Executive Producer Severlin posted the latest producer’s letter looking forward to what’s ahead for next year. The full text of the letter is at the LOTRO forums, but here are a few bullet points for a TL;DR version:
Update 23 will take us into the Lonely Mountain, east to the Iron Hills, then north to the Grey Mountains, exploring dwarven cultures. It will also include a level cap raise to 120.
Minas Morgul has been pushed back to 2019.
Class work is expected to continue, as well as work on festivals and quality of life improvements that may include being able to see “sheathed” musical instruments.
Seasonal instances! Including two planned for the upcoming Summer Festival.
These are just a few of the things that we can look forward to for the rest of this year and beyond.
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 mentioned in this post, the expectation is that we will see it with this update.
This week, LOTRO Players received an email from Bludborn about a community event he is hosting through the month of December on his Twitch channel:
What: The 25 Days of XPACS Where:http://twitch.tv/bludborn When: Monday-Thursday and Saturdays in December Streams start at 10p EST
I have been playing The Lord of the Rings Online for 10 years and streaming on Twitch for 4 years. Without the community of players that come in and support my channel and the game, there would be no reason for me to do what I do. This year, I wanted to give back to the community that has been there for me over the last decade in game, and 4 years on Twitch. We have 25 copies of various expansions excluding Mordor that I will be giving away each stream during December. This is in addition to the 50 and 100 viewer goal giveaways already active on the channel!
The only thing you have to do to be eligible is follow twitch.tv/bludborn and be in the stream when I do the drawing. That’s it!
Thank you again for all that you do for me and best of luck in the giveaways!
Nearly was killed by the super nasty mammoth roving threat
Played interior decorator for a little bit.
Teriadwyn
Got a new pretty horse, Arkenstone Hunter got a makeover to match.
Landroval!Teri is now only 5 skirmishes away from Skirmisher of Middle-earth.
Pineleaf
During the field trip, we completed the Moria skirmishes then headed into Lorien.
Recorded a response to Andang’s question on what we’d like to see in Mordor.
My champion killed some salamanders and solved some riddles for a crazed man in Evendim.
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