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New LotRO screens show off Isengard items, legendary weapons

by Jef Reahard on Sep 14th 2011 11:30AM

Fantasy, Galleries, Screenshots, Lord of the Rings Online, Expansions, MMO industry, Patches, News items, Free-to-play

Lord of the Rings Online - legendary weapons

Something draws near, we can feel it. That something is Lord of the Rings Online's Rise of Isengard expansion (hey, at least it wasn't another "they're taking the hobbits to Isengard" joke). Anyhow, the new content debuts in two short weeks, and Turbine has sent out some new screenshots to keep the hype machine rolling merrily along.

Today's batch shows off some of the new gear and items to be had as the Fellowship inches closer to Mordor (and thousands of players follow in their wake). Of particular note are the spiffy new legendary weapons that you can see in our gallery below.

Rise of Isengard will be available on September 27th, and the patch offers three new explorable regions, a level cap increase (to 75), and a new 24-man raid. More info is available at the official LotRO website.

Lord of the Rings Online Core Gallery

Source: LotRO website

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Reader Comments (7)

Loving how some of the new armor looks. And it should be noted that Turbine finally figured out that "subtle" can look better than "flashy," and that this is certainly more appropriate to the Middle Earth environment.

@ScottishViking Hear, hear! They were slowly going the "ridiculously oversized spaulders/pauldrons" route that WoW has been on for years. I'm so happy to see they've turned that car around now.

@ScottishViking

I also love the new armor looks. I think Turbine went with the more extravagant appearances before because we were in the regions of the Dwarves and Elves. Now we're moving into the lands of Men and the armor looks are more appropriate for men. Basic, non fancy armor is what I like and it's what we're getting. Keep the flashy stuff in Lothlorien.

Some very good looking stuff!

Am I the only one who thinks the shimmer effect on legendary items looks cheap? I've long felt that the older effects such as for westernesse weapons look way classier while also managing to look more epic.

That swirly effect layered over the texture for LI's only manages to destroy the texturing and highlight the polygons of the model. It's distinctive, but not (to my mind) in a good way.

That being said, I think the armors look great here.

@aurickle I agree- it would be amazing for them to also redo the artwork for the characters to emulate what DX 10 and DX 11 can actually do.

Bad thing is Lotro is moving more and more with selling advantage in shop with release of Isengard :/

New LotRO screens show off Isengard items, legendary weapons

Lord of the Rings Online Core Gallery

Reader Comments (7)

Posted: Sep 14th 2011 11:48AM ScottishViking said

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