Casual Stroll to Mordor

In a truant, but welcome Developer Diary Jeff “MadeOfLions” Libby discusses the new Epic Storyline released with The Rise of Isengard expansion as well as some of the technology used in creating it.

In this video we take a look at Draigoch’s opening monologue and then a brief up-close look at the dragon itself.

Like many people playing minstrels, when I first logged on to LOTRO, the first thing I thought was “O.M.G. What the heck happened to my buttons”?

Did you think that the Developer Diaries were over? Well, frankly so did we. However, proving us wrong yesterday saw the release of a Developer Diary containing information about Dunland itself by Jessie “Vastin” King.

Zam is hosting a LOTRO themed giveaway with some pretty great prizes!

The pre-order options for Isengard are gone but there are a couple options available to buy now that Isengard is live.

With every major release there are always issues with plugins no matter what game you play. Usually this can be resolved by changing the plugin’s code so that it matches any changes that were made, but in some cases it’s because something went wrong in the way Lua was implemented by the company.

Rise of Isengard has officially launched and Turbine has shared a launch trailer and some new screenshots of new monsters.

We should be able to start patching later today but what to do in the meantime? I have found some assorted links for you to read and enjoy to help you pass at least some of the time and still keep you psyched for the release!

The patch notes as well as a list of Known Issues have been posted for The Rise of Isengard. The patch notes are quite long, so enjoy!

I thought it might be worth a post to remind folks that today is the final day to pre-order Rise of Isengard before it’s launch tomorrow.

We are only a few days from Rise of Isengard and we have quite a lot of Isengard information to share this week!

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Today, in a short and very cryptic Developer Diary, Fellowship Maneuvers are discussed along with their functionality within raids.

Another Developer Diary has been released; this time focused on Draigoch, the dragon who is the boss of Rise of Isengard’s new 12/24-man raid.

We have a very generous fellow who has donated to The Fellowship Walk a Legendary Rise of Isengard code to give away!