Welcome, here you will find an up-to-date guide for Minstrel’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 Minstrel needs the following Legendary Items at endgame:
- One-handed Sword – First Age (Crafted by Weaponsmith)
- Minstrel’s Songbook – First Age – Class Item (Crafted by Scholar)
* *Note: Minstrel’s Blue and Yellow line share the same LIs/Legacies. Red Line builds are not covered by LotroHQ due to underperformance of the line.
Legacies List
Here is the Legacy List for Minstrels.
1-Hander Weapon
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Anthem Duration | Anthem Duration and Melee Skills Critical Magnitude |
| Major | Call of Oromë and Eärendil Damage | Call of Oromë and Eärendil Damage |
| Major | Healing Skills Induction Time | Healing Skills Induction Time and Healing Skills Critical Rating |
| Major | Piercing Cry Damage | Piercing Cry Damage |
| Major | Rally! Cooldown | Rally! Cooldown and Major Ballad Healing |
| Major | Soliloquy of Spirit Healing Magnitude | Soliloquy of Spirit Healing Magnitude |
| Major | Target Resist Rating (Call to War Skills) | Target Resist Rating (Call to War Skills) |
| Major | Triumphant Spirit Cooldown | Triumphant Spirit Cooldown and Triumphant Spirit Critical Magnitude |
| Minor | Call of the Second Age Damage | Call of the Second Age Damage |
| Minor | Call to Fate Critical Multiplier | Call to Fate Critical Multiplier |
| Minor | Call to Ioreth Cooldown | Call to Ioreth Cooldown and Call to Ioreth Healing Skills Critical Magnitude |
| Minor | Minor Ballad Damage | Minor Ballad Damage |
| Minor | Perfect Ballad Damage | Perfect Ballad Damage |
| Minor | Still as Death Cooldown | Still as Death Cooldown and Song of Distraction Cooldown |
| Minor | Target Resist Rating (Invocation of Elbereth) | Target Resist Rating (Invocation of Elbereth) |
Minstrel’s Songbook (Class Item)
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Anthem of War Damage (Physical) | Anthem of War Physical Mastery |
| Major | Anthem of War Damage (Tactical) | Anthem of War Tactical Mastery |
| Major | Bolster Courage Healing | Bolster Courage Healing |
| Major | Healing and Motivation Skills Morale Healing | Healing and Motivation Skills Morale Healing |
| Major | Healing Skills Power Cost | Healing Skills Power Cost and Fellowship’s Heart Healing |
| Major | Inspire Fellows Healing | Inspire Fellows Healing |
| Major | Raise the Spirit Healing | Raise the Spirit Healing |
| Major | Target Resist Rating (Ballads) | Target Resist Rating (Ballads) |
| Minor | Anthem of Composure (Resistance) | Anthem of Composure (Resistance) |
| Minor | Anthem of Composure (Tactical Mitigation) | Anthem of Composure (Tactical Mitigation) |
| Minor | Chord of Salvation Crit Rating | Chord of Salvation Crit Rating |
| Minor | Cry of the Chorus Cooldown | Cry of the Chorus Cooldown and Critical Magnitude of Ballads |
| Minor | Echoes of Battle Resistance Rating Debuff | Echoes of Battle Resistance Rating Debuff |
| Minor | Hammerhand Skills Bubble Magnitude | Hammerhand Skills Bubble Magnitude |
| Minor | Light Damage | Light Damage |
| Minor | Target Resist Rating (Songs) | Target Resist Rating (Songs) |
Imbuement Guide
There are 7 recommended legacies for each LI for endgame. Minstrel’s Blue-line LIs can be used in Yellow-line as well. Generally, there’s not much LI swapping needed, just a Non-imbued Book swap is required to refresh Anthems every couple of minutes.
*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:
1-Hander Weapon
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major | Anthem Duration | Anthem Duration and Melee Skills Critical Magnitude | |
| Major | Healing Skills Induction Time | Healing Skills Induction Time and Healing Skills Critical Rating | |
| Major | Rally! Cooldown | Rally! Cooldown and Major Ballad Healing | |
| Major | Soliloquy of Spirit Healing Magnitude | Soliloquy of Spirit Healing Magnitude | |
| Major | Triumphant Spirit Cooldown | Triumphant Spirit Cooldown and Triumphant Spirit Critical Magnitude | Use Imbued Legacy Replacement Scroll if Low on Majors |
| Minor | Call to Ioreth Cooldown | Call to Ioreth Cooldown and Call to Ioreth Healing Skills Critical Magnitude | |
| Minor | Still as Death Cooldown | Still as Death Cooldown and Song of Distraction Cooldown | Optional, can use a legacy of your own choice here |
Minstrel’s Songbook (Class Item)
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy | Post-Imbued Legacy | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major | Bolster Courage Healing | Bolster Courage Healing | |
| Major | Healing and Motivation Skills Morale Healing | Healing and Motivation Skills Morale Healing | |
| Major | Inspire Fellows Healing | Inspire Fellows Healing | |
| Major | Raise the Spirit Healing | Raise the Spirit Healing | |
| Minor | Anthem of Composure (Tactical Mitigation) | Anthem of Composure (Tactical Mitigation) | |
| Minor | Cry of the Chorus Cooldown | Cry of the Chorus Cooldown and Critical Magnitude of Ballads | |
| Minor | Hammerhand Skills Bubble Magnitude | Hammerhand Skills Bubble Magnitude |
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 Minstrel:
Non-Imbued Minstrel’s Songbook Swap (Class Item)
| Type | Pre-Imbued Legacy |
|---|---|
| Major | Anthem of War Damage (Physical) |
| Major | Anthem of War Damage (Tactical) |
| Minor | Cry of the Chorus Cooldown |
Explanation:
- Anthem of War Legacies: They give percentage based value to increase skill’s potency, which the imbued version does not give. It’s high recommended you swap to an unimbued book to do Anthem of War and swap back then to main book.
- Cry of the Chorus Cooldown: This is good to have on Swap book, in case the skill is used from a Swap book.
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