Raninia – March 2022

Update 32 Release Notes

Of Special Note:

The Hiddenhoard of Abnankâra Raid arrives soon!

Now Available: Erebor Housing!

• Twelve Base Premium Houses, one Special Base Premium House, six Deluxe Premium Houses, and one Premium Kinship House!
  
• A full suite of Town Services and social spaces for you to enjoy with your kinship and neighbors!
  
• New exterior music and Ambient Environment hook types to allow you even more customization options for your homes!
  
• Swimmable gold coins!
  
• Life-sized chess/checker boards
  

Introducing: The Legendary Items Reward Track!

The Angle of Mitheithel is available to explore!

News and Notes:

• Beorning
  
• Relentless Maul can no longer be used while moving. The skill would instantly fire and cancel, and there were some other unintended behaviors.
  
• Base form of Relentless Maul now counts as a healing skill, as it can be modded with the Yellow line heal effect.
  
• Desperate Shout's buff is now visible again.
  
• Burglar
  
• Purge Corruption can now crit.
  
• Hedge Your Bet now heals 5% per pulse on all rolls. It now has a 15-30% chance of applying on each attack, based on the roll.
  
• The bleed on the Blue raid set has been reduced.
  
• Honed Wit now properly increases Burglar damage over time.
  
• Brawler
  
• Brawlers who complete the class quest "Brawling Lessons" will now receive a new title, "Fearsome Fists", in addition to the existing title. This title will be awarded retroactively to Brawlers who have already completed the quest.
  
• Changed the builder attacks to all have an animation time of 0.75 seconds. Previously varied from 1.0 to 1.5 depending on the builder.
  
• Come at Me has been buffed. Taunt radius increased (7->12) and base targets increased (3->5).
  
• Weather Blows can now be used in motion.
  
• The range of Strike Towards the Sky has been increased from 2.5 meters to 3.5 meters.
  
• All group buff effects smaller than 10 meters have been expanded to 10 meters.
  
• All attack AOE's shorter than 7 meters have been extended to 7 meters.
  
• The Eager Challenger trait in Blue line has been changed from -30 seconds to -20 seconds. The other -10 seconds is now available on a Tracery that also increases the Mayhem bubble magnitude.
  
• The Critical Chance Increase in Red line now has an additional effect at Tier 5: Critical hits with Finisher skills generate 1 Mettle.
  
• The base healing percentage for Joy of Battle has been increased from 1% to 3%.
  
• Pummel will no longer cancel early if used with five or less Mettle.
  
• Some Tracery naming and display issues have been corrected.
  
• Champion
  
• Bracing Attack no longer misses or can be BPE'd. Its damage has been reduced by about 20%.
  
• Merciful Strike's crit multipliers have been raised to match the default for most skills (x1.5 crit, x2.0 dev).
  
• Guardian
  
• Flash of Light now scales with your weapon. Damage now scales up more effectively into higher levels as well.
  
• Flash of Light now only procs off of your active Take to Heart target.
  
• Catch a Breath's cooldown timer will no longer bug when war-chant is reducing it.
  
• Shield Smash was incorrectly calculating its area of effect from the selected target rather than the Guardian. This has now been fixed. Shield Smash's arc range has been increased slightly to make up for lost reach.
  
• Hunter
  
• Lingering Wound now applies damage over time again.
  
• Rapid Fire now properly reduces the cost of Split Shot.
  
• Focus when affected by Song of Aid is now usable both in and out of battle.
  
• Lore-master
  
• Commune With Nature now has a 180 second cooldown. Nature's Light has had its duration changed to 20 seconds. Nature's Gift has had its initial cooldown removed so it can be used immediately. Both these pet skills have an internal cooldown of 180 seconds.
  
• Minstrel
  
• Call of Earendil now resets properly with Cries and Calls.
  
• Rune-keeper
  
• Some Rune-keeper damage over time pulse rates have been increased. The number of pulses is unchanged, so the durations are now shorter. The total damage is the same, but overall DPS is higher: Writ of Fire's pulse rate has gone from four to three seconds, and Scathing Mockery has had its pulse rate lowered from six to three seconds.
  
• Fire, Frost and Lightning skills are all now labeled correctly in their tooltips.
  
• Warden
  
• Tracery Mastery's cooldown has been improved from -3 to -5 seconds, while Remmorchant set bonuses have been reduced from -5 seconds to -3 seconds.
  
• For the Free Peoples now grants an incoming damage percentage reduction that increases to -25% at full stack. This replaces its old effect.
  
• Heals have been increased generally across the board.
  
• Critical Defense debuffs now scale correctly.
  

Crafting

• Brawler Belt Buckle icons should now be consistent across crafting tiers.
  
• Achieving a critical success when crafting Dwarrowgleam Belt Buckles now adds 2 ilevels to the resulting item.
  
• Achieving a critical success when crafting Dwarrowgleam Stickpins now adds 2 ilevels to the resulting item.
  
• Players who have achieved the highest reputation with their crafting guild now have access to a recipe that will allow the creation of a Sunstone Shard once every 7 days. See your "Improved Recipes" vendor. Please note: These recipes require Gundabad (T14) Crafting.
  
• Housing
  
• Cape of Belfalas and Rohan housing interiors now support multiple music hooks.
  
• Cape of Belfalas and Rohan housing now supports exterior Ambient Environment and music hooks.
  
• Items
  
• Legendary Item Rewards: Older scaling instances made it too easy to farm Legendary rarity LI items. As a result, scaling instances have had their top end LI drops reduced to Incomparable rarity. Non-scaling instances remain unchanged.
  
