Burglar Imbuement Guide

Welcome, here you will find an up-to-date guide for Burglar’s Legendary Items Imbuement. This guide will cover a full Legendary Item (LI) Legacy list, and which legacies to keep pre and post imbuement.

Table of Contents

• Types of Legendary Items
• Legacies List
• Imbuement Guide
• Legendary Items Swap Guide

Types of Legendary Items Needed

A Burglar needs the following Legendary Items at endgame:

• Dagger – First Age (Crafted by Weaponsmith)
• Burglar’s Tools – First Age – Class Item (Crafted by Tailor)

Legacies List

Here is the Legacy List for Burglars.

1-Hander Weapon

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy	Post-Imbued Legacy
Major	A Small Snag/Quite a Snag Damage Bonus	A Small Snag/Quite a Snag Damage Bonus
Major	Burglar Bleed Damage	Burglar Bleed Damage
Major	Critical Response Skill Damage	Critical Response Skill Damage
Major	Cunning Attack Bleed Damage	Cunning Attack Bleed Damage
Major	Feint Attack Damage	Feint Attack Damage
Major	Position Surprise Strike from Stealth	Position Surprise Strike from Stealth
Major	Subtle Stab Damage Multiplier	Subtle Stab Damage Multiplier
Major	Surprise Strike Critical Rating	Surprise Strike Critical Rating
Minor	Coup de Grâce Damage	Coup de Grâce Damage
Minor	Critical Chain Skills Critical Multiplier	Critical Chain Skills Critical Multiplier
Minor	Harmful Gamble Damage	Harmful Gamble Damage
Minor	Lucky and Gambler’s Strike Damage	Lucky and Gambler’s Strike Damage
Minor	Lucky Strike Critical Rating	Lucky Strike Critical Rating
Minor	Riddle Range	Riddle Range and Provoke Critical Chance Debuff
Minor	Subtle Stab Critical Damage	Subtle Stab Critical Damage
Minor	Trick and Trick Removal Damage	Trick and Trick Removal Damage

Burglar’s Tools (Class Item)

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy	Post-Imbued Legacy
Major	Critical Chain Skills Critical Chance	Critical Chain Skills Critical Rating
Major	Gamble Chance	Gamble Chance and Cash Out Damage
Major	Hedge Your Bet Damage	Hedge Your Bet Damage
Major	Mischievous Glee Healing	Mischievous Glee Healing
Major	Off-hand Critical Rating	Off-hand Critical Rating
Major	Positional Damage	Positional Damage
Major	Specialization Skill Critical Buff Duration	Purge Corruption Damage
Major	Skills Critical Multiplier	Skills Critical Multiplier
Major	Tricks Duration	Tricks Duration
Minor	Addle Induction Multiplier	Addle Tactical Damage Debuff
Minor	All In Melee Damage	All In Melee Damage
Minor	Clever Retort Damage and Healing	Clever Retort Damage and Healing
Minor	Coup de Grâce Mark Duration	Coup de Grâce Critical Rating
Minor	Pulse Modifier for Glee	Dust in the Eyes Miss Chance
Minor	Reveal Weakness Range	Reveal Weakness Incoming Damage Debuff
Minor	Sneak Movement Speed	Sneak Movement Speed
Minor	Surprise Strike Damage	Surprise Strike Damage

Imbuement Guide

There are 7 recommended legacies for each LI for endgame. On Burglar, I keep a set of Two Main LIs, a Dagger and Burglar Tools (Class Item). I use these 2 LIs for Red and Yellow Specs both. With this setup, only few LIs Swaps are needed for certains skills, although optional, they will be covered down below too.

LotroHQ Class Builds covers Red and Yellow Lines only, so here are the recommended Legacies for those lines, (Red and Yellow-line share same legacies).

*Note 1: All Legendary Items have 4 Major Legacies by default (with Crystal of Remembrance item). After Reforging a Legendary Item to level 30, chance of getting additional Major legacies is random, you may end up with more, or no more than 4 at all. So, if this list down below requires more than 4 Major Legacies, and you have only 4 Major Legacies, you will have to use an Imbued Legacy Replacement Scroll to cover for it, after you Imbue your Legendary Item. These special scrolls can be earned from Endgame instances, Throne of the Dread Terror Currency Barter, Hobbit Gifts, and bought from the Auction Hall or the Lotro Store.

