Bullroarer - Update 46 - Kingdoms of Harad - Beta #1 - OPEN - Tuesday (10/14/25) 12:00 PM ET

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Bullroarer - Update 46 - Kingdoms of Harad - Beta #1 - OPEN - Tuesday (10/14/25) 12:00 PM ET
Link: https://forums.lotro.com/index.php?thre ... -et.23694/

Bullroarer is OPEN

Server Opening Time: Tuesday, October 14 ~12:00 PM EDT
Server Closing Time: Friday, October 17 ~3:00 PM EDT

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• Character Copy is AVAILABLE. This can be accessed through the 'Transfer' button on the BULLROARER LOTRO Launcher. If you see the hourglass symbol, please be patient, as it may take a little time to resolve.
• Player database was wiped on October 06, 2025.

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Access to Kingdoms of Harad on Bullroarer

[S]Those who have pre-purchased 'Kingdoms of Harad' will have access to this zone on the account used to purchase the expansion.[/S]

[S]If you have not purchased the expansion, you can purchase the content on Bullroarer for 10 LOTRO Points. Search for 'Quest Pack: Kingdoms of Harad' in the Preview Store.[/S]

We found an issue with the Bullroarer store offer for Kingdoms of Harad. We have applied the global token for access while we troubleshoot this problem. For the time being, you do not need to have pre-ordered or purchase the quest pack on Bullroarer. Access to the content should be freely available.

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Welcome to Update 46 - Kingdoms of Harad!

The Kingdoms of Harad stand at a crossroads, their rivalries sharpening as a greater threat gathers strength. Gandalf has come with a warning of a darkness rising in the South. The Thardúth, ancient servants of Morgoth, rise once more, harnessing powers that could unmake the balance of Middle-earth.

Adagîm

"Once a thick evergreen forest that covered the lands between the Mûr and the Ikorbân, it was home to the Kinta Elves and the Ishâkhai, Adagîm, now called the Moulder-wood, has become a nightmarish, boggy wilderness that has given over to a rot which has corrupted tree and wildlife alike. When the Ordâkhai invaded Shagâna they brought with them the Din of Stone which cracked the earth under the vale and caused a fungal blight to rise and infect the soil. The trees became hard as stone, covered in strange growths and the rivers turned to poison. The Pale Blight forced the Kintai to abandon many of their settlements as they fight to maintain and save what little untainted land remains."

Begin your journey in this new area on the east road out of Imhûlar with the quest "The Fading Grove", bestowed by Samítai.

Discussion Thread

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Performance Testing - October 15
Special Raid Focused Bullroarer Preview This Week

Please see the following forum post for more information on a planned performance tests:
More info here

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Crafting: Tier 16 Sul Madash

• Tier 16 auto-granted recipes for all professions are included with this build. Resources can be found throughout the Kingdoms of Harad.
  • Resources will be added to the Tavern NPCs for the next update.

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Release Notes - U46 - Beta #1 (New notes are in yellow):

Of Special Note

• Salutation to Faire Days Farmers Faire wrapper quest will now take 12 total days to complete rather than 15.

Festivals & Events

• A Bountiful Harvest Fall Festival wrapper quests can no longer be cancelled to prevent issues with properly receiving the quests every year.
• Ringwraith:
  • Spiderweb hotspots from ringwraith adds no longer stack effects.
  • Updated most wraith skill inductions to (hopefully) reduce or eliminate instances of the AI becoming stuck during skill execution.
  • Updated target VFX on Enervating Grip.
  • Ringwraith Shadow Lance vfx no longer displays large purple boxes when Post Processing Effects is disabled in Adv Graphics settings.

