Legendary Angmar quest | Legendary Moria quest | Shadows of Angmar | Mines of Moria | Siege of Mirkwood | Rise of Isengard | Riders of Rohan | Helm’s Deep | Gondor & The Siege of Minas Tirith | Level 100 rep & gear |
Preparation:
According to the 2024 Public Event Schedule, Treebeard will be updating to The Battle of Pelennor Fields, March of the King and Battle of the Battle Gate on the 4th of December 2024.
Summaries below, with links to full detail at the lotro wiki. Huge amount of content & only 5 levels to gain.
New Content:
Level cap: 105. The ‘level 95 Blessing of the Valar’, should be available for this expansion.
Virtues: to rank 52.
Landscape areas: (in story order I think!) Far Anorien, Anorien (After Battle) (after battle versions of Minas Tirith, The Pelennor Fields & Osgiliath), Ithilien and The Wastes
Epic Quests: Vol.4. Book 5 to Book 9
Roving Threats: All roving threats Barter for pocket items, ixp runes, decos
Instances /raids (Scaling):
Small Fellowship: Blood of the Black Serpent and The Quays of the Harlond
Fellowship: The Silent Street
Raid: Throne of the Dread Terror
Featured Instances: These are available from level 100, Barter for gear & cosmetics
Legendary Server Deeds: The Black Gate, Unbowed and Unbroken, Waste not, Survey the Slag Hills
Mounted Combat: level 100 bridle (max lvl) available from Eastemnet Miscellany Quartermaster & new warbands.
Crafting:
Crafting tier & crafting nodes stays at Anorien.
Crafting guild reputation remains at Westemnet Master of the Guild and I don’t believe there are any new Guild recipes. (Guild reputation isn’t capped, however, bear in mind that the next tier of reputation (Minas Ithil) can be completed by a simple quest when we reach lvl 120)
The crit components are Zircon Shards.
Crafting recipes:
A mix of basic, vendors & reputation.
Gear & Reputations:
Legendary Items:
1 extra Word of Mastery on both Weapon and Class items & your LIs will be able to be reforged.
We can continue using the level 86+ traceries. but it is probably worth updating to the level 101+ traceries. (Bear in mind though, there is a new tier (106+) which should be available with Mordor) Here’s a link to the legendary item page if you want to read further.
Gear:
Crafted: purple & teal gear + teal & gold essences.
Teal armour from the Herbalist
Armour sets from: Pelennor Instances, Featured Instance. Plus T1, T2 and T2 upgraded sets from the Throne of the Dread Terror ~ Available from Masters of Battle Lore (Light, Medium, Heavy, General)
Jewellery also available via some of the above merchants and obviously crafted.
Reputation:
I’ve linked to each reputation’s vendors so you can see what is available and from where.
Far Anorien ~ Riders of Rohan
After-Battle Minas Tirith ~ still Defenders of Minas Tirith ( max rank = Celebrated)
After-Battle Pelennor / Osgiliath, Ithilien & The Wastes ~ Host of the West (max rank = Celebrated)
There are also two connected sub-systems for Host of the West:
Found in Ithilien & The Camp of the Host: Herbalist and Herb Master
Camp of the Host: Host of the West Quartermaster plus Master-provisioner, Master-weaponist and Master-armourer.
There is a guide on the crafting procedure for the Masters on the Host of the West page. This is a guide to flower picking and these are the flowers available in Ithilien.
Phew! As always if you spot any typos or mistakes, please let me know 