New Quests: A Hunt at the Fanged Lair ;  The Hunt for Hardfang ;  Meaner, Older Pigs ;  Mean, Old Big Bloodtusk

New Items: Burnished Dunlending Chain Boots ;  Reinforced Leather Dunlending Jacket ;  Sage's Etched Brass Bracelet ;  Disused Mantle of the Dunland Soothsayer ;  Dunland Spearman's Cloak ;  Reinforced Leather Dunlending Helm

New Mobs: Big Bloodtusk

New Objects: Large Footprint

American developer Turbine Games has released details surrounding their next major content update for Free-to-Play MMO the Lord of the Rings Online. The Prince of Rohan will launch on December 12th with Update 5, and will continue the main story adding five new Isengard instances to the game.

Chief among them is a new locale called The Foundry: a new six player Isengard instance featuring three separate boss rooms.

New Quests: Daily Wood Shipment ;  A Hunt for Wolves ;  Mean, Old Pigs in Pren Gwydh ;  The Crow-thief

New Items: Fatty Boar Meat

New Mobs: Macsen ;  Hopcun ;  Louri ;  Envus ;  Myve ;  Owena

New Quests: Galtrev's Unwelcome Neighbours ;  A Brazen Chieftain ;  The Meaning of Alliance ;  Instance: The Meaning of Alliance

New Items: Scarred Surcoat of the Pren Gwydh Warrior ;  Threadbare Hat of the Dunland Healer ;  Scout's Weathered Leather Shoulder-guards

New Mobs: Tomos (Instance) ;  White Hand Overseer ;  Labourer (Galtrev) ;  Worker (Galtrev) ;  Flint Ironheart (Instance) ;  White Hand Guard

Exciting times are coming for inhabitants of Lord of the Rings Online as Turbine is getting ready to launch Update 5: Prince of Rohan. A large content update, Prince of Rohan will feature some fresh technology - the new Instance Finder - in addition to some epic new dungeon content for progression hungry players. Of course, Turbine's developers were equally excited to be showing off LotRO's new features and content, so I hopped on for a tour with Senior Producer for LotRO, Aaron Campbell, self-titled "Master of the Epic Story," Jeff Libby, and Content Designer Dan Ouelette to see what LotRO's coming update has in store.

Game systems engineer Leo "Ransroth" Zelevinsky sits down to provide players with details on the new Instance Finder coming in Update 5 in today's Lord of the Rings Online developer diary. It's a tool being created to allow players to easily form parties for instances and reward those who participate in random content. Additionally, players will be granted instance currency that can be redemed for valuable loot to better entice players into using the tool.

To get all the details on the Instance Finder, be sure to check out the entire article in the Official Dev Blog.

New Items: Map to Angmar - Imlad Balchorth ;  Ornate Heritage Rune of Legend ;  Map to Dunland - Grimbold's Camp

New Mobs: Light Armour ;  Jewellery and Cloaks ;  Cosmetics ;  Heavy Armour ;  Legendary Items ;  Crafting ;  Classic ;  Medium Armour

New Quests: Monsters in the Wild ;  Beasts for Steeds ;  The Slovenly Work of Mange-rider

New Items: Disused Robe of the Dunland Soothsayer ;  Scout's Weathered Leather Gloves

New Objects: Mauled Corpse ;  Warg-pen

New Items: Reconnaissance Report ;  Blueberry Pie Filling

New Recipes: Blueberry Pie Filling

New Quests: Thieves at the Galtrev Lumber-camp ;  Stolen Stacks of Lumber ;  Better Late than Never ;  Taking Matters into their Own Hands

New Items: Stack of Wood ;  Tracker's Thin Brass Earring ;  Threadbare Leggings of the Dunland Healer ;  Burnished Dunlending Gauntlets

New Mobs: Mari ;  Tomos

New Areas: Skirmish Camp (Galtrev) ;  Crafting Hall (Galtrev) ;  Auction Hall (Galtrev) ;  Training Hall (Galtrev) ;  Craftguilder's Hall

New Objects: Stack of Wood ;  Recovered Wood-pile