# The Lord of the Rings Online Update 45.2 Release Notes - Product: The Lord of the Rings Online (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/the-lord-of-the-rings-online) - Vendor: Standing Stone Games - Date: 2025-08-13 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/212500/view/528729123117336261 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/the-lord-of-the-rings-online/releases/2025-08-13-update-45.2-release-notes What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Staddle Besieged quest series with six quests plus a daily wrapper available during Farmers Faire - **added** — New Apple-picker's cosmetic rewards for Farmers Faire - **added** — Treasures in The Understaddle including pipeweed, cosmetics, dyes, and pets - **changed** — Farmers Faire Maggot's Mushroom Hunt now requires 5 mushrooms rather than 8 - **changed** — Egg Scramble Victories Tier 2 now requires 10 quest completions rather than 20 - **changed** — Maggot's Mushrooms Victories Tier 2 now requires 10 quest completions rather than 20 - **changed** — Much Drinking, Much Running and Much Eating, Much Running now require 2 successful bets per runner rather than 3 - **changed** — Egg Scramble drop rates adjusted with reduced White Eggs, greatly reduced Bad Eggs, increased colored and spotted eggs, and greatly increased Golden Egg - **changed** — Farmers Faire tokens for striped eggs reduced from 10 to 5 and for golden egg reduced from 50 to 20 - **changed** — Monster Player Reward Track quest values revised with standard quests rewarding 2500 experience, immediately repeatable quests 500, kill 50 players 7500, and weekly quest 50000 - **changed** — Grodris spawn timer extended to 2 hours between spawns - **changed** — Defeating faction keeps Grodris buff until opposition defeats her - **changed** — Flags return to exterior and interior of Lugazag and Tírith Rhaw aligned with controlling faction - **changed** — Defenders at forward camps more readily defend flags - **changed** — Underseaths exits can only be used when out of combat - **changed** — White Hand Bow-masters removed from forward camps and replaced with less potent enemy - **changed** — Mazauk and Goldhead gain skills to deal with gates - **changed** — Base resistance of gates increased significantly - **fixed** — Issue with overwriting existing spider skin with U45 update restoring original Luminescent Morgul Creeper name and appearance - **fixed** — Titles from latest Monster Play Reward Track now bestow correctly - **fixed** — Errant title on reward box for Nemesis of the Free title on Monster Play Season 2 Reward Track ##### Update 45.2 Release Notes Here are the Release Notes for Update 45.2, released on Wednesday, August 13, 2025. ##### Of Special Note: ##### New Farmer's Faire Questing! The farmers of Staddle need help! Shrews and Cave-claws have been using tunnels beneath the fields of Staddle to pillage the town. The people of Staddle are begging for stout-hearted, adventuresome folk to aid them in their time of need. Talk to Humbert Thornburrow in Bywater, or head straight to Staddle and report to Constable Tanglerush for more information. "Staddle Besieged" is a series of six quests plus a daily wrapper that is available only during the Farmers Faire. Earn Farmers Faire Tokens for helping the hobbits in need, and keep an eye out for treasures found within The Understaddle that may include pipeweed, cosmetics, dyes, or even a pet! The 2025 Farmer's Faire begins at 10:00 AM Eastern on Thursday, August 14th. ##### News and Notes: ##### Festivals and Events: - Farmers Faire returns on August 14th, 2025 with new quests in Staddle and new Apple-picker’s cosmetic rewards! Read more about the Farmer's Faire on [LOTRO.com](https://LOTRO.com). - For Farmers Faire some adjustments have been made to make the Egg Scramble and Mushroom Hunt deeds easier to complete: - Farmers Faire: Maggot's Mushroom Hunt now requires 5 mushrooms rather than 8 to complete successfully. - Egg Scramble Victories (Tier 2) now requires 10 rather than 20 quest completions. - Maggot's Mushrooms Victories (Tier 2) now requires 10 rather than 20 quest completions. - Much Drinking, Much Running and Much Eating, Much Running now require 2 successful bets per runner rather than 3. - In the Egg Scramble, the drop rates of White Eggs have been reduced. The drop rates of Bad Eggs have been greatly reduced. The drop rates of colored, spotted, and striped eggs have been increased. The drop rate of the Golden Egg has been greatly increased. - In accordance with these drop rate changes, the Farmers Faire tokens received for using the striped eggs has been reduced from 10 to 5 and the tokens received for using the golden egg has been reduced from 50 to 20. ##### PvMP and Ettenmoors: - We removed the announcement for heroes returning to Grothum and Hoarhallow, as they were occurring randomly, at best. - We revised the value of quests on the Monster Player Reward Track to make the amount of time engaging with the track more achievable. The new values are as follows: - Standard quests will reward 2500 Monster Player Reward Track Experience. - Immediately repeatable quests will reward 500 Monster Player Reward Track Experience. - The task to kill 50 players will reward 7500 Monster Player Reward Track Experience. - The weekly quest for Monster Players will reward 50000 Monster Player Reward Track Experience. - This change reduces the number of standard quests to earn a single pip along the reward track to about 8. - We have addressed an issue where the titles from the latest Monster Play Reward Track were not bestowing correctly. - We addressed the errant title on the reward box for the Nemesis of the Free title on the Monster Play Season 2 Reward Track. - Grodris' timer will extend to 2 hours between spawns. - The faction that defeats Grodris keeps the buff she grants until the opposition defeats her. - Flags will return to the exterior/interior of Lugazag and Tírith Rhaw; these align with the controlling faction and can only be used to ingress and egress from the tower when you are out of combat. - Defenders at forward camps will more readily defend the flags. - Underseaths exits can only be used when out of combat. - Relics are no longer dispelled when near Underseath exit. - You can no longer leave the Underseaths while carrying a relic. - You cannot be interrupted when deploying a siege machine. - White Hand Bow-masters will be removed from the forward camps and replaced with a less potent enemy. - Mazauk and Goldhead gain skills to deal with gate _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/212500/view/528729123117336261]_