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It’s a big day for Lord of the Rings Online players as they can finally get to play as a Dwarf Captain, a Hobbit Champion, or any one of the new race/class combinations that Standing Stone Games has rolled out with Update 33.2. If you’ve been thinking about rolling a new alt, here’s a list of the new race/class options [...]
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Lord of the Rings Online introduces more changes to the Minstrel class as testing continues for the upcoming adjustments to the musically-inclined support class. The first batch of changes were rolled out on the test server at the end of August and included the removal of the Protector of Song specialization along with a complete revamp of the Call to [...]
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MMOs.com has partnered with Standing Stone Games / Daybreak to give away 25 premium bundles for Lord of the Rings Online. Each bundle includes 3 major expansions as well as a ton of other valuables ($100+ value). Each code contains the following: Fate of Gundabad Expansion Mordor Expansion Minas Morgul Expansion Riding Skill Steed of Bree Small Crafting Carry-all 200% [...]
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Embracer Group, the video game holding company that snapped up numerous video game companies and studios over the past few months, will soon gain control of The Lord of the Rings IP and all of its associated franchises just as the One Ring controls the Rings of Power. The Swedish company is currently in the process of acquiring Middle-earth Enterprises [...]
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Standing Stone Games has shut down Lord of the Rings Online’s Anor legendary server after four years of operation. Anor first opened its doors in 2018 as the MMORPG’s first time-gated progression server, running through almost all of LOTRO’s currently available expansions within its lifetime except for Fate of Gundabad. The journey doesn’t there though, as players will be able [...]
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Lord of the Rings Online, which launched in 2007, is definitely an oldie, but it's far from dead. In fact, the game's owner, Enad Global 7 (which owns Standing Stone Games), announced just a few days ago that Lord of the Rings Online had its highest player count since 2016 when it celebrated its 15-year anniversary earlier in the year. [...]
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Standing Stone Games has announced a new mini-expansion for Lord of the Rings Online dubbed Before the Shadow. The mini-expansion will introduce two new low-level zones along with new quests for newly-created characters to take on. The new zones, Swanfleet and Cardolan, is recommended for characters level 1-32 and will come with four new Books and a new questline that [...]
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This week’s Lord of the Rings Online patch comes with a whole host of fixes for last week’s big content update. These include the ability to repeat missions in the new Elladan and Elrohir Further Adventures questline and a fix for the bug that prevented the last quest from being completed. Brawlers were also thankfully given a free mandatory trait [...]
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This week’s Lord of the Rings Online update, dubbed The Further Adventures of Elladan and Elrohir, introduces new story content that revolves around the Half-Elven twins as they journey from Rivendell to Lothlórien to complete a secret errand from their father and the Lord of Rivendell, Elrond. Another key feature of the update are the promised changes to the Ettenmoors [...]
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Phase two of the big player vs monster play (PvMP) changes coming to Lord of the Rings Online is now live on the Bullroarer test server. The changes will arrive as part of Update 33.1 which will give players access to all the Monster Player characters for free and will revamp monster play mechanics to encourage more players to join [...]
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