Update 45.2 Release Notes

Of Special Note:

New Farmer's Faire Questing!

News and Notes:

Festivals and Events:

• [p]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 LOTRO.com.[/p][/*]
• [p]For Farmers Faire some adjustments have been made to make the Egg Scramble and Mushroom Hunt deeds easier to complete:[/p][/*]
• [p]Farmers Faire: Maggot's Mushroom Hunt now requires 5 mushrooms rather than 8 to complete successfully.[/p][/*]
• [p]Egg Scramble Victories (Tier 2) now requires 10 rather than 20 quest completions.[/p][/*]
• [p]Maggot's Mushrooms Victories (Tier 2) now requires 10 rather than 20 quest completions.[/p][/*]
• [p]Much Drinking, Much Running and Much Eating, Much Running now require 2 successful bets per runner rather than 3.[/p][/*]
• [p]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.[/p][/*]
• [p]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.[/p][/*]

PvMP and Ettenmoors:

• [p]We removed the announcement for heroes returning to Grothum and Hoarhallow, as they were occurring randomly, at best.[/p][/*]
• [p]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:[/p][/*]
• [p]Standard quests will reward 2500 Monster Player Reward Track Experience.[/p][/*]
• [p]Immediately repeatable quests will reward 500 Monster Player Reward Track Experience.[/p][/*]
• [p]The task to kill 50 players will reward 7500 Monster Player Reward Track Experience.[/p][/*]
• [p]The weekly quest for Monster Players will reward 50000 Monster Player Reward Track Experience.[/p][/*]
• [p]This change reduces the number of standard quests to earn a single pip along the reward track to about 8.[/p][/*]
• [p]We have addressed an issue where the titles from the latest Monster Play Reward Track were not bestowing correctly.[/p][/*]
• [p]We addressed the errant title on the reward box for the Nemesis of the Free title on the Monster Play Season 2 Reward Track.[/p][/*]
• [p]Grodris' timer will extend to 2 hours between spawns.[/p][/*]
• [p]The faction that defeats Grodris keeps the buff she grants until the opposition defeats her.[/p][/*]
• [p]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.[/p][/*]
• [p]Defenders at forward camps will more readily defend the flags.[/p][/*]
• [p]Underseaths exits can only be used when out of combat.[/p][/*]
• [p]Relics are no longer dispelled when near Underseath exit.[/p][/*]
• [p]You can no longer leave the Underseaths while carrying a relic.[/p][/*]
• [p]You cannot be interrupted when deploying a siege machine.[/p][/*]
• [p]White Hand Bow-masters will be removed from the forward camps and replaced with a less potent enemy.[/p][/*]
• [p]Mazauk and Goldhead gain skills to deal with gates.[/p][/*]
• [p]Mazauk now appears as a defender at Lugazag when Monster Players control the tower.[/p][/*]
• [p]Goldhead now appears as a defender at Tírith Rhaw when Players control the tower.[/p][/*]
• [p]Doors are placed behind the new defenders on the bottom floor of Tírith Rhaw and Lugazag.[/p][/*]
• [p]Broadcasts now alert players and Monster Players when the reward chests are available to claim at Thirith Rhaw and Lugazag.[/p][/*]
• [p]Levers, on either side of the doors, can only be used when out of combat and will open the doors.[/p][/*]
• [p]Defeating the defenders on the bottom floor of the tower will also open the doors.[/p][/*]
• [p]The base resistance of gates was increased significantly.[/p][/*]
• [p]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.[/p][/*]

Miscellaneous:

• [p]Captain: Removed the errant Ettenmoors Dispel effect on the improved version of the Motivating Speech.[/p][/*]
• [p]Translations for "The Gambler" have been updated in German.[/p][/*]
• [p]"Extraordinary Wanderer's Tools" now properly give their bonus rare item effect.[/p][/*]
• [p]"Magnificent Master's Resilient Leggings" have had their stats adjusted to differentiate themselves from the "Magnificent Master's Steadfast Leggings".[/p][/*]