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The Lord of the Rings Online dev team has yet to officially unveil their 2024 development roadmap for the game, but executive producer Rob Ciccolini was more than happy to share a brief rundown of what’s coming in an interview with YouTuber Bludborn. According to Ciccolini, they’ll continue to focus on rolling out new Corsairs of Umbar content with plans [...]

The Umbar Crafting Guild is now accepting new members into its ranks as Update 38.1.1 goes live in Lord of the Rings Online. The port city’s crafting guild, however, has pretty high standards in place and will only allow you to join if you’re an honored member of another crafting guild and have earned their trust, so to speak. “Joining [...]

Standing Stone Games has introduced new Corsairs of Umbar content just as players have begun running out of things to do in the Lord of the Rings Online expansion. Update 38.1 hit the live servers yesterday with a series of new story quests and 10 new missions in tow. The new quests can be picked up from the Hunter’s Expedition [...]

It’s almost been a month since Lord of the Rings Online: Corsairs of Umbar came out, and most players have probably already breezed through the expansion’s new quests and activities. It won’t be long though before they get a fresh new helping of content as developer Standing Stone Games prepares to roll out Update 38.1 The update arrives on December [...]

When Lord of the Rings Online: Corsairs of Umbar launched earlier this month, it quickly became obvious that the expansion was severely lacking in content outside of the main story quests. To address this, Standing Stone Games has promised to release new endgame and repeatable content with a big update arriving on December 6th. The update will introduce dozens of [...]

Season 8 has officially begun in Lord of the Rings Online offering a brand-new legendary reward track for players to unlock. This season’s rewards include the usual collection of in-game goodies alongside new ones like the Young Moose pet, the Frost Tusk Youngling pet, the Red Painted Skeleton mount, and the Sculpture Garden with Elvish Pavilion for houses. Adventurer's and [...]

It’s been rough sailing for Lord of the Rings Online’s recently released Corsairs of Umbar expansion with players reporting an extensive list of bugs. Some gameplay systems and items, like Umbar task quests and the Flame of Ancalamir disenchanting system, have been temporarily disabled while Standing Stone Games works on a fix. Unfortunately, the said fix won’t be arriving until [...]

It’s time to get a good dose of sun and sea in Lord of the Rings Online as the port city of Umbar officially opens its gates. The classic MMORPG’s ninth expansion, Corsairs of Umbar, is now live with new story content that will send players to the coastal regions in the southern reaches of Gondor to face off against [...]

Standing Stone Games has rolled out the third and presumably final test phase for Lord of the Rings Online: Corsairs of Umbar on the Bullroarer test server. The latest beta build now includes the titular port city of Umbar and all its associated quests as the studio prepares for the expansion’s release next week. The upcoming stat adjustments are also [...]

If you’ve been looking forward to visiting Umbar and the lands south of Gondor in Lord of the Rings Online next week, you’ll unfortunately have to put your travel plans on hold as Standing Stone Games delays the Corsair of Umbar expansion release by a week for more work. “Umbar is not going to be released on November 1st,” executive [...]