Instances

• The hard mode chests for the Book 8 instances now properly drop the Elf Stones.

Carn Dûm:

• Players can once again enter the Tower area normally.

Halls of Crafting:

• Monsters now give the correct Galadhrim reputation for killing them.

Dark Brotherhood:

• The Mistress is mad! The Mistress smash harder!

Waterwheels:

• Hard Mode has increased slightly in difficulty. The Caerogs can now periodically help each other out of mezzes and roots.
• The pistons no longer cause line-of-sight failures.
• Players can no longer get stuck in perma-root with the final boss.

Hall of Mirrors:

• Fixed an issue that was causing players to not be able to proceed further into the instance.
• Ergoth has decided to stop hiding from players. She has also polished the final mirror to a fine shine. Be careful, it is a little slippery!
• Task-mistress corpses will no longer infinitely spawn defilers.
• Ergoth also hates perchers, FYI.

Classes

Champion

• The tooltip on the effect icon for Fervour now includes the -30% incoming healing information.

Items

• The Lothlórien Reputation Jewelry will now remain equipped in the Ettenmoors. However, the ‘clicky’ abilities will remain disabled while in the Ettenmoors.
• The buff “Protector’s Reproach” provided by the “Lothlórien Protector’s Locket” will now damage enemies that attack you (instead of heal them).
• The stats on the Robe of the Stone-reader’s Apprentice were slightly more powerful than intended. Reduced the maximum Power bonus on the Robe of the Stone-reader’s Apprentice to bring this armour piece in line with others in the set.
• The stats on the Rhymer’s Robe were slightly more powerful than intended. Reduced the maximum Power bonus on the Rhymer’s Robe to bring this armour piece in line with others in the set.

General

• No more client crashes due to the browser being open and closed.

Horses & travel

• Fixed a travel route between Dolven-view and Anazamekhem.

Quests

• There and Back Again now properly gives its rewards.
• Added a small set of Bounty quests. You can find them in Esteldin.

Crafting

Prospecting

• The Tin Ingot recipe was incorrectly producing three Bronze Ingots on a critical success. This has been fixed, and the Tin Ingot recipe now produces three Tin Ingots on a critical success.

General

• Removed Apprentice-level optional ingredients from level 1-7 treasure profiles.
• Increased the drop rate of optional ingredients in sentient creature treasure.
• New legendary weapon and class item recipes are available for the following guilds:
  • Jeweller’s Guild
  • Metalsmith’s Guild
  • Scholar’s Guild
  • Tailor’s Guild
  • Weaponsmith’s Guild
  • Woodworker’s Guild.
• These recipes allow crafters to produce Reforged 2nd Age weapons and class items.
• New guild recipe scroll cases are available from Maenasdir (Lothlórien Crafting Guild Emissary) for the following guilds:
  • Jeweller’s Guild
  • Metalsmith’s Guild
  • Tailor’s Guild
• New recipes have been added to the Lothlórien barter vendors for the following professions:
  • Jeweller
  • Metalsmith
  • Tailor

Graphics/Animations/FX

• Some hats have been updated to remove the back flap in favor of tucked-up hair.

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Epic Book 8:

The plans of Gorothúl, sorcerer of Dol Guldur, begin to be made clear as ancient evils stir again in the depths of Khazad-dûm. Small fellowships must form to combat this emerging threat before the hopes of the Iron Garrison and the Elves of Lothlórien are ended by the darkness. The story of The Mines of Moria continues with new quests and challenges!

Of Special Note

Summer Festival

The Summer Festival, coming in Book 8, now has two new events — one in the Shire, on The Hill, and the second on the approach to Thorin’s Hall.

Crafted Equipment minimum level usage requirement changed

Certain crafted equipment items had their minimum level usage requirement changed for Book 8. However, bound items in the player’s possession which were changed to exceed the player’s level will instead match the player’s level. Non-bound and banked items are not versioned in this way.

Lothlorien Gift Box Changes:

• There is no longer a chance to receive First-age items.
• There is no longer a chance to receive Tier 4 Runics.
• The Heritage Runes have significantly increased in value.
  • The lowest value is now 75k.
  • The highest value is now 250k.
• There is now a chance to receive Level 58 and Level 59 Second-age items (you can still get Level 60 Second-age items as well).
• The odds have been tweaked, the most significant of which is that there’s now a slightly higher chance of receiving a Second-age item, but a lower chance of that Second-age being Level 60 (due to the inclusion of Level 58 and 59 Second-age items).
• The costs of the gift boxes have been significantly reduced: they now cost 15G 30S.
• The descriptions of the gift boxes have been changed to more accurately reflect the potential rewards.
• The gift boxes are no longer class restricted for those who mistakenly purchased the wrong box.
• Please note that there will be no compensation for those who have already purchased a gift box: when you opened that gift box you had a chance to get a Level 60 First-age item.

Explanation of Changes:

The gift boxes have been changed from a high-risk / high-reward design to a more friendly middle-ground design. The high-end rewards have either been removed (First-age) or had their chances reduced (Level 60 Second-age), while the low-end rewards have either been removed (15k Heritage Rune, Tier 4 Runics) or increased (250k Heritage Runes are now available). Because the high-end rewards have been removed/reduced, the cost of the giftboxes has been reduced as well.

First Age Legendary Items

First Ages are now dropped via a barter system.Each raid now drops barter tokens that can be saved up to use to trade for the First Age item of your choice. Vile Maw, Strange Happenings, and Dar Narbugud will all drop multiple tokens. Go visit the barter traders at the Hythe docks to see all the possibilities.

• Level 59 First Age’s will cost 4 tokens
• Level 60 First Age’s will cost 6 tokens

Currently First Age Legendary items are Bind on Acquire on Bullroarer. This change will be reverted and will not go live when Book 8 ships.

It’s the Little Things That Count

The impending war between the Light and the Dark has caused many of the vendors in the world to fear for the stability of their livelihood. In an effort to retain business the vendors have now learned to sell stackable items in quantities other than “one” and “a full stack” in order to better serve you! While you have the vendor UI open you can now buy single items by default, or use…

• SHIFT to purchase a full stack,
• ALT to purchase a quantity that you specify in a pop-up dialog
• TAB to fill all stacks of the selected item type in your backpack.

Boat Keepers have arrived in Evendim!

There is a new aquatic swift-travel route between Tinnudir and The Eavespires for 25 silver!

Full Release Notes

General Gameplay

• We’ve removed knockdown as a Fellowship Manoeuvre starting event. All Fellowship Manoeuvre starts will now use a Fellowship Manoeuvre stun event.

Skills/Classes

General

• The buffs “Hope Unlooked For” (received from Glorfindel after returning a broken chain link) and “Mirdanant’s Inspiration” will no long be dispelled on log-out or disconnect.
• Corrected several skills that were not playing attack animations when the character was disarmed.
  • Guardian skills
    • Bash
    • Shield Smash
    • Shield-blow
    • Improved Shield-blow.
  • Champion skill
    • Hedge.

Champion

• In response to changes made to the Champion class, all legendary points on champion items will be reset so that players may adjust legacies accordingly.
• Clarified tooltip for Champion’s Fight On skill
• The Champion’s skill Fervour will now have a -30% penalty to incoming healing. Champion skills that restore morale are not affected, nor is the Man skill Strength of Morale. This incoming healing penalty is not in effect in any PvMP area, though Champions will need to re-activate Fervour on entering or leaving such an area.The Incoming Healing penalty from Continuous Blood Rage will overwrite the Incoming Healing penalty from Fervour resulting in only -90% penalty when both skills are toggled on.
• The Champion Legendary skill Controlled Burn will no longer last for the duration of combat. Instead it has a fixed duration of 2:30 minutes. The only in combat activation and the 20% morale restrictions have been removed. In addition, activating Controlled Burn applies the effects of Ardent Flurry and Glorious Exchange to the Champion.
• The Champion Trait Controlled Fury has been changed. It will now increase the duration of Controlled Burn by 1:00 minute and add the Red Haze effect when Controlled Burn is activated.
• The descriptions for the Champion Traits Deadly, Vicious and Deep Strikes were updated to include Feral Strikes in the list of skills affected. This is a text change only. Feral Strike has always been modified by these traits.
• The third attack from Savage Strikes and Brutal Strikes will now be modified correctly by the two-trait bonus in the Berserker Trait Set.
• The stun effect from the crafted warhorns can no longer be evaded.

Guardian

• Guardian skill, Thrill of Danger, should no longer cause friendly mobs to attack the player.
• The debuff effects from Guardian Stagger skill have been separated into an Attack Speed Debuff and a Runspeed debuff. Each effect can be removed separately. There is no other change to the functionality of the Stagger skill.
• The Guardian trait Litany Master will now trigger the threat over time effect on critical hits from the 2nd attacks of Shield Swipe and Sweeping Cut.
• The corruption removal countdown effect from the Guardian skill Improved Sting will now stack when applied by multiple Guardians.
• The Guardian’s skill Protection will now require a shield to be equipped as mentioned in the skill’s description.
• The Guardian skill Fray the Edge will now work correctly while untraited. In addition, once the Fray the Edge effect has reached its maximum value it will have its duration refreshed by additional applications of Fray the Edge.
• The Guardian skill Turn the Tables no longer requires the Guardian to face the target. All other restrictions still apply.

Hunter

• The legacy “Strength Quick Shot Slow” is now properly buffing Quick Shot’s slow.
• Fire bolts will no longer remain in the Hunter’s hand after using Improved Swift Bow – Ablaze.

Minstrel

• The Minstrel skill Call to Greatness will now apply level appropriate versions of Shields Up and Guardian’s Ward to Wardens and Guardians respectively.
• As expected in Book 7, we’ve had to tone down the IA damage progressions for the Minstrel to keep his IA contribution to DPS in line with his class role. This will allow us to maintain the 1-50 experience we want to see from the class.

Captain

• The tooltips for two of the Captain’s trait set bonuses were incorrect. There were no changes in the functionality of these bonuses; the tooltips were just corrected to match their effects.
• The 3 trait bonus in Hands of Healing reduces the power cost on ALL healing skills.
• The 3 trait bonus in Lead the Charge reduces all Melee skills power costs. There were no changes in functionality of these bonuses.
• The Captain’s trait Composure will now allow Time of Need to reset the cooldown on Shadow’s Lament as per the trait’s description.
• Captains can once again rename their banners.
• The Captain’s skill Cry of Vengeance will now have a 10 second window to be used as well as a slightly longer range.
• The Captain’s class trait Loyalty now has an expanded description that mentions all of the bonuses for the trait. In addition, the trait’s bonus to Herald’s armour was increased slightly.
• Captains can once again use the Gleaming Striker, Flashing Bane, and Shining Star scrolls that add the bonus Light damage title to their legendary class item.
• Captains will now perform an attack animation when using their Kick skill while unarmed or disarmed.

Burglar

• Quite a Snag now reduces attack speed by 10% and increases incoming damage by 3%.
• Small Snag still reduces attack speed by 5% and now increases incoming damage by 2%.
• Gamblers Strike no longer is guaranteed a tier 4-6 damaging Gamble. It’s odds are better than other Gamble application skills, but not as consistent as it was. Existing Gambles on your foe will still be upgraded to max tier (including Damaging Gambles applied from other sources)
• All trait lines have had their bonuses re-ordered and modified.
• The 3 traitline legendary traits grant additional passive bonuses.
• Cunning Attack’s recovery is increased to 5s.
• Disable now recovers in 5s and lasts for 30s.
• Hidden Knife now increases damage from stealth.
• The IA legacy for Share the Fun has been removed. The +Stalk speed legacy now increases Share the Fun speed.
• Track Treasure can now be used in conjunction with other resource tracking skills.
• The tooltips of all Trick Removal skills now displays the effects they will apply.
• Gamblers Strike has its base damage reduced.
• Small Snag has its base damage increased.
• Cruel Odds has its application chance increased.
• Flashing Blades has its damage increased.
• The Even Odds buff increases gamble chance by 50%.
• Stick and Move now increases partial parry chances and magnitude.
• Little Annoyances, Dealings Done, and Practiced Bluff now reduce cool down by 140 seconds (was 120 seconds).
• Devastating criticals of Cunning Attack now apply even stronger Damage over Time.
• The “From Stealth” version of Cunning Attack has had its damage increased.
• “Well-placed Strike” has its Recovery reduced to 3 minutes.
• “Strategic Planning” now decreases Location is Everything’s recovery by 3 minutes.
• “Strike from Shadows” now increases stealth critical chance by a flat percentage.

Lore-master

• The Lynx’s attacks “Feral Strike” and “Slashing Claws” will now properly / more consistently hit the targets in front of the Lynx. (A special thanks to the bug reporter, Valridan, for sending this issue in. This was tough to spot in game, but very blatantly wrong on my end.)
• Lore-masters will now sheathe their staffs on their backs with the staff head over their shoulder instead of near their feet.
• Lore-masters using Staff and Sword will now have attack animations during Fellowship Maneuvers.
• Lore-master squirrel pets will once again be able to follow their masters around Middle-earth.
• Lore-master Skill, Knowledge of the Lore-master, should be more accurate at determining monster fellowship skill immunity.

Rune-keeper

• Lightning Critical damage legacy was reduced.
• The Rune of Restoration has it’s unsummon distance reduced.This should help with it randomly pulling mobs after you are leave it.
• The Thunderous Words buff was erroneously claiming it reduced the Rune-keeper’s ability to bypass resistance. It now reads properly.
• Conflagration of Runes was erroneously claiming it reduced Induction time by .5. Its power reduction was also removed.
• Weapon of X skills debuff is no longer permanent. Debuff now lasts for 10 seconds. The rate at which the debuff applies was greatly increased.
• Fall to X skills no longer add damage to the skill that triggers them. The damage Fall to X deals is now treated as though from a separate source.
• Rousing Words has been slightly reworked. It will no longer pulse double on the RK. The initial pulse has been moved back slightly and the duration extended to maintain a pulse count of 6. This should cause minimal gameplay changes.
• Enamels now share cooldown.
• Inlays now share cooldown.
• Armour of Flame: Slightly reduced damage. Duration of Damage over Time decreased.
• Epic Conclusion: Base damage increased. “Closing Remarks” damage buffs decreased from 75% to 50%. Critical damage decreased. Net DPS of this skill should only be mildly affected. The highs will not be as high and the lows not as low.
• Ceaseless Argument: Damage and power cost decreased.
• Wrath of Flame skills: Slight increase in power cost.
• “Martial Training” now increases morale by 300.
• The rock centering the Rune-keeper’s Rune of Restoration will no longer sink under the waves when used in deep water.

Warden

• Corrected typo in Warden’s Reversal gambit description.
• Warden Damage over Time and Morale Transfer effects will now stack per caster. That is, each Warden can apply one of each of these effects to every monster.
• Elf Male Wardens will no longer constantly make odd noises while engaged in combat.
• Male elf wardens will now use the correct animation for Warden’s Taunt.
• The Warden Legendary Weapon legacy for Exultation of Battle Threat Up was adding much more threat than was intended. This legacy has been brought in line with other threat-enhancing legacies.
• Corrected Warden combat animations while disarmed.
• The Warden skill Critical Strike will no longer have a delay before activating after a using a Gambit.
• The Heal over Time effect from the Warden Safeguard Gambit will now be displayed in the Buffs section of the UI, not Debuff.
• Warden gambits should no longer fail with “You cannot harm yourself.” messages when executing gambits quickly after queuing the last required skill to perform the gambit
• Gambits that required slotted traits will no longer appear in the Gambit panel if the necessary traits are not slotted.

Traits/Titles/Deeds/Virtues

• Trout Master can now be advanced while in a raid.
• All tentacles in the Vile Maw now count for The Arms of the Watcher (Advanced).
• The Accomplishment “Seven Swords” is now properly displayed.
• The racial trait Balance of Man will no longer show as Earning when An Ancient Story of Evil is underway or completed. It is now properly shown on the correct accomplishment Enmity of the Hillmen.
• The Virtue Tolerance has had its bonus to in-combat morale regen corrected. Previously the virtue gave its maximum bonus at every level of Tolerance. Now Tolerance gives an in-combat morale bonus that increases to its maximum value at rank 10.
• The Expert Attacks deed will now properly update with devastating criticals.
• The Call of the Wild deed will now properly update with devastating criticals.
• The Strong Draw deed will now properly update with criticals and devastating criticals.

Monster Play

General Monster Play

• Addressed several issues that allowed for unintended gameplay.
• Monster Player health and power potions will now stack to 50.
• Monster Player food items will now stack to 50.
• Seeking charms and tracking talismans will now stack to 20.
• Cure fear potions (barter) will now stack to 20.
• Delving spirit stones, Tyrant’s Crests, and Chieftain’s Brooches will now stack to 100.
• Quest collectibles found in the Ettenmoors (such as Hobbit Legs, Barrels of Oil, Slabs of Troll Stone) will now stack to 100.
• Items with root duration reduction will once again affect root skills from Monster Player characters.
• Resilience (Reaver) and Snap Out of It! (Warleader) will cure root crowd control effects.
• Player channeled skills can now be used in water. Monster Player channeled skills were also updated.
• Pets will now properly attack when in guard mode and the master is attacked by a monster player.
• Players and monster players must now ensure that the tower bosses are dead to attempt to capture the tower locales.
• The level on Ranger and Troll quests offered when the population is unbalanced in the Ettenmoors are now level appropriate. The population mechanic is working correctly after investigating some reports.
• Goblins and Hobbits were confused at Tirith Rhaw – they would stay and defend the opposition. This has been addressed at the cost of a few toes and a lot of mushroom pie.
• Controlling their artifact and the players’ artifact will now give monster players a small bonus to all infamy earned in the Ettenmoors. Controlling both their artifact and the players’ artifact and all locations in the Ettenmoors will increase this bonus.
• Fixed an issue where Lainedhal’s Insignias could still be used outside of the Ettenmoors and the Delving of Frór.
• Fixed a bug where in some cases, two Ranger session quests would become active instead of one during tracking for population balance.
• Rating is no longer visible to other players via the PvMP rank tooltip.
• Skills and Items no longer prevent/cure Conjunction Stuns.
• All player skills that cause a Fellowship or War Band Conjunction now use the Conjunction Stun animation/visual.
• The Warband Maneuver, Fell Spirit’s Terror, will now give back the appropriate amount of health from the health transfer effect.

Creeps

Spider Weaver

• Increased the damage over time components of the following Weaver skills: Tainted Kiss, Mephitic Kiss, and Piercing Attack.
• The Weaver skills Mephitic Kiss and Tainted Kiss will now do Acid damage to targets.

Uruk Blackarrow

• The damage over time effect from Flaming Arrow can now be cured (and is a wounds effect).

Warg Stalker

• Rend Flesh and Rabid Bite’s target icons will no longer be reversed.
• The Stalker’s Rallying Howl heal skill has had its initial heal and heal over time components readjusted and increased.

Uruk Warleader

• Increased the amount healed by the Warleader’s Crack the Whip and Quit Whining and Fight! skills.

Defiler

• The Defiler’s Fell Restoration skill has had its induction time decreased to 2.5 seconds.
• Increased the damage over time components of the Defiler’s Fire Gourd and Headbreaker skills.
• Increased the damage dealt by the Defiler’s Plague Gourd and Tenderize skills.
• The Defiler’s Plague of Flies skill can no longer be missed, blocked, parried or evaded. Instead, this skill can be resisted.
• The Defiler’s Gooey Gourd and Plague of Flies skills no longer share the same cooldown timer.
• The Defiler’s Plague of Flies swarm has been increased in level by 1.
• The Defiler’s Plague of Flies skill cooldown has been increased to 30 seconds.
• Increased the heal over time components of the following Defiler skills: Fertile Slime, Fungal Bloom, Fungal Spores.

Auctions

• Warden Carvings will now be searchable in the Auction House under Class Items – Warden Carvings

User Interface

• Item roll displays are now limited to 2 rows of 5 items each. Any available items beyond that will appear as you act on the visible items.
• More UIs can be skinned, several fixes have been made.
• The client now has a /ui command that can be used to save the current layout of windows to an xml file and then load this layout.
• To save a ui layout type: /ui layout save <name>
• To load a previously saved layout: /ui layout load <name>
• In both cases the name is optional and if not specified it will just save to a file called Default_ appended with your current game window resolution. (e.q running in 800 x 600 results inDefault_800_600.layout)
• The error message and broadcast message UI boxes are now moveable via the “Ctrl+\” UI mode.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the display of the queued skill border on quickslots for disabled skills. This was especially apparent to classes with reactive skills which they may have queued knowing their executing skill would fulfill the requirements of the queued skill.
• More UIs can be skinned, several fixes have been made.
• UI Skinning reorganization of panels (backed by the SkinDefinition.txt file) has been fixed. You can now reorganize the elements within panels.
• Fixed a memory leak with skinned assets
• Fellowship invite messages will now expire on teleporting or entering an instance.
• Items will no longer erroneously be bumped from your inventory into the item overflow.
• The Ornate Yew bow will now update skill duration tooltips properly.
• Effect icons will once again pulse when they are running out of time.
• Elements in a Barter NPC’s list will no longer stop graying out once they are selected.
• When examining an Item Advancement class item, the view of your equipped class item will now display title effects on it properly.
• Housing furniture will no longer have their names erroneously truncated in their tooltips.
• Fixed an issue where the housing maintenance UI seemed to not be updating properly.
• Partial mitigation tooltip values from block, parry, and evade found in the character journal now include the values gained through additional modifiers, such as legendary item relics.
• The tutorial hint for traits now blinks on the trait menu button.

Quest Guide

• Quest Guide indicators that are highlighted on the map (by mousing over the associated quest in the map’s mini quest tracker) will now show up above any of the non-highlighted indicators. Also, the “ring” indicators will no longer be covered by shaded area indicators that are not highlighted.
• The Quest Guide map indicators will now visibly “pulse” when mousing over the associated quest.
• The Quest Guide quest list on the map will now save its position once you close the map or log out.
• Rummings Rants and Riddles now displays the entire isle of Tyl Ruinen instead of just one part.
• The Grand Stair – Igash’s Lair: Correctly guides you back to the NPC.
• Several Helegrod quests now point to the entrance.
• Freeing the Forge now directs you to the entrance.
• Goblin-Town Tabbards will direct you to the entrances of goblin town.
• Elf Class Training quests will now display rings at the locations of the training dummies.
• Rangers and Rogues will no longer highlight the imprisoned Southern Leader in Bree.
• Flying the Coop – Trollshaws will display a ring.
• Silent Surprise will now shade its location.
• Foreman of the Great Wheel shows the entrance locations of the Chamber of Wheels.
• Way of the Pack will display correct locations.
• Dwalin’s Plight: Sand piles will glow now.
• Never Far From Home now correctly points and gives directions to the vineyard.
• Puzzle of the Carvings will no longer only glow with the one you need.

Chat/Social/Kinship

• Kinship charters will now correctly indicate that at least 8 members must be registered, or the kinship will be disbanded in 24 hours.
• We no longer spam your chat window with all the passive skills you earn when entering the world as a new character.
• There was an occasional bug where dying would generate a “string table error” in the chat window. This is now fixed.
• Fixed a client crash that occurs when dragging a separated chat tab into the text entry box on the main chat window.
• The name of kinship is now shown in the dialog to the player being recruited

Housing

• Housing lockout fees will now increase according to a schedule every week that the house is in lockout. The initial fee is the same as the existing lockout fee. Every week that the house remains in lockout, the lockout fee will increase until it reaches 90% of the house purchase price.
• The Housing Authority will also send an in-game mail to players with locked houses alerting them to the change in the unlock fee schedule.

Raids and Instances

General

• We have put in several measures in all high-level instances to prevent the exploits that had become rampant in these spaces.
• Tier 1 Raid Set now has Tough durability instead of Normal.

Vile Maw

• The transition between stages 2 and 3 now takes longer, giving players more time to kill the tentacle spawns.
• The corruption melee buffs in stage 3 now pile up every 15 seconds instead of 5 seconds
• Stage 3 now takes longer to ramp up in difficulty and is spaced out a bit more.
• The Watcher welcomes you back with hugs and says he misses all of you very much.

Broken Stairs

• Igash could sometimes fire two aoe skills back-to-back making the encounter overly difficult. This behavior has been curbed.

Fil Gashan

• In the final fight of Fil Gashan, the Fire DOTs can once again be removed by standing in the waterfalls.

16th Hall

• Changes to The Lost One in the 16th Hall.

The Rift

• Players should no longer get stuck in the Balrog platform.

Lórien Battle

• Belvagor’s appearance is now consistent between Caras Galadhon and the Fanuidhol Battle.
• Resource Instances: Orc-cleavers and Orc-hewers have had their names swapped to better imply their character and skill set.
• The Sentinel’s Challenges have been versioned, so you will need to re-acquire them if one of them was underway in your quest journal. They will now fail if you fail The Battle of Lórien, in order to keep the timers from counting down even once the Battle is done.
• Quests associated with this instance will now update properly.

Resource Instances

• Writing Host-crawlers no longer count toward the advancement of “Kill Boss” quests in the Resource Instances.

Grand Stair

• The extra chests in the final boss room will no longer drop gold. Only the boss’s chest will drop money now.

Hall of Mirrors

• Increased Warg-matron’s corruption countdown from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.

Filiki

• Nornuan can no longer be enraged.
• Nouruan will now remove the effects of Shield Wall with small penalties to those enacting and receiving the effects of this skill.

Crafting

Crafting Revamp!

• Full details will be given in an upcoming dev diary. Until then:
  • Adjusted the minimum level requirements for most crafted light, medium, and heavy armour pieces
  • Adjusted the minimum level requirements for most crafted shields
  • Adjusted the minimum level requirements for most crafted jewellery
  • Adjusted the minimum level requirements for most crafted weapons
  • Optional Ingredients Revamp! Optional ingredients for many recipes were previously dropped by specific monsters in specific areas, which often led to difficulty imbalances between obtaining the ingredients for the different crafting professions. Additionally, many of these items merely stated, “This item can be used in crafting.” This vagueness did little to help players identify which optional ingredients were useful to which professions (and at what tiers). I am happy to say that those days are behind us!
  • New optional ingredients have been added for the Cooking, Jeweller, Metalsmith, Scholar, Tailor, Weaponsmith, and Woodworker professions. These new optional ingredients replace the old optional ingredients, which can no longer be found in treasure or used in recipes. A new Trophy Broker NPC, located in Michel Delving, will exchange any old optional ingredient you might have for the appropriate new optional ingredient.
  • The new optional ingredients can now be obtained from two different, widespread sources: Humanoid Treasure & Resource Nodes
  • The tier of optional ingredient dropped via treasure is determined by the humanoid creature’s level:
    • Apprentice Ingredients: Levels 1-12
    • Journeyman Ingredients: Levels 13-23
    • Expert Ingredients: Levels 24-34
    • Artisan Ingredients: Levels 35-43
    • Master Ingredients: Levels 44-50
    • Supreme Ingredients: Levels 51-60
  • The tier/type of optional ingredient obtained from a resource node is determined by the tier/type of node:
    • Farming Fields: can produce Cooking optional ingredients
    • Forestry Branches: can produce Tailoring and Woodworking optional ingredients
    • Prospecting Deposits: can produce Jeweller, Metalsmith, and Weaponsmith optional ingredients
    • Scholar Artifacts: can produce Scholar optional ingredients
  • The new optional ingredients now clearly state in their tooltips which profession and crafting tier (Apprentice, Journeyman, etc.) the ingredient is used by. Each new optional ingredient is used by only one profession/tier combination.

General Crafting

• Added a Make All button to the crafting recipe window which will make as many items that the player has components for.
• The “number to make” field in the crafting panel will no longer drop to 0 once you finish making a single item or a batch of items.
• The single-use Woodworking recipes for Warden Carvings now stack.
• The Peerless Turtle-shell Bracelet has been updated to be better than the non-crit version.
• The trophy item Flawed Ear no longer states in its description, “This item may be used in crafting.”
• Fixed an issue with Light, Medium, Sturdy, Pristine, and Exceptional Hides having lower-than-expected coin values.
• Cleaned up the singular and plural names of many crafting ingredients and components.
• Changed the quality level of some quest-related & reputation-related crafting items to Uncommon (yellow).
• Added the various ‘Ring of Tactics’ one-shot recipes to the appropriate Jeweller recipe scroll cases.
• Corrected a typo in the crafting guide called, “An Explorer’s Guide.”
• Fixed an issue where some common trophy drops were using names identical to rare trophy drops. The common Blackened Claw trophy item has been renamed to Bent Claw, and the common Dusky Claw trophy item has been renamed to Crooked Claw.
• Updated the stat descriptions on all crafting tools that provide bonuses to critical chance and/or reductions in timed durations to include the specific profession(s) affected by these bonuses.
• Lowered the prices of all normal Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Artisan, and Master recipe scrolls.
• The following optional ingredients are now available from Lórien barter NPCs: Elven-cloth Lining, Elven-steel Grip, and Elven-wood Oil.
• The optional ingredients Elven-cloth Lining, Elven-steel Grip, and Elven-wood Oil were incorrectly marked to be “Bind on Acquire.” These items can now be traded freely between players.
• All common crafting ingredients that are sold by vendors now state in their descriptions, “This ingredient is sold by suppliers and profession vendors.”

Farming

• Reduced the number of optional ingredients needed to execute all farming field recipes from 3 to 1. Coupled with this, the price of one Soil of Rivendell has increased to 48 copper, and the price of one Soil of Lórien has increased 96 copper to account for the ingredient quantity changes.

