又见面了！是时候向你们再次更新我们的计划了。在开始介绍之前再次说明一下，我是指环王OL的制作人Raninia，我将按季度给你们写信。之前的公开信见链接。
Hello again! It’s time to update y’all again on what we have going on. Before I get into that, just a reminder that I’m Raninia, the Producer on The Lord of the Rings: Online, and I plan to continue to write these letters to you on a quarterly basis. You can see my previous letter here.
前言结束，让我们谈谈4月到6月将发生什么吧！
With that preamble out of the way, let’s talk about what’s happening between April and June!
我们2022年的下一个大更新U33计划在4月下旬发布，拉开我们15周年庆典的序幕，并带来了一些重大喜讯：
Our next big update of 2022 – Update 33 – is expected for late-April, which will kick off our 15th Anniversary celebration, and bring with it a few significant surprises:
一是我们增加了一个新的地区：被称为远夏尔（Yondershire）的北部地区，这是一片人烟稀少的荒野、灌木林和沼泽地区，长期以来都是霍比特隐居者和流放者的居所。
First, we’re adding a new area: the northern region known as the Yondershire, a sparsely populated region of moor, thicket, and fen that has long been home to Hobbit recluses and troublemakers.
从牛吼者·图克年代起，远夏尔就与夏尔其他更舒适宜居的地方产生了裂隙，当地贵族罗索·萨克维尔巴金斯（Lotho Sackville-Baggins）意图欺压当地的霍比特人，尽管他们对其计划并不感冒。探索远夏尔，并体验一些更愉快的霍比特冒险，这是我们多年来首次针对夏尔的资料片！
Since the time of Bullroarer Took, the Yondershire has squabbled with the more comfortable parts of the Shire. The upstart Lotho Sackville-Baggins aims to bully the local Hobbits, but they’re none too keen on his designs. Explore the Yondershire, and experience some more delightful Hobbit adventures, our first expansion of the Shire in years!
二是我们迎回了周年庆，并增加了一个全新的节日副本，烟花乱舞（A Flurry of Fireoworks）！你被委托协助举办布雷兰有史以来最盛大的烟火表演。烟花准备进行中，所有工作都来不及做，而黄昏就要来临。你必须帮助确保每一个人都在按计划执行任务，并把他们的烟花及时送到正确的地点！如果你还不满意，我们已经为每个人都准备了一份令人兴奋的礼物，但更多具体的信息我们将在15周年庆到来之前再进行透露。
Second, we’re bringing back the Anniversary Festival, and we’re adding a whole new festival instance, A Flurry of Fireworks! You’ve been asked to aid with the greatest fireworks display that Bree-land has ever seen. Setting up for the fireworks, things have gotten behind schedule and dusk is fast approaching. You must help keep everyone on task and deliver their fireworks to the proper locations on time! And if you’re looking for a bit more, we’ve got an exciting gift to share with everyone, but we’ll have more info about that when we get closer to our 15th Anniversary.
三是我们对VIP进行了一些升级，一些小的改变暂时保密，但我很兴奋地通知各位：VIP现在将包含魔多、魔窟和三峰资料片的基础版内容。你也许感到疑惑，为什么只有这几个资料片？好吧，这与我接下来要宣布的有关。
Third, we’re making some updates to VIP. Some of the smaller changes will stay under wraps for now, but I’m excited to inform you that VIP will now include the standard versions of the Mordor, Minas Morgul, and War of Three Peaks expansions. You may be wondering, why only those expansions? Well, that brings me to my next announcement.
四是就像长期以来被请求的那样，我们对指环王OL商城进行了一些大的更改。你们已经看到了上个月发布U32“游侠与废墟”版本时高级钱包、金币上线、美德栏、种族天赋栏、职业天赋栏对全部玩家免费的改动！从U33起，我们将向所有玩家免费开放高等精灵种族，现在每个人都能选择那些见证过维林诺之美的精灵，在中土扮演旗手、斗士、盾卫者、猎人、贤者、吟游诗人、符文师、守望者或拳师！
Fourth, and long requested, we’re making some big changes to the LOTRO Store. You’ve seen some of the first changes we made a month ago with the release of Rangers and Ruins, which brought the Premium Wallet, Gold Currency Cap, and Virtue, Race, and Class trait slots for free to all players! Starting with Update 33, we’re making the High Elf race free for all players. Now everyone can play as those who beheld the beauty of Valinor, and play as a Captain, Champion, Guardian, Hunter, Lore-master, Minstrel, Rune-keeper, Warden, or Brawler through all of Middle-earth!
