Fat Smokin Hobbits

Winter has finally come to Middle-earth. The town of Winter-home has opened their gates to travelers once more, and our Game Masters are getting into the holiday spirit! Right now, as we speak, our GMs are out wrangling a whole herd of Cremello Steeds. On Sunday, December 25th, we’ll be giving them away to random players in game!

GMs will be randomly choosing players all day long across all of our servers to win one of these special player-created mounts. If you’re a lucky winner, you’ll receive a Cremello Steed code in your mailbox along with instructions on how to redeem your new mount. If you’ve never seen the Cremello Steed before, our friends at LOTRO Wiki have a picture of both the horse and the pony!

So, if you’re online during December 25th, good luck and all of us here at Turbine wish you all a very happy holiday season!

Rise of Isengard – Known Issue

Burglar

• Some of the 4-set bonuses for “Silent Knife” and the “Gambler” trait lines are duplicating and showing up in the 5-set bonuses as well.

Rune-keeper

• Calenard Riffler of Hope is not removing Movement Speed debuffs when the skill “Prelude of Hope” is used.

Monster Play

• Blackarrow: When “Feel The Burn” is traited, additional damage from “Tangleshot” is doing common damage.
• Defiler: “Blight” DoT damage is unaffected by damage corruption traits and the “Battlefield Promotion” passive skill. Additionally, the DoT damage never crits.
• Defiler: Graphical representation of the “Blight” skill does not match the size of the skill’s created hotspot.

Instances

• Dunland: Tusks of the Boar: Cancelling the wrapper quest does not exit the instance.
• Dunland: The Battle of Dol Baran: Being defeated in the instance revives you in Enedwaith.
• Dunland: Rise and Fall: Leaving before speaking to Lhucu forces you to restart the quest.
• Annuminas: Haudh Valandil: There is a chance that Shingrinder will fall off the bridge when using ranged attacks, resetting the fight.
• Eregion: School at Tham Mirdain: Chests are not dropping gear, only barter items.

Legendary Items

• The tooltip and Legendary Items panel does not properly update Tactical Damage Rating when points are refunded.
• Captain: “In Defense of Middle-earth” legacy scroll applies the “Words of Courage” pulses legacy.
• Relics: Remarkable Rune of Power is missing its Tactical Offence statistic.

Quests

• Dunland: Pren Gwydth: “Mean Old Big Bloodtusk” does not complete if Bloodtusk is killed away from his den. Make sure to kill him directly in front of his den to get the quest to complete.
• Annuminas: Haudh Valandil: “Challenge: Valandil and Dolvaethor” will not advance after defeating Valandil and Dolvaethor.
• Misty Mountains: Helegrod: Challenge quests for Drake and Giant wings reward a Helegrod Mark instead of 3 Superior Fourth Marks.

Region

• Dunland: Heathfells: Defeat in the Pit of Iron area will transport players to Nan Curunir.
• Dunland: Isendale: Cuvnerth, Athdar and Brontrig do not have POI flags on the map.
• Enedwaith: Enedwaith’s map does not include a visual representation of the entrance to Draigoch’s Lair.
• Treasure: Tier 2 Cook recipe scrolls are incorrectly dropping off of some level 66-75 humanoid monsters.

Items

• Leather Gauntlets of the Hill-watcher incapacitate the wearer if they proc on last blow while sparring

Emotes

• /jazzhands and/read animations are causing other emote animations to work incorrectly.

Graphics & Videos

• All videos currently play in English for those players using the French Client.
• Volume 3, Book 4 (German client): Book 4, Chapter 3: Halbarad has English voiceover.

We think it’s time to take another look at Fellowship Maneuvers and how they might directly play into encounter design moving forward.

Read more in the latest Developer Diary from our Development Team and join the discussion!

When we set out to make this encounter, one thing stood out as crucial: we wanted to make an encounter with a massive creature.

Read more in the latest Developer Diary from our Content Team and join the discussion!