Welcome to our third open preview of Update 21.2.

Both the notes and the update are a work in progress, so you should expect things will change over time.

The display of some clothing / armour appearances is broken in this build for: female beorning, female human, female hobbit, dwarf, all elves, and all high elves. These character types may appear to be wearing their underclothes regardless of their actual equipment or cosmetic outfit settings. Gloves and gauntlets may also fail to appear on these characters even when the remainder of their equipment displays. Therefore, if you want to look at the appearance of an equipped item, please login or create a male human, male beorning, or male hobbit.

To enter “The Dungeons of Naerband”, you will need to complete the discovery deed. Find the sewer culvert at the base of Naerband in Talath Urui at approximately 62.0S x 19.7E.

To enter “The Court of Seregost”, you will need to complete the discovery deed. Find the door up on the ramparts of Seregost around 49.0S x 33.0E. To climb Seregost, you will need to complete the Seregost quest line, or speak to Lansu in the Eyes & Guard tavern.

If you are making a new character on Bullroarer, or have not completed your Gorgoroth allegiance gear sets on your live copied character, please visit Vastin in the Eyes & Guard tavern. For tier 1 runs, please pick up packages labeled Last Alliance and Towers appropriate for your class. For tier 2 runs, please use a mix of equipment from the Mordor R "Abyssal" or "Wyrm" packages sprinkled with equipment from Mordor I Abyssal or Wyrm packages. For tier 2 challenge runs, please use equipment from the Mordor I Abyssal or Wyrm packages.

Adjustments have been made to both The Dungeons of Naerband and The Court of Seregost to fix various mechanics and adjust difficulty balance. Please note that shadow will now only be present in the level cap version of the instances (level 115) with more shadow in the tier 2 space than in the tier 1 space.

The chests at each instance boss now have the new loot hooked up. We would love your feedback!

The Dungeons of Naerband - The cage levers should now work properly even after their first use. The cages should now properly block attacks from the caged prisoners and from players that require line of sight.

The new Daily Requests will now properly count towards Allegiance endgame daily quests.

Crafting - Crafting: A Facility and Crafting: Artisan Profession are no longer required to unlock superior facility use or the artisan crafting tier. These quests are no longer available from expert craft npcs.

Champion - Imbued legacy Strike Skill Power Cost has been adjusted above tier 59 so that it continues to improve.

The Dungeons of Naerband instance now has a map.

Wildermore Endgame - All quests will be available as choices all the time.

The Battle of Ost Celebrant - Follower Doran will bestow all of the quests immediately when you enter Ost Celebrant.

Evendim - Quest: Farmers' Bane - The wolf should always be available to advance this quest.

Summer Festial - Made it easier to target and attack Heat Wave mobs for the quest "Defeat the Heat".

Baggins Birthday - All of the story quests will now be availalbe continuously during the event.

Reputation panel - Factions displayed are now ordered from newest to oldest.

Udun - The Captains of Mornaur Lookout - Captain Shardul should appear more reliably.

Plateau of Gorgoroth Instances

Bring a full fellowship with you when you enter "The Dungeons of Naerband", a place of fire and anguish. Prepare to encounter the Maiden of Flame and face her ally, the chief torturer, in the prison of Direhold.

You will need a small fellowship to aid the rangers as they penetrate "The Court of Seregost" and struggle to thwart Lhaereth in her attempts to unleash a second Great Plague.

Filters

There is a new main menu item - Filters (alt+r default key mapping). This new panel has three tabs that let you filter out sounds, quests, and items (for the current player, or for your entire account) that you never want to receive or hear again.

Anything that you add to the Loot filtered list will not be awarded to you again (will not appear in your inventory or pending loot). To add an item, drag it from your inventory to the filtered list, or use the filter buttons in your Pending Loot panel. To remove an item drag it from the filtered list to anywhere else.

Anything you add to the Quests filtered list will no longer attempt to auto-bestow, will not appear as a quest ring on the mini-map radar, and will not appear as a quest ring over npc or mob heads. To filter a quest, in the bestowal dialog or the quest log, click the filter or account filter button at the bottom left. To remove filtering of that quest, simply drag it off of your filtered list. Quests that cannot be abandoned also cannot be filtered.

Anything you add to the Sounds filtered list will no longer play as audio in your game client. To add a sound, go to a place/situation in game where you hear the sound. Click the record button to see a list of all sounds currently playing (this list will keep updating until you click stop or close the UI). You can play any sound on this list by right or double clicking it. Drag any sound to the character or account filtered list.

Master Looter:

If the looted item quality rating meets or exceeds the quality rating of the chest, then the master looter will see an assignment dialog for the item even if the item is filtered. Assignment overrides all filters. Otherwise, the item is ignored by the master looter and converts to round-robin in the chest for follow-up looters. Need/Greed/Pass:

If the looted item quality rating meets or exceeds the quality rating of the chest, players who do not have items filtered will see the Need/Greed/Pass dialog for each item. For filtered item, players will not see the Need/Greed/Pass dialog and the response will automatically default to Pass when the timeout for the response expires. How Loot Rules work with the Filter System:

Mounts Collection

The mount collection has been revamped to match the style of the emote and pet collections and list every mount available.

