Warden Imbuement Guide

Welcome, here you will find an up-to-date guide for Warden’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 Warden needs the following Legendary Items at endgame:

• One-handed Sword – First Age (Crafted by Weaponsmith)
• Warden’s Javelin – First Age – Class Item (Crafted by Woodworker)

* *Note: Red and Yellow line share the same LIs/Legacies. Blue Line builds are not covered by LotroHQ due to underperformance of the line.

Legacies List

Here is the Legacy List for Wardens.

1-Hander Weapon

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy	Post-Imbued Legacy
Major	Fist-Spear Gambit Power Cost	Fist-Spear Gambit Power Cost
Major	Gambit Lifetap Damage	Gambit Lifetap Damage
Major	Light Damage	Light Damage
Major	Marked and Diminished Tgt Debuff	Marked Target Double-cast Chance
Major	Recklessness Critical Rating	Recklessness Critical Rating
Major	Shield Gambit Buff Duration	Persevere Block Rating
Major	Spear Gambit Damage	Spear Gambit Damage
Major	Spear Gambit Parry Rating	Spear Gambit Parry Rating
Major	Wages of Fear Positional Damage	Wages of Fear Positional Damage
Minor	Ambush Critical Damage	Ambush Critical Damage
Minor	Boar’s Rush Critical Rating	Boar’s Rush Critical Rating
Minor	Critical Strike Critical Damage	Critical Strike Critical Damage
Minor	Hampering Javelin Duration	Hampering Javelin Reset Chance
Minor	Ranged Damage	Ranged Damage
Minor	Resolution Damage	Resolution Damage
Minor	Shield Tactics Tactical Mitigation Rating	Shield Tactics Tactical Mitigation Rating
Minor	Shield-Spear Gambit Power Cost	Shield-Spear Gambit Power Cost
Minor	Surety of Death Damage Over Time	Surety of Death Damage Over Time

Warden’s Javelin (Class Item)

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy	Post-Imbued Legacy
Major	Fist Gambit Critical Rating	Fist Gambit Critical Rating
Major	Fist Gambit Evade Rating	Fist Gambit Evade Rating
Major	Fist Gambit Buff Duration	Fist Gambit Skill Damage
Major	Heal Bonus for Conviction	Heal Bonus for Conviction
Major	In Combat Power Regeneration	In Combat Power Regeneration
Major	In the Fray Morale Regen	In the Fray Morale Regen
Major	Shield Gambit Line Healing	Shield Gambit Line Healing
Major	Spear-Shield Gambit Damage	Spear-Shield Gambit Damage
Major	Spear-Shield Gambit Power Cost	Spear-Shield Gambit Power Cost
Minor	Adroit Manoeuvre Duration	Adroit Manoeuvre Damage
Minor	Ambush Critical Rating	Ambush Critical Rating
Minor	Careful Step Duration	Careful Step Movement Speed Penalty
Minor	Defiant Challenge Damage Return	Defiant Challenge Damage Return
Minor	Javelin of Deadly Force Damage	Javelin of Deadly Force Damage
Minor	Javelin Skills Critical Rating	Javelin Skills Critical Rating
Minor	Shield Mastery Block Rating	Shield Mastery Block Rating
Minor	Shield Piercer Duration	Shield Piercer Evade Debuff Chance
Minor	Target Resist Rating (Resolution)	Target Resist Rating (Resolution)

Imbuement Guide

There are 7 recommended legacies for each LI for endgame. Warden Red-line LIs can be used in Yellow-line as well. Warden LI setup is pretty straight-forward and there’s not much LI swapping needed, just required for a few debuffing skills (Non-imbued swap), which is explained pretty well in the Warden Class Guide.

*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	Light Damage	Light Damage
Major	Marked and Diminished Tgt Debuff	Marked Target Double-cast Chance
Major	Spear Gambit Damage	Spear Gambit Damage
Minor	Ranged Damage	Ranged Damage
Minor	Surety of Death Damage Over Time	Surety of Death Damage Over Time
Minor	Legacy of Vitality	Legacy of Vitality	Preferably placed pre-imbue.
Minor	Legacy of Agility	Legacy of Agility	Preferably placed pre-imbue.

Warden’s Javelin (Class Item)

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy	Post-Imbued Legacy	Notes
Major	Fist Gambit Buff Duration	Fist Gambit Skill Damage
Major	In Combat Power Regeneration	In Combat Power Regeneration
Major	Shield Gambit Line Healing	Shield Gambit Line Healing
Major	Spear-Shield Gambit Damage	Spear-Shield Gambit Damage
Minor	Legacy of Vitality	Legacy of Vitality	Preferably placed pre-imbue.
Minor	Legacy of Agility	Legacy of Agility	Preferably placed pre-imbue.
Minor	Legacy of Fate	Legacy of Fate	Defiant Challenge Damage Return (For PvP)

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 Non-Imbued Swaps needed for Warden:

Non-Imbued LI Weapon Swap (Preferably a 1-hander Axe for a visual cue)

Type	Pre-Imbued Legacy
Major	Marked and Diminished Tgt Debuff
Minor	Hampering Javelin Duration (Rest 4 legacies can be random)

Explanation:

• Marked and Diminished Target Debuff: This legacy is important because you get additional 2.5% Physical mitigation debuff with this legacy, if you use this swap after getting a Double proc from the Imbued LI (Rotation of this skill is explained in the Warden Class Guide).
• Hampering Javelin Duration: Useful legacy swap, particulary for PvP and for certain encounters in Raids/Instances.