Turbine has sent out a listing of all the happenings on the official Lord of the Rings Online site. Devs have been busy with journal entries about instances and quest notes for the upcoming free-to-play version of LOTRO. In addition, devs are looking for player input from those who enjoy playing PvP as an Orc Reaver.

Important Community Guidelines Update

As part of our preparations for next month’s launch of LOTRO Free to Play, we’ve updated our Community Guidelines. The Community Guidelines are the basic rules of conduct that users of The Lord of the Rings Online™ Forums, My LOTRO, and the LOTRO Lorebook (the "Community Sites") are required to adhere to. We strongly encourage all players, new and old, to review these guidelines.

Tell the Community Team - Orc Reaver

Do you play an Orc Reaver? Is there something you feel your class needs? How do you feel about the Reaver's skills? We’re looking for Reaver class feedback in this week’s Tell the Community Team thread. Reavers, sound off!

Developer Diary: Volume III Book 2 Quest Notes

It’s that time again, time for another edition of Quest Notes, your up-to-the-minute source for the latest and greatest news about quests in general and the Epic storyline in specific. Today’s topics include a sneak peek at Book 2 of Volume III, a behind-the-scenes look at some of the new tech and new content that you’ll be seeing there, and the unveiling of a popular feature from the Suggestions forum. So let’s peer into the near future and see what awaits our heroes! Read more in the latest Dev Diary from Jeff “MadeOfLions” Libby.

Developer Diary: Instances 2.0 (Part 5)

In this, the final entry in our series of Dev Diaries about Scaling Instances, jwbarry gives us details about the upgrades and changes to the Great Barrow, a quick summary, and then a list of everything you can find in the new Instance Join feature. Read more from Joe “jwbarry” Barry.

F2P FAQ

Throughout Beta, our Account and Customer Support teams have been fielding many questions about the various account changes and restriction related to the launch of LOTRO Free to Play. Victorie has complied an in-depth FAQ detailing this information.

Read more by heading to any of the links above.