Blue Minstrel

Blue Minstrel ‘Resolve’ Build

By Araphorn – Updated for Yondershire, U33

Trait Trees

There’s generally just one good way of traiting a Blue Minstrel, in which you get everything you need just from one tree. However, you will need a swap Yellow tree to put Anthems before the fight starts, and then swap back to Blue tree.

Here is the build for Blue tree:

You get everything important here, the damage reduction from Inspire Fellows, Composure Anthem and extra 5% Tactical Mitigation from Yellow Line. The 5% critical chance and Anthem of War from Red Line. The remaining all important traits you also get from Blue line.

Next, here is my tree for Yellow line swap for Anthems. I also use Call to Greatness skill before switching back to Blue line.

This Tree has everything you need for Max Anthems, along with Call to Greatness. It also has some healing potential in case you get stuck in Yellow.

35 Trait Points Build for Legendary Servers

60 Trait Points Build for Beginners

EXTRA: A Red-line Trait Build for Landscape, since LotroHQ does not have a dedicated Red-line Build page yet.

Red-Line 35 Trait Points Build for Legendary Servers

Red-Line 60 Trait Points Build for Beginners

Virtues

These are the virtues I use to reach the Stat Goals. I use mostly Mastery/Outgoing Healing, Critical Rating and Finesse options, but if need be, some of them can be switched to more Defensive options as well, depending on the type of fight. More explained down below.

Here are the Virtues which go along with the Stat Goals:

1. Honesty (Great for Outgoing Healing and Critical Rating)
2. Confidence (Great for Critical Rating and Finesse)
3. Wit (Great for Finesse, Mastery and Critical Rating)
4. Fidelity (Great for Vitality + Tactical Mit)
5. Loyalty (Great for Vitality and survival)

If you don’t have these virtues, here are some alternatives:

• Wisdom (Good for extra Mastery and Finesse)
• Tolerance (Gives great amount of Tactical Mit, decent Physical Mit and Resistance)
• Innocence (Gives great amount of Physical Mit, decent Tactical Mit Mit and Resistance)

Legendary Items

With U30.3 Legendary Item revamp, not much has changed for Healing Minstrel, they have pretty much the same legacies as before. One thing to note is that Weapon swapping is disabled in combat now, and Minstrels cannot swap books to refresh Anthems during the fight, and should just refresh them from Main LI itself.

1-Hander Weapon

Type	Sockets
Heraldic Tracery	Heraldry of the Owl
Word of Power	Area Effect Healing
Word of Power	Area Effect Healing Criticals
Word of Mastery	Anthem of Composure Resistance & Tactical Mitigation
Word of Mastery	Anthem Duration
Word of Mastery	Anthem of War Damage Buffs
Word of Mastery	Call to Ioreth Cooldown & Critical Multiplier Bonus
Word of Mastery	Cry of the Chorus Cooldown
Word of Mastery	Rally Cooldown
Word of Craft	Heroic Precision
Word of Craft	Heroic Precision

Minstrel’s Songbook (Class Item)

Type	Sockets
Heraldic Tracery	Heraldry of the Owl
Word of Power	Healing Over Time Criticals
Word of Power	Single Target Healing Criticals
Word of Power	Skill Induction Speed
Word of Mastery	Bolster Courage Healing
Word of Mastery	Healing Skills Induction Time & Critical Chance
Word of Mastery	Inspire Fellows Healing
Word of Mastery	Raise the Spirit Healing
Word of Mastery	Soliloquy of Spirit Healing
Word of Mastery	Triumphant Spirit Cooldown & Critical Magnitude
Word of Craft	Perfect Healing
Word of Craft	Perfect Healing

Rotation

Here is what I do on Minstrel, but before I proceed I will give a little bit of important information which is required to know in order to be a good and effective healer.

Following a strict rotation will not make you an effective healer, but what will is your capacity and timing to react, to heal the person which needs the heal. For that, you need to be on the constant lookout (knowing mechanics helps you predict who will take the next big hit also), you need to be able to select that person which needs attention fast enough. So, to conclude, being able to react fast enough to who’s taking damage and following a good rotation to counter that damage, makes an effective healer.

Pre-combat buffs:

1. Swap to Yellow-line and give all Anthems to your group:
   • Use Anthem of War.
   • Use Anthem of Prowess
   • Use Anthem of Composure
   • Now use Anthem of Melody
   • Lastly, use Call to Greatness
2. Swap back to Blue.
3. Do Soliloquy of Spirit (SoS) x3 times on Tank (if you have time).
4. Then do Major Ballad x3 times and put Coda of Resonance (Coda) on Tank, this also gives a +incoming heal boost to your fellowship.
5. After you use Coda, you have roughly 1 second of time to do another Anthem before it times out, so use Anthem of Third Age now. (If you didn’t get it, that’s fine, do it on next step).
6. Now use Cry of Chorus (Chorus) – Raise the Spirit (RtS) – Inspire Fellows. This concludes your pre-buffing (If you missed Anthem of Third Age earlier, use it now).

In-fight Rotation:

1. If the fight is going smooth, and no one needs healing, identify people in group which are likely to take the most damage. These usually are:
   • The tank
   • Champs
   • Wardens
   • Burgs
2. After you have identified, keep stacks of SoS on them as much as you can. SoS – Major Ballad – SoS – Major Ballad. I always try to keep 3 Stacks of SoS on tank and champs.
3. If someone needs focused/emergency healing, this could be your tank or some DPS class, I use a Single-target bubble (Gift of Hammerhand) if I have it available. Next I use Coda – Chorus – RtS – Bolster – Chord – Perfect Ending (if available). This usually brings them up back to a safe level.
4. For emergency group heals, where everyone needs a top up, I use Call to Ioreth – Chorus (if available) – Triumphant Spirit – Chord – Inspire Fellows. Group-wide bubble (Legend of Hammerhand) if required also. Use Fellowship’s Heart if you still cannot keep up with group damage.
5. Refresh Anthem of War and Composure every 2 minutes. And, keep your Anthem of Third Age active also.
6. Don’t use induction skills such as Bolster Courage over and over again if there’s no need, instead try to keep SoS stacks on people who take the most damage. SoS – Major Ballad.
7. Use Inspire Fellows often to keep the -incoming damage buff on group going.
8. Use Chords and Perfect Ending on people when they require the heals.
9. Use Cry of Chorus to cut animation of skills, ideally it should be used after Codas, to quickly bring Ballads back up again.
10. If you yourself need healing, use Self bubble first (Song of Hammerhand), and then Bolster – Chord.

Consumables

There are the consumables to use on Minstrel:

Updated as of U33.

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