The Before the Shadow Mini Expansion is coming to the Lord of the Rings Online! The next LOTRO mini expansion had its pricing, bundles, release date, and more info released. Before the Shadow includes a new leveling experience, new systems, and more for LOTRO!
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https://www.lotro.com/guides/lotro-guide-to-delvings-en
https://www.legendarycasual.com/lotro-before-the-shadow/
Chapters:
0:00 – Overview
0:46 – Before the Shadow Content
1:20 – Upgrading to Collector’s/UFB
3:23 – New Pocket Items!
4:18 – Back to Bundle Details
5:06 – How/When You Get the Items
6:41 – Hidden Release Info
8:02 – Delving System
9:21 – Content Recap/Summary
9:45 – Cosmetics Screenshots (Thanks, Dan!)
10:50 – Summary and Conclusion
Background and end screen music is in-game LOTRO music.
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To be fair, the amount of content in this release way exceeds what I would call a "mini" expansion – it feels like a full expansion and release, with both new early game AND end game content plus books? Really impressive work for developers in an older game.
Good to mention that elk armor apply to war steed too. https://i.imgur.com/ArCrD1Q.png I think is the first time SSG doing it,
So I can't buy it through steam? I guess if I'm in ru il just have to wait 6 months to buy it with lp
As long as there are no eu server i won't buy anything.
Even though I will buy it, wish the new low level zones will be available to free players as well. I feel people will be very spread out now if the f2p has to go the old route, and now see much less people because everyone will be in the new 1-32 zones, thoughts?
Ultimates are definitely not worth 100 quid. Bonkers pricing.
Can i buy this with the ingame shop currency?
So funny… Obivuosly some of you already got their ingame items…. First they banned my LTA (like so many others) after 15 years of playing, paying and supporting the game and tell me they won´t help me with this problem!… Now I purchased the ultimate fan bundle on my f2p acc directly after the last patch day, when it was available… I got nothing ingame like it is intended to. I´m talking to the customer support for almost 1 week now and they still were not able to help me, except telling me that there are no pre-order items and I will get everything in november when the expansion releases… and also that they can´t find my purchase after letting them know that I wanna withdraw my purchase.
It´s paid, it´s in the account purchase overview… but obviously they are blind or stupid. It´s just annyoing to wait for some help from them. For some days now I get no reply anymore. -.-
I´m so angry and sad. What happend to this company and why do they treat their customers, who are willing to pay and support their beloved hobby/game, in that way!? This customer service is just a big bad joke.
The only drawback for me with this, is having to create a new character that I really didn't need, to play through it on level, since river hobbits didn't make it, and the new starter zone is just a generic all-race starter area. So I'll probably run it through this, then never use it again. At least this is true for those with all the races and classes already.
Nice video louey
Very useful info… I will likely begrudgingly buy the ultimate edition 😅
I do think the price is a little steep for a so-called "mini-expansion" idk… I think I'll just buy the standard edition and try to get the other things with LP when they eventually release them in the market.
I'm excited for this new expansion though
I'll probably just buy standard. cuz 1, I'm broke and 2, I'm OK without the cosmetics. there's other free ones in the game I like more
I'm not in the position to buy any of the bundles, atm, but I think I'll stick to the base package if anything because I honestly don't need more cosmetics or housing teleporters to a zone I'm just going to explore for fun. The only thing out of all of that I''d want is that tortoise stone, but I also think that they should just make all tortoise stones do that since it's a penalty for players wanting to slow leveling to have to choose between a slower experience vs stats from a regular pocket item. Perhaps this upgraded stone will show up in the store, though I imagine it'll come with an upgraded cost too. >.<
My only kinda complaint is that the cosmetics sets come in a single piece for torso and legs. Kinda disliked that.
Im surprised SSG didn't give Louey at least a discount to promote their content creators and so people could see what the expansion comes with mroe at first hand, sad to see that SSG doesn't support their content creators…
I play mostly on Treebeard. Given that the delving system only applies to level cap, this means it has no benefit for me. So, I'll pass and wait until I can buy it in the store.
Your audio/video is still not in sync.
The game is way too laggy and that's annoying
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That sucks the expansion is Released on the same day as gow ragnarok sad life 🙁
You forgot to talk about the Ultimate carry all selection box, I would like to know what that entails please.
Can anybody tell me if they normally release the outfits and steeds after the expansion for LOTRO points? I want that white outfit so bad but 100 bucks is a shit-ton of money… Cheers!
How's the lag these days in lotro?!
Great vid as always. I think these bundles are really just "how much do you want to support the game" Yes some will find actual value in them but for me it's about supporting continued development. If you can spare it then throw these devs some coin.
So the pocket items are confusing, are they once per account or do you get them on each character?
i bought the standard edition since the cosmetics and other stuff in the other editions didn't interest me much. i'm considering buying a rivendell supporter pack tho! great vid ✨
Great job, Lou!
Great video as always! Might finally roll a Beorning to experience the new content. 😊
Thanks for the info!
Please help. I have a problem when buying this exp.
"We're sorry, no payment methods are available for your Country and/or Currency." Here is this kind.
The point is this. The account itself is not tied to any country (in the profile). I tried paying from Estonia and Turkey (actually). Everywhere when entering my account – such an error (when trying to buy). Apparently, the account is tied somehow else. Is it possible to somehow buy this addon in my case?