We know how I feel about “endgame” content. Today’s Developer Diary from Lord of the Rings Online is another breath of fresh air regarding “endgame”.
Hytbold is solo endgame content in which a player gets to rebuild a destroyed village. The player’s instanced village will be phased and will consist of rotating daily quests to aid villagers to rebuild their destroyed homes and shops. The rewards are class specific, trait line specific armor sets with raid level set bonuses that are bind to account. Upon completing the village, players will be able to take part in a capstone experience that culminates the storylines of Eastern Rohan. Upon successful completion, the player will be named as Thane and considered an honorary noble of Rohan.
Riders of Rohan will use the Open Tapping system which means that if you do damage to a monster or heal those damaging the monster, you get credit for the kill. Credit isn’t determined by the amount of damage you’ve done nor are rewards determined by the damage you’ve done, so long as you’ve damaged or healed then you get credit and rewarded as if you solo killed. If you are in a group, you will get credit so long as you deal damage or heal your group members. Standing there doing nothing while your group does everything will reward you with the effort you put forth.
Remote looting is now implemented for all zones in Riders of Rohan. Remote looting means no more rolling on loot, loot is generated for every player that contributes to the kill individually. It also means no more looting gathering from corpses. All loot generated this way goes into the Pending Loot list. You must click on the Pending Loot icon to receive your shiny new loot! Remember the Pending Loot List has a life of one hour and can only hold 50 items at once, so click that Pending Loot icon often.
Riders releases next month and the more tidbits the developers release, the more interesting the expansion becomes.
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