Loving Moria! The two new classes are excellent additions to the game, and while some Tolkien purists have railed on the Runekeeper and it's lore-bending tendencies, it absolutely rocks the fun scale! The new warden, likewise, is an incredibly fun and challenging new type of character to play; the gambit system requires some additional strategy besides the usual button mash-fest.

The expansion areas themselves are gorgeous! Eregion is rolling hills and quaint ruins of bygone ages. Moria is simply astounding in it's scale! It seems to sprawl in all directions at once, at you get the distinct feeling that you are walking through a place where a civilization lived and thrived for centuries. The architectural design is consistent, and consistently great! Once you manage to find your way through Moria, the region of Lorien is breath-takingly gorgeous, with gently undulating hills covered in thick golden malorn forests!

The art direction team deserves special recognition for a great job on the new expansion. Most of the quests are quite fun, and don't seem altogether "grindy", although there's only so many ways of sending you out for pig parts or bug bodies. The Legendary Item system is outstanding and, once you get the hang of it, quite fun trying to level-up and get the most out of your newly forged weapons! If it's not quite what you want, deconstruct it, cannibalize it for juicy parts, and start another one!

The stability issues and bugs are being addressed in a timely fashion; Turbine has been exemplary in identifying and fixing real game-breakers quickly. Once the stability and latency issues sort themselves out, Moria will be the smooth-sailing, extra fun smothered in win sauce experience it was meant to be!