is Mordor the last xpac?
It seems logical, but having not played in some years or kept up with the dev roadmap, asking if anyone knows: is Mordor the last xpac?
Posted Oct 13, 2017, 7:02 PM UTC
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Mordor is the latest. And there will be new Mordor areas coming, of course. But it's anyone's guess as to what will come after this. I'm hoping they start doing more Rhovanion, like the upper Anduin, Northern Mirkwood, Laketown, Withered Heath, and actual fricking pass over the Misties, etc.
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thinking about getting my son into it (he's pretty young) and he and I could play together. just wanted to get the general consensus on whether the game still had a lot of longevity
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SSG definitely have plans beyond Mordor, but we probably won't get any reveals until early next year. Work on Mordor is still ongoing through the winter.
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I would bet so. Apparently there is a bump to new and returning player numbers. Which hopefully fuels more bumps.
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i would love laketown and actual erebor!
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South Harad.
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theory or confirmed?
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they said they will go to the east with the story - more has not been confirmed.
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Dream.
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Did you mean north? Actually I think that is called Near Harad or something like that.
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Nah, I was just kidding, but I did mean South Harad. Otherwise known as Far Harad, the Haradwaith.
I've always wondered about those lands since I was a kid starting to read Tolkien, I would love to see it represented.
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That would be so epic tho. Imagine this: "It is 2040, in the Lord of the Rings online Middle-Earths every territory has bean explored, and the news is come out, in the next patch a new land will be featured, The Dark Lands."
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Is it the last full scale Expansion? Its hard to say. The devs have only hinted at the direction of the game from here. Whether there will be full expansions like Mordor, or smaller region-by-region quest packs like they did Gondor, we have no idea. It probably depends on how the player base does with Mordor.
Where they go from here is anyone's guess. Anything within the Middle Earth at the beginning of the Fourth Age is available, including going into areas that were never seen in the books. Northern Mirkwood, Lindon, Harad, Rhun, Khand, The Tower Hills, Dale and Erebor are likely candidates, as is a new layer of the Shire during/after the Scouring and other areas of Mordor.
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I could see a non-canon xpac like Wildermore, something in the Harad, or maybe the Withered Heath/Iron Hills. Peripheral to the story but not entirely outside the Middle Earth world.
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Lake-town would be awesome. Just would have to watch my step!
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Harad or Rhun have expansion potential depending on what regions they add in smaller updates. Plus, true jungle and desert environments would be something new for the game.
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Probably not,it depends on the player reception there are many more things to do still in the lotro universe like mirkwood, shire, the last battle of dagorlad vs sauron and melkor etc. And also there are things to do in general middle earth like umbar etc.
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There’s also parts of the Shire in need of a good scouring.
see I don't know the game map vs the tolkien map well enough to know what's left out so far
In the book towards the end the hobbits come to the shire and they see that saruman and his brigands have taken over and destroyed the shire. The hobbits pretty much assemble a little militia and drive them out. So ssg will most likely(they will) have an area where the shire is all burned to the ground and you have to retake it.
EDIT: oh btw the reason the commenter said the shire needs a good "scouring" is because in the book where this happens the chapter is called "The Scouring of the Shire" It's the 18th chapter of The Return of the King.