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Volume III: Allies of the King will bring us to new lands, new threats, and new adventures, and as we explore this new chapter, we’ll find the tide of destiny pushing us ever onwards into danger.

Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Jeff ‘MadeOfLions’ Libby!

"The glorious beer is drawing quite a crowd to the Inn in Thorin’s Hall this year, and why should it not? It is boasting to be the finest brew in all of Middle-earth this season…"

Read more about the upcoming Yule Festival in the latest Developer Diary from Lauren "Budgeford" Salk!

With more recipes and materials to create superior equipment, special crafted relics for customizing legendary items, new uses for guild reputation items, and an entirely new type of recipe that lets you choose the item being produced, there's never been a better time to be a crafter!

Read more about the SoM crafting update!

Senior Designer Allan "Orion" Maki talks about the changes to the Lone-lands, including Garth Agarwen, that arrive with Siege of Mirkwood as part of the project to streamline the game for new and mid-level players. Read Allan's dev diary, "Welcome Back to the Lone-lands," to find out about the changes! 

Brian “Zombie Columbus” wraps up his series of developer diaries about the new Skirmish system coming in The Lord of the Rings Online™: Siege of Mirkwood™ with Part 7: The End.

As detailed in the Legendary Items Dev Diary, each class, upon the launch of Siege of Mirkwood™, will have its legacies divided into two Pools.

Read more about Legacy Item Distribution in the latest Developer Diary!

With the decision to place the main focus of the systems work for Siege of Mirkwood™ on our basic combat and item advancement systems, we had to re-evaluate what that would mean for class skills and how changing or adding to them would alter the balance we were looking for with the other changes.

Read more about the SoM Skill Upgrades!

Along with the recently discussed Combat System changes, we’ve made some changes and new additions to your character’s stats and how they are displayed. This dev diary will point out these changes and provide a first look at the newly revamped character panel!

Read more about the Character Panel updates!

The Lord of the Rings Online™: Siege of Mirkwood™ expansion introduces exciting changes for the player combat system, and this developer diary will cover everything you need to know in the new world of combat!

Read more about the combat changes!

As LOTRO grows and new UI features are developed, like the new Skirmish Join and Skirmish panels, we have found that we can't just keep adding buttons to the toolbar at the bottom of your screen (or the border of your Radar) to launch the new panels.

Read more about the new main menu!

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