Lore-master Imbuement Guide

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
• Legacies List
• Imbuement Guide
• Legendary Items Swaps Guide

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.