As noted in my last post, Eyes & Guard was set to go live today.  There was a bit of a delay, but the tav­ern is now avail­able in-game. Patience offers a warn­ing, how­ever:

The Eyes & Guard Tav­ern is now open for busi­ness! How­ever, as many of you have found, the level-up process is not work­ing cor­rectly; Keth is only tak­ing char­ac­ters to level 49 with approx­i­mately 15% left to get to 50.

Here is the workaround from our QA team:

Workaround for Keth

1. Use Keth to get to level 49
2. Use Tens and take Book 1 Vol­umes 1 – 5. This will get you to 50
a. You will be ported to Combe after Book 1. You will have to Map back.
b. Do not go past Book 5. This will give you too much XP if you wish to use Liu Tsieng.
c. Assure it is Vol­ume 1 you are doing. If you take the Vol­ume II quest it will give you too much XP to use Liu Tsieng.
The only other way is to grind the XP to 50 manually.

You can then pro­ceed to Level 60 if you wish:

1. Go to Liu Tsieng and take the 5 quests that will level you to 60
2. Go back to Tens and take the Vol­ume II Book 1 level Up
a. This will give you Moria access
b. This will place 2 unde­stroy­able Leg­endary Items in your bags
c. This will port you to the Hollin Gate
Sorry for the incon­ve­nience, and be care­ful out there!

There are appar­ently at least a cou­ple Eyes & Guard tav­erns in the game, but the one I used is in Frerin’s Court out­side of Thorin’s Hall. The screen­shot above is of the entrance.