Scholar

• Renamed some of the Journeyman, Master, and Supreme Scholar Athelas Essence and Celebrant Salve recipes to bring consistency to the names of all tiers of craftable potions. In general, the names for all Scholar-crafted potions should be as follows:
  • Apprentice: Lesser potions
  • Journeyman: Simple potions
  • Expert: Greater potions
  • Artisan: Refined potions
  • Master: Distilled potions
  • Supreme: Infused potions, Pure potions
• Reduced the cool-down timer to 10 minutes for the following Battle & Warding Lore scrolls:
  • Scroll of Minor Battle Lore
  • Scroll of Minor Warding Lore
  • Scroll of Battle Lore
  • Scroll of Warding Lore
  • Scroll of Improved Battle Lore
  • Scroll of Improved Warding Lore
  • Infused Athelas Essence & Celebrant Salve Recipes: These recipes now require one Etching of Moria (previously one Relic of Khazâd-dm)
  • Pure Athelas Essence & Celebrant Salve Recipes: These recipes now require one Relic of Khazad-dm (previously one Tattered Khuzdul Parchment)
• Increased the quantity of some required ingredients necessary to execute the following Scholar’s Guild recipes:
  • Greater Athelas Extracts Recipe
  • Greater Celebrant Ointments Recipe
  • Refined Athelas Extracts Recipe
  • Refined Celebrant Ointments Recipe
  • Distilled Athelas Extracts Recipe
  • Distilled Celebrant Ointments Recipe
  • Infused Athelas Extracts Recipe
  • Infused Celebrant Ointments Recipe
  • Pure Athelas Extracts Recipe
  • Pure Celebrant Ointments Recipe
  • Potent Athelas Essences Recipe
  • Potent Celebrant Salves Recipe
• New Rune-keeper consumable item recipes have arrived! Scholars can now craft inlays and enamels, which can be used to temporarily enhance the Rune-keeper’s abilities. These recipes can be purchased from Rune-keeper trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Scholar NPCs.

Prospecting

• Improvements in smelting and refining technology have brought about some positive changes for prospectors who regularly make Bronze and Khazâd-bronze Ingots
• Apprentice Prospectors can now smelt two chunks of Tin Ore directly into one Tin Ingot. They can also refine one Tin Ingot and one Copper Ingot into two Bronze Ingots.
• Supreme Prospectors can now smelt two chunks of Khazâd-tin Ore directly into one Khazâd-tin Ingot. They can also refine one Khazâd-tin Ingot and one Khazâd-copper Ingot into two Khazâd-bronze Ingots.
• The Supreme Prospector recipe, “Mithril-infused Khazâd-iron Ingot” has been removed. The item it created is not used as an ingredient in any existing recipe. Sadly, any prospector that produced a Mithril-infused Khazâd-iron Ingot found themselves the proud new owner of an expensive paperweight! Good news though: Taddyn the Trophy Broker (located in the Bree Crafting Hall) will accept one Mithril-infused Khazâd-iron Ingot in exchange for one Mithril-infused Khazâd-steel Ingot.

Cooking

• Corrected a typo in the display name of the Superior Cooking trail food, “Superior Buttered Scone and Jam.”
• Fixed an issue where consuming a Cooked, Trail, or Fortifying food of a lower tier would have no effect (essentially wasting the food) if a Cooked, Trail, or Fortifying food of a higher tier was already in effect. The effect from a lower tier food will now be suppressed by the effect from a higher tier food until the higher tier food’s effect expires. At this point, the lower tier food’s effect will become active.
• Updated the names of the effects bestowed when eating cooked, trail, or fortifying foods, as well as from fine drinks. The effect names should now more clearly match the type of food they came from (Cooked Food, Trail Food, Fortifying Food, or Fine Drink).

Weaponsmith

• Reduced the amount of crafting experience awarded for the following Supreme Weaponsmith recipes:
  • Lethal Shield-spike Kit Recipe
  • Supreme Ancient Dwarf Shield-spike Kit Recipe
  • Lethal Caltrops Recipe
  • Big Bag of Marbles Recipe
  • Paralyzing Stun Dust Recipe
• Changed crafting UI category “Guardian Shield-spikes” to “Shield-spikes” now that they can be used by multiple classes.
• Corrected output quantities for the Supreme Weaponsmith “Lethal Shield-spike Kit” and “Supreme Ancient Dwarf Shield-spike Kit” recipes. The lethal spike kit recipe will now produce three kits for a normal success and three kits for a critical success. The supreme ancient dwarf spike kit recipe will produce 2 kits for a normal success and 2 kits for a critical success.

Jeweller

• Fixed the tooltip for the Supreme Jeweller recipe, “Turtle-shelled Bracelet.” Tooltip no longer states that the recipe can only be used once.
• Changed the crafting UI display category to “Tokens” for the following Jeweller recipes: Dull Edhelharn Token, Faint Edhelharn Token.
• Corrected the plural display names for the following: Engraved Bloodstone Ring of Tactics recipe, Engraved Ruby Ring of Tactics recipe, Engraved Adamant Ring of Tactics recipe, Engraved Beryl Ring of Tactics recipe, and the Dawn-rose Ring of Tactics recipe. The names should now be consistent when you have a two or more of these recipes in a stack.

Tailoring

• The following Tailor’s Guild recipe scrolls are no longer bound to players:
  • Exquisite Protector’s Gloves Recipe
  • Exquisite Protector’s Helm Recipe
• Adjusted the stats on the following crafted sets of medium armour to improve the usefulness of the armour sets for Hunters, Burglars, and Wardens:
  • Footman’s Armour /Fine Footman’s Armour
  • Scout’s Armour / Superior Scout’s Armour
  • Herald’s Armour / High Herald’s Armour
  • Marchwarden’s Armour / Majestic Marchwarden’s Armour
• Adjusted the stats on the following crafted sets of armour to improve the usefulness of the armour sets for Lore-masters, Minstrels, and Rune-keepers:
  • Superb Radiant / Exquisite Radiant (Includes Dwarf-make, Elven, and Westernesse versions)
  • Rock-climber’s Armour / Rugged Rock-climber’s Armour
  • Searcher’s Armour / Superior Searcher’s Armour
  • Treasure-hunter’s Armour / Transcendent Treasure-hunter’s Armour
  • Master’s Armour / Magnificent Master’s Armour
  • New Supreme Burglar’s signal recipes can now be found in treasure.
• Added the Journeyman, Expert, and Artisan Rune-keeper Rune-satchel recipes to all Novice and Expert Tailor NPCs.
• All crafted Rune-keeper Rune-satchels are now Bind on Equip.
• Corrected the name of the Superb Leather Shoes Recipe.
• Fixed the name of the Journeyman Tailoring recipe for making tough leather shoes. The name of the recipe is now “Tough Leather Shoes Recipe.”

Metalsmith

• The Supreme Metalsmith crafted shield, “Superb Lothlrien Heavy Shield” now has Tough durability.
• New Rune-keeper item recipes have arrived! Metalsmiths can now craft chisels, which Rune-keepers can equip in their ranged item slots to provide increased damage. Rune-keeper trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Metalsmith NPCs, sell most of these recipes. More advanced recipes can be found in treasure!
• Reward recipes for Warden shields have been added to the Metalsmith’s Guild reward vendor.
• Adjusted the stats on the following crafted sets of armour to improve the usefulness of the armour sets for Champions, Captains, and Guardians:
• Sell-sword’s Armour / Superior Sell-sword’s Armour
• Sentinel’s Armour / Superb Sentinel’s Armour
• Officer’s Armour / High Officer’s Armour
• Noble’s Armour / Heroic Noble’s Armour
• Corrected typos found in the tooltips for the following tools:
• Superior Bronze Smithing Hammer
• Superior Iron Smithing Hammer
• Superior Steel Smithing Hammer
• Superior Dwarf-Steel Smithing Hammer
• Superior Ancient Iron Smithing Hammer
• Superior Ancient Steel Smithing Hammer.

Woodworking

• New Warden item recipes have arrived! Woodworkers can now craft carvings, which Wardens can equip in their class item slots to decrease the power cost of their gambits. Recipes up to and including the Master Woodworking tier can be purchased from Warden trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Woodworker NPCs. More advanced recipes can be found in treasure.
• The trophy item named Long Horn (a required ingredient for the Master Woodworker Champion Horn recipe) now states in its description that the item can be used in crafting. The icon has also been changed for this item to indicate that it is a crafting ingredient.
• Adjusted the stats on Heavy Yew crafted weapons to differentiate them from Yew crafted weapons. Additionally, adjusted stats on the Stout Yew crafted weapons to differentiate them from the Hardened Yew crafted weapons.
• The Woodworker’s Guild Reward Vendor now sells the recipe for Crafted Burglar’s Club of the Third Age.
• The crafted instruments Elegant Drum and Exquisite Elegant Drum now correctly change Echoes of Battle damage type to Beleriand.

Emotes

• When you slap someone with a fish, now you slap him/her/it with a fish, not just hold a fish while slapping him/her/it.

Items

• In an effort to reduce some of the inventory space concerns the following have had their stack sizes increased.
• Most food items now stack to 50.
• Minstrel’s Lute Strings now have a stack size of 50
• All reputation tokens now stack to 100.
• Traveling Rations now stack to 100.
• All crafting-related ingredients (and components) now stack to 100.
• All new optional crafting ingredients stack to 100.
• All craftable morale potions, power potions, and cure potions now stack to 50.
• The Following Items have been re-leveled to match the new quest advancement structure.
  • “Adso’s Club”
  • “Adso’s Two-Handed Axe”
  • “Bregdail”
• The Following Items have been adjusted:
  • “Watcher’s Mace”
  • “Brandybuck’s Leggings”
  • “Estellos”
• “Bracegirdle’s Boots”
  • “Bracegirdle’s Staff”
  • “Bracegirdle’s Dirk”
  • “Bracegirdle’s Shield”
• The Following Items have been changed to work with the new quest levels:
  • “Hengaim”
  • “Menedgaim”
  • “Cloak of Cardolan”
  • “Tallang”
  • “Taronn”
  • “Bombadil’s Rune-stone”
  • “Toranc”
  • “Froth-ftar”
  • “Golfadanir”
  • “Gollos”
  • “Defender of Cardolan”
  • “Constable’s Hammer”
  • “Malbellas”
  • “Daerechor”
  • “Glamír’s Javelin”
• The following lvl 15-20 quest rewards, have been altered to fit the new quest structure:
  • “Saeradan’s Bow”
  • “Saeradan’s Leggings”
  • “Saeradan’s Shoulder Guards”
  • “Maribell’s Defender”
  • “Talloch”
  • “Thistleway’s Trousers”
• Lothlorien Jewelry Sets
  • Cleaned up the text to be less confusing.
  • All ‘clickable’ abilities for these items now share a Cooldown.
  • Removed the ‘placing trap’ animation from the ‘clickables’.
  • Reduced the amount of damage reflected by “Protector’s Reproach”.
  • Reduced the buff on “Lothlorien Knowledge”.
• Fixed an issue with the display names of “Root” trophy items changing to “Root Fragments” when stacked.
• Heavy Shield “Naudh-caer” now has an equip and usage cooldown time.
• Fishing: Sturgeon Group Trophy is now set to Bind on Acquire.
• Corrected grammatical issues with the messages displayed to fellowships when a member of the fellowship opens a scroll case or gift box.
• Burnt Orange Wall Paint is no longer Bind on Acquire.
• Fixed typo in name of Pathfinder’s Leggings
• Leggings from quest “The Blade that was Broken” have been renamed due to a naming conflict.
• The reward items for the Troll-keeper quest have been upgraded due to the difficulty of the quest. This change affects items: Longbeard’s Hammer, Favargair’s Foil, Trphadanir, Eldram. Also, two additional items have been added as rewards for this quest: A necklace and a pocket item.
• Increased the Power on the Rune-keeper’s Word-Smith’s Robe
• Added information to the Stonehelm Shield to tell the user that using its skill will root them for 16 seconds. This info was missing from the usage description.
• Wall of Annúminas shield now has a 5 minute equip cooldown instead of 10 minutes.
• Fixed typo in the description for Insidious Cuff
• Cloak “Jubut-rud” has a cooldown on usage now.
• Summerdays Fireworks are no longer destroyed when used.
• “Fur Lining for Mammutti Boots” item was using the wrong icon.
• Fixed a grammar error with the description of Sandson’s Famous Hardboiled Eggs
• Fixed some javelins and rune-stones from quest rewards that had very low re-sale value, durability, and repair cost.
• Two new home decorations are now offered by Lórien barter vendors. One item is a coat of arms offered by Orelleth and the other is a tapestry from Tharnelleth.
• “Master’s Lamp Post” decoration item can now be fit into small slots.
• Warden’s Spear Carvings are now set to bind to the player when equipped.
• There were a number of class items, such as the Hunter’s & Lore-master’s books, that were not set to bind to the player when equipped.
• Fixed a bug with the Runic Slab and Javelin of the Unbeliever that made them unusable for characters who wanted to use them.
• Fixed an issue with some items that caused a phantom drinking sound to be heard during combat.
• Fixed some weapons that had incorrect damage FX that didn’t match the item’s damage-type. In some cases the weapons were playing damage FX when the item’s damage type was ‘common.’
• Fixed typos in some of the Lothlórien reputation reward items.
• Corrected a typo in the plural name of the trophy item, “Mangled Stinger.” The name now appears correctly when you have a stack of these items.
• Corrected the display name of the Lore-master’s Staff of the Third Age. Lore-master is now properly hyphenated!
• The Helm for the Warden’s Spear Hurler’s Armor set now more closely matches the color of the rest of the armor pieces in the set.
• Some uncommon javelins were incorrectly set up as bows, causing them to use incorrect attack animations (amongst other problems). These weapons have been fixed and will now be properly treated as javelins.
• Scented Candles and the Horn of the Dwarrowdelf will now share the same cooldown channel that all Edhelharn Tokens use. All of these items have a 15-minute cooldown timer.
• Changed the tooltip on the Thrill-seeker’s Gloves to read “-50% Search Speed.” The previous tooltip indicated that the gloves would decrease the speed of searching, which was incorrect.
• The spring festival barter items Primrose, Marigold, and Violet are now set to Bind on Acquire.
• The Warden class items “Stalwart Guardian of the X” will henceforth be known as “Stalwart Guardian of the X”
• The Sturgeon Group Trophy will no longer allow players to attempt to use it.
• Uncommon Jewelry and Uncommon Shields found on mobs in Moria are now Bind on Equip.

Legendary Items

• The title “Hero of Caras Galadhon” (found in Lothlórien) has been fixed so that you can now apply it to a Legendary Item that already has the title “Defender of the Forgotten West”. Also, the scroll which bestows the title is now named consistently with the title.
• Updated the deconstruction warning message to remind you that runics are returned to you if the item is of max level.
• Auto Combine will now pull from the highest counts in each tier first
• Only usable legendary items will appear in the list of slottable items when slotting items from the Legendary Items panel.
• Minstrels and Wardens will have all points spent on their legendary items refunded in response to changes made to their legacies so they can re-spend them accordingly.

Loot System

• Improved the loot yielded by the Iron Garrison Resource Cache:
• Increased the quantity of crafting resources the chest can yield
• Removed all lower-tier resources from the profile
• Slightly increased the number of scroll cases the chest can yield
• Slightly increased the chance to yield a Mithril Flake
• Updates were made to many of the level 58-60 non-hard mode boss chests in Moria instances to have a chance of producing a 2nd Age Legendary item.
• The Strange Happenings Raid (aka Turtle Raid) now has some additional 1st Age and 2nd Age swords made in the likeness of the Filikul Spears.
• Reduced the odds of getting Honey & Oats recipes. Now the odds of getting them are high, rather than spectacularly awesome.
• Rare Lórien monsters Morthrng, Trglok, Rkath, Quílfra, Faegnar, Braigam, Zûbardh, Urbhâr, Gwollg, Mundaras, and Rascaras, and Nímau now drop Mithril Flakes.
• Orcs in Lothlórien now drop items and money.
• A couple of rare bears now drop Mithril Flakes: Daeranc and Belegbrog
• Spiders in the Corpse Pile now reward XP and Reputation when killed.
• When fellowship loot rules allow for rolling on keys, only players who have not added the key to their keyring will see the roll option.

Graphics/Animation/fx

• The Volume I Book 5 movie will now correctly play when completing ‘Fire and Ice’
• Fixed an issue that was preventing the Volume I Book 6 movie from playing or from unlocking in the movie library.
• Removed an extraneous billboard being displayed during I.9.3 Added comments to several quests throughout the Volume I Epic line
• One elf male hairstyle did not fit to the back of the head properly. fixed.
• Fixed an inconsistency between the two Orvars in Moria.
• Corrected display of weapons by Ghash-hai orcs in Crafting Halls.
• Fixed Multiple visual effects and animation syncing issues for NPC blacksmiths in Archet and Lone Lands as well as NPC archers in Breeland, North Downs, & Buckland. The animation and vfx now play together.
• The Fell-Glass Spiders should no longer appear completely invisible on High Graphics Settings.
• Various terrain texture and lighting seams have been cleaned up.
• Various asset placement issues have been resolved.
• Various floating resource nodes have been grounded. Minor waterfall effect issues in the Chamber of Wheels have been resolved.
• Issues with assets viewed through windows in Barad Gularan have been resolved.
• Various terrain issues have been cleaned up.
• Update of Lórien cloaks for all avatars with degrades and uv edit.
• Lore-masters will now sheathe their staffs on their backs with the staff head over their shoulder instead of near their feet.
• Fixed a problem that was causing the ground to appear black or oddly colored at times within Moria.
• Bows, crossbows and javelins will now display various weapon effects while sheathed like melee weapons. This includes the various damage type effects as well as the glow of slayer weapons.
• The Doom-speaker in the Nameless Places instance will now properly animate as he knocks people back.
• Using throwing daggers now has an updated attack animation.
• Fixed a hobbit who was farming without any tools.
• Ongli in Gath Forthnir no longer turns when you speak to him
• Shire: Lucky Sling Stone: The deer corpse will now glow.
• Norsu-huata: Fixed a Gauradan who was in the wrong animation

World

• Various stuck locations have been fixed.
• Minor issues with impassable terrain in Eregion have been resolved.
• Pathing issues in the Refuge of Edhelion have been resolved.
• Tier 2 resources can now be found throughout the entirety of the Old Forest.
• Several campfires in Ost Guruth will now be burning. There were too many complaints about the time it took to cook over a couple of sticks and rocks.
• Perks purchased with Destiny points now persist through player sparring.
• The Sages of Eriador now offer one Master Scholar Scroll Case for three Marks of Triumph.

Town Services

• Master Craftsmen will now interact with people who have abandoned, then reacquired their old profession.
• A generic supplier can now be found in the Blue Stone Garrison.
• The Bree-land outfitters now sell a Soft Leather Boot. Some of you may recognize these boots as once rewarded to you by Ted Pickthorn. Now anyone can get this style of boot from the Outfitter.
• Hambrennil will now display a barter icon and mapnote.
• Bainen will now display a mapnote.
• Dorongur and Gailthin have been moved forward slightly to allow their rings to be seen in the Refuge of Edhelion.

Travel/Maps/Radar/Mounts

• Radar images for the Redhorn Lodes have been regenerated to remove odd render imperfections.
• Issues with the map and radar within Mekeb-farak and Bult-kar have been resolved.
• Issues with the Radar and Map within Zurr-thurkh have been resolved.
• The Forochel Tundra Pony will no longer be called the “Grey Pony” – it will now be correctly referred to as the “Tundra Pony” once again.

Performance/Client

• Addressed issues where Creative X-FI cards would generate a BSOD in certain situations.

Creature AI/Pathing

• Moose in Forochel will no longer stand around and allow themselves to be turned into Moose-burger.
• The “Swarming Bats” in the Hall of Mirrors will now properly summon bat pets.
• Burrow Mobs Take 2! Once again, monsters which “burrow” (Cave-claws, Shades, Dark-waters, Neekers) will no longer do so when they are near death, because that’s annoying. Our first attempt at fixing this was equivalent to a 9mm; it should’ve been enough to get the job done, but it wasn’t. *This* time we’re pulling out the Desert Eagle .50, that outta stop these jerks.
• Gramsfoot hobgoblins in the Bullroarer’s Sward area will now correctly use their large firepots to attack players.

Questing

General Questing

• Corrected some naming errors associated with the items for the following crafting quests:
  • Consignment: Fine wood
  • Consignment: Valuable Ore
  • Consignment: Supple Hides
  • Consignment: Arcane Lore
• Summer Festival fishing quest “Stocking the Pond” has been versioned.
• Summer Festival barter reward vendors have been adjusted for consistency.

Eriador

• Longo’s Missing Wagon has been versioned, and currently underway, the quest will be removed from your quest log, and can be taken again normally.
• There were three stoic dwarves in the second half of ‘The Last Refuge.’ They didn’t do anything, they just stood there being non-selectable! They have been… dealt with.
• Three quests occurring before the Raid on Archet were flagged for tracking the Bree-land quest deed. They have been removed from contribution. There are still many more quests than necessary to complete the Bree-land deeds.
• The dwarf pack for the quest The Forgetful Dwarf now spawns as all other quest items.
• All quests that were ticking up the Ered Luin quest deed in the new tutorial have been fixed to no longer advance the deed.
• April Fool’s Day quest can now be removed from players’ log.
• Fixed an issue with the required quests for “Leaving Middle-earth.”
• Sharpen Your Skills quests now direct players to the correct location.
• The Unwanted Guest quest, part of the Book 1 Prologue, has been re-leveled to fit with the new level scheme of Bree. It is now level 15.
• The quest “The Vigil” now correctly states that you can complete the quest solo and at any time of day.
• Thickets for the quest to clear the stream outside Noglond are now functioning like normal quest objects.
• The mouseover for the Token of Salutation erroneously identified Frerin’s Court as a turn in location. The offending information has been filed off of the token and the new location “the door at Thorin’s Halls” has been painted in with red ink.
• Spider-bane is no longer able to be completed twice. You either get the quest from Atli or kill Iornaith and get the quest from her head.
• The quest “The Old Dourhand City” is no longer a fellowship quest.
• The quest “Into the Crags” in the newbie area of Ered Luin now directs players to the Mirkstone Tunnels at the bottom of the Axe head Path
• The quest completion text for the quest “Old Bones” in Ered Luin no longer alludes to the player having visited Gondamon with the wight skull.
• It will no longer be possible to have both the skip introduction and skip tutorial quests at the same time.
• In the intro quest “Intro: Seeing to the Defence” Dirk Mudbrick asked you to kill wolves and then stopped talking to you. This type of anti-social behaviour does not belong in this game. We are friendly and open. Dirk is aware of this mindset and will now talk to players on this quest.
• Spoiled Pie from Tuckborough can now be used by more than one player at a time.
• Quest item for Shaky Foundations now goes into your quest item inventory.
• Bounty of the Sea: There are now fish and bubblings at the locations.
• Angmar: Mushroom for Rivendell: the Mushroom will go into your quest journal and not your inventory.
• Northdowns: Wargs of Annundir: Updated the quest so the popup box would no longer instantly disappear. This caused the quest to be versioned.
• Evendim: False Wards: Ward of Doom will now go into your inventory
• Remembering the Old Songs quest now offers a sword as a selectable reward. The original item rewarded by this quest, Lost Minstrel’s Walking Stick” has been renamed to “Hamall’s Walking Stick” and the description has been updated so it no longer mentions it belonged to a minstrel.

Moria

• Some players had old copies of the Strange Happenings live event quest arc still active in their quest logs. These were supposed to be removed when the live event to open the raid was completed. They have now been properly removed as the quest and its bestowers/turn-in NPCs are no longer available.
• A complete overhaul of the structure under-the-hood of ‘We Cannot Get Out’ in order to deal with some of the issues causing it to become incompletable.
• Frar will no longer enter anti exploit in We Cannot Get Out.
• Stolen Stones: Toki will reset to his original location.
• Piercing the Walls: The wall will now burn and disappear.
• Carver’s Stash no longer requires you to kill the troll. This caused the quest to be versioned, so if you have this quest underway when Book 8 goes live you will need to speak to the bestower NPC again.

Lórien

• City of the Golden Wood: Minor adjustments have been made to the dialogue text to present a more accurate description of the surrounding flets.
• Galadriel and Celeborn should now give you Hope during ‘Sons of Leaf and Stone’ and ‘The Worries of Lord Celeborn’
• The Lothlórien quest “Forms from Formlessness” is now repeatable.
• There is a new quest that will direct players from Mekhem-bizru (the Dimrill Dale) to Haldir’s flet.

Epic Story

• NPCs involved in Volume I Book 13 now have quest comments for all of that Book’s quests.
• Added some text for the Pulpum to say when they’re defeated as part of Volume2 Book 5 Chapter 1
• Fixed a respawn issue involving Amarthiel during an instance in Book 9.
• A mustering horn, present in the instance version of the final chapter of Volume 1 Book 1 in Bree-land, has been removed.
• The final chapter of Volume 1 Book 1 has been altered to allow for solo play. It is a very difficult solo adventure.
• Volume 2 Book 5 Chapter 2: Coffers are now unique and the quest can no longer be advanced by collecting respawns of a single coffer.
• Volume 2, Book 5, Chapter 5: The Way of the Smiths; enemies should now spawn more reliably.
• Volume 2 Book 7 Chapter 5 “The Wilting Rot” now gives level appropriate potions.
• Volume 2 Book 7 Chapter 8: Players must now clear Zurr-thurkh of threats before Orvar will arrive and enable access to the ruined Throne of Durin.

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Epic Book 8:

The plans of Gorothúl, sorcerer of Dol Guldur, begin to be made clear as ancient evils stir again in the depths of Khazad-dûm. Small fellowships must form to combat this emerging threat before the hopes of the Iron Garrison and the Elves of Lothlórien are ended by the darkness. The story of The Mines of Moria continues with new quests and challenges!

Of Special Note

Summer Festival

The Summer Festival, coming in Book 8, now has two new events — one in the Shire, on The Hill, and the second on the approach to Thorin’s Hall.

Crafted Equipment minimum level usage requirement changed

Certain crafted equipment items had their minimum level usage requirement changed for Book 8. However, bound items in the player’s possession which were changed to exceed the player’s level will instead match the player’s level. Non-bound and banked items are not versioned in this way.

Lothlorien Gift Box Changes:

• There is no longer a chance to receive First-age items.
• There is no longer a chance to receive Tier 4 Runics.
• The Heritage Runes have significantly increased in value.
  • The lowest value is now 75k.
  • The highest value is now 250k.
• There is now a chance to receive Level 58 and Level 59 Second-age items (you can still get Level 60 Second-age items as well).
• The odds have been tweaked, the most significant of which is that there’s now a slightly higher chance of receiving a Second-age item, but a lower chance of that Second-age being Level 60 (due to the inclusion of Level 58 and 59 Second-age items).
• The costs of the gift boxes have been significantly reduced: they now cost 15G 30S.
• The descriptions of the gift boxes have been changed to more accurately reflect the potential rewards.
• The gift boxes are no longer class restricted for those who mistakenly purchased the wrong box.
• Please note that there will be no compensation for those who have already purchased a gift box: when you opened that gift box you had a chance to get a Level 60 First-age item.

Explanation of Changes:

The gift boxes have been changed from a high-risk / high-reward design to a more friendly middle-ground design. The high-end rewards have either been removed (First-age) or had their chances reduced (Level 60 Second-age), while the low-end rewards have either been removed (15k Heritage Rune, Tier 4 Runics) or increased (250k Heritage Runes are now available). Because the high-end rewards have been removed/reduced, the cost of the giftboxes has been reduced as well.

First Age Legendary Items

First Ages are now dropped via a barter system.Each raid now drops barter tokens that can be saved up to use to trade for the First Age item of your choice. Vile Maw, Strange Happenings, and Dar Narbugud will all drop multiple tokens. Go visit the barter traders at the Hythe docks to see all the possibilities.

• Level 59 First Age’s will cost 4 tokens
• Level 60 First Age’s will cost 6 tokens

Currently First Age Legendary items are Bind on Acquire on Bullroarer. This change will be reverted and will not go live when Book 8 ships.

It’s the Little Things That Count

The impending war between the Light and the Dark has caused many of the vendors in the world to fear for the stability of their livelihood. In an effort to retain business the vendors have now learned to sell stackable items in quantities other than “one” and “a full stack” in order to better serve you! While you have the vendor UI open you can now buy single items by default, or use…

• SHIFT to purchase a full stack,
• ALT to purchase a quantity that you specify in a pop-up dialog
• TAB to fill all stacks of the selected item type in your backpack.

Boat Keepers have arrived in Evendim!

There is a new aquatic swift-travel route between Tinnudir and The Eavespires for 25 silver!

BULLROARER ONLY

Added Reputation bestowers for Moria Miners, Guards, and Lorien Elves in the Eyes and Guard Tavern. Also opened up a new Crafting hall wing.

Full Release Notes

Skills/Classes

General

• We’ve removed knockdown as a conjunction starting event. All conjunction starts will now use a conjunction stun event.
• The buffs “Hope Unlooked For” (received from Glorfindel after returning a broken chain link) and “Mirdanant’s Inspiration” will no long be dispelled on log-out or disconnect.
• Corrected several skills that were not playing attack animations when the character was disarmed.
  • Guardian skills
    • Bash
    • Shield Smash
    • Shield-blow
    • Improved Shield-blow.
  • Champion skill
    • Hedge.

Champion

• In response to changes made to the Champion class, all legendary points on champion items will be reset so that players may adjust legacies accordingly.
• Clarified tooltip for Champion’s Fight On skill
• The Champion’s skill Fervour will now have a -30% penalty to incoming healing. Champion skills that restore morale are not affected, nor is the Man skill Strength of Morale. This incoming healing penalty is not in effect in any PvMP area, though Champions will need to re-activate Fervour on entering or leaving such an area.The Incoming Healing penalty from Continuous Blood Rage will overwrite the Incoming Healing penalty from Fervour resulting in only -90% penalty when both skills are toggled on.
• The Champion Legendary skill Controlled Burn will no longer last for the duration of combat. Instead it has a fixed duration of 2:30 minutes. The only in combat activation and the 20% morale restrictions have been removed. In addition, activating Controlled Burn applies the effects of Ardent Flurry and Glorious Exchange to the Champion.
• The Champion Trait Controlled Fury has been changed. It will now increase the duration of Controlled Burn by 1:00 minute and add the Red Haze effect when Controlled Burn is activated.
• The descriptions for the Champion Traits Deadly, Vicious and Deep Strikes were updated to include Feral Strikes in the list of skills affected. This is a text change only. Feral Strike has always been modified by these traits.
• The third attack from Savage Strikes and Brutal Strikes will now be modified correctly by the two-trait bonus in the Berserker Trait Set.
• The stun effect from the crafted warhorns can no longer be evaded.

