Featured Instance

Featured Instance Mechanics

Featured Instances were added with Update 18 and are available to players with characters of level 100 and above.

Every week, changing at Monday 10:00 am /servertime (Eastern time zone), a specific scaling instance (or raid) from LOTRO's old favorites is featured in the Instance Join panel. Characters level 100 and higher can launch it through the Instance Join panel Specific Tab.

Each instance can be run daily at level 100-114 and at level 150.
In addition to the regular loot from the instance chests (such as a chance for remembrance crystals, star-lit crystals, relics and fixed-stat scaled gear), each of the two runs has a specific featured quest associated with the instance, one for level 100-114, and another for level 150.
Completing the quest will award extra rewards for completing the listed instance, resetting daily at 03:00 am /servertime. (The quests can additionally be reset with Mithril Coin, as well.)

Update 22.2 introduced featured instance challenges whereby players earn Newfound Coins by completing the challenge quests for the week's featured instance. These coins can be bartered at a Quartermaster (Featured Challenge Rewards Vendor) for armour pieces and cosmetics.

The quest reward from a level 100-114 run is a Grey Box of Ancient Spoils. For a 150 run, the quest reward is a <Colour> Box of Forgotten Spoils with the colour depending on the instance. These boxes contain similar loot as the grey box.

Initially the challenge chests for any of the instances regardless of the current featured one, had a chance to also drop one or a few pieces of equipment from the featured instance set or jewellery. They were completely randomly rewarded out of the entire sets and not restricted to the classes that were actually in the group. This drop chance was removed in U18.2.

When featured instances were introduced, they awarded boxes of Ancient spoils, but have been replaced by boxes of Forgotten spoils when the level cap was raised to 115.

A complete description of the Featured Instance mechanic is contained in an April 2016 Dev Diary by "EdgeCase."

https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/featured-instances

Featured Instance Rotation

The Featured Instance rotation follows a six-week roster. The weekly instance changes on Monday at 10:00 a.m. server time, and the quests reset daily at 3:00 a.m. server time. On Monday it is possible to do the daily quests twice without using Mithril Coin to reset them: once after the daily reset time but before weekly rotation time, and again after the instance changes.

The list of instances in the rotation has changed several times after the introduction of featured instances, with U18.2, U19, U19.1.1, U20, U21, U22, U22.2, U23.0, U32.0, 34.3 and U38.

Featured Instance U38	Box Reward - Level 100-149	Box Reward - Level 150	Size	Content Prerequisite	Other prerequisites	Theoretically-soloable?
Haudh Valandil	Grey Box of Ancient Spoils	Crimson Box of Ancient Treasures	6	N/A (in base game)	None	Yes
Woe of the Willow	Grey Box of Ancient Spoils	Malachite Box of Ancient Treasures	3	The Wildwood quest pack	None	Yes
Agoroth, the Narrowdelve	Grey Box of Ancient Spoils	Marigold Box of Ancient Treasures	3	The Wildwood quest pack	None	No. 3 characters are required to activate the end boss fight, although they need not participate in combat
Stoneheight	Grey Box of Ancient Spoils	Amethyst Box of Ancient Treasures	6	N/A (in base game)	Discovery (North Downs [9.5S, 50.1W])	Yes
Ost Dunhoth - Gortheron Wing	Grey Box of Ancient Spoils	Obsidian Box of Ancient Treasures	12	N/A (in base game)	Discovery (Enedwaith [75.1S, 19.7W]) Completion of Wound/Fear Wing Completion of Disease/Poison Wing	Yes. Note that the Wound/Fear Wing prereq requires 6 characters to activate the initial gauntlet of that wing, and at least 3 characters to interact with objects along that gauntlet.
Glinghant	Grey Box of Ancient Spoils	Azure Box of Ancient Treasures	6	N/A (in base game)	None	Yes

Featured Quest Reward Summary

Boxes of forgotten spoils (grey and coloured ones) contain an assortment of the following items:

They always contain:

•  1-3 Anfalas Scrolls of Empowerment
•  Gorgoroth Crafting Bundle

They may frequently contain:

• 1 random major tier 8 essence
•  Box of Rangers' Crafting Journals
•  Enchanted Gorgoroth Adamant
•  War Materials

They may sometimes contain:

•  Bundle of Ithilien-treated Wood
•  Handful of Ithilien Gems
•  Ithilien-wax Candle
•  Old Ithilien Blade
•  Old Ithilien Plate
•  Pouch of Ithilien Spice
•  2 Slivers of Black Steel
• 1 piece of "Faded Age" or "Old Kingdom" armour or jewellery (uncommon quality; item level 323)

They may rarely contain:

•  Anfalas Star-lit Crystal
•  Blemished Symbol of the Elder King
•  Imbued Legacy Replacement Scroll
•  North Ithilien Essence Box
•  Relic Removal Scroll
•  Stat Tome
•  Universal Solvent

Screenshots

• Featured Instance Finder examples
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