Update 45 aka Allies & Adversaries is arriving to Lord of the Rings Online today with new PvP content for those player-versus-monster folks out there. We know you exist; we see you organizing and taunting freeps and creeps every week!

“The Ettenmoors has received significant updates with the release of a Siege mechanic and more,” Standing Stone Games says. “These changes are far-reaching and aim to alter the gameplay in the Ettenmoors by providing a large number of fluid events that can influence and tip the scale of battle. We have added more mechanics in the form of rewards for taking and holding the towers of Lugazag and Tírith Rhaw, new relics and buffs in a new area called The Underseaths, accessible by controlling a forward camp on the landscape of the Ettenmoors, and new vendors with buffs available once you take control of outposts. This is one of the largest changes made to the game play flow of the Ettenmoors in several years.”

Hunters and Burglars are also getting their controversial class, skill, and trait overhauls today, alongside the expansion of the Birding skill with 120 new birds and new regions. Now you can go birding in Gondor and Mordor if for some reason you want to do that. We’re not judging people who want to bird in Mordor. It’s a video game.

Full patch notes are already live; servers are expected back up at 1 p.m. EDT, not coincidentally when this article is live. [Update: Nope – SSG just delayed it to 2 p.m. EDT.] Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go check out the damage done to my poor Hunter.