Update 36: Gondor Renewed Adds New Story, Zone, & Custom Difficulty Settings to The Lord of the Rings Online
The Lord of the Rings Online Update 36,Gondor Renewed, is live, with some significant changes, including the new zone, King’s Gondor East,new story, more Delvings, and much more. The update also adds a reworked Landscape Difficulty setting option across all servers, making custom difficulty settings possible.
The new story, «The Song of Waves and Wind» for characters at level 140 is open to subscribers or those that purchase the Gondor Renewed quest pack. This pack unlocks over 80 quests and Deeds. These are the ways to get into the new story at this time, and future quest packs associated with this story will be released in the future, so this is just the beginning.
As this story begins, team up with Legolas and Gimli, as well as other friends, to investigate the threat of the Heirs of Castamir. Explore south through the Pelennor fields in order to find the way to King’s Gondor East. If you are already familiar with Central and Eastern gondor, this region should be familiar in terms of navigation, but there are new areas, and other places that are open now but previously impossible.
There are new Delvings in this update. They are Glinghant, Haudh Valandil, Sambrog, Thadûr and The Maze. All of these are now playable as delvings and you can find them in the Instance Finder.
One of the additions adding some new life to The Lord of the Rings Online is the reworked Landscape Difficulty setting system. This was originally introduced on the Treebeard server and now it is an option on the general game worlds. It is optional, but now you'll be able to take advantage of the new faction and reward structure, The Paths of Valour.
If you play on higher difficulties, your challenges in Middle-earth will be more difficult
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