If you’re like me, you’re way behind on your Vol­ume 1 Epic quests and, as such, Book 15 is unavail­able to you.

That doesn’t mean that you can’t go on to new things if you wish. Despite some mis­in­for­ma­tion going around, Vol­ume 2 is com­pletely sep­a­rate from Vol­ume 1.  You can start on Vol­ume 2 no mat­ter where you are in Vol­ume 1.

Obvi­ously there’s ben­e­fits to com­plet­ing the Epic quests in Vol­ume 1 first, but that’s up to you. You’re likely to find quite a few play­ers who want to catch up on Vol­ume 1 with you, but just in case no one is avail­able you don’t have to just sit around.

In order to pro­ceed, you’ll need to head to Ere­gion. This area is the bridge to Moria and is pretty large in and of itself. I noticed a few peo­ple in-game unsure of where they should be going next, par­tic­u­larly peo­ple return­ing to the game after a long hiatus.

You may have noticed the two bits of text on your Troll­shaws map say­ing “to Ere­gion”. Now these path­ways actu­ally lead some­where, instead of sim­ply turn­ing into dead ends. One is in the Giant Val­ley and one is south of Echad Candelleth.

At level 50, nei­ther path should give you any issues. How­ever, the path south of Echad Can­del­leth leads directly to the first point of inter­est in Ere­gion, a town called Gwingris, where you can gather up sev­eral new quests.

If you choose to go the other way, you can just keep fol­low­ing the road. On the way, take out a worm and a Dun­lend­ing man as both drop items that start quests. As you head west you’ll even­tu­ally hit Gwingris and can be on your way.

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