Update 44.1 Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes for Update 44.1, released on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Of Special Note:

New Anniversary Event Missions have arrived!

The Anniversary Event includes six new Missions, which can be accessed by speaking to the Hooded Stranger in The Prancing Pony while the Anniversary Event is active! These missions are available for characters above level 20, with Delvings available at level cap. Enjoy these "quests of yore" in a new way!  Completion of Anniversary Missions advance Another Lovely Year, the Anniversary daily wrapper, as well as the daily mission wrapper. NOTE: The Anniversary Event continues until 3:00 AM Eastern on May 27th! 

News and Notes:

Anniversary:

• An issue has been corrected in the "Year 9 Tales: Gandalf" quest where fireworks failed to appear. These fireworks now appear correctly.
• The number of ideal locations available for the Anniversary quest "Sparking an Interest" has been increased.
• The mission wrappers "On A Mission (Weekly)" and "On A Continuing Mission (Weekly)" have been reset. This was done to allow the Missions associated with the Anniversary Event to count toward these quests.
• FRENCH:  The Luck-Stealer and Luck-Maker Anniversary titles now display the proper translations in French. 

Lalia's Market:

• The following bundles now contain their expected items, and bundles that have been previously acquired can now be opened:
  • Ornate Warrior's Shield Displays Bundle
  • Banners of Bree-land Bundle
  • World-traveller's Throw Rugs Bundle
  • All-Encompassing World-Traveller's Runner Bundle
  • Cozy Cusions of Moria Bundle
• The "Tapestry of the Shield-maiden" and "Tapestry of the Mearas" (Left-facing and Right-facing) now face the correct direction when placed on a hook.
• All items in the "Warrior's Wall Displays Bundle" now face the correct direction when placed on a hook.
• The sideways tapestries of Lalia's Market are no longer sideways.
• Several new cosmetic, 2-handed axe appearances purchased in Lalias's Market were incorrectly configured to appear as one-handed weapons. They now correctly function and display as 2-handed axes.
• The default orientation for the housing decoration "Painting of the Old Forest" is now correct for wall hooks.

Quests and Adventure Areas:

• With the release of "Dun Shûma, the King's Fortress", travel skills to Dun Shûma have been added to the Hamâti Quartermaster in Iridír. Purchasing the travel skills requires completion of the Crown of Hamât story arc.
• "Travel to Premium House" skill:
  • If your skill was giving you the error "The address you have entered is incorrect." it should now work correctly. Additionally, setting your primary residence from the  Character -> House panel now updates the destination of the "Travel to Premium House" skill correctly.
  • The "Travel to Premium House" skill no longer automatically updates to newly purchased premium houses. Please use the "Character -> House" panel to set your primary residence and target of the "Travel to Premium House" skill.
• Fixed an issue in the Crown of Hamât quest "Sabotaging Kûr Anzar" wherein a Subuzuri was visible outside of the assault on Kûr An.
• Nisigurm in Imhular now has correct radar images.
• We have updated the summoned orcs coming out of the Orc Tunnels in Delvings to correctly show their attack skills in the corresponding colour.
• Fixed bug causing incorrectly colored frills when Frill Terrain Color graphics option is enabled.
• Fixed a bug that caused DX10 Dynamic Shadows - Very High setting to always be in shadow.
• Fixed an issue with the new Crown of Hamât landmarks not appearing on maps after discovery.
• Fixed a typo in the Sand-smoothed Burl instance currency description.
• The Mariner's Barad Guldur helm-slot item name has been corrected from "Shoulders" to "Cowl."
• The Burglar's Barad Guldur set bonus now correctly reduces the cooldown of Coup de Grace as stated in its tooltip. 

Instances

• Several instance currencies for level 150 can now be exchanged with one another at relevant Quartermasters:
  • 1 Cold-iron Token > 3 Sand-worn Copper Tokens
  • 10 Sand-worn Copper Tokens > 1 Cold-iron Token
  • Any Iron Signet from Utug-bûr > 2 Cold-iron Tokens
  • 12 Cold-iron Tokens and 2,500 Embers > One Iron signet from Utug-bûr of any kind (requires completion of The Temple of Utug-bûr on tier 2 difficulty)
  • 7 Cold-iron Tokens and 2,500 Embers > 1 Menacing Tentacle (requires completion of The Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo on tier 3 difficulty )
• Sword-hall and Warg Pens chests now correctly drop fellowship-tradeable loot.
• Sammath Gul
  • Guldur Corpses will now apply corruptions to nearby denizens of Sammath Gul when they die.
  • Demafaer now gains power while their fell-shield is suppressed by the power of bones.
  • Demafaer gains a powerful skill when empowered by the corruptions of defeated Guldur Corpses.
  • Demafaer's chest now contains an additional level 65 cloak.
  • Damage dealt by Urchír's Death's Finger skill has been reduced by 66%.
• Barad Guldur
  • Dúrchest's inactive armour reinforcements have been banished back to their holding pen beneath the floor.
• Sword-hall of Dol Guldur
  • Damage dealt by Durkâr's Earth Shock Wave has been increased ~5x.
• The Temple of Utug-bûr
  • Thûr Hin 
    • Khablag's Stolen Strength can now only stack up to 12 times max.
  • Inner Sanctum
    • We permanently disabled two skills previously used in the Tier 3 Boss 6 fight of the Inner Sanctum.
    • After resetting combat for Azagath, the Aladi, or Garash, player skills should now properly reset.
    • Addressed an issue that could cause the last boss of the Utûg-bur raid to not behave correctly.