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Standing Stone Games is giving Lord of the Rings Online’s Monster Play mode another balance pass later this month with the release of Update 35. As part of the update, the team will make mines more rewarding for its owners and will be making slight changes to the Grodris fight to make it more challenging. “Beware, she is not a [...]

Lord of The Rings Online players on the Shadowfax legendary progression server are now nearing the end of their adventure as Standing Stone Games prepares to unlock Minas Morgul this Wednesday. Minas Morgul will arrive alongside other content packs released prior to the Fate of Gundabad expansion. “This week sees Shadowfax get a level cap increase and more content! Shadowfax [...]

If you’ve been actively playing Lord of the Rings Online over the past few months, you’ll probably remember the giant boulder that a developer accidentally plopped in the middle of the Greenway road in Bree-land. The boulder, which players fondly named Dwayne Johnson, became an instant sensation (and a meme) with players even going on pilgrimages to see it and [...]

A balance pass is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get. Luckily for Lord of the Rings Online players, Standing Stone Games took time during its weekly Cord of the Rings livestream last Friday to talk about some of the major changes that will be made to power, mastery, and damage in Update 35. [...]

Standing Stone Games has begun testing Update 35, its first major update of the year, on the Bullroarer test server. Dubbed The Return to Carn Dûm, the update introduces a new fellowship dungeon, two new small fellowship dungeons, and the new Gwathrenost raid. “After suffering countless setbacks and defeats, the last remnants of the Iron Crown have returned to Carn [...]

The omens foretold the return of Lord of the Rings Online’s Ill Omens event and so it has come to pass. The rather contentious skirmish event returns to Middle-Earth for its annual run with a few significant changes to hopefully avoid a repeat of last year’s Portents-induced mess. Portents are extremely coveted reusable items that grant players temporary overpowered buffs. [...]

One of Standing Stone Games goals for 2023 is to overhaul every class in Lord of the Rings Online in some way, shape, or form, by the end of the year. With January now coming to a close, the studio outlines what they’ve planned for the first two classes that will be getting a major balance pass: the Captain and [...]

Standing Stone Games has dropped more information about its upcoming plans to roll out another round of balance passes for Lord of the Rings Online’s PvMP mode, a.k.a. Monster Play following complaints that its latest roadmap was severely lacking. The upcoming balance adjustments will include a revamp of the PvMP tutorial and quests. The quests in particular will be reworked [...]

Standing Stone Games has tweaked Lord of the Rings Online’s infamous new Delving System to make it a bit easier for players to complete at higher difficulty slider settings. The latest game update, Update 34.1.2, has nerfed several Delving debuffs including Sauron’s Defence I, which no longer auto-stacks, and Sauron’s Eye I-III, which have had their Dread spread reduced to [...]

Lord of the Rings Online’s Shadowfax legendary server has moved on to its next phase of content as the Vales of Anduin goes live on the speedy progression server. The quest pack opens up the Vales of Anduin region along with its associated quests and deeds and bumps the level cap up to 120. Due to faster content releases, Shadowfax [...]