Guardian

• Guardian skill, Thrill of Danger, should no longer cause friendly mobs to attack the player.
• The debuff effects from Guardian Stagger skill have been separated into an Attack Speed Debuff and a Runspeed debuff. Each effect can be removed separately. There is no other change to the functionality of the Stagger skill.
• The Guardian trait Litany Master will now trigger the threat over time effect on critical hits from the 2nd attacks of Shield Swipe and Sweeping Cut.
• The corruption removal countdown effect from the Guardian skill Improved Sting will now stack when applied by multiple Guardians.
• The Guardian’s skill Protection will now require a shield to be equipped as mentioned in the skill’s description.
• The Guardian skill Fray the Edge will now work correctly while untraited. In addition, once the Fray the Edge effect has reached its maximum value it will have its duration refreshed by additional applications of Fray the Edge.
• The Guardian skill Turn the Tables no longer requires the Guardian to face the target. All other restrictions still apply.

Hunter

• The legacy “Strength Quick Shot Slow” is now properly buffing Quick Shot’s slow.
• Fire bolts will no longer remain in the Hunter’s hand after using Improved Swift Bow – Ablaze.

Minstrel

• The Minstrel skill Call to Greatness will now apply level appropriate versions of Shields Up and Guardian’s Ward to Wardens and Guardians respectively.
• As expected in Book 7, we’ve had to tone down the IA damage progressions for the Minstrel to keep his IA contribution to DPS in line with his class role. This will allow us to maintain the 1-50 experience we want to see from the class.

Captain

• The tooltips for two of the Captain’s trait set bonuses were incorrect. There were no changes in the functionality of these bonuses; the tooltips were just corrected to match their effects.
• The 3 trait bonus in Hands of Healing reduces the power cost on ALL healing skills.
• The 3 trait bonus in Lead the Charge reduces all Melee skills power costs. There were no changes in functionality of these bonuses.
• The Captain’s trait Composure will now allow Time of Need to reset the cooldown on Shadow’s Lament as per the trait’s description.
• Captains can once again rename their banners.
• The Captain’s skill Cry of Vengeance will now have a 10 second window to be used as well as a slightly longer range.
• The Captain’s class trait Loyalty now has an expanded description that mentions all of the bonuses for the trait. In addition, the trait’s bonus to Herald’s armour was increased slightly.
• Captains can once again use the Gleaming Striker, Flashing Bane, and Shining Star scrolls that add the bonus Light damage title to their legendary class item.
• Captains will now perform an attack animation when using their Kick skill while unarmed or disarmed.

Burglar

• Quite a Snag now reduces attack speed by 10% and increases incoming damage by 3%.
• Small Snag still reduces attack speed by 5% and now increases incoming damage by 2%.
• Gamblers Strike no longer is guaranteed a tier 4-6 damaging Gamble. It’s odds are better than other Gamble application skills, but not as consistent as it was. Existing Gambles on your foe will still be upgraded to max tier (including Damaging Gambles applied from other sources)
• All trait lines have had their bonuses re-ordered and modified.
• The 3 traitline legendary traits grant additional passive bonuses.
• Cunning Attack’s recovery is increased to 5s.
• Disable now recovers in 5s and lasts for 30s.
• Hidden Knife now increases damage from stealth.
• The IA legacy for Share the Fun has been removed. The +Stalk speed legacy now increases Share the Fun speed.
• Track Treasure can now be used in conjunction with other resource tracking skills.
• The tooltips of all Trick Removal skills now displays the effects they will apply.
• Gamblers Strike has its base damage reduced.
• Small Snag has its base damage increased.
• Cruel Odds has its application chance increased.
• Flashing Blades has its damage increased.
• The Even Odds buff increases gamble chance by 50%.
• Stick and Move now increases partial parry chances and magnitude.
• Little Annoyances, Dealings Done, and Practiced Bluff now reduce cool down by 140 seconds (was 120 seconds).
• Devastating criticals of Cunning Attack now apply even stronger Damage over Time.
• The “From Stealth” version of Cunning Attack has had its damage increased.
• “Well-placed Strike” has its Recovery reduced to 3 minutes.
• “Strategic Planning” now decreases Location is Everything’s recovery by 3 minutes.
• “Strike from Shadows” now increases stealth critical chance by a flat percentage.

Lore-master

• The Lynx’s attacks “Feral Strike” and “Slashing Claws” will now properly / more consistently hit the targets in front of the Lynx. (A special thanks to the bug reporter, Valridan, for sending this issue in. This was tough to spot in game, but very blatantly wrong on my end.)
• Lore-masters will now sheathe their staffs on their backs with the staff head over their shoulder instead of near their feet.
• Lore-masters using Staff and Sword will now have attack animations during Fellowship Maneuvers.
• Lore-master squirrel pets will once again be able to follow their masters around Middle-earth.
• Lore-master Skill, Knowledge of the Lore-master, should be more accurate at determining monster fellowship skill immunity.

Rune-keeper

• Lightning Critical damage legacy was reduced.
• The Rune of Restoration has it’s unsummon distance reduced.This should help with it randomly pulling mobs after you are leave it.
• The Thunderous Words buff was erroneously claiming it reduced the Rune-keeper’s ability to bypass resistance. It now reads properly.
• Conflagration of Runes was erroneously claiming it reduced Induction time by .5. Its power reduction was also removed.
• Weapon of X skills debuff is no longer permanent. Debuff now lasts for 10 seconds. The rate at which the debuff applies was greatly increased.
• Fall to X skills no longer add damage to the skill that triggers them. The damage Fall to X deals is now treated as though from a separate source.
• Rousing Words has been slightly reworked. It will no longer pulse double on the RK. The initial pulse has been moved back slightly and the duration extended to maintain a pulse count of 6. This should cause minimal gameplay changes.
• Enamels now share cooldown.
• Inlays now share cooldown.
• Armour of Flame: Slightly reduced damage. Duration of Damage over Time decreased.
• Epic Conclusion: Base damage increased. “Closing Remarks” damage buffs decreased from 75% to 50%. Critical damage decreased. Net DPS of this skill should only be mildly affected. The highs will not be as high and the lows not as low.
• Ceaseless Argument: Damage and power cost decreased.
• Wrath of Flame skills: Slight increase in power cost.
• “Martial Training” now increases morale by 300.
• The rock centering the Rune-keeper’s Rune of Restoration will no longer sink under the waves when used in deep water.

Warden

• Corrected typo in Warden’s Reversal gambit description.
• Warden Damage over Time and Morale Transfer effects will now stack per caster. That is, each Warden can apply one of each of these effects to every monster.
• Elf Male Wardens will no longer constantly make odd noises while engaged in combat.
• Male elf wardens will now use the correct animation for Warden’s Taunt.
• The Warden Legendary Weapon legacy for Exultation of Battle Threat Up was adding much more threat than was intended. This legacy has been brought in line with other threat-enhancing legacies.
• Corrected Warden combat animations while disarmed.
• The Warden skill Critical Strike will no longer have a delay before activating after a using a Gambit.
• The Heal over Time effect from the Warden Safeguard Gambit will now be displayed in the Buffs section of the UI, not Debuff.
• Warden gambits should no longer fail with “You cannot harm yourself.” messages when executing gambits quickly after queuing the last required skill to perform the gambit
• Gambits that required slotted traits will no longer appear in the Gambit panel if the necessary traits are not slotted.

Traits/Titles/Deeds/Virtues

• Trout Master can now be advanced while in a raid.
• All tentacles in the Vile Maw now count for The Arms of the Watcher (Advanced).
• The Accomplishment “Seven Swords” is now properly displayed.
• The racial trait Balance of Man will no longer show as Earning when An Ancient Story of Evil is underway or completed. It is now properly shown on the correct accomplishment Enmity of the Hillmen.
• The Virtue Tolerance has had its bonus to in-combat morale regen corrected. Previously the virtue gave its maximum bonus at every level of Tolerance. Now Tolerance gives an in-combat morale bonus that increases to its maximum value at rank 10.
• The Expert Attacks deed will now properly update with devastating criticals.
• The Call of the Wild deed will now properly update with devastating criticals.
• The Strong Draw deed will now properly update with criticals and devastating criticals.

Monster Play

General Monster Play

• Monster Player health and power potions will now stack to 50.
• Monster Player food items will now stack to 50.
• Seeking charms and tracking talismans will now stack to 20.
• Cure fear potions (barter) will now stack to 20.
• Delving spirit stones, Tyrant’s Crests, and Chieftain’s Brooches will now stack to 100.
• Quest collectibles found in the Ettenmoors (such as Hobbit Legs, Barrels of Oil, Slabs of Troll Stone) will now stack to 100.
• Items with root duration reduction will once again affect root skills from Monster Player characters.
• Resilience (Reaver) and Snap Out of It! (Warleader) will cure root crowd control effects.
• Player channeled skills can now be used in water. Monster Player channeled skills were also updated.
• Pets will now properly attack when in guard mode and the master is attacked by a monster player.
• Players and monster players must now ensure that the tower bosses are dead to attempt to capture the tower locales.
• The level on Ranger and Troll quests offered when the population is unbalanced in the Ettenmoors are now level appropriate. The population mechanic is working correctly after investigating some reports.
• Goblins and Hobbits were confused at Tirith Rhaw – they would stay and defend the opposition. This has been addressed at the cost of a few toes and a lot of mushroom pie.
• Controlling their artifact and the players’ artifact will now give monster players a small bonus to all infamy earned in the Ettenmoors. Controlling both their artifact and the players’ artifact and all locations in the Ettenmoors will increase this bonus.
• Fixed an issue where Lainedhal’s Insignias could still be used outside of the Ettenmoors and the Delving of Frór.
• Fixed a bug where in some cases, two Ranger session quests would become active instead of one during tracking for population balance.
• Rating is no longer visible to other players via the PvMP rank tooltip.
• Skills and Items no longer prevent/cure Conjunction Stuns.
• All player skills that cause a Fellowship or War Band Conjunction now use the Conjunction Stun animation/visual.
• The Warband Maneuver, Fell Spirit’s Terror, will now give back the appropriate amount of health from the health transfer effect.

Creeps

Spider Weaver

• Increased the damage over time components of the following Weaver skills: Tainted Kiss, Mephitic Kiss, and Piercing Attack.
• The Weaver skills Mephitic Kiss and Tainted Kiss will now do Acid damage to targets.

Uruk Blackarrow

• The damage over time effect from Flaming Arrow can now be cured (and is a wounds effect).

Warg Stalker

• Rend Flesh and Rabid Bite’s target icons will no longer be reversed.
• The Stalker’s Rallying Howl heal skill has had its initial heal and heal over time components readjusted and increased.

Uruk Warleader

• Increased the amount healed by the Warleader’s Crack the Whip and Quit Whining and Fight! skills.

Defiler

• The Defiler’s Fell Restoration skill has had its induction time decreased to 2.5 seconds.
• Increased the damage over time components of the Defiler’s Fire Gourd and Headbreaker skills.
• Increased the damage dealt by the Defiler’s Plague Gourd and Tenderize skills.
• The Defiler’s Plague of Flies skill can no longer be missed, blocked, parried or evaded. Instead, this skill can be resisted.
• The Defiler’s Gooey Gourd and Plague of Flies skills no longer share the same cooldown timer.
• The Defiler’s Plague of Flies swarm has been increased in level by 1.
• The Defiler’s Plague of Flies skill cooldown has been increased to 30 seconds.
• Increased the heal over time components of the following Defiler skills: Fertile Slime, Fungal Bloom, Fungal Spores.

Auctions

• Warden Carvings will now be searchable in the Auction House under Class Items – Warden Carvings

User Interface

• Item roll displays are now limited to 2 rows of 5 items each. Any available items beyond that will appear as you act on the visible items.
• More UIs can be skinned, several fixes have been made.
• The client now has a /ui command that can be used to save the current layout of windows to an xml file and then load this layout.
• To save a ui layout type: /ui layout save <name>
• To load a previously saved layout: /ui layout load <name>
• In both cases the name is optional and if not specified it will just save to a file called Default_ appended with your current game window resolution. (e.q running in 800 x 600 results inDefault_800_600.layout)
• The error message and broadcast message UI boxes are now moveable via the “Ctrl+\” UI mode.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the display of the queued skill border on quickslots for disabled skills. This was especially apparent to classes with reactive skills which they may have queued knowing their executing skill would fulfill the requirements of the queued skill.
• More UIs can be skinned, several fixes have been made.
• UI Skinning reorganization of panels (backed by the SkinDefinition.txt file) has been fixed. You can now reorganize the elements within panels.
• Fixed a memory leak with skinned assets
• Fellowship invite messages will now expire on teleporting or entering an instance.
• Items will no longer erroneously be bumped from your inventory into the item overflow.
• The Ornate Yew bow will now update skill duration tooltips properly.
• Effect icons will once again pulse when they are running out of time.
• Elements in a Barter NPC’s list will no longer stop graying out once they are selected.
• When examining an Item Advancement class item, the view of your equipped class item will now display title effects on it properly.
• Housing furniture will no longer have their names erroneously truncated in their tooltips.
• Fixed an issue where the housing maintenance UI seemed to not be updating properly.
• Partial mitigation tooltip values from block, parry, and evade found in the character journal now include the values gained through additional modifiers, such as legendary item relics.
• The tutorial hint for traits now blinks on the trait menu button.

Quest Guide

• Quest Guide indicators that are highlighted on the map (by mousing over the associated quest in the map’s mini quest tracker) will now show up above any of the non-highlighted indicators. Also, the “ring” indicators will no longer be covered by shaded area indicators that are not highlighted.
• The Quest Guide map indicators will now visibly “pulse” when mousing over the associated quest.
• The Quest Guide quest list on the map will now save its position once you close the map or log out.
• Rummings Rants and Riddles now displays the entire isle of Tyl Ruinen instead of just one part.
• The Grand Stair – Igash’s Lair: Correctly guides you back to the NPC.
• Several Helegrod quests now point to the entrance.
• Freeing the Forge now directs you to the entrance.
• Goblin-Town Tabbards will direct you to the entrances of goblin town.
• Elf Class Training quests will now display rings at the locations of the training dummies.
• Rangers and Rogues will no longer highlight the imprisoned Southern Leader in Bree.
• Flying the Coop – Trollshaws will display a ring.
• Silent Surprise will now shade its location.
• Foreman of the Great Wheel shows the entrance locations of the Chamber of Wheels.
• Way of the Pack will display correct locations.
• Dwalin’s Plight: Sand piles will glow now.
• Never Far From Home now correctly points and gives directions to the vineyard.
• Puzzle of the Carvings will no longer only glow with the one you need.

Chat/Social/Kinship

• Kinship charters will now correctly indicate that at least 8 members must be registered, or the kinship will be disbanded in 24 hours.
• We no longer spam your chat window with all the passive skills you earn when entering the world as a new character.
• There was an occasional bug where dying would generate a “string table error” in the chat window. This is now fixed.
• Fixed a client crash that occurs when dragging a separated chat tab into the text entry box on the main chat window.
• The name of kinship is now shown in the dialog to the player being recruited

Housing

• Housing lockout fees will now increase according to a schedule every week that the house is in lockout. The initial fee is the same as the existing lockout fee. Every week that the house remains in lockout, the lockout fee will increase until it reaches 90% of the house purchase price.
• The Housing Authority will also send an in-game mail to players with locked houses alerting them to the change in the unlock fee schedule.

Raids and Instances

General

• We have put in several measures in all high-level instances to prevent the exploits that had become rampant in these spaces.
• Tier 1 Raid Set now has Tough durability instead of Normal.

Vile Maw

• The transition between stages 2 and 3 now takes longer, giving players more time to kill the tentacle spawns.
• The corruption melee buffs in stage 3 now pile up every 15 seconds instead of 5 seconds
• Stage 3 now takes longer to ramp up in difficulty and is spaced out a bit more.
• The Watcher welcomes you back with hugs and says he misses all of you very much.

Broken Stairs

• Igash could sometimes fire two aoe skills back-to-back making the encounter overly difficult. This behavior has been curbed.

Fil Gashan

• In the final fight of Fil Gashan, the Fire DOTs can once again be removed by standing in the waterfalls.

16th Hall

• Changes to The Lost One in the 16th Hall.

The Rift

• Players should no longer get stuck in the Balrog platform.

Lórien Battle

• Belvagor’s appearance is now consistent between Caras Galadhon and the Fanuidhol Battle.
• Resource Instances: Orc-cleavers and Orc-hewers have had their names swapped to better imply their character and skill set.
• The Sentinel’s Challenges have been versioned, so you will need to re-acquire them if one of them was underway in your quest journal. They will now fail if you fail The Battle of Lórien, in order to keep the timers from counting down even once the Battle is done.
• Quests associated with this instance will now update properly.

Resource Instances

• Writing Host-crawlers no longer count toward the advancement of “Kill Boss” quests in the Resource Instances.

Grand Stair

• The extra chests in the final boss room will no longer drop gold. Only the boss’s chest will drop money now.

Hall of Mirrors

• Increased Warg-matron’s corruption countdown from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.

Filiki

• Nornuan can no longer be enraged.
• Nouruan will now remove the effects of Shield Wall with small penalties to those enacting and receiving the effects of this skill.

Crafting

Crafting Revamp!

• Full details will be given in an upcoming dev diary. Until then:
  • Adjusted the minimum level requirements for most crafted light, medium, and heavy armour pieces
  • Adjusted the minimum level requirements for most crafted shields
  • Adjusted the minimum level requirements for most crafted jewellery
  • Adjusted the minimum level requirements for most crafted weapons
  • Optional Ingredients Revamp! Optional ingredients for many recipes were previously dropped by specific monsters in specific areas, which often led to difficulty imbalances between obtaining the ingredients for the different crafting professions. Additionally, many of these items merely stated, “This item can be used in crafting.” This vagueness did little to help players identify which optional ingredients were useful to which professions (and at what tiers). I am happy to say that those days are behind us!
  • New optional ingredients have been added for the Cooking, Jeweller, Metalsmith, Scholar, Tailor, Weaponsmith, and Woodworker professions. These new optional ingredients replace the old optional ingredients, which can no longer be found in treasure or used in recipes. A new Trophy Broker NPC, located in Michel Delving, will exchange any old optional ingredient you might have for the appropriate new optional ingredient.
  • The new optional ingredients can now be obtained from two different, widespread sources: Humanoid Treasure & Resource Nodes
  • The tier of optional ingredient dropped via treasure is determined by the humanoid creature’s level:
    • Apprentice Ingredients: Levels 1-12
    • Journeyman Ingredients: Levels 13-23
    • Expert Ingredients: Levels 24-34
    • Artisan Ingredients: Levels 35-43
    • Master Ingredients: Levels 44-50
    • Supreme Ingredients: Levels 51-60
  • The tier/type of optional ingredient obtained from a resource node is determined by the tier/type of node:
    • Farming Fields: can produce Cooking optional ingredients
    • Forestry Branches: can produce Tailoring and Woodworking optional ingredients
    • Prospecting Deposits: can produce Jeweller, Metalsmith, and Weaponsmith optional ingredients
    • Scholar Artifacts: can produce Scholar optional ingredients
  • The new optional ingredients now clearly state in their tooltips which profession and crafting tier (Apprentice, Journeyman, etc.) the ingredient is used by. Each new optional ingredient is used by only one profession/tier combination.

General Crafting

• Added a Make All button to the crafting recipe window which will make as many items that the player has components for.
• The “number to make” field in the crafting panel will no longer drop to 0 once you finish making a single item or a batch of items.
• The single-use Woodworking recipes for Warden Carvings now stack.
• The Peerless Turtle-shell Bracelet has been updated to be better than the non-crit version.
• The trophy item Flawed Ear no longer states in its description, “This item may be used in crafting.”
• Fixed an issue with Light, Medium, Sturdy, Pristine, and Exceptional Hides having lower-than-expected coin values.
• Cleaned up the singular and plural names of many crafting ingredients and components.
• Changed the quality level of some quest-related & reputation-related crafting items to Uncommon (yellow).
• Added the various ‘Ring of Tactics’ one-shot recipes to the appropriate Jeweller recipe scroll cases.
• Corrected a typo in the crafting guide called, “An Explorer’s Guide.”
• Fixed an issue where some common trophy drops were using names identical to rare trophy drops. The common Blackened Claw trophy item has been renamed to Bent Claw, and the common Dusky Claw trophy item has been renamed to Crooked Claw.
• Updated the stat descriptions on all crafting tools that provide bonuses to critical chance and/or reductions in timed durations to include the specific profession(s) affected by these bonuses.
• Lowered the prices of all normal Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Artisan, and Master recipe scrolls.
• The following optional ingredients are now available from Lórien barter NPCs: Elven-cloth Lining, Elven-steel Grip, and Elven-wood Oil.
• The optional ingredients Elven-cloth Lining, Elven-steel Grip, and Elven-wood Oil were incorrectly marked to be “Bind on Acquire.” These items can now be traded freely between players.
• All common crafting ingredients that are sold by vendors now state in their descriptions, “This ingredient is sold by suppliers and profession vendors.”

Farming

• Reduced the number of optional ingredients needed to execute all farming field recipes from 3 to 1. Coupled with this, the price of one Soil of Rivendell has increased to 48 copper, and the price of one Soil of Lórien has increased 96 copper to account for the ingredient quantity changes.

Scholar

• Renamed some of the Journeyman, Master, and Supreme Scholar Athelas Essence and Celebrant Salve recipes to bring consistency to the names of all tiers of craftable potions. In general, the names for all Scholar-crafted potions should be as follows:
  • Apprentice: Lesser potions
  • Journeyman: Simple potions
  • Expert: Greater potions
  • Artisan: Refined potions
  • Master: Distilled potions
  • Supreme: Infused potions, Pure potions
• Reduced the cool-down timer to 10 minutes for the following Battle & Warding Lore scrolls:
  • Scroll of Minor Battle Lore
  • Scroll of Minor Warding Lore
  • Scroll of Battle Lore
  • Scroll of Warding Lore
  • Scroll of Improved Battle Lore
  • Scroll of Improved Warding Lore
  • Infused Athelas Essence & Celebrant Salve Recipes: These recipes now require one Etching of Moria (previously one Relic of Khazâd-dm)
  • Pure Athelas Essence & Celebrant Salve Recipes: These recipes now require one Relic of Khazad-dm (previously one Tattered Khuzdul Parchment)
• Increased the quantity of some required ingredients necessary to execute the following Scholar’s Guild recipes:
  • Greater Athelas Extracts Recipe
  • Greater Celebrant Ointments Recipe
  • Refined Athelas Extracts Recipe
  • Refined Celebrant Ointments Recipe
  • Distilled Athelas Extracts Recipe
  • Distilled Celebrant Ointments Recipe
  • Infused Athelas Extracts Recipe
  • Infused Celebrant Ointments Recipe
  • Pure Athelas Extracts Recipe
  • Pure Celebrant Ointments Recipe
  • Potent Athelas Essences Recipe
  • Potent Celebrant Salves Recipe
• New Rune-keeper consumable item recipes have arrived! Scholars can now craft inlays and enamels, which can be used to temporarily enhance the Rune-keeper’s abilities. These recipes can be purchased from Rune-keeper trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Scholar NPCs.

Prospecting

• Improvements in smelting and refining technology have brought about some positive changes for prospectors who regularly make Bronze and Khazâd-bronze Ingots
• Apprentice Prospectors can now smelt two chunks of Tin Ore directly into one Tin Ingot. They can also refine one Tin Ingot and one Copper Ingot into two Bronze Ingots.
• Supreme Prospectors can now smelt two chunks of Khazâd-tin Ore directly into one Khazâd-tin Ingot. They can also refine one Khazâd-tin Ingot and one Khazâd-copper Ingot into two Khazâd-bronze Ingots.
• The Supreme Prospector recipe, “Mithril-infused Khazâd-iron Ingot” has been removed. The item it created is not used as an ingredient in any existing recipe. Sadly, any prospector that produced a Mithril-infused Khazâd-iron Ingot found themselves the proud new owner of an expensive paperweight! Good news though: Taddyn the Trophy Broker (located in the Bree Crafting Hall) will accept one Mithril-infused Khazâd-iron Ingot in exchange for one Mithril-infused Khazâd-steel Ingot.

Cooking

• Corrected a typo in the display name of the Superior Cooking trail food, “Superior Buttered Scone and Jam.”
• Fixed an issue where consuming a Cooked, Trail, or Fortifying food of a lower tier would have no effect (essentially wasting the food) if a Cooked, Trail, or Fortifying food of a higher tier was already in effect. The effect from a lower tier food will now be suppressed by the effect from a higher tier food until the higher tier food’s effect expires. At this point, the lower tier food’s effect will become active.
• Updated the names of the effects bestowed when eating cooked, trail, or fortifying foods, as well as from fine drinks. The effect names should now more clearly match the type of food they came from (Cooked Food, Trail Food, Fortifying Food, or Fine Drink).

Weaponsmith

• Reduced the amount of crafting experience awarded for the following Supreme Weaponsmith recipes:
  • Lethal Shield-spike Kit Recipe
  • Supreme Ancient Dwarf Shield-spike Kit Recipe
  • Lethal Caltrops Recipe
  • Big Bag of Marbles Recipe
  • Paralyzing Stun Dust Recipe
• Changed crafting UI category “Guardian Shield-spikes” to “Shield-spikes” now that they can be used by multiple classes.
• Corrected output quantities for the Supreme Weaponsmith “Lethal Shield-spike Kit” and “Supreme Ancient Dwarf Shield-spike Kit” recipes. The lethal spike kit recipe will now produce three kits for a normal success and three kits for a critical success. The supreme ancient dwarf spike kit recipe will produce 2 kits for a normal success and 2 kits for a critical success.

Jeweller

• Fixed the tooltip for the Supreme Jeweller recipe, “Turtle-shelled Bracelet.” Tooltip no longer states that the recipe can only be used once.
• Changed the crafting UI display category to “Tokens” for the following Jeweller recipes: Dull Edhelharn Token, Faint Edhelharn Token.
• Corrected the plural display names for the following: Engraved Bloodstone Ring of Tactics recipe, Engraved Ruby Ring of Tactics recipe, Engraved Adamant Ring of Tactics recipe, Engraved Beryl Ring of Tactics recipe, and the Dawn-rose Ring of Tactics recipe. The names should now be consistent when you have a two or more of these recipes in a stack.

Tailoring

• The following Tailor’s Guild recipe scrolls are no longer bound to players:
  • Exquisite Protector’s Gloves Recipe
  • Exquisite Protector’s Helm Recipe
• Adjusted the stats on the following crafted sets of medium armour to improve the usefulness of the armour sets for Hunters, Burglars, and Wardens:
  • Footman’s Armour /Fine Footman’s Armour
  • Scout’s Armour / Superior Scout’s Armour
  • Herald’s Armour / High Herald’s Armour
  • Marchwarden’s Armour / Majestic Marchwarden’s Armour
• Adjusted the stats on the following crafted sets of armour to improve the usefulness of the armour sets for Lore-masters, Minstrels, and Rune-keepers:
  • Superb Radiant / Exquisite Radiant (Includes Dwarf-make, Elven, and Westernesse versions)
  • Rock-climber’s Armour / Rugged Rock-climber’s Armour
  • Searcher’s Armour / Superior Searcher’s Armour
  • Treasure-hunter’s Armour / Transcendent Treasure-hunter’s Armour
  • Master’s Armour / Magnificent Master’s Armour
  • New Supreme Burglar’s signal recipes can now be found in treasure.
• Added the Journeyman, Expert, and Artisan Rune-keeper Rune-satchel recipes to all Novice and Expert Tailor NPCs.
• All crafted Rune-keeper Rune-satchels are now Bind on Equip.
• Corrected the name of the Superb Leather Shoes Recipe.
• Fixed the name of the Journeyman Tailoring recipe for making tough leather shoes. The name of the recipe is now “Tough Leather Shoes Recipe.”

Metalsmith

• The Supreme Metalsmith crafted shield, “Superb Lothlrien Heavy Shield” now has Tough durability.
• New Rune-keeper item recipes have arrived! Metalsmiths can now craft chisels, which Rune-keepers can equip in their ranged item slots to provide increased damage. Rune-keeper trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Metalsmith NPCs, sell most of these recipes. More advanced recipes can be found in treasure!
• Reward recipes for Warden shields have been added to the Metalsmith’s Guild reward vendor.
• Adjusted the stats on the following crafted sets of armour to improve the usefulness of the armour sets for Champions, Captains, and Guardians:
• Sell-sword’s Armour / Superior Sell-sword’s Armour
• Sentinel’s Armour / Superb Sentinel’s Armour
• Officer’s Armour / High Officer’s Armour
• Noble’s Armour / Heroic Noble’s Armour
• Corrected typos found in the tooltips for the following tools:
• Superior Bronze Smithing Hammer
• Superior Iron Smithing Hammer
• Superior Steel Smithing Hammer
• Superior Dwarf-Steel Smithing Hammer
• Superior Ancient Iron Smithing Hammer
• Superior Ancient Steel Smithing Hammer.

Woodworking

• New Warden item recipes have arrived! Woodworkers can now craft carvings, which Wardens can equip in their class item slots to decrease the power cost of their gambits. Recipes up to and including the Master Woodworking tier can be purchased from Warden trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Woodworker NPCs. More advanced recipes can be found in treasure.
• The trophy item named Long Horn (a required ingredient for the Master Woodworker Champion Horn recipe) now states in its description that the item can be used in crafting. The icon has also been changed for this item to indicate that it is a crafting ingredient.
• Adjusted the stats on Heavy Yew crafted weapons to differentiate them from Yew crafted weapons. Additionally, adjusted stats on the Stout Yew crafted weapons to differentiate them from the Hardened Yew crafted weapons.
• The Woodworker’s Guild Reward Vendor now sells the recipe for Crafted Burglar’s Club of the Third Age.
• The crafted instruments Elegant Drum and Exquisite Elegant Drum now correctly change Echoes of Battle damage type to Beleriand.

