LOTRO Past to Present: Through the Depths of Moria - Page 4

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Posted Wed, Sep 02, 2009 by Martuk

Volume 2: Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-Dûm
Book 8 brought a new 12 man raid to LOTRO called Dâr Narbugud. This new raid offers six challenges for players to overcome for new high-end rewards. Three other group instances were also added with Nâla-dûm, Lumul-nar being designed for three member groups and the Halls of Crafting designed as a new 6 member dungeon. Each dungeon offers the chance for groups to take on a number of challenges, bosses, and earn some of that ever so popular phat lewt!

You'll face Mazog in Book 8 as part of the epic storyline.

Book 8 also introduced a new chapter to the epic storyline and some new and long awaited features to the game, and by long awaited I mean swift travel between Tinnudir and Eavespires in Evendim. If you haven’t had the pleasure of swimming Lake Evendim a half dozen times or more times you truly can’t appreciate what a blessing this is. There was nothing worse than having to take that 15 minute swim across the lake only to realize your quest sent you right back…and then back again with a stop midway across. It was maddening.

Aside from a ton of bug fixes and game adjustments, the crafting system got a big revamp. The level requirements on many items were changed and the optional ingredient for crafting items got reworked and now there are new optional items available. Guild crafting recipes have been added to help add to the variety of items you can make.

Moria is a great expansion and added a lot to LOTRO and Book 7 and 8 built onto the epic storyline and provided several new raids and instances of their own. With all three updates the crafting system gained an extra tier and got a major revamp while the games landmass was increased by a huge amount. Now much of the LOTRO community is enjoying the new content and anxiously awaiting the next major announcement, the news of an expansion that will bring us Helms Deep.