Our first Submit Your Steed player submission comes from Cithryth. Shown is a Warsteed wearing the Steed of the Guardian halter and saddle, and the Steed of the Burglar Caparison and leggings. Note: these screenshots were taken during beta. 

This is our first player submitted screen shot! Every Friday we will feature screen shots sent in by our readers. If you have any shots you’d like to share with us please see the contact page!

Here it is: The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, October 15th at 6:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) for the release of Update 8: Riders of Rohan! Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you back in the game soon! Patch notes will be available on Monday, during the downtime. Our excitement has been pretty high, waiting for ROR – this...

If you were unaware, the good folks over at Turbine are participating in a charity drive to raise money for the Extra Life foundation, including LotRO’s very own Rick Heaton (a.k.a. Sapience). As an incentive to help motivate donations, he has set various goals in place with rewards tied to them, such as exclusive titles in-game and for the forums, and...

Do you have a warsteeds related screenshot from beta (or after launch, from a live server) that you would like to share with us? Send us your screenshot(s) using the form on our contact page and your shot just may be featured on our site! We will be choosing one screen shot a week to display on WARSTEEDS. The only requirement is that is has something to do with...

Riders of Rohan is quickly approaching and we’ve received numerous requests and letters asking “how do I go about quickly getting my new warsteed!?” We’ve gone ahead and answered that question with a new guide that should be enough to answer your question with out providing too much (if any) spoiler content. This guide focuses on the...

There are two quest arcs that ultimately end up merging together and sending you to the Harwick Stables to pick up your warsteed. This guide is going to focus on the most efficient and direct route to obtaining your steed.  The quickest way to obtaining your warsteed is through a quest arc that starts in Langhold, which is a short run south from the once-broken...

Here is another video brought to us by PVMPAndang (seriously, why have you not subscribed to his YouTube channel yet?) that shows us the cosmetic panel and some of the options. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOL8kjYW15E In case you missed it, we here at WARSTEEDS have a similar video up as well.

We have added three new articles to help you get ready for Rohan and the Warsteed that is waiting for you there! Appearance Options Riding Lesson Steed Types

There are many options when it comes to customizing the appearance of your warsteed. Currently, we are able to change the steeds hide type, hide color, mane and tail color, and outfit color. The outfit consists of five different pieces that you can mix and match to get the perfect look. These pieces are the halter, caparison, leggings, saddle and gear. Each...

There are three types of Warsteeds available to you: The Courser This is the light steed. It is built for speed and maneuverability and sacrifices armor for it’s agility. Tooltip: The Courser is a lightly armoured War-steed. Fast and Agile, the Courser provides the greatest speed and maneuverability on the battlefield, trading Endurance and Armour to...

The first thing you’ll notice when mounting your new warsteed, is that he or she does not ride the same way that your trusty travel mounts do. Warsteeds are bigger, heavier, and quite a bit faster than that Bay Pony you got from Hengstacer! Their momentum must be taken into account when you are riding them. Not only will they have a much wider turning...

PVMPAndang and Pineleaf team up to take out a couple warbands. They both produce some excellent warsteed videos and this one is another gem! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJBRVZ1_LoU

Pineleaf Needles has just released an excellent video demonstrating various techniques to help you control your steed, target opponents and then take them out. It’s worth a watch or two!

  This video was taken during Riders of Rohan beta, and anything you see here may be changed before the expansion goes...

Here are a few screen shots taken while making the previous two videos.

  This video was taken during Riders of Rohan beta, and anything you see here may be changed before the expansion goes...

  This video was taken during Riders of Rohan beta, and anything you see here may be changed before the expansion goes...

There are some new screen shots over at Cosmetic Lotro showing some of the different hide color options for our warsteeds. Up until today, this feature in beta was bugged. If you’re at all wondering what some of the different color options are, you need to go check out that post! This is one of the features I’ve desperately been waiting to get my...

Here is the newly released Steed of the Minstrel, on the LOTRO store for 1995 TP. It also gives us a little bit of a view on what combat for a Minstrel on horseback will look like. A56NXBC3FA5G