Preliminary release notes for Volume III: Allies of the King, Book I: Oath of the Rangers

Full Release Notes

General Monster Play

Conjunction stuns will now have diminishing returns in PvMP. Please note that conjunction stuns are on a separate application counter than other crowd control effects in PvMP (thus will not affect duration of the conjunction stun). The diminishing returns application counter for conjunction stuns is not permanent - if you are not hit with a conjunction stun for 45 seconds, the application counter will reset.
Conjunction Stuns

1. First Application = 100% of the conjunction stun's duration
   
2. Second Application = 75% of the conjunction stun's duration
   
3. Third Application = 50% of the conjunction stun's duration
   
4. Fourth Application = 25% of the conjunction stun's duration
   
5. Fifth - Ninth Application = 1 second conjunction stun duration
   
6. After the Tenth Application, the conjunction stun will no longer affect the target

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This change only applies to stuns which can trigger fellowship or warband maneuvers.

• An issue that allowed certain Free Player skills to function in unintended ways has been addressed.
  
• Quest : Leader of the Rat-Folk - The cursed leader of the Hobbit town somehow has tricked us so that we could not bring ourselves to attack him. We once again can do so, and will have our revenge!
  
• Reduced the number of Brilliant Stones required for the level 65 PvMP armour sets.
  
• Damage passives and corruptions will now correctly affect heal skills of Monster Players.
  
• Base power and power regeneration have been increased for Troll session play.
  
• Decreased the Monster Play lockout timer from 2 hours to 1 hour.
  
• Free Player crowd control potions (Salt of Hartshorn, Solvent of Release, Vial of Aromatic Spirits, Vial of Unbinding, and Phial of Conhuith) have had their item cooldowns reduced to 2 minutes.
  
• Free Player and Monster Player crowd control potions have had their vendor costs reduced. Please note that this does not affect barter versions of these potions.
  
• Base damage and health have been increased for Ranger session play. Both Trolls and Rangers will also have 180 seconds of conjunction immunity protection after being hit with a fellowship or warband manuever.
  
• Get a Grip will no longer pop fellowship members from stealth.
  
  Creeps
  
• Many racial traits for Monster Players have undergone changes, please read the list below for the full details:
  
  Orc
  
• Rage of the Misbegotten: Added a tactical crit rating bonus and changed the morale description of this skill to show a % value.
  
• Warrior Against the Deep: Increased the Ancient Dwarf Defense rating.
  
• Undying Rage: This skill will now also provide a tactical damage bonus, induction duration reduction, melee/ranged/tactical defense ratings, and a movement speed increase while the Orc is under the effect of the skill.
  
• Flayer of Flesh: Added a tactical crit rating and tactical offense rating bonus. The melee damage bonus has been converted to a melee offense rating bonus.
  
• Tireless Warrior: Increased the in-combat morale and power regen bonuses.
  
  Uruk
  
• New Breed: Increased the amount of power bonus received.
  
• Imposing Presence: Increased the amount of power bonus received when this skill's effect is applied.
  
• Leader of the Orcs: The melee, ranged, and tactical damage bonuses have been converted to melee, ranged, and tactical offense ratings.
  
• Tireless Warrior: Increased the in-combat morale and power regen bonuses.
  
  Spider
  
• Ancient as the Stars: The melee crit vulnerability bonus has ben changed to melee critical defense rating.
  
• Enemy of the First Children: Added a ranged offense rating bonus.
  
• Drinker of Blood: Increased the in-combat morale and power regen bonuses.
  
  Warg
  
• Eyes of Unnerving: This trait/skill has been changed to Howl of Unnerving. This skill will now perform a 10 radius, area effect, max 4 targets, dread debuff around the Warg. As a result of this change, this skill can now be used from stealth (upon skill use, the warg's stealth will be broken).
  
• Foe of Light: Increased the Light Defense rating.
  
• Pack Alpha: The melee damage bonus has been converted to a melee offense rating.
  Class Changes
  
  Spider Weaver
  
• The Weaver's Swift Weave trait will no longer affect non-web attack skills.
  
