Update 47 Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes for Update 47: Folly of Kings, released on Wednesday, March 4, 2026.

Of Special Note:

A new raid has arrived: The Folly of Nagakhêdi!

For over a hundred years, the Kintai Elves have battled a mysterious blight, seemingly brought on by the Din of Stone. It has already consumed once-beautiful Adagím, and now threatens the rest of the Elven glades. An investigation by the Rangers Faeron and Rhadrog has tracked the source of the blight to The Folly of Nagakhêdi, but what dangers lurk inside the ancient and abandoned wonder?

The Folly of Nagakhêdi is now available at Tier 1! Account ownership of the Kingdoms of Harad expansion is required for access. Learn more about Kingdoms of Harad on LOTRO.com. Tier 2 opens at Noon Eastern (-5 GMT) on Thursday, March 12th. Tier 3 opens at Noon Eastern (-5 GMT) on Thursday, March 19th. The Leading the Charge deed for The Folly of Nagakhêdi will be available until 3:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Thursday, May 14th. Reminder that the Leading the Charge deeds for the Kingdoms of Harad instances continues until 3:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) on March 16th.

The 17th Legendary Items Reward Track has arrived!

The newest Legendary Items Reward Track has arrived! The Legendary Items Reward Track is available to all players starting at level 45, and can be accessed through the Menu (Character - Reward Track.) New rewards in the 17th track include the Tome of the Vibrant Spotted Boglurker cosmetic pet, Tome of the Rose-coloured Mumak Calf cosmetic pet, Incomparable Coffer of the Wild Pasture Weapon Aura, and Legendary Coffer of the Wild Pasture Hoof-prints! The 17th Legendary Items Reward Track continues until 9:59 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) on June 3rd. 

News and Notes:

