(L) Volume II: Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dûm is now live

[Cairenn]

The plans of Gorothúl, sorcerer of Dol Guldur, begin to be made clear as ancient evils stir again in the depths of Khazad-dûm. Small fellowships must form to combat this emerging threat before the hopes of the Iron Garrison and the Elves of Lothlórien are ended by the darkness. The story of The Mines of Moria continues with new quests and challenges!

• Battle a new pestilence in Dâr Narbugud - a 12 person raid, and challenge six unique encounters for high-end raid rewards.
• Retake the ancient Halls of Crafting from Mazog's Orcs and the Black Uruks of Dol Guldur in a new 6-person instance.
• Join a party of three to bring life back to the gardens of Moria in The Mirror Halls of Lumul-nar or solve the puzzle of the great water works in Nâla-dûm - The Water Wheels.

For an overview of what's in Book 8, check out the Book 8 Spotlight at lotro.com! Visit the LOTRO Lorebook to view the full release notes.

Of particular and immediate interest to our community:

User Interface
• Item roll displays are now limited to 2 rows of 5 items each. Any available items beyond that will appear as you act on the visible items.
• More UIs can be skinned, several fixes have been made.
• The client now has a /ui command that can be used to save the current layout of windows to an xml file and then load this layout.
• To save a ui layout type: /ui layout save <name>
• To load a previously saved layout: /ui layout load <name>
• In both cases the name is optional and if not specified it will just save to a file called Default_ appended with your current game window resolution. (e.q running in 800 x 600 results inDefault_800_600.layout)
• The error message and broadcast message UI boxes are now moveable via the "Ctrl+\" UI mode.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the display of the queued skill border on quickslots for disabled skills. This was especially apparent to classes with reactive skills which they may have queued knowing their executing skill would fulfill the requirements of the queued skill.
• More UIs can be skinned, several fixes have been made.
• UI Skinning reorganization of panels (backed by the SkinDefinition.txt file) has been fixed. You can now reorganize the elements within panels.
• Fixed a memory leak with skinned assets
• Fellowship invite messages will now expire on teleporting or entering an instance.
• Items will no longer erroneously be bumped from your inventory into the item overflow.
• The Ornate Yew bow will now update skill duration tooltips properly.
• Effect icons will once again pulse when they are running out of time.
• Elements in a Barter NPC's list will no longer stop graying out once they are selected.
• When examining an Item Advancement class item, the view of your equipped class item will now display title effects on it properly.
• Housing furniture will no longer have their names erroneously truncated in their tooltips.
• Fixed an issue where the housing maintenance UI seemed to not be updating properly.
• Partial mitigation tooltip values from block, parry, and evade found in the character journal now include the values gained through additional modifiers, such as legendary item relics.
• The tutorial hint for traits now blinks on the trait menu button.

[ronaldocapri]

Turbine has officially released its latest update for The Lord of the Rings Online aptly titled, "Volume 2: Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-Dûm". The latest update continues the epic storyline to track down Gorothúl, sorcerer of Dol Guldur. Along with the storyline advancement, Turbine has also added the new Summer Festival, crafting changes, wholesale body jewelry and a host of new and updated content.The plans of Gorothúl, sorcerer of Dol Guldur, begin to be made clear as ancient evils stir again in the depths of Khazad-dûm. Small fellowships must form to combat this emerging threat before the hopes of the Iron Garrison and the Elves of Lothlórien are ended by the darkness. The story of The Mines of Moria continues with new quests and challenges!