Casual Stroll to Mordor

Preview from Rise of Isengard beta of the landscapes, towns and monsters in the new Dunland region.

**Updated for Germany and other locales with problems** Preview from Rise of Isengard beta of the landscapes, towns and monsters in the new Dunland region.

This week we take a look at Gambit Helper from Zanttux. This plugin is something that I have definitely been in need of for a while. Although I have covered Warden plugins before I found myself needing something a bit more extensive.

The Developer Diary video features members of the development team speaking about the new Gap of Rohan region.

A preview of Draigoch from the upcoming Rise of Isengard expansion for Lord of the Rings Online. This footage was taken at PAX Prime 2011.

The NDA has been lifted on the Rise of Isengard closed beta. We also recieved a new video dev diary and some screenshots from Turbine.

Tasks are not something that I had a lot of experience with before this plugin. Sure, I would occasionally find some trash items that I could turn in here or there, but it was always difficult to figure out what items needed to be saved if I ran out of inventory space, which ones were safe to sell, etc.

Last week Panthalassia of the Swords and Spirts kinship on Arkenstone wrote to us about a YouTube channel he had started containing in-game footage he had shot with himself and some friends.

A new video has been posted on YouTube that includes some Rise of Isengard play at Gamescom 2011.

A reality show groom hires an actor to play Gollum as his “ring bearer” for his wedding.

A couple of months ago we sent out a post on Facebook and Twitter asking people what plugins they found to be a must, and without doubt Mouse Cursor Highlighter Advanced was one of the most popular ones that was listed. And although I had personally never used it before this, I was aware of the plugin and decided to give it a try.

If you’re like me, you like to have your backpacks organized in-game. But one of the issues that I have is how long it can take after an hour or more of playing to reorganize my packs into something resembling “order”. Enter, the plugin SortPack which will sort your pack for you automatically!

This week’s lost text is from the champ Schezar of Mar Vanwa Tyalieva from Landroval server who is telling a story from the point of view of an herbalist soldier in the Icy Crevasse. My name? I am of the House of Finwë. My father’s father braved the icy crossing with the first High King, [...]

In this episode we take a look at Lyrical by Astleigh. This plugin allows you to write and store poems, lyrics, speeches, or whatever text you’d like and recite them back into the last chat channel you spoke in.

Today at 4pm Eastern (-4 GMT) starts the epic in-game music festival, Weatherstock!

There’s a new video trailer out for The Fellows Hip movie. This is something that really is up our ally as it is about gamers who play LOTRO and are on a quest to make it to a LOTRO gaming competition in Florida.

This dungeon run was recorded on June 15, 2011. Our dungeon runners today were Kiarane (hunter), Goldenstar (minstrel) and the camera is being run by Merric (guardian).

In this episode we take a look at Palantir by Digital_Utopia. This plugin allows you to have a H.U.D (Heads Up Display) representing your vitals. It is one of the few plugins that I see as essential for all my characters.

Run of Northcotton Farms with Merric (Guardian), Goldenstar (Minstrel) and Kiarane (Hunter). Instance run as tier 1 level 65. May 11, 2011.