LOTRO xpansion

[bactiman]

Just saw the announcement in the official forums.

http://www.lotro.com/mirkwood/

http://www.escapistmagazine.co...-Two-Heads-to-Mirkwood


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

preview


edit: added more info from the forums.

 

[Danwar]

awesome, mirkwood is freakin huge!

http://www.strefarpg.pl/gfx/tworcy/middle-earth.jpg

 

[lupi]

Sounds very interesting, the skirmish stuff really nice. I don't normally do d/l expansions, but this being an mmo is different and I would expect this to be rather cheaper since there will be virtually no direct cost on them to produce it.


Anyone able to put a link for the lotro page after the "\mirkwood" flash page? It kills my mobile browser and doesn't load the next page.

I don't seem to have a copy of the possible lotro expansion plan map that was released a couple years ago with me at work so I'll have to wait till I get home to compare, but am interested to see how it matches up.

 

[bactiman]

Originally posted by: lupi
Sounds very interesting, the skirmish stuff really nice. I don't normally do d/l expansions, but this being an mmo is different and I would expect this to be rather cheaper since there will be virtually no direct cost on them to produce it.

I am just happy they won't be using Atari as the distributor. They have been horrendous in bringing any kind of attention the game.

 

[astrosfan315]

Originally posted by: lupi
Sounds very interesting, the skirmish stuff really nice. I don't normally do d/l expansions, but this being an mmo is different and I would expect this to be rather cheaper since there will be virtually no direct cost on them to produce it.


Anyone able to put a link for the lotro page after the "\mirkwood" flash page? It kills my mobile browser and doesn't load the next page.

I don't seem to have a copy of the possible lotro expansion plan map that was released a couple years ago with me at work so I'll have to wait till I get home to compare, but am interested to see how it matches up.

There isn't one..even the info is in Flash.

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=289328

that's your best bet for mobile.

 

[datalink7]

Looking forward to this

 

[JoshGuru7]

Well realize that a lot of LOTRO subscribers thought that book 9 would be released separate from the expansion, so this comes as a disappointment to many of the people in my kinship.

As far as content goes though there are a couple of highlights interesting to current LOTRO players:
- raising level cap to 65 will include raising the cap on virtues
- you'll be able to pick legacies on crafted 2nd age gear
- new 12 man and 6 man instances
- skirmishes look good but may kill PvMP (if you care)

 

[bactiman]

video preview of mirkwood from Tenton hammer. Unfortunately the video cuts off at 10:24.

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/74019

 

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: bactiman
video preview of mirkwood from Tenton hammer. Unfortunately the video cuts off at 10:24.

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/74019

Great find! Thanks