An entire new newbie expertise is heading to Lord of the Rings Online subsequent month because of the upcoming Before the Shadow content material replace. For gamers who’re on the fence whether or not or to not drop $18 (or extra) on the mini-expansion, Standing Stone Games’ World Designer Matt “Scenario” Eliott is right here to take you on a tour by one of many two huge zones that the replace contains.

Eliott claims that Swanfleet and its sibling make up the “two biggest” areas that LOTRO’s ever launched. He mentioned that the zones complete 1500 “land blocks” (a world designer time period) value of house — for comparability, most zones within the sport are often round 500 land blocks.

It’s additionally in Swanfleet that brand-new characters have the choice of showing in an “Archet-like” space.

So when you don’t thoughts a couple of panorama spoilers and wish to get a way of the realm, try the tour beneath:

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