Since PAX there has been relatively little new news regarding the upcoming ‘Siege of Mirkwood’ expansion. However, today I came across a little nugget of new information while trawling through the LOTRO.com forums. The juice comes from the resident LotRO lore–monkey Berephon and his MyLotRO blog — which can be found here.
The blog explains how in his downtime (from fixing typos and checking the lore used in the new Mirkwood quests), he was given the opportunity to do an Orion style update on a small corner of Middle Earth. Berephon goes on to explain his choice of Fanuidhol — the orc-infested war-zone north of Lothlorien, where there are currently just a few quests. His overhaul will include 14 new tasks which include several repeatable quests to gain Lothlorien reputation, IXP, cash and silver branches. A comment in the discussion, which follows the blog entry indicates that highly-prized Lothlorien gold leaves may also be included as a quest reward, should the rewards guru permit it!
Berephon’s choice to add to the currently limited number of Fanuidhol’s quests is well justified. Based upon my own travels in the Golden Wood, any quests that add variety to the reputation-grinding quests in Lothlorien is most welcome, and I look forward to seeing the results.
It ran a bit short, but there’s still some good information in there. Captains will be interested in reading more comments about changes to their In Harm’s Way skill. There was also futher talk about DPS changes.
Mike from Under the Banner also managed to get a question in about Turbine expanding what it offers to webmasters. I’m glad that they’re open to suggestions, but I have to say I’ve had a really hard time reaching them. Some people might have noticed that I don’t have access to the official fansite forum yet haha.
Ten Ton Hammer had the opportunity to interview Turbine’s Aaron Campbell about Book 7. A lot of the content will be familiar to those of you who have kept up on interviews, dev chats and forum postings. Still, it’s a quick read and worth checking out.
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