This week we reviewed our year in LOTRO and discussed our week in gaming.
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Game News
SSG took the week off due to the holidays
Store Sales
2025 Patron’s Coffers have re-appeared!
- Pick from the Coffers of the Sands, the Loyal Knight, the Jaunty, or the Gilded Caravan through January 1, 2026
- Read more about these coffers on LOTRO.com:
- Sands
- Loyal Knight
- Gilded Caravan
- Jaunty
4 Weeks of Yuletide Savings! – Week #4:
Now through January 1st, get:
- 75% off select Monster Play Cosmetics
- 50% off Recipes
- 35% off the Sublime Patron’s Coffer
- Read more about the Sublime Patron’s Coffer on LOTRO.com!
Double Bonus Points is back!
- Get twice the Bonus Points in the LOTRO Store through January 1st!
Available for a limited time: the Deep Places Memoir Pack!
- Memoir of Moria and Isengard cosmetics, including all eight Moria cosmetic cloaks for all your characters!
- Now through January 1!
Get up to 85% off select expansions in the LOTRO Market:
- 85% off Mordor
- 70% off War of the Three Peaks
- 70% off Before The Shadow (IMPORTANT: Before The Shadow’s content is now free to all users! This purchase will provide all other listed items.)
- 40% off Corsairs of Umbar
- 25% off Legacy of Morgoth
- Now through January 1!
Go Ever On and On! Get 30% off:
- Select XP Boosts
- Enhanced XP Supply
- 100% Mark Acquisition Boosts
- Now through January 1st!
Weekly Coupon:
- Free Dye: Crimson
- Coupon Code: HOLIDAYRED
- Now through January 1st!
LOTRO Players News End-of-Year Review for 2026
- Update 42.4 – Increase in number of character slots in preparation for 64-bit move
- Update 43 – Temple of Utug-bur Raid; Birding added for additional regions
- Update 43.1
- Update 43.2
- Update 43.3
- Update 43.4
- Update 44 – Crown of Hamat, Lalia’s Market update, Homesteading Coins, Dun Shuma
- Update 44.1 – Anniversary Missions
- Update 44.2
- Update 44.3 – Midsummer Festival updates
Reminiscing about …
Will they ever teach wargs to fish?
Week In Gaming
Crister
- Crister shall rise! Weird UI stuff.
- Helldivers 2 Christmas Bugaloo
- Brynewind the Barbarian.
Sanswinda
- Started the new area on my RK with Cyndars and Pineleaf.
- Ran some skirmishes with the field trip.
- Have been festivaling and lead hunting in ESO.
Pineleaf
- My Lore-master continued with the Crown of Hamat questline in the new area.
- My warden finished the quests in the Moulder-wood.
- My rune-keeper is about halfway through the third region in the new content.
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