{"id":983,"date":"2008-03-14T21:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T03:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2008\/03\/lotro-in-dwimmerdelf\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T03:12:26","slug":"lotro-in-dwimmerdelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2008\/03\/lotro-in-dwimmerdelf.html","title":{"rendered":"LotRO – In Dwimmerdelf …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Volume II of LotRO is coming this Fall — Mines of Moria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speak Friend, and Enter <\/strong>\u2013 Moria, called Khazad-d\u00fbm by the dwarves, was their capital and the grandest of cities. This enormous underground cavern in north-western Middle-earth, comprises an immense network of tunnels, chambers, mines and huge halls that run beneath and ultimately through the Misty Mountains. For the first time, players of The Lord of the Rings Online will enter this ancient city which has served as the foundation for the modern-day dungeon-crawling adventures to battle the hordes of goblins and the Nameless of the Deep and journey through hundreds of new quests within six new kinds of stunning environments. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Cooooool … new quests, new environments, new niftiness.<\/p>\n

The Epic Continues!<\/strong> \u2014 The Mines of Moria represents the beginning of Volume II of The Lord of the Rings Online. Players can experience six new books as part of this update and participate in the release of Durin\u2019s Bane, battle the Watcher, aid Galadriel and more! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Sounds keen!<\/p>\n

Increased Level Cap <\/strong>\u2014 Players will be able advance their characters up to level 60, gaining access to new traits, virtues, skills and class quests. The crafting system will also expand, giving players the ability to craft even more powerful items. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Increased level cap good!<\/p>\n

Discover Two New Classes <\/strong>\u2014 The Rune-keeper and the Warden, the first new classes to be introduced since the launch of the game, allow players to build exciting and powerful new characters in The Lord of the Rings Online in diverse new ways. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Interesting. Not clear (by name) what they new classes do, actually. But new classes are a good way to enable replayability, even of the older content.<\/p>\n

Forge Legendary Items <\/strong>\u2013 The Mines of Moria will introduce Turbine\u2019s new item advancement system to The Lord of the Rings Online. Players will be able to forge weapons and class-related equipment and evolve them to build a legacy the likes of Bilbo\u2019s Sting and Gandalf\u2019s Glamdring. These legendary weapons will level-up along with the player, allowing customization by advancing the item\u2019s virtues, adding runic legacies, modifying its titles and forming fables. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Oh, spiffy. I love the idea of items that level up with you.<\/p>\n

I’m new enough to the game to not quite understand why this is a new “volume” \/ “expansion” vs. being another “Book.”<\/p>\n

There’s also some contest site<\/a> to learn more and unlock this and that.   I will have to look at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volume II of LotRO is coming this Fall — Mines of Moria. Speak Friend, and Enter \u2013 Moria, called Khazad-d\u00fbm by the dwarves, was their capital and the grandest of cities. This enormous underground cavern in north-western Middle-earth, comprises an immense network of tunnels, chambers, mines and huge halls that run beneath and ultimately through the … Continue reading “LotRO – In Dwimmerdelf …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotro","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}