Casual Stroll to Mordor

Today’s hotfix is in progress and the release notes have been posted to the lorebook.

This week 9.1 went live and we go over some of the highlights we found from the release notes. We also had a very interesting dev chat that happened this week.

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Release 9.1 is being updated on the servers and the official release notes have been published for us to peruse these changes while waiting for the servers to be back online.

I have been accused in the past of being a little crazy when it comes to cosmetics. Of course, this accusation came from a certain warden who has worn the same outfit for the past two years. Recently, however, I’ve begun to think there may be something to that charge…

This week we have Update 9, Yule Festival, Dev Chat, tons of sales and more to discuss!

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What do you think of getting character XP for crafting? Ketani, Goldenstar, Merric and Vraeden have a conversation about this part of update 9.

With Update 9 we have found two new steeds in the LOTRO Store listed in the Store Exclusives section.

Turbine released some new screenshots today with the release of Update 9: Against the Shadow.

The release notes for Update 9 have been posted and they are pretty large!

This week we talk about Update 9 and all the dev diaries, hobby horses, rumors, store sales and more!

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The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, December 17th from 7:00 – 10:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) for an update to the game.

Back in May of this year Budgeford regaled us with how she revamped the first half of Moria. In today’s Developer Diary she brings us once back into the depths of the Dwarven halls to announce that the second half of Moria will be revamped with the release of Update 9.

The Release Date for Update 9 has been announced!

Jared “Kelsan” Prueet published a Developer Diary today focused on the Combat Revisions coming in Update 9. Within the diary Kelsan explains that three major aspects of combat are being revised in fairly significant manners.

We have news of the first part of the Instance Cluster launching with Update 9 in a dev diary posted today as well as the scaling of Dol Guldur.