LOTRO Players News Episode 329: Update 24 Review

LOTRO Players News Episode 329: Update 24 Review

Nov 4, 2019

This week we talked about Bullroarer Update 25 Preview 3, reviewed Update 24, and shared our week in LOTRO.

Minas morgul pre-orders and information

Minas morgul pre-orders and information

Sep 25, 2019

The next expansion will take us to the lands of the Morgul Vale. The old gondorian city of Minas ithil or Morgul as orcs now call it. The pre-orders are up and use the same pricing as the Mordor expansion. The first possible release date given by SSG is 29th of october with the 7 3, 6 and raid instances following in later patches. The 80$ version is could be...

Legendary system V.2

Legendary system V.2

Aug 30, 2019

In the last article we’ve gone over what the legendary system currently looks like and what they want(ed) it to be. So lets just fix it. Or why it’s not that easy. First we’ll see why it’s not as easy as some might think and the extra underlying problems each iteration has. In the end we can look at how SSG could go about updating the legendary weapons and...

LOTRO Players News Episode 317: Sans Finds All the Cheese

LOTRO Players News Episode 317: Sans Finds All the Cheese

Aug 12, 2019

This week we discussed the release of Update 24.2, the first Bullroarer Preview of Update 24.3.1, and our week in LOTRO.

LOTRO Players News Episode 289: Update 23 Review

LOTRO Players News Episode 289: Update 23 Review

Jan 21, 2019

This week we reviewed Update 23 and talked with the Dwarrow Scholar.

The Grey Mountains, The Iron Hills & More! – LOTRO Update 23 Beta Videos

The Grey Mountains, The Iron Hills & More! – LOTRO Update 23 Beta Videos

Aug 16, 2018

The Grey Mountains, The Iron Hills, and an expanded Erebor will all be coming to LOTRO in Update 23. Check out the new areas in the preview videos below! Update 23 also includes changes to hobbit avatars and new character sorting...

[CC] Guide to Bullroarer v0.1

[CC] Guide to Bullroarer v0.1

Aug 13, 2018

With a new update on the horizon you will hear or read, Bullroarer is up or Bullroarer is live. In this guide  we’ll go quickly over what it is, why you might want to check it out and how do you get on Bullroarer if you decide to use it *Updates when i can get some screenshots What is Bullroarer? Every new update introduces new things. Things that need to...

[CC] Is it ok to be bored in Lotro?

[CC] Is it ok to be bored in Lotro?

Jul 19, 2018

A night in the midst of April was coming to a close. A night partly thinking about the upcoming summer in Lotro. Both as a player and kinleader looking ahead for kin activities during the summer. The next major content update would be in the fall and class changes was just a promise on a stream. The article that never came to be was called Lotro drought, but...

LOTRO Players News Episode 260: Update 22 Review

LOTRO Players News Episode 260: Update 22 Review

Jul 2, 2018

This week we reviewed Update 22 and discussed Update 22.3.

[CC] Developers Diary – Beorning 2.0 – Commentary

[CC] Developers Diary – Beorning 2.0  – Commentary

Apr 1, 2018

After the news that SSG would team up with Fantasy flight games to offer a Beorning founders pack for their Digital cardgame Lotr LCG early access. They announced that a developers diary would come soon, but that it would contain more new then just that partnering. And boy it does. We’ll take a look at the different sections of the dev diary and...

LOTRO Players News Episode 244: Thranduil of the Keebler Elves

LOTRO Players News Episode 244: Thranduil of the Keebler Elves

Mar 12, 2018

This week we discussed the release of Update 22 and said goodbye (for now) to Maven.

Server Downtime: Tuesday, March 6th

Server Downtime: Tuesday, March 6th

Mar 3, 2018

Community Manager +Cordovan posted on the forums yesterday evening: The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Tuesday, March 6th from 6:00 AM – 2:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for an update to the game. Release Notes will be published on Monday. Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you back in the game soon! While Update 22 isn’t officially...

LOTRO Update 22: Build 2 Preview Video

LOTRO Update 22: Build 2 Preview Video

Feb 21, 2018

  Our own Pineleaf takes a look up the latest build on Bullroar to see what’s new.  ...

Northern Mirkwood, Dale, Lake-town & More! – Update 22 Beta Videos

Northern Mirkwood, Dale, Lake-town & More! – Update 22 Beta Videos

Feb 13, 2018

Northern Mirkwood, Lake-town, Dale and Erebor will all be coming to LOTRO in Update 22. Check out the new areas in the preview videos...

LOTRO Update 22 Build 1 Previews

LOTRO Update 22 Build 1 Previews

Feb 11, 2018

  Our own Pineleaf takes a look at some of the new things that are coming in Update 22.   Note this video was based on build 1 of Bullroarer , so all things are subjected to change.   Also, note there are slight spoilers         You’ve been warned…      ...

Update 21.3. Almost.

Update 21.3. Almost.

Dec 11, 2017

In this article, we review some of the changes we are getting with Update 21.3 and try to recap the year in few short words. We talk about the raid, instances and ash. Join us.

Downtime Notice: 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) Monday, December 11th

Downtime Notice: 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) Monday, December 11th

Dec 8, 2017

    Community Manager Cordovan posted on the forums about some upcoming downtime The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, December 11th from 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for an update to the game. He also kindly posted the release notes Click here to read about changes. Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you back...

LOTRO Players News Episode 227: I Got a Rock!

LOTRO Players News Episode 227: I Got a Rock!

Nov 6, 2017

This week we discussed Update 21.2.3, the new soundtrack, and Teri getting a rock.

Downtime Notice: Sunday, October 15th 7:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT)

Downtime Notice: Sunday, October 15th 7:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT)

Oct 14, 2017

    Community Manager Cordovan posted on the forums about some upcoming downtime The LOTRO game worlds will be unavailable from 7:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) on Sunday, October 15th for a hotfix. Thank you for your patience, and we will see you in the game soon. And the notes on what’s being fixed are as follows: This update...

Mordor 21.2.1.b?

Mordor 21.2.1.b?

Oct 13, 2017

A lot of dust has risen in the past few days over the update 21.2. SSG has tried to resolve this to the best of their abilities, but some issues remain, which they expect to fix on Monday.