[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.

Downtime Notice – Friday Friday, October 13th 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

Downtime Notice – Friday Friday, October 13th 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

Oct 12, 2017

    Community Manager Cordovan posted on the forums about some upcoming downtime   The LOTRO game worlds will be brought down on Friday, October 13th from 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 21.2.1.   As you can see he also, kindly posted the release notes as well News and Notes: Crafting Housing decoration crafting...

Mordor 21.2 Beta 3: Shields and other news

Mordor 21.2 Beta 3: Shields and other news

Oct 3, 2017

In this article we look at the Beta 3 that is bringing new instances and with those new rewards, some of which are new shields.

[CC] The scale of scaling

[CC] The scale of scaling

Oct 3, 2017

In the beginning, there was Bree. Your first place you found your party members for your venture in the Great Barrows. One massive subterranean infested area full of wights and keys to having a chance at an audience with Sambrog. That is at least the story if you were around level 20 in 2007. Each instance had his own level range. You could still run it at a...

The tale of the stale pretzels in Mordor Beta 2

The tale of the stale pretzels in Mordor Beta 2

Sep 25, 2017

The tale of the stale pretzels is a tale about clearing the trash from Mordor instances. It is also a tale about a Mordor 21.2 Beta 2 build and some of the things we have noticed there.

Mordor 21.2: FINALLY!

Mordor 21.2: FINALLY!

Sep 14, 2017

We have been asking and waiting on this for a long time. It is not a destroy all button, they did not remove the third age LIs, but we are getting a filter that will alow us to chose what items we don’t want to get, sounds hear, and quests pop up for us. Thank you.

Mordor 21.1: Best available gear

Mordor 21.1: Best available gear

Aug 27, 2017

In this article in preparation for the instances we are talking about the best available gear in Mordor 21.1 and where from it is available.

Mordor: Update 21.1

Mordor: Update 21.1

Aug 22, 2017

With update 21.1 to the game, we talk about the new set of rowing threats, the deed for them, what has and what hasn’t been fixed.