Emotes

• When you slap someone with a fish, now you slap him/her/it with a fish, not just hold a fish while slapping him/her/it.

Items

• In an effort to reduce some of the inventory space concerns the following have had their stack sizes increased.
• Most food items now stack to 50.
• Minstrel’s Lute Strings now have a stack size of 50
• All reputation tokens now stack to 100.
• Traveling Rations now stack to 100.
• All crafting-related ingredients (and components) now stack to 100.
• All new optional crafting ingredients stack to 100.
• All craftable morale potions, power potions, and cure potions now stack to 50.
• The Following Items have been re-leveled to match the new quest advancement structure.
  • “Adso’s Club”
  • “Adso’s Two-Handed Axe”
  • “Bregdail”
• The Following Items have been adjusted:
  • “Watcher’s Mace”
  • “Brandybuck’s Leggings”
  • “Estellos”
• “Bracegirdle’s Boots”
  • “Bracegirdle’s Staff”
  • “Bracegirdle’s Dirk”
  • “Bracegirdle’s Shield”
• The Following Items have been changed to work with the new quest levels:
  • “Hengaim”
  • “Menedgaim”
  • “Cloak of Cardolan”
  • “Tallang”
  • “Taronn”
  • “Bombadil’s Rune-stone”
  • “Toranc”
  • “Froth-ftar”
  • “Golfadanir”
  • “Gollos”
  • “Defender of Cardolan”
  • “Constable’s Hammer”
  • “Malbellas”
  • “Daerechor”
  • “Glamír’s Javelin”
• The following lvl 15-20 quest rewards, have been altered to fit the new quest structure:
  • “Saeradan’s Bow”
  • “Saeradan’s Leggings”
  • “Saeradan’s Shoulder Guards”
  • “Maribell’s Defender”
  • “Talloch”
  • “Thistleway’s Trousers”
• Lothlorien Jewelry Sets
  • Cleaned up the text to be less confusing.
  • All ‘clickable’ abilities for these items now share a Cooldown.
  • Removed the ‘placing trap’ animation from the ‘clickables’.
  • Reduced the amount of damage reflected by “Protector’s Reproach”.
  • Reduced the buff on “Lothlorien Knowledge”.
• Fixed an issue with the display names of “Root” trophy items changing to “Root Fragments” when stacked.
• Heavy Shield “Naudh-caer” now has an equip and usage cooldown time.
• Fishing: Sturgeon Group Trophy is now set to Bind on Acquire.
• Corrected grammatical issues with the messages displayed to fellowships when a member of the fellowship opens a scroll case or gift box.
• Burnt Orange Wall Paint is no longer Bind on Acquire.
• Fixed typo in name of Pathfinder’s Leggings
• Leggings from quest “The Blade that was Broken” have been renamed due to a naming conflict.
• The reward items for the Troll-keeper quest have been upgraded due to the difficulty of the quest. This change affects items: Longbeard’s Hammer, Favargair’s Foil, Trphadanir, Eldram. Also, two additional items have been added as rewards for this quest: A necklace and a pocket item.
• Increased the Power on the Rune-keeper’s Word-Smith’s Robe
• Added information to the Stonehelm Shield to tell the user that using its skill will root them for 16 seconds. This info was missing from the usage description.
• Wall of Annúminas shield now has a 5 minute equip cooldown instead of 10 minutes.
• Fixed typo in the description for Insidious Cuff
• Cloak “Jubut-rud” has a cooldown on usage now.
• Summerdays Fireworks are no longer destroyed when used.
• “Fur Lining for Mammutti Boots” item was using the wrong icon.
• Fixed a grammar error with the description of Sandson’s Famous Hardboiled Eggs
• Fixed some javelins and rune-stones from quest rewards that had very low re-sale value, durability, and repair cost.
• Two new home decorations are now offered by Lórien barter vendors. One item is a coat of arms offered by Orelleth and the other is a tapestry from Tharnelleth.
• “Master’s Lamp Post” decoration item can now be fit into small slots.
• Warden’s Spear Carvings are now set to bind to the player when equipped.
• There were a number of class items, such as the Hunter’s & Lore-master’s books, that were not set to bind to the player when equipped.
• Fixed a bug with the Runic Slab and Javelin of the Unbeliever that made them unusable for characters who wanted to use them.
• Fixed an issue with some items that caused a phantom drinking sound to be heard during combat.
• Fixed some weapons that had incorrect damage FX that didn’t match the item’s damage-type. In some cases the weapons were playing damage FX when the item’s damage type was ‘common.’
• Fixed typos in some of the Lothlórien reputation reward items.
• Corrected a typo in the plural name of the trophy item, “Mangled Stinger.” The name now appears correctly when you have a stack of these items.
• Corrected the display name of the Lore-master’s Staff of the Third Age. Lore-master is now properly hyphenated!
• The Helm for the Warden’s Spear Hurler’s Armor set now more closely matches the color of the rest of the armor pieces in the set.
• Some uncommon javelins were incorrectly set up as bows, causing them to use incorrect attack animations (amongst other problems). These weapons have been fixed and will now be properly treated as javelins.
• Scented Candles and the Horn of the Dwarrowdelf will now share the same cooldown channel that all Edhelharn Tokens use. All of these items have a 15-minute cooldown timer.
• Changed the tooltip on the Thrill-seeker’s Gloves to read “-50% Search Speed.” The previous tooltip indicated that the gloves would decrease the speed of searching, which was incorrect.
• The spring festival barter items Primrose, Marigold, and Violet are now set to Bind on Acquire.
• The Warden class items “Stalwart Guardian of the X” will henceforth be known as “Stalwart Guardian of the X”
• The Sturgeon Group Trophy will no longer allow players to attempt to use it.
• Uncommon Jewelry and Uncommon Shields found on mobs in Moria are now Bind on Equip.

Legendary Items

• The title “Hero of Caras Galadhon” (found in Lothlórien) has been fixed so that you can now apply it to a Legendary Item that already has the title “Defender of the Forgotten West”. Also, the scroll which bestows the title is now named consistently with the title.
• Updated the deconstruction warning message to remind you that runics are returned to you if the item is of max level.
• Auto Combine will now pull from the highest counts in each tier first
• Only usable legendary items will appear in the list of slottable items when slotting items from the Legendary Items panel.
• Minstrels and Wardens will have all points spent on their legendary items refunded in response to changes made to their legacies so they can re-spend them accordingly.

Loot System

• Improved the loot yielded by the Iron Garrison Resource Cache:
• Increased the quantity of crafting resources the chest can yield
• Removed all lower-tier resources from the profile
• Slightly increased the number of scroll cases the chest can yield
• Slightly increased the chance to yield a Mithril Flake
• Updates were made to many of the level 58-60 non-hard mode boss chests in Moria instances to have a chance of producing a 2nd Age Legendary item.
• The Strange Happenings Raid (aka Turtle Raid) now has some additional 1st Age and 2nd Age swords made in the likeness of the Filikul Spears.
• Reduced the odds of getting Honey & Oats recipes. Now the odds of getting them are high, rather than spectacularly awesome.
• Rare Lórien monsters Morthrng, Trglok, Rkath, Quílfra, Faegnar, Braigam, Zûbardh, Urbhâr, Gwollg, Mundaras, and Rascaras, and Nímau now drop Mithril Flakes.
• Orcs in Lothlórien now drop items and money.
• A couple of rare bears now drop Mithril Flakes: Daeranc and Belegbrog
• Spiders in the Corpse Pile now reward XP and Reputation when killed.
• When fellowship loot rules allow for rolling on keys, only players who have not added the key to their keyring will see the roll option.

Graphics/Animation/fx

• The Volume I Book 5 movie will now correctly play when completing ‘Fire and Ice’
• Fixed an issue that was preventing the Volume I Book 6 movie from playing or from unlocking in the movie library.
• Removed an extraneous billboard being displayed during I.9.3 Added comments to several quests throughout the Volume I Epic line
• One elf male hairstyle did not fit to the back of the head properly. fixed.
• Fixed an inconsistency between the two Orvars in Moria.
• Corrected display of weapons by Ghash-hai orcs in Crafting Halls.
• Fixed Multiple visual effects and animation syncing issues for NPC blacksmiths in Archet and Lone Lands as well as NPC archers in Breeland, North Downs, & Buckland. The animation and vfx now play together.
• The Fell-Glass Spiders should no longer appear completely invisible on High Graphics Settings.
• Various terrain texture and lighting seams have been cleaned up.
• Various asset placement issues have been resolved.
• Various floating resource nodes have been grounded. Minor waterfall effect issues in the Chamber of Wheels have been resolved.
• Issues with assets viewed through windows in Barad Gularan have been resolved.
• Various terrain issues have been cleaned up.
• Update of Lórien cloaks for all avatars with degrades and uv edit.
• Lore-masters will now sheathe their staffs on their backs with the staff head over their shoulder instead of near their feet.
• Fixed a problem that was causing the ground to appear black or oddly colored at times within Moria.
• Bows, crossbows and javelins will now display various weapon effects while sheathed like melee weapons. This includes the various damage type effects as well as the glow of slayer weapons.
• The Doom-speaker in the Nameless Places instance will now properly animate as he knocks people back.
• Using throwing daggers now has an updated attack animation.
• Fixed a hobbit who was farming without any tools.
• Ongli in Gath Forthnir no longer turns when you speak to him
• Shire: Lucky Sling Stone: The deer corpse will now glow.
• Norsu-huata: Fixed a Gauradan who was in the wrong animation

World

• Various stuck locations have been fixed.
• Minor issues with impassable terrain in Eregion have been resolved.
• Pathing issues in the Refuge of Edhelion have been resolved.
• Tier 2 resources can now be found throughout the entirety of the Old Forest.
• Several campfires in Ost Guruth will now be burning. There were too many complaints about the time it took to cook over a couple of sticks and rocks.
• Perks purchased with Destiny points now persist through player sparring.
• The Sages of Eriador now offer one Master Scholar Scroll Case for three Marks of Triumph.

Town Services

• Master Craftsmen will now interact with people who have abandoned, then reacquired their old profession.
• A generic supplier can now be found in the Blue Stone Garrison.
• The Bree-land outfitters now sell a Soft Leather Boot. Some of you may recognize these boots as once rewarded to you by Ted Pickthorn. Now anyone can get this style of boot from the Outfitter.
• Hambrennil will now display a barter icon and mapnote.
• Bainen will now display a mapnote.
• Dorongur and Gailthin have been moved forward slightly to allow their rings to be seen in the Refuge of Edhelion.

Travel/Maps/Radar/Mounts

• Radar images for the Redhorn Lodes have been regenerated to remove odd render imperfections.
• Issues with the map and radar within Mekeb-farak and Bult-kar have been resolved.
• Issues with the Radar and Map within Zurr-thurkh have been resolved.
• The Forochel Tundra Pony will no longer be called the “Grey Pony” – it will now be correctly referred to as the “Tundra Pony” once again.

Performance/Client

• Addressed issues where Creative X-FI cards would generate a BSOD in certain situations.

Creature AI/Pathing

• Moose in Forochel will no longer stand around and allow themselves to be turned into Moose-burger.
• The “Swarming Bats” in the Hall of Mirrors will now properly summon bat pets.
• Burrow Mobs Take 2! Once again, monsters which “burrow” (Cave-claws, Shades, Dark-waters, Neekers) will no longer do so when they are near death, because that’s annoying. Our first attempt at fixing this was equivalent to a 9mm; it should’ve been enough to get the job done, but it wasn’t. *This* time we’re pulling out the Desert Eagle .50, that outta stop these jerks.
• Gramsfoot hobgoblins in the Bullroarer’s Sward area will now correctly use their large firepots to attack players.

Questing

General Questing

• Corrected some naming errors associated with the items for the following crafting quests:
  • Consignment: Fine wood
  • Consignment: Valuable Ore
  • Consignment: Supple Hides
  • Consignment: Arcane Lore
• Summer Festival fishing quest “Stocking the Pond” has been versioned.
• Summer Festival barter reward vendors have been adjusted for consistency.

Eriador

• Longo’s Missing Wagon has been versioned, and currently underway, the quest will be removed from your quest log, and can be taken again normally.
• There were three stoic dwarves in the second half of ‘The Last Refuge.’ They didn’t do anything, they just stood there being non-selectable! They have been… dealt with.
• Three quests occurring before the Raid on Archet were flagged for tracking the Bree-land quest deed. They have been removed from contribution. There are still many more quests than necessary to complete the Bree-land deeds.
• The dwarf pack for the quest The Forgetful Dwarf now spawns as all other quest items.
• All quests that were ticking up the Ered Luin quest deed in the new tutorial have been fixed to no longer advance the deed.
• April Fool’s Day quest can now be removed from players’ log.
• Fixed an issue with the required quests for “Leaving Middle-earth.”
• Sharpen Your Skills quests now direct players to the correct location.
• The Unwanted Guest quest, part of the Book 1 Prologue, has been re-leveled to fit with the new level scheme of Bree. It is now level 15.
• The quest “The Vigil” now correctly states that you can complete the quest solo and at any time of day.
• Thickets for the quest to clear the stream outside Noglond are now functioning like normal quest objects.
• The mouseover for the Token of Salutation erroneously identified Frerin’s Court as a turn in location. The offending information has been filed off of the token and the new location “the door at Thorin’s Halls” has been painted in with red ink.
• Spider-bane is no longer able to be completed twice. You either get the quest from Atli or kill Iornaith and get the quest from her head.
• The quest “The Old Dourhand City” is no longer a fellowship quest.
• The quest “Into the Crags” in the newbie area of Ered Luin now directs players to the Mirkstone Tunnels at the bottom of the Axe head Path
• The quest completion text for the quest “Old Bones” in Ered Luin no longer alludes to the player having visited Gondamon with the wight skull.
• It will no longer be possible to have both the skip introduction and skip tutorial quests at the same time.
• In the intro quest “Intro: Seeing to the Defence” Dirk Mudbrick asked you to kill wolves and then stopped talking to you. This type of anti-social behaviour does not belong in this game. We are friendly and open. Dirk is aware of this mindset and will now talk to players on this quest.
• Spoiled Pie from Tuckborough can now be used by more than one player at a time.
• Quest item for Shaky Foundations now goes into your quest item inventory.
• Bounty of the Sea: There are now fish and bubblings at the locations.
• Angmar: Mushroom for Rivendell: the Mushroom will go into your quest journal and not your inventory.
• Northdowns: Wargs of Annundir: Updated the quest so the popup box would no longer instantly disappear. This caused the quest to be versioned.
• Evendim: False Wards: Ward of Doom will now go into your inventory
• Remembering the Old Songs quest now offers a sword as a selectable reward. The original item rewarded by this quest, Lost Minstrel’s Walking Stick” has been renamed to “Hamall’s Walking Stick” and the description has been updated so it no longer mentions it belonged to a minstrel.

Moria

• Some players had old copies of the Strange Happenings live event quest arc still active in their quest logs. These were supposed to be removed when the live event to open the raid was completed. They have now been properly removed as the quest and its bestowers/turn-in NPCs are no longer available.
• A complete overhaul of the structure under-the-hood of ‘We Cannot Get Out’ in order to deal with some of the issues causing it to become incompletable.
• Frar will no longer enter anti exploit in We Cannot Get Out.
• Stolen Stones: Toki will reset to his original location.
• Piercing the Walls: The wall will now burn and disappear.
• Carver’s Stash no longer requires you to kill the troll. This caused the quest to be versioned, so if you have this quest underway when Book 8 goes live you will need to speak to the bestower NPC again.

Lórien

• City of the Golden Wood: Minor adjustments have been made to the dialogue text to present a more accurate description of the surrounding flets.
• Galadriel and Celeborn should now give you Hope during ‘Sons of Leaf and Stone’ and ‘The Worries of Lord Celeborn’
• The Lothlórien quest “Forms from Formlessness” is now repeatable.
• There is a new quest that will direct players from Mekhem-bizru (the Dimrill Dale) to Haldir’s flet.

Epic Story

• NPCs involved in Volume I Book 13 now now have quest comments for all of that Book’s quests.
• Added some text for the Pulpum to say when they’re defeated as part of Volume2 Book 5 Chapter 1
• Fixed a respawn issue involving Amarthiel during an instance in Book 9.
• A mustering horn, present in the instance version of the final chapter of Volume 1 Book 1 in Bree-land, has been removed.
• The final chapter of Volume 1 Book 1 has been altered to allow for solo play. It is a very difficult solo adventure.
• Volume 2 Book 5 Chapter 2: Coffers are now unique and the quest can no longer be advanced by collecting respawns of a single coffer.
• Volume 2, Book 5, Chapter 5: The Way of the Smiths; enemies should now spawn more reliably.
• Volume 2 Book 7 Chapter 5 “The Wilting Rot” now gives level appropriate potions.
• Volume 2 Book 7 Chapter 8: Players must now clear Zurr-thurkh of threats before Orvar will arrive and enable access to the ruined Throne of Durin.

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The LOTRO game servers will be brought down on Tuesday April 21 from 6:00AM – 12:00PM Eastern (-4 GMT) for an update to the game.
What about the Lothlorien reputation crafted item recipe crit trophies? Are they being added during the patch also? Or will they come in the next patch?
They are not in patch 2.

Lothlorien gift boxes never worked as intended, even on Bullroarer, if so is it possible to know what is their proper function?
They’re serving their ‘function’ but their loot table is wrong. On bullroarer they were too generous and on live they’re a bit stingy. I think the goal is something in between.

We won’t be able to run the “crafting” instances repeatedly anymore?

• We won’t be able to run the “crafting” instances repeatedly anymore? This change is far from pointless. The unexpected and rapid instance recycling that was occurring within the Resource Instances was a partial contributor to some of our server performance woes since Book 7′s launch. My assumption in regards to how our instances reset and the reality of how they reset were at odds. The content was quite popular but it’s popularity led to unanticipated side effects. This change is being implemented to help address those side effects. Yes – it is frustrating and saddening that changes had to be made to content that many people were enjoying but those changes were made to help ensure the stability of the game. One aspect of these changes, which does not appear to be included in the patch notes is that the Kill Boss quests are exclusive. This means that you will only be able to have one of the six active at a given time. The quests will be versioned and should be removed from your Quest log when you log in after the patch. (Scenario)
• The turtle raid you already know is coming next week. As for any actions taken. We do not discuss diciplinary actions. Ever.
• Gift Boxes. Despite some opinions to the contrary these haven’t been dropping the correct items from day one. Even on Bullroarer (especially on Bullroarer) they had the wrong loot. Like a slot machine always set to pay max winnings. So while it was great loot, it was still broken (broken in your favor is still broken). The live boxes are also not dropping the correct loot. The question of when will they be fixed is one of priorities. Right now the number one priority of every member of the team is returning the game servers to a reliable and stable state. We know the gift boxes are important to you and we will address them as soon as we get the stability issue under control. But I think everyone would agree that server stability is of higher priority. Imagine if we had fixed them and you got the loot you wanted only to lose it in a roll back due to server issues.  (Sapience)

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The following release notes cover what is included in Volume II Book 7 Patch 2

Gameplay

• The Quest Guide system is now out of Beta! The system will automatically be turned on for all players by default. If you would not like to use the system, you can toggle the system off in the options panel under the UI settings page.

Quests and Epic Story

• If you had Volume II, Book 2, Chapter 4, ‘Enemies in the Ever Dark’ underway in your quest journal, it has been removed to correct an issue with the quest automatically completing before you return to the bestower.

Raids and Instances

• The Strange Happenings raid is once again available. Turtle is back on the menu!
• We have made a number of changes to the resource instances. This required they be versioned. If you currently have these underway they will be removed from your quest journal during the update.

• “Kill Boss” quests must be underway in order to enter their associated instances.
• “Kill Boss” quests can no longer be cancelled.
• “Kill Boss” quests now have a 1 hour failure timer attached. If the quest fails, there is a 2 hour retry cooldown before you can accept the quest again.
• All “Kill 20” and “Collect” quests now require the appropriate “Kill Boss” quest to be active in your quest journal before they are made available.
• “Kill Boss” quests are exclusive and players will only be able to have one of the six active at any given time.

General

• Several changes have been made to address server performance and stability.

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• There are numerous quests that do not currently display objectives correctly with Quest Guide

Turbine Download Manager (TDM)

• If a player who has not fully downloaded the game enters the final newbie instance with someone who has, they will not be able to obtain the novice trait and the character will be broken.
• The download Icon is a Grey Square while downloading the full game.

Auction House

• Legendary Items – Kinship Only auction text will overlap legacy rune graphics.
• Warden – No Class Item filter for Carvings.

New Player Experience

• Archet – Mailbox icon appears on the radar for a mailbox that isn’t there.
• Thorin’s Gate – Quest – “Intro: Plague Among the Trees” – No progress counter for the number of insects being defeated.
• Thorin’s Gate – Quest – “Intro: Silver-lined Cure” – Nestadalas-fronds don’t sparkle.

Quests

General

• “The Vigil” – Quest text still suggests that you have to do this quest at night, even though you can now do it in the day-time.
• Celondim
• “At the Behest of Cardavor” – Directions need updating for new starting point.
• The Consignment: Valuable Ore quest does not have the valuable ore chest to get valuable ore out of, which makes this quest … well, not very valuable. (added 3/17)

Epic Story line

• Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 8 – Instance: Red-pass – Radagast does not attack when he is being attacked.
• Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 5 – “The Wilting Rot” – Potion rewards given are not the correct level.
• Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 8 – Zurr-Thurkh – Huge waterfalls make no sound.
• Volume 2: Book 7: Chapter 4: A Tense Alliance – Part of this quest requires players to speak to Ovar; however, due to a split in the space-time continuum there are two Ovars. Please speak to good Ovar (standing next to Corunothiel) in Buzun-ghar to advance the quest, rather than his evil twin in Hadudbab.

Evendim

• Dwaling’s Plight” – White sand mounds don’t sparkle.
• “Hobgoblin’s Recipe” – Torch items needed for the quest don’t sparkle.

Lothlórien

• “Hobble the Leadership” – At times the Orc-emissary at Athmadhul will not count towards quest completion.
• “Mourning Mithrandir” – When player performs the /look emote there is no feedback explaining what has happened.

North Downs

• “Played-out” – Mining Records for the quest do not flash or have sparkles.
• Moria
• Zelem-melek – “A Stinging Blow” – The quest text directs you to kill Moria Orcs when you should actually kill White Hand Orcs.

Classes/Skills

Burglar

• Mischievous Glee – Disable Gambit debuff’s tooltip doesn’t properly describe its effect.
• Mischief-maker trait bonus “+5s Trick Duration” is not working unless Mischief is active.
• Little Annoyances, Dealings Done, & Practiced Bluff – Irrelevant “-360 Cooldown” modifiers can be found on the Legendary Traits’ tooltips.

Minstrel

• Song of Aid – Animation does not complete properly for Race of Man Females. The instrument remains in-hand.

Hunter

• Improved Swift Bow – Using a crossbow and fire oil with Improved Swift Bow makes it appear as if all the arrows are not being fired.

Warden

• Male Hobbits, while using Ambush, will raise their Javelins over their heads for a split second.
• If the Defiant Challenge trait is earned and not equipped, it is still allowed as a valid Gambit combination, but will fail when trying to perform it.

Rune-keeper

• All Enamel and Inlay items currently share the same icon.
• Calming Verse – String Table Error will appear in the tooltip when the Linnod of Subtlety trait is slotted.
• Conflagration of Runes – Trait is not lowering the cooldown of Fiery Ridicule as intended.
• When nearing Neutral attunement, the use of Prelude to Hope can sometimes cause one Battle attunement step to be allocated rather than a Heal attunement step.

Monster Play

• Uruks and Orcs have issues with their weapons disappearing at times in battle.

Crafting

• Lothlórien – Echad Andestel – Forge-master has no Forge.
• Lothlórien – Vineyards of Lórien – The Superior Forge does not function as a regular Forge.
• Switching vocations to a new Vocation after reaching Supreme proficency, then back to your old Vocation, will not allow you to acquire Supreme proficiency again.
• The Crafting Panel’s Make Amount counter will reset to 0 after creating an item.
• Thorin’s Hall – The Forging Hall – Icons indicating where the Superior Forges are located do not appear on the Radar or Map.

Farming

• Gold-fire Pipe-weed should be a cross-breed recipe.

Instances

Annúminas Instances

• Barad Tironn & Glinghant – Instance areas will appear pitch black with Ambient Lighting slider set to Default.
• Tombs – Crypt Invoker can summon his minions inside of the walls, leaving the player stuck in combat.

Lothlórien – The Battle for Lórien

• When Belvagor attacks with his bow the string stretches onto an odd looking black line.
• Legendary Sentinel’s Challenge – Killing Grakamab after already killing Narshpug will cause the Quest Journal to clear objectives other than “Defeat Grakamab”.
• Sentinel’s Challenge – Quest will continue counting down even if the instance is failed.

Moria Instances

Fil Gashan

• “Disabling Alarms” – Alarms near Commander Greb are not properly counting towards quest completion.

The Forgotten Treasury

• “Know Thine Enemy” quest does not seem completable in a single run of the instance.

The Sixteenth Hall

• “The Vile Infected” – Quest does not seem completable in a single run of the instance.
• The Lost One does not seem to be summoning disease-spreading mushrooms or adds as intended. Apparently he lost them.

Vile Maw

• In Stage 3, the Watcher will tend to display some odd plunging animations.

User Interface

• There is no Filter to select Monstery Play keeps in the Ettenmoors.
• Heavy fog will appear to render over all interface elements.
• Having “Always Loot All” enabled will not allow the Quest Starter alert to pop up.

Emotes

• /sing emote has no sound.

Graphics/Animation/FX/Sounds

• The swing animations for some fat Orcs do not properly line up with the damage they deal.
• Race of Man Female – Moor Cowbell does not appear to be held properly.

Moria

• Some areas of Redhorn Lodes may experience ground textures not loading properly and appearing black.
• Monsters – Moria – Waterworks – Fell Glass-spiders can appear invisible on High Material Detail settings.
• Moria – Zelem-melek – Hall of Flowing Water – Waterfalls produce no sound.
• Filikul – DirectX 10 – Waterfalls inside instance do not appear correctly.
• Filikul – Music and proper ambient sound isn’t playing within the instance.

Lothlórien

• Some doors do not have proper physics on them.
• Lothlorien Reputation traders do not each have unique names yet.
• Bult-kar and Mekeb-farak Mini maps and zone maps are not fitting properly in the radar and zone map, hourglass visible.
• Cerin Amroth – Frodo remarks that Pippin is sleeping down the hill, but he is actually in Caras Galadhon.

Thorin’s Hall and Blue Stone Garrison

• Very strange shadows and lighting issues can present themselves here on Very High and Ultra High graphical settings.

The Shire

• The Quarry – Greenfields Biter does not path correctly unless you are in melee range.

Items

• Gwathnor’s Doom shoulders causes a drinking sound to be heard when a debuff is removed.
• Keys you’ve already obtained and applied on your Key Ring can still be rolled for.
• Many of the Lothlorien barter wrist, ring, and earring items all share the same icon.
• The Shield ‘Heyew-turas’ is held upside-down.
• When a legendary item is deconstructed at the item’s level cap, all relics will be returned to the player. Deconstructing an item at maximum level currently does not communicate this. (added 3/17)

Spring Festival

• The accomplishment for the deed ‘Brighter Days’ incorrectly appears under the Class accomplishment tab.

Travel

• The Stable-master in Combe cannot swift-travel to Michel Delving. Out of spite he has denied you the ability as well.

Miscellaneous

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Volume II: Book 7 Highlights

Lothlórien Revealed

The epic story line continues in Volume II: Book 7 as players are reunited with the Fellowship in Lothlórien! Lothlórien has been expanded east of Nimrodel and west of the Anduin. Access to Lothlórien is not free or easy, however. The Galadhrim are cautious and reclusive – players must earn the trust of the Elves of Lothlórien before entering the Golden Wood. Only the truest of friends will gain access to Caras Galadhon. Players who fail to heed the warnings of the Galadhrim will be shot down by sentries before they set foot within the protected forest.

• Over 50 new quests!
• The epic story continues with 9 chapters and 4 instances!
• New faction: Elves of Lothlórien

New Player Experience

We’ve taken a long hard look at the way new players experience their early days in Middle-earth. Based on feedback from the community and poring over internal data we decided we could do better. We’ve completely redesigned the Elf and Dwarf new player progression and given Archet and The Shire a good polish as well. Players will find quests flow together more naturally and progression through the regions and levels is more fun!

• Lots of new quests in the Ered Luin!
• New travel routes
• Re-structure of early questlines

Quest Guide

As part of our new player revamp we’ve added a new way to view your quests. Players have long asked for a way to track their active quests in their radar window and world maps. Now you can! Our new quest guide works in combination with your quest tracker to give you direction and assistance on the 5 quests currently active in your tracker. Removing a quest from your tracker removes it from the guide.

New 12-man Raid!

Daring players will be drawn down into the depths of the Waterworks of Moria to investigate “strange happenings” there. Once you have unlocked the gate, it will take teamwork and strategy with eleven of your friends to defeat the corrupt creature within!

Crafting Instances

As competition for crafting materials heats up, getting what you need isn’t always easy. To help alleviate the problem we looked at ways to allow crafters to get more of what they need more reliably. Enter the crafting instances! Much like the Item XP instances, these are daily repeatable quests that reward crafting materials. There are six instances; two each for prospecting, forestry, and scholar materials.

• Adventure in 6 new repeatable solo instances
• Aid the Iron Garrison in reclaiming ages-old caches of resources
• Challenging monsters that may vary each time you play through
• Reputation and Legendary Item experience

In addition, there have been many tweaks made to the crafting system. See the Crafting section for more details on these.

Calling all Freeps and Creeps

Many changes to monster play to better balance the Ettenmoors! See the monster play section for more details.

