Welcome, here you will find an up-to-date guide for Captain’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 Captain needs the following Legendary Items at endgame:
- 2-hander Sword / Halberd – First Age (Crafted by Weaponsmith)
- 1-hander Sword – First Age (Crafted by Weaponsmith)
- x2 Captain’s Emblems – First Age – Class Item (Crafted by Metalsmith)
Legacies List
Here is the Legacy List for Captains.
1-Hander & 2-Hander Weapon
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Battle-shout Damage | Battle-shout Damage |
| Major | Captain Area-effect Healing | Captain Area-effect Healing |
| Major | Cutting Attack Damage | Cutting Attack Damage |
| Major | Grave Wound Damage | Grave Wound Damage |
| Major | Melee Skills Critical Damage | Melee Skills Critical Damage |
| Major | Melee Skill Power Cost | Melee Skill Power Cost |
| Major | Pressing Attack Max Targets | Battle-hardened Outgoing Healing Buff |
| Major | Pressing Attack and Devastating Blow Critical Rating | Pressing Attack and Devastating Blow Critical Rating |
| Minor | Battle States and Defeat Response Duration | Battle-hardened Incoming Damage and IDOME |
| Minor | Blade of Elendil Damage | Blade of Elendil Damage |
| Minor | Bleed Damage | Bleed Damage |
| Minor | Cry Power Cost | Cry Power Cost |
| Minor | Defensive Strike Armour Buff | Defensive Strike Armour Buff |
| Minor | Inspire Damage | Inspire Damage |
| Minor | Make Haste Duration | Battle-readied Damage Buff |
| Minor | Muster Courage Fear Resist | Muster Courage Fear Resist and Shield/Song/Blade-brother Crit Defence |
| Minor | Routing Cry Damage | Routing Cry Damage |
Captain’s Emblem (Class Item)
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Healing Critical Magnitude | Healing Critical Magnitude |
| Major | Melee Skills Healing | Melee Skills Healing |
| Major | Noble Mark Damage | Noble Mark Damage |
| Major | Rallying Cry Healing | Rallying Cry Healing |
| Major | Sure Strike Damage | Sure Strike Damage |
| Major | Valiant Strike Healing | Valiant Strike Healing |
| Major | Vocal Skills Healing | Vocal Skills Healing |
| Major | Words of Courage Power/Morale Cost | Words of Courage Power/Morale Cost |
| Minor | Bleed Pulses | Bleed Skills Critical Damage |
| Minor | Devastating Blow and Pressing Attack Damage | Devastating Blow and Pressing Attack Damage |
| Minor | Last Stand Heal | Last Stand Heal |
| Minor | Light-type Damage | Light-type Damage |
| Minor | Shadow’s Lament Damage | Shadow’s Lament Damage |
| Minor | Shield of the Dúnedain Duration | Shield of the Dúnedain Incoming Healing |
| Minor | Time of Need Buff Duration | Time of Need Buff Duration |
| Minor | Words of Courage Healing | Words of Courage Healing |
Imbuement Guide
There are 7 recommended legacies for each LI for endgame. On Captain, you will need a separate set of LIs for Red and Yellow-line both. For Red-line, you will need a Two-hander Weapon and a Red Line dedicated Emblem. Lastly, for Yellow-line (tanking), you will need a One-hander Sword, a Yellow Line dedicated Emblem and a Shield.
LotroHQ Class Builds covers Red and Yellow lines exclusively, so here are the recommended Legacies for those lines, (however, Yellow-line LIs can also be perfectly used in Blue Line as well).
*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 LIs:
Red Line Imbuement
2-Hander Weapon
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major | Captain Area-effect Healing | Captain Area-effect Healing | |
| Major | Cutting Attack Damage | Cutting Attack Damage | |
| Major | Grave Wound Damage | Grave Wound Damage | |
| Major | Melee Skills Critical Damage | Melee Skills Critical Damage | |
| Minor | Battle States and Defeat Response Duration | Battle-hardened Incoming Damage and IDOME | |
| Minor | Bleed Damage | Bleed Damage | |
| Minor | Make Haste Duration | Battle-readied Damage Buff |
Captain’s Emblem (Class Item)
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major | Healing Critical Magnitude | Healing Critical Magnitude | |
| Major | Rallying Cry Healing | Rallying Cry Healing | |
| Major | Sure Strike Damage | Sure Strike Damage | |
| Major | Vocal Skills Healing | Vocal Skills Healing | |
| Minor | Bleed Pulses | Bleed Skills Critical Damage | |
| Minor | Devastating Blow and Pressing Attack Damage | Devastating Blow and Pressing Attack Damage | |
| Minor | Shadow’s Lament Damage | Shadow’s Lament Damage |
Yellow Line Imbuement
1-Hander Weapon
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major | Captain Area-effect Healing | Captain Area-effect Healing | |
| Major | Pressing Attack Max Targets | Battle-hardened Outgoing Healing Buff | |
| Minor | Battle States and Defeat Response Duration | Battle-hardened Incoming Damage and IDOME | |
| Minor | Defensive Strike Armour Buff | Defensive Strike Armour Buff | |
| Minor | Make Haste Duration | Battle-readied Damage Buff | |
| Minor | Muster Courage Fear Resist | Muster Courage Fear Resist | |
| Minor | Legacy of Vitality | Legacy of Vitality | Preferably placed pre-imbue. |
Captain’s Emblem (Class Item)
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major | Healing Critical Magnitude | Healing Critical Magnitude | |
| Major | Melee Skills Healing | Melee Skills Healing | |
| Major | Rallying Cry Healing | Rallying Cry Healing | |
| Major | Vocal Skills Healing | Vocal Skills Healing | |
| Minor | Last Stand Heal | Last Stand Heal | |
| Minor | Words of Courage Healing | Words of Courage Healing | |
| Minor | Legacy of Vitality | Legacy of Vitality | Preferably placed pre-imbue. |
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 Captain:
Non-Imbued 1-hander LI Weapon Swap
| Type | Non-Imbued Legacy |
|---|---|
| Minor | Make Haste Duration (Rest 5 legacies can be random) |
Explanation:
This is an important weapon swap needed to make Make Haste buff last longer, up to 45s. It will be quite useful in endgame.
Non-Imbued Captain’s Emblem (Class Item)
| Type | Imbued Legacy |
|---|---|
| Minor | Shield of the Dúnedain Duration |
| Minor | Bleed Pulses |
| Minor | Time of Need Buff Duration (Rest 4 legacies can be random) |
Explanation: This is also a very important Swap for Tanking Captains:
- This Emblem should be swapped to before placing Shield of the Dunedain skill on yourself, which makes it last 10s longer, quite important while Tanking.
- Bleed Pulses: Explained in Class Build, very important swap to have.
- This Emblem can also be swapped to before using Time of Need, which makes that skill last longer too, although this is quite optional.
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