Thread: Loremaster Gear - By Level and Zone

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Gandalf's Thanks. It's a staff with excellent in-combat/out-of-combat power regens, and ridiculously easy to get. I used it for a LONG time, from my mid-30s until the low 40s...

http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Weapon:Gandalf's_Thanks

21.4 DPS (common)
+7.5 non-combat power regen
+2.4 in-combat power regen

Only drawback is it doesn't boost any base stats, but those power regen figures are VERY effective.

I'll try to add some stuff when possible. Book10 added a TON of jewelries that makes me drool! My lvl 31 minstrel is currently sporting some
lvl 28 Bracelets that has .7 IC Regen, couple of earring with like 19Fate EACH. Makes me wanna start a new LM lol.

I didnt see anyone mention the Vestments of the Grove set from the Trollshaw Quests.

Great stuff for the level it can be gotten, about late 30s, early 40s if solo.

the new light armor set in the shaws (tal bruinen) is amazing. for robe, ring and gloves you get +40 fate and +61 will + a good deal of vit might agility and power. Its a great set for your mid 40s and ive found its good when your saving up for teals in your late 40s

Aye, the full set from Tal Bruinen quests ("Grove-Tender" I believe it is... could be glade... lol) with set-bonuses is probably the best thing you're going to wear in your 40's until you get your end-game gear at lvl 47.

ty for the advice will help me a little so again ty for the advice.

things to think about when picking EQ for a LM:

stats:

It really depends on who you talk to, but I consider fate to be the most important stat for a LM, because it increases you incombat regeneration rates and your tactical critical chance. As your skills have pretty high damage thresholds and relatively long cooldowns, you don't get a whole lot of shots... so you want your attacks to do as much damage as possible. However, a high vitality increase you moral and resistance to non-common damage types, so it makes you more durable in a fight with creatures like Wurms, wights, ect.

I suggest putting empasis into power regen, fate, vitality, and then +parry and +evade.

This is because I like to do fellowships, and the LM has the ability to truely turn the tide of a more epic battle with power sharing, power drawing, bursts of DPS, and lets not forget CC... you can even heal your allies wounds and diseases, that wear away at their moral and power.

+parry and +evade allows you a few added seconds for your tanker to notice and get the argo off of you... after all, you can only wear light armor... even the best light armor in the world isn't going to be able to compare to medium in defensive value... so make up for it with forcing your opponent to miss more often.

I've found that couple good armbands with +.7 power regen at 28 basically make you a living power plant until 38 or so when your consumption finally catches up. A very good investment, gandalf's thanks is great for instances when you won't be doing a lot of damage and will be wanting the longer power durablity to gift to your fellows.

As I am only nearing the coveted 50 to examine the level gear... I am going to hold off on commenting, but it looks quite handy if supported by proper gear to increase power regeneration.

Well - GL - that's just my 2 cents, take it for what it's worth!

If you're looking through this thread for ideas, be careful to cross check the values stated, as over time, some items have been changed in updates. For example, Postolf: http://lorebook.lotro.com/index.php/Weapon:Postolf

In this thread it's stated as having +4% tac crit - now it's +2%. Still a nice staff, but not as good as it used to be.

I forget the names at the moment but there is an excellent light armour set and jewelry set that I was able to obtain from the Aughaire quests (Book 12 Angmar redesign) last night that I'm guessing will last me through the better part of the 40's. Even though most of the quests were yellow and orange (I'm level 41), I was able to solo all of them.

Great Thread the post that tells about the staff for the "Leader of the Black Tide" quest realy helps me know what i need to do next thanks.

Originally Posted by TheBlackstronaut

I forget the names at the moment but there is an excellent light armour set and jewelry set that I was able to obtain from the Aughaire quests (Book 12 Angmar redesign) last night that I'm guessing will last me through the better part of the 40's. Even though most of the quests were yellow and orange (I'm level 41), I was able to solo all of them.

