LotRO: Mines of Moria Release Notes
The Mines of Moria has been released and is live on all servers! Below are the release notes for the Mines of Moria expansion. You may read these release notes either on the LotRO Turbine Forums or by continuing to Read More for all the details right here at LotRO Stratics!
Downloadable Updater
If you'd like to update your LOTRO client to Moria before it goes live, click here for information about the downloadable updater!
Download the Moria Manual!
The Mines of Moria manual is now available for download in .pdf format (~5.6Mb). Click here to download it! You will need Acrobat Reader to view it.
Overview
The Mines of Moria has been released and is live on all servers! Below are the release notes for the Mines of Moria expansion. You may read these release notes either on the LotRO Turbine Forums or by continuing to Read More for all the details right here at LotRO Stratics!
Welcome to Moria!
Welcome to The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria! These release notes cover many changes to the game, but because so many new systems have been introduced in Moria, we've tried to limit them to what's changed from Shadows of Angmar. For overviews of the new systems, please read the associated developer diaries, which are linked in the overview!
Downloadable Updater
If you'd like to update your LOTRO client to Moria before it goes live, click here for information about the downloadable updater!
Download the Moria Manual!
The Mines of Moria manual is now available for download in .pdf format (~5.6Mb). Click here to download it! You will need Acrobat Reader to view it.
Overview
- Two new classes: The Rune-keeper and Warden! Read more about these new classes in their related developer diaries:
- Level cap increase to 60! With the level cap increase come new traits and skills. Read about them in a series of developer diaries covering character advancement past level 50!
- Changes to the combat system! For an overview of the changes, read Developer Diary: Combat Changes on lotro.com.
- New Item Advancement System! Forge your Legendary Weapon and customize it to become uniquely yours. Read more about the Legendary Item system:
- New Trait Set System! Read more about it in these articles on lotro.com:
- New regions: Eregion, Lothlorien, and Moria!
- Almost 40 new dungeons
- major overhaul of the Ettenmoors, including landscape, systems, and class updates. Several developer diaries have been released about the changes to the Ettenmoors, and we recommend players read them!
- Updates to the crafting system, including crafting guilds and the addition of Tier 6!
- Over 300 new Deeds and Accomplishments
- Over 600 new quests
- Raids and Instance updates!
- 1 new 12-man raid - battle the Watcher in the Water!
- 7 new 6-man instances
- 2 new 3-man instances
- 4 new instance/raid armor sets
- New "Challenge" system
- 100s of unique rewards
- Read more: Developer Diary: Anatomy of a Cluster