PAX 2008: LOTRO update.

Update is used liberally here as there's not much in the way of blog-worthy news coming out of camp Turbine this PAX. They did demo Mines of Moria and the response from the gamers seems to be positive. The overwhelming response to the old "what did you think of the game?" question seems to be that Moria is huge. Really huge. Turbine showed off the usual bits and pieces of the new expansion such as the level cap being raised to 60, new legendary weapons that you can modify over time, the two new classes Warden and Rune-keeper as well as the rest of the expansion that we're already familiar with.

One thing did come out that I wasn't aware of or at least this is the first time I took notice of it. There will be the ability to join crafting guilds.

Speculation? There will be a new tier for crafters to work on. Along with this the Hef is hearing this and that about specialization in your profession. This along with the legendary items and LOTRO's affinity for reputation grinding leads one to believe we'll be seeing these crafting guilds play out like any other rep in the game. You start out nub then have to work your way to being kindred with them in order to get access to the uberness of that crafting guild.

Turbine is also accepting beta apps for Mines of Moria: clicky.

I'll continue to relay what news comes from PAX 2008 but it seems nothing groundbreaking is being dropped. We'll hear tons more once beta kicks off.