Gurvand is a nice challenge now and even the raiding kins have to bring their (A) game to the fight. I'm sure there are many ways to beat Gurvand to a bloody pulp, but I'm just going to post the way my fellow kinsmen in Animus and I fight him. Gurvand is 63 level Nemesis (Ancient Evil).

Continue reading Gurvand 2.0 Hard Mode Lotro Walkthrough

Monday, Wednesday, Friday

• Carn Dum (6)

Mondays and Thursdays

• The Rift of Nurz Ghashu (12)
• Helegrod (24)

Thursdays

• The Vile Maw (12)
• Filikul (12)

All locks reset at 6:00AM Eastern on the days stated above.

Book 8 is knocking on our door. Last week we wrote about GUARDIAN BOOK 8 CORRECTIONS and today there are some new information from Turbine's conference call:

• According to Jeffrey Steefel, the new Book 8 content patch will bring players many new small party-based instances.
• Later on in the year, players will get the opportunity to explore deeper into the southern Mirkwood area, focusing mainly on the city of Dol Guldur.
• Southern Mirkwood is not the only new area content coming this year.
• The Dwarves and Elves were asked to come back to Moria because of an "unrest" that is happening within the mines. A return to Khazad-dum!
• A major game mechanic being introduced later this year will be known as Skirmishes.They're described as dynamic instances that are aware of the party's size, and they respond accordingly, in relation to how big or small the party is. They are also repeatable, and will have multiple objectives that will give you enough incentive to do them multiple times with different sized groups.
• Plus, customizable soldiers that you can train and bring into these skirmishes.
• The level cap will increase by year's end,
• New Summer Festival will be coming with Book 8.
• Book 8 comes in June 2009

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Watch @turbine today for your chance to win 1 of 10 Moria digital edition keys (NA servers)! Playing Trivia on Twitter today! Rules: All answers must be sent to @turbine.

First Moria Digital Edition code of the day goes to @manorton and the second one goes to DYMongoose! Congrats! Next round at 1:00PM EDT.

LOTROCast is pleased to announce that it will be continuing a developer interview series with a chat with Berephon, the resident 'lore-monkey' and name maker at Turbine.

If you have ever had a question about lore integration, thought processes behind areas, or just wondered what REALLY happened to the Cat Lady submit your questions email them to LOTROCast at LOTROCast@gmail.com before Sunday, May 3rd. No promises are made that all questions will be answered but all will be considered.

If you missed the first interview in the series with Rowan, the Live Producer of LOTRO, head over to www.LOTROCast.com and check out episode 003.

Come and celebrate with Turbine 2nd anniversary - extended week of free gameplay from April 24th - April 30th, 2009.
In addition, there is a +25% bonus experience boost on mob kills for everyone playing on those days!

• Play your old characters for free!
• Get a 25% experience bonus all week long
• Defeat monsters throughout Middle-earth that will drop rare items when defeated. Exchange these items for a special gift box that will reward you with a variety of in-game items to aid you in your adventures.
• Plus! Take advantage of the special anniversary subscription offer and enjoy preciousss savings! Play LOTRO for $9.99 per month!

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The only changes that happened to the Resource Instance spaces in the latest patch was the inclusion of the new entry restrictions/timers. None of the gameplay inside the spaces have changed, nor have the monsters received a boost in difficulty. They are the same as they were previously.

Also, you are able to enter and exit those instances at will as frequently as you want as long as you have the appropriate "Kill Boss" quest active in your journal. Once that quest either fails due to expiration of the timer or completes upon turn in to the appropriate NPC, you will be barred access. Failure incurs a 2-hour retry timer on the quest.  All of these changes were detailed in the patch notes.

If you need to bail from the instance - due to either a bad pull or a bugged AI keeping you in combat, the only cost you'll incur is the time you took to run out and back in (the timer counts down regardless of being in the instance and regardless of whether or not you are online).

In a perfect world, you wouldn't have to worry about the AI bugging out in those spaces. We're investigating that but a fix for that specific issue likely won't occur until Book 8 at the earliest.

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These corrections are all in the Book 8 timeframe.

Turn the Tables has its facing requirement removed. As mentioned, the removal of the ability to turn while stunned greatly reduced the utility of this skill in an unintended manner.

Fray the Edge now functions correctly whether traited or untraited.

The Shield Wall issue is under review. It will take an engineering fix so I don't know exactly what the correction will be at this time.

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As The Bookseller went to press, the publisher said it was planning to issue Tolkien's entire back catalogue as e-books, beginning with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit and The Children of Hurin from today [20th April]. The e-books will include the maps and runes contained in the traditional print books and will be on sale at waterstones.com, harpercollinsebooks.co.uk and tolkien.co.uk. Waterstone's will have a dedicated author page featuring the e-books from today.

The Hobbit is priced £6.99, and the three individual Lord of the Rings titles as well as The Children of Húrin are priced £7.99. The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy can be bought for £19.99.

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