*Note 2: Stat Legacy Scrolls (such as Legacy of Vitality) can be crafted (Melding) from Relic-Master for 1,886 Shards, or be traded from Daegoth for 250 Medallions (Barter Exchange Trader at Ost Galadh in Mirkwood).

Endgame Recommended Legacies for LI Weapon:

1-Hander Weapon

*Note: These Legacies are shared between Red and Yellow-line.

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy	Post-Imbued Legacy	Notes
Major	Burglar Bleed Damage	Burglar Bleed Damage
Major	Critical Response Skill Damage	Critical Response Skill Damage
Major	Cunning Attack Bleed Damage	Cunning Attack Bleed Damage
Major	Feint Attack Damage	Feint Attack Damage
Minor	Subtle Stab Damage Multiplier	Subtle Stab Damage Multiplier
Minor	Critical Chain Skills Critical Multiplier	Critical Chain Skills Critical Multiplier
Minor	Subtle Stab Critical Damage	Subtle Stab Critical Damage

Burglar’s Tools (Class Item)

*Note: These Legacies are shared between Red and Yellow-line.

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy	Post-Imbued Legacy	Notes
Major	Positional Damage	Positional Damage
Major	Skills Critical Multiplier	Skills Critical Multiplier
Major	Tricks Duration	Tricks Duration
Minor	Addle Induction Multiplier	Addle Tactical Damage Debuff
Minor	Reveal Weakness Range	Reveal Weakness Incoming Damage Debuff
Minor	Surprise Strike Damage	Surprise Strike Damage
Minor	Sneak Movement Speed	Sneak Movement Speed	Optional, you can have Dust Debuff instead if you can Bag Swap.

Legendary Items Swap Guide

Certain classes require certain LI swaps to gain an advantage, these are for buffs like, extra legacies to boost DPS, which you don’t have room for on Main LIs, extra Sprint Duration, making a buff last longer, or to make a Cooldown refresh faster, etc. Non-imbued Legacies have more of these advantages which Imbued Legacies have much lesser of.

Here are the Swaps needed for Burglar:

IMBUED 1-hander LI Weapon Swap

Type	Imbued Legacy
Major	Position Surprise Strike from Stealth
Minor	Coup de Grâce Damage

Explanation:

This is an optional weapon, it’s a swap needed to boost damage of 2 skills, Surprise Strike and Coup de Grace. For this weapon, you just need 2 of those legacies, with maxed Star-lits. Swap to this weapon before using those skills, and don’t forget to swap back.

IMBUED Burglar Tools (Class Item)

Type	Imbued Legacy
Major	Dust in the Eyes Miss Chance
Major	Gamble Chance and Cash Out Damage
Major	Mischievous Glee Healing
Major	Tricks Duration
Minor	All In Melee Damage
Minor	Reveal Weakness Incoming Damage Debuff
Minor	Sneak Movement Speed

Explanation: This is a utility swap Bag, it has plenty of swap legacies which are not found on the Main Class Item LI. Use this Bag for:

• Placing gambles pre-fight, or to increase daze chance from Provoke.
• Dust in the Eyes skill.
• Mischievous Glee skill if in Yellow.
• Swapping for All In skill from Blue if traited.
• Sneak skill if you don’t have this Speed legacy on Main bag.
• Rest of the legacies are place holders and are on bag to reduce chance of error on key skills if the bags are swapped wrongly.

There is an additional (although entirely optional) LI Swap for Burgs, an Non-imbued weapon. It needs the following 2 legacies:

1. Riddle Range:
   This will allow you to mez a target from 40m range.
   
2. Specialization Skill Critical Buff Duration:
   This is used as a swap for Feint Attack, making that buff last longer, but you lose out on FA damage, which is found on the Main LI. I haven’t found a good scenario to use this legacy yet, so I cannot fully recommend it.