A Casual Stroll to Mordor

More information about the Harvest Festival Bonus Weekend events have been released!

11/11/11! That’s when these store sales start. I love binary days. Something about them seems fun! (Psst today is also a binary day!) Sales last until November 17, 2011 (which is not binary and therefore dumb).

The following items are on sale for 20% off from July 8th – July 14th, 2011. Turbine sales run from midnight to midnight eastern.

Get 50% XP Boost on all monster kills, June 23-26!

These new quests are part of the changes made to the crafting system with the Echoes of the Dead Update we received in March. Having tested these out for every vocation, I have to say, I greatly prefer them over the previous method.

We have made it to level 65 doing skirmishes with our friends!

A Welcome Back Weekend (not a full week this time) starts Thursday, December 17th and runs until Monday, December 21st.

Yesterday I purposely left my laptop on and bugged Merric to remote in and start me loading the patch during lunch. I was prepared and ready. Baby Hobbit would be asleep by 9 p.m. and I would get an hour or two to dive into the new expansion.

In preparation for Siege of Mirkwood, LOTRO-Europe is activating a 10% experience bonus starting today until the launch of the expansion on December 3rd. A great opportunity for those closing in on 60 to get a bit closer before the level cap raises to 65!

Another Welcome Back Week is upon us! This is an event where Turbine invites people who had stopped playing LOTRO to come back and give it another try for free! It’s also a great time to invite people to the multi-month payment plan that will allow them to get the Siege of Mirkwood expansion free.

I would guess that most have assisted others they aren’t in a fellowship with before. Assistance can be given in helping kill a monster or in buffing or healing a character engaged in combat. For instance, if I heal someone who’s in combat with a enemy, I will placed in combat as well even if not in a fellowship or not attacking the monster at all.

LOTRO is having a new “Welcome Back” week that allows cancelled subscribers to come back and play their LOTRO characters for free for a week.