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Release April 13, Date Added April 13, Operating Systems. Additional Requirements Requires user registration. Originally subscription-based, it is free-to-play, with a paid VIP subscription available that provides players various perks. Four of the more prominent are access to all game regions and content not part of an expansion pack, the ability to swiftly travel between major towns, the removal of the currency cap that would otherwise hamper the economic freedom of a player, and the ability to send currency through the mail system, and make cash-on-delivery payments.
In addition to regular free updates, five expansion packs have been released to date: Mines of Moria in , Siege of Mirkwood in , Rise of Isengard in , Riders of Rohan in , and Helm's Deep on November 20, In , the NPD Group reported that the game was «the third most played massively multiplayer role-playing game» with Turbine citing their free-to-play model as the reason for the growing subscriber base. Much of the gameplay is typical of the MMO format: The player controls a character avatar which can be moved around the game world and interacts with other players, non-player computer-controlled characters or «NPCs» and other entities in the virtual world.
Camera angles can be switched between first-person and third-person options. Characters are improved by gaining levels. A character's level increases after it earns a set amount of experience points through the player versus environment or «PvE» combat and storyline adventures. Characters' abilities are improved by increasing in level, but character skills must be purchased from specified NPCs after gaining new levels. The main storyline also known as the «Epic Quest Line» is presented as a series of «Books», which consist of series of quests called «Chapters».
There were initially eight Books when the game was released, with new books added with each free content update. There are only five «wizards» in the fictional world, none of which are player-controlled. Instead, there are active skills which require «power» the equivalent of magic points. Some skills behave like magic like healing or throwing a burning ember at an enemy , but are based on «lore».
In addition, objects and artifacts are used to create effects similar to magic. As opposed to other role-playing video games, the equivalent of health or hit points in LOTRO is morale and can be raised via food, rest, music, and battle cries. The game also places a fair emphasis on cooking and farming in its crafting system, in consistency with the characterization of Hobbits in Tolkien's writings.
Other gameplay features include a fast travel system between discovered locations in-game, and a detailed quest log with a tracker and history of quests completed.
Monster players «creeps» have quests, titles, and deeds similar to regular characters. Monster characters fight against Heroes player characters of level 90 and above, and known as freeps, a portmanteau of the words «Free Peoples» in the Ettenmoors.
Heroes and monsters fight for control of five keeps in the Ettenmoors. Outposts smaller keeps are also objects of combat. Monsters and Heroes progress through 15 ranks in the Ettenmoors by defeating opponents. Higher ranks give access to better equipment and armour, health, and power ratings. Commendations are given for quest completion or enemy kills and also permit purchase of statistic improvements, skills, equipment and appearance.
Raids and groups permit faster advancement. The concept of rank farming is an alternative route some players choose to use in order to accelerate the ranking process to faster access equipment and rank promotion buffs within the Ettenmoors that have a minimum rank requirement, though it is no longer allowed and considered an abuse of game mechanics.
Most of this activity in LOTRO is achieved through the use of multiboxing with several copies of the game client run to utilise a multitude of reaver monster play characters.
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