Of Special Note

XP Curve Change

After launching Moria, we’ve re-evaluated the experience in our game, along with all the content we’ve shipped in our previous updates, and come to the conclusion that we want to make playing through our game a bit faster in order to allow new folks (and character alts) to see more of our content. As a result, the experience curve has been adjusted and the amount of experience needed to level from 1-60 has been reduced. Your level will not be automatically changed but you may see an increase of up to 3 levels upon your next gain of experience when Book 7 goes live. Temporary oddities may be seen on your XP bar upon logging in if your XP is now greater than that required for the next level, e.g. 10,000/9,000. Upon your next gain of XP you will advance to the appropriate level and your XP bar will adjust appropriately.

Keep in mind that although the overall experience to reach level 60 has been reduced, it is possible that some players may find they need more experience in their new adjusted level versus the old experience table. This should not be considered alarming as the amount of XP that a quest grants has likely also been scaled up in these cases to fit the new leveling curve. That means larger quests rewards in almost all cases where the amount of required XP has been raised, thus maintaining a similar leveling experience than before.

If you were already level 50 (Shadows of Angmar players) or level 60 (Mines of Moria players), your XP will be reduced to the cap. If you were not at a level cap but the change will bring you to the cap, your XP will be set to the amount needed for the cap minus one point so that the next XP event will bring you to the cap.

DPS and Mob Difficulty Rebalanced

After looking through feedback, we’ve decided to raise skill impact vs. monsters at high level, by lowering their difficulty and by lowering DPS driven by weapons.

Players will find that we’ve reduced the difficulty of many of the creatures in the game, placing heavy emphasis on creatures in the 50 to 60 range. Creature morale and resist rates were reduced in this bracket to create a smoother onramp to the progression from 50 to 60. This necessitated a reduction in weapon DPS, with the focus on post-50 in order to bring them in line with the new difficulty progression.

In Harm’s Way

The Captain skill In Harm’s Way has been adjusted. The amount of damage re-directed to the Captain from the Fellowship has been decreased from 100% to 50%. In Harm’s Way, in combination with other Captain skills, has made it increasingly difficult to design encounters that are challenging as both monster and player DPS increases.

New Self-revive Mechanic

Players may now revive themselves in place, via a button on the user interface window when a character is defeated, instead of retreating. This feature is disabled in instances, during Monster Play and after instant defeat.

• At levels 1 through 9, characters will have a 30 minute cooldown (shown via a “Revived” effect) that prevents them from reviving again.
• At level 10, when the character receives the “Journeyman” characteristic, the revive cooldown increases to 1 hour.
• At level 40, when the character receives the “Heroic” characteristic, the self revive cooldown increases to 2 hours.

Induction Times Reduced

In an effort to reduce some of the tedium inherent to certain quests and interactions with game objects we have reduced the interaction and induction times on many objects throughout the world. Most quest objects had inductions of 3 to 10 seconds. These have been reduced to 1-5 seconds. Ore and wood found throughout the game can now be harvested slightly faster giving the final benefit from the higher tier tools greater than 50% induction reduction.

New Monster Play emotes are available!

• Uruks and Orcs will now be able to perform the following emotes:
  • /fidget
  • /kneel
  • /liedown
  • /point
  • /roar
  • /cower
  • /sit
• Wargs will now be able to perform the following emotes:
  • /beg
  • /cheer
  • /hail
  • /liedown
  • /point
  • /scratch
  • /shiver
  • /wave
• Spiders will now be able to perform the following emotes:
  • /bored
  • /pose
  • /cower
  • /faint

It’s the Little Things that Count

White Dye is here! Recipes that allow Supreme Scholars to produce white dye have been added to treasure. Note to prospectors: Be on the lookout for a new mineral used in the production of white dye, your local Historians will appreciate it!

Full Release Notes

Gameplay

• Moria’s “Fungal Infection” debuff will now expire while you’re logged off.
• Perks purchased with Destiny points now persist through player sparring.
• Improved player blocking timing and combat feedback timing with monsters.
• Fixed anti-exploit issues in “We Cannot Get Out” session play.
• You will no longer be kicked out of the two public dungeons in the Hollin Gate area if you are revived inside of them.
• More feedback is given when players fail Challenge mode.
• Boss monsters in Moria are now immune to slows.
• Based on player feedback we’ve rearranged the level spacing between our four gradients of weapons, enabling our highest tier of weapons to gain a larger slice of the DPS pie.
• This one’s for you, Layo! You never know who’ll be reading your comments in the OOC channel. I’ve toned down the debuffs to Block/Parry/Evade for the common Wound effects: Lacerations, Sprains, and Dislocations. The minor, medium, and major versions were all debuffing BPE by the same amount, which I agree is “ridiculous.”

Skills/Classes

General

• Monsters with “Giant-kind” as their genus will no longer be 100% resistant to Physical debuffs such as the Burglar’s “Diversion” skill.
• Inanimate creatures (Mushrooms, Totems, Fumaroles) are no longer immune to Song and Cry attacks. Gameplay > Realism. While this isn’t quite realistic, it was unfairly punishing Minstrels.

Champion

• Rend and Cleave have now been put on the appropriate Player Armour debuff progressions (vs. Monster).
• The Blademaster Armor set will now also modify Deathstorm as part of its 6th bonus.
• Champions will no longer have their skills lock up when Feral Strikes is interrupted.
• Blood Rage and Continuous Blood Rage should now work to break almost all root effects. The only exceptions are when a monster is actively holding the Champion motionless. These skills also now take effect instantly rather than at the end of their animations.
• Legendary skill Continuous Blood Rage has been upgraded. The initial Morale cost has been halved and it grants +50% to almost all Resistances.
• Adamant and Invincible now have considerably shorter animations.
• The skill icons for Champion skills Great Cleave and Adamant have been updated.
• Ebbing Ire and Rising Ire will now give an invalid target message when attempting to use the skills on a monster.
• Eye of the Storm will now also advance when Bladestorm does a Devastating Critical Hit.

Guardian

• Take Heart and Brutal Assault are now affected by the +X targeted melee skill range legendary item legacy.
• Sweeping Cut: The second attack will now be affected by the Legendary Item legacy +X% Sweeping Cut damage.
• Thrill of Danger will no longer wake up Dazed monsters.
• Shield Wall will now function properly when its range is extended by Legendary Item legacies.
• Fixed a bug so that the Guardian’s “Blocking Force” trait will behave as the tooltip states.
• Guardian Shield-spikes: Changed the effect descriptions for all Westernesse, Ancient Dwarf, and Beleriand shield-spikes to indicate that these effects only change the damage types of shield skills.
• Guardian’s threat generation skills have been increased.
• The Guardian’s threat generation skills have been increased (Bash, Engage, Fray the Edge, Shield-blow, Improved Shield-blow, Shield-swipe, Shield-taunt, Sweeping Cut, Vexing Blow)
• Increased threat generation with Litany of Defiance.
• Guardian’s Threat will no longer cause a 5 second delay where the Guardian cannot use skills or attack.

Hunter

• Improved Swift Bow, third shot has been adjusted to be a bit more in line with a two-second induction skill.
• Quality of Mercy’s multiplier has been reduced.
• The overall effectiveness of trait set bonuses for “The Bowmaster” has been reduced, but the Threat aspect has gone down, enabling aggressive groups to attempt to deal with the Hunter aggro generated by Strength stance and not automatically make it the wrong choice. (Though groups and tanks are still going to have to be on their A game with high end Hunters who choose to be this… aggressive.)
• Barbed Arrow trait now has tooltip text that specifies the DoT pulse increase.
• Strength Quick Shot Slow Legacy now properly updates the tooltip of Quickshot while Strength Stance is active.
• Improved Strength of Earth Morale Regen tooltip has been corrected so that it shows the proper morale regen increase.
• Legacy Quick Shot Threat Down tooltip has been updated to reflect that this only works while in Endurance Stance.
• Bow of the Righteous growth at 50+ has been slowed.
• Quick Shot has been slightly reduced at 51+ to take into account the larger weapon contributions of post-Moria.
• The Super Critical Magnitude of Merciful Shot has been reduced to allow for stacking modifiers.
• Legendary Fleet stance now adds a 10% attack speed buff.

Minstrel

• Call to Greatness has had its skill cooldown effects modified. Before, skills reset by this skill would simply reset every few seconds. This would cause the skill queue to get a bit confused. Now, skills have their cooldowns reduced while Call to Greatness is active.
• Minstrels gain improved Resonance.
• Reduced the cooldown of Damaging Anthems with Warrior Skald.
• Anthem of Compassion can now be transformed into a tier 3 Ballad.
• Heralded Resolve now gives 10% healing boon in addition to its healing bonus.
• Ballads have had their action duration lessened; this means they can be fired more quickly, and thus threaded in between healing more often. This also means pure ballad-use DPS will be raised by removing the ”animation cooldown.”
• Call to Fate is now accessible at level 56 while Soliloquy of Spirit is now a level 60 skill.
• Minstrel resist progressions in IA have been increased to be more effective.
• Ballads now add a small amount of healing magnitude for each tier played. With the now-faster animation cooldown of ballads, players will not only be able to deal damage faster, they’ll be able to raise their ability to heal at the same time. This also affects Song of Vigour and Song of Balance (at an enhanced duration), so use this to wring every ounce of healing out of your Minstrel’s resolve.
• Timeless Echoes of Battle had its cooldown reduced to 5 seconds. This allows solo Minstrels to switch it to a new target even faster.
• Song of Vigour and Song of Evade induction time has been lowered.
• Warrior Skald Warspeech Ballad bonus has been restored to function in Warspeech, only increasing the speed of Ballad play required a small boost in power consumption.
• Skill Icon Updates:
  • All the Ballad Skill Icons have been updated for consistency.
  • Piercing Cry, Herald’s Strike, and other have also been updated.
  • Cry of-the Valar now reflects fear in the icon design, along with Ballad of Unshakeable Will.
• All Minstrel ‘Triumphant Spirit Cooldown’ legacy tiers display the correct cooldown reduction.
• Noble Cause skill now states that Herald Strike damage is changed to Light for the duration of the skill.
• Legacy ‘Healing & Motivation Skills Morale Healing’ now properly increases the heal over time effects of Soliloquy of Spirit.
• Ballad of Compassion now gains the duration increase from the Strength of Voice trait.
• The set bonus in Watcher of Resolve was incorrectly referring to Anthem of Sympathy where it should have read Anthem of Compassion.
• The Mentor Cooldown legacy has been removed from legendary class items.

Captain

• Legendary book “The Master of the Charge” has had its name changed to “The Leader of Men.” Its description has also been updated to correctly state that it’s for the trait in the Leader of Men trait-line.
• Shield-brother skills To Arms and Strength of Will have had their effective ranges increased to 50 meters and their tooltips have been updated to reflect this.
• Power Recovery from the Blade of Elendil/Improved Defensive Strike has been reduced. The Threat generated by Threatening Shout has been increased.
• Shield of the Dúnedain is no longer classified as a melee skill,’ as it is not a melee attack.
• Noble Mark no longer does any upfront damage, only DoT damage.
• Captains on the “In Harm’s Way” portion of their “Path of Healing Hands” class questline have now acquired the ability to blow the horn they went through all the trouble of acquiring.
• In Harm’s Way has been adjusted. The amount of damage re-directed to the Captain from the Fellowship has been decreased from 100% to 50%.
• The effect icon for Strength of Will now matches the skill icon.
• The Armaments of the Oath-bound will now indicate to Captains that they need to have the “Master of Oaths” legendary trait slotted before they can equip the armaments.
• Lossoth Heralds and Archers now use the correct attack animations.
• In Defense of Middle-earth will no longer display a buff icon on the Captain’s herald or any other pets. The buff never affected them so the misleading icon display has been removed.
• Shadow’s Lament is no longer forced to do Light damage. It will default to the damage type of your weapon like other melee attacks.
• Banners have discovered unforeseen reservoirs of buoyancy and now float in water.
• Corrected 6/6 bonus for Captain’s Hall-general’s Armour set. The bonus to Valiant Strike now works on both the traited and untraited versions of Valiant Strike.
• Make Haste now uses a horn call animation.

Burglar

• Fixed a couple of typos in the Burglar’s Knives Out skill.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the Burglar “Provoke” skill from generating the intended amount of threat for the target’s current target. It should be more effective now.
• Changed the tooltip on the Thrill-seeker’s Gloves to read “-50% Search Speed.” The previous tooltip indicated that the gloves would actually increase search speed, which was incorrect.
• Addle will now increase induction times in spars as well as increasing the induction times of all monster player skills.
• Legacy ‘Critical Multiplier’ has been updated to say ‘Skills Critical Multiplier’ as this legacy has no effect on auto-attacks.
• The Gambler traitline has received a number of updates:
  • Gamble application rates unlocked by traitlines has gone up by 10%.
  • Gamble application rate bonus from IA has decreased.
  • The formula for selecting the tier of a Gamble has been modified to generate higher tier Gambles more frequently.
  • Low tier Gambles have been increased in power, high tier Gambles have been slightly reduced in power.
  • Gambles full effects now apply immediately, no more waiting for Payout. Gambles now last for 15 seconds. All skills that trigger bonus effects on Gambled targets work during this time.
  • Clever Retort now applies the Debuffing Gamble, Mischievous Glee now applies a Disabling Gamble and Startling Twist now applies a Damaging Gamble.
  • Gambler’s Strike (the traited version of Lucky Strike) now upgrades any Gambles on your foe directly to tier 6. If no Gamble is present, a tier 4, 5, or 6 damaging Gamble will be applied.
  • A purchasable letter explaining the Gamble traitline has been added to Burglar trainers.
• Seize the Initiative now recovers the 3 new crit chain ender skills.
• Signals are now used in the Ranged slot. A new tier of Signal recipes is available in loot. These new Signals enhance Exploit Opening to apply the Signals effects to your fellowship.
• Small Snag, Feint Attack and Lucky Strike have had their damage modified and recovery decreased to 5 minutes. The traited versions of these skills all deal additional damage and set recovery to 3 minutes. The IA legacies associated with recovery time have been reduced to compensate.
  • Improved Feint Attack now deals significantly more damage.
  • Gamblers strike now deals more damage.
  • Quite a Snag now roots and debuffs for longer, has a more potent debuff and deals more damage.
• Cunning Attack applies a more powerful DoT when it crits.
• Well-placed strike deals additional positional damage.
• “Spatial Sense” and “Strategic Planning” reduces recovery by 60 more seconds
• “Confound the Fools” lets Confound effects 2 additional targets.
• “Cunning Wound” increases Dot damage by a greater amount.

Lore-master

• Decreased the power cost reduction to -5% for the following Lore-master tomes: Tome of Beasts, Tome of Nature, and Tome of the Dúnedain.
• Knowledge of the Lore-master, displays more complete information again.
• Text for the Ancient Master was incorrectly referring to Dead rather than Men with Improvements for Warding Lore.
• Removed Subtle Wizard from the Lore-master Traits. (Statistically, it was not used by LM anywhere.)
• Added “Fast Loader” which removes induction from BF. (The answer to the riddle, “Why does the Burglar not have an induction for Riddle but the Lore-master has one for BF?”)
• Improved Storm-Lore is now worth 25% damage.
• Changed the animation used for Honey-n-Oats usage to be more appropriate for the action.
• ‘Proof Against All Ills’ has been reworded to clarify that, once slotted, Leech Craft and Tend the Sick only work on fellowship members.
• Legendary Titles that increase Light damage now properly increase the damage of Lore-master Light-based attacks.
• The deed Beast-lore can now be accomplished by using Sign of the Wild: Rage or Sign of the Wild: Improved Rage.
• Improved Blinding Flash is now counted towards the completion of the ‘Explosive Force’ deed.
• Non-combat pets keep up with their masters a little better.
• As a Lore-master, if you have the trait “Power and Wisdom” slotted, the tooltip for the skill “Power of Knowledge” will now display the correct ‘Channel Duration’ of 24 seconds.
• Fixed a bug with “Sign of Power: See All Ends” being unable to overwrite the traited version of “Sign of Power: Command.” The fix for this adds a bit more functionality to Lore-masters; they’re now able to have both “Sign of Power: Command” and “Sign of Power: See All Ends” on the same target at the same time.
• Renamed “Sign of Power: Wizardry” and “Sign of Power: Wizard’s Fire” to “Sign of Battle: Wizardry” and “Sign of Battle: Wizard’s Fire.” This was done in order to differentiate the functionality of “Signs of Power” versus “Signs of Battle”.
• “Signs of Power” are always able to stack on a single target from the same Lore-master.
• With “Signs of Battle” a single Lore-master can only place one “Sign of Battle” on a target at a time, but if there is more than one Lore-master they can each place a “Sign of Battle” on the same target.
• Improved Sticky Gourd now increments the Wild and Ward Trait properly.
• ‘Sign of Power: Wizardry’ and ‘Sign of Power: Wizard’s Fire’ descriptions have been updated to remove reference of a shared cooldown.
• Tier 6 & 8 ‘Beacon of Hope’ threat reduction legacies display the correct tooltip information.
• The Sabertooth’s core-attacks now deal frost damage, as well as having their supercritical multiplier raised on common attacks.

Rune-keeper

• Damage for level 1-20 has been increased.
• Do Not Fall to Storm / Flame / Winter now have FX and sound hooked up.
• The Rune-keeper now has a Rift weapon available at Iorelen’s Camp.
• The glow around the Rune-keeper attunement display now dissipates appropriately.
• ‘+ Mending Verse Healing’ Legacy now benefits the heal over time as well as the initial heal.
• Tale of Frost and Flame text string was reading as Tale of Frost and Flame’s Battle. This has been fixed.
• All Writs have had induction time reduced to .75. Each Writ has a trait to reduce its recovery time by 2 seconds.
• Many tooltips have been made more readable.
• Some damaging IA Legacies have been slightly increased in potency.
• Attunement bonuses – All skills that were modified by attunement levels have had the modifications reduced or removed. Any such reductions were added to the base functionality of the skills.
  • Example: Scribe’s Spark used to deal +4% damage per Attunement step. It now deals only +2% per step, but deals +18% damage at all Attunements.
• Solitary Thunder – Slight damage increase and slight power increase. Set bonuses have been modified.
  • Ceaseless Argument is now a 0 Attune required skill and bypasses some tactical resistance.
  • Essence of Storm is now a 6 Attune required skill. Its damage, cost, critical bonus and recovery time have all increased.
  • Epic Conclusion now bypasses all tactical resistance. Its base damage has increased, power cost reduced and critical multiplier has been removed.
  • Perfect Imagery – Applies a short duration critical hit chance buff.
  • Stormy-temper – Now increases critical chance instead of damage.
  • Thunderous Words and Harsh Debate – Now applies self buffs instead of targeted debuffs.
  • Winter-storm – Now has a 5% chance to stun foes suffering from Writ of Cold.
• Wrath of fire – All skills deal more damage, based on induction length. All DoT’s deal additional damage on crit (making +Tactical Crit much more desirable to Fire-traited Rune-keepers). Set bonuses have been modified.
  • Distracting Flame deals more damage and has a shorter induction time. Mystifying Flame deals significantly more damage and reduces the foe’s tactical resistance.
• Benedictions of Peace – Some slight power cost reductions. Set bonuses have been modified.
  • Word of Exaltation – Reduced to 40%, duration extended. Trait increases reduction to 50% and extends duration.
  • Rousing Words – No longer heals via In-Combat-Morale bonus. Duration and recovery time shortened.
  • Rune of Restoration can now be renamed! When traited, those healed by both Rousing words and the Rune of Restoration will receive bonus healing.
  • Fates Entwined – Reduced recovery time, increased usage cost (not upkeep).
• Other Skill and Trait changes
  • Calming Verse – Trait will now increase healing and damage done while under the effects of Calming Verse.
  • Writ of Cold – Now debuffs 5% attack speed per tier. Deals more damage.
  • Do Not Fall This Day – Duration increased to 60s.
  • Armor of X – Flame and Frost Armours were buffed.
  • Fall to X – All Fall To skills have increased proc chances.
• Legendary Changes
  • Martial Training no longer increases attack speed. Weapon damage increased. Now adds to Morale, Power and power regen.
  • Fall to Our Wrath now reduces Tactical Resistance and stacks with other Fall to skills.
  • Steady Hands – Induction time reduced to 1.5 seconds
• New Rune-keeper item recipes have arrived! Metalsmiths can now craft chisels, which Rune-keepers can equip in their ranged item slots to provide increased damage. Rune-keeper trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Metalsmith NPCs, sell most of these recipes. More advanced recipes can be found in treasure!
• New Rune-keeper consumable item recipes have arrived! Scholars can now craft inlays and enamels, which can be used to temporarily enhance the Rune-keeper’s abilities. These recipes can be purchased from Rune-keeper trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Scholar NPCs.

Warden

• New Warden characters will now begin with a small round shield.
• New Warden item recipes have arrived! Woodworkers can now craft carvings, which Wardens can equip in their class item slots to decrease the power cost of their gambits. Recipes up to and including the Master Woodworking tier can be purchased from Warden trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Woodworker NPCs. More advanced recipes can be found in treasure!
• Gambits should no longer fail with “You cannot harm yourself.” messages when executing gambits quickly after queuing the last required skill to perform the gambit.
• Items: Two Rift shields have been updated for Wardens: “Warden’s War Shield” was not correctly set as a Warden’s Shield. “Beleaguer” was not set as unique.
• Way of the Spear 2 trait set bonus now correctly displays the reduction to Spear Gambit Power Costs.
• Surety of Death Damage legacy has had its tooltip updated to reflect that this legacy only benefits the Damage Over Time effect applied by the ‘Surety of Death’ gambit.
• Boar’s Rush Critical Multiplier legacy has had its name changed to Boar’s Rush Critical Rating as this legacy increases your critical chances not critical damage.
• Stance skills (Determination, Conservation, Recklessness, and The Way of the Warden) have been split off into their own category on the Character Journal – Skills tab. The descriptions for these skills have been updated to indicate that only one of them can be active at a time.
• Warden gambits that have increased threat over time now indicate in their tooltip the relative strength of the effect.
• Warden’s Taunt should now be more responsive after executing a weapon based attack skill.
• Wardens will now gain their 5th gambit box at level 40. This is to accommodate early completion of the Legendary trait that grants Defiant Challenge.
• All Gambits will now use the damage type of the Warden’s main hand weapon or javelin.
• Gambits that end with a Spear icon will no longer have the small delay between finishing the last Quick Thrust and being able to execute the Gambit.
• Gambits that are successful, i.e. they hit or were not resisted, will now always apply any bonus threat effects. Previously the threat effects had a separate chance to be resisted.
• Warden Gambit Conviction no longer does main hand weapon damage. It will now also heal escorted NPC’s as well as all Fellowship members.
• The 4/6 bonus for the Warden Townsaver armour (Rift) now correctly reduces the power cost of Resolution.
• The movement speed decrease from the skill Hampering Javelin will no longer stack with other movement speed decreasing effects.
• Gambit Brink of Victory no longer requires a main hand weapon equipped.
• Gambit Surety of Death is no longer disabled by Silence.
• Trait Ward of Justice no longer increases the Block and Evade bonuses for the Conservation Stance. Ward of Justice only affects Gambit defensive bonuses.
• Wardens can now use Shield Spikes starting at level 20. Shield Spikes affect the following Warden skills/gambits: Shield Bash, Safeguard, and Boar’s Rush.
• Wardens can now use Light and Fire Oils starting at level 30. These Oils affect all Warden Javelin skills except for Ambush.
• Warden trainers now function as vendors. They sell low tier Oils, Shield Spikes, and Carvings as well as the recipes to make them.
• Gambits Onslaught and Wall of Steel were doing extra damage on critical and devastating hits with their third attack. They have now been brought in line with all other normal melee attacks.

Traits/Titles/Deeds

• Texts of the Crumbling School can now be completed.
• Arms of the Watcher now has a progress tracking bar when viewed in the Deed Log.
• The Vile Maw deeds will now properly trigger and count when players are grouped in a raid.
• Warg Riders now count towards the Moria Warg-slayer deed.
• Spiders and Merrevail in the Legendary Item instance quests will now count towards their respective Moria slayer deeds.
• Trait Bonuses that you have earned are now highlighted in the trait panel.
• All tentacles in the Vile Maw now count for The Arms of the Watcher (Advanced).
• The Accomplishment “Seven Swords” is now properly displayed.
• The racial trait Balance of Man will no longer show as Earning when An Ancient Story of Evil is underway or completed. It is now properly shown on the correct accomplishment Enmity of the Hillmen.
• All quests that were ticking up the Ered Luin quest deed in the new tutorial have been fixed to no longer advance the deed.
• Trout Master can now be advanced while in a raid
• We have had a long discussion about genealogy with the Uruks and explained to them that they are orcs. After some roaring and a few lost heads they relented and Uruks will now count for killing Orc-Kind in the accomplishment “Soldiers of the Enemy”
• Adjusted objective text for the deed Scholars from Angmar to better imply that only Angmarim within the Ring-forge count towards advancement.
• The Deed Log book artwork has been updated.

Monster Play

General Monster Play

• The amount of infamy/renown required for all ranks has been reduced.
• Bears with the Brutal Slash skill have had the armour debuff portion of the skill reduced.
• Pets will now properly attack when in guard mode and the master is attacked by a monster player.
• Mobs surrounding the Isendeep Outpost will no longer blip in and out of existence as they try to path around the structure.
• Updated the tooltip when carrying artifacts and flags to reflect that no skills requiring induction or channeling actions can be used while carrying the flag.
• Carrying the flags will now inform players to “Capture the Flag” rather than capture it at Tol Ascarnen – this could get confusing when players or monster players were trying to retake their flags from Tol Ascarnen.
• Mobs circling the northern outpost, nearest Grothum in the Ettenmoors, no longer witness the disturbing phasing images of monsters near the tree line.
• Players and monster players attempting to switch control of the towers, Lugazag and Tirith Rhaw, will find that they can no longer accomplish this feat by simply camping the flag room. You must now kill the tower commander to access flag capture.
• A small group of Coldfells Guards in the Isendeep Mine remained when the monster players took control of the location. This should no longer occur.
• There was a very small chance that players and monster players could capture artifacts at the same time, leading to a very strange fringe case. This would place the artifact at both locations simultaneously and lead to an interesting scenario where an announcement would declare that both sides captured the artifact together. This has been rectified and should no longer be possible.
• Orc/Troll and Uruk guards no longer ignore other evil creatures in the Ettenmoors. If they are an enemy, they now attack.
• When an outpost is controlled by neutral forces, the merrevail patrolling around the keep will now be accompanied by their bat companions.
• Players and monster players must now ensure that the tower bosses are dead to attempt to capture the tower locales.
• The stones within Hithlad no longer allow players or monster players to perch there to avoid combat from NPCs
• Goblins and Hobbits were confused at Tirith Rhaw – they would stay and defend the opposition. This has been addressed at the cost of a few toes and a lot of mushroom pie.
• When capturing a flag players will no longer see the Capturing Location dialogue.
• A stuck location behind the outpost in the Coldfells has been addressed.
• Controlling their artifact will now give monster players a small bonus to all infamy earned in the Ettenmoors. Controlling both their artifact and the Free People’s artifact will increase this bonus.
• Moss-Patch Elder’s Hardened Bark buff will only stack 6 times and will now expire once out of combat.
• The slow portion of Dust in the Eyes will now be properly removed on defeat.

Creeps

• Four new corruptions have been added for monster players. These corruptions are available at the following ranks and values:
  • Rank 2 (Trainable): Weapon Mitigation Boost (Rank 1)
    • adds +270 Ancient Dwarf, Beleriand, and Westernesse rating
  • Rank 3 (Barter): Weapon Mitigation Boost (Rank 2)
    • adds +360 Ancient Dwarf, Beleriand, and Westernesse rating
  • Rank 4 (Trainable): Skill Mitigation Boost (Rank 1)
    • adds +270 Fire, Frost, Light, and Lightning rating
  • Rank 5 (Barter): Skill Mitigation Boost (Rank 2)
    • adds +360 Fire, Frost, Light, and Lightning rating
• All monster player classes have had their base mitigations increased.
• Increased the levels of the Spider Weaver’s hatchlings and the Defiler’s plague flies.
• Monster players will now have access to a set of new Critical Protection Boost corruptions. These corruptions will decrease the chance that an enemy will land a critical or devastating critical hit on the monster player.
  • The basic Critical Protection Boost corruption is available at Rank 2 from the monster player Trainer.
  • The advanced Critical Protection Boost corruption is available at Rank 4 from the Core Corruptions Trader.
• The values for all non-common mitigation corruptions have been increased.
• Armour passives from monster players will now have a small bonus to critical protection for both normal and devastating criticals.
• Creep vendor and barter foods have been scrubbed. There will no longer be any bugs where barter food is less desirable than vendor food or where higher ranked vendor/barter food is less desirable than lower ranked vendor/barter food.
• The heal and power restore values for the Stinking Poultice, Bubbling Potion, Blood of Man, and Blood of the Fair Folk potion sets have been increased.
• All monster player characters have had their base (Rank 0) health and power increased.
• In-combat health and power regeneration rates have been boosted slightly for MP characters.
• Resistance passives have been increased in value.
• Devastating criticals from monster player skills will now do the correct amount of damage to the target.
• The damage caused by Blood of Fire and Born of Shadow has been increased.
• The debuffs from Banner of Terror and Banner of Horror will now stack together.
• Solvent of Painful Freedom, Vial of Burzgoth’s Strength, Solvent of Release, and Vial of Unbinding will now grant a 5 second immunity to roots after the potion is used.
• The buffs from Banner of Command and Point-Defense will now stack together.
• Phial of Mazauk’s Resolve and Phial of Conhuith will now grant a 5 second immunity to fear (crowd control version only) after the potion is used.
• The duration of the protection buff from Akulhun’s Brands and Lainedhal’s Insignias has been increased from 15 seconds to 60 seconds.
• Resistance Corruptions have been increased (for both bonus and penalty).
• Heal, heal over time, and damage over time skills will critical correctly.
• Monster player characters will now have an additional corruption slot.
• All vendor and barter food for monster players will now have a 1 minute cooldown, instead of a 5 minute cooldown.
• Odorous Salts, Vial of Gundzor’s Breath, Salt of Hartshorn, and Vial of Aromatic Spirits will now grant a 5 second immunity to stuns and dazes after the potion is used.
• Mitigation Corruptions will no longer have penalties to mitigations that are not buffed by the corruption.
• Draught of Troll Bile no longer shares a cooldown timer with the tracking talismans.
• The following skills will now have their damage over time effect stack with other players using the skill on the same target:
  • Headbreaker
  • Fire Gourd
  • Lacerate
  • Enhanced Black Speech
  • Piercing Attack
  • Maul
• The Quartermaster NPC will now offer monster players several new potions:
  • Bottled Uruk Effluvium: removes one physical effect on yourself.
  • Bottled Orc Scream: removes one song effect on yourself.
  • Bottled Spider Chitter: removes one cry effect on yourself.
  • Bottled Warg Breath: removes one tactical effect on yourself.

