Because you're an outsider, you'll have to (once again) prove your worth to these tribes by doing quests. Lots and lots of quests. But hey, that's what you signed up for, right?

Fortunately, for those who might be a little tired of typical questing, Turbine's experimenting heavily with phasing technology this time around. This means that the game world will begin to react to your actions, changing as you complete quests. Phasing isn't completely new to the game -- Turbine's already included it in past updates -- but the expansion will utilize it so much more than ever before.

Another nifty new feature is what Turbine is calling "mobile questgivers." These are exactly what they sound like: questgivers who travel with you so that you can turn in and advance quest chains without having to stop the story to run all the way back to town.

The expansion is filled with dozens of small improvements as well. Classes will not only be expanded as players level to 75 but receive skill and trait overhauls as Turbine strives to give players "more meaningful choices" in how they build and play their roles. Scaling instances will have their caps raised to 75 and will stock their coffers with better and more shiny loot. Crafting will head into Tier 7 with plenty of new recipes to boot.

We also learned that the virtue cap will be raised from 10 to 12, giving players more ways to increase their character's stats.

For free players, Turbine's finally opening the doors of PvMP -- Monster Play -- to all, giving out the Reaver class to everyone and selling the others in the store. Speaking of the store, we learned that Creeps will be allowed to access it for the first time. This should make many players happy and give the Ettenmoors a boost in population.

More here

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/06/09/e3-2011-a-ride-through-lotros-rise-of-isengard/

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