The Lord of the Rings Online – Server Maintenance Wednesday May 04 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (33.0.2)

The servers of Lord of the Rings Online will be unavailable Wednesday, May 4 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for the application of a patch.

The release notes will be available in French during maintenance.

The release notes:

Here are the Release Notes for update 33.0.2: The Yondershire, released on May 4, 2022.

News and Notes:

Quests, Instances, and Adventure Areas

Enedwaith

• Mournshaws: “Rituals of the Forest” – Oaken limbs no longer spawn beneath the ground.
• Gloomglens: “Scouring the Wood” – The Shrine to the Uch has been restored to its proper location and several patrol point locations will now update the quest properly.

Den of Pughlak

• Damage-over-time skills in Den of Pughlak have had their potency reduced.
• Many damage-over-time effects in Den of Pughlak now have lower capsespecially if they are curable by Potions/Salves/Skills.
• Monsters should no longer fall out of the world and block the instance during Hallucination sequences.
• Hallucination sub-bosses have had their status scaling reduced. This will result in lower Health, Damage, and Defense/Mitigation.
• Corrected an issue in the Drowned Tavern hallucination involving Pughlak on T3+.
• Removed exceedingly potent ‘Foggy’, ‘Soaking Wet’, and ‘Gloom’ skills from Thunder-storms.
• Removed exceedingly potent ‘Thrash’ skill from Mind-crawlers.
• ‘Aura: Shimmer’ has been changed to a Corruption and is now dispellable.
• ‘Fortified Carapace’ has been changed to a Corruption and is now dispellable.
• ‘Hypnotic Gaze’ should no longer target Highest Threat.
• ‘Sounds of the Deep’ (AoE Daze) has been removed.
• ‘Pinched’ has been changed to a Wound and is now curable.
• Kordkoth’s movement speed has been increased by 25%.
• Removed ‘Hypnotic Gaze’ skill used by Deep-toads.
• Removed Daze component from ‘Minor Tongue Whip’ skill used by Deep-toads.
• Removed ‘Lacerations’ skill from non-boss Ukhrash.

Assault on Dhurstrok

• Fixed an issue where one of Gâdh-and-Shum’s mechanics was not properly activating in Tier 4 and Tier 5.
• ‘Choking Mildew’ now has a cap of 1.
• ‘Shadow Hurl’ now deals less damage and cannot deal a Critical Hit.
• ‘Thousand Cuts’ now move 25% slower and deal slightly less damage.
• Shaikmuz’s damage has been reduced.

Yondershire

• The Quest Guide has been updated for “Gamwich Game Hunter” in Yondershire, to make it easier to find sickle-flies.

• Fixed some missing map notes in Yondershire.

• “Patrolling the Yondershire Wall” – Detection radius increased so that mounted players are able to advance the quest.

• Added Yondershire locations to the Stable-masters Collection.

• Fixed some jagged riverbanks and floating resource nodes.

Adkhât-zahhar, the Houses of Rest

• The health of bosses in Houses of Rest has been lowered and the non-health stats of bosses in Houses of Rest have been improved.
• Corrected functionality of several zone-denial damage-over-time hotspots in Houses of Rest.
• Corrected a few monsters in Solo/Duo to have their own (lower) stats.
• The Risen Lords

  • ‘Poison Splash’ is now used much more frequently and persists for a longer duration.
  • Lowered the potency of many of the damage-over-time effects in this encounter.
  • Lowered the damage of skills that target non-tank players.
  • ‘Stinging Poison’, ‘Biting Wound’, and ‘Diseased Breath’ are now curable.
  • Skills have had their cooldowns adjusted.

• Loknashra

  • ‘Dark Heart’ is now used much more frequently and persists for a longer duration.
  • ‘Blizzard‘ now properly scales its damage by Tier, with T3 being the final increase.
  • Skills have had their cooldowns adjusted.
  • Fixed the scaling of the Dwarf-wight monsters involved in this encounter.

• Vethug

  • ‘Shadow Ball’ is now used much more frequently, persists for a longer duration, and no longer applies a damage-over-time effect in addition to its zone-denial volume.
  • ‘Morgul Cleave’ no longer has an induction and has a longer cooldown.
  • Skills have had their cooldowns adjusted.

Miscellaneous

• Legendary World of Anor

  • The Ettenmoors are once again properly closed, as PvMP should not be available below the live level cap.
  • The Legendary Item maximum item level has increased to 449. Speak to any Forge Master to increase the item level on your legendary item.

• Land issues in Bree-land Homesteads have been resolved.

• Terrain issues in Gloomglens have been resolved.

• Corrected typos in French and German.
• ‘Tome of the Chestnut Corgi’ has been corrected to bind on acquire, since it is granted as a gift to every character on an account.

• Certain Dwarf structures at the Gates of Gundabad and Hadhodiant should not longer assume the appearances of other dwarf structures.

• Improvements have been made to the algorithm that checks whether opening a lockbox might exceed the cap for a given currency.