Feb 12, 2020

Minas Morgul is the cherry on top of 2 years of development by the SSG team and developers. With nearly each update since Mordor, the game slowly closed some hoops and holes that you’d run into and had a hard time getting out of. Culmination of revamps and balances What might the largest accomplishment is the fact that each class and activity has its place in...

Jan 8, 2020

For the full patchnotes view the topic on the Bullroarer forum here What is Bullroarer/preview This is lotro’s open beta server where you can preview, test and report bugs about major upcoming patches before they go live. When is this preview? Bullroarer will remain open until Friday afternoon (01/10). Time subject to change.Bullroarer will return early...

Jan 1, 2020

Everyone is now in the year 2020 and all the critters and humanoids would like to wish you a happy 2020.  Below we’ll also take a little look at some expectations, expectations and hopes for Lotro itself. Continuing 2019 From last year we’ll continue to see some revamps that were still planned, but didn’t make it last year. From the...

Dec 12, 2019

Opinion piece written with the current state and no comments from SSG – 12-12 10 Pm GMT The ghost of christmas past appeared and told George of Mordorian pasts. People could trade for gear, pets and other goods. Some even bought extra’s, but atleast you could slowly get your own or trade these items for yourself. Grims of christmas spawning Times...

Dec 11, 2019

After the Special honey rolls wore out and crashing on the closest hay stack Noffer woke him up. “Not all your rambles were a fever dream”, he said. That turtle you saw that was talking to the goblins? He’s here, he was just watching the watchers that have been watching you ever since you arrived in the Vales. The hobbits have been gone for...

For all information you can visit the dev diary, ingame store or the lotromarket Curator back till 2nd december The curator is back till the 2nd of december with 1 extra item added. A training dummy yard/housing item (supposed to scale to your level), Lotromarket sales In the cash store all expansions (excluding Minas Morgul) are 50% off including the...

Nov 24, 2019

Mordor besieged overlaid on the Dor Amarth map Besides all the fancy kings, elfs and estranged cavedwellers and hibernators there are more things to find in both Dor Amarths. Then again 3000 years and an exploding volcano manages to do some work on your real estate. After a little thought experiment lets take a quick look at what happened to it all What changed...

Nov 13, 2019

Current version – last updated 17 nov with U25.0.2 infoThe Minas Morgul primer updates marked. Answering questions and giving an overview on the Minas Morgul expansion.  Quest guide (first maps) Quest rewards (summary upcoming) Instance gear  Item level T1, T2, T3 Ithilad Crafting materials Crafting guild details on how and where Reclamation materials...

Nov 5, 2019

The Minas Morgul expansion has been confirmed to launch on the 5th of November with a downtime that (currently) ends at 19:00 Cet.  For full details you can read the patchnotes here. Login priorities Any Valar and Carry-all will only be available on the first server you log in to! Be careful with the legendary server or alt-servers. Black book or Mordor or...

Oct 28, 2019

A short non-definitive guide to what you could do to prepare for the Minas morgul expansion. Why probably good? The amount of betas are limited and even then most information hasn’t been confirmed to be 100% correct. So we’re working with a lot of assumptions and guesses. So take it with a grain of salt. Deeds and challenges All challenges in lotro are only...

Oct 24, 2019

We are readying the Minas Morgul expansion for release, and we’re getting close! We’ll have a formal release date downtime notice as we get closer to the day, but we are currently targeting Tuesday, November 5th as the release date for Minas Morgul. https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7967533#post7967533 Is it smart? Beta 2...

A general service announcement for Mac-users playing lotro. Apple released their newest Update to Mac-OS which will result in you not being able to run lotro on that specific version for the foreseeable future. With the release of Catalina for MacOS in the near future, Apple will no longer support 32-bit applications. This impacts the compatibility of our...

Oct 6, 2019

It’s time go on an adventure. With questpacks, regionpacks and expansions there’s plenty of way to play lotro. Often people will venture from Bree to the Lonelands and then into Evendim. Wander the level 40’s and then follow the epic into Eregion and beyond. With the legendary server you have to do each area for xp. And not so much on the normal...

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...

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...

Aug 26, 2019

Easy to learn, hard to master. Simple in design yet infinitely intricate. That’s what the legendary item system was when it was introduced 11 years ago.  With the launch of the Mines of Moria. Each Legendary Item contains the possibility of greatness. While they’re typically less impressive than comparable items of their initial level, they have the...

Aug 22, 2019

If you got the chance. Try to find some Honey rolls. The special kind if you know what i mean. Don’t wait for it. I need that legendary recipe. “A taste of the special honey rolls, is that your offer i can’t refuse?” I can just ask the beornings for that. They really softened up to foreigners since those dwarves saved their lands. Must...

Aug 19, 2019

Two areas, 4 instances and a long backlog of options to gear up as you come back to the game. This guide will help you find the best way to build up your character when you hit 120 by showing you the options, where to find gear and activities. This article will get clarifications as they become available or needed. Special noteThis guide will assume you got a...

Aug 13, 2019

A new update and accompanied downtime today for Update 24.2.1  – The Depths of Kidzul-kâlah New 6-man instance Elf-token Vales daily barter options New cosmetics can be found for barter on Rowan Raspberry Fixed and bugged overzealous dwarfs Hedghehogs have downsized Full patchnotes below or at this link New Fellowship Instance: The Depths of Kidzul-kâlah...

Aug 6, 2019

Today update 24.2 will launch with a small downtime accompanying it. Downtime Notice: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) Tuesday, August 6th A few highlights for the update are Captain class update Update 23 instances get an additional difficulty setting, loot and tier 2/3 update Small quest area update to the Vales of the anduin New daily landscape...