  Warg Stalker
  
• The Warg's Sense Prey skill will no longer activate cooldowns on potions.
  

Habilidades nuevas

Captain
Watchful Shield Brother – Adds a boost to maximum morale and a power boost to the toggle effect.

Champion
True Heroics - Skill applies an additional buff based on the currently active stance.

Hunter
Beneath Care - Skill restores Power over Time and has no power cost in addition to reducing perceived threat.

Lore-master
Continual Air-lore - Changes the skill to a toggle ability with a Power upkeep cost.

Minstrel
Lyric of the Hammerhand - Adds immunity from induction knockback.

Rune-Keeper
Armaments of X - Skill adds an additional bonus to Tactical and Ranged damage

Warden
Unerring Strike – Spear-5 skill, is less likely to be Block/Parried/Evaded and applies a DoT.

Burglar
Mischievous Delight - Has a chance to apply a Power over time buff in addition to its Heal over time buff.

Guardian
Warrior's Fortitude - Skill applies an additional buff based on the stance.

Of Special Note

• Hounding Fear has been removed from Landscape and Skirmishes.
  
• If you are eligible for the Dusky Nimblefoot Goat, you will receive another one in your inventory. If you have converted it to a skill already, all you'll be able to do with it is destroy it.
• This is to help players who didn't receive their goat because their inventory was too full.
  
• Characters will be refunded all legacy points on all legendary items when Volume 3 Book 1 goes live.
  
• Inspired greatness for solo players has been reduced slightly. The effect was overpowered at initial implementation.
  
  It's the little things that count
  
• Players may now add notes to their friend and ignore lists.
  
• Quests are being added to the Spring Festival to direct players to ALL festival events, including the Horse Races, the Hedge Maze, the Feast of the Greenfields, and the new event.
  
• Based on player feedback, you will now get credit for passing the gate for going UNDER the bridge on the racetrack.
  
• Reduced the chance to receive the Blueberry Tart recipe from the spring giftboxes.
  
  General Gameplay
  
• If the client is closed during the playback of a quest completion video, the quest rewards will now be correctly applied.
  
• Addressed a number of unintended gameplay issues.
  
• Fixed a number of typos.
  
  Skills/Classes
  
  Champion
  
• The Champion skill Clobber is now unable to be blocked or parried.
  
• Slotting the Stalwart Blade trait will now display the fact that Blade-wall will now generate 1 Fervour pip.
  
• Controlled Burn with the Controlled Fury trait will now correctly activate Ardent Flurry and Glorious Exchange.
  
• Ardour and Glory gain an increase to in combat power regeneration.
  
• Added Sudden Defence to the list of skills that Invincible resets.
  
• Removed Controlled Burn from the list of skills that are reset by Invincible. This was a correction of the description only.
  
• Champion skill Hedge is now an Immediate skill.
  
• Fight On, Merciful Strike, Adamant and Invincible are now Fast skills.
  
• Controlled Burn will allow Ardent Flurry and Glorious Exchange to stay in effect when entered into from Ardour and Glory respectively. This change also allows Ardent Flurry and
• Glorious Exchange to remain in effect while the Champion is in combat even after Controlled Burn is over.
  
  Guardian
  
• Guardian's Threat Block and Parry rating legacy now affect Parry rating as well as Block rating.
  
  Captain
  
• Captain skills requiring an OnDefeat event will now generate an OnDefeat event themselves if they kill a monster.
  
• Captain heralds will no longer gain 100% absorption from Shield of the Dúnedain.
  
• The Last Stand effect now applies at the earliest possible moment in the skill execution.
  
• Deeds before Words will now increase Inspire's healing.
  
  Burglar
  
• Dust in the Eyes will no longer cause a trick removal skill to fail when the trick removal skill is queued immediately after Dust in the Eyes.
  
  Lore-master
  
• Fixed a typo in the Lore-master Deed “Master of Beasts” it now tells you to use “Sign of the Wild: Protection”. Thanks for the bug, Meeka!
  
