We are the leading lotro power leveling and lotro gold selling website, if you want to buy the cheap lotro power leveling and lotro gold(lotro eu gold), you can contact us. Here is a news from mmorpg.com around the lord of the rings. When Lord of the Rings Online launched back in 2007 the thought on mine and just about every other player's mind was "I can't wait to see how this game grows!" Two years later, we've followed the Fellowship through Rivendell and into the Mines of Moria and out the other side into Lothlorien. Now as Frodo and the others head further south, the burden of distraction and subterfuge lies on the hands of the elves of Lothlorien and the other heroes of Middle-earth. In Siege of Mirkwood players will work closely with the elves to draw the eye of Sauron and the wrath of the Ringwraiths to the tower of Dol Goldur and keep it there while the Fellowship slips into the south. This is the point in Turbine's retelling of the classic story where the war starts to heat up. Things are about to get hairy in Middle-earth.
 
With that in mind, I logged into the test server with the Live Producer of LoTRO, Aaron Campbell to be shown around the game's latest expansion, Siege of Mirkwood, which is due to be released on December 1st. I met up with him as the Dwarf Guardian Rowan on the docks of Lothlorien. I was then escorted, using the aforementioned magic developer powers, to a spot along the Anduin looking across into Mirkwood.

It quickly became clear comparing the forests on either side of the river that Mirkwood is no longer the safe haven it had once been. The forces of Dol Guldur had long since twisted and corrupted the trees and wildlife and this could be seen in the stark contrast between Lorien behind me and Mirkwood across the river. But rather than simply stare at scenery for the entirety of my tour, I asked my dwarf companion to show me around the primary new feature in Siege of Mirkwood: Skirmishes.

Skirmishes are Turbine's way of creating enjoyable, repeatable, randomized, and story-driven encounters for all different sizes of groups to enjoy. The entire system has been created from the ground up with several different notions in mind. They need to be relatively quick pieces of content to enjoy, they need to scale for all play-styles and party-sizes, and they need to be dynamic enough and rewarding enough to encourage multiple play-throughs. And as I quickly learned, all three criteria were handily met by the developers.

In a camp on the edge of Mirkwood, Aaron and I opened up the Skirmish window to select which one we wanted to attempt. That's right, there's no need to go find some magic door or scrying portal in order to experience these new encounters. You need only open up your menu and pick the one you want to do. From that same window, you can select the level range of the enemies within (the first Skirmish becomes available at level 30 and all can be scaled up to the level cap of 65). You can also select the group size for the encounter (solo, small fellowship, full fellowship, and 12-man raid) so that you and your kinsmen are always fighting an appropriate number of enemies, or if you would prefer you could even make yourself vastly outnumbered. And lastly you can change the difficulty of each Skirmish. Playing solo but want a challenge? Up the difficulty from one to three, and so forth.

I asked Aaron if we could attempt "The Battle of the Tower" which is actually one of the higher level Skirmishes in the game. In it you and your mates will attempt to reclaim the Tower of the Necromancer. Because of our special immortal capabilities, Aaron set the Skirmish to 12-man raid size so that we could see just how epic the battles could be. One feature of the UI that is really quite nice is that when a member of your party selects to start a Skirmish you are given a notice on your screen and can decide whether or not to join in. There's nothing preventing you from sitting one out if you would rather go about your own business.

Once inside the instance, it became clear to me that these Skirmishes are more than just randomized dungeons for LotRO. They're as much part of the story as the Epic Book quests. We were met by an elf who told us what was going down in the tower and that we would need to reclaim the place room by room as we scaled the dark and terrible building. NPCs, as a matter of fact, have their own little upgrade with Mirkwood. Gone are the days where players had to constantly highlight an NPC to check on their morale. Now each NPC of import will have a glowing marker beneath them to indicate their status: green for good all the way down to red for bad. But NPCs won't be your only help in the Skirmishes.

