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Codemasters will introduce Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dum to Lord of the Rings Online this Thursday, adding a new raid, new small-party instances, gameplay tweaks and a Summer Festival. The update launches in North America today.
The story follows some sorcerer bloke who wants to do evil things in the depths of Khazad-dum, which is also known as Moria - the big Dwarf place that Gandalf fights a Balrog in. Small parties will try to put a stop to this in a host of new instances, and there's a Dark Brotherhood quest arc that culminates in a 12-man raid.
The Summer Festival provides light relief to all this, tickling hairy toes with costumes, quests and Inn-based challenges.
Plus, as a thank you, Codemasters is offering a 20 per cent stablemaster discount to all active subscribers from 30th June.
There's no meaty list of gameplay tweaks just yet, but keep a Sauron's Eye on the European Lord of the Rings Online website for the Book 8 patch notes.
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One thing that's not mentioned in this article is the massive overhall of the entire crafting system plus a increase in stack size for most useful inventory items.
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Sadly, Turbine has changed LOTRO into a raid game - they are heading in the same direction as WoW. Albeit, not so large raids or that take as long but still it is far from what they said the game wouldn't develop into.
I still enjoy it though, I play mostly solo or with a handful of friends of which only 2 are "serious" players - that have acquired the best equipment for their mains they can get. Actually, before Mines of Moria things were pretty good. You had a selection of 'top level' equipment to choose from and various ways of acquiring them. Today, however, the best equipment seems only to come from large group raiding. For me, this is a fault that Turbine must plaster. |
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Today, however, the best equipment seems only to come from large group raiding.
Thats not true at all. Its so easy to get at least 4/6 Radiance. Each of the hard modes for those instances takes between 20-40 mins in a 6 man instance so if you can't dedicate that amount of time you won't be doing the radiance gated content hence there is no problem |
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@HMAN: The instances are 6-12 man instances. It will maybe take 20-40 minutes if and only if you are in a fellowship that knows what it is doing and knows the instance.
And the bigger point is that there aren't the same choices of top level equipment to choose from. There is just Radiance Armour and then "other stuff". |
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