Last updated: U48
Overview
The dream of stealthing through an enemy camp to kill the boss doesn’t come up often. With how lotro questing is build, you need plenty of normal mobs anyways. As such red is clearly the easiest and quickest leveler. But blue gives a nice second option. Yellow not so sure.
Burglar traitlines have gotten a small update since these traitlines were made. They mostly remain valid except the aoe or ST traitpoint in red.
How Burglar plays
Burglars work through a Critical Hit Chain: landing a critical hit unlocks skills that open the next step of the chain. Stealth lets you approach enemies, and Combat Stealth lets you vanish mid-fight for bonus damage. It is one of the harder classes, and it can feel weak at low levels, but it becomes very valuable at endgame.
Choosing a traitline for levelling
Red (Quiet Knife) is the burst-damage line and the easiest way to level. It uses Combat Stealth to strike from hiding. Blue (Gambler) deals bleed damage that depends on dice rolls, so the results vary. Yellow (Mischief-maker) is the support line, built around debuffs and crowd control.
Open a colour below for its levelling rating and screenshots of the trait tree at key levels. When you reach endgame, see the full Burglar build guides. Class mechanics summarised from the LOTRO Wiki.
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