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The Daily Grind: What are you most excited about seeing at PAX?
Massively —
... and concerts involved with this monumental convention. In fact, we'll be at the event all weekend covering the latest and greatest in MMO news, so you can certainly be sure to look for more coverage throughout the weekend and into next week. So we want to know what you, as players, are most excited about. We want to know what it is that brings you out to this event, or what you want to see covered the most. Is it the unveiling of Lord of the Rings Online's Mines of Moria? Is it any information about Lich King? Is it continued ...
PAX08: Day three impressions
Massively —
... forget the intriguing "How to Get Your Girlfriend into Gaming" panel? So now we look forward to the future of this mega expo. If next year's PAX grows as much as the previous years have progressed, they're going to need a larger booth floor, no doubt about it. As this blogger sifts through the bags of free swag and begins the recovery process, you can look forward to more coverage of interviews with Jon Radoff of GamerDNA, Jeffrey Steefel of Turbine on Mines of Moria, Dane Caruthers of NCsoft on Tabula Rasa, Adam ...
PAX08: Hands-on with Mines of Moria
Massively —
... This weekend at PAX 2008, Massively had the opportunity to be a part of the first-ever public preview of Mines of Moria with Lord of the Rings Online Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel. During this showing, Steefel showed us many of the main features of this first expansion for LotRO, including the Legendary Weapon system, the two new classes, the vastness of the mines themselves and much more. The overall impression we got from this presentation was that this expansion is going to be epic. Just the sheer size of the world, ...
New video explores Moria's The Flaming Deeps
Massively —
... has released yet another teaser trailer for their Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria expansion coming this fall, and this time it focuses on The Flaming Deeps. This area is in the southern part of Moria, and home to many of the region's scariest Trolls, Goblins and Orcs. ...
LotRO: Mines of Moria - Flaming Deeps Footage
gamebunny —
... LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE: Turbine have unleashed fresh video for upcoming LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE expansion Mines of Moria. Smack the player below for a dose of ominous music, dwarven achitecture and frightening beasties. ...
LotRO: Mines of Moria - Flaming Deeps Footage
gamebunny —
... LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE: Turbine have unleashed fresh video for upcoming LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE expansion Mines of Moria. Smack the player below for a dose of ominous music, dwarven achitecture and frightening beasties. ...
PvMP changes coming with LotRO: Mines of Moria
Massively —
... , Scott gives us his impressions of how this could all work. He talks about all of the reported changes coming to PvMP with Mines of Moria, and mentions his understanding of the lore and how the current world of Eriador is mostly unaware of their impending doom from the forces of Sauron. This is an excellent point as many players have no idea that this is the case. Scott also brings up some great points about the future of LotRO PvMP and how Jeffrey Steefel himself has hinted at an expanded system coming after Moria. Check out ...
PvMP changes coming with LotRO: Mines of Moria
Massively —
... , Scott gives us his impressions of how this could all work. He talks about all of the reported changes coming to PvMP with Mines of Moria, and mentions his understanding of the lore and how the current world of Eriador is mostly unaware of their impending doom from the forces of Sauron. This is an excellent point as many players have no idea that this is the case. Scott also brings up some great points about the future of LotRO PvMP and how Jeffrey Steefel himself has hinted at an expanded system coming after Moria. Check out ...
LotRO dev diary: Rune-keeper explained
Massively —
... class which will be introduced with the first expansion, Mines of Moria, is rumored to be the first "real" magic-user class for the game, which many players are saying goes against everything Tolkien had ever created in his works. Well now skeptics may be pleased to learn much more about this new class, and more specifically, the fact that it is not the traditional lightning-bolt mage that they've feared. ...
Foundations of Stone Screenshots
Lord of the Rings Online Vault - The Ultimate Resource —
... Turbine released new screens of the "Foundations of Stone" area to be added in their expansion " The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria ". ...
Mines of Moria Interview At Strategy Informer
Lord of the Rings Online Vault - The Ultimate Resource —
... managed to score a LOTRO: MOM interview by traveling over to the UK! Here is a snippet: Strategy Informer : The Mines of Moria expansion will be adding a whole new area to the game, but will there be any new content for lower level players? Jeffrey Steefel : Obviously there are there are two new classes, the Runekeeper and the Warden so new players can play with them from the same starting areas as before. The trait system has been changed slightly it has evolved and been revised a little bit to support new players. But a lot of the content in Moria is geared towards the ...
Siege of Mirkwood: Instance Changes and Garth Agarwen
LotRO Combo Blog —
... expansion Mines of Moria , they introduced a system for Instances known as Hard Mode. Hard Mode allowed players to return to instances and complete them at a higher difficulty for greater rewards, the system was not without its flaws however. Besides having a name that just didn’t quite fit (Turbines words, not mine!) there were also problems in that objectives were not spelled out quite as clearly as was intended; This not only lead to the change I am going to talk about, but to players maligning the system qutie often (apparently). In order to revamp this instance system, ...
