Turbine celebrates Rise of Isengard's launch with monsters and movies

Logged in late last night to find my Spider had nearly 11K morale, and her spiderling had matching colours.

The little things make me happy.

love thr trailers how fun they make patches look,raids,etc.

good thign they dont show all the bs goes into getting them there:P

long waits,spamming lfg,people flaking out after 1 death,people reqing vent to even raid.

i miss anything? just what ive come across

You can never step foot into a Raid in LOTRO and still have tonnes to do, frankly I'm surprised they even put new raids in as not that many people will play them anyway. I'm all about the story and LOTRO has one of the best stories archs out there.

Maybe it was just me, but some of the sound effects in the trailer seemed like they were pulled straight from old Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Maybe Herculoids. Is WB letting Turbine source from their audio archives? :)

I managed to get in to play a bit after I updated last night. I had to see how much relearning would be needed before I knew how to play my minstrel again. Turns out, not much at all. I really like the redesign and look forward to playing through the new content.

@(Unverified) Nothing new for you to do huh???

I used to get excited when I watched the LOTRO trailers, but ever since it went F2P the game just isn't the same anymore. They've turned everything into a grind to "entice" you to use the in-game store.

@(Unverified)

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

New zones? New raid? Hundreds of new quests? Huge revamps to classes? New level cap?

If you find a way to call all that "re-used," then I'm not sure what you'll define as "new."

@(Unverified) Don't all MMO expansions basically just add more of the same? I'm not really sure what you were hoping for. If it was more content such as instances or something, well that would also be more of the same. Obviously, the more content they can squeeze in the better, but most MMO expansions don't change what the game is.

I think this LOTRO release is pretty good. It's just to bad it took them years to get around to making these changes.

@ScottishViking It's interesting that with any criticism on LOTRO there is a pile up of attacks upon the criticizer even though there have been some valid points made.

i.e. there is nothing significantly new in the game systems themselves i.e. crafting, PvE or PvMP. And the visuals are a reworking of previous visuals in earlier game content. Many of the items LOTRO players have been asking for years - have been completely ignored - such as Housing, a new or expanded PvMP zone, new character rendering, more Hobbies, mounted combat, etc.

Sure - many of the character stats have been tweeked, and player tunes have new additional abilities - but these abilities still use the same system as before. There is no original combat moves - it's all REUSE of
what is already been built in the past.

Personally I like what Turbine has done with this release - I like the ingenuity and ideas that the devs have come up with to rework the classes - it is refreshing to see some major tweeks of each of the classes - especially the long neglected Minstrel class. But it has been years in the coming. More attention was spent on the cash shop than anything else IMO. PvMP was neglected to the point of extinction.