Because we have many mounts that can no longer be acquired (such as pre-order and special event mounts), the mount collection has a unique feature that will cause every character to have their own mount collection maximum. If a mount is no longer available, it will not appear in the mount collection panel unless you already have that mount. So while a newly created character on a new account might only see a mount collection with 144 possible mounts, a player who has the Dusky Nimblefoot Goat for example will see a mount collection with 145 possible mounts.

Daily requests from the Expedition Organizers

There are new repeatable Daily Requests available from the Expedition Organizers in each of the Allegiance halls. Speak to Vórthi, Tancram, Glórellas, and Aster Hayward each day to accept these quests.

Talath Urui - Shackles have been excavated from the rubble and can now be reached for the quest "Breaking the Chains".

Talath Urui - The hiding spot should now be more obvious in the quest instance "Borangos the Horror".

Gorgoroth Resource Dungeons - Allegiance bonus quests no longer go away after completing an Allegiance. If you have already completed one or more Allegiances, the bonus quests will return for you.

Gorgoroth Resource Dungeons - Barad-dur: Lore of the Past no longer has an Ancient Tome hidden in rubble. Barad-dur: Gathering Relics no longer has a relic hiding in a wall.

Gorgoroth Resource Dungeons - Durthang: Gathering Relics Durthang is no longer missing a Relic.

Gorgoroth Resource Instances: The following deeds are now available: Resources of Gorgoroth, Gathering of Resources, Gathering of Resources (Intermediate), Gathering of Resources (Advanced).

The Tales of Gorgoroth Deed is now visible in your deed log as soon as at least one objectives has been completed.

Some actors in Udun region instances now have the correct species/race listed.

Some minor typos in the Elf Allegiance storyline have been corrrected.

Now if you have the Court of Lothlorien Allegiance underway, Glorfindel is phased out of Rivendell UNLESS you are in the middle of an older quest that requires him. Then he will be there until that older quest is completed.

The deeds "Scourge-slayer of Mordor" and "Scourge-slayer of Mordor (Advanced)" now carry a "Fat Spoils Box - Scourge of Gorgoroth", which contains more loot than a normal box. Players who have already completed this deed will receive the updated rewards when they log-in after the U21.2 patch.

"Deeds of Udûn" now grants rewards comparable to the meta-deeds of other regions in Gorgoroth. Players who have already completed this deed will receive the updated rewards when they log-in after the U21.2 patch.

Wolves in Mordor now properly drop Doomfold hides instead of Eorlingas hides.

The Aria of the Valar now includes a Class Deed Tome that will automatically complete trait point granting class deeds. If you have already used an Aria of the Valar, visit your class trainer and get your Class Deed Tome.

A large selection of armour that was previously invisible on your High Elf now has its proper appearance.

The Unidentified Third Age Legendary Item Box that can be acquired via barter once again correctly delivers a level 100 legendary item.

When running the Pelennor Instances: Blood of the Black Serpent, The Quays of the Harlond, and The Silent Street, at level 115, you can now receive equipment that scales up to Item Level 315.

Crafting - Doomfold Healing, Milkthistle, Conhuith, and Lhinestad Draughts now remove negative effects up to a maximum strength of level 120.

Crafting - Captain Crest and Warden Carving recipes may be executed with Universal Ingredient Packs.

Crafting - Food produced from Doomfold Cooking now has a stack size up to 100.

Crafting - Woodworkers are now able to craft Strong Boards of Doomfold Wood, Weaponsmiths are now able to craft Quality Doomfold Ingots, and Tailors are now able to craft Well-treated Doomfold Leather.

Crafting - Doomfold Jewellery recipes now only require 1 Refined Black Adamant instead of three.

Allegiances - Daily repeatable, weekly repeatable, and Resource Instances in Mordor now give a new type of Allegiance Point item. The value of allegiance points from these sources results in the same point grant, but the new AP items can be used to barter for a new tier of Allegiance Gear.

Allegiance point granting items now stack to 100.

Allegiance Cloaks no longer have an armour class requirement for use. Any class can use any cloak.

Spoils Box Scourge of Gorgoroth now carries appropriate crafting materials and barter tokens.

Ettenmoors - High Elves can now use the back doors of keeps.

Level 115 Audacity gear has been added to barter vendors in the Moors.

The Glan Vraig training dummies are now level 115.

Fixed raid vital background sizes.

Scourge-slayer of Mordor deeds will no longer incorrectly show the accelerate button since these deeds cannot be accelerated.

The Barbershop camera now zooms farther out for better visibility of Body Type option changes.