Turbine’s big news is the official announcement of “Rise of Isengard” expansion! Rise of Isengard will be available for purchase in the LOTRO Store in the Fall of 2011 with an increased level cap, the new region of Isengard including the legendary tower of Orthanc, enhancements to monster play and much more!
NEW FEATURES:
Experience the Rise of Isengard – The Epic Story continues as the Grey Company makes its way south into Dunland, but troubles arise as their road takes them into lands where Dunlending forces, marshaled by the Wizard Saruman, prepare for war. The Rangers must seek new allies and face dangerous new foes, chief among them the traitor Saruman, whose web of intrigue threatens to endanger your quest, your friends, and your life.- Increased Level Cap — Players will be able advance their characters up to level 70, gaining access to new traits, virtues, skills and class quests.
- Expanded Monster Play – LOTRO’s monster play system will get a major revamp including opening up the feature to all players, changes to monster player skills and advancement and a brand new region for players to battle for or against the forces of evil.
You can see the full press release on the LOTRO site. Photos included are concept art from Turbine!
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November 19, 2010 at 6:33 am
Very kool news, …but i sure hope they have more than concept art done… other than monster play, we kinda already knew about all this… would have liked to see more in game stuff… maybe in the future.
November 19, 2010 at 6:52 am
I’m really curious to see how the release will be handled and whether Turbine will do something to encourage VIPs to part with their stockpiled points before Isengard launches.
November 19, 2010 at 7:02 am
I can’t wait. something tells me there is more they are not saying, and I have a deep feeling that a new class, at least one, will be announced. probebly next month. and maybe a revamp of the burglar class while they are at it….
November 19, 2010 at 7:15 am
They’re taking the hobbits to Isengard!
November 19, 2010 at 8:38 am
To Isengard?
November 19, 2010 at 10:12 am
TO ISENGARD!!!!
November 19, 2010 at 10:49 am
On second thought, let’s not go to Isengard.
‘Tis a silly place.
November 19, 2010 at 12:07 pm
ROFLMAO!!!
Okay.. this little exchange just made my day. Thank you all very much!
November 19, 2010 at 12:45 pm
OMG! I’m so laughing right now!!
November 19, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Epic Win.
November 19, 2010 at 7:17 am
That sounds like fun. But I was hoping the announcement would include more content for level 65 players. I think I am going to take a bit a of a break until some new content is released.
November 19, 2010 at 8:02 am
But they just announced five new levels of content! And the press release makes it sound as though there’ll be content updates with new areas through 2011 – before we get to Isengard.
November 19, 2010 at 8:06 am
I would think so. There’s at least a zone or two between us and Isengard yet.
November 19, 2010 at 8:39 am
there is a article that is from massively i believe that says this expansion will have a few new raids. and will probably have dunland coming with it, that’s a lot of content. or it is to me, im not even done with endiwaith yet..well tonight i will be.
November 19, 2010 at 9:12 am
You could be right. I could see them placing new content in older zones. I imagine that would be a little bit less of a workload than creating new zones while working on the new zones for the expansion.
November 19, 2010 at 8:32 am
This trailer is just AWFULL in the German version. Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQclRPByMVI – I don’t think you need to understand German to judge how terrible the voice over is.
This is Turbine’s third attempt at making a trailer video with German voice over, and this is taking it from “bad” (Mirkwood) to “even worse” (f2p) and “ouch my ears” (this one).
November 19, 2010 at 8:41 am
Perhaps strangely, the one thing that really jumped out at me was “access to new… virtues.” Will the cap be raised above 10?
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Am I going to have to go back to grinding!?!
I wish it wasn’t so far away, but it’s good news nonetheless!
November 19, 2010 at 10:07 am
That seemed odd to me too. It could be entirely new virtues rather than new ranks of the existing ones.
November 19, 2010 at 11:02 am
Very cool news indeed! Can’t wait to get further south. This gets us closer to Rohan then Gondor and Mordor!
November 19, 2010 at 11:15 am
It’s a year off yet. I’m not surprised they’ve not shown anything beyond concept art. A lot of things might look radically different (and better) a year from now.
Sounds like good news all around to me. Sure, they’ve told us we’re going to Isengard, but it’s nice to get official announcements. Obviously we’ll be seeing a lot more of it as time goes on.
November 19, 2010 at 11:46 am
Isengard. Sweet. A year??????!!!!!!!! Causes a whole lot of disinterst.
November 20, 2010 at 1:20 am
We will be getting Enedwaith type content updates while we wait…. hopefully
November 19, 2010 at 12:19 pm
I would say a new creep class will definitely be out, maybe dunlanders?
November 19, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Underwhelmed.
Hate to be a negative nelly but there it is.
November 19, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Really awesome to hear about the expansion coming, totally excited. The trailer is hilariously bad. Looks like they threw it together on the cheap. From where I’m coming from, I hope to God they put out some new beefy content soon. Less fluff. Enedwaith was fun, for the 2 days it took to bring my guy through casually, yes casually. Please don’t flame me for being a bit negative on Turbine, but I have been playing since the beginning and I’m a lifer, and people like me would like to see the game produce a lot less fluff content and pull us back in with some new instances, new gear, new raids, new 1st age and 2nd weapons. Fall 2010 is a long, long, long way off festivals and 2 day zones aren’t gonna be enough.
November 19, 2010 at 3:00 pm
I wouldn’t worry. There is a raid cluster that has been mentioned several times that will be coming out in the near-ish future.
November 19, 2010 at 4:23 pm
I’ve been going through Enedwaith for about a month and a half. I’ve only now exhausted the non-repeatable quests, and I still haven’t gotten all the exploration deeds done. 2 day zone this is not.
Still, I would rather have heard an announcement for Dunland in Spring than Isengard in Fall. Its just too far off.
November 22, 2010 at 4:28 pm
I am eagerly looking forward to this, but I have one question. I think i may be imagining things here but wasnt it said somewhere that VIPS’s wont have to pay for future expansions??? I dont mind paying, but i could of sworn i read that somewhere from Turbine.
November 22, 2010 at 4:37 pm
No I do not believe that has been stated. We were told we wouldn’t have to purchase zones that the Free/Premium folks must buy like Lone-Lands and I think mentioned that there would be some updates VIPs would get at no cost (like Enedwaith). The plan calls for just more of the same for VIPs. We pay for expansions like Moria and Mirkwood and get extra between goodies at no charge.
November 22, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Wow, Saruman looks mad.
I hope they give us Minas Tirith and Osgiliath before Mordor.
I’d love play a survival skirmish in Osgiliath. A troop of mounted cavalry with Faramir going in against, what 10 divisions of Orcs? In LOTRO terms, say a 12-24 man level 70 raid versus level ~30 orcs – but there are 10,000 of them.