• Fixed a typo in the Lore-master's skill “Cracked Earth”, thanks Mizal!
  
• The Lore-master's skill “Air-lore” no longer breaks Stealth on the target.
  
  Rune-keeper
  
• The legendary point cost for the Rune-keeper’s Healing legacy has been corrected.
  
• Smoothed out the legendary point cost for the Rune-keeper's Prelude to Hope pulse count legacy.
  
  Warden
  
• Warden gambit Combination Strike no longer requires a shield equipped to execute.
  
• Fixed an issue where Wardens could lose gambits if you initiate combat with a ranged auto-attack and then use an ability that grants gambits.

Raids & Instances
Quest: Tower of Death and Rot now appears properly on the map when you are tracking it.
The yellow corruption cycle for the Lt. of Dol Guldur will now correctly inflate the power cost of players. Other adjustments have been made to the corruption cycles.
Minor reset issues with the 'airlock' in the DG Arena fixed.
Icons for the Bard and Vendor in the Barad Guldur raid have been removed; the npc's will still arrive after Durchest has been defeated though.

Waterwheels
Fixed issue with reset on final boss.

Fil Ghashan
The Orcs in the mess hall would never play dead. They also now realize that none of the other Orcs would either. So any Orc playing dead must not be an Orc! Kill it!

Sammath Gûl
Lightning now electrifies gates. Be careful where you try to park yourself
The Black Uruks in the first room have gotten wise to your tricksey ways, precious.

Garth Agarwen:

Fortress:

• Edan and Edsyld:
  
• In the final phase of the fight they will only use melee skills.
  Naruhel:
  
• The Red Maid will reset if the party wipes.
  Dunlang:
  
• Dunlang will properly reset if you wipe before he engages.

Auctions
Auction Hall searches utilizing the “Stat” drop-down now return more appropriate results.

User Interface
The default setting for the leftmost toolbar button has been changed from “System” which showed the system menu to “Help” which shows the in-game Help panel. To change it back to “System” or to anything else, use the “Customize Toolbar Slots” button just to the left of the Auto-attack button or go to Options / UI Settings.
Help panel now comes up in front of other windows.
Select nearest NPC now factors in vertical distance more accurately.
The various 'defeated' effect icons (the ones that give you dread) now appear in the debuff row.
Bankers now have an action picker for Vault and Shared Storage to resolve lag issues with opening them both at once.
Shared Storage: The function of the filter has always been to hide bound items belonging to your other characters but the wording wasn't very clear. The new description should help clarify things.
Tooltips will now function properly for effects on the second row of the pet and skirmish soldier UIs.

Quest Guide
The quest tracker would not show all 5 tracked quests properly if said quests had a lot of objectives listed. To fix this, we have made it so quests and deeds with excessively large objective lists will be cleanly truncated by means of an ellipses marker based on how many quests you are currently tracking. If a quest/deed you are tracking is truncated in such a fashion, you can either open it in the quest/deed log to see the full objective list or remove other quests/deeds from the tracker to allow the one you are concerned with to display more objectives in the tracker. For example, when you are tracking 5 quests or deeds, each will display up to 4 objectives, while tracking a single quest or deed will allow you to display up to 20 objectives for it.
Quest Guide will now refresh the radar arrow indicator properly if you toggle your entire UI off and on again.

Chat/Social/Kinship
Context sensitive menus that appear when right-clicking your kinship members through the Kinship panel have been cleaned up and improved.
Clicking on the scrollbar in the mail recipient auto-complete dropdown no longer closes it.

Housing
The Housing Trophy “Heads of the Globsnaga Elders” is now a Small Furniture item instead of a Wall item.
The missing Gazebo in the Breeland house area has been reconstructed. In fact, it has even become a popular hangout for the local populace at night.
Ominous Pool has been scaled down to correctly fit within the bounds of a large yard slot. Garden-Dwarf statue and Hobbit Hedge has been scaled up.

