Yellow Lore-master

Yellow Lore-master ‘Ancient Master’ Build

By Araphorn – Updated for Blood of Azog, U30.2

Trait Trees

There are two ways to trait a Yellow LM for instances/raids. One is to build for a little bit of DPS from Lightning-storm, and the other way is pure Yellow-Blue for extra morale/mits and lower inductions, which help with Water-lore spam for healing. You generally only need to trait for Yellow-Red (Lightning-storm) for DPS heavy fight, where the group can use your help.

Here is the build for Yellow-Red:

I have everything important from Yellow line here, and Catmint from Blue. While also having maxed out damage for Lightning-storm, which can hit really hard if the target is debuffed and has Oathbreakers on it.

Next, here is my tree for Yellow-Blue, I use this tree if I’m solo-healing the instance (3-mans for example) and if my group doesn’t require me to DPS at all.

This Tree has everything important from Yellow line and the best stuff from Blue.

35 Trait Points Build for Legendary Servers

60 Trait Points Build for Beginners

EXTRA: A Red-line Trait Build for Landscape, since LotroHQ does not have a dedicated Red-line Build page yet.

Red-Line 35 Trait Points Build for Legendary Servers

Red-Line 60 Trait Points Build for Beginners

Virtues

These are the virtues I use to reach the Stat Goals. You can play around with these to get the numbers you want, but I would not recommend using any Mits virtues (apart from Fidelity) as you don’t gain much from them.

By using these Virtues, I reach my Stat Goals, while still maintaining a good Morale pool.

1. Loyalty (Number 1 virtue for Morale, for any class)
2. Fidelity (Gives decent Morale + Tactical Mits)
3. Confidence (Great for extra Critical and solid Finesse)
4. Wit (Great for Finesse and Critical, a must have for LM)
5. Wisdom (Great for extra Will and Finesse)

If you don’t have these virtues, here are some alternatives:

• Tolerance
• Innocence
• Compassion

Legendary Items

These are pretty straight-forward for Lore-masters, there’s no weapon swapping, but only Book swapping for extra Fire-lore strength (optional if you are not doing T3+ content).

Lore-master’s Staff

Type	Post-Imbued Legacy
Major	Burning Embers Initial Damage
Major	Fire Skills Critical Damage
Major	Light of the Rising Dawn Base Critical Damage
Major	Light of the Rising Dawn Damage
Major	Tactical Skills Direct Damage
Minor	Lightning-storm Base Damage
Minor	Test of Will Damage

Relics:

Lore-master’s Book (Class Item)

Type	Post-Imbued Legacy	Notes
Major	Beacon of Hope Magnitude
Major	Burning Embers Critical Chance and Burning Embers Critical Magnitude
Major	Signs of Power Durations and Signs of Power Debuff Ratings
Minor	Armour Debuff Potency
Minor	Light-type Damage and Lightning-type Damage
Minor	Charged Air Reflect Damage	Use Wizard’s Fire Critical Chance instead if you want to share Book with Red Line
Minor	Pet Morale	Use Fire Damage Over Time instead if you want to share Book with Red Line

Relics:

Swap Legendary Items

There’s just one Swap Book required 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.

Rotation

Here is what I do on Lore-master.

1. Before starting the fight, put a few Water-lores on the tank, along with an Air-lore. Throw tar on the area the boss should be at, along with Warding Knowledge Circle.
2. Start the fight with Fire-lore (use swap book if you have), then Frost-lore. Use Wind-lore after, so both the debuffs are at the same duration (swap your book back).
3. Now it’s time for pet debuffs, summon Nature Spirit pet first and use Catmint, then apply Nature’s Light pet skill to put a 10% morale return mark for 30s.
4. Ask your group leader when they want Ancient Craft and use it accordingly.
5. Then dismiss the Spirit pet and summon your Bear and apply its Shatter Arms skill for a incoming damage debuff.
6. Then dismiss Bear and summon Bog-lurker and apply Root Strike skill for incoming ranged critical chance debuff (Only summon this pet if you have a Hunter in your group)
7. Now is a good time to refresh Wind-lore (which will refresh Fire/Frost-lore). You can also use Signs of Power now, Command and See all Ends.
8. If you have the Catmint set, your Catmint will come off cooldown right about now, use it and do the same thing for Raven pet, apply Benediction with Catmint.
9. While you have rotation gaps, you can use these gaps to refresh Wind-lore on target(s) to renew your Fire/Frost-lores, give some Water-lores to tank, do some CC as per the instance requirements.
10. It also helps a lot to have a shortcut on your quickslot for dismissing pets. You can do so by typing this in the chat box:
    • /shortcut 1 /pet release
11. Keep Warding Knowledge Circle on boss on cooldown as much as you can, along with Sticky Tar. Ancient Craft refresh as per group requirements. If they don’t ask for it, then keep it on cooldown.
12. Stun immunity on tank as per instance requirements.
13. Juggling all Pet skills debuffs takes time to get the hang of, but don’t let them interfere with your ability to refresh Fire/Frost-lores on time with Wind-lore, and other important things.
14. To summarize, keep Fire/Frost-lore always on targets, keep your pet skills (names mentioned above) on target as best as you can, priority is Nature Pet > Bear > Raven > Bog-lurker, only Spirit and Raven require Catmint. When you have done that, watch out for CC requirements and help your tank with Water-lores.

Consumables

There are the consumables I use on Lore-master:

Updated as of U30.

\****/