Update 42.4 Release Notes

Update 42.4 Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes for Update 42.4, released on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.

Of Special Note:

In preparation for the introduction of new 64-bit worlds, we are increasing the base number character slots available to VIP and premium accounts:

• VIP accounts with active subscriptions will have access to 12 free player character slots (increased from 7).

• Premium accounts will have access to 10 free player character slots (increased from 5).

• Character slots for free accounts and for Monster Play characters are unchanged.

News and Notes:

Events

• The Ill Omens event returns this year with new level cap 150 Portents! These portents will also be available via Delvings in the future. The Ill Omens Skirmish Event begins at 10:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) on January 30th and runs until 3:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) on February 19th.

• Adventurer's and Traveller's Steel-bound lootboxes contain new "Mushroom Hunter" cosmetic items including avatar cosmetics, a war-steed accessory, a frog cosmetic pet, and new housing items including a hearth and wallpaper.

• These items are also available on Rowan Raspberry for Figments of Splendour.

• Adventurer's and Traveller's Steel-bound lootboxes now contain a Mushroom Hunter's Pack and Mushroom Hunter's Corgi cosmetic pet. These items are not yet available for barter.

• The following pet and housing items are now available on on Rowan Raspberry for Figments of Splendour: Tome of the Sea-side Sand-lurker, Macaque Rock, Tall Macaque Palm, and Macaque Palm.

• Filbert Fig has retired for the season.

• Angmar and Mordor advance to level cap 65 on April 30, 2025.

• The "In Their Absence" Instance cluster will become available to play on June 4th, 2025.

• Yule Hobbit Presents have been retired for the season.

General Notes

• Most Lothlorien items bartered with Lothlorien Silver Branches and Gold Leaves now cost 20-50% fewer of those items. Since players now experience Lothlorien for shorter periods than when it originally released, it can be hard to collect enough branches and leaves before Lothlorien is no longer relevant for their characters. This change should make many Lothlorien rewards more attainable for players experiencing this zone at level 60.

• Bartered class-based ranged weapons from the new Ikorban instance cluster can now only be equipped by the class they are designed for.

• The Blue Dragon Frame, available from community events, will now display on Monster Play characters as well as Free People characters.

• Clipping issues with the Rohirrim Patron's Coffer steed have been corrected.

• Fixed an issue where Favoured Standing bonuses were not checkpointed properly. Your Favoured Standing status will now be saved between client sessions.

• We have adjusted the wording on Favoured Standing to reflect that this benefit increases the Reputation earned for Ally tier as well.

• A typo in the description of the new Favoured Standing page of the Reputation Panel has been corrected.

• The newly added stable-masters in Moria now appear on Radar and Maps.

• All stable-masters in Moria now display their title in Map tooltips.

• Swift rides from Dol Amroth (original) to Bree-town, Twenty-first Hall, and Aldburg have had their level usage requirements adjusted.

• Fixed an issue where several of the collection tabs titles were cut off in French and German.

• FixedGERMANCorrected a string table error in the German localization of the turn-in objective for the Song of Waves and Wind chapter 12.5 quest: Not An Enemy, If Not A Friend.

• An issue where personal Skirmish Trait bonuses were sometimes applying in non-Skirmish instances has been corrected.

• Boars in the the instance 'Raphuz's Challenge' now correctly advance the