Fishing
We have made some changes to the fishing advancement system. In general, fishing skill advancement should be a bit more consistent and quicker, particularly at higher levels of skill.
Regional fishing treasure profiles have been significantly altered. Many types of fish can only be caught in certain regions now, making it easier overall to catch the specific fish you are looking for. Some types of rare fish related to barter rewards and/or deeds have been moved to new regions entirely, and may not be available in regions they could previously be caught in.
Vendors do not sell bait items anymore, as these items are no longer used to enhance the chances of catching a fish.

Crafting

General
The crafting panel now correctly displays cooldowns for recipes for which the player has no ingredients
Added non-superior versions of the crafting facilities to the crafting hall in Ost Galadh.
Shire Apples are no longer sold by Novice Cooks or Supplier vendors. Seek out Artisan Farmers or head to the Auction Hall for fresh Shire Apples!
Corrected several errors in the vocation crafting guides.

Farming
Get your Shire apples, golden Shire taters, and green peas fresh from the farm! New farming crop recipes have been added for Artisan, Master, and Superior Farmers. These recipes are automatically granted to Farmers at the appropriate tiers of their profession.

Cooking
New Trail Food recipes for cooks of all skill levels have arrived! These new recipes allow cooks to make new foods that will temporarily increase the user's Fate or Will. These recipes are automatically granted to Cooks at the appropriate tiers of their profession.
New campfire kit recipes can be purchased from Novice Cook & Expert Cook NPCs.
All trail food recipes that use fish as required ingredients have been updated. Formerly, the products of these recipes were a type of trail food that would temporarily increase willpower. The new products of these recipes will now temporarily increase both vitality and willpower. Please note that any previously existing fish trail foods will remain unchanged, and only new foods produced by these recipes will have the updated effects.
New Trail Food recipes for Superior Cooks can be found on Maedhrusc, the Acquaintance of the Malledhrim Crafting Vendor in Mirkwood.
All cooked foods now bestow morale-over-time, power-over-time, and out-of-combat morale and power regeneration effects. In general, all cooked foods will fall under one of the following three categories:

• Cooked Food Type A: High out-of-combat morale and power regeneration; Low morale-over-time & power-over-time effects.
  
• Cooked Food Type B: Medium out-of-combat morale and power regeneration; Medium morale-over-time & power-over-time effects.
  
• Cooked Food Type C: Low out-of-combat morale and power regeneration; High morale-over-time & power-over-time effects.

Weaponsmith
New Superior Hunter trap recipes can be purchased from Expert Weaponsmith & Hunter trainer NPCs.
New Superior Burglar trick recipes can be purchased from Expert Weaponsmith & Burglar trainer NPCs.

Jeweller
Major updates for the Jeweller profession, including:

• New icons for all newly-crafted jewellery items (rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets).
  
• New output items with updated stats for virtually all jewellery recipes (all existing crafted jewellery pieces have not been changed).
  
• Multi-output recipes for every tier of the Jeweller profession.

The following Jeweller recipes are no longer automatically granted and must be purchased from Novice and Expert Jeweller NPCs:

• Glittering Copper Ring
  
• Glittering Copper Necklace
  
• Glittering Silver Ring
  
• Glittering Silver Necklace
  
• Glittering Gold Ring
  
• Glittering Gold Necklace
  
• Glittering Platinum Ring
  
• Glittering White Gold Necklace
  
• Glittering Ancient Silver Ring
  
• Glittering Ancient Silver Necklace

Adjusted the stats on the Fighter's / Warrior's Greenwood Bracelets, and adjusted the stats on the Philosopher's / Sage's Greenwood Bracelets.
Removed all “Ring of Tactics” recipe scrolls from loot and barter vendors, as these rings can now be made with various multi-output recipes. Existing “Ring of Tactics” recipe scrolls can still be used, however.
The Beryl Pendant and Royal Circlet recipes have been updated to use ingredients more appropriate for the Jeweller profession.

