Rhyaehar Marasz

On September 4th of this year, Turbine and Codemasters announced the upcoming expansion to The Lord of the Rings Online. Unlike the previous expansion, The Mines of Moria, this is a smaller expansion and will not be made available via retail. This is a full digital expansion. Some key highlights include a new level cap raise, changes to the combat and mount systems, a new landmass and new instance clusters, topped by a new raid instance. In addition, a new system is being introduced; Skirmishes.

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With the introduction of the Mines of Moria to the world that is Lord of the Rings Online, a brand new system has been introduced, unseen in MMO land. Where traditional MMOs allow you to level a character to a certain point, known as a level cap, armours, weapons and the likes have always been static. You've obtained the item and that was it. Mines of Moria changes this forever.

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This post was written by Raedwulf, a raid leader of the Raids'R'Us group.

Yes, Runing; not running! Given what I'm like as a Loremaster, every cat that expressed an opinion reckoned I'd be going for a Runekeeper. Who am I to disappoint, eh? I took Angrenar for a run on the afternoon of the first day & got him more or less to the end of the Intro & L5; then as others came on in the evening, starting their Wardens & Keepers, out he came for some more practice, this time in fellowship. Most of the time, we had 2 Wardens (Rhyaewald & Tierlo), & 2 Keepers (Feylanna (Sil) & myself), briefly adding a 3rd Warden who happened to be in the vicinity. By the end of the night, we were all level 12, I think, so these comments should reflect a nice mix of the early stages of the new stuff.

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With the release of Lord of the Rings Online: The Mines of Moria, we have seen the addition of the Warden class. After the short introduction to the class earlier, I've been able to play a Warden last night. My first impression: it's good!.



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