To my knowledge, Lord of the Rings Online is unique in the MMORPG space in that it had to create a special faction of enemy creatures so that the "good" player characters would have something to fight in PvP. This was done for lore reasons, as the ...
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Justin and Bree discuss Chrono Odyssey, Blue Protocol Star Resonance, Fractured Online, Defiance, Lynked Banner of the Spark, and Wildgate, with adventures in World of Warcraft, LOTRO, Palia, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus a mailbag topic on AI in ...
If you're familiar with Lord of the Rings Online's dev team at all, you'll know that Lead Designer Allan "Orion" Maki is a massive fan of the (niche) PvP scene and continues to cheerlead the monster play mode. In fact, Maki sat down for a two-hour ...
And almost suddenly, my Lore-master boarded a ship bound for Umbar. The first and only other time I did this, I was excited at the unknown. This time? I'm a little more nervous knowing exactl ...
It looks like there's a new bad guy rising with the latest LOTRO patch, and I already feel sorry for him. I've helped to topple Sauron -- what does he think he can do with a piddly ...
A while back, I came across a Lord of the Rings Online discussion that leaped out at me because of its unusual turn. The players were complaining about the game's lockboxes, not because they're exploitative but because they're mostly junk. And I don ...
LOTRO fixes kinship escrow issues, activates 14th legendary item reward track, and opens Sting today
Mt. Doom must have frozen over because Lord of the Rings Online is actually opening up the many-times-delayed Sting 64-bit server today. And that's just the tip of Update 44.2, which is hitting the worlds during the Wednesday downtime. With the patch ...
Don't look now, but Lord of the Rings Online has finally set a date for not just the launch of the Sting server but also the dark worlds and 64-bit server cross-migrations. The Sting server, readers will recall, is the third and newest of the US ...
Have you been saving up your LOTRO Points like a good little Hobbitling for the most recent Lord of the Rings Online expansion? The good news is that your day is finally here, as Legacy of Morgoth is available for points in the in-game store. On the ...
When you're starting out in an MMO world, it's nice to have choices -- especially if you plan to roll up an army of alts one day and don't want to keep doing the same content over and over again. As of 2025, Lord of the Rings Online offers four ...