Developer Diaries

One of the moments we wanted to capture was the idea of roving packs of monsters travelling across the massive rolling plains of Rohan. We wanted to ride over the distant hill only to find a pack of Warg-riders cresting the hill across from us. With danger imminent, do you engage or flee? Or do you gather some nearby heroes to help? Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Jared 'Amlug' Hall-Dugas!

Last year, while planning the Riders of Rohan expansion, we started to design mounted combat. Our first thoughts were put on paper, and then constructed in the form of prototypes. Prototypes were the best way to quickly implement features without impacting LotRO’s live development process. Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Elliot ‘Avon’ Gilman!

Hytbold is a new solo-able endgame experience being delivered with Riders of Rohan. It focuses on rebuilding a razed Rohirrim village by aiding the people of the Eastemnet through a large suite of rotating, randomized, daily quests. Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Joe 'jwbarry' Barry!

When Riders of Rohan goes live this fall, we’ll all have a choice of which war-steed is best fitted to carry us into combat. Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Anthony "Doc" DiMento!

It’s time once again for Quest Notes, your source for all the latest info concerning LOTRO’s Epic Story! I’ve written a fair number of these diaries by now, but there’s something different about this one. Something unique… Something exciting… What could it be? Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Jeff ‘MadeOfLions’ Libby!

Rohan is almost upon us and with it will come a new crafting tier, The Eastemnet, with all the standard items you are used to seeing. This crafting tier will retain many of the positive changes introduced in Rise of Isengard and will hopefully add a couple of new ones. Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Dina "Ayvan" Monas!

This time I’ll be discussing the updates and changes to the Warden. Update 6 brought with it some pretty substantial changes to the class. Unfortunately, things were a little rough around the edges upon release. Even though a lot of polish has been done since then, we still feel there was some streamlining to be done. Because of that, this update has a lot of tuning, usability, and quality of life improvements coming to the Warden. Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Erika “DEViled_Egg” Ng!

Riders of Rohan news from Kate Paiz, Executive Producer
 
We’ve had a very successful Beta program with some of the largest and most active beta player populations we’ve seen since Moria. The amount and quality of  feedback on our largest expansion ever has been fantastic.
 
Thanks to some great efforts from beta players, we’ve identified issues that we think need to be addressed before we can launch. In order to address those issues and meet our expectations for quality we’re going to need more time. As a result, we’ve elected to delay our launch to October 15th.
 
We understand that many players have been looking forward to joining us in Rohan as soon as possible and will be disappointed by this news. As a token of our appreciation for your patience we are granting a gift to all pre-purchasers of Riders of Rohan.
 
We thank you for your feedback and patience and hope to see you all in Rohan in October.
 
 
As a result of the delay, players who have pre-purchased The Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan will receive 500 Turbine Points and a goodie bag of consumables. Points will be awarded automatically and a code will be sent to players that have pre-purchased Riders of Rohan, The code will be redeemable from around September 5th to any account that has pre-purchased by that date.
 
The goodie bag will contain the following items –
 
  • 100% XP Boost (1hr)
  • Slayer Deed Accelerators x1 (60 min)
  • +20% Renown (3 hours)
  • +20% Mount Speed (1 hour)          
  • Tome of Defence
  • Scroll of Finesse
 
For a list of in-game celebrations planned, including Frodo and Bilbo’s birthdays, please visit the calendar page using the tab above.

Good day to all Rune-keepers. This article will go over the improved skills you will receive in the Riders of Rohan expansion as well as cover any changes to skills and traits. Read more in our latest Developer Diary!

Today’s diary is focused on the Minstrel changes for Riders of Rohan. There’s a decent amount going on in terms of quality of life improvements. Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Jonathan “RockX” Steady!

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