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Overview
Minstrel leveling guide outline provided with a detailed plan. Currently there is no reason to play a blue minstrel while leveling with it’s focus purely on healing. A grouped leveling build might be worth it after level 75 when you can start adding in red traits while mainly blue.
For leveling you’ll want to go red and pick up damage focussed trait in yellow.
How Minstrel plays
Minstrels combine Ballads, Codas and Anthems to heal or deal damage. They have three stances: Dissonance for damage, Resonance for healing and Melody for a mix of both. The class is widely played and looks easy to start, but it takes real knowledge of the class to master.
Choosing a traitline for levelling
Red (Warrior-Skald) deals damage from a distance, is highly mobile and is the line to level with. Its key skill, Dissonant Piercing Cry, is reset by Ballads. Blue (Watcher of Resolve) is the healing line, so it is a poor choice for levelling alone. As the overview says, a mostly blue build only becomes worth trying for group levelling after level 75, when you can start adding red traits.
Open a colour below for its levelling rating and screenshots of the trait tree at key levels. When you reach endgame, see the full Minstrel build guides. Class mechanics summarised from the LOTRO Wiki.
Early on you will mostly damage with ballads. The large aoe hitters will come in around level 25. Most mobs will die very quickly, but you’ll be a little squishier then for example a hunter if they do get to stun you. A mobile warwagon with an excellent speaker setup.
See main note about blue minstrel leveling
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