New Umbar Content! - LOTRO Update 38.1 Patch Review

[@harrr53]

I'm fine with single use recipes existing, but I wish you could learn them all and have a counter in your crafting panel telling you how many uses you have left, as opposed to the current situation, where you learn one, and you have to store the rest in your inventory.

[@jamesdavidson7495]

Thanks for the update video. I don't really mind single use recipes beyond the obvious inventory issues. I do wish every time you used one of them it "ticked" toward permanently knowing the recipe. That is something that they could scale and change based on many factors. Maybe in order to permanently know one recipe you have to execute it 20 times and for another it is 100.

[@danabell2709]

Sounds like a solid step forward. Looking forward to doing the new missions.

[@DerekLippold]

Sounds like a great update. Of course, the best part though is that Dwarf Candles have been removed from Hobbit Gifts! Pretty much the best update ever. I mean, it feels bad if you get a Dwarf Candle for your Hobbit gift.

[@Sofus.]

. French and German: Redhorn Lodes is now properly translated on the Moria regional map. I find that interesting since Scenario want to work on a Moria alternative mini-expansion which could easily be Redhorn Pass, Redhorn Gate and Dimrill Stair.

[@aubreytheweirdone]

I can confirm, LOTRO Geoguessr is certainly worth the like! 🎉👍 Also, great informative Umbar video as always!

[@Stands-In-The-Fire]

I ran some Delvings to test out last night, and watched some as well on a stream. The new ones seem like if you get the wrong pull on the Malice combined with inherent mob abilities and the way they are packed in/spawn, it can be *rough*. I would not be surprised to see a tuning pass done after more players run these for a week or two. It's good to see them back though, and to have some new ones to cycle through for the weekly Mission/Delving wrappers. But, the lack of any appreciable gear from them means many of us are still going to be sitting capped on our Delving writs and getting 0s, with nothing new to spend them on. I've been considering just buying a bunch of the Morale pots simply to use some writs up. Can't get Runes with em, can't get Essences, can't get Traceries... I was hoping we'd get a new writ-spend in this one but that's evidently down the road.

[@penguycs4593]

I'm sorry but only 10 missions is pretty slim for what should be a full priced expansion.

[@toxicexplorer1382]

Fun fact: the missions don't require buying the Umbar expansion.

[@Splitspine1]

I think you need to show where the place is on the map, because it took a near 30 minutes of wandering just to find it

[@Louey7]

It's shown at 0:48!

[@Splitspine1]

@@Louey7 oh...missed that apparently

[@baceff6478]

Absolute garbage. No storyline to allegiances which are emphasized in this update. No weeklies or wrappers. Gundabad had a slow start to endgame but it still had Forge/Lofts, crafting instances, full allegiance with a storyline, geode system, and the meta "throne building" all right out of the gate. Umbar is just a big turd at the moment

[@maxmanmang]

this game needs to die and shutdown already