Please note that these potions will only remove effects that show a resistance type in the effect’s tooltip. For example, Effect A lists Resistance: Tactical; the Bottled Warg Breath will remove the effect. Effect B does not show a resistance type; none of the potions will remove the effect.

• The following effects from monster player skills are no longer curable:
  • Blinding Dust
  • Hamstring
  • Jagged Cut (damage over time component)
  • Lacerate (damage over time component)
  • Mutilation (damage over time component)
  • Hamstring
  • Fire Gourd (damage over time component)
  • Plague Gourd (damage over time component)
  • Flaming Arrow (damage over time component),
  • Hindering Shot (slow component)
  • Vital Target (damage over time component)
  • Maul (damage over time component)
  • Crippling Bite
  • Rabid Bite
  • Rend Flesh
  • Snap
  • Savage Fangs
  • Sundering Blow
• The following skills no longer force auto-attack on or off:
  • Blinding Dust
  • Blood Lust
  • Charge
  • Glory in Victory
  • Hamstring
  • Time-Out
  • Upper Hand
  • Catch Prey
  • Clinging Webs
  • Entangling Webs
  • Feat
  • Necrosis
  • Web the Earth
  • Call the Shadow
  • Flea Bitten
  • Rend Flesh
  • Shadow Howler
• The following skills now force auto-attack on:
  • Hatchlings
  • Smothering Web
  • No You Don’t
  • Vital Target
• The following skills now force auto-attack off:
  • Grasping Web
  • Paralytic Venom,
  • Shadow’s Bite
  • Snaring Web
  • Sprint

Spider Weaver

• • Increased the damage of Tainted Kiss.
  • Increased the damage over time of Piercing Attack.
  • Toxin no longer appears as “Rabid Bite” when applied to the target.
  • Hatchlings and Latent Poison will now have different icons for their effects.
  • Lethal Kiss is now a wound resist.
  • The Weaver is now able to purchase a new skill at Rank 3, called Venomous Haze, from the monster player trainer. This skill is a short ranged attack that reduces the skill range of enemies in front of the Weaver by 10 meters for 30 seconds.
  • The burrow animation of Trapdoor Sanctuary has been slightly sped up.

Orc Reaver

• • Blood Lust and Time-out will now have 45 second durations and 1 minute cooldowns.
  • Time-out’s in-combat power regeneration bonus has been increased to +300.
  • Devastating Strike’s damage has been increased.
  • Wrath will now drain 50% of the Reaver’s current health and add 75% of the amount drained to power.
  • Increased the armour debuff of Sundering Blow.
  • Fixed an issue where Enhanced Upper Hand did not increase the duration of the Upper Hand debuff.
  • Glory in Victory has had its heal over time component increased.
  • Devastating Strike’s tooltip will no longer indicate that the skill consumes remaining power.

Uruk Blackarrow

• • Enhanced Gash will now correctly stun on critical.
  • The damage over time from the Blackarrow’s Flaming Arrow will now stack per Blackarrow.
  • Gash has had its tooltip updated to show that it has a chance to stun on criticals when the Enhanced Skill: Gash trait is equipped.
  • The Blackarrow’s Steadfast Barrage will now do more damage per channeled attack.
  • Fixed an issue where criticals on the second or third attack of Screaming Shafts were not doing the correct amount of damage.
  • Increased the block and evade debuff of Keen Eye to 15%.

Warg Stalker

• • Fixed an issue where the icons for Rend Flesh and Rabid Bite were reversed.
  • Sprint can now be used while in Shadow Howler.
• A target suffering from Crippling Bite now has two effects present, a slow effect and a marker effect. The marker effect will now be checked against Stalker skills that rely on Crippling Bite, instead of the slow.
• Increased the armour buff from Shadow Howler.
• Flea Bitten has been changed to Disease resistance type.
• Disappear will now have a shorter particle effect and animation.
• Rabid Bite and Scratch and Snip now have a more appropriate attack animation.
• The Stalker’s Frenzy skill now grants 5% to evade, rather than granting a bonus to evade rating. This change will allow the Stalker to exceed the evade cap when this skill is used.

Uruk Warleader

• • Commander’s Stance will now properly reduce threat from healing.
  • The Warleader skill, Purge, now has a 10 minute cooldown.
  • The Warleader’s defensive banner skills, Point-defense and Command Post, can now be used while in combat.
  • The damage for Fracture has been increased.
  • Warleaders will now be able to activate Auras (Aura of Command, Aura of Protection) while in either Brawler’s Stance or Commander’s Stance.
  • The following Warleader skills will now generate more threat when used: Cleave, Fracture, Call the Shadow, and Intimidating Shout.
  • Brawler’s Stance and Commander’s Stance icons were reversed. This has been corrected.
  • Increased the Will and Might debuffs for Banner of Terror.
  • The traited version of Blackspeech has had its damage over time component changed to Fear resistance type.

Defiler

• • Blessing of Darkness will now be affected by the Enhanced Slime trait.
  • The trait, Enhanced: Fell Sacrifice will now show correct tooltip information.
  • The Defiler skill, Anointing of the Slick Flesh, now has a 1 minute cooldown. Additionally, this skill will grant a 5% bonus against all types of critical attacks (Melee, Ranged, and Tactical), instead of just melee critical attacks.
  • Enhanced Slime will now properly reduce threat from healing.
  • Fixed an issue where the Defiler’s Fast Lob trait was not reducing gourd skill inductions correctly.
  • Curse of Deadly Sorrows has been changed to Disease resistance type.
  • Curse of the Melancholic Heart has been changed to Fear resistance type.

Freeps

• Boss monsters in the Delving of Frór will now drop level appropriate loot.
• The Chest of Glan Vraig, Chest of the Second Marshall, and Chest of the First Marshall have had their loot tables updated.
• Lainedhal’s Insignias can no longer be used in areas outside of the Ettenmoors. These items now require that the player be inside a PvMP area.

Auctions

• The craft recipe section of the auction house has been updated to display each tier of a crafting profession. This allows you to see only those recipes of a certain tier. You can still search all recipes by selecting the “Recipes” category and typing in the name of a scroll. The sorting functionality has been carried over into vendors selling recipes as well.
• Minstrel Song Books now have their own category in the auction house (Class Item->Song books). If you have Song Books already posted they will not appear in the new category until they are re-posted.
• The top-most Armour category has been removed and its sub-categories (Light, Medium, & Heavy armor) are now their own group.
• Cloaks should now appear in searches made on the “Armour: Light” category.
• Shields have been moved to their own category and allow for searching under the main category.
• Potion category now includes subcategories sorted by Morale, Power, and the various curing potions.
• The Reputation category has been expanded to include region specific sub-categories. You can now see all of the reputation items for a specific region. If you are only interested in Forochel reputation you can search that sub-category to show just those items.
• The Food category in the auction house has been updated to have new sub-categories: Drinks, Meals, Snacks.
• Added a Pet Food subcategory under Class Items. Pots of Honey can be located here instead of under the Food & Drink section. Note: This applied to all new Auction House posts and not current items already posted in the auction house.
• Shire Sweet-leaf Pipe-weed can now be found under the Pipe-weed subcategory under the Item Class section of the auction house. Only the version of pipe-weed used by Lore-masters will display there.
• All other forms of Pipe-weed are now listed under their own category in the auction house.
• Cleaned up and reworded some of the stat filters listed in the auction house. “Evasion Modifiers” filter was renamed to “Avoidance Bonus”. Other filters were renamed to minimize confusion or save display space. Some filters were removed from the list because they are not used by any items currently.
• Rune-keeper’s Rune-satchels now have a home in the auction house (listed under Class Items).
• ‘Shield – Medium’ Auction Filter has been changed to ‘Shield – Warden’.
• A ‘Power’ filter has been added to the Auction House Stat Filters. This filter will display items that increase a player’s max power.

Mail

• Pressing “delete” on an in-game mail formerly deleted the currently selected mail, which was not necessarily the open mail message a player thought they were deleting when multiple mail messages are open; the mail UI now reliably deletes the correct mail message.

User Interface

• Corrected several typos in Trait and Item names/descriptions.
• Added an advancement tracker UI that will allow you to track your Legendary Item experience outside of the Legendary Panel.
• Added a new alert which is triggered when a player acquires an item that can be used to start a quest. The player can start the quest by using the item from the inventory UI or by clicking on the alert.
• When effect icons are displaying in separate rows of buffs and debuffs, friendly targets have their debuffs in the top rows, while enemy targets have their buffs in the top rows. This should make it easier for players to spot the most critical effects.
• Buff and debuff icons now display in order of decreasing duration, from left to right. When a buff or debuff expires naturally, this new sorting order should cause fewer icons to move. Players can now select the “Display Debuffs in Separate Row” option from the UI options, under “Misc”. If checked, buff and debuff icons display in separate rows.
• Your player vitals display, as well as the vitals display for the targeted enemy or friendly, can now have up to 8 effect icons per row. The smaller, pet, fellow, and raid member vitals displays still have a maximum of 6 effect icons per row.
• Fixed a bug which would not allow objectives, after the fourth, to display on screen for tracked quests.
• Onscreen text for tracked quests is now grouped closer together.
• Collectible bags remember tree expand/collapsed state on item add/remove and bag open/close.
• Added a button to auto-combine relics in the Relic window.
• Effects from monster and in-world object auras will no longer erroneously show up with the “curable” borders around their icons as they cannot be cured except by leaving the influence of the aura.
• All apply-over-time skills and effects such as “Red Haze” will now show duration info in their tooltips.
• Summoning skills such as the Captain’s “Call to Arms” will now gray out appropriately when they cannot be used.
• There is now an adjustable option for overall Ambient light intensity in the graphics option page.
• Partial mitigation tooltip values from block, parry, and evade found in the character journal now include the values gained through additional modifiers, such as legendary item relics.
• Keyring tutorial text has been updated for clarity.
• Only usable legendary items will appear in the list of slottable items when slotting items from the Legendary Items panel.
• LI Titles will now appear correctly on your weapons.
• Additional fixes to Quest Guide markers for Epic Volumes I and II.
• More UIs can be skinned, and several fixes have been made.

Chat/Social/Kinship

• The name of the kinship is now shown in the dialog to the player being recruited.
• Cleaned up the readability of common monster skills in the Combat Log.
• Item chat links for Item Advancement items will now display the item’s original name, not the custom name on it. The tooltip for the item link will still contain the player-chosen name however. This will prevent some of the more… “creative” names being linked on the chat channels (we saw you, owner of [Biggus Stickus]!

Raids and Instances

General Raids and Instances

• We recently swept through our boss instance boss encounters where bosses were meant to be immune to all forms of CC, and discovered a long-standing bug where roots were able to be applied to the bosses. This was never meant to be the case, and roots will no longer work on boss monsters found in instances or “raid-style” content throughout the game.
• We have made all instance Boss monsters immune to slowing effects.
• We have added reputation rewards to the 9 Item Advancement instances.

Urugarth

• The Arena event now resets properly on failure.

The Rift

• The Rune-keeper now has a Rift weapon available at Iorelen’s Camp.

Helegrod

• The Helegrod quest Storvagun the Traitor now has rewards for Rune-keepers and Wardens.

Cooling Chambers

• This instance now allows only one player, as originally described by the quest.

Forges of Khazad-Dûm

• Narku will now pause a bit longer before killing his marked targets.
• Thrug now does his Firestorm skill properly. Burn!
• Many fixes have been made to the Forges of Khazad-dûm instance so that players can no longer bypass bosses or fight bosses in spots that made the content trivial.

Fil Gashan

• General Talug now has something a little extra special for you if you defeat him.
• Orcs will now lose the “Alert,” “Watchful,” and “Unaware” tags beneath their floaty names once they have spotted someone.

The Library of Tham Mirdâin

• Commanders Unudhu and Piztor will now be immune to all forms of crowd control as other bosses in the game.
• Commanders Unudhu and Piztor will now aggro players staying in the room after he has been reset. No rest for those attempting to purge the wicked.
• There were three mobile monsters that activated upon entering the Library at Tham Mirdâin that would sometimes become invisible and then attack players. They have been asked to refrain from such behaviour in the future. In defiance, the three stormed out into the wild.

Midnight Raid

• Midnight Raid boss will no longer switch into drama mode and become unattackable if the party wipes or loses aggro.
• Multiple players burning tents should no longer cause the quest to lose count. Also, players will find it more difficult to ‘blitz’ the camp with several torch runners simultaneously.

16th Hall

• Grodbog Fungal-guards in the 16th Hall no longer give reputation.
• Grodbog will no longer spawn below the ground.
• Damage has been reduced on some of the Globsnaga.
• Feedback has been added for using the wheels.
• The Lost One’s Fungal Mark is no longer interruptible.
• The Lost One’s point blank daze now does damage as well as daze.
• The Lost One now has standard boss immunity.
• The beetles in the final boss room will now aggro when the Lost One enters combat.

The Vile Maw

• A second loot chest has been added to the Vile Maw raid.
• A warning message has been added when the Watcher begins to enrage.
• One of the tentacles that was not despawning properly on Watcher death is now despawning. Properly.
• The Watcher’s health has been reduced.
• Vile Fury has become a level 60 corruption, and its application speed has been adjusted.
• Fixed Watcher Head skills in stage 3 that were not targeting players properly.
• Pets can now path into the Vile Maw boss chamber.
• Fixed a bug where players became trapped in the Vile Maw after the raid lock has been set.
• All boars have been removed from the Vile Maw.

Dark Delvings

• Players can no longer fight Doom-speaker at the entrance to the room without engaging his adds.
• The monsters have learned and they now come prepared!
• Lights for the Doom-speaker fight will now go on and off more reliably. If players stand near any of the lights, Doom-speaker will turn them off during his next transition so players must be very careful not to stand near too many lights too quickly.
• Doom-speaker will now take a little longer to heal and heal for a little bit less when he is accompanying a World-eater.

The Grand Stair

• Nardur’s mobs in the Grand Stair could sometimes enter into a state where they would still be attacking players yet unattackable themselves. They have been informed that this is an exploit and they will no longer employ this egregious behavior.
• Nardur in The Grand Stair will no longer return to his spawn location if you allow the timed event to expire. Dungeon Challenges are meant to be challenging.

The Forgotten Treasury

• Forgotten Treasury: Players can no longer fight the troll bosses inside Morhun’s chamber.
• More items have been added to the Forgotten Treasury’s reward chest.

Flight of Drakes

• Rimlug was reverting to “drama” mode when leaving combat after a party wipe, making it impossible to attack her on re-entering the instance. She should now remain attackable after flying down into the courtyard, regardless of whether or not she leaves combat.

Skûmfil

• Hwandrin’s door is no longer useable while the fight with Hwandrin is taking place
• Brúmbereth now does much more damage with her poison sting skill.
• Brúmbereth now drains life properly from her imprisoned foes.
• Grimreaver will not allow you to run and hide from his attacks any more, you must fight him properly.
• Hwandrin now heals for slightly more during the fight.
• Players can no longer fight Hwandrin in the front section of her room without an immense amount of danger.

Crafting

General Crafting

• Crafting Guilds: Reduced the cool-down timer from 7 days to 3 days for all 7-day expert and artisan crafting guild recipes.
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip descriptions for crafting guilds were displaying the wrong information. The tooltips for the various crafting guilds will now tell you where the guild-halls are located.
• Updated the stat descriptions on all crafting tools that provide bonuses to critical chance and/or reductions in timed durations to include the specific profession(s) affected by these bonuses.
• Lowered the prices of all normal Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Artisan, and Master recipe scrolls.
• Corrected a typo in the crafting guide called, “An Explorer’s Guide.”
• Fixed an issue where some Supreme Metalsmith, Tailoring, Weaponsmith, and Woodworking recipes found in loot were awarding only 6 crafting experience points per use. These recipes now award 8 crafting experience points per use.
• Fixed icon issues for the following items: Ruby Shard, Sapphire Shard, Adamant Shard, Beryl Shard
• Fixed an assortment of typos in the names of some crafting guild recipes for Woodworkers, Metalsmiths, and Cooks.
• Updated the required ingredients listed for making a Rowan Bow in the crafting books, “An Armsman’s Guide” and “A Woodsman’s Guide.”
• Made the following changes to all Legendary weapon and class item recipes:
  • Removed the possibility for a crafted legendary item to be created with only two legacies. All crafted legendary weapons and class items will always have three or four legacies.
  • Added the prefix Crafted to all crafted legendary weapon and class item names and recipes.
• Increased the output quantity to three items (normal success) and six items (critical success) for the following Prospector and Forester recipes:
  • Prospector: Mithril-infused Khazad-iron Ingot, Mithril-infused Khazad-gold Ingot, and Mithril-infused Khazad-steel Ingot
  • Forester: Mithril-inlaid Treated Mallorn and Mithril-reinforced Extraordinary Leather
• Made the following changes to the required ingredients of all legendary weapon and class item recipes:
  • Jeweller legendary item recipes: No longer require a Legendary Jeweller’s Medium Symbol as an ingredient.
  • Metalsmith legendary item recipes: No longer require a Legendary Metalsmith’s Medium Emblem as an ingredient.
  • Scholar legendary item recipes: No longer require a Legendary Scholar’s Medium Scroll as an ingredient.
  • Tailor legendary item recipes: No longer require a Legendary Tailor’s Medium Pattern as an ingredient.
  • Weaponsmith legendary item recipes: No longer require a Legendary Weaponsmith’s Medium Emblem as an ingredient.
  • Woodworker legendary item recipes: No longer require a Legendary Woodworker’s Medium Carving as an ingredient.
• Corrected a bunch of typos in the names and descriptions of items related to the following consignment quests:
  • “Consignment: Supple Hides”
  • “Consignment: Valuable Ore”
  • “Consignment: Researched Arcane Lore”
  • “Consignment: Fine Wood”
• The quality levels (Common, Uncommon, Rare, etc.) of recipe scrolls have been updated to bring more consistency to these items. In general, a recipe scroll’s quality level can be determined by the following:
  • Recipes that can be purchased from a vendor are Common (white)
  • Normal recipes found in treasure are Uncommon (yellow)
  • One-shot recipes found in treasure are Rare (purple)
  • Quest- and reputation-related recipes are Uncommon
  • Crafting guild reputation recipes are Common
  • Crafting guild reward recipes are Uncommon
  • Crafting guild legendary (Item Advancement) recipes are Rare
• Revamped the qualities (Common, Uncommon, Rare, etc.) for many crafting ingredients to improve consistency and organization amongst all ingredients:
  • All required ingredients that are purchased from vendors are now of Common quality (Examples: Bundles of Athelas Leaves, Small Clay Pot, Coal)
  • All gathered resources are now of Uncommon quality (Examples: Copper Ore, Rowan Wood, Medium Hide, Early Third Age Relic, Yellow Onion)
  • All processed resources are now of Uncommon quality (Examples: Copper Ingot, Treated Rowan, Boiled Medium Leather, Polished Sapphire)
  • All optional ingredients – whether they are purchased from vendors, looted from monsters, or crafted by players – are now of Rare quality (Examples: Soil of Rivendell, Master Journeyman Tailor’s Journal)
  • All special ingredients are now of incomparable quality (Examples: Ruby Shard, Beryl Shard, Legendary Shards)

Note: The prices for some items, specifically the common ingredients sold by vendors, have been lowered. In general, the price of these items will have been reduced by approximately 10%.

• Corrected small typos in the descriptions of Cooking ovens and Spool of Extraordinary Thread.

Farming

• Renamed many seed, poor crop, and fair crop farming items to provide a more consistent naming scheme for these items.
• Changed all name instances of “Elderberry” to “Elder.” The lone exception is “Juicy Elderberry,” whose name remains unchanged!
• Changed display name of “Common Mushroom” to “Mushroom.”
• Changed all fair crops produced by farmers to be of uncommon quality.
• Changed all poor crops and seeds to be of common quality.
• The price of “Soil of Lórien” has been slightly increased (was 24 copper, now 32 copper).

Scholar

• Renamed the “Advanced Essence” and “Advanced Salve” recipes sold by the Elves of Rivendell. These recipes are now named:
  • Atharbain’s Refined Athelas Essences Recipe
  • Atharbain’s Refined Celebrant Salves Recipe
  • Atharbain’s Pure Athelas Essences Recipe
  • Atharbain’s Pure Celebrant Salves Recipe.
• Fixed grammatical issues with the display names for Rune-carved Tablet, Etching of Moria, Relic of Khazad-dûm, Broken Dwarf-statue, and Tattered Khuzdul Parchment.
• Renamed some of the Journeyman, Master, and Supreme Scholar Athelas Essence and Celebrant Salve recipes to bring consistency to the names of all tiers of craftable potions. In general, the names for all Scholar-crafted potions should be as follows:
  • Apprentice: Lesser potions
  • Journeyman: Simple potions
  • Expert: Greater potions
  • Artisan: Refined potions
  • Master: Distilled potions
  • Supreme: Infused potions, Pure potions
• Corrected a typo in the description found on the item, “Etching of Moria.”
• New cure draught recipes have arrived! Scholars can now create all varieties of Milkthistle, Lhinestad, Healing, and Conhuith draughts. Apprentice-level recipes can be purchased from Novice Scholar vendors — more powerful recipes can be found in treasure.
• Reduced the cost of Small Glass Phials to 40 copper.
• Reduced the value of all crafted dyes to 50 copper.

Cooking

• Cooks of all skill levels can now show off their soup-making abilities with new soup and stew recipes! These delicious and filling meals will boost resistances to fear, poison, disease, and wounds for a short duration, so eat up and always remember to ask for seconds!
• Fixed an issue where consuming a Cooked, Trail, or Fortifying food of a lower tier would have no effect (essentially wasting the food) if a Cooked, Trail, or Fortifying food of a higher tier was already in effect. The effect from a lower tier food will now be suppressed by the effect from a higher tier food until the higher tier food’s effect expires. At this point, the lower tier food’s effect will become active.
• Raised the legendary item experience bonus for the Cup of White Tea to 5% (previously 3%), the Cup of Green Tea to 10% (previously 6%), and the Cup of Black Tea to 15% (previously 10%).
• Updated the names of the effects bestowed when eating cooked, trail, or fortifying foods, as well as from fine drinks. The effect names should now more clearly match the type of food they came from (Cooked Food, Trail Food, Fortifying Food, or Fine Drink).
• Added minimum level requirements to the trail foods made from fish:
  • Fried Dace with Mushrooms / Superior Fried Dace with Mushrooms: Min level 1
  • Catfish Cakes / Superior Catfish Cakes: Min level 10
  • Perch Fillet / Superior Perch Fillet: Min level 20
  • Golden Mullet Chowder / Superior Golden Mullet Chowder: Min level 30
  • Bass with Carrots and Onions / Superior Bass with Carrots and Onions: Min level 40
• The Cook’s Guild leader, Aesseledh, now has a full head of hair.

Weaponsmith

• Fixed an issue with some Hunter trap recipes not using the appropriate required ingredients. Lure trap recipe will now require some metal in addition to the previously required ingredients.

Prospecting

• Fixed a typo in the description of Ancient Iron Ore.
• Corrected a typo in the tooltip for Khazâd-steel Ingot.

Jeweller

• Some Supreme Jeweller recipes were requiring more ingredients than they should be using, so these recipes have had their required ingredients decreased or altered. This includes all of the auto-granted jewellery and rune-stone recipes, all of the level 54/56/58 jewellery recipes, the Lore-master amulet recipes, and the Jeweller’s Guild Supreme jewellery recipes.
• Increased the amount of crafting experience rewarded for the following Supreme Jeweller recipes: Aquamarine Bracelet Recipe, Aquamarine Earring Recipe, Aquamarine Necklace Recipe, Aquamarine Ring Recipe, and Aquamarine Flint Rune-stone Recipe.
• New Jeweller ring recipes have been added to loot for all tiers! The rings produced with these recipes are primarily focused at providing more ways to increase your Tactical Critical rating.
• Fixed a typo in the description of Gondorian Sapphire.
• Both the Weak Amulet of the Blood-raven Recipe and the Worn Amulet of the Frost-raven Recipe can now be stacked (maximum of 10).

Tailoring

• New Supreme Burglar’s signal recipes can now be found in treasure.
• Adjusted the stats on the Searcher’s Hat to be more consistent with the stats found on the Superior Searcher’s Hat.
• Corrected typos in the names of the Noble’s Cloak and Heroic Noble’s Hooded Cloak.
• The Torahammas’s Cloak recipe can now be stacked (maximum of 10).
• Added the Journeyman, Expert, and Artisan Rune-keeper Rune-satchel recipes to all Novice and Expert Tailor NPCs.
• All crafted Rune-keeper Rune-satchels are now Bind on Equip.
• Corrected typos in the names of the Noble’s Cloak, Heroic Noble’s Hooded Cloak, Noble’s Cloak Recipe, and Heroic Noble’s Hooded Cloak Recipe.
• Fixed an issue where some critical light and medium armour pieces had armor levels equal to (and in a few cases, lower than) their non-critical counterparts. In general, the armour values for critical light/medium armour pieces should always be at least 5% higher than the non-critical light/medium armour pieces for the following crafted sets:
  • Light Armour (includes Elven and Dwarf-make varieties):
    • Loose Linen / Pliant Linen
    • Superb Traveller’s / Exquisite Traveller’s
    • Explorer’s / Fine Explorer’s
    • Superb Scholar’s / Exquisite Scholar’s
    • Padded Pristine / Stout Pristine
    • Rock-climber’s / Rugged Rock-climber’s
    • Searcher’s / Superior Searcher’s
    • Treasure-hunter’s / Transcendent Treasure-hunter’s
  • Medium Armour (includes Elven and Dwarf-make varieties):
    • Superb Leather / Exquisite Leather
    • Superb Outrider’s / Exquisite Outrider’s
    • Superb Hunter’s / Exquisite Hunter’s
    • Superb Campaigner’s / Exquisite Campaigner’s
    • Footman’s / Fine Footman’s
    • Scout’s / Superior Scout’s
    • Herald’s / High Herald’s Crafting

Metalsmith

• Corrected a typo in the names Tools of the Armourer, Superior Tools of the Armourer, and Tools of the Armourer Recipe
• Reward recipes for Warden shields have been added to the Metalsmith’s Guild reward vendor.
• Fixed an issue where some critical heavy armour pieces had armor levels equal to (and in a few cases, lower than) their non-critical counterparts. In general, the armour values for critical heavy armour pieces should always be at least 5% higher than the non-critical heavy armour pieces for the following crafted sets:
  • Heavy Armour (includes Elven and Dwarf-make varieties):
    • Forge-Crafted / Temper-Crafted
    • Strong Defender’s / Solid Defender’s
    • Strong Westernesse / Solid Westernesse
    • Heavy Elven Soldier’s / Hardened Elven Soldier’s
    • Sellsword’s / Superior Sellsword’s
    • Sentinel’s / Superb Sentinel’s
    • Officer’s / High Officer’s

Woodworking

• Added an additional stat bonus to the Fortified Lebethron Club to bring it in line with other comparable weapons in this set.
• Fixed an issue with the Stout Ash Javelin that was causing this weapon to decrease threat during ranged combat. This weapon now correctly increases threat during ranged combat.
• The Woodworker’s Guild Reward Vendor now sells the recipe for Crafted Burglar’s Club of the Third Age.
• Adjusted the stats on Heavy Yew crafted weapons to differentiate them from Yew crafted weapons. Additionally, adjusted stats on the Stout Yew crafted weapons to differentiate them from the Hardened Yew crafted weapons.
• The trophy item named Long Horn (a required ingredient for the Master Woodworker Champion Horn recipe) now states in its description that the item can be used in crafting. The icon has also been changed for this item to indicate that it is a crafting ingredient.
• The Supreme Woodworking War Horn recipe previously required a Charming Horn as an ingredient, which does not exist. This recipe now requires an Elegant Claw instead.
• The Elegant Claw now uses the correct crafting item icon background and states in its description, “This item can be used in crafting.”
• Slightly adjusted the stats on the Heavy Yew Spear to differentiate it from the Yew Spear. Also, slightly adjusted stats on the Stout Yew Spear to differentiate it from the Hardened Yew Spear.
• Corrected an issue in which the names of the Supreme Woodworking component recipes and the names of the Woodworker’s Guild component recipes were incorrectly swapped with one another in the Crafting UI panel.
• Decreased the minimum level requirement from level 10 to level 7 for the following crafted spears:
  • Rowan Spear
  • Stout Rowan Spear
  • Heavy Rowan Spear
  • Hardened Rowan Spear

Emotes

• The character emote /flip is now available to all characters.
• Added /challenge emotes.