• Legendary items may now reach item level 475.
  
• Incoming Healing progressions have been corrected on class items so they can now increase to current levels.
  
• New Adventurer's gear for level 140 characters will now scale to item level 461 - 463.
  
• Bound to Character Traceries and Essences now actually bind the legendary item or slotted item to the character when slotted.
  
• PvMP Rank cloaks are now gated by Monster Play, and may not be used outside the Ettenmoors.
  
• You can now equip a second Legendary Item without first unequipping the first if you have a unique Essence or Tracery in two different items.
  
• All shields will now offer the Crit Defence and Ranged Defence bonus previously only granted by Heavy (Guardian) shields.
  
• The Brawler Abyss Raid Set Armour pieces bartered from the Master of Mordor Lore in Dor Armarth on the Plateau of Gorgoroth are now actually usable by Brawlers.
  
• The Delver's Essence boxes now allows selection of a Vitality essence.
  
• New Brawler Traceries have been added to the barter vendor.
  
• The Pelennor Warrior's Gear Rewards Vendor - Master of Battle Lore now correctly offers Brawler set gear.
  
• All Task Quest items now list the regions that they belong to in their descriptions, excluding Housing Task Boards.
  

Monsters

• Monsters above level 60 now have a small base Critical Defense rating.
  
• The wargs for "Corrupted Heirlooms" no longer count as North Downs creatures, so they will no longer trigger deeds, but especially not when you find them in Rohan.
  

Traits

• Class, Race, and Virtue trait slots will now automatically unlock when a character hits the required level, regardless of subscription status or purchase. This does not apply to Monster Play characters.
  

Quests and Adventure Areas

• The Featured Instance rotation has been updated to now include: Dungeons of Dol Guldur, Fornost: Wraith of Water, Seat of the Great Goblin, Iorbar's Peak, Sword-hall of Dol Guldur, and Barad Guldur. The Featured Instance reward packages have been updated, including new armour that will scale to your character level. In order to support this scaling, the reward packages will now decay, so they must be opened within 1 hour or be lost. The Featured Instance (Cap) quests will now require tier 2 completion of the instance. The Featured Challenge quests have been removed.
  
• Stablemasters in the Trollshaws, parts of Eregion, Lothlorien, Southern Mirkwood, and Eryn Lasgalen now use the Elk Travel Mode. NOTE: Since we have updated the Trollshaws Stablemaster routes players will need to rediscover them.
  
• A vector has been added from Thorenhad in the Trollshaws to guide players to the Angle of Mitheithel.
  
• Added some clarifying dialogue to "Chapter 6.1: The Artist and the Apprentice" to make it clear which character advances the quest.
  
• Enemies in Elderslade and Gundabad missions now execute their induction skills in 5 seconds down from 10 seconds.
  
• The Adventurer's Quartermaster and lootbox now offer Delving Adventurer's Essence Boxes.
  
• The Houses of Rest - Vethug Wintermind no longer becomes unattackable on Dui and Fellowship group sizes after being reset.
  
• The level requirement from Rivendell to Gath Forthnir has been adjusted from 125 down to 20.
  
• Fate of Gundabad
  
• Gundabad Quests: The story of Câr Bronach concludes in Gundabad with 20 additional quests for level 135-136. If you have completed questing in Câr Bronach, speak to Mézto at Grúmachath to continue.
  
• Den of Pughlak - Removed some visual effects that would stick onto players even after they left the instance.
  
• The name for the Orders From Dushtalbuk should now correctly display during "The Camps of Stazg Vozag".
  
• Gundabad Geode Hunter: Barter prices have been adjusted.
  
• Mission - Gundabad - Lay to Rest - Dwarf-wights now patrol the space and have proper appearances.
  
• Legacy of the Necromancer
  
• Lay of Rust and Rime - Scion of Winter - Stablemaster icons will no longer appear on the minimap during this instance.
  
• War of Three Peaks
  
• All tier completion deeds bestow in "Woe of the Willow" regardless of tier.
  

UI

• Some French and German translations have been updated.
  
• The system now refers to Traceries correctly In the new Legendary Items UI instead of calling them Essences when unslotting, and with tooltips on the buttons.
  
• The Reforge UI now has a summary that is accurate, and the Reforge UI has had its text updated to reflect the new system.
  
• A display error on classic Essence examination has been fixed.
  

Miscellaneous

• The Gold restriction has been removed from free and premium accounts. All account types can now have a maximum of 9999 Gold without purchase of the Currency Cap.
  
• The benefits of the Premium Wallet Upgrade have now been applied to all accounts. The widest possible assortment of barter currencies, including a variety of instance tokens, region barter tokens, festival tokens, taxidermy barter items, and crafting instance tokens, will now automatically go into the barter wallet for all characters on all accounts.
  

Known Issues:

• Erebor Housing: In order to prevent decorations from intruding on other player's properties, the mobile hooks in the lower courtyard of Deluxe Erebor Houses, and the Huge/Enormous Hooks in all Base Erebor Houses have their vertical movement restricted.
  
• The Last Bridge Stable-master appears on the Lone-lands map but not on the Trollshaws map.
  
• Barachen's Camp, Echad Candelleth and Gwingris Stable-masters do not appear on The Angle of Mitheithel map.
  
• The Legendary Items Reward Track currently uses the wrong icon  and does not yet have a hotkey for access. Access is through the Menu, under Character options.