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Introducing Mounted Combat – Ride into Combat atop your loyal War-steed as you defend the people of Rohan from the forces of Isengard and Mordor. Customize your War-steed’s armor and level its skills over time to aid you in mounted defense of King Theoden’s lands. Mount your steed and gather your fellows to fight against Warbands, contingents of roving warg riders that have been scouted all over the Plains of Rohan! It falls to you to head off and defeat this new threat before they over take the land.

We’ll also introduce the option to bring Skirmish Soldier along to aid you on your adventures throughout Middle-earth.

Knew it was coming with all the work with animations on mounts. The Solider thing, a bit unexpected, but quite an interesting idea.

…the spring update will add a completely new region to the game: The Great River.

The region takes its name from the Great River Anduin, and readers of the books or watchers of the films will recognize it as the waterway that the Fellowship took south from Lothlorien to Amon Hen. In terms of the game map, it will serve as a gateway between Lothlorien to the southern country of Rohan (and more on that later!), much the same way that Enedwaith led in to Dunland. It begins at the mouth of the Anduin Valley and travels down to the area right before Fangorn.

Paiz and Mersky vowed that starting this year, players will be seeing LotRO adopt Asheron's Call's monthly update model.

(Rohan)'s so large, in fact, that the regions developed for this expansion will be twice as big as Moria.

The team's been hard at work developing the technology to toss large numbers of enemies at you; these enemy groupings which will be called Warbands. Warbands will be prevelant in the East Plains and will be defeated by players using a new tactic: mounted combat. The idea behind this "robust system" is the image of groups of mounted warriors dynamically clashing, wheeling about, and maneuvering to gain advantage over their foes.

We’ll also introduce the option to bring Skirmish Soldier along to aid you on your adventures throughout Middle-earth.

Good.  Make it so. 

And remove x12 tokens plz.

Dd they ever get all tokens (not rep items which can go on the AH) into the wallet? 

I've heard the warrior is worse than most, but my soldier gets lost, paths into mobs, stands with clear LOS and doesn't attack. It's better than doing it solo, but it's not reliable and can easily get you killed. Example, this morning I was trying to knock out a quick skirmish and got beat down by the final boss in Ice Crevasse because my soldier just stopped attacking in the middle and stood in a neutral corner.

I've heard the warrior is worse than most, but my soldier gets lost, paths into mobs, stands with clear LOS and doesn't attack. It's better than doing it solo, but it's not reliable and can easily get you killed. Example, this morning I was trying to knock out a quick skirmish and got beat down by the final boss in Ice Crevasse because my soldier just stopped attacking in the middle and stood in a neutral corner.

This is why I just use the pure healer.

Did they ever give a free respec to skirmish marks?  My earlier question was also about getting ALL marks into the wallet.

Watching a full life/power herbie heal and power-regen itself while I'm dying OOP is worse than wrangling a warrior, imo.

I use an archer since at least this way I don't have to deal with pathing and aoe cc breaking shenanigans. Still a far cry from, say, the GW hero implementation [from 2006!].

Is there any point to starting/restarting this at this point? Like, if I resurrected my whatever-level he was character (I think I was questing in Angmar) from way back when, am I effectively solo until I get to Rohan? Or are there still people doing alts and all that?

I thought they made Lone-Lands free at some point?

Correct, Lone-lands is free.

When looking over the feature list for Lord of the Rings Online’s upcoming Rohan expansion, one thing in particular caught my eye. Mounted combat. An image jumped into my head. I saw a warrior riding charging towards a band of Orcs on a gleaming war steed, dismounting with mighty blows as he passed. Later, I spoke to executive producer Kate Paiz about the upcoming expansion, and discovered that this vision of jousting warriors wasn’t too far from the truth.

“My sense of it is, you’ll be riding across the plains, and you’ll look off into the distance and you see this column of smoke and you’re like “huh, I wonder what that is” and you realise that the smoke is coming closer to you, and is in fact a mounted band of Orcs sent out by Saruman to harry the villagers of Rohan,” she said, “You have decide whether you’re going to ride in the opposite direction, call a few friends or heedlessly charge into battle.”

As you ride towards the enemy, you’ll be able to activate a new set of mounted combat skills for your horse and your warrior that will connect as you race past them. If your foe is still alive, you can circle back and take another charge. If you or your opponent takes a hard enough hit, you can be set flying off your mount, and the fight will continue. “At that point you can choose to keep your advantage of being mounted, or whether you dismount to take care of your foes with your very hands,” Kate explained.

The warhorses will be a different breed entirely to the mounts you can currently use to get around Middle Earth quicker. The new steeds will be bigger, beefier and tougher, and will come with their own trait system. “you’ll be able to customise their physical appearance and also the abilities that they lend you so they’re a good match for your character and the abilities you have already.”

Customise their appearance? Does this mean we’ll be able to buy horse armour?

“Yeah, absolutely. There will be a variety of customisable options both in the store, and earnable in-game,” said Kate.

Cadaverine:

We've got a pretty active guild on Brandywine if you looking for people to play with. There's a whole lot of 75's who are always doing what 75's do (I'm not sure what that is), but they all are happy to help you with whatever you've got going and most of them have low level characters to play as well.

Add me to your friends list when you get a chance, my main is Steinwick.

Q28: Why can't I shoot my bow from mounted position? - William Wood

A: You can’t?? Weird, I can. I was just doing that this morning. Oh wait, I work on LOTRO. Oops. . The good news that you might be happy to hear is that the new mounted combat system coming with the Riders of Rohan Expansion pack will allow you to do just that (that’s assuming you play a class that can use a bow)! - Linda “LLena” Currie, Design Director

There was a statement from Warner about layoffs at Turbine a couple days ago yes. No numbers.

Where do you find regular weapons post-50? The only ones I remember seeing after entering Moria were off-hand weapons, literally everything else was legendary.