Angmar gear finder (Level 50)
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General Advice
Armour
Jewelery
Offhands etc
Wraiths & Nazguls
Barter Locations
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General gear advice
There are plenty of different sources, but none provide the variety we’re used to on the later expansion where each raid has a different armour set for each class and traitline. As such it’s hard to provide 1 advice that would work for all. In general, if you want to focus on the Rift raid, it’s hard to beat the stats + shadow damage mitigation. Same with Wraiths.
If you’re looking for DPS gear or your main class role. You;ll be able to find cheap sources and most set bonuses are meant for you. If you’re looking for a variant, you’ll have to mix and match different sources if you want the best.
There are options such as the level 50 landscape drop set armour, Nadhin armour with max essence slots or seasonal instances such as Thrang. Or specific boss and class/traitline drops out there that are better than the easily to reasonably sourced gear pieces. But this guide is not made to provide min-max information on that detailed level.
First character to level 50
In general, quest armour is fine to start off with. You can go 2 ways.
- Cheap upgrades (solo or quick to aquire
- Annuminas Barter armour + Skirmish camp or crafted jewellery
- Angmar instance armour + Skirmish camp or crafted jewellery
- Prepared upgrades
- Crafted or Angmar instance armour + select mission jewellery
- New scaled instance drops + single use crafted jewellery
You prepare your level 50 gear by getting the required rep on missions barters before hitting 50, or join Urugarth and Carn Dum run before you hit level 50. You’ll get a ton of crafting cases with scrolls before 50. You’ll miss out on quest areas and epic story by going with these options, but you won’t “waste” time once you hit 50.
Second character or kin/friends
For a future character you’ll have marks and medallions or the barter item to skip straight to the good stuff. You might even have some Rift gems to barter, mission tokens galore. If it’s later in the servers lifetime you or a friend might have guild items, crafted gear, stocked up on bind to account offhands and Wraith Jewelry in your vault.
Just cause it’s not the best for your first character. Remember to check your barter wallet, vault or crafted alts and friends to give you a kickstart on any future characters.
Default armour gear sources for level 50
Name | Abbr | Rating | Comment |
Skirmish camp Classic barter | Not available atm | ||
Skirmish camp armour barter | SA | 3 | Cheap, but generally low on stats and a mix of things you might not want. |
Level 50 quest armour | Quest | 5 | Decent, but hard to coordinate while leveling. A lot of gear is equal to better instance drops, but limited to 1 choice per quest. |
Mission barter | MB | 4-7 | Select slots, DPS mostly. Better to spend tokens on jewelry usually. |
Scaled instance armour | SIA | 4 | Classic scaled instances such as Great Barrow, Annuminas, Fornost. RNG and equal to craft |
New Scaled instance armour | NSIA | 7 (if there) | A few instances such as Woe of the WIllow, Sarch Vorn can give better quality armour + offhands. But currently limited to non-teal armour. |
Angmar instance armour barter | AIA | 6,5 | Decent armour for DPS, OK for tanks, other not so much. Instances are easy to complete with quest gear. |
Standard Crafted armour (level 45) | SCA | 6 | Available without single-use recipes, no Beryl shards. Available in Offensive and Defensive stats, no Other role. |
Rare (Guild or Single-use) craft armour | 7 | Same, but better than SCA. | |
Rivendell class barter | RVC | 8 | Lots of main stat and DPS or main role set bonus, but a set comes at a cost of 625 medallions. |
Annuminas armour barter – | AA | 7,5 | |
Delving Teal | DT | 7-9 | Armour is great, but essences are a choir and questionable. |
Rift of Narz Gashu | RC | 9 |
Class set bonus summary
For full details see appendix *on hold atm
- Amelia’s (Wraith jewelry), +1/+2/+3 Hope
- Annuminas armour, 2-3-4-5-6 pieces, Armour type appropriate stats such as vit/might/fate
- Rivendell class, 2-4 piece, stats and different class role 4 piece bonus
- Angmar instance, 3-6 piece, Armour type appropriate stats and fire mitigation
- Rift, 2-4-6 pieces, 10/20/30% shadow damage negated with DPS skill boost on 4-piece
Jewelery
Name | Abbr | Rating | Comment |
Skirmish barter | SBJ | 3 | Bad, but cheap |
Quest | Quest | 6 | See armour |
Craft (level 45) | SCJ | 2-5 | Limited stats |
Rare craft | RCJ | 4-9 | Limited stats |
Mission barter FA | MBFA | 8 | Ring + Pocket |
Mission BTS | MBBTS | 8 | Bracelet – DPS |
Mission Erebor | MBER | 8 | Bracelet – Defensive |
Mission WW | MBWW | 8 | Earring |
Gundabad allegianc | GBAL | 7 | Necklace |
A special mention to Woe of the Willow for a nice necklace. While not teal it’s easily gotten from a Tier 1 run.
Offhand and Class Item
A special mention to Sarn Vorn for bows, off hands and shields. Each boss drops a different class item, but these are some of the best stats you can find for yours.
Wraith and Nazguls
Unless you’re on a higher landscape difficulty setting. Gearing with Wraiths in mind is mostly about going for higher morale and tactical mitigations. Classes with healing or higher stats will have a far easier time soloing these guys. If you’ve issues with them (while leveling) there are a few extra tips.
