Patch Notes - Vol II Book 8.1

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The Lord of The Rings Online: Mines of Moria™ Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-Dûm Patch 1 Release Notes!


Instances

  • The hard mode chests for the Book 8 instances now properly drop the Elf Stones.


Carn Dûm

  • Players can once again enter the Tower area normally.


Halls of Crafting

  • Monsters now give the correct Galadhrim reputation for killing them.


Dark Brotherhood

  • The Mistress is mad! The Mistress smash harder!


Waterwheels

  • Hard Mode has increased slightly in difficulty. The Caerogs can now periodically help each other out of mezzes and roots.
  • The pistons no longer cause line-of-sight failures.
  • Players can no longer get stuck in perma-root with the final boss.


Hall of Mirrors

  • Fixed an issue that was causing players to not be able to proceed further into the instance.
  • Ergoth has decided to stop hiding from players. She has also polished the final mirror to a fine shine. Be careful, it is a little slippery!
  • Task-mistress corpses will no longer infinitely spawn defilers.
  • Ergoth also hates perchers, FYI.


Classes

Champion

  • The tooltip on the effect icon for Fervour now includes the -30% incoming healing information.


Items

  • The Lothlórien Reputation Jewelry will now remain equipped in the Ettenmoors. However, the 'clicky' abilities will remain disabled while in the Ettenmoors.
  • The buff "Protector's Reproach" provided by the "Lothlórien Protector's Locket" will now damage enemies that attack you (instead of heal them).
  • The stats on the Robe of the Stone-reader's Apprentice were slightly more powerful than intended. Reduced the maximum Power bonus on the Robe of the Stone-reader's Apprentice to bring this armour piece in line with others in the set.
  • The stats on the Rhymer's Robe were slightly more powerful than intended. Reduced the maximum Power bonus on the Rhymer's Robe to bring this armour piece in line with others in the set.


General

  • No more client crashes due to the browser being open and closed.


Horses & travel

  • Fixed a travel route between Dolven-view and Anazamekhem.


Quests

  • There and Back Again now properly gives its rewards.
  • Added a small set of Bounty quests. You can find them in Esteldin.


Crafting

Prospecting

  • The Tin Ingot recipe was incorrectly producing three Bronze Ingots on a critical success. This has been fixed, and the Tin Ingot recipe now produces three Tin Ingots on a critical success.


General

  • Removed Apprentice-level optional ingredients from level 1-7 treasure profiles.
  • Increased the drop rate of optional ingredients in sentient creature treasure.
  • New legendary weapon and class item recipes are available for the following guilds:
o Jeweller's Guild
o Metalsmith's Guild
o Scholar's Guild
o Tailor's Guild
o Weaponsmith's Guild
o Woodworker's Guild.
  • These recipes allow crafters to produce "Reforged" Second Age Weapons and class items. Note: Reforged is the name of the item. Crafters cannot reforge legendary items.
  • New guild recipe scroll cases are available from Maenasdir (Lothlórien Crafting Guild Emissary) for the following guilds:
o Jeweller's Guild
o Metalsmith's Guild
o Tailor's Guild
  • New recipes have been added to the Lothlórien barter vendors for the following professions:
o Jeweller
o Metalsmith
o Tailor


Graphics/Animations/FX

  • Some hats have been updated to remove the back flap in favor of tucked-up hair.
  • The hole in the floor of the rotting cellar has been repaired. While it is a ‘rotting’ cellar, it’s probably not rotten enough to rot solid stone. Probably.