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Name | Link – Guide quality |
Harrowing of Minas Morgul | Lotrowiki – General tactic |
Shadowroost | Lotrowiki – General tactic |
Filth-well | Lotrowiki – General tactic |
Deep-Barrow | Lotrowiki – General tactic |
Black lore | Lotrowiki – Video playthrough Bosses switch every week |
House of lamentation | Lotrowiki – Video guide |
Fallen kings | Lotrowiki – Video playthrough |
Shelob | Lotrowiki – Text boss 1 Video Tier 1 playthrough |
The region will start at Gandalf in Beorns House in the Vales of the Anduin. You’re not required to have done the Black book chapters 1 to 10. And will be guided to a 45-60 minute interlude around the Vales
After you’ve done the interlude you be able to transport to a Second age Mordor for the region – Mordor Besieged (level 120-122). After this region you’ll be guided to the Morgul vale area middle and eastern part Rath Duath (123-124) where you’ll also discover 3 of the entrances to the new 3-mans.
When done here the Black book will guide you into Minas Morgul, but it’s best to first do the Cirith Ungol (Morgul north) area (125). Afterward you’ll venture into the city of Minas Morgul which works like Minas Tirith where you’ll fight you’re way 1 tier at a time. With the fellbeast roost southeast for the 4th instance entrance (126-128).
Finishing of the Black book and Epligue (if you finished chapter 1-10 before) there is a little quest hub in Morgul South that leads to House of lamentation. By this time you’ll have finished the quest deed required for the daily quests you’ll be close to 130.
Every class has their update and can dish out a decent chunk of damage. That said if you don’t have some form of level 120 gear you might find yourself at a graveyard. The mobs are a bit easier then Vales, but quite numerous.
If you have done the previous quest packs you shouldn’t have much trouble in the Mordor Besieged area, but if you haven’t you can check out https://lotroplayers.com/2019/08/19/help-im-120-a-guide-to-gearing-and-dailies-at-levelcap/ for full details. Without these areas there will be no easy or quick fix to jump straight in.
Any of these armours will be replaced with the first quest rewards so don’t put too much time into these options.
Once you’ve reached level 130 and/or finished the quest deeds the time to upgrade your gear starts. Depending on how far you want to go in higher difficulties or the raid offcourse. You can go a few ways at this time
All above options will require you to run either the instances with or without daily quests. Or through alterior means like gold or lootboxes.
Once you’ve done all the quest deeds in Minas Morgul you will have access to 13 dailies in specific instances and 3 dailies (Level 130) in any instance. There will be items in the instance to interact with and award reputation items for the Reclamation of Minas Ithil.
These can be used to get recipes or used for reputation (these unlock story quests like the Mordor allegiances).
For a full breakdown of what you unlock at each reputation tier visit the wiki. But at each “Trial” you will unlock a new story quest. At the 70.000 reputation you will get an extra quest to exchange 100 quest tokens for 500 embers. And at several point you unlock the normal or elite crafting recipes.
There are currently 4 weeklies available that give ember rewards these reset on thursdays. Each weekly rewards 500 embers, 1 ithil shard, 70 sigils and 3000 virtue experience unless otherwise stated.
Currently there are 4 small fellowship, 3 fellowship and 1 raid to run within the Minas Morgul expansion. All beside Harrowing will require you to discover the entrance to be able to run these.
Name | Acronym | Size | Loot | Daily |
Harrowing | Harrow | 1,2,3 | 2 or 3 man | 2 |
Shadowroost | Roost | 1,2,3 | 2 or 3 man | 1 |
Filth-well | Filth | 1,2,3 | 2 or 3 man | 3 |
Deep-Barrow | Barrow | 1,2,3 | 2 or 3 man | 2 |
Black lore | BL | 1-2,6 | 6 man | 2 |
House of lam. | Lamentation | 1-2,6 | 6 man | 3 |
Fallen kings | Fallen/Kings | 6 | 6 man | 0 |
Harrow and Roost are considered the easiest instances, Barrow is in the middle with Filth being hardly run for dailies or loot. BL is shorter then Lamentation, but with bosses that vary every week. While Fallen kings is 1 boss fight. All 6-mans have fallen out of favour with the raid dropping similar loot.