Woodworking
A new superior champion horn recipe can be purchased from Expert Woodworker & Champion trainer NPCs. Additionally, all champion horn recipes have been removed from treasure and are now available for purchase from Novice Woodworker, Expert Woodworker, and Champion trainer NPCs.

Misc
Session Play: Shire - The Delving Fields - The Early Bird: Quest objects now glow.
Fixed various stuck locations and anti-exploit spots in Mirkwood and in Skirmishes.
Fixed various resource nodes that were buried in the landscape.
Lorebook: Removed an unused monster.
When a player is resurrected or self revives in a location that they are not allowed to travel to, they will receive an alert indicating that they were teleported to their home location.
Fix to a possible client crash when mousing over the Kinship house recall ability.

Items
(Cooked Food): The duration of the out-of-combat morale/power regeneration effect found on all normally crafted cooked foods has been increased from 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
(Superior Cooked Food): The duration of the out-of-combat morale/power regeneration effect found on all critically crafted cooked foods has been increased from 60 seconds to 10 minutes.
(Vendor Food): The duration of the out-of-combat morale/power regeneration effect found on all store-bought rations and many festival foods has been increased from 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
The “Pile of Fluffy Snow” consumable obtained in the Yule Festival will now make sound when the vortex is summoned.
The Runemaker’s Armor 5 set bonus has been changed to apply the armour bonus 25% of the time instead of only on a critical.
The Lucky Horseshoe will always give your +5 Fate when used.
The Battle & Warding Lore Scrolls are now usable while riding a mount. Other crafted scrolls of Lore also usable while riding.
Halberd of the Eglan-Guard is incorrectly spelled.
Updated some items to correctly use “Defence” rather than “Defense” in their name and description.
The Superior Anvil has been updated to repair items at the same cost as vendors. Both versions of the anvils have updated descriptions.
Fixed a typo in the description of the Warg's Fall crossbow.
Sturdy Woodcutter's Pack has an updated icon.
Token of Clear Vision now has its own cooldown channel and will not lock you out of using Edhelharn Tokens for 12 hours. Icon for the Token of Clear Visions has also been updated.

Questing

General Questing
Quest rings that are shown above NPCs heads now prioritize better among themselves. For example, if an NPC can both teleport you and grant you a trivial quest, he will show the teleport ring now. Trivial Epic Quests show the same kind of quest rings as if they weren't trivial.
Most of the low level crafting quests are now hidden until you have chosen an appropriate vocation.
Intro quest 'Skimming the Surface' has been versioned and will have to be re-taken if you had it underway. This quest will now auto-cancel if you finish/skip the Archet raid. It can no longer be taken afterwards as it cannot be completed beyond that point.
Might of the Elves: Gildor speaks now!
The following quests are no longer marked as recommending a Small Fellowship:

• Othrongroth
  
• Marching Orders
  
• Tide of Battle
  
• The Battle for Annuminas

Eriador
Ivar's daily quest is now daily. You can now have 4 players within the barrows instance of Garth Agarwen.
Northern Bree-fields - Hungry Bears and Bear Cubs now count for Bears Craving Honey quest.
Failed Delivery - Icon for item was incorrect, and has been changed.
Archet - Old Bauman's Farm - Blackwolds surrounding the supervisor now match the appropriate quest level.
Ost Crithlanc - War and Famine - Items can now all be interacted with.
Hillmen of the north - Quest Guide now will show final objective in the quest.
Goblin Pack-Master - Quest guide should now be more accurate.
War and Famine - Weapon and Shield Racks - There is now animation and sound for these objects.
Furled Banners of the White Hand - You are now collecting unfurled banners, that you then furl and bring back to the quest giver.
Fornost: In Remmenaeg's fight, shadow hotspots were not spawning properly after the first one appeared. A new one will now appear every ~20 seconds as intended.
Fornost: 'Free the Fallen' now requires more shades to complete the quest, but the Fellowship shares quest advancement so it should be considerably easier to complete.
The Call of Precious Things, Part II - This quest and its main target are now level 25, up from 20. The quest has been adjusted to reflect the new difficulty level of the area it takes place in.
Unravelling the Thread: Torthann will recognize threats better
Salvage a Wheel: One of the wheels now looks cracked and damaged

Moria
Balin's Camp - The Stonecarver's Journal and the Shadow Map can no longer be collected if you have completed the quests associated with them, or they are underway. Please note, these items are no longer placed in your inventory. The two quests given by these items should now be versioned and the items are no longer useful, and can be destroyed.
The Great Hall of Durin - Puzzle of the Carvings - Quest items will now flash or sparkle.

