Lord of the Rings Online expanded earlier this week with the Rise of Isengard expansion. To celebrate the launch, MMORPG.com Community Manager Mike Bitton had the opportunity to chat with Turbine's Communications Director Adam Mersky and Live Producer Aaron Campbell. Check out what they have to say about LOTRO: Rise of Isengard!

MMORPG.com: For those out there who may not be following, please give us an overview of what’s been introduced to The Lord of the Rings Online with the Rise of Isengard expansion.

Aaron Campbell: Absolutely! We have three brand new regions in the world. We’re expanding into Dunland, we’re going into the Gap of Rohan, and we’re going to Isengard itself. We’ve raised the level cap to 75. We’ve updated a lot of the classes; we’ve given them some brand new skills. We’ve changed out how (unintelligible) items are built, so we’ve got brand new sets of loot that are coming in. So, within the content that’s already in the game as well as new space, such as a new 24-person raid with Draigoch, who is a dragon, and he is massive, he’s absolutely huge.

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