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Welcome to Update 44!
Crown of Hamât
We welcome you to Update 44 the Crown of Hamât Beta! This beta includes a new 6 Player Instance, a Lalia's Market Refresh, quests, missions and more!


New Instance
Dun Shûma, The King’s Fortress (6 Player Instance)
"The hostile forces of Ekhamât have claimed Dun Shûma, the hidden fortress of Menûn Shûma III. The ancient ruin is said to hold many historical treasures of the kingdoms of Shagâna. Though Bârshud has retreated, his Umûni still stand opposed to Mizâdi's quest to claim the Crown of Hamât."

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Release Notes - U44 Beta #1:

Of Special Note

• The Chargen music (on non-Legendary severs) has been updated for our anniversary with a new track that celebrates LOTRO's musical journey!

Events

• A change to the Thorin's Hall Hard Tack event now provides an uncooked version of the dish, brew, and snack before using the ovens. You will not get the final product until the item is successfully delivered to the tables.
• We have re-worked the Combe Forester Event as follows:
  • The event will begin every hour on the hour.
  • A call will go out to Breeland when the event begins recruiting and at the 8 and 2 minutes to begin marks.
  • Axes still need to be collected.
  • Using the woodpiles, while you have the axe, grants you unrefined wood.
  • Using the competition workbenches, while you have the event axe, grants you refined wood.
  • Aldith will collect the Axe and the refined wood before you move to the next stage.
  • You must have a tool which allows skinning, universal or a Foresters Axe equipped, to skin the bears.
  • You must have a tool which allows skinning, universal or a Foresters Axe equipped, to refine the bear hides.
  • The event countdowns, cooldowns, and statuses should no longer fall out of synch with the servers.

Combat & Monsters

• Goblin Sappers in the Vales of Anduin no longer stay in overhead pose after throwing their firepots.
• Applying a new daze to an already dazed target will no longer cause the daze VFX to be removed.

Crafting

• All versions of the Umbari Feasts have been standardized to a min level of 141, with no max level.

Quests, Deeds, & Adventure Areas

• In the Elf tutorial Instance: The Refuge of Edheliona, Talagan Silvertongue will no longer turn to face you when he is kneeling.

Instances & Skirmishes

• Hotspots visually updated for clarity
• The Well of Forgetting: Ordakhai Sorcerers in the Well of Forgetting no longer attempt to use a shadow skill for which they do not have appropriate animations.
• Ost Dunhoth: Gortheron
  • Gortheron now reaches maximum power much more quickly, and his power effects are less potent and more clearly named.
• Sari-surma
  • Removed a few inductions and sped up Coldbear's overall skill usage.
  • Coldbear's reflect now has an induction and the reflect only lasts 5s.
  • Cleaned up Osan's "Essence of" skills so that it's clearer which skills are gained from which auras, and which effects are applied by each essence skill.
  • Lesser wight reflects only return 5% of incoming damage to the player.
• Setting an instance to Duo will now be based on Solo difficulty and rewards rather than 3-man values.
  • Note that duos can still freely play 3-man mode if they desire the additional challenge.

Missions & Delvings

• Rubble Piles in the Gundabad Mission "Clearing a Path" can no longer be forced to turn with the Burglar Diversion skill.

Items & Rewards

• The housing reward for the Life Unlived quest line has been updated to take the user to Raphûz and Ashami at their location as mission givers. From there players can use the lectern to access the story instances that were part of the arc.
• Barter costs have been adjusted for many pieces of generic uncommon and rare skirmish equipment bartered with marks and medallions.
• Many pieces of level 60 equipment were giving invisible stat benefits beyond what their tooltips suggested. This has been fixed, so your character stats should update in accordance with the values seen on your equipment.

PvMP/Ettenmoors

• Monster Player damage and healing have been increased by ~7.5% Monster Player traits and effects have been updated to iLvl 525 equivalent values.

Landscape

• Misc terrain texture issues in Eriador have been resolved.
• Misc deco and floating resource node issues in Khud Zagin have been fixed.
• Misc pathing issues in Utug Bur have been resolved.
• Wildermore now displays as Wildermore when entering the region, and on the stable-master panel.

Localization

• FRENCH
  • Secure the Landing of Kur Anzar - turn-in dialogue now displays properly.
  • Translations for Light damage in French have been updated.

Art & Avatars

• The command in the tooltip on the Grant the Epic Coin Flip Emote item has been corrected to read /coinflip_epic.
• Fixed a bug with guards carrying lit torches to cause terrain lighting to flicker.

Miscellaneous

• NPCs inside the House of Craft, Minas Tirith [Midsummer] will no longer use incorrect pre-battle VO.
• All Banker NPCs can now repair items.
• "Lórien now displays properly in 'The Basics of Birding' guide"
• Gamma, Brightness, and Contrast adjustments are now available in windowed mode.