Thread: Post Your Guardian!

How do you go about posting pictures?

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Browse, find the jpeg image, click HOST IT. Then select one of the options below, select the whole line, and copy, paste it here.

I just host them on our page but that works too

Nice helm Vish, what kid did you beat up for that? :P

Im using North-Drake shoulders and legs. Mirrored gloves, boots and helm. Burnished Chest.

451 gold as a metalsmith =[]

That's insane

451 gold?

Not sure how it worked out on other servers but I managed to be one of the first GM's on Vilya. Back in the days where resources were cheap because there was a limited market. Stack of DI for 500-S (now twice that on a good day). Huge demand for all armor tiers, made it all on volume. Other than the rare request for a combine, I haven't made anything in weeks and I don't have to. Plenty of newly minted GM's to provide the service.

Well, I am trying to get my final two items for my lvl 45 gaurdian quests. Just two more Items!! Plus I want a bunch of stuff from Helegrod, ultimately the scale pocket, but nobody goes there. Imo, your style of play and ability to manipulate and control mobs, including ranged, is of far greater importance than gear.




BTW, thanks for the tips on pic posting.

These Guardian's are very nice! I just loved how you got 451 gold, on a guardian no less! i never even thought id see that much, and 4k morale? does that not make an awesome guardian? And i thought your picture was great, the one with frotswa, first to do a cry. Anyway ill quit chatin and let you guys post some more guardians!

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Current Level - 50



Average repair cost - 600s

Traits
Justice 7
Discipline 7
Innocence 6
Zeal 5
Empathy 6

Race
Fateful Dwarf
Guile and Might Bonus
Dwarf Axe Damage Bonus
Shield Brawler
Return To Thorin's Gate

Class

Defence Expertise
Guardian's Ward
Controlled Breathing
Stoic
Harrasser

Legendary (I'd rather slot virtues here but oh well)
To The King
Guardian's Threat (have 2 pages left on Shield Smash but I figure why waste time swapping out one worthless skill for another)

Originally Posted by Slydog

How many of you guardians tank Thorog? Honest question.

EDIT: Andorz, theres no way you go over 5k hp w/ just captain buffs. If we want to talk fully buffed (warriors heart included) i can show 5k+hp....

Two-Words has 5 Guardians. I tank Thorog along with Darkfact. We both have melee vulnerability builds and almost the same gear down to Stone Biter. Mitigation / melee vulnerability builds work better when you do Thorog with less than 3 full groups.

Current Level - 49
Current money - 522s 23c
Average repair cost - around 200s
Race - Dwarf
Morale – 2839
Power - 1631
Armour - 1,940
Might - 245
Agility - 164
Vitality - 258
Will - 202
Fate - 182
melee eff - 214
ranged eff - 196
melee crit - 8.9%
ranged crit - 6.9%
Tactical crit – 9.3%
block - 18.1%
evade - 5.1% ( doh that arrows gonna hurