The Lord of the Rings Online Announces Helm's Deep Expansion

Michael Dunaway
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The most iconic memory I have from the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is the battle for Helm's Deep. The sheer technical scale and fidelity of that battle was practically unheard of at the time. As a nerdy teenager there was nothing I wanted more than to experience a battle of that size in a video game.

So while I myself never got around to really leveling up in the Lord of the Rings Online, the announcement of its latest expansion which marks the return to one of the series most popular places has sparked my interest.

The Lord of the Rings Online: Helm's Deep marks the 5th expansion for the popular MMO and has players directly involved in the battle for Helm's Deep (because otherwise what's the point?). The expansion has players fighting to defend HD starting at level 10, as their character enlists as a soldier in the Battle of the Hornburg, said to be the most massive conflict yet for the MMO. By participating in the fight players will earn rewards whether they win or lose. Though obviously for the sake of keeping your digital head attached to its digital body you would want to win.

Max level players can expect 10 new levels of progression, from level 85 to the new cap of 95. The increase in level cap comes with the obvious new skills as well as completely updated class specializations. Mounted combat which was introduced in the Riders of Rohan expansion will also play a key role in the latest expansion.

As with any expansion, new zones ready to be explored will be added including new areas across Western Rohan. LOTRO will also see a storyline continuation of King Théoden's restoration as rightful lord.

No official release date has been announced thus far.

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Michael Dunaway
Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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Discussion (15)

hovsep56 10 years ago
i would play lotro if they dint restrict content to paying players

Anon 10 years ago
The only place where a expansion announcement becomes a p2p rant in the comments. Lotro is a great game, period.

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corranis 10 years ago
No game developer will make a game if there is no profit of any kind.

For some games you need to pay more then for others.

That is how this thingy works....

ExHuman 10 years ago
if u like to play every class in the game and like grinding - u can play LOTRO absolutely free

Dkuang 10 years ago
We know why LoTRO failed and went free to play and we also know why LoTRO is P2Win or P2P even though its suppose to be F2P. Yes it has a pretty large player base but game would do so much better if you're not locked out of half the game if you're not a VIP or buying xpacks/items from the cash shop.

If you want to just mess around LoTRO isn't so bad, but not worth subbing imo, even though I'm a huge LoTR fan, LOTRO is a no no.

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Takerukun3 10 years ago
and the cost to progress deepens C:

Thretcha 10 years ago
What sense of irony my brother has talked about what would be most awesome to have in lotro. This was pretty much his idea ^^. Hope they don't balls it up and hit his expectations.

Shiunsai 10 years ago
Sounds good i guess. Not so good to bring me back to it, but good.

Cacalips 10 years ago
Mounted to say this expansion should be called Balls Deep. Since it is up the consumers arse.


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