Here are the Release Notes for Update 45.2, released on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.

The farmers of Staddle need help! Shrews and Cave-claws have been using tunnels beneath the fields of Staddle to pillage the town. The people of Staddle are begging for stout-hearted, adventuresome folk to aid them in their time of need. Talk to Humbert Thornburrow in Bywater, or head straight to Staddle and report to Constable Tanglerush for more information.

"Staddle Besieged" is a series of six quests plus a daily wrapper that is available only during the Farmers Faire. Earn Farmers Faire Tokens for helping the hobbits in need, and keep an eye out for treasures found within The Understaddle that may include pipeweed, cosmetics, dyes, or even a pet!

The 2025 Farmer's Faire begins at 10:00 AM Eastern on Thursday, August 14th.

• Farmers Faire returns on August 14th, 2025 with new quests in Staddle and new Apple-picker’s cosmetic rewards! Read more about the Farmer's Faire on https://LOTRO.com.

• For Farmers Faire some adjustments have been made to make the Egg Scramble and Mushroom Hunt deeds easier to complete:

• Farmers Faire: Maggot's Mushroom Hunt now requires 5 mushrooms rather than 8 to complete successfully.

• Egg Scramble Victories (Tier 2) now requires 10 rather than 20 quest completions.

• Maggot's Mushrooms Victories (Tier 2) now requires 10 rather than 20 quest completions.

• Much Drinking, Much Running and Much Eating, Much Running now require 2 successful bets per runner rather than 3.

• In the Egg Scramble, the drop rates of White Eggs have been reduced. The drop rates of Bad Eggs have been greatly reduced. The drop rates of colored, spotted, and striped eggs have been increased. The drop rate of the Golden Egg has been greatly increased.

• In accordance with these drop rate changes, the Farmers Faire tokens received for using the striped eggs has been reduced from 10 to 5 and the tokens received for using the golden egg has been reduced from 50 to 20.

• We removed the announcement for heroes returning to Grothum and Hoarhallow, as they were occurring randomly, at best.

• We revised the value of quests on the Monster Player Reward Track to make the amount of time engaging with the track more achievable. The new values are as follows:

• Standard quests will reward 2500 Monster Player Reward Track Experience.

• Immediately repeatable quests will reward 500 Monster Player Reward Track Experience.

• The task to kill 50 players will reward 7500 Monster Player Reward Track Experience.

• The weekly quest for Monster Players will reward 50000 Monster Player Reward Track Experience.

• This change reduces the number of standard quests to earn a single pip along the reward track to about 8.

• We have addressed an issue where the titles from the latest Monster Play Reward Track were not bestowing correctly.

• We addressed the errant title on the reward box for the Nemesis of the Free title on the Monster Play Season 2 Reward Track.

• Grodris' timer will extend to 2 hours between spawns.

• The faction that defeats Grodris keeps the buff she grants until the opposition defeats her.

• Flags will return to the exterior/interior of Lugazag and Tírith Rhaw; these align with the controlling faction and can only be used to ingress and egress from the tower when you are out of combat.

• Defenders at forward camps will more readily defend the flags.

• Underseaths exits can only be used when out of combat.

• Relics are no longer dispelled when near Underseath exit.

• You can no longer leave the Underseaths while carrying a relic.

• You cannot be interrupted when deploying a siege machine.

• White Hand Bow-masters will be removed from the forward camps and replaced with a less potent enemy.

• Mazauk and Goldhead gain skills to deal with gates.

• Mazauk now appears as a defender at Lugazag when Monster Players control the tower.

• Goldhead now appears as a defender at Tírith Rhaw when Players control the tower.

• Doors are placed behind the new defenders on the bottom floor of Tírith Rhaw and Lugazag.

• Broadcasts now alert players and Monster Players when the reward chests are available to claim at Thirith Rhaw and Lugazag.

• Levers, on either side of the doors, can only be used when out of combat and will open the doors.

• Defeating the defenders on the bottom floor of the tower will also open the doors.

• The base resistance of gates was increased significantly.

• Fixed an issue with overwriting an existing spider skin with the U45 update. This sets the name and the appearance back to the original Luminescent Morgul Creeper.

• Captain: Removed the errant Ettenmoors Dispel effect on the improved version of the Motivating Speech.

• Translations for "The Gambler" have been updated in German.

• "Extraordinary Wanderer's Tools" now properly give their bonus rare item effect.

• "Magnificent Master's Resilient Leggings" have had their stats adjusted to differentiate themselves from the "Magnificent Master's Steadfast Leggings".

Here are the release notes for Update 45.1, released on Wednesday, July 30th, 2025.

• An errant multiplier for two-player groups in the Ettenmoors has been corrected. The error was reducing the amount of Infamy/Glory to 5% instead of providing a 5% bonus before dividing the amount of Infamy/Glory earned.

• Keys rewarded at Lugazag and Tirith Rhaw for capturing the location are now unique.

• The keys of Lugazag and Tirith Rhaw now grant properly when flipping a keep to your faction.

• Chests in the Towers that grant rewards will now lock so they can be used by other players.

• Rewards from chests at the Towers now provide a decaying reward package item. This is done to ensure that the loot in the chest is able to respawn.

• Players and Monster Players will no longer trigger aligned cauldrons at the towers of Lugazag and Tirith Rhaw.

• Gates will no longer hold players in combat after being attacked at Tirith Rhaw and Lugazag.

• Health bonuses on the gate now stack correctly and apply a lesser value.

• Tomes of Defence have been added to Outpost barterers for 175 Marta for both Free People and Monster Players.

• Burglar's "Hiding in Plain Sight" now correctly activates "Sneak" within the Ettenmoors.

• The Forester Crafting Event will now provide its correct reward.

• We have removed the 15th Legendary Items Reward Track that debuts August 20th from the 32-bit game worlds. We do not want players to begin this track just prior to world closing and have to restart progress on their 64-bit game world. The 15th LI Reward Track begins at 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) on August 20th. Reminder that Character Creation is no longer available on our 32-bit game worlds.

• Birding

  • The Anduin Eagle and Helmed Mew now properly describe that they can be found in Anórien in addition to the Eastfold.

  • The Bird in the Hand and Handful of Bird Feed Baubles now properly display in the Collections Panel.

  • The Deed "The Rarest of Birds in Gondor and Mordor" now properly bestows.

• Burglar

  • "A Sure Thing" damage now correctly applies to your current target.

  • Clever Retort's "Malicious Wound" now benefits from damage over time pulse bonuses.

  • Clever Retort now correctly benefits from bonuses to Fellowship Maneouvre potency, including those from Burglar signals.

  • Well-placed Strike now benefits from Critical Magnitude bonuses.

  • Exposed Throat now correctly benefits from single-target critical chance and magnitude bonuses.

• Hunter

  • Kingsfoil Healing no longer incorrectly turns into Purge Poison when Bountiful Purge is traited.

  • Split Shot now benefits from Suppressing Stings as intended.

  • Strength of the Earth now requires you to stop moving before using it.

  • Distracting Shot now correctly interacts with the Volley trait.

  • Call to Greatness now resets the cooldown of Horn of Orome for yellow line Hunters.

  • The trait Perseverance now correctly requires you to first trait "Press Onward". 

• Mariner

  • Disarming Strike now correctly reduces Tactical Damage rather then Ranged Damage.