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 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:
- Riddle Range:
This will allow you to mez a target from 40m range. - 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.