Items

• The Ornate Yew bow will now update skill duration tooltips properly.
• Edhelharn Hope Tokens are no longer potions. These are token/consumable items.
• Festival masks are now dyeable!
• Strong traps will now be affected properly by root curing potions and diminishing returns in PvMP. The Reaver’s Charge skills will also now block the root from the trap correctly.
• Iron Garrison’s ‘Guard’s Medium Shield’ now sells for a price comparable to the other shields offered.
• Corrected the display name of the Lore-master’s Staff of the Third Age. Lore-master is now properly hyphenated!
• Dimrill Dale’s Messenger dagger now has the appropriate cooldowns for equipping (5 minutes) and using (30 minutes) the +Fate effect.
• Summerdays Fireworks no longer disappear on use. Players can now keep their fireworks and use them once every 30 minutes!
• Spring Festival: Barter and Vendor NPC’s will display mapnotes while the festival is active.
• Yule Festival: Man Gift Boxes have been renamed to Bree-land Gift Boxes.
• The Empty Brazier housing decoration can no longer be lit.
• The Champion’s and Guardian’s Tier 2 Ettendeep armour sets had their names reversed. The Champion’s set is now appropriately named Armour of the Swift-slayer, and the Guardian’s is now Armour of the Last Stand.
• The Vile Maw housing trophy has now been added.
• Kranklûk’s Brand is now working properly.
• The following Moria pre-order cloaks are now dyeable:
  • “Cloak of the Sunset”
  • “Cloak of the Dark Halls”
  • “Cloak of the Cold Well”
  • “Hwestgol”
  • “Cloak of Umukh”
  • “Cloak of the Raven-friend”
  • “Cloak of Durin’s Crown”
  • “Cloak of the Redhorn Gate”
• Some of the Guardian and Champion weapons/shield offered in Glan Vraig have been renamed.
• The following quest reward items in Forochel have been upgraded slightly:
  • Sûri-kylä’s Revenge
  • Sûri-kylä’s Vengeance
  • Sûri-kylä’s Retaliation
• The Forochel armor sets have been updated so that the reputation requirements to use them are tiered. The new requirements are:
  • Hands/Feet: Requires Acquaintance standing with Lossoth of Forochel
  • Chest/Shoulders: Requires Friend standing with Lossoth of Forochel
  • Legs/Head: Requires Ally standing with Lossoth of Forochel
• Helm of the Silent Knife renamed to Hood of the Silent Knife
• Updated the innate evade debuff on hammers to trigger more often.
• Footwear for the Moria armor sets had the wrong armor value. Their armor has been decreased slightly.
• Some high level rings didn’t have usage cooldown timers on their invoked skill. They do now!
• Some low- to mid-level (and one – level) quest reward items were updated to boost Tactical Critical Rating. In some cases an existing out-of-combat regen modifier was replaced with a Tactical Critical Rating modifier. This change affects the following quest reward items:
  • Light Armor
    • “Constable’s Feathered Hat”
    • “Baingarab”
    • “Bounder Shirriff’s Cap”
    • “Digweed’s Hat”
    • “Gailthin’s Feathered Hat”
    • “Chopley’s Hat”
    • “Manadranc”
    • “Gelluiranc”
    • “Tirithranc”
    • “Daervunn’s Shoulder Guards”
    • “The Scavenger’s Lot”
    • “Herth-herthar”
    • “Aearanc”
    • “Gatson’s Shoulder Pads”
    • “Rehearh”
    • “Zanthrug’s Fall”
    • “Reedy’s Hat”
    • “Scholar’s Hat”
    • “Curugarab”
    • “Ión’s First Helm” (Moria high level item)
  • Medium Armor
    • “Saeradan’s Shoulder Guards”
    • “Both-herthar”
    • “The Wheelwright’s Shoulders”
    • “The Tusker’s Flanks”
    • “Arastil’s Headgear”
    • “Jofur-hálm”
    • “Hornsounder’s Head”
    • “Warg Hide Helm”
    • “Peake’s Helmet”
    • “Candac’s Helmet”
    • “Emelin’s Helm”
    • “Hana’s Helmet”
    • -Jewelry
    • “Munce’s Ring”
    • “Shimmering Ring”
    • “Aglardir’s Ruby Ring”
    • “Aegor”
    • “Taringor”
    • “Lothrinn”
    • “Ring of the Grove”
  • Weapons
    • “Staff of Lore”
    • “Staff of Othrikar”
    • “Amarthis”
    • “Urn Finder’s Staff”
    • “Hawkling’s Staff”
    • “Ironband’s Staff”
    • “Striking Staff”
    • “Relentless Staff”
    • “Stanric’s Staff”
    • “Emelin’s Staff”
    • “Founders Staff”
    • “Culang’s Staff”
    • “Celeglang”
    • “Bávor’s Blade”
    • “Rigul’s Bane”
    • “Nishrûk’s Foe”
    • “Hithlim’s Mace”
    • “Túrdam”
    • “Orgrin’s Mace”
    • “Barachen’s Mallet”
• Cloaks “Golodir’s Mantle” and “Golodir’s Cloak” have been changed back to their previous appearances.
• The following items have had their enhancements restored. They were removed by accident: “Blade of Keriä” “Dagger of Keriä” “Sword of Keriä” “Staff of Keriä.”
• A Rune-stone item has been added as another selectable reward to the Bone-man quest.
• Durability rating on Bombadil’s Rune-stone was increased (28 to 90 points)
• Fixed a typo in the description of the Singed Cloak.
• Frost-antler Head Trophy has the correct icon now.
• The two quest reward items for Lest We Forget have been upgraded:
  • “Storied Blade” received a bonus to Vitality
  • “Borgar’s Gauntlets” has an enchantment that has a chance to reward morale in combat.
• Stats on the high level Lore-master necklaces have been improved. This affects the following necklaces:
  • “Grand Amulet of the Ashen Eagle”
  • “Grand Amulet of the Spotted Lynx”
  • “Grand Amulet of the Onyx Lynx”
• Icons for the Burglar’s Caltrops & Marbles have been updated.
• Fixed a typo in the Moria Mark of Victory item description.
• Corrected a typo in the name of “Elven Steel Boots of Fate.”
• Corrected a grammatical error in the description on Pike.
• Renamed some of the draught and salve potions to bring more consistency to the names of these items.
  • “Pure” draughts & salves that remove effects of level 50 or lower have been replaced with “Distilled” varieties that remove effects of level 55 or lower.
  • “Brewed” draughts & salves that remove effects of level 60 or lower have been replaced with “Infused” varieties that remove effects of level 65 or lower.
  • While both the “Pure” and “Brewed” varieties have been removed from vendors and treasure, existing quantities of these items already in the possession of players have not been altered and may still be used normally.
• Corrected a typo in the description for the Hooded Cloak of Moonlight.
• Some low-level common shields for Wardens were using old names and have been updated to better represent the artwork.
• Many of the uncommon Rune-stones were still called ”Orbs”
• Rune-keeper’s Rift gear item Hat of Graven Word has been renamed to Circlet of Graven Word
• Fishing Poles have been updated to preclude the second weapon/shield slot.
• Icon & description updated for Ringent Gem Ring.
• Chillbane’s Curse & Chillbane’s Woe have been upgraded slightly.
• Tool-tip information on Niko’s Bow and Niko’s Crossbow has been updated. This update does not change the item’s effectiveness.
• Some uncommon burglar tools were not flagged as bind-on-equip.
• Name changed for “Robe of the Mighty Verse” to “Shirt of the Mighty Verse”. The item was never a robe to begin with!
• Quest Items: Corrected a misspelled word in the description on Tudur’s Challenge, a reward from the “The Captain of Sad Rechu” quest.
• Recipe Scroll Cases: Corrected the plural names of all scroll cases when stacked. Also fixed the names of some scroll cases that were appearing grammatically incorrect due to names beginning with vowels.
• Tool Scroll Cases: Updated the descriptions on all tool scroll cases to be more accurate.
• Master Tool Scroll Case: There is now a 50% chance that either an Ancient Iron or Ancient Steel craft tool recipe will be found when using a Master Tool Scroll Case. This makes it slightly less likely that you will find an Ancient Iron craft tool recipe, and slightly more likely that you will find an Ancient Steel craft tool recipe than before.
• Some uncommon javelins were incorrectly set up as bows, causing them to use incorrect attack animations (amongst other problems). These weapons have been fixed and will now be properly treated as javelins.
• The ring “Pride of Burzghash” gave a +0% to Tactical Critical Effects. There was an issue where this bug could have been seen in other low-level items and has now been fixed.
• Scented Candles and the Horn of the Dwarrowdelf will now share the same cooldown channel that all Edhelharn Tokens use. All of these items have a 15-minute cooldown timer.
• White Cloth Strip has an icon.

Legendary Items

• Item Advancement UI now correctly states what ‘Relics’ have been slotted instead of ‘Runics’.
• Tutorial Tips and Tooltips now correctly say ‘Legendary Item Panel’ instead of ‘Item Advancement Panel’.
• The Magic and Melee Defence Titles for Legendary Items were increasing damage taken instead of mitigating it. Whoops!
• The Relic Backgrounds have been switch to match the colors of the relic slots in the UI Settings – Purple Gems – Teal Runes – Orange.
• When deconstructing a Legendary Item at max level, any relics currently slotted on the item will be returned to you.
• Whenever you upgrade a legacy at reforge you will be refunded all Legendary Points spent on that legacy and the new upgraded legacy will be at Rank 1.
• Added a button to auto-combine relics in the Relic window.
• Clarified the warning shown before deconstructing an item-advancement item. It now warns, “The item you are deconstructing will be destroyed and you will lose the current item and all relics and titles on that item. Do you wish to continue?”
• Item Advancement: Corrected typos in the display names of the relics, “Sealed Iron Setting of the Fleet Hand” and “Iron Setting of the Fleet Hand.”
• All IA titles will now appropriately let you replace them with titles of a different category regardless of tier. Titles of the same category can still only be used if the existing title is of a lower tier than the new one. Also, the tooltip for title items now displays which category the title is associated with.
• Legendary Item Light & Fire damage titles no longer state that Hunters and Wardens can use them
• The Legendary Items given out by Moria Book 1, Chapter 14 have been changed to Bind on Acquire to be consistent with all other quest rewards.

Loot System

• The Watcher’s tentacles no longer drop items.
• Removed all chances of receiving an Apprentice Metalsmith crafting tool recipe from a Journeyman Tool Scroll Case.
• Fixed an issue where some common trophy drops were using names identical to rare trophy drops. The common Blackened Claw trophy item has been renamed to Bent Claw, and the common Dusky Claw trophy item has been renamed to Crooked Claw.
• Two level 50 items dropped by Sambrog in the Great Barrow have been changed levels:
  • Javelin of the Unbeliever is now level 24
  • Runic Slab is now level 25
  • Some enchantments on the items have been removed and/or reduced.

Graphics/Animation/fx

• Moria Globsnaga Orcs will now use a much more… interesting ranged attack animation.
• Fixed a graphical glitch with the Champion’s level 32 ‘Glimmer Sword’ found in the Lone-lands.
• Moria Orc Skirmishers now have better FX during their self-healing channel, and their channel duration can be reduced by attacking them.
• Moria Orc Berserkers & Goblin Sneaks now have persistent FX while they have their ‘Bloodied Fury’ and ‘Knives Out’ buffs. (So players who aren’t targeting the mobs will be able to more easily tell when the buffs have expired.)
• The combined Shirt and Pants Combo outfits now dye as intended with the new Grey, Turquoise and Orange dyes, which now dye the pants as well, and not just the shirt. These new dyes now behave like the rest for these clothes.
• New effects have been added to the Vile Maw encounter.
• The plaques in the Chamber of Mazarbul will now properly display their names.
• Vile Maw – Watcher Induction decal now draws above the water.
• Gularan Volume and Gularan Compendium now use appropriate icons.
• Corrected Warden evade animations so non-spear weapons will not leap out of the Warden’s hand while evading.
• Fixed animation issues caused by using pipe-weed or pipes while sitting, lying down, or fainting.
• Dwarf neck on robe was mapped incorrectly. This has been fixed.
• Fixed the interaction between emotes /Smoke1 and /Liedown. Because smoking is bad. Especially in bed.
• Shields will no longer shrink as much when hobbits and dwarfs sling them on their backs.
• Players can no longer get stuck in a state with invisible instruments by quickly repeating the /music command.
• Volume I Book 15 Chapter 6 – Corrected some issues with the combat animations for Arodel.
• Captain Skill – Escape from Darkness – corrected minor animation glitch when using this skill.
• Dwarfs have gotten over their experimentation with fisticuffs and once again use a head butt animation for their racial attack.
• Aragorn may be light of foot, but he’s properly grounded now during ‘The Fellowship Departs’ and will no longer float off the ground while he waits for everyone to get ready.
• Rumil doesn’t have that ‘I’m wearing a hairpiece!’ look anymore.
• Monsters will no longer stand with their arms outstretched in between attacks.
• Some floors and ceilings in Moria were invisible when running with Intel graphics chipsets. This has been fixed.
• When viewing other players in Moria, their torch light will now correctly light the ground below them.
• Landscape was appearing too bright in the distance (and sometimes not appearing at all) in some areas. This has been fixed.
• When using certain graphics settings, glowing objects would flicker when moving the camera. This has been fixed.
• Shire: Fixed a hobbit who was farming without any tools.
• Moria: Fungus Takes Flight: The Globsnaga will now run out of their cages instead of teleporting out of them.
• Moria: All versions of Oxi look alike.
• Human female Moria burglar helm appeared with incorrect texture.
• Fixed texture mapping issue on elf female lower body.
• Hadoranc on Male Men looked different than on every other avatar. This has been fixed.
• Dwarven helmet no longer clips with some human female noses.
• Rune-keeper Rift armor lacked proper textures for all components, as well as proper dye capabilities.
• Fixed various placement issues and levitating objects.
• Visual Fx Enabled for Legendary Weapons
  • All Legendary Weapons have a default white vfx
  • Weapons that have Slayer titles applied gain the Sting vfx for the monsters associated with their slayer type
  • Each damage type has its own visual vfx
  • The vfx become stronger as the item levels
• Rune-rocks in the Foundations of Stone should now look like rune-rocks.
• Deleted extraneous floating levers in the Aflame Deeps.
• The images that appear during the in-game credits will no longer cover all the text in lower resolutions.
• Moria: Asgil the Forge-master’s overhead icon is no longer inside a pillar.

World

• Added more orcs to Dalgum-ru.
• The Gates of Carn Dûm will now open if you have added the “Carn Dûm Gate Key” to your key ring.
• Goblin Fire camp in the Misty Mountains will again properly set off its big drama sequence when the cauldron is used.
• The Sages of Eriador now offer one Master Scholar Scroll Case for three Marks of Triumph.
• The broken pieces of the Bridge of Khazad-dûm were backwards, with the longer piece on the west side of the chasm and the shorter one on the east. They have now been reversed. This could cause people who logged out while standing on the broken bridge to log on in midair and plummet to their dooms. This should teach them not to log out on precarious bridges!
• The stablemaster at Zirakzigil now has guards.
• Thorgyny has moved in with the other dwarves.
• Fixed the appearances of several guards in Agamaur.
• Moria: Zirakzigil: Bats are now in the cages.
• Typo in ‘The Drowned Treasury’ discovered and corrected. Quality noticeably increased!
• Those of you who noticed that Frodo no longer had Dread during ‘The Fellowship Departs,’ never fear: he’s still got the Ring; his Dread during that instance is back.
• The Forge-masters in Thorin’s Hall and Rivendell now have real names. Meet Rósar and Snár, everybody!
• The Iron Garrison Guards outside Moria are really dwarves, despite insisting otherwise. When inspecting them, they’ll no longer incorrectly report being Men.
• Dwarves in the Dimrill Dale will no longer pretend to be inside Moria when you talk to them.
• Eregion: Several Angmarim in a tent near Mirobel will display their vitals.
• The “Grasp of Darkness” effect in Dark Delvings will no longer continue to stack on players in your fellowship when they move in and out of the light.

Town Services

• We realized that the Light Armour vendors for Dwarves and Elves were identical. The Elf with a Dwarf name has been renamed and the namers of the names have been renamed as well.
• Corrected typos in the titles of Flora Thistledown, Jewellery Trader and Blythe, Jewellery Trader.
• Outfitters: The outfitters of Middle-earth now sell some additional goodies:
  • A hooded and non-hooded plain cloak that solidly dyes.
  • Hobbit, Elf, and Man Outfitters now sell a backpack that can be used by anyone but is directly targeted towards Wardens (as it’s a pack of javelins).
• Tavern League: The Jig dance can be purchased with fall festival tokens.

Travel/Maps/Radar

• Spring Festival: All vendors will now have mapnotes.
• The Walls of Moria map has shortcuts to Eriador, Rhovanion, and Moria. The art for this map has been updated to include an icon of Durin’s Door.
• Fixed stretched and missing minimaps in Moria and Vol I: Book 15 Dungeons. Also many other Dungeons in Moria.

  loc will now give you Region

  Location: coords if they are available.

• The swift travel routes in Eregion now cost more than standard travel.
• The dwarves have constructed a new stable at Noglond in Ered Luin! This will enable players to travel to Noglond without having to dismount enroute to Gondamon from Thorin’s hall, and vice versa.
• Horse travel costs for most routes in Ered Luin, the Shire, and Bree-land have been significantly lowered.
• The travel routes that previously referenced the Stone-Climber’s Camp now correctly reference Anazârmekhem.
• Fixed a bug where being hit by a Devastating Hit didn’t dismount you while riding a mount.
• New Swift Travel Routes added! Each route costs 1 silver:
• Combe
  • Fast Travel to Celondim
  • Fast Travel to Michel Delving
  • Fast Travel to Thorin’s Gate
• South Bree
  • Fast Travel to Celondim
  • Fast Travel to Michel Delving
  • Fast Travel to Thorin’s Gate
• Michel Delving
  • Fast Travel to Combe
• Celondim
  • Fast Travel to Combe
• Thorin’s Gate
  • Fast Travel to Combe

Performance/Client

• Using Rune-keeper skills could cause performance problems on some systems. This has been fixed.
• No more odd “Too busy” errors when currently crafting and trying to open the mailbox.

Creature AI/Pathing

• Monsters which “burrow” (Cave-claws, Shades, Dark-waters, Neekers) will no longer do so when they are near death, because that’s annoying.
• Warg-riders will no longer use their Hamstring/Ride-by-Attack skill until they have been attacked.
• Hill-beasts are now significantly less likely to horse-jack you when you’re riding (or running) by them.
• The health of the Squeezing Tentacle has been reduced.
• Bloodwing will no longer become unattackable when he summons his adds.
• Ferndur in Imlad Balchorth will now aggro level 60 players.
• Moria Orc Berserkers in Aggressive Stance will no longer apply ‘Bloodied Rage’ buffs to themselves while they are stunned/mezzed.
• The Rock-trolls around Taur Gonwaith and within the Etten Caves of the North Downs are now Signature mobs and will become hostile immediately.
• Fixed an issue with monsters failing to execute skills on a stealthed player.
• The Blind-strider, Rock-warden, and Zarza are now Signature mobs.
• Moria: White Hand Guards will no longer use shaman skills.
• Fungal Mushrooms will now only shudder/shake when they are inducting instead of shaking all the time. This will help make it more obvious when these Fungal Mushrooms are about to explode.
• The Lost One’s mushroom respawn time has decreased.
• The Lost One’s Adds will no longer attack the most threatening target, and will only attack the person marked with “Mark of Doom.”
• Globsnaga Servants will drop their fungal infection hotspot 100% of the time.
• The Shaking Tentacle heal name has been changed to Tentacle Regeneration.

Questing

General Questing

• The Corcur Talisman was irrevocably broken when we transferred to the new quest item system, and had become stuck in some player’s banks. We have replaced it with a new version of the item that will work correctly. The old version is no longer a quest item and can now be removed from your bank and discarded or sold to a vendor. Those that were properly appearing in the quest log have been deleted as the quest has been versioned and reset. Sorry about that!

Player Quests

Moria

• Dimrill Dale: Catapults and Siege-machines will now animate on use.
• A Previous Expedition: The icon for the orders will be a letter.
• Bogrian’s escape has been polished.
• Dimrill Dale: Final Offence: Gates will burn when used, they will no longer be destroyed.
• Many fixes to the Volume II Book 5 battles in Moria:
  • The boss of the Deepway will now spawn after a certain amount of time, no matter what.
  • The Way of Smiths battle will start correctly.
  • The chance of getting multiple Elite Masters in a single attack has been lowered.
• Thili has been admonished: he’ll now be more careful about taking players with him during ‘We Cannot Get Out.’ If he doesn’t, try running away from him and he should snap out of it, bringing you with him to the second half of the instance!
• Bogrian’s Curiosity: The merrevail scouts you are spying on now talk.
• Foundations of Stone: Cleaned up some things involved with Eight-legged Insanity.
• Craftsman of Destruction is now marked as a small fellowship recommended.
• Know Thine Enemy that relates to Morroval has been renamed to Visage of Terror.
• Out of Darkness – throwing the oil can no longer be interrupted.
• All versions of Oxi look alike.
• Two Problems, One Tool now only needs 10 orcs.
• Stonecrest is more impressively sized.
• If you’ve started Gumming up the Works, you can no longer get Foreman of the Great Wheel.
• Fixed a typo in the Infighting quest.
• Asgil the Forge-master’s overhead icon is no longer inside a pillar.
• Shadowy Abyss: Infestation: Globsnaga Guards should count towards this quest now.
• The Orc-Watch: Reduced the number of helmets needed for Last of the White Hand.
• You will no longer get stuck in the traps for the Allies of Mordor quest when they stop spinning.
• Flooded Deeps: Goblins will no longer count towards the Lying in Wait quest.
• Quests for the Grand Stair will now appear in the same region of the quest journal.
• A typo in The Fungus Among Us was corrected.
• The announcement at the end of Riddles in the Tomb is now less patronizing.
• Riddles in the Stone should now only require you to stay alive during the first objective, rather than until you turn the quest in.
• The last objective in your quest tracker for Kill It With Fire claimed that Tyki was at Dalgum-ru rather than his actual location at the Shadowed Refuge.
• Moria: The items for Mushroom Picking and Leaving the Mines will not delete for others when one player uses them.
• Quest item for Shaky Foundations now goes into your quest item inventory.
• Fungus Takes Flight has been updated to refer to the correct monster you are killing.
• Improved the directions in Digging West.
• Quest: “Stealth Assault” now has the correct failure condition and text.

Epic Story

• The door in Volume I Book 12 Chapter 3 Instance Barad Tironn now unlocks after the boss has been defeated.
• Narmeleth now pauses before the first boss encounter in the instance One Hope Remains.
• Epic Volume 1 Book 13 now has item rewards for Wardens and Rune-keepers.
• Modified the text for I.14.15 now that the fast travel to Mirobel is not part of the quest.
• Volume I Book 15 Chapter 8 has been updated; players with this quest underway will need to reacquire it from Narmeleth in Delossad.
• Volume I Book 15 Chapter 8: Arel will disappear when you mount her.
• Volume I Book 15 Chapter 12 – a quest ring will now appear above the NPC that will teleport you out of the instance.

Other

• The quest ‘Champion of Dunland’ no longer has a chance to display error messaging.
• The quest Adelard’s Chapter now resets properly on failure.
• The Riddle-master quest line now only gives out the Riddle-stone item at the end of the arc.
• The dwarf pack for the quest The Forgetful Dwarf now spawns as all other quest items.
• Three quests occurring before the Raid on Archet were flagged for tracking the Bree-land quest deed. They have been removed from contribution, but never fear, there are still many more quests than necessary to complete the Bree-land deeds.
• Spoiled Pie from Tuckborough can now be used by more than one player at a time.
• Players kind enough to find the Missing Lynx of Ered Luin will now be rewarded with experience for their troubles.
• Haudh Iarchith: The entrance and exit doors to the Tomb of Maenadar now have names.
• Quarry in Scary should no longer leave the player with two Golfimbul’s skulls.
• Burying the Dead: Burying one of the corpses will propagate to your party.
• Adso’s Delivery: This is now only able to be turned in to the Bill Ferny who is at Sweetgrass Farm.
• Sarnemil’s Flight: This quest no longer fails on logout; this required the quest to be versioned. If you had this quest underway, you must speak to the bestower NPC to start it again.
• Old Forestry: Maggot gives you a permanent copy of the Old Forest Notes as a quest reward
• Recovering the Lost Leaf: Page will flash when useable.
• North Downs: Scouting the Ram Duath: You will now get credit if you approach the east camp from the east side.
• Evendim: Plan Carried Out note is easier to select.
• Evendim: The bodies at the bear camp are a bit more skewed in their placement.
• Evendim: Bounty: Andy Idden: This is now marked as a small fellowship recommended.
• Forochel: The Ties that Bind: Before teleporting, Kaj will inform you that this is a solo only quest.
• Forochel: A Respectable Ritual: The coiled rope will now be stored in your quest log, not your inventory.
• Quests: Corrected some naming errors associated with the items for the following crafting quests:
  • Consignment: Fine wood
  • Consignment: Valuable Ore
  • Consignment: Supple Hides
  • Consignment: Arcane Lore

Monster Play Quests

• A bug was preventing monster players from completing the quest to capture one of the new outposts when capturing the River Outpost. This has been fixed.
• The quest “Mash” was displaying multiple objectives – this has been addressed.
• The quest “Mash” would sometimes remove more than one stack of ten slug-meat from monster player inventory. This has been fixed.
• The level on Ranger and Troll quests offered when the population is unbalanced in the Ettenmoors are now level appropriate. The population mechanic is working correctly after investigating some reports.
• The capture outposts quest added with the release of the expansion now properly reflects that it can completed within a raid.

Special Note about Moria Instance Rewards

Many of the armor sets coming from the Moria instances were not bind-on-acquire and have now been updated to be such. This includes the following items:

• Gloves of the Stone-student
• Shoes of the Stone-student
• Trousers of the Stone-student
• Robe of the Stone-student
• Shoulders of the Stone-student
• Hat of the Stone-student
• Song-caller’s Gloves
• Song-caller’s Shoes
• Song-caller’s Trousers
• Song-caller’s Robe
• Song-caller’s Shoulders
• Song-caller’s Hat
• Gloves of the First Letters
• Shoes of the First Letters
• Trousers of the First Letters
• Robe of the First Letters[s]
• Shoulders of the First Letters
• Hat of the First Letters[s]
• Pathfinder’s Gauntlets
• Pathfinder’s Boots
• Pathfinder’s Leggings
• Pathfinder’s Jacket
• Pathfinder’s Shoulders
• Pathfinder’s Helm
• Trickster’s Gauntlets
• Trickster’s Boots
• Trickster’s Leggings
• Trickster’s Jacket
• Trickster’s Shoulders
• Trickster’s Helm
• Gauntlets of the Hall-warden
• Boots of the Hall-warden
• Leggings of the Hall-warden
• Jacket of the Hall-warden
• Shoulders of the Hall-warden
• Helm of the Hall-warden
• Gauntlets of the Brazen Call
• Boots of the Brazen Call
• Leggings of the Brazen Call
• Breastplate of the Brazen Call
• Shoulders of the Brazen Call
• Helm of the Brazen Call
• Knock knock!
• Who’s there?
• Ida
• Ida who?
• Ida know!
• Shield-bearer’s Gauntlets
• Shield-bearer’s Boots
• Shield-bearer’s Leggings
• Shield-bearer’s Breastplate
• Shield-bearer’s Shoulders
• Shield-bearer’s Helm
• Gauntlets of the Axe-handler
• Boots of the Axe-handler
• Leggings of the Axe-handler
• Breastplate of the Axe-handler
• Shoulders of the Axe-handler
• Helm of the Axe-handler
• Quillmaster’s Gloves
• Quillmaster’s Shoes
• Quillmaster’s Trousers
• Gloves of the Poet’s Heart
• Shoes of the Poet’s Heart
• Leggings of the Poet’s Heart
• Certh-writer’s Gloves
• Certh-writer’s Shoes
• Certh-writer’s Trousers
• Gauntlets of the Swift Arrow
• Boots of the Swift Arrow
• Leggings of the Swift Arrow
• Gauntlets of the Quiet Step
• Boots of the Quiet Step
• Leggings of the Quiet Step
• Line-warder’s Gauntlets
• Line-warder’s Boots
• Line-warder’s Leggings
• Stoutheart’s Gauntlets
• Stoutheart’s Boots
• Stoutheart’s Leggings
• Gauntlets of the Iron Arm
• Boots of the Iron Arm
• Leggings of the Iron Arm
• Berserker’s Gauntlets
• Berserker’s Boots
• Berserker’s Leggings
• Robe of Deep Lore
• Shoulders of Deep Lore
• Hat of Deep Lore
• Balladeer’s Robe
• Balladeer’s Shoulders
• Balladeer’s Hat
• Robe of the Written Word
• Shoulders of the Written Word
• Hat of the Written Word
• Trapsetter’s Jacket
• Trapsetter’s Shoulders
• Trapsetter’s Helm
• Soft-walker’s Jacket
• Soft-walker’s Shoulders
• Soft-walker’s Helm
• Jacket of the Shield-wall
• Shoulders of the Shield-wall
• Helm of the Shield-wall
• Breastplate of the Rallying Shout
• Shoulders of the Rallying Shout
• Helm of the Rallying Shout
• Stoneheart’s Breastplate
• Stoneheart’s Shoulders
• Stoneheart’s Helm
• Breastplate of the Whirlwind
• Shoulders of the Whirlwind
• Helm of the Whirlwind

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• Over 50 new quests!
• The epic story continues with 9 chapters and 4 instances!
• New faction: Elves of Lothlórien

New Player Experience
We’ve taken a long hard look at the way new players experience their early days in Middle-earth. Based on feedback from the community and poring over internal data we decided we could do better. We’ve completely redesigned the Elf and Dwarf new player progression and given Archet and The Shire a good polish as well. Players will find quests flow together more naturally and progression through the regions and levels is more fun!

• Lots of new quests in the Ered Luin!
• New travel routes
• Re-structure of early questlines

Quest Guide
As part of our new player revamp we’ve added a new way to view your quests. Players have long asked for a way to track their active quests in their radar window and world maps. Now you can! Our new quest guide works in combination with your quest tracker to give you direction and assistance on the 5 quests currently active in your tracker. Removing a quest from your tracker removes it from the guide.

New 12-man Raid!
Daring players will be drawn down into the depths of the Waterworks of Moria to investigate “strange happenings” there. Once you have unlocked the gate, it will take teamwork and strategy with eleven of your friends to defeat the corrupt creature within!

