While information about Skirmishes System are still coming, Zombie Columbus has unveiled most of details in the latest Developer Diary: SoM Skirmishes: Overview.

Skirmishes are short, accessible, randomized, scalable, story instances with incremental rewards. Why Skirmishes became this can best be explained by discussing what the designer's goals for the system are. Everything we added to Skirmishes was done with a high level "vision" in mind.

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Turbine announced that The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood the new digital expansion to the 2008 MMO of the Year will launch on December 1st in North America. Turbine also unveiled The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) Adventurer’s...Click here to read full

Turbine announced that The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood the new digital expansion to the 2008 MMO of the Year will launch on December 1st in North America. Turbine also unveiled The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) Adventurer’s Pack which contains what every player needs to survive in the chaos of Mirkwood! Siege of Mirkwood and the LOTRO Adventurer’s Pack are scheduled to launch on December 1, 2009.

SIEGE OF MIRKWOOD PRE-LAUNCH OFFERS
Starting today, players can take advantage of several special pre-launch offers to celebrate the release of the second expansion to LOTRO:

• The LOTRO Lifetime Membership is now available for $199.
• Any current or former player who renews or upgrades their subscription to any multi-month plan by October 31st gets the Siege of Mirkwood digital expansion for FREE!
• All players can pre-order the new LOTRO Adventurer’s Pack which contains 2 character slots and one shared storage slot that allows players to share items with all of their characters on the same server for $19.99 and get the Harbinger’s Cloak which provides 8% speed boost and the Dusky Nimblefoot Goat mount for FREE!
• Starting today, existing Lifetime Members who pre-order the LOTRO Adventurer’s Pack get the Siege of Mirkwood digital expansion plus two in-game items (Harbinger’s Cloak which provides an 8% speed boost and a new mount) for FREE!

These special offers will be available for a limited time

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Over the last few days Turbine team has been announcing new Developer Diary that will explain all of the changes and improvements to the system that we can expect in new digital Lotro expansion Siege of Mirkwood. In the meantime some of details have...Click here to read full

Over the last few days Turbine team has been announcing new Developer Diary that will explain all of the changes and improvements to the system that we can expect in new digital Lotro expansion Siege of Mirkwood. In the meantime some of details have been unveiled.

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Hall of Mirrors is one of the most challenging instances for Lotro players. If you have troubles with this instance you should read this guide based on tips and tricks collected by Ragnborg. We have also added the loot list in this guide. If you...Click here to read full

Hall of Mirrors is one of the most challenging instances for Lotro players. If you have troubles with this instance you should read this guide based on tips and tricks collected by Ragnborg. We have also added the loot list in this guide. If you have any  tips or tricks, let us know and we will share it with Lotro community.

Hall of Mirrors Instance Tips by Ragnborg.

While we are waiting for new The Lord of the Rings Digital Expansion: Siege of Mirkwood, we have collected all known information and made a small guide. We hope you will find it useful. If you have noticed any new info please let us know. Here is...Click here to read full

While we are waiting for new The Lord of the Rings Digital Expansion: Siege of Mirkwood, we have collected all known information and made a small guide. We hope you will find it useful. If you have noticed any new info please let us know. Here is what we know so far
Siege of Mirkwood Details

LOTROster 1.2.0 is now available for download.  The main changes are the addition of icons for Profession and Level fields, more configuration options for fields that can contain icons, and support was added for a few more forum/CMS...Click here to read full

LOTROster 1.2.0 is now available for download.  The main changes are the addition of icons for Profession and Level fields, more configuration options for fields that can contain icons, and support was added for a few more forum/CMS platforms.

