Update 41 for Lord of the Rings Online is on its way, featuring two new legendary progression servers, the birdwatching hobby, and a range of other crafting and class changes. The added servers, ‘Angmar’ and ‘Mordor’, will host the new Veil of the Nine system, which introduces exciting new landscape challenges that the MMO’s loyal VIP subscribers will be sure to enjoy.
Both new legendary servers are 64-bit, which the game’s executive producer Severlin has said in a recent preview stream will help reduce lag. In addition, the Mordor server will be EU-based, which is certainly a surprise given that the game hasn’t had a European server for years.
The Veil of the Nine
The challenge level of LOTRO’s Angmar and Mordor servers won’t be for the faint of heart. From level 15 onwards, lesser wraiths will spawn randomly on the landscape and attack you. If you’re using the game’s new landscape difficulty settings, these wraiths might prove deadly. Once you hit the servers’ initial level cap of 50, the real challenge begins.
The nine Ringwraiths themselves can appear randomly at your location, and you’ll need more than a few friends to take them down. In fact, Severlin claims you’ll need as many as 50 people. It’s the kind of landscape raiding experience that LOTRO hasn’t seen in ages.
To make these fights easier, both new legendary servers will be equipped with 12 rings that drop randomly at cap level. The rings can only be held by players for one week at a time. New rewards await those who are able to return the Ringwraiths to the shadows, though we don’t have any details yet on what they are. The mechanics of the Veil of the Nine system remind me personally of Black Desert Online’s world bosses, and have me excited to try out the update as soon as it launches later this month.