Ya, its Fem armor, you get all the peices from Crannog in aughair, just follow his quest line and you'll get them all. i forget the name of the jewellery, but its not really very good, find yourself a T4 master jewelcrafter and your set.

hopefully they update this: http://lotro.mmodb.com/sets/robes-of-fem-92.php
this set is amazing imo: http://lotro.mmodb.com/sets/vestment...e-grove-51.php
both all quested armors.
Jewellery set from aughair: http://lotro.mmodb.com/sets/bands-of...E1nkhas-97.php

Can anybody please suggest a good earring and necklace for a 45 LM?
And another thing, at my level should I be using the Robes of Fem?

Originally Posted by Geno-Max

And another thing, at my level should I be using the Robes of Fem?

Yep, that's a wicked set for sure until you hit 47 and then you can start getting crafted gear, but may want to get a few pieces before breaking up the set though. Also, work on Kindred with Forochel....the Hoary Aurochs Robe is an awesome piece. I have a full Rift set but I still break out that puppy for soloing!

Jewellery - don't remember too well but I know at 46 some of the Ancient Silver jewellery starts to become available.

Good afternoon Loremasters:

I'm looking to swap out or start collecting gear for the lvl 42-46 LM range area.

I know very few crafters so most of the gear I'd like to try to obtain via quests.

As of now, I still have not completed the qst Master of the black tide. I'd love to get that quest behind me yet finding a good group is a challenge (btw I'm on Landroval if anyone needs to do it).

Can some more seasoned LM's chime in with gear suggestions for the 42-46 range?
Many thanks.

*(I have 1/3 "grove tender" set, trollshaws + Arctic hunters cloak, MM )

Just thought I would add that I've found the Riddle Master's Hat to be quite nice. Picked it up around lvl 32 in Rivendell, and it's pretty easy to acquire.

http://lotro.mmodb.com/items/riddle-...s-hat-5594.php

Thank you for this list. My clothes are so hideous, my Kinsmen call me "The bag lady of Middle Earth". Now I know who's quests to take to get some new stuff

Bumpity to save from forum archiving.

This is interesting, but ...

Has anyone any info on what a LM should be wearing at 55? I'm in the tamer portions of Moria now and everything beyond *one* Moria-goblin can kill me. (Don't, please, suggest raid gear ... I've never been in a raid in my life and from what I hear, I'd die faster there than in Moria.)

Thanks!

Originally Posted by djheydt

This is interesting, but ...

Has anyone any info on what a LM should be wearing at 55? I'm in the tamer portions of Moria now and everything beyond *one* Moria-goblin can kill me. (Don't, please, suggest raid gear ... I've never been in a raid in my life and from what I hear, I'd die faster there than in Moria.)

Thanks!

Hmmm...well, I don't want to sound like the back end of a mule, but...if two goblins (or any two of anything) can kill you where you're fighting at level or even if your are one (or even two) levels below mobs, then you might want to rethink your strategy of how you do battle. Honesly, considering your ability to root, the use of Blinding Flash, using a pet, and having (if you're a MAN) to "big" heals, you should be able to handle as many as three mobs of the same level or one level above you. Granted, you might have to wait for some cool downs to expire before taking on 3 new mobs, but still...you're a lore-master, one of the most powerful classes in game. In fact, you could do as much as 5k of moral damage in less than 90 seconds, if you plan your attacks right (and I'm not talking about critical hits...and I'm talking about BEFORE the upgrade to DPS with Book 7...you might can even do MORE damage now, but I'm been playing my minnie and havn't looked to see what the increase DPS for LMs has brought us yet).

But, to your question...most of the book quest rewards have decent armour and weapons for a LM (for weapons, you're looking for any second-hand weapon that offers in combat power regeneration). In addition, many of the general quest rewards should be better than the Rift armour set. Yeah, in my opinion and for someone who really can't raid for lack of being able to find groups, the radiance armour is probably the best a LM can hope to get until Book 8.