这一点便于带来了下面的改变：符文师、守望者和熊人职业将对所有玩家免费！在中土世界成为英雄的过程中，制作强力的符文、打出精通的组合技或解开换形的秘密，你可以做上面所说的一切！
That, conveniently enough, brings me to the next change: Rune-keepers, Wardens, and Beornings will now be available for all players to play! Craft powerful runes, create masterful gambits, or summon the secret of Beorn, as you grow your legacy as a hero in Middle-earth! And if you’d like, you can do all of the above!
最后，另一个可能是我们自指环王OL改变为免费游戏后最大的变化……这次更新后，2007年至圣盔谷资料片（含）期间指环王OL发布的所有任务、地区、副本和资料片对所有人免费。做任务，探险，随心所欲地按你自己的想法升到95级！
Finally, there’s another change that’s perhaps the biggest we’ve made since The Lord of the Rings: Online went free to play all those years ago… With this update, all quests, areas, instances, and expansions released between the original launch of LOTRO back in 2007 and up to – and including! – the release of Helm’s Deep will be available for free to everyone. Quest, explore, and craft your way to level 95 to your heart’s content!
作为周年庆的一部分，我们将在四月发布更多的公告，尽情期待！
As part of our celebration, we’ll have some more announcements lined up, stay tuned in April!
在这期间，我们将在4月13日推进传奇服Anor的进度，把那里的玩家带到被邪恶亵渎的埃西铎要塞米纳斯魔窟，等级上限提升到130。一个月之内，在5月4日，传奇服Shadowfax会更新到洛翰传说中的要塞圣盔谷，该地区已经对所有VIP免费。在6月底则将同时推进传奇服务器Treebeard和Shadowfax的进度，6月29日Treebeard服务器将第二次更新，进入幽暗密林的危险森林中，同时Shadowfax将继续前进到冈多和旧阿诺瑞恩的半壁残垣中。
During this time, we’ll be making progress on our Legendary World of Anor, bringing players there to Isildur’s desecrated fortress city of Minas Morgul, and level cap 130, on April 13th. Less than a month later, on May 4th, Shadowfax will progress to the fabled stronghold of Rohan, Helm’s Deep, and its level cap of 95, which will now be accessible to any VIP at no added cost! And finally, at the end of June Treebeard and Shadowfax will both be making further steps. On June 29th, Treebeard will make its second jump, entering the dangerous forests of the Mirkwood, and Shadowfax will continue marching forward to the half-ruined lands of Gondor and Old Anorien.
除此之外，我们还将继续降低服务器延迟、持续调整职业平衡、继续修复bug、进一步优化新传奇物品系统，并带来传奇物品奖励追踪的第二季奖池。所有的这些优化都会随每次的更新到来。
Besides all that, we’ll continue with our ongoing work to improve performance and lag, keep adjusting class balance, continue bug-fixing, further refining the new Legendary Item system, and bring Season 2 of the Legendary Item Reward Track. All these improvements will arrive with about every patch.
我们曾承诺将在15周年之际发布重大通告，现在我们确信已经实现了。但我们还保留了一些小惊喜，已经迫不及待地想在接下来的几周或几个月里与你们分享。15周年已经是一个里程碑，但我们还将尽全力创造出下一个15周年！
We promised that we would be making some big announcements for our 15th Anniversary, and we’re confident that we’ve delivered, but we still have a few tricks up our sleeves that we can’t wait to share with you in the weeks and months ahead. 15 years is quite the milestone, and we’ll do everything we can to make it 15 more!
——拉尼尼亚
-Raninia
