Lord of the Rings Online's Book 12 update is out, and Book 13 should be ready by sometime this spring. Turbine promised a significant slice of information on Book 13 to be revealed at Codemasters' upcoming Online Connect 2008 event in Birmingham, England this March. Perhaps we can get a reporter to attend.

Aside from that, we are told Book 13 will include a new explorable landmass and a fishing system. Turbine also hinted at further tweaks to their barber shop interface, a refined looking for group system, and some kind of online leaderboards to reinforce the game's sense of community. Rumor has it, even more furniture for your homes.

It appears we're just waiting on that The Wobbit Online announcement…

Fishing? YES!


I get excited about the little things, I know...

Would be nice if we can go out on boats and fish as well.

Wobbit!

Ill try get my son to attend.He turned up wednesday for a surprise 2 weeks and I have to fight tio get on LOTR since I made the mistake of letting him try it out Hes absolutely hooked on it and has just started on the Mionster Play *groans*

Anyway he lives in Brum, so Ill ask him to go .

that would be great.

More info on book 13 *just because Eowyna wanted to know more*

Instances
Book 13 will have new story instances related to the continuation of this epic story. Turbine will also be revisiting Annuminas and making some changes to those instances, but there will not be adding any new 12- or 24-man raids for Book 13.

Horse
If you didn't get any special horse from previous festivals another horse variant will show up in Book 13. I am sure a few of you dont have a horse at this point of time, but keep saving up.

Emotes
You can expect more emotes in the Book 13

Outfit
In Book 13, we will have the option to turn off helm/cloak/shoulders/feet/hands per Outfit. So one outfit could have a cloak and no shoulder pads, while another could have shoulder pads and no cloak visible. Yes, there will be some more outfits coming your way in Book 13, although nothing quite so crazy as sandals. There are some plans to add Headgear that doesn't replace hair, like Circlets. Or even perhpas a Tiara for Eowyna.

New Region
So how will the new region be different? For this region, Turbine was challenged to develop a biome plan that was distinct from other similarly themed regions. The Book 13 region, while not a void of questless tracts of land, is quite large and should make the explorers out there happy. Both in playable space and visuals. We do know that it has a coast line.

Ettenmoors
No plans for any new sessions out in the Ettenmoors, but there are plans for another Monster Play class in Book 13. It'll be the Orc Defiler, and he'll serve a much needed Healer role for Monster Players. I am sure this will make a few Creeps excited.

New Sets
A few new sets in Book 13 are coming your way. Turbine announced that the art is pretty hot and they've really been trying to make sure the sets serve a role they haven't filled with any sets yet.

Tiara?