By the great wheel in the north-east corner of the Waterworks, just off the passage running northwards from the Rotting Cellar to the Deep-way, a bridge leads to a great building with a colonnaded portico. In the centre of the portico is a massive door; unlike the doors in the Rotting Cellar, this one appears "usable", suggesting that it can be opened to gain access to the building!
Alas, clicking on it, even if you are at the maximum level of 60, produces the message "Your level is too low". Now this is intriguing. Other locations or sites may at times be placed in the game with a view to activation at some point in the future, but they do not normally respond in any way at all - certainly not by appearing usable at the present time. So we may assume that this location is due to be activated in the near future; probably as part of the "back to Moria" quest thread which is supposed to be part of the forthcoming Mirkwood expansion.
However, I will pass on, will all due reservations, the following entirely unsubstantiated rumour. A kinsman who happened recently to ask a GM when this door would become accessible claims to have received the answer "At level 80". If true, this is truly astonishing. We have all been assuming that the level cap would be raised to 70 with the release of the third volume, presumably entitled Riders of Rohan, towards the end of 2009. Finding that level 80 has suddenly appeared on the event horizon is, to put it mildly, disconcerting.
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I suspect that this was just a convenient way to stop players from going through this door into the incomplete content behind.
I would guess that's almost certainly the case, but then, why not simply incapacitate the doors completely, so that they don't show up as usable?
It was probably easier to add the level requirement than recode the doors completely. Perhaps it was even an experiment with level locking doors for future content?
Such a method of denying access through a door has been used in the past. I imagine it's the same here.
As to the GM's comment about level 80? That's either a sloppy comment covering ignorance or a sloppy way to mislead you about the door. Whatever the reason, I wouldn't trust the GM. GMs are great for working out in game issues like being stuck or harassment, but I wouldn't go so far as trust their comments on future content.
The GM's comment... I did specify "with all due reservations", and I wouldn't give it much credence myself but still, I couldn't quite resist passing it on...
I don't think saying level 80 means much really. If he can look at the door and see that it needs level 80, that's just an arbitrary number (if accurate). Could be four expansions from now they let everyone up to level 80.
Interesting none the less. Though I'd think they'd have to have very far reaching plans in order to complete the book. "We'd like plays to be level X when they reach Isengard" kind of thing.
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