Turbine has announced that Lord of the Rings Online Update 5 will be released on December 12th.  The new update features a new Instance Finder as well as the epic storyline quest update Volume III Book 5: The Prince of Rohan. Update 5 also features a new three three-man and six-man (The Foundry) dungeons as well as one 12-man Raid (The Tower of Orthanc)

Turbine releases their Update 5 Instance Finder Developer Diary. This new Q&A post outlines the details behind LOTRO's new Instance (Group) finder that will make it much easier to find groups for instance encounter & skirmishes.

Although this is a step in the right direction, the initial version of instance finder will not support Raids or have the ability to specify a particular encounter.

Read The Full Developer Diary