Either by crafting, bartering or instance drops you can get jewelry or armour. At this time any scaled, big battle or non-Minas morgul instance gear is usually harder to get or worse then lowest gear in the expansion.
Crafted source | Item level | Quality | Needed |
Reclamation | 407 | Purple | 3 ithilharn shards |
Reclamation | 411 | Purple | 5 ithilharn shards |
Guild – normal | 412 | Teal | 10 crafting box |
Guild – elite | 420 | Teal | 12 crafting box |
The higher the difficulty the better then chance to get a better quality gear in general. You can get a purple on tier 1 (bonus) and on tier 5 (you’d want a teal). All item levels can roll with an extra 5 levels randomly.
Instance source | Item level | Quality | Essence slot |
Reclamation | 408 | Yellow | 0 |
Tier 1 (122) | 402 | Yellow | 0 |
Tier 1 (130) | 408 | Yellow | 0 |
Tier 2 | 410 | Purple | 0/1 |
Tier 3 | 414 | Purple | 0/1 |
Tier 4 | 418 | Teal | 1/2 |
Tier 5 | 419 | Teal | 1/2 |
Raid tier 1 | 426 | Teal | 1/2 |
Ember 2000 | 410 ? | Purple | 0/1 |
Ember 3500 | 417 | Teal | 1/2 |
For essences there are 5 different levels at the moment, but in general you will only use 3 different ones. Tier 1, 2 or 4.
Essences | Tier | Source | Materials |
Flickering | 1 | Drop | Free |
Sofly moonlit | 2 | Crafted | 1 Shard + 1 solvent |
Moonlit | 3 | Crafted | 2 Shard +2 solvents |
Warmy moonlit | 4 | Crafted | 1 Shard + 3 solvents |
Trigger | 4.5 | Crafted*1 | See note |
Skirmish | 5 | Event*2 | See note |
*1 – A critted Tier 4 becomes a Mystery box. Which when opened has a 12-14% chance to become a trigger essence (bonus effects)
*2 – Limited events can award a tier 5 essence such as Ill Omens or Thrang
If you’ve a crafter that has already gotten westermet guild reputation you can use Minas Morgul recipes for easy 200k rep for easy access to teal item level 412/414 gear.
These can be gotten from the Minas Morgul camp or your local Guild leader. For the recipes themselves check the Improved recipe vendor.
Gear and jewelry require a Ithilad crafting material to craft these items. These come from instance drops or ashing instance gear (25% chance for 1 box)
If your vocation allows it. You can also visit a master of apprentice in a major hub to get access to a 2nd guild. The 200k easy rep will only work on the latest tier.
Current version – last updated 17 nov with U25.0.2 info
The Minas Morgul primer updates marked. Answering questions and giving an overview on the Minas Morgul expansion.
The region will start at Gandalf in Beorns House in the Vales of the Anduin. You’re not required to have done the Black book chapters 1 to 10. And will be guided to a 45-60 minute interlude around the Vales
After you’ve done the interlude you be able to transport to a Second age Mordor for the region – Mordor Besieged (level 120-122). After this region you’ll be guided to the Morgul vale area middle and eastern part Rath Duath (123-124) where you’ll also discover 3 of the entrances to the new 3-mans.
When done here the Black book will guide you into Minas Morgul, but it’s best to first do the Cirith Ungol (Morgul north) area (125). Afterward you’ll venture into the city of Minas Morgul which works like Minas Tirith where you’ll fight you’re way 1 tier at a time. With the fellbeast roost southeast for the 4th instance entrance (126-128).
Finishing of the Black book and Epligue (if you finished chapter 1-10 before) there is a little quest hub in Morgul South that leads to future content (6-mans). By this time you’ll have finished the quest deed required for the daily quests. Usually you’ll be level 129 by then.
Every class has their update and can dish out a decent chunk of damage. That said if you don’t have some form of level 120 gear you might find yourself at a graveyard. The mobs are a bit easier then Vales, but quite numerous.