Upon completion of the Skirmish tutorial quest which, becomes available at level 30 (Aaron assured me that players long past level 30 will know exactly where to go for this), you are also given the Soldier ability to rely upon inside of Skirmishes. Though the soldier is only usable inside of Skirmishes, you'll quickly come to rely on him for extra support in those encounters. Customizable to be a healer, archer, or tank type of companion, the Soldier is a pet of sorts and will fight alongside you whenever you call them to battle. Through the procurement of Skirmish Marks (sort of tokens awarded for completing Skirmishes, and the objectives tied to them) you can beef up and pimp out your soldier to become a formidable addition to your party. In my short time with my healing buddy, I found them to be quite capable of managing on their own based on the roles and traits you assign them.

I don't wish to spoil too much of the encounter for you before the expansion launches, but needless to say what I found was a quickly paced mini-dungeon that has its own system of rewards as incentive for playing and replaying each one. There are daily quests tied to each Skirmish which award marks for completion, so there is reason not only to repeat each encounter but to spread the love around and not just play the one you find the easiest each time. These Skirmish Marks can be used not only to improve your soldier but to purchase extremely valuable sets of weapons and armor as well. You'll spend these marks at several locations spread across Middle-earth called Skirmish Camps, which are just as the name sounds. The free peoples are banding together and preparing for war, and the world will finally be reflecting this when Mirkwood launches.

However the Skirmish system is not the only change coming to Middle-earth this December. Skirmishes are another layer of things to do and enjoy in LotRO, but that doesn't mean Turbine's forgotten about the rest of the game. Dol Guldur, the Tower of the Necromancer, is the focal point of evil and Sauron's forces in this expansion, so it only makes sense that this is where the bulk of the fellowship-driven content will stem from. There are three small fellowship instances, one full fellowship instance, and one 12-man raid all housed within the battlements of Dol Guldur, and each have daily quests tied to them as well as challenge modes for those players who like to push the envelope.

Aaron gave me a little taste of one of the small fellowship instances called the Sword Hall. Sort of like the Lieutenant of Dol Guldur's own private arena, you march into this massive battle-scarred fighting pit to find the Ringwraith perched upon his flying steed, with Olog-Hai (the trolls' answer to the Uruk-Hai) surrounding the balconies. After taunting you and telling you how pathetic you are like all good villains do, the fight begins. Hordes of enemies swarm out of one of three gates, and as you defeat them you're given a brief respite to recollect your group and heal up. Eventually you will fight one boss for each of the gates, and each of them has their own nasty tricks up their sleeve. My favorite of the bunch was one of the Olog-Hai. Without spoiling anything, be prepared to jump when he raises that huge axe above his head.

When we managed to fell the beasties, Aaron explained to me how each instance's boss will drop a reward chest for players to get loot from, and each player will be awarded a Medallion of Dol Guldur. These are tokens which are needed to purchase the Dol Guldur raid armor. What was encouraging to me was that even the small-fellowship players will get these Medallions to use on the raid armor needed for the final instance on Dol Guldur... it just might take them a wee bit longer to obtain it.

And with our defeat of the Sword Hall's minions, my tour of Mirkwood was over. I felt like we'd just gotten started, but Aaron gave me some lame excuse about "launch dates" and "overtime" so I let it slide. There are tons of additional changes coming along with the Skirmishes, Soldiers, and new instances too. Combat has been made far more responsive. The auto-attack now runs in the background so that players' skills will always trigger as soon as they select them. Mounts have been totally revamped. They're no longer inventory items, but rather skills. Plus you can use e-motes from atop your steed! Huzzah! Even the Legendary Item system has been entirely revamped.

I haven't really dug into Lord of the Rings Online for over a year aside from the occasional visit back to see how the game was coming along. But with everything Aaron showed me during my tour, I quickly purchased the Mines of Moria off of the Turbine site and resubscribed for three months so that I could take advantage of nabbing Siege of Mirkwood for free. War is finally coming to Middle-earth, and this nerd couldn't be more excited to see how it plays out.

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