lord of the rings online News

Lord of the Rings Online is turning sweet 16 in just a few short days and Standing Stone Games is celebrating the occasion by kicking off the game’s anniversary celebrations early this year. This year’s anniversary event features the age-old roster of activities with a slew of new rewards for players to obtain. In addition to the traditional scavenger hunts, [...]

Standing Stone Games’ Community Manager Cordovan has published a new developer livestream where he shows off the new Lord of the Rings Online character customization options that are currently in testing on the Bullroarer server. As we previously noted, the new customization options for humans and its accompanying avatar visual upgrades will go live when Update 35.1 arrives. The update [...]

Standing Stone Games has fired up the Bullroarer test server once again to put several new surprise improvements to Lord of the Rings Online’s aging character customization system. The test build includes a whole host of new customization options for humans, including new hairstyles, skin tones, body shapes, and facial hair choices, in addition to improved textures for all races [...]

Last week’s Lord of the Ring Online patch buffed monsters to a considerable degree by increasing their health, morale, and damage mitigation. The buffs were scaled so that higher-level mobs received bigger buffs compared to lower-level ones. While some players were more than happy to take on the buffed-up mobs, most of the playerbase didn’t care too much for the [...]

If you’ve been falling a bit behind in Lord of the Rings Online or just want to get a new character quickly up to max level, Standing Stone Games is selling level boosts in the cash shop for a limited time. Several types of Valar Level Boosts are currently on sale depending on how big of a boost you need [...]

Standing Stone Games has rolled out a small balance pass for Lord of the Rings Online as a follow up to last month’s massive Return to Carn Dûm update. Update 35.0.1 buffs higher level mobs after the Carn Dûm update made them far too easy to kill. Monsters will now have 25% more morale at level cap which will scale [...]

Lord of the Rings Online sends players off to the slopes of the Mountains of Angmar where they’ll take on a returning threat to Middle-Earth in the fantasy MMORPG’s latest major update: Return to Carn Dûm. The update introduces three new fellowship dungeons set in the eponymous fortress city which will set the stage for the upcoming level 140 Gwathenrost [...]

Crafting isn’t exactly one of Lord of the Rings Online’s strongest suits, a fact that Standing Stone Games is well aware of and is hoping to remedy this year. In a recent post on the official forums, Lead Designer Allan “Orion” Maki outlined the team’s plans to improve the classic MMORPG’s crafting system to make it more worthwhile and allow [...]

You shall not pay… for Lord of the Rings Online: Before the Shadow, unless, of course, you already bought it when it came out in November. As promised, the mini-expansion can now be purchased using LOTRO Points if you’d rather not use real-world money and is currently priced at 1990 LP which is equivalent to roughly $20. While LOTRO Points [...]