Our team had the pleasure to talk with the guys of Warner Bros about the upcoming expansion of The Lord of the Rings Online, named Riders of Rohan. This expansion will feature the Rohan region, new mounts, mounted combat, new levels and new storyline content.

The Rohan region will be the largest region in the game so you can expect a very vast territory, with new missions and a level cap of L85. The new steeds are more detailed and their animations are better than the current horses, and the mounted combat mechanic is a completely different. Riders of Rohan will bring several hours of entertainment.

The players now have special skills while mounted, so you first have to get some distance, turn around, which is not easy as they horses’ movement is not controlled freely with your mouse, it has some turning limits to get a more realistic feeling, so once you’re done with that, you can charge against your enemies and use your skills, that you can queue and the moment it gets close enough it will automatically use it.

The learning curve is expected to be like half hour to get to do something useful on your steed to 1 hour to handle it properly, everything thanks to the missions and tutorials you will get when you get to Rohan. We played those tutorials and have to say that the mounted combat feels so unique and real that you will love running all around hitting enemies, but don’t worry, there is plenty of content to do so.

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