Patience made this announcement about a new patcher you can download for major updates:

Greetings!

Our players have often asked if there's a way to pre-patch while the servers are down, or download a patch on a different computer and then transfer it to the one their game is installed on via USB drive, CD, etc.

We're ready to start providing a separate updater, and thought Roheryn was a good place to start. The first one we're making available is a patch to the recent Book 10 update.

Our normal patch names will be BookX to BookX, but since this one is a patch to the existing Book, it's named Book10 to Book10. On the live worlds, this kind of naming conflict won't happen. It's really only on Roheryn where you'll see this. Additionally, the current plan is to provide the patch only for major updates - so there will be a Book 9 to Book 10 updater for the live worlds, followed by Book 10 to Book 11, and so on.

The downloadable patch means you can download it and patch your client before the update goes live on the servers, saving you time when they come back up. It also means you can download the patch on a computer that you don't have LOTRO installed on (i.e. your work computer), transfer the patch to a disk or device, and then run it on the computer with a LOTRO client to update it.

To download the patch, click here!

Please note that this file will ONLY update a Roheryn client installation. It will not update the normal version of the client for the rest of the worlds.

Please let us know if you have feedback about the new updater or intructions! Thanks!

-Meghan