Classes & Skills

• Burglar
  • Malicious Wound can now benefit from DoT crit chance.
  • Clever Retort Outputs now have reduced critical magnitude.
  • Clever Retort now consumes Aim correctly when used.
  • Cash Out (Payout) damage variance reduced from 20% to 5%.
  • Burglar Subtle Stab now has +10% inherent bonus to critical chance as intended.
• Champion
  • Mighty Roar no longer removes Unbreakable buffs.
  • Mighty Roar now has a 10m radius and its target count has increased from 5 to 10.
  • Unbreakable buffs now reduce incoming damage up to 10% rather than increasing tactical mitigation.
  • Adamant buff has been cleaned up and now reduces all incoming damage by 5% (with additional 4% per fervour, up to 25%).
  • Armour of the Hiddenhoard Martial Combatant's Unbroken buff now lasts 60s, rather than 120s.
  • Merciful Strike damage increased ~700%.
  • Merciful Minded no longer changes the health threshold of Merciful Strike.
  • Merciful Minded Trait now gives you a 3% chance for Merciful Strike to become available regardless of target health.
  • Merciful Minded Ranks 2-3 now increase the chance of unlocking unrestricted Merciful Strike up to 10%.
  • Devastating Strike now increases your personal outgoing melee damage, rather than your target's incoming melee damage.
  • Champion Adamant now correctly consumes Fervour when used.
  • Sweeping Riposte now generates 2 fervour when used.
  • Merciful Strike now consumes up to 2 Fervour when used (but can be used without any Fervour).
  • Unbreakable's Max Morale buff is now a separate, 30s effect.
• Hunter
  • The trait "In for the Kill" now correctly increases the damage of all Hunter DoTs.
  • Heart Seeker no longer has a bleed by default, and correctly gains it from the 'In for the Kill' trait.
  • Rapid Fire T10 now applies +5% Ranged Damage (on top of prior bonuses).
• Lore-master
  • Pleasant Breeze no longer breaks target stealth when used.
  • Sign of the Wild: Rage now marks your enemy, increasing the damage they receive from all sources for 20s.
  • Lore-master Fixed some pet animation diplay issues.
  • The Lore-master variant of "To Arms" now lasts 15s, up from 10s.
• Mariner
  • Shanty skills which buff or heal your allies will no longer break them out of stealth when used.
• Minstrel
  • Gift of the Hammerhand is no longer immediate.
  • Perfect Performance: Minor Ballad now increases all damage, rather than just tactical.

Combat & Monsters

• Reduced damage on goblin sapper fire puddles.
• World Boss - Rotwing's Building Shadow->Shadowburst effect will no longer occur unless the target is in Rotwing's general vicinity.

Quests, Deeds, & Adventure Areas

• Elendil will no longer refer to you by your name when turning in 'Lost Lore of the Great Alliance,' since you're technically not present.
• Issuriel has been reminded of Mazog's correct lineage and will no longer confuse his family tree in Volume II, Book 8, Chapter 2.
• Gave Cucheron's banner for hindering the enemies' defences the correct effect during 'Instance: Midnight in the Drownholt'.
• Removed the Volume I Book 3 Foreword from the list of quests that can get shared to your Fellowship to prevent unintentionally blocking your fellowship members.
• The Gundabad Allegiance Mission "Chapter 2: The Mountain-home" now requires fewer banners. Banners now remain after being placed. Due to these changes, this Mission will be versioned on release and incomplete progress will be reset.
• Fixed a typo in TSoWaW Chapter 13.8: Last Words.
• Removed the Volume I Book 3 Foreword from the list of quests that can get shared to your Fellowship to prevent unintentionally blocking your fellowship members.
• Gave Cucheron's banner for hindering the enemies' defences the correct effect during 'Instance: Midnight in the Drownholt'.

Instances & Skirmishes

• Cosmetic pets are no longer permitted in the Dol Guldur instance group, In Their Absence instance group and Tower of Orthanc raid.
• Festival tricks are no longer permitted in the Dol Guldur instance group, In Their Absence instance group and Tower of Orthanc raid.
• The Minstrel skill "Still as Death" is no longer permitted in the Dol Gulder instance group, In Their Absence instance group and Tower of Orthanc raid.
• The Moria quest instance "Cease to Resist" now allows players to leave the instance via the initial door.