Eregion
Unsure Steps- Billboard and Chat log text have been updated to reflect the quest more accurately.

Mirkwood
Gathburz - Sign of the Malledhrim - Players can now guard the fort when a flag is planted rather than just the flag itself on the platform.
Mithechad - Scout Anug-stazg -Only the appropriate NPCs should offer quest comments.
Scuttledells - Innocence in Peril - Location of the events now match the description in the quest.
Players will no longer be able to avoid aggro by stealthing or hiding behind objects in Glory of the Malledhrim.
Epic Story

Prologue
Quest: Man Epic Prologue: A Critical Strike: This quest is no longer marked as a Fellowship quest.

Volume I
Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 7 - Radagast the Brown - will no longer be acquirable if you have done Chapter 8 of Book 2.
Book 3 Chapter 5: Gildor now has a voice over.
Book 10 Chapter 4: Quest rings now show for Clorhir and Gwaelband in the Quest Tracker.
Book 2 Chapter 3: Quest Tracker Rings now disappear once all weapons are collected.
Book 10 Chapter 2: Quest rings will be firey to indicate they are part of the epic.

Volume II
Lowered the extremely high aggro radius for Olog-hai in the Volume II, Book 9, Chapter16 instance
Removed the 'dizzy' effect from theVolume II, Book 1, Chapter 8 instance.
Rumil's bow is no longer invisible.
Improved the pathing for pets in the Volume II, Book 9, Chapter 17 instance. Now pets can path past the smoke barriers!
Several NPCs didn't have their proper VO for the Volume II, Book 9, Foreword. Now they do!
Goldagnir wasn't taking his vitamins, but now he is, and is as tall as he should be.
Malendol has moved to a slightly different position for Volume II, Book 9, Chapter 6.
Gimli's morale bar will now appear alongside Legolas's during the Volume II, Book 7 Chapter 3 instance.
Revised some quest text in Volume II, Book 9, Chapter 9 to clarify that Blackvenom spiders will also be acceptable

Legendary Items
Fixed many of the Legendary Item Legacy Rank Costs not changing when upgrading tiers. For example there were legacies that did not change when you upgraded from Tier 4 to Tier 5, this change should fix many of those legacies so the Tier 5 costs less than the Tier 4.
The initial Item Advancement weapon received from the quest to enter Moria now has a maximum item level of 40.
The “Item has leveled” overlay in the Legendary Items Panel is properly cleared if a Legendary Item is deconstructed after it has leveled with the Legendary Items Panel closed.
If the Legendary Items panel is visible when a Legendary Item is reforged and a relic is unslotted, it is displayed right away as available.
Sealed and Fused Relics will now say in the description which Tier relic(s) you will receive when deconstructed.
Tactical damage rating is now visible on legendary items outside of the player's inventory (auction, mail, shared storage). Additionally, the base DPS on these items is now accurately represented.
Scrolls of Empowerment will now function on the initial Item Advancement weapon received from the quest to enter Moria.
The maximum experience given from a Third Age IA item deconstruction is now lower to match the amount of experience required to max the item's level.
The initial Item Advancement weapon gained from the quest to enter Moria for the Champion and Guardian will now pull their Legacies from Pool A.
The introductory level 51 legendary weapons for the Rune-keeper, Lore-master, and Minstrel will now have the appropriate tactical rank legacy instead of the melee DPS legacy.
The introductory level 51 legendary weapons for the Rune-keeper, Lore-master, and Minstrel will now have the appropriate tactical rank legacy instead of the melee DPS legacy.
The Lore-master legacy, “Increased Power from Share the Power”, has been renamed to “Share the Power Increase” to allow the legacy name to fit on item tooltips.
The cost of deconstructing low tier Relics has been decreased.