Classes: Skills & Traits

• Beorning
  • Blue line version of Ferocious Roar will now properly bestow the Rattling Roar deed.
• Brawler
  • Come at Me now correctly taunts enemies for 5s.
  • Vulnerability now reduces enemy Critical Chance rather than Incoming Damage.
  • Strike as One now lasts 15 seconds and grants a larger buff when solo but a smaller buff when affecting allies.
• Burglar
  • Clever Retort builders now have diminishing returns.
  • Bloodletter's Melee Damage buff reduced from 3/6/9% to 1/2/3%.
  • Burglar damage reduced by 5%.
  • Mischievous Delight once again restores Power to your Fellowship.
• Champion
  • Emboldened Blades at Tier 5 will now cause Remorseless Strikes to hit multiple enemies.
  • Raging Blade damage increased by 25%.
• Guardian - NOTE: Guardian's saved Trait tree configurations have been reset due to changes to Traits. 
  • Charge effects are no longer removed when executing an attack while using the trait tree Defender of the Free.
  • Shield Wall will no longer remove or block the use of Protection by the Sword.
  • We have increased the range on the defensive portion of Protection by the Sword to 60m. The parry response effect will only trigger when the protected target is within 20m of the Guardian.
  • Stamp now earned at level 16.
  • Challenge is now granted by specializing in 'The Defender of the Free.'
  • Fray the Edge base cooldown increased to 30s.
  • Fray the Edge cooldown is now reduced to 15s when specializing in 'The Defender of the Free.'
  • The Disorientation trait has been removed.
  • Smashing Strike (formerly Smashing Stab) is now a general skill earned at level 34.
    • Smashing Strike bonus effects are now mutually exclusive, and Smashing Strike must be used directly after either Shield Swipe or Retaliation in order to gain a bonus effect.
    • Smashing Strike can now be used while wielding a 2h weapon.
    • Smashing Strike's bleed now pulses every 3s rather than every 2s.
    • The Break Ranks effect is now applied by Smashing Strike rather than Shield-taunt.
  • The Shield Spikes trait has been decoupled from consumable spikes and now always benefits shield skills, regardless of spikes consumables.
  • Protection by the Sword no longer grants autocrit to the user.
  • Shield-smash no longer stuns foes.
  • To the King can no longer knock down foes.
  • Insult to Injury is now Wary Warrior, which causes the Guardian's Ward buff to increase your Melee Damage.
  • Base Guardian's Ward buff duration increased 10s -> 30s.
  • Demoralizing Anthem no longer reduces the active cooldown of Righteous Fury.
  • The max chance to gain Blind Rage has been reduced from 100% to 25%.
  • Blind Rage now increases your incoming damage by 5% while active.
  • New red-line trait: Reckless Attack
    • Grants skill: Reckless Attack, which requires and consumes Blind Rage.
    • Ranks 2-5 increase skill damage by 5% each.
    • Rank 5 causes critical hits with Reckless Attack to grant a parry response.
    • Stagger now removes corruptions rather than Sting.
    • Thrill of Danger no longer costs Power to execute.
  • Charge cooldown reduced from 60s > 40s.
  • Charge tracery effect reduced from +11s to +3.3s.
• Hunter
  • Hunter damage reduced by 5%.
  • Non-Blue-spec Hunters will now be able to build focus while moving using skills that generate +1 focus on use - even if they are starting with 0 focus. Focus reduction over time still applies for non-blue-spec hunters, but the window is now applied more consistently on an interval rather than immediately when the hunter first gains focus.
  • Explosive Decoy now properly explodes more quickly and its ghost does not linger to taunt your enemies.
• Lore-master
  • Flame of Anor's AoE Wizard's Fire damage no longer hits your current target twice.
  • Searing Embers damage reduced by 10%.
  • Murder of Crows potency increased 25% > 30%; cooldown increased 2m > 3m; duration reduced 20s > 17s.
  • Major Command: To Arms' buff potency increased 10% > 12.5%.
• Mariner
  • Buoying Winds potency reduced 5% > 2.5%.
  • West Wind cooldown reduced 90s > 80s.
  • The Dramatic Flourish effect 'Imitating a Master of War' buff potency has been reduced from 25% to 10%.
  • Having your balance forcibly reset to neutral now applies a short debuff (-75% Incoming healing, +10% incoming damage, 4s duration) rather than stunning you.
  • Stumbling fore-ward's miss chance penalty has been removed, and has been replaced with -3% mitigations.
• Minstrel
  • Chord of Salvation is no longer immediate when in Dissonance or Melody stance. Chord remains immediate in Resonance.
  • Improved Chord of Salvation skill tooltip has been cleaned up slightly, and its AoE effects now both have a range of 20m.
  • Chord of My Salvation healing increased by 50%.
• Rune-keeper
  • The Trait 'Scathing Retort' now causes Smouldering Wrath to burn faster and tier down Writ of Fire to deal bonus damage.
  • Fiery Ridicule no longer has an induction.
  • Fiery Ridicule can no longer target multiple enemies with the max rank of Conflagration of Runes.
• Warden
  • Warden damage increased by 5%.
    • +10% damage for some shield gambits.
    • +20-40% damage for Wall of Steel and Boars Rush line gambits.
  • Wall of Steel and Boars Rush gambits now have short diminishing returns effects, lowering their damage if the same gambit is used multiple times in a short period.
  • Shield Up, Readied Blade, and Shield Mastery gambits all now deal AoE damage.
  • +1 DoT pulse from all gambits in the Spear of Virtue/Fate gambit line.
  • The Warden's Triumph gambit has been removed - its effects are now always active passively when the Warden's Triumph trait is active.
  • Determination-specific threat effects have been improved on several gambits.

Quests

• The quest Recovering Relics has been fixed. You must now collect items from the Ordakhai at Jag Golód to complete the quest.
• The quest Protectors of Wilderland: Bounties can now be cancelled. It will also no longer auto-bestow and will instead become available in the Quest Actions Available tab.
• In the Minas Tirith quest, In Days of Youth, the empty bottle of Beren's Blood will now be placed on the ground as expected. An issue has also been resolved that prevented the animation of putting it down from playing.
• Traveller's and Adventurer's Quartermasters across the world now offer a repeatable weekly quest to trade Embers of Enchantment for Virtues Experience.
• We have made it easier to swap from your fishing rod to your weapon before combat begins when running the Hytbold daily quest, Terror of the Deep.
• Did some work to help prevent the Wound-crazed Olog from being unattackable during 'Instance: Mordor Triumphant.'

Deeds & Reputation

• Class deeds will no longer display a tooltip in the Deed Log that refers to obsolete trait points.