Crafting Instances
As competition for crafting materials heats up, getting what you need isn’t always easy. To help alleviate the problem we looked at ways to allow crafters to get more of what they need more reliably. Enter the crafting instances! Much like the Item XP instances, these are daily repeatable quests that reward crafting materials. There are six instances; two each for prospecting, forestry, and scholar materials.

• Adventure in 6 new repeatable solo instances
• Aid the Iron Garrison in reclaiming ages-old caches of resources
• Challenging monsters that may vary each time you play through
• Reputation and Legendary Item experience

In addition, there have been many tweaks made to the crafting system. See the Crafting section for more details on these.

Calling all Freeps and Creeps
Many changes to monster play to better balance the Ettenmoors! See the monster play section for more details.

Of Special Note
XP Curve Change
After launching Moria, we’ve re-evaluated the experience in our game, along with all the content we’ve shipped in our previous updates, and come to the conclusion that we want to make playing through our game a bit faster in order to allow new folks (and character alts) to see more of our content.
As a result, the experience curve has been adjusted and the amount of experience needed to level from 1-60 has been reduced. Your level will not be automatically changed but you may see an increase of up to 3 levels upon your next gain of experience when Book 7 goes live. Temporary oddities may be seen on your XP bar upon logging in if your XP is now greater than that required for the next level, e.g. 10,000/9,000. Upon your next gain of XP you will advance to the appropriate level and your XP bar will adjust appropriately.

Keep in mind that although the overall experience to reach level 60 has been reduced, it is possible that some players may find they need more experience in their new adjusted level versus the old experience table. This should not be considered alarming as the amount of XP that a quest grants has likely also been scaled up in these cases to fit the new leveling curve. That means larger quests rewards in almost all cases where the amount of required XP has been raised, thus maintaining a similar leveling experience than before.

If you were already level 50 (Shadows of Angmar players) or level 60 (Mines of Moria players), your XP will be reduced to the cap. If you were not at a level cap but the change will bring you to the cap, your XP will be set to the amount needed for the cap minus one point so that the next XP event will bring you to the cap.

DPS and Mob Difficulty Rebalanced
After looking through feedback, we’ve decided to raise skill impact vs. monsters at high level, by lowering their difficulty and by lowering DPS driven by weapons.
Players will find that we’ve reduced the difficulty of many of the creatures in the game, placing heavy emphasis on creatures in the 50 to 60 range. Creature morale and resist rates were reduced in this bracket to create a smoother onramp to the progression from 50 to 60. This necessitated a reduction in weapon DPS, with the focus on post-50 in order to bring them in line with the new difficulty progression.

In Harm’s Way
The Captain skill In Harm’s Way has been adjusted. The amount of damage re-directed to the Captain from the Fellowship has been decreased from 100% to 50%. In Harm’s Way, in combination with other Captain skills, has made it increasingly difficult to design encounters that are challenging as both monster and player DPS increases.

New Self-revive Mechanic
Players may now revive themselves in place, via a button on the user interface window when a character is defeated, instead of retreating. This feature is disabled in instances, during Monster Play and after instant defeat.

• At levels 1 through 9, characters will have a 30 minute cooldown (shown via a “Revived” effect) that prevents them from reviving again.
• At level 10, when the character receives the “Journeyman” characteristic, the revive cooldown increases to 1 hour.
• At level 40, when the character receives the “Heroic” characteristic, the self revive cooldown increases to 2 hours.

Induction Times Reduced
In an effort to reduce some of the tedium inherent to certain quests and interactions with game objects we have reduced the interaction and induction times on many objects throughout the world. Most quest objects had inductions of 3 to 10 seconds. These have been reduced to 1-5 seconds. Ore and wood found throughout the game can now be harvested slightly faster giving the final benefit from the higher tier tools greater than 50% induction reduction.

New Monster Play emotes are available!

• Uruks and Orcs will now be able to perform the following emotes:
  • /fidget
  • /kneel
  • /liedown
  • /point
  • /roar
  • /cower
  • /sit
• Wargs will now be able to perform the following emotes:
  • /beg
  • /cheer
  • /hail
  • /liedown
  • /point
  • /scratch
  • /shiver
  • /wave
• Spiders will now be able to perform the following emotes:
  • /bored
  • /pose
  • /cower
  • /faint

It’s the Little Things that Count
White Dye is here! Recipes that allow Supreme Scholars to produce white dye have been added to treasure. Note to prospectors: Be on the lookout for a new mineral used in the production of white dye, your local Historians will appreciate it!

Full Release Notes

Gameplay

• Moria’s “Fungal Infection” debuff will now expire while you’re logged off.
• Perks purchased with Destiny points now persist through player sparring.
• Improved player blocking timing and combat feedback timing with monsters.
• Fixed anti-exploit issues in “We Cannot Get Out” session play.
• You will no longer be kicked out of the two public dungeons in the Hollin Gate area if you are revived inside of them.
• More feedback is given when players fail Challenge mode.
• Based on player feedback we’ve rearranged the level spacing between our four gradients of weapons, enabling our highest tier of weapons to gain a larger slice of the DPS pie.
• Boss monsters in Moria are now immune to slows.

Skills/Classes
General

• Monsters with “Giant-kind” as their genus will no longer be 100% resistant to Physical debuffs such as the Burglar’s “Diversion” skill.
• Inanimate creatures (Mushrooms, Totems, Fumaroles) are no longer immune to Song and Cry attacks. Gameplay > Realism. While this isn’t quite realistic, it was unfairly punishing Minstrels.

Champion

• Rend and Cleave have now been put on the appropriate Player Armour debuff progressions (vs. Monster).
• The Blademaster Armour set will now also modify Deathstorm as part of its 6th bonus.
• Champions will no longer have their skills lock up when Feral Strikes is interrupted.
• Blood Rage and Continuous Blood Rage should now work to break almost all root effects. The only exceptions are when a monster is actively holding the Champion motionless. These skills also now take effect instantly rather than at the end of their animations.
• Legendary skill Continuous Blood Rage has been upgraded. The initial Morale cost has been halved and it grants +50% to almost all Resistances.
• Adamant and Invincible now have considerably shorter animations.
• The skill icons for Champion skills Great Cleave and Adamant have been updated.
• Ebbing Ire and Rising Ire will now give an invalid target message when attempting to use the skills on a monster.
• Eye of the Storm will now also advance when Bladestorm does a Devastating Critical Hit.

Guardian

• The Guardian has had a sweeping pass to the balance of his threat skills and shield damage skills.
  • Base Shield Damage Increased 10% from 50-60
  • Base Threat increased from 50-60
  • Shield of Fire Trait gains additional bonus +1 Shield Taunt Targets
  • Shield Damage Legacy progression change to have max at rank 9 be 21% on a level 60 Epic Belt and cost slightly less
  • Litany of Defiance base targets increased to 5
  • Litany Legendary Trait gains additional +5 Litany of Defiance targets
  • Whirling Retaliation Skill gains a Numeric Threat Transfer ability
  • Litany of Challenge Trait +2 Challenge Targets
  • Litany of Challenge Trait Challenge generates additional Threat
  • Evade 3 & Evade 4 Passives now available for Guardians
  • Defender of the Free Trait Set: 3 Additional Bonus +2 Shield Taunt Targets
  • Bug Fix for Shield of Fire which was only providing a 7.5% boost to threat previously
  • Increased the threat generated by the shield response line of skills
  • Threatening Presence now applies to all skills that generate threat. This includes melee attack skills that do not normally generate additional threat.
• Legacy Stagger Movement Speed Debuff now properly changes the Stagger skill tooltip when this legacy is active.
• Legacy Reactive Block Damage now displays the increase as a percent on the legacy tooltip.
• Legacy ‘Targeted Melee Range’ tooltip has been updated to reflect that this legacy does not affect AoE & Auto-attack.
• Stoic trait description now states that it also increases Acid and Lightning resists.
• ‘Threat Rating Up’ legacy has had its tooltip updated to state ‘Skills Threat Rating Up’ as this legacy does not benefit auto-attacks.
• Take Heart and Brutal Assault are now affected by the +X targeted melee skill range legendary item legacy.
• Sweeping Cut: The second attack will now be affected by the Legendary Item legacy +X% Sweeping Cut damage.
• Thrill of Danger will no longer wake up Dazed monsters.
• Shield Wall will now function properly when its range is extended by Legendary Item legacies.
• Fixed a bug so that the Guardian’s “Blocking Force” trait will behave as the tooltip states.
• Guardian Shield-spikes: Changed the effect descriptions for all Westernesse, Ancient Dwarf, and Beleriand shield-spikes to indicate that these effects only change the damage types of shield skills.
• Guardian’s threat generation skills have been increased.
• The Guardian’s threat generation skills have been increased (Bash, Engage, Fray the Edge, Shield-blow, Improved Shield-blow, Shield-swipe, Shield-taunt, Sweeping Cut, Vexing Blow)
• Increased threat generation with Litany of Defiance.
• Guardian’s Threat will no longer cause a 5 second delay where the Guardian cannot use skills or attack

Hunter

• Improved Swift Bow, third shot has been adjusted to be a bit more in line with a two-second induction skill.
• Quality of Mercy’s multiplier has been reduced.
• The overall effectiveness of trait set bonuses for “The Bowmaster” has been reduced, but the Threat aspect has gone down, enabling aggressive groups to attempt to deal with the Hunter aggro generated by Strength stance and not automatically make it the wrong choice. (Though groups and tanks are still going to have to be on their A game with high end Hunters who choose to be this… aggressive.)
• Barbed Arrow trait now has tooltip text that specifies the DoT pulse increase.
• Strength Quick Shot Slow Legacy now properly updates the tooltip of Quickshot while Strength Stance is active.
• Improved Strength of Earth Morale Regen tooltip has been corrected so that it shows the proper morale regen increase.
• Legacy Quick Shot Threat Down tooltip has been updated to reflect that this only works while in Endurance Stance.
• Bow of the Righteous growth at 50+ has been slowed.
• Quick Shot has been slightly reduced at 51+ to take into account the larger weapon contributions of post-Moria.
• The Super Critical Magnitude of Merciful Shot has been reduced to allow for stacking modifiers.
• Legendary Fleet stance now adds a 10% attack speed buff.

Minstrel

• The Mentor Cooldown legacy has been removed from legendary class items.
• Call to Greatness has had its skill cooldown effects modified. Before, skills reset by this skill would simply reset every few seconds. This would cause the skill queue to get a bit confused. Now, skills have their cooldowns reduced while Call to Greatness is active.
• Minstrels gain improved Resonance.
• Reduced the cooldown of Damaging Anthems with Warrior Skald.
• Anthem of Compassion can now be transformed into a tier 3 Ballad.
• Heralded Resolve now gives 10% healing boon in addition to its healing bonus.
• Ballads have had their action duration lessened; this means they can be fired more quickly, and thus threaded in between healing more often. This also means pure ballad-use DPS will be raised by removing the ”animation cooldown.”
• Call to Fate is now accessible at level 56 while Soliloquy of Spirit is now a level 60 skill.
• Minstrel resist progressions in IA have been increased to be more effective.
• Ballads now add a small amount of healing magnitude for each tier played. With the now-faster animation cooldown of ballads, players will not only be able to deal damage faster, they’ll be able to raise their ability to heal at the same time. This also affects Song of Vigour and Song of Balance (at an enhanced duration), so use this to wring every ounce of healing out of your Minstrel’s resolve.
• Timeless Echoes of Battle had its cooldown reduced to 5 seconds. This allows solo Minstrels to switch it to a new target even faster.
• Song of Vigour and Song of Evade induction time has been lowered.
• Warrior Skald Warspeech Ballad bonus has been restored to function in Warspeech, only increasing the speed of Ballad play required a small boost in power consumption.
• Skill Icon Updates:
  • All the Ballad Skill Icons have been updated for consistency.
  • Piercing Cry, Herald’s Strike, and other have also been updated.
  • Cry of-the Valar now reflects fear in the icon design, along with Ballad of Unshakeable Will.
• All Minstrel ‘Triumphant Spirit Cooldown’ legacy tiers display the correct cooldown reduction.
• Noble Cause skill now states that Herald Strike damage is changed to Light for the duration of the skill.
• Legacy ‘Healing & Motivation Skills Morale Healing’ now properly increases the heal over time effects of Soliloquy of Spirit.
• Ballad of Compassion now gains the duration increase from the Strength of Voice trait.
• The set bonus in Watcher of Resolve was incorrectly referring to Anthem of Sympathy where it should have read Anthem of Compassion.

Captain

• Legendary book “The Master of the Charge” has had its name changed to “The Leader of Men.” Its description has also been updated to correctly state that it’s for the trait in the Leader of Men trait-line.
• Shield-brother skills To Arms and Strength of Will have had their effective ranges increased to 50 meters and their tooltips have been updated to reflect this.
• Shield of the Dúnedain is no longer classified as a melee skill,’ as it is not a melee attack.
• Noble Mark no longer does any upfront damage, only DoT damage.
• Captains on the “In Harm’s Way” portion of their “Path of Healing Hands” class questline have now acquired the ability to blow the horn they went through all the trouble of acquiring.
• In Harm’s Way has been adjusted. The amount of damage re-directed to the Captain from the Fellowship has been decreased from 100% to 50%.
• The effect icon for Strength of Will now matches the skill icon.
• The Armaments of the Oath-bound will now indicate to Captains that they need to have the “Master of Oaths” legendary trait slotted before they can equip the armaments.
• Lossoth Heralds and Archers now use the correct attack animations.
• In Defense of Middle-earth will no longer display a buff icon on the Captain’s herald or any other pets. The buff never affected them so the misleading icon display has been removed.
• Shadow’s Lament is no longer forced to do Light damage. It will default to the damage type of your weapon like other melee attacks.
• Banners have discovered unforeseen reservoirs of buoyancy and now float in water.
• Corrected 6/6 bonus for Captain’s Hall-general’s Armour set. The bonus to Valiant Strike now works on both the traited and untraited versions of Valiant Strike.
• Make Haste now uses a horn call animation.
• Power Recovery from the Blade of Elendil/Improved Defensive Strike has been reduced. The Threat generated by Threatening Shout has been increased

Burglar

• Fixed a couple of typos in the Burglar’s Knives Out skill.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the Burglar “Provoke” skill from generating the intended amount of threat for the target’s current target. It should be more effective now.
• Addle will now increase induction times in spars as well as increasing the induction times of all monster player skills.
• Legacy ‘Critical Multiplier’ has been updated to say ‘Skills Critical Multiplier’ as this legacy has no effect on auto-attacks.
• The Gambler traitline has received a number of updates:
  • Gamble application rates unlocked by traitlines has gone up by 10%.
  • Gamble application rate bonus from IA has decreased.
  • The formula for selecting the tier of a Gamble has been modified to generate higher tier Gambles more frequently.
  • Low tier Gambles have been increased in power, high tier Gambles have been slightly reduced in power.
  • Gambles full effects now apply immediately, no more waiting for Payout. Gambles now last for 15 seconds. All skills that trigger bonus effects on Gambled targets work during this time.
  • Clever Retort now applies the Debuffing Gamble, Mischievous Glee now applies a Disabling Gamble and Startling Twist now applies a Damaging Gamble.
  • Gambler’s Strike (the traited version of Lucky Strike) now upgrades any Gambles on your foe directly to tier 6. If no Gamble is present, a tier 4, 5, or 6 damaging Gamble will be applied.
  • A purchasable letter explaining the Gamble traitline has been added to Burglar trainers.
• Seize the Initiative now recovers the 3 new crit chain ender skills.
• Signals are now used in the Ranged slot. A new tier of Signal recipes is available in loot. These new Signals enhance Exploit Opening to apply the Signals effects to your fellowship.
• Small Snag, Feint Attack and Lucky Strike have had their damage modified and recovery decreased to 5 minutes. The traited versions of these skills all deal additional damage and set recovery to 3 minutes. The IA legacies associated with recovery time have been reduced to compensate.
  • Improved Feint Attack now deals significantly more damage.
  • Gamblers strike now deals more damage.
  • Quite a Snag now roots and debuffs for longer, has a more potent debuff and deals more damage.
• Cunning Attack applies a more powerful DoT when it crits.
• Well-placed strike deals additional positional damage.
• “Spatial Sense” and “Strategic Planning” reduces recovery by 60 more seconds
• “Confound the Fools” lets Confound effects 2 additional targets.
• “Cunning Wound” increases Dot damage by a greater amount.
• Changed the tooltip on the Thrill-seeker’s Gloves to read “-50% Search Speed.” The previous tooltip indicated that the gloves would actually increase search speed, which was incorrect.

Lore-master

• Decreased the power cost reduction to -5% for the following Lore-master tomes: Tome of Beasts, Tome of Nature, and Tome of the Dúnedain.
• Knowledge of the Lore-master, displays more complete information again.
• Text for the Ancient Master was incorrectly referring to Dead rather than Men with Improvements for Warding Lore.
• Removed Subtle Wizard from the Lore-master Traits. (Statistically, it was not used by LM anywhere.)
• Added “Fast Loader” which removes induction from BF. (The answer to the riddle, “Why does the Burglar not have an induction for Riddle but the Lore-master has one for BF?”)
• Improved Storm-Lore is now worth 25% damage.
• Changed the animation used for Honey-n-Oats usage to be more appropriate for the action.
• ‘Proof Against All Ills’ has been reworded to clarify that, once slotted, Leech Craft and Tend the Sick only work on fellowship members.
• Legendary Titles that increase Light damage now properly increase the damage of Lore-master Light-based attacks.
• The deed Beast-lore can now be accomplished by using Sign of the Wild: Rage or Sign of the Wild: Improved Rage.
• Improved Blinding Flash is now counted towards the completion of the ‘Explosive Force’ deed.
• Non-combat pets keep up with their masters a little better.
• As a Lore-master, if you have the trait “Power and Wisdom” slotted, the tooltip for the skill “Power of Knowledge” will now display the correct ‘Channel Duration’ of 24 seconds.
• Fixed a bug with “Sign of Power: See All Ends” being unable to overwrite the traited version of “Sign of Power: Command.” The fix for this adds a bit more functionality to Lore-masters; they’re now able to have both “Sign of Power: Command” and “Sign of Power: See All Ends” on the same target at the same time.
• Renamed “Sign of Power: Wizardry” and “Sign of Power: Wizard’s Fire” to “Sign of Battle: Wizardry” and “Sign of Battle: Wizard’s Fire.” This was done in order to differentiate the functionality of “Signs of Power” versus “Signs of Battle”.
• “Signs of Power” are always able to stack on a single target from the same Lore-master.
• With “Signs of Battle” a single Lore-master can only place one “Sign of Battle” on a target at a time, but if there is more than one Lore-master they can each place a “Sign of Battle” on the same target.
• Improved Sticky Gourd now increments the Wild and Ward Trait properly.
• ‘Sign of Power: Wizardry’ and ‘Sign of Power: Wizard’s Fire’ descriptions have been updated to remove reference of a shared cooldown.
• Tier 6 & 8 ‘Beacon of Hope’ threat reduction legacies display the correct tooltip information.
• The Sabertooth’s core-attacks now deal frost damage, as well as having their supercritical multiplier raised on common attacks.

Rune-keeper

• Damage for level 1-20 has been increased.
• Do Not Fall to Storm / Flame / Winter now have FX and sound hooked up.
• The Rune-keeper now has a Rift weapon available at Iorelen’s Camp.
• The glow around the Rune-keeper attunement display now dissipates appropriately.
• ‘+ Mending Verse Healing’ Legacy now benefits the heal over time as well as the initial heal.
• Tale of Frost and Flame text string was reading as Tale of Frost and Flame’s Battle. This has been fixed.
• All Writs have had induction time reduced to .75. Each Writ has a trait to reduce its recovery time by 2 seconds.
• Many tooltips have been made more readable.
• Some damaging IA Legacies have been slightly increased in potency.
• Attunement bonuses – All skills that were modified by attunement levels have had the modifications reduced or removed. Any such reductions were added to the base functionality of the skills.
  • Example: Scribe’s Spark used to deal +4% damage per Attunement step. It now deals only +2% per step, but deals +18% damage at all Attunements.
• Solitary Thunder – Slight damage increase and slight power increase. Set bonuses have been modified.
  • Ceaseless Argument is now a 0 Attune required skill and bypasses some tactical resistance.
  • Essence of Storm is now a 6 Attune required skill. Its damage, cost, critical bonus and recovery time have all increased.
  • Epic Conclusion now bypasses all tactical resistance. Its base damage has increased, power cost reduced and critical multiplier has been removed.
  • Perfect Imagery – Applies a short duration critical hit chance buff.
  • Stormy-temper – Now increases critical chance instead of damage.
  • Thunderous Words and Harsh Debate – Now applies self buffs instead of targeted debuffs.
  • Winter-storm – Now has a 5% chance to stun foes suffering from Writ of Cold.
• Wrath of fire – All skills deal more damage, based on induction length. All DoT’s deal additional damage on crit (making +Tactical Crit much more desirable to Fire-traited Rune-keepers). Set bonuses have been modified.
  • Distracting Flame deals more damage and has a shorter induction time. Mystifying Flame deals significantly more damage and reduces the foe’s tactical resistance.
• Benedictions of Peace – Some slight power cost reductions. Set bonuses have been modified.
  • Word of Exaltation – Reduced to 40%, duration extended. Trait increases reduction to 50% and extends duration.
  • Rousing Words – No longer heals via In-Combat-Morale bonus. Duration and recovery time shortened.
  • Rune of Restoration can now be renamed! When traited, those healed by both Rousing words and the Rune of Restoration will receive bonus healing.
  • Fates Entwined – Reduced recovery time, increased usage cost (not upkeep).
• Other Skill and Trait changes
  • Calming Verse – Trait will now increase healing and damage done while under the effects of Calming Verse.
  • Writ of Cold – Now debuffs 5% attack speed per tier. Deals more damage.
  • Do Not Fall This Day – Duration increased to 60s.
  • Armour of X – Flame and Frost Armours were buffed.
  • Fall to X – All Fall To skills have increased proc chances.
• Legendary Changes
  • Martial Training no longer increases attack speed. Weapon damage increased. Now adds to Morale, Power and power regen.
  • Fall to Our Wrath now reduces Tactical Resistance and stacks with other Fall to skills.
  • Steady Hands – Induction time reduced to 1.5 seconds
• New Rune-keeper item recipes have arrived! Metalsmiths can now craft chisels, which Rune-keepers can equip in their ranged item slots to provide increased damage. Rune-keeper trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Metalsmith NPCs, sell most of these recipes. More advanced recipes can be found in treasure!
• New Rune-keeper consumable item recipes have arrived! Scholars can now craft inlays and enamels, which can be used to temporarily enhance the Rune-keeper’s abilities. These recipes can be purchased from Rune-keeper trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Scholar NPCs.

Warden

• New Warden characters will now begin with a small round shield.
• New Warden item recipes have arrived! Woodworkers can now craft carvings, which Wardens can equip in their class item slots to decrease the power cost of their gambits. Recipes up to and including the Master Woodworking tier can be purchased from Warden trainers, as well as Novice and Expert Woodworker NPCs. More advanced recipes can be found in treasure!
• Gambits should no longer fail with “You cannot harm yourself.” messages when executing gambits quickly after queuing the last required skill to perform the gambit.
• Items: Two Rift shields have been updated for Wardens: “Warden’s War Shield” was not correctly set as a Warden’s Shield. “Beleaguer” was not set as unique.
• Way of the Spear 2 trait set bonus now correctly displays the reduction to Spear Gambit Power Costs.
• Surety of Death Damage legacy has had its tooltip updated to reflect that this legacy only benefits the Damage Over Time effect applied by the ‘Surety of Death’ gambit.
• Boar’s Rush Critical Multiplier legacy has had its name changed to Boar’s Rush Critical Rating as this legacy increases your critical chances not critical damage.
• Stance skills (Determination, Conservation, Recklessness, and The Way of the Warden) have been split off into their own category on the Character Journal – Skills tab. The descriptions for these skills have been updated to indicate that only one of them can be active at a time.
• Warden gambits that have increased threat over time now indicate in their tooltip the relative strength of the effect.
• Warden’s Taunt should now be more responsive after executing a weapon based attack skill.
• Wardens will now gain their 5th gambit box at level 40. This is to accommodate early completion of the Legendary trait that grants Defiant Challenge.
• All Gambits will now use the damage type of the Warden’s main hand weapon or javelin.
• Gambits that end with a Spear icon will no longer have the small delay between finishing the last Quick Thrust and being able to execute the Gambit.
• Gambits that are successful, i.e. they hit or were not resisted, will now always apply any bonus threat effects. Previously the threat effects had a separate chance to be resisted.
• Warden Gambit Conviction no longer does main hand weapon damage. It will now also heal escorted NPC’s as well as all Fellowship members.
• The 4/6 bonus for the Warden Townsaver armour (Rift) now correctly reduces the power cost of Resolution.
• The movement speed decrease from the skill Hampering Javelin will no longer stack with other movement speed decreasing effects.
• Gambit Brink of Victory no longer requires a main hand weapon equipped.
• Gambit Surety of Death is no longer disabled by Silence.
• Trait Ward of Justice no longer increases the Block and Evade bonuses for the Conservation Stance. Ward of Justice only affects Gambit defensive bonuses.
• Wardens can now use Shield Spikes starting at level 20. Shield Spikes affect the following Warden skills/gambits: Shield Bash, Safeguard, and Boar’s Rush.
• Wardens can now use Light and Fire Oils starting at level 30. These Oils affect all Warden Javelin skills except for Ambush.
• Warden trainers now function as vendors. They sell low tier Oils, Shield Spikes, and Carvings as well as the recipes to make them.
• Gambits Onslaught and Wall of Steel were doing extra damage on critical and devastating hits with their third attack. They have now been brought in line with all other normal melee attacks.

Traits/Titles/Deeds

• Texts of the Crumbling School can now be completed.
• Arms of the Watcher now has a progress tracking bar when viewed in the Deed Log.
• The Vile Maw deeds will now properly trigger and count when players are grouped in a raid.
• Warg Riders now count towards the Moria Warg-slayer deed.
• Spiders and Merrevail in the Legendary Item instance quests will now count towards their respective Moria slayer deeds.
• Trait Bonuses that you have earned are now highlighted in the trait panel.
• All tentacles in the Vile Maw now count for The Arms of the Watcher (Advanced).
• The Accomplishment “Seven Swords” is now properly displayed.
• The racial trait Balance of Man will no longer show as Earning when An Ancient Story of Evil is underway or completed. It is now properly shown on the correct accomplishment Enmity of the Hillmen.
• Adjusted objective text for the deed Scholars from Angmar to better imply that only Angmarim within the Ring-forge count towards advancement.
• The Deed Log book artwork has been updated.
  li>All quests that were ticking up the Ered Luin quest deed in the new tutorial have been fixed to no longer advance the deed.
• Trout Master can now be advanced while in a raid
• We have had a long discussion about genealogy with the Uruks and explained to them that they are orcs. After some roaring and a few lost heads they relented and Uruks will now count for killing Orc-Kind in the accomplishment “Soldiers of the Enemy”

Monster Play
General Monster Play

• The amount of infamy/renown required for all ranks has been reduced.
• Bears with the Brutal Slash skill have had the armour debuff portion of the skill reduced.
• Pets will now properly attack when in guard mode and the master is attacked by a monster player.
• Mobs surrounding the Isendeep Outpost will no longer blip in and out of existence as they try to path around the structure.
• Updated the tooltip when carrying artifacts and flags to reflect that no skills requiring induction or channeling actions can be used while carrying the flag.
• Carrying the flags will now inform players to “Capture the Flag” rather than capture it at Tol Ascarnen – this could get confusing when players or monster players were trying to retake their flags from Tol Ascarnen.
• Mobs circling the northern outpost, nearest Grothum in the Ettenmoors, no longer witness the disturbing phasing images of monsters near the tree line.
• Players and monster players attempting to switch control of the towers, Lugazag and Tirith Rhaw, will find that they can no longer accomplish this feat by simply camping the flag room. You must now kill the tower commander to access flag capture.
• A small group of Coldfells Guards in the Isendeep Mine remained when the monster players took control of the location. This should no longer occur.
• There was a very small chance that players and monster players could capture artifacts at the same time, leading to a very strange fringe case. This would place the artifact at both locations simultaneously and lead to an interesting scenario where an announcement would declare that both sides captured the artifact together. This has been rectified and should no longer be possible.
• Orc/Troll and Uruk guards no longer ignore other evil creatures in the Ettenmoors. If they are an enemy, they now attack.
• When an outpost is controlled by neutral forces, the merrevail patrolling around the keep will now be accompanied by their bat companions.
• Players and monster players must now ensure that the tower bosses are dead to attempt to capture the tower locales.
• The stones within Hithlad no longer allow players or monster players to perch there to avoid combat from NPCs
• Goblins and Hobbits were confused at Tirith Rhaw – they would stay and defend the opposition. This has been addressed at the cost of a few toes and a lot of mushroom pie.
• When capturing a flag players will no longer see the Capturing Location dialogue.
• A stuck location behind the outpost in the Coldfells has been addressed.
• Controlling their artifact will now give monster players a small bonus to all infamy earned in the Ettenmoors. Controlling both their artifact and the Free People’s artifact will increase this bonus.
• Moss-Patch Elder’s Hardened Bark buff will only stack 6 times and will now expire once out of combat.
• The slow portion of Dust in the Eyes will now be properly removed on defeat.

Creeps

• Four new corruptions have been added for monster players. These corruptions are available at the following ranks and values:
  • Rank 2 (Trainable): Weapon Mitigation Boost (Rank 1)
    • adds +270 Ancient Dwarf, Beleriand, and Westernesse rating
  • Rank 3 (Barter): Weapon Mitigation Boost (Rank 2)
    • adds +360 Ancient Dwarf, Beleriand, and Westernesse rating
  • Rank 4 (Trainable): Skill Mitigation Boost (Rank 1)
    • adds +270 Fire, Frost, Light, and Lightning rating
  • Rank 5 (Barter): Skill Mitigation Boost (Rank 2)
    • adds +360 Fire, Frost, Light, and Lightning rating

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