We don’t even know the name of this fall’s Lord of the Rings Online expansion yet, but the game is already laying down the foundation for Mordor.

In today’s 20.1.2 patch, LOTRO starts to make some adjustments that will ripple out to the expansion: “We have done some large back-end work on rating contribution calculations to allow us to prepare for the Mordor expansion, which will include a level cap increase. These changes impact the way percentage stats are determined, such as finesse, block, parry, evade, critical chance, critical defence, mitigations, masteries, and resistance. These changes should have relatively little effect on your current stats, and were made to make it easier for us to update and manage these values long into the future.”

The patch also returned the cash shop to the game (rather than an external browser), made the 10th anniversary fireworks a bit more awesome, and brought back an anniversary vendor in Bree for any tokens you have sitting around.