ByJustin Olivetti

Standing Stone Games is playing some catch-up with Lord of the Rings: Corsairs of Umbar’s feature list before the holiday break. Last week, it was adding more high-level quests and missions to the expansion, while today, Update 38.1.1 activates the Umbar craft guilds.

This new tier of Umbar craft guilds requires a player to be an honored member of a previous craft guild and then work their way up to this new one. If that’s not enough grind for you, in the Umbar guild, there are daily quests to rank up and work toward weekly rewards.

However, jumping through all of these hoops promise beneficial results for all players in the form of upgradable items: “Unlike standard craft guild items, this upgradable suite of items allows the crafter to make a baseline upgradable item and then trade that item freely to other players. That item may be a piece of equipment, a consumable item, or a persistent tool used in future recipes.”