Missions & Delvings

• Weekly mission quests "On A Mission (Weekly)" and "On A Continuing Mission (Weekly)" have been updated to incorporate new missions. This will cause these mission quests to reset upon release.
• Delvings will now be available at level 160. Progress will be reset on the weekly quests "Delve Deeper", "Delve into the Darkness", and "Delve Deepest" upon launch.
• Landscape treasure caches no longer appear in the Elderslade Mission "The Roots of Decay".

PvMP/Ettenmoors

• Fixed an issue with the completion of the Tyrant and Captain-General quests being swapped. These should now complete for the correct sides.
• Tyrant's Brands and Captain-general Insignias have been deprecated, and are no longer functional. You may barter your old brands or insignias for some of their original commendation value at either Gramsfoot or Glan Vraig. These items were always a stopgap solution and were originally added when players did not have access to skill-based crowd control breakouts. Though freep classes gained skill-based breakouts years ago, creeps lagged behind. As of this update though, all creeps now have skill-based CC-breakouts, meaning every player now has access to both a "catch all" breakout skill as well as existing potions for specific kinds of CC within the Ettenmoors, allowing us to finally retire brands and insignias.
• Root potions (solvent of painful freedom, solvent of release, phial of unbinding) now grants 5s of immunity to slows as well as their existing root immunity.
• Blackarrow
  
  • At rank 2, gain access to "Focus" which will free you from any negative combat states and apply temporary immunity to crowd control and slows.
• Defiler
  
  • At rank 2, gain access to "Smelling Salts" which will free you from any negative combat states and apply temporary immunity to crowd control and slows.
• Reaver
  
  • Resilience is now accessible at rank 2.
• Stalker
  
  • At rank 2, gain access to either "Slink Away" or "Retaliate, depending on your stance, both of which will free you from any negative combat states and apply temporary immunity to crowd control and slows.
  • Slink Away will heal you and cause you to enter stealth for 3s.
  • Retaliate will damage a targeted enemy within range.
• Warleader
  
  • Purge is now a single-target cleanse skill, which can be used on yourself or an ally to remove one or two harmful effects.
  • Snap Out of It is now a self-targeted (non-AoE) skill which will free you from any negative combat states and apply temporary immunity to crowd control and slows.
• Weaver
  
  • At rank 2, gain access to "Swallow Light" which will heal you and free you from any negative combat states and apply temporary immunity to crowd control and slows.

Misc

• Misc floating objects have been grounded.
• Terrain texture issue in Entwash Vale has been fixed
• Stuck spot in Furtherholm has been fixed
• Lothlorien Docks route from Landlocked Dock-master can now be used
• Ethring is now listed as in the Ringlo Vale on stable-masters, instead of Lossarnach.
• Stuck spot in the Old Forest has been fixed.
• A stuck spot in Old Forest has been blocked off. Any characters currently still in this location will need to Milestone or /stuck to remove themselves from this location.
• Vale-ore for the Rohan quest Preparing for the Siege are no longer buried within a boulder.

Localization

• FRENCH
  • Translations for the titles Farmer, Wanderer of the Free City, and Proud will now display properly in French.
• GERMAN
  • Translations for the titles Sublime Stalwart, Dragon Slayer, and Adept of Shadows will now display in German.

Art & Avatars

• Elf and High Elves now animate correctly when using the 'Golden Passage Milestone' skill.
• Added 2 new options that will allow players to change the color of hotspot area guides.

Miscellaneous

• The Sandpiper cosmetic pet SFX will now sound like a sandpiper instead of a chicken.
• Hand-knell volume has been lowered a bit to be more in line with other instruments, and Ab2 is now closer in tone to surrounding notes.
• All avatars should now play SFX correctly when using the Milestone of the Golden Passage.

PREVIEW ONLY

• Bobo is now a Notary and no longer bestows obsolete trait points.
• Aerin is now a Clerk of Kinships.
• Kiote now gives players a Veil of the Nine Allowance.
• Scarycrow no longer offers obsolete Relic services and is just a Forge-master.
• Budgeford no longer barters for obsolete Legendary Item ...items.
• Dust's title has been changed from "Ash" to "Embers, etc." for clarity.
• Matthieu Jackedarmes in the crafting hall now trains Birding in addition to Fishing.