Beta
Closed beta begins
Began September 2006
Level Cap 50
March 28, 2007 Closed beta wipe, game and forums
Pre-Open Beta
Began March 30, 2007 for Pre-Order/Founder
Level Cap 15
Characters were to be saved when game goes live
Public Open Beta
Began April 6, 2007
Shadows of Angmar
Volume 1 Books 1-8
Released April 24th, 2007
Level Cap 50
Classes available: Burgler, Captain, Champion, Guardian, Hunter, Loremaster, Minstrel
Book 9: Shores of Evendim
Released June 14, 2007
Areas Added: Evendim, Helegrod
Book 10: The City of the Kings
Released August 21, 2007
Areas Added: Annuminas city, with control points
Destiny Points added, Session play added (Chicken, Troll, Ranger)
Reputation added.
Book 11: Prisoner Of The Free Peoples
Released October 24, 2007
Areas Added: Tal-Bruinen, High Pass, Goblin-Town, The Rift
Housing implemented
Book 12: The Ashen Wastes
Released February 13, 2008
Areas Added: Delving of Fror (moors), Eastern Angmar
Cosmetics, Barbershops introduced
Book 13: Doom of the Last-King
Released April 24, 2008
Areas Added: Forochel
Hobby Fishing introduced
Book 14: The Ring-forges of Eregion
Released July 22, 2008
Areas Added: Eregion partial
Book 15: Daughter of Strife
Released November 18, 2008
Areas Added: Entrance to Mora (Eregion update)
Mines of Moria
Volume 2 Books 1-6
Released November 18, 2008
Level Cap 60
Volume 2 Book 7: Leaves of Lórien
Released March 17, 2009
Areas Added: Lothlorien
Faction Added: Galadhrim
Volume 2 Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-Dûm
Released June 23, 2009
Craft minimum level changes
Generalized drops based on level of npc/area for crit chance items
Siege of Mirkwood
Volume 2 Book 9
Released December 1, 2009
Level Cap 65
Skirmishes Introduced
Featured Article
Volume 3 Book 1: Allies of the King
Released March 01, 2010
Revamped Areas: Lonelands
Update 1: The Ride of the Grey Company
Free to Play
Areas Added: Endwaith
DX11 Support
Update 2: Echoes of the Dead
Released March 21, 2010
First-Age Level 65 Legacy Items
Radiance Removal
Instances - Stoneheight, Northcotton Farm, Lost Temple, Sari-Surma, Ost Dunhoth raid
Crafting Update - Tailor, Armourer recieve Multi-Output
Update 3: Lost Legends of Eriador
Scaled instances - Inn of the Forsaken, Halls of Night
Two Skirmishes - Offensive Attack at Dawn, The Icy Crevasse
Revamped Areas: Lonelands
Rise of Isengard
Update 4
Level Cap 75
Tier 7 Crafting
Major Stat changes, no caps, new stat Finesse
PVMP Reaver for Free to Play
Draigoch Raid
Update 5: Armies of Isengard
Instance Finder added
Track quests on radar
5 more Instances added
Update 6: Shores of the Great River
Skirmish Soldiers on Landscape
Revamped Enedwaith for 61-65.
Virtues extend to rank 14
Update 7: Shades of the Past
Moria revamp
Legendar Items - Star-lit Crystals
Fornost split and instanced
Skirmish: Storm on Methedras
Riders of Rohan
Update 8
Level Cap 85
Mounted Combat
Tier 8 Crafting
Open Tapping/Remote Looting in Rohan
PVMP Outposts and other changes
Update 9: Against the Shadow
3 man instances: Iorbar's Peak, Seat of the Great Goblin, Webs of the Scuttledells
Open Tapping/Remote Looting now everywhere
Dol Guldur scaled
Morial Revamp 2
Update 10: Against the Shadow II
New Instances: Bells of Dale, Flight to the Lonely Mountain, Fires of Smaug, Battle for Erebor
Defeat Dread removed
Warden is now agi primary
Update 11: Treachery of the White Hand
5 New Areas: Writhendowns, The Fallows, Whitshaws, High Knolls, Balewood
Class Specific Mounted Combat Skills
Hobbit Presents, VIP Portrait, Lalia shop
