New LOTRO expansion coming: Siege of Mirkwood

[Jae Onasi]

More information is here.

 

Massively posted an article about their PAX visit with LOTRO here.

 

Looks like fun. I do hope they fix some of the complaints I'm hearing about leveling legendary items, however.

 

Summary of details from Lotro.com thread:

Summary of the quick and dirty details:

 

* Siege of Mirkwood will have a base price of $19.99. As with Moria last year, we're going to have a set of early upgrade offers that are very compelling. We're not quite ready to unveil those details yet, but we'll keep you posted.

* The epic story continues on in Volume 3 as a regular content update early next year. Sounds like a standard free book update, but hasnt been confirmed.

* Some of the improvements to the game coming with Mirkwood will benefit everyone, but the key features will require the Mirkwood upgrade.

* Skirmishes are PvE, and should not be directly competing with PvMP.

* Skirmishes are not session play.

* The new raid is not a one-boss raid. Nuff Said.

* 100+ hours of new content

* Level cap increased to level 65 with access to new traits, virtues, skills and class quests

* Legendary items will now be maxed at level 60- no word on if this includes existing legendaries or only new ones.

* Legendary items will gain a 4th runic slot, new legacies and new titles.

* Craft and customize 3rd and 2nd Age Legendary items. We can already craft them, so its the "customize" part that is of interested- no word on what it means yet, but there is a Dev Diary about this coming soon.

* Skirmishes reward experience-points, complimenting the level up experience, and can be accessed as low as level 30.

[Nedak]

Can't wait!

[Jae Onasi]

MMORPG.com had a review on it here.. Sounds like a lot of fun.