Guardian Imbuement Guide

Welcome, here you will find an up-to-date guide for Guardian’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 Swaps Guide

Types of Legendary Items Needed

A Guardian (Blue and Yellow Line) needs the following Legendary Items at endgame:

• One-handed Sword – First Age (Crafted by Weaponsmith)
• Guardian’s Belt – First Age – Class Item (Crafted by Metalsmith)

* *Note: Blue and Yellow line share the same LIs/Legacies. Red Line builds are not covered by LotroHQ due to underperformance of the line.

Legacies List

Here is the Legacy List for Guardians.

1-Hander Weapon

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy	Post-Imbued Legacy
Major	Area Effect Skill Damage	Area Effect Skill Damage
Major	Bash Damage	Bash Damage
Major	Brutal Assault Damage	Brutal Assault Damage
Major	Guardian’s Pledge Cooldown	Guardian’s Pledge Cooldown and Retaliation Damage
Major	Overwhelm Critical Rating	Overwhelm Critical Rating
Major	Overwhelm Damage	Overwhelm Damage
Major	Guardian’s Ward Duration	Sweeping Cut Critical Rating
Major	Sweeping Cut Damage	Sweeping Cut Damage
Major	Vexing Blow Damage	Vexing Blow Damage
Major	Whirling Retaliation Damage	Whirling Retaliation Damage
Minor	Bleed Critical Damage	Bleed Critical Damage
Minor	Guardian Bleed Damage	Guardian Bleed Damage
Minor	Charge Duration	Shield-swipe Critical Rating
Minor	Stamp Cooldown	Stamp Cooldown and Stamp Damage
Minor	Sting Critical Rating	Sting Critical Rating
Minor	To The King Damage	To The King Damage
Minor	Turn the Tables Cooldown	Turn the Tables Cooldown and Turn the Tables Damage
Minor	Warrior’s Heart / Fortitude Duration	Warrior’s Heart Max Morale

Guardian’s Belt (Class Item)

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy	Post-Imbued Legacy
Major	Adaptability Block and Parry Rating	Adaptability Block and Parry Rating
Major	Catch a Breath Morale Heal	Catch a Breath Cooldown and Catch a Breath Morale Heal
Major	Cry Resist Chance	Cry Resist Chance
Major	Guardian’s Pledge Magnitude	Guardian’s Pledge Magnitude and Shield Swipe Damage
Major	Guardian’s Ward Block Rating	Guardian’s Ward Block Rating
Major	Guardian’s Ward Damage	Guardian’s Ward Damage
Major	Guardian’s Ward Parry Rating	Guardian’s Ward Parry Rating
Major	Challenge Targets	Reactive Parry Damage
Major	Shield Damage	Shield Damage
Major	Sting Damage	Sting Damage
Minor	Catch a Breath Power Healing	Catch a Breath Power Healing
Minor	Force Taunt Duration	Force Taunt Duration and Shield-blow Damage
Minor	Increased Block, Parry and Evade from Protection	Increased Block, Parry and Evade from Protection
Minor	War-chant Effect Duration	Light Damage
Minor	Shield Smash Damage	Shield Smash Damage
Minor	Stagger Critical Rating	Stagger Critical Rating
Minor	Stagger Effect Duration	Stagger Damage
Minor	Stagger Positional Damage	Stagger Positional Damage
Minor	Stoic Bubble Strength	Stoic Bubble Strength
Minor	Warrior’s Heart / Fortitude Morale Heal	Warrior’s Heart / Fortitude Morale Heal

Imbuement Guide

There are 7 recommended legacies for each LI for endgame. Guardian Blue-line LIs can be used in Yellow-line as well.

LotroHQ Class Builds covers Blue and Yellow-line only, so here are the recommended Legacies for those lines.

*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:

1-Hander Weapon

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy	Post-Imbued Legacy	Notes
Major	Area Effect Skill Damage	Area Effect Skill Damage
Major	Bash Damage	Bash Damage
Major	Guardian’s Pledge Cooldown	Guardian’s Pledge Cooldown and Retaliation Damage
Minor	Stamp Cooldown	Stamp Cooldown and Stamp Damage
Minor	Turn the Tables Cooldown	Turn the Tables Cooldown and Turn the Tables Damage
Minor	Warrior’s Heart / Fortitude Duration	Warrior’s Heart Max Morale
Minor	Legacy of Vitality	Legacy of Vitality	Preferably placed pre-imbue.

Guardian’s Belt (Class Item)

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy	Post-Imbued Legacy	Notes
Major	Catch a Breath Morale Heal	Catch a Breath Cooldown and Catch a Breath Morale Heal
Major	Guardian’s Pledge Magnitude	Guardian’s Pledge Magnitude and Shield Swipe Damage
Major	Shield Damage	Shield Damage
Minor	Force Taunt Duration	Force Taunt Duration and Shield-blow Damage
Minor	Shield Smash Damage	Shield Smash Damage
Minor	Warrior’s Heart / Fortitude Morale Heal	Warrior’s Heart / Fortitude Morale Heal
Minor	Legacy of Vitality	Legacy of Vitality	Preferably placed pre-imbue.

Legendary Items Swaps 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 Non-Imbued Swaps needed for Guardian:

Non-Imbued LI Weapon Swap (Preferably a 2-hander Hammer for a visual cue)

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy
Major	Guardian’s Ward Duration (Optional)
Minor	Charge Duration (Rest 4 legacies can be random)

Explanation:

• Guardian’s Ward Duration: Can be nice to have extra duration, if you don’t mind swapping, although you will lose lots of stats/morale in combat by doing so.
• Charge Duration: This is very important to swap for and it is because of this legacy, that this LI swap is made for primarily.

Non-Imbued Guardian’s Belt Swap (Class Item)

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy
Major	Challenge Targets
Minor	Force Taunt Duration
Minor	Stoic Bubble Strength (Optional)
Minor	Warrior’s Heart / Fortitude Morale Heal (Rest 2 legacies can be random)

Explanation:

• Challenge Targets: This is the primary legacy for the swap, extra Challenge targets can be great for large pulls.
• Force Taunt Duration: This legacy goes with the Targets legacy, it adds on to it and makes the swap more efficient.
• Stoic Bubble: Optional, can be skipped.
• Warrior’s Heart Heal: Optional, can be skipped.