Duvaineth:
The special edition on the Uk shop mentions the Gold "One ring" in a velvet case. But in Belgium, pre-order on the benelux e-shop doesn't mention anywhere the gold "one ring", just the elven brooch. Is the ring a offer available just for certain countries/pre-order site sections? Or to all? How can i make sure that if i pre-order that speciall edition from wherever, i can get that Ring?

" All Special Editions should contain the One Ring in the pouch."

Faya
LOTRO Community Officer

A Guide to Kinships, was created by Cherubina. Her guide includes a wide variety of kinship-related topics such as getting started, using commands, and purchasing a kinship hall.

This is a must-read guide for prospective kin leaders or anyone else interested in understanding how kinships function, so before you visit the Clerk of Kinships be sure to check out this Guide!

Turbine is pleased to announce that the Mines of Moria™ expansion is now in the final stages of Beta, and that they are now accepting applications for the Beta Program! The Beta Program is by invitation only, and they'll be adding more and more of you as the Program advances. Turbine wanted to give our community the chance to get in and apply to participate in the Program before the general announcement hits on Friday, August 29!

To apply for the Beta program, please do the following:

1. Create an account, or login to your existing account, at the Unlock the Mines of Moria site
2. Click on the Mini-Games &... [Read More]

Turbine is hosting a party for Turbine players! Join us at Gameworks Seattle from 7:00PM - 9:00PM on Friday, August 29th 2008. Asheron's Call Producer Crowley, LOTRO Executive Producer Ringleader, LOTRO: Mines of Moria Producer Eldrad, the enigmatic Marketroid, Community Team members Patience and Frelorn, and more will be on hand from Turbine! Food, games, fun, and swag - what more could you ask for?

Please click here to RSVP if you plan to attend so we can get an approximate headcount. We can't wait to see everyone there!

Quests / Instances

• We have addressed an issue in Book 14: Chapter 1, where 2 or more players using the same chest at the same time caused the door to the lower section of the instance to open early.
• The White-hand Half-orcs and Dunlendings in the Book 14: Chapter 6 instance will no longer become NPCs if they happen to fall out of combat.
• We have taken steps to address some of the issues reported with the Helchgam fight in Carn Dûm. Helchgam will now be able to use more of his attacks while you are hidden behind pillars in the room, while the room's reset has been modified to be more thorough and reset more elements in the room.
• We have reduced the retry timer on the Battle quests in Angmar from 6.5 days to 2.5 days. Characters who have already completed those quests and are waiting for their timer to expire will have to wait the full 6.5 days. However, the next time that character completes the quest, they will only have to wait the new 2.5 day retry timer.
  • Due to the reduction in the retry timer on the Battle quests, we have slightly increased the costs of the rewards purchased through the quests. For instance, an item that previously cost 1 Rhunendin ribbon, 1 Rammas Deluon ribbon and 3 silver coins now costs 1 Rhunendin ribbon, 2 Rammas Deluon ribbons and 3 silver coins.

Annúminas

• We have updated the following deeds to address issues players have experienced with them. Due to the changes made to these deeds, any progress made in uncompleted deeds will be lost (please accept our apologies!). To restart these deeds, simply kill monsters in the areas targeted by these deeds and they should restart. Note that if your character has completed these deeds, your character will not be affected by this change.
  • Markers of the Sunken City
  • Lore of the Enemy
  • Marching Orders
  • Plans of War
• We have addressed an issue in the Annúminas Tombs where cave-claws in one of the "sub-tombs" would become unattackable for a short period of time following the death of the Arnorian Knight.
• We have boosted the amount of time players have to finish the daily quests that go into the Gardens and Tomb instances of Annúminas. Instead of having 5 minutes to complete those quests after the boss's death, players will now have 15 minutes.

Monster Play

• The Weaver's Lie in Wait skill has had its root aura removed, due to an issue where the root would affect group mates.
• /liedown and /faint will no longer cause Monster Player characters to tilt.