- You can run away. They will despawn after 10 minutes.
- Having a second traitline that is focussed on tanking. Blue warden, yellow captain, blue bear.
- Check a friend for a quick upgrade with crafted gear. Or quest in Before the Shadow or Angle of Methethal for better armour compared to other leveling regions.
- Remember to remove corruptions
- Be mindfull about group pulls or groups with elites. Killing a bunch of swarm mobs while having an elite might spell doom if a Mourning Wraith spawns.
For level 50, there are specialty jewelry in purple or teal to barter in Esteldin. These provide 1-3 hope, decent stats (some healing even) and shadow mitigations. For normal day use you’ll lose some stats. They do function well in the Rift. Purple is plenty cheaper and only a slight loss in normal stats. Purple and teal set bonus do work together. Getting 2 purple to replace one later with teal can work. They are bind to account for a second character.
Barter locations
Skirmish camp
Each major city has a Skirmish camp. The most convenient one is just outside Bree Southgate. Select the level 50 selection to barter with marks and medallions. Classic and crafting barterers are functionally disabled.
https://lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Skirmish_Camp
Armour
Heavy, Medium and Light armour available. No class or set bonuses.
For a Cloak, see Jewellery and cloak.
Jewellery
Bad selection of stats, but Jewellery and cloak has every slot in theory.
Other
Weapons available on Weapons (hobbit underneath a ten). No shields though
Delving
Nearly all mission camps have a delving barterer available. Expensive gear, but nice selection for all class roles, teal and 2 essence slots if you want.
https://lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Delvings
Crafted
Standard
Rare
Consumables are permanent recipes (scrolls, hope tokens, food etc), but the others are single use recipes. They are level 48+ and usually great. Difficulty comes in finding them and the beryl shards required in the recipes. They come from Rare signature mobs roaming the landscape or rare drops from gathering.
Great for single slots such as weapons, offhand, necklace. Gets a bit more time consuming if you want to gear a full character.
Guild
No single use recipes, great to best gear. But limited by the usage of an Guild item that has a 7 day cooldown. Also need max reputation for the level 50 gear. Find a friend or work on your own crafters over time for these guys.
Level 50 quest
Don’t forget your questing rewards. Especially the epic story gives some great rewards such as cloak, pocket and weapons. You will want to look at later regions and level 50 quests, but you’ll find plenty of options out there.
Scaled instance
Greater dextrous helmet of penetration. Not the easiest to find or even the best anymore. These have been artificially lowered to be worse then the “endgame” or crafted gear. And mostly these are Bind on equip. The teal versions that are ok to decent. These come from older instance clusters such as
- Great Barrows
- Fornost
- Annuminas
- School and Library of Tham Midrain
- Halls of Night and Inn of the Forsaken
- Helegrod (broken instance loot)
New Scaled instance
- Sarch Vorn (6-man with great offhands)
- Woe of the Willow (3-man with great necklace)
- Agoroth (3-man)
Annuminas barter
Rivendell class barter
On the second floor The Last lonely house in Rivendell there are barterers for each class. While you can browse the other classes you can’t use them.
Angmar
The original last area of the expansion that level 50 had to offer. These were home to the instance cluster Urugarth, Carn Dum, Barad Gularan and the raid Rift. You will need to have finished https://lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Category:Vol._I._Book_6_Quests to reach this camp.
Angmar instance
The above questchain will lead you into camp of Garth Forthnir. At the first passage you will find the below barters. They each require a drop from a specific boss in the Angmar instance cluster.
To unlock the instance Carn Dum you’ll need to finishhttps://lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Category:Vol._I._Book_7_Quests Or join a group where the leader has done this.
Rift raid
To the far northeast of Garth Forthnir you will find Iorlens camp either by a long ride or a summon from the Mustering Horn there. Each gear piece comes from a specific boss and it will take some luck or time to acquire all of them.
Mission barter
Short form instance for solo or duo across Middle-Earth. Each with their own specific slots, rep and weeklies. Some of the easiest (with some work) to get good jewellery. Some armour available, but usually easier options available. Read notes in their own section.
Take special note of the Blue dwarf stables that will allow you to teleport between most of these locations (southwest Bree or Midsummer Minas Tirith)
For a full rundown check out orhttps://fibrojedi.me.uk/lotro/lotro-missions/
Further Adventure
Slight northwest of The last Homely house in Rivendell. Requires a decent amount of missions run.
No delvings available or Mission travel route
Before the Shadow
Andrath, Herne or Clegur each have a set of 6-8 missions available in either Cardolan or Swanfleet. Travel from Mossward or West-Bree.
Delvings available, no Mission travel route
Erebor
Only reachable through mission stables.
No delvings available, part of Mission travel route
Wildwood
Located in west Thestlebridge.
No delvings available. part of Mission travel route
Anna-Kurfu
Only reachable through mission stables.
Requires to finish At the Gates mission from Gloin.
No delvings available. part of Mission travel route
Gundabad
Only reachable through mission stables. Requires to finish chapter 1 of Gundabad Allegiance
No delvings available. part of Mission travel route
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