Welcome, here you will find an up-to-date guide for Lore-master’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 Lore-master needs the following Legendary Items at endgame:
- Lore-master’s Staff – First Age (Crafted by Woodworker)
- Lore-master’s Book – First Age – Class Item (Crafted by Scholar)
* *Note: LotroHQ covers only a Yellow-line build for Lore-masters, however, Yellow-line legacies can easily be used for other Trait Lines as well.
Legacies List
Here is the Legacy List for Lore-masters.
Lore-master’s Staff
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Burning Embers Initial Damage | Burning Embers Initial Damage |
| Major | Fire Skills Critical Damage | Fire Skills Critical Damage |
| Major | Light of the Rising Dawn Base Critical Damage | Light of the Rising Dawn Base Critical Damage |
| Major | Light of the Rising Dawn Damage | Light of the Rising Dawn Damage |
| Major | Power Restored | Power Restored |
| Major | Cracked Earth Range | Ring of Fire Damage |
| Major | Staff-strike Damage | Staff-strike Damage |
| Major | Tactical Skills Direct Damage | Tactical Skills Direct Damage |
| Minor | Burning Embers Range | Nature’s Fury Skill Damage |
| Minor | Cracked Earth Damage | Cracked Earth Damage |
| Minor | Ents Go To War Base Damage | Ents Go To War Base Damage |
| Minor | Gust of Wind Damage | Gust of Wind Damage |
| Minor | Lightning Skills Critical Rating | Lightning Skills Critical Rating |
| Minor | Lightning-storm Base Damage | Lightning-storm Base Damage |
| Minor | Sticky Gourd Base Direct Damage | Sticky Gourd Base Direct Damage |
| Minor | Storm-lore Damage | Storm-lore Damage |
| Minor | Test of Will Damage | Test of Will Damage |
Lore-master’s Book (Class Item)
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Beacon of Hope Magnitude | Beacon of Hope Magnitude |
| Major | Burning Embers Critical Chance | Burning Embers Critical Chance and Burning Embers Critical Magnitude |
| Major | Fire Skills Critical Rating | Fire Skills Critical Rating |
| Major | Signs of Power Durations | Signs of Power Durations and Signs of Power Debuff Ratings |
| Major | Target Resistance (Damaging Skills) | Target Resistance (Damaging Skills) |
| Major | Target Resistance (Debuffing Skills) | Target Resistance (Debuffing Skills) |
| Major | Target Resistance (Fire Skills) | Target Resistance (Fire Skills) |
| Major | Wizard’s Fire Critical Chance | Wizard’s Fire Critical Chance and Wizard’s Fire Critical Magnitude |
| Minor | Armour Debuff Potency | Armour Debuff Potency |
| Minor | Bane Flare Targets | Light-type Damage and Lightning-type Damage |
| Minor | Fire-lore Debuff Strength | Charged Air Reflect Damage |
| Minor | Fire Damage Over Time | Fire Damage Over Time |
| Minor | Inner Flame Base Healing | Inner Flame Base Healing |
| Minor | Pet Attack Duration | Pet Attack Duration |
| Minor | Pet Morale | Pet Morale |
| Minor | Test of Will Devastate Damage | Test of Will Devastate Damage |
Imbuement Guide
There are 7 recommended legacies for each LI for endgame. Lore-masters have it pretty easy when it comes to LIs, and there’s not much swapping needed. Just 1 extra Non-imbued Book swap is needed, to extend the strength of Fire-lore and the targets of Bane Flare, this will be explained and shown down below.
*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:
Lore-master‘s Staff
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major | Burning Embers Initial Damage | Burning Embers Initial Damage | |
| Major | Fire Skills Critical Damage | Fire Skills Critical Damage | |
| Major | Light of the Rising Dawn Base Critical Damage | Light of the Rising Dawn Base Critical Damage | |
| Major | Light of the Rising Dawn Damage | Light of the Rising Dawn Damage | |
| Major | Tactical Skills Direct Damage | Tactical Skills Direct Damage | Use Imbued Legacy Replacement Scroll if Low on Majors |
| Minor | Lightning-storm Base Damage | Lightning-storm Base Damage | |
| Minor | Test of Will Damage | Test of Will Damage |
Lore-master’s Book (Class Item)
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major | Beacon of Hope Magnitude | Beacon of Hope Magnitude | |
| Major | Burning Embers Critical Chance | Burning Embers Critical Chance and Burning Embers Critical Magnitude | |
| Major | Signs of Power Durations | Signs of Power Durations and Signs of Power Debuff Ratings | |
| Minor | Armour Debuff Potency | Armour Debuff Potency | |
| Minor | Bane Flare Targets | Light-type Damage and Lightning-type Damage | |
| Minor | Fire-lore Debuff Strength | Charged Air Reflect Damage | Use Wizard’s Fire Critical Chance instead if you want to share Book with Red Line |
| Minor | Pet Morale | Pet Morale | Use Fire Damage Over Time instead if you want to share Book with Red Line |
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 Swaps needed for Lore-master:
Non-Imbued Lore-master’s Book Swap (Class Item)
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy |
|---|---|
| Major | Target Resistance (Debuffing Skills) |
| Major | Target Resistance (Fire Skills) |
| Minor | Bane Flare Targets |
| Minor | Fire-lore Debuff Strength (Rest 3 legacies can be random) |
Explanation:
- Target Resistances: Although not required, but a good place holder on the swap, may even help with resists.
- Bane Flare Targets: This is a very important swap, this book must be swapped to every time Bane Flare is hit, don’t forget to swap back to Main book.
- Fire-lore Debuff Strength: Pretty mandatory for T3+ Raids/Instances, it must be swapped for every Fire-lore/Wind-lore application, then Main book can be swapped back to. This legacy is not needed for anything under T3 content.