But, choosing the right quest reward (or even getting a tailor to make you some critted T6 stuff), traiting yourself with a bard correctly (for your particular play style) and proper use of your skills, you should be able to take on just about anything in Moria. I know I certainly have had little to no trouble soloing and most think I'm the worst LM on the Elendilmir server

Anyone capable of updating this for MoM?

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I'll update the original posts with Moria and Mirkwood gear if anyone has suggestions.

I'm actually looking at late 50s gear for my Lore-master atm.

Awesome resource, and fairly unlikely to go out of date since much of it applies to earlier levels. Only thing I'm not sure of is if any of the armour from the skirmish system should be on the list now or not.

This could use an F2P update. I'm also interested in how the skirmish rewards stack in here. I'm wearing 6 piece GB armor right now and think that it will be a long while before I see better drops from quests.

Good suggestion, fullybaked. I'm not able to do an update right now, but if anyone would like to use my original posts as the basis for a new thread, please go right ahead.

I don't know enough to make a whole thread, but some items I've run across that are imo better than the ones in the original thread. A lot of the items in the original thread boost stats other than will/fate which I'm guessing is just because there wasn't such perfectly statted gear available at that time. The gear below has a big will/fate focus which I think is what a LM should focus on. Also everyone can see all of the skirmish gear available at all levels, so I don't think any guide needs to go into that. It's pretty obvious to see where skirmish stuff is better than what you've got on and what's coming up in future levels so you don't waste your time/money getting stuff that will be obsoleted.

Staff of the Eglan-sage (Lone Lands)
Min level: 32
59 - 98 Common Damage
(31.5 DPS)
+21 Fate
+21 Will
+126.0 in-Combat Power Regeneration
+152.0 Tactical Critical Rating

You get this staff from running GA instances and getting 5 tokesn of the Elgain. It's really really good, far better than anything else I've seen at this level range. I'm actually not sure there's a better staff out there until the Eldar Staff from Carn Dum.

Vestements of the Grove set (Trollshaws)
Min level: 40

As pointed out in this thread, this set gives substantial bonuses over the Fem set at a cost of only about 100 morale. The minimum level to get the quests for the full set is 40 and the quest to get the gloves can be soloed (just!) at that level. Those ritualists are reasonably tough to kill but with smart CC and careful pulling you can do it. I think at one stage I accidentally pulled a big mob and kept running but cast flash on a ritualist a little way from the camp and kept running until everyone else went home and then went back and killed the ritualist. It wasn't intentional but it's probably a good way of isolating them, becuase even if you clear guys to get the ritualist on its own the fight might go on long enough that you get interrupted by someone respawning.

Jewels of Buth Sankhas (Angmar)

The Fem quests are still worth doing though because they get you this jewel set. It's (just) the best jewellery I've found for the respective slots.

Wistan's Legend (Trollshaws)
Min level: 36
+27 Agility
+14 Fate
+14 Will

Another reason to go to Echad Candelleth - and you get to see a cool character in the instance too .

Polished Adamant Earring of Willpower (crafted)
Min level: 38
+24 will
+12 fate
+24 in combat morale regen

Crit version of this earring. It's got much better stats than the buth sankhas earring, but the set bonuses from the other earring just stop me from wearing two of these.

Fine Scholar's Cloak (crafted)
Min level: 35
+12 Will
+17 Maximum Power
+23 Fate

I think that's the stats on the one I'm wearing, it's different from what's listed on various websites though. This is the critical success version, haven't found a better cloak yet.

It's entirely possible that there's better stuff than this out there for the relevant levels, I just don't know about it!

Oh and while I'm here, what sort of sword should I be looking to get when I get staff and sword? I have a bad feeling I've probably vended or passed over some awesome quest sword reward because I just ignore anything I can't equip at the moment.