i bought the all singing/dancing version of mirkwood even if i decided before i was not going to give in to buying a glorified free content update /sigh. im so easily lead.
the skirmish system itself is worth the cost, it just sounds ace, and available at LVL 30+ tunable by group size and with 3 difficulty options, random each time, usable siege weapons in some, and bosses that may decide to appear. Can you say Helms Deep here we come
and we are talking about 12 skirmishes at launch with more to be added, more content there than in some expansions ive seen in other games, 3 new 3 man instances, 1 new 6 man instance and the new 12 man raid. Hardly what id expect in a "free" update.
They didnt do a very good PR job of this expansion, it was stealthily jumped out to us, but it seems theyve been working on this rather than fixing the MoM issues. But the level of content is in no way what youd get in a content update people are saying that as they "wanted" Rohan as the next paid for expansion.