Here's the detailed list of changes:

• NEW: Profession and level icons.
• NEW: Fields with icons can now be shown as: Text Only, Icons + text (like before) and Icons Only.
• NEW: You can now replace the default LOTRO rank names with custom ones.
• NEW: New template fields: "rankname" (combined rank icon + character name), "level" and  "classlevel" (combining class+level, like "class" used to do).  "class" now only displays the class without the level.
• NEW: Authentication support for Invision Power Board 2.3.x, SMF 2.0 and Drupal 6.
• IMPROVED: Optional row highlighting - edit css/lotroster.css and see the note there on how to enable it.
• IMPROVED: The menu entries for the three extra stat pages can now be renamed
• IMPROVED: All columns and header text are now left-aligned for consistency.
• IMPROVED: popup tooltips when hovering over icons
• IMPROVED: Verbose logging now logs when starting and ending an offline update
• IMPROVED: Will now refer to your guild as either a Kinship or a Tribe where appropriate.
• IMPROVED: More robust template handling.
• IMPROVED: Reports and logs if data.lotro.com is down for maintenance rather than just report a failure to update.
• FIXED: Swapped decimal and thousands separators in the charts percentages
• FIXED: Added missing "level" sort option on the dropdown menu.
• FIXED: Vocation and race icons couldn't be disabled in the configuration.
• FIXED: PHP notice if pvmprank icons were disabled.
• FIXED: Corrupted log entry if data.lotro.com is down.

Project website: http://www.lostrealm.ca/lotroster
Live demo: http://www.lostrealm.ca/lotrosterdemo

This Saturday search the banks of the river Brandywine to find barrels and crates from a doomed supply ship. The crew will reward you for your efforts for helping them recover their lost goods. This event doesn't happen often, so don't miss your...Click here to read full

This Saturday search the banks of the river Brandywine to find barrels and crates from a doomed supply ship. The crew will reward you for your efforts for helping them recover their lost goods. This event doesn't happen often, so don't miss your chance at picking up some Corsair bounty!

You’ll be rewarded for your efforts with piratey gear from the thankful crew. You may even run across a few treasure chests the shifty fellows failed to mention! This special event only happens once a year in September, so don't you miss your chance!

Deckhand Eyepatch	First Mate Hat 1
First Mate Hat	Shipwrecked Mariner

Keep your eyes and ears about for the next week as the community team give away 111 The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar full game keys in celebration of a very special hobbit's birthday. There will be multiple ways for you to win a key...Click here to read full

Keep your eyes and ears about for the next week as the community team give away 111 The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar full game keys in celebration of a very special hobbit's birthday.

There will be multiple ways for you to win a key and other prizes as well.

Twitter for your Key
Don't forget to follow the LOTRO_Europe and Codies Twitter channels and as we will be giving away keys on them both. First person to grab the key and activate it into a Codemasters Online player account wins it.

May Contain Keys
The Codies' May Contain Gamers blog will have a competition running for a number of keys and a Mines of Moria Special Edition.

The LOTRO Europe Forums
We're even giving away keys on the community forums, so don't forget to join us there.

Make a date in your diary to join us from the 21st – 25th September for a whole week of celebrating!

Please note that on Wednesday, 16th September, 2009 at 09.30 hours (GMT+1) the Codemasters forums will be coming offline for approximately 1.5 hours. During this time the forum software will be updated to the latest version which includes several...Click here to read full

Please note that on Wednesday, 16th September, 2009 at 09.30 hours (GMT+1) the Codemasters forums will be coming offline for approximately 1.5 hours. During this time the forum software will be updated to the latest version which includes several fixes and security upgrades.

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Troll and Ranger session play returns

After a long absence we are happy to announce that the Troll and Ranger session plays in the Ettenmoors will be re-activated this coming maintenance.

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Berephon has made a new post in MyLotro about some early content for Siege of Mirkwood. I had produced 19 new quests in Fanuidhol, targeting the 4 largest Orc-encampments.The first quest sends the player to aid two Elves who each ask you to...Click here to read full

Berephon has made a new post in MyLotro about some early content for Siege of Mirkwood.

I had produced 19 new quests in Fanuidhol, targeting the 4 largest Orc-encampments.The first quest sends the player to aid two Elves who each ask you to patrol 4 of the 8 Orc-camps in Fanuidhol. Upon completion of these quests, you can simultaneously undertake a series of 4 kill x, 4 collection, and 4 summoned boss quests, which then open up 4 daily repeatable quests which combine the kill x and collection quests.

The best news is that they reward players with Item XP, Galadhrim barter items, cash, and most importantly Galadhrim Reputation, without having to deliver flowers to the denizens of Lothlorien! These quests will become available with the release of the Siege of Mirkwood digital expansion. Hope you enjoy!

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