Joe "jwbarry" Barry returns this week with his third developer diary entry for Instances 2.0 in The Lord of the Rings Online. The newest entry in his developer diary series details changes and upgrades to the Annuminas and Eregion instances slated to go live with Volume 3: Book 2.

The Annúminas cluster, with its three Fellowship instances, was the first set of spaces we upgraded. These were well-received instances when they were shipped and were still considered to be in solid shape, so we didn’t anticipate much work being needed to polish them up. They also weren’t overly complicated or complex mechanics-wise so we thought it would be a good baseline to test how the scaling would hold up.