Mirkwood...

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TURBINE UNVEILS THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE™: SIEGE OF MIRKWOOD™

New Digital Expansion to the 2008 MMO of the Year Launching this Fall

WESTWOOD, MA – September 4, 2009 - Turbine, Inc. today unveiled The Lord of the Rings Online™: Siege of Mirkwood™, the digital expansion to the award-winning massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG). Siege of Mirkwood will expand the online world of Middle-earth where players will join forces to press further eastward into the dark, foreboding and treacherous forest of Mirkwood and take part in the epic conclusion to Volume II of The Lord of the Rings Online. Siege of Mirkwood will be available as a digital download this Fall with an increased level cap, a new region including the legendary evil fortress of Dol Goldur, major enhancements to combat and Legendary Items and the introduction of Skirmishes, a new system where players will train customizable soldiers and take them into battle as part of the War of the Ring.

“2009 has been a year of unprecedented growth for The Lord of the Rings Online and the launch of Siege of Mirkwood will end the year with a bang,” said Jeffrey Steefel, Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings Online. “As the game expands east of the Misty Mountains, players will face the raging war and shadow that has spread across Middle-earth and the new Skirmish system will thrust players and their soldiers into the War of the Ring.”

NEW FEATURES:

* The Epic Conclusion to Volume II: Mines of Moria™ – Under the command of Celeborn and Galadriel, players will fight through vast armies of Orcs alongside the Elves of Lórien in a battle that will take them to Dol Guldur, the fortress of the Ringwraiths. This update includes Book 9 and the Epilogue to the sweeping epic tale begun with the award-winning Mines of Moria expansion.
* Increased Level Cap — Players will be able advance their characters up to level 65, gaining access to new traits, virtues, skills and class quests.
* Answer the Call of War! – Jump into the heat of battle with the new Skirmishes feature. Skirmishes offer endless action in repeatable, randomized instances where players can create and lead customizable soldiers into battle, training them to greater skill as they earn victories against the forces of shadow. Answer the call of war wherever violence erupts with the new “World Join” function that lets players and their fellowships band together to fight in various locations throughout Middle-earth.
* Take up Arms! – Infiltrate the dark jails, deadly arenas and savage stables of Dol Guldur, the fortress of the Ringwraiths, and strike a blow against Sauron’s forces in new 3 and 6-player instances. Call upon your fellows to adventure into the most deadly 12-player raid yet and face the ultimate challenge – the Nazgûl Lord!
* Major Gameplay Enhancements – Turbine continues to improve the award-winning experience of LOTRO with major improvements to the combat and Legendary Items systems. Players will experience improved responsiveness when in the heat of battle. Players will also be able to create and craft their own customized Second and Third Age Legendary Items from raw materials and grow their weapons’ power to level 60. Achieve new Legacies, new titles, and a fourth Runic slot that will make Legendary Items even more unique and powerful.

More information -> http://www.lotro.com/mirkwood/

If past performance is anything to go by I should ping 60 in time to see everyone hit 70

humanji

And I should finally ping about 40 (and most likely not advance past that for another few years ).

I'm liking the sound of the Call of War stuff. I'm going to have to pull my finger out and actually advance far enough to play some of the new stuff (I haven't even gotten to Moria yet).

Lister1

Will have to arrange some serious power leveling for both of you...

humanji

Do you not remember last time you tried that. We spent ages trying to level me, only to find that I'd already bought skill we wanted, but had just forgotten to put it on my toolbar. You're dealing with a serious amount of stupidity here!

BigEejit

And turbine are keeping the stupid radiance gating system in place causing people to have grind the same crap instances to get the necessary gear to do the new raids (DN = 65 :eek:), and after they 'fixed' some of the instances in B7 or 8, two of them are as hard or harder than the watcher or turtle. I'm reliably informed that there are far more wipes in Dark Delvings than the watcher.

There was a poll on the official forums and it was something like 8:1 people not wanting radiance gating of the new raids.

Meh, barely playing the game now, MoM grinding sucked all the fun out of it.

me-skywalker

Hey lads whats up. Big wow player here and a big lotr fan.
So gonna take the 14day free trial and give it a try. just want to know wahts the specs like? looks far more demanding than wow.

and.. is it any good??

Lister1

Yep, would be a lot more demanding then WoW. Download the demo and see how it runs for you...

me-skywalker

any minimum requirements?
my laptop is Toshiba Satellite Pro A 17" (2.4GHz) 2GB, Radeon HD3470, 250GB,

humanji

Try here: http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/

That should tell you if you'll be able to run it or not.