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Standing Stone Games is following up on the success of its Lord of the Rings Online 15th Anniversary free-to-play update with even more free content. The studio is making all Ettenmoors PvMP content free-to-play with the release of Update 33.1 which is now live on the Bullroarer test server. “The Ettenmoors occupies a niche role. It is not and never [...]

Lord of the Rings Online will be unlocking new content for the Shadowfax and Treebeard Legendary progression servers today. The speedy Shadowfax server will have its level cap bumped up to 100 while the leisurely Treebeard server will get to jump into the Siege of Mirkwood expansion content. As far as progression servers go, Shadowfax and Treebeard will be the [...]

Today is apparently the day for update and content previews as we get another one from Standing Stone Games. Lord of the Rings Online Producer Oleg Brodskiy outlines the studio’s plans for the game for the third quarter of 2022 in his latest letter from the producer. Patch 33.1 arrives in late July with a new Further Adventures episode that [...]

Wedding bells are once again tolling in Middle-Earth as the Midsummer Festival returns to Lord of the Rings Online. The event commemorates Arwen and Aragorn’s wedding and features a boatload of activities in the Midsummer instance of Minas Tirith. Here’s how to get there: “When the Midsummer Festival is active you will have an auto-bestowed quest available to select from [...]

Standing Stone Games has announced that it will be ceasing all MacOS support for Lord of the Rings Online starting on August 25th. “For several years players have been able to play The Lord of the Rings Online in pre-Catalina versions of MacOS with limited support from Standing Stone Games, but we will soon be formally deprecating the MacOS client.” [...]

In The Lord of the Rings novels, the Riders of Rohan were majestic and highly-skilled soldiers that rode to combat and fought atop their mighty steeds. Standing Stone Games sought to capture this when they rolled out the Lord of the Rings Online expansion of the same name in 2012. Unfortunately, the game’s dated engine couldn’t quite handle the nuances [...]

After over three months, the debut season of Lord of the Rings Online’s Legendary Items Reward Track has finally come to an end and with that comes the start of a brand new season. Season 2 is live as of today and will run until August 17th, which is roughly the same amount of time as Season 1. Succeeding seasons [...]

While it’s great that players have begun flocking to Lord of the Rings Online following it’s big 15th anniversary update, the sudden influx of players has put additional strain on servers that are already in dire need of improvements. “With Update 33, we saw a huge influx of players, the likes of which we haven’t seen in at least six [...]

Lord of the Rings Online tweaks Fate of Gundabad Instances and fixes up Yondershire quests in its latest patch. The bulk of the patch is aimed at reducing the difficulty of Den of Pughlak with various nerfs to damage-over-time skills as well as reduced stat scaling and lower health, damage, and defense mitigation for sub-bosses. Several mob and boss skills [...]

Lord of the Rings Online’s Shadowfax Legendary server is leaving Treebeard in the dust and slowly catching up to Anor as it moves on to its next phase of content. Players on the fast-paced progression server will be heading to Rohan tomorrow, May 4th with the release of the Helm’s Deep expansion. The expansion will also bump up the level [...]