Instances & Skirmishes

• It is now possible to start Private Encounters from inside of a Housing Neighborhood.
• The Treasure Caves of Hurum Kâna
  • Reduced Blade Flurry, Flesh Rend, and Poisoned Blades damage.
  • Reduced Molten Gold hotspot damage.
  • Fixed an issue wherein certain boss abilities would not correctly target the main threat.
  • Poisoned Blades is now correctly classified as a poison.
  • Reduced the number of treasure tornadoes within Barlat’s fight on all tiers.
• Kôth Rau, Wailing Hold
  • The Smashed Bones ability has been reworked for Boss 1 & 3: The skill still stacks but now is cleansable, however at harder difficulty it starts at a higher stack. 
  • Boss 2:  On Respawn Add waves should no longer spawn in Solo and Tier 1 unintentionally, following a wipe.
  • Monsters in Kôth Rau, the Wailing Hold should no longer stand around waiting for orders when entering combat.
• Ekal-nêbi, the Fallen Palace
  • Dark Priestess Barkhuráni T3 - Fixed an issue where Haunting Specter's spawning could be inconsistant. They should more reliabilty start spawning 10 seconds into a phase, every 45 seconds after that, and up to 3 times per phase.
  • Increased cooldown on Haunting Specter's Shadow Claw.
  • Thothril the Entangler (All tiers) - Pull of Madness - Far zone is no longer avoidable by going to the very edges of the room
  • Ratúlko the Bloody's Lock Up skill no longer has an induction

Items & Rewards

• Lore-master traceries are now sorted more appropriately in the Rivendell Archive.
• We have added nine new baubles depicting the Ringwraiths from the Veil of the Nine. These baubles can only be acquired through barter on the Legendary servers Angmar and Mordor.

PvMP/Ettenmoors

• Taking control of Tírith Rhaw as a monster will now reward you the treasure key for the location.
• Taking control of Tírith Rhaw as a player will now reward you the treasure key for the locations.
• Gates constructed at Tírith Rhaw and Lugazag, now properly reset after the tower boss is defeated. 
• Adjusted the marta purchased mitigation potions to match their store bought counterparts.
• Ettenmoors bows are now correctly set with a minimum level of 160.
• We have replaced the reward on the monster players quest, Counter Assault, to benefit Monster Players, not Free People.
• Corrected an issue where monster players could endlessly collect the items needed for the quest, Master's Design Quest.
• Corrected a typo in the description for the Two-faced Spinner Appearance trait item.
• Many members of the Coldfells army have undergone extensive training programs and received better-preserved rations, increasing their health.
• Coldfells Army Captain-generals should now have health more commensurate with their Tyrant counterparts.
• Warleader
  • Scorn healing potency has been reduced slightly.
  • Scorn, Petty Criticism, Crack the Whip, and Quit Whining and Fight Power costs have been increased slightly.

Landscape & Adventure Areas

• Mounted Combat skills will no longer be intermittently available in Cardolan and Swanfleet. They will be unavailable throughout those areas.
• Several unreachable Resource Nodes in Adagim and An Sheru have been fixed.
• Gúthi in Moria's Flaming Deeps at The Crossroads of Ash, has found a new goat you can use to travel to Nud-melek to complete the quest Leaving the Deeps.
• The Far-ranging Stable-master in the Twenty-first Hall has been labelled as such.
• Lumgana, Aralath, Alahamar, and  Semanisi, the quatermasters for the four factions in Kingdoms of Harad are now correctly labeled Quartermaster.
• Barrels in Hytbold should no longer murder players.
• Z-fighting in Clegur has been fixed
• Rendering/Physics issues in The Wailing Hold have been fixed
• The Haunt of Kidu-bala exits to the correct location when leaving from a non-instanced version of the space

Localization

• The Eriador map now properly displays Yondershire in French and German.

Shared Storage

• Added an option to the context menu to allow you to purge character bound items from carry-alls. This is intended for carry-alls placed in shared storage by transferred or deleted characters so that the non-bound items and the carry-all itself can be recovered.

UI & Miscellaneous

• Fixed a bug that caused the Inspect display viewport to scale uncontrollably when altered by a custom user skin.
• Monster Play: Fixed an issue in the Open Groups tab of the Social Panel, where the class filter menu did not properly list all of the available classes.
• [DE] Fixed an issue with the function buttons in the Kinship panel being different sizes / overlapping.
• Cursor scaling has more increments.

Known Issues:

• Ringwraith Baubles earned on Angmar and Mordor are not properly claiming across your game account and are instead only displaying in the Collections Panel for the character that earned the Bauble. We will fix this issue in a future game update.