Miscellaneous

• If the master looter logs off or goes linkdead with outstanding item assignments, those assignments will be canceled and the items opened up for free-for-all looting for the group.
• If the master looter cancels an item assignment, the item will be opened up for free-for-all looting for the group.
• Players who log out or go linkdead with outstanding roll requests will now automatically pass.
• Fixed a client crash that could occur when starting up the game in fullscreen mode.
• The Captain Skill Noble's Mark has received an additional increase in damage.
• Crafting (Metalsmith): Fixed an issue where metalsmith tool recipes for tiers 2 through 5 were dropping at a very low frequency. In general, Metalsmith tool recipes should now be found more often in treasure.
• The Tavern League Reputation rewards for some quests has been increased. Anyone who previously completed the quests will be updated to the correct amount of reputation.
• A range of fixes has been applied to the scaling and orientation of instruments during combat and music playing.
• Fixed an issue that was causing some dance emotes, particularly the new ones, to use the same animation.
• You can once again search for auctions with spaces or dashes in their names.
• The blanket on the summer festival horse was oversaturated and has been toned down.
• The summer festival music boxes should now work properly.

If you have problem to take down the priestess from the Book 14 chapter 15 these tips might be useful for you:

- Kill one of the summoned adds and then pull the other one away from the priestess. Like all protector types they absorb the damage the priestess is taking, and the priestess in turn heals them up. If the distance is broken or they are stunned this doesn't work.
- Also kill the 2 archers next to the priest at the start first
- Get the tank to interrupt where possible
- Just keep one of the adds alive for the entire fight, new adds won't spawn until both are killed.
- Prepare for a reasonably long fight in any case.

We would like to thank Zilo, Urgamanix_, nicbass, Yalle, Barafo Steelfounder for these tips.

The Barrow-downs west of Bree were once a haven for the Rangers of Cardolan, until the plague swept across Middle-earth and destroyed the last remnant of those Dnedain. After the Rangers of Cardolan perished, the Witch-king sent fell spirits out of Angmar and Rhudaur to inhabit the remains of the dead buried beneath the mounds, giving rise to the Barrow-wights. Since then, the Barrow-downs have had an evil name as a place of terror.

A few places within the Barrow-downs, such as Othrongroth and Ost Gorthad, are known as places of the greatest dread. Another of these terrible places is Haudh Iarchith. Once the clan-barrow of a great and wealthy family, it has now become a den of Angmar's Dead. The hunters of Bree seek to drive the evil from this place, but few among even them have the courage to face the wights of Haudh Iarchith.

Haudh Iarchith serves as the public dungeon in Bree-land for the reputation system introduced to The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar after the game's release. Players seeking to improve their standing with the hunters of Bree must spend much time among the wights of Haudh Iarchith...

We would like to thank Teliol for this great map.

Haudh Iarchith map

We're pleased to announce that all of the Summer Festival content will open on Monday 18th for your enjoyment.

We initially elected to disable some of the events in the Summer Festival due to several issues that were discovered during testing. Working with Turbine, we chose to take the "wait and see" approach to gauge the effect of these bugs on their live service.

We have now reviewed the impact and have made the decision that the severity of the known issues, (see below for list of known issues) is not sufficient to prevent us from opening these events up.

We apologise for the wait, but felt it was prudent to see how the player experience would be impacted before taking any risks.

In light of the time players have not been able to enjoy the Summer Festival, we will be extending the festival period by just over two weeks. The festival will now close on September 4th.

Enjoy!

Known Issues:

• Horse race issues:
  • The Shire Derby race is lacking a starting barrier
  • The festival horse that is won in the event cannot be traded
• Dance emotes acquired from the festival dance events have an issue with the looping animation
• Some NPCs have acquired the talent of levitation

We are aware that the space bar is not working in auction house searches. And it has been added to the known issues list.

Currently, searches in the auction house are limited to those that do not include a space in the name. A temporary workaround, while we investigate the issue, is to drag the item you want to search for into the “Item Name” field. This will paste the full name, including spaces. Thank you for your patience.