ByJustin Olivetti

Could Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 39 be coming very soon? It’s starting to feel that way, especially as the instance-heavy patch goes into yet another round of testing.

Standing Stone Games opened up the Bullroarer server again for additional Update 39 trials. While this week’s test doesn’t contain the Streets of Râhal Bakh three-player instance, it does include the Isle of Storms and Dahâl Huliz dungeons as well as the Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo 12-player raid.

In addition to several class changes (mostly for group play), SSG made this significant adjustment: “All offensive, fellowship-wide buffs across classes have been adjusted to apply to the entire raid. For optimized raid groups, this won’t make much of a difference to your total possible damage output, but it should make it easier to organize players in groups without forcing a DPS/everyone-else split in order to maximize the power of these buffs.”