If you have done the previous quest packs you shouldn’t have much trouble in the Mordor Besieged area, but if you haven’t you can check out https://lotroplayers.com/2019/08/19/help-im-120-a-guide-to-gearing-and-dailies-at-levelcap/ for full details. Without these areas there will be no easy or quick fix to jump straight in.
Any of these armours will be replaced with the first quest rewards so don’t put too much time into these options.
You’ll quickly lose you’re fine pants for raggidy yellows, but they are superior then all. Besides raid gear or gold armour from Tier 4 and 5’s the quest rewards will be better. The increased stats and armour will make up for losing those essence slots.
Landscape won’t drop any Minas Morgul pieces, but the occasional bind on equip will. These are capped at item level 395 (quest gear is 400+). Compare them, but usually they will not be that good.
Once you’ve completed the landscape quests you can continue with a few extra questlines or start to gather your journey on some better gear. Below are the different sources and ways to find these
There is 1 tier of level 130 essence. They drop from mobs (randomly) and can be bartered for 1500 embers (bound). There is no crafting available, but you won’t need that many at the moment (3-6).
There is currently no gear available from either a quest token or reputation barterer
Minas Morgul has a new crafting tier and guild recipes. These can be sorted in 3 sections.
After questing has given you a decent set of item level 400-405 gear in which you have a few essence slots. The easiest way to gear up atm is through instances.
All loot (Greater … of …) that can be gotten from previous instances will be purple or teal. But won’t have any essence slots and have a maximum of itemlevel 390. While on par with the earlier quest gear it lacks the flexibility for healers or tanks.
Before these 4-slot armour pieces and jewelry from the Pelennor or Osgiligath would be the best if you had the means to fill them. But these have been rendered unusable by level 130’s.
The update 23/24 instances will give the same loot scaled to 130. The guaranteed 1-slot teals are quite good. A lower item level them Minas Morgul, but of a higher quality for now.
All 3-man instances give 1 gear-piece per boss and can shared. These can be run in duo or 3-man groups for yellows with item level 405. Higher tiers are available as of 13 november, but at the time of writing not run yet.
Shadowroost and Harrowing are quick and easy, with Deep-barrows a bit more longer, tricky due to traps and larger groups. Filth-well is rather long and the hardest bosses of the 3-mans.
If you’ve a crafter that has already gotten westermet guild reputation you can use Minas Morgul recipes for easy 200k rep for easy access to teal item level 412/414 gear.
These can be gotten from the Minas Morgul camp or your local Guild leader. For the recipes themselves check the Improved recipe vendor.
Gear and jewelry require a Ithilad crafting material to craft these items. But for class and weapons they don’t. The best offhand you can get atm.
If your vocation allows it. You can also visit a master of apprentice in a major hub to get access to a 2nd guild. The 200k easy rep will only work on the latest tier.
Once you’ve done all the quest deeds in Minas Morgul you will have access to 8 dailies in specific 3-mans (no level requirement) and 2 dailies (Level 130) in any instance. These will be items in the instance to interact with and award reputation items for the Reclamation of Minas Morgul.
These can be used to get recipes or used for reputation (these unlock story quests like the Mordor allegiances). No gear idea, cause all used for rep.
There are currently 3 weeklies available that give ember rewards these reset on thursdays
Lost lore pages, Rare mordor chests, Discovery, Nine Nazgul (RT’s) and 3 stages of slayer deeds. For all easy references Bearded Minstrel has made an excellent map for these
For all deeds for now it’s easiest to view either the Bullroarer overview, Dynsmap Morgul outside, Dynsmap Minas Morgul or Dynsmap Torech Ungol
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 starting Minas Morgul
The expansion starts with chapter 11 of the Black book. You don’t have to complete the previous 10 chapters if you want to jump straight in. Though you will have to complete the interlude you can get from the Beorning house in the Vales (takes about 45-60 min).
Gameplay changes
Gear changes and updates
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At launch creeps are a mess. Nothing to sugarcoat. Vastin has already stated he has been working on an update to it. But you can look pretty with cosmetic outfits.
Instances and tiers
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