Loot
Players within an instance with a chest are now eligible for loot from it even when it's opened while they are not right next to it.
If a Master Looter is not in a fellowship when a chest or corpse is looted, the loot will now be opened up to the others.
Lizards in the Water Works now have a chance of dropping a Mithril Flake.
Monsters in the Sword-hall of Dol Guldur were dropping level 60 legendary weapons instead of level 65 versions.

Deeds/Traits/Reputation
For deeds which have daily maximums and thus reset at midnight, the progress bar now correctly turns back to blue after midnight the first time the relevant update event is received or when selecting the deed in the Deed Log.
Tham Mirdain deeds are now located in the Instances/Shadows of Angmar deed tab.
Mirkwood - Mirkwood Tower Climber - Title reward is listed under the correct category.
Added a new slayer deed for the Hawk Eyed Harrier Lieutenant. They previously did not have a deed associated with them.
Liberation from the Merciless Dungeons Deed: Now correctly displays the correct completion requirements.

Graphics/Animation/FX
Corrected the FX for Slayer type weapons.
All shrews and badgers will no longer spring to their feet after death for one more chance at biting you before taking that long trip into to the Uttermost West.
Fire Grims now have the correct fire UI portrait when fighting them. Also, corpse candles are fixed as well.
Fixed a bug resulting in bow strings and/or arrows becoming stuck in the players hand with some ranged skills and auto-attacks.

World/NPC/Monsters
Monster - Morthrang - This monster is now listed as an elite rare monster.
Mirkwood - Gulbrennil is now marked as a rare monster.
North Downs - Fornost - Guardsmen that are shooting target practice no longer have shields on their arms.
North Downs - Free Peoples' Camp - Dwarf Warrior is no longer smithing.
North-Downs - Merenas the Runekeeper voice over is more elfish.
Mobs are a little smarter and won't try to use skills on themselves that they can't use on themselves.
Removed ballerina shoes from bears so they'll no longer pirouette during roars. i.e.; when a bear begins performing its roar induction it will no longer swivel to face you, allowing you to run behind it to avoid the attack. (Thanks for the bug, Blak!)
Treasure chests and backpacks from lost adventurers have been uncovered in Mirkwood.

Town Services
Vendors will now be willing to sell you items that fit in your existing stacks, even when your inventory has no empty slots in it.
The Malledhrim Reward Vendors in Mirkwood now offer Steeped cure potions instead of the previous Infused potions.
All neighborhood healing vendors now carry level 75 healing potions/salves.
“Eogar, son of Hadorgar” will now buy items.
The Bree-land Outfitter (located in the Weapons & Armour Shop in Bree) now sells some additional footwear.

Travel/Maps/Radar/Mounts
Updated the Starter Bree-Steed to not be usable if you already have the Founder's Steed skills. The steeds are the same in both speed and looks. The Starter Bree-Steed is meant for non-Founder players.
You can now use Pipeweed while on a mount.
The Jewelled Bell goes Jingle Jangle...while you are on your mount.
Two -handed weapons now hide when riding a mount
Shields now are hidden if equipped while riding a mount.
The mount tokens, used to learn mount skills, are now usable while riding a steed.
Thorin's Gate - Mirkstones Map marker now appears in the correct location.
Removed the whooshing sound heard when you ride your mount into a deep body of water. This was confusing some players into thinking they had been teleported.
Names of travel routes in Mirkwood have changed to reflect the camps they are going to rather than the area:

• Mirk Eaves = "Echad Sirion"
  
• Dourstocks = "The Haunted Inn"
  
• Drownholt = "Estolad Mernael"
  
• Emyn Lum = "Ost Galadh"
  
• Ashenslades = "Mithechad"
  
• Dol Guldur = "Helethir"
  
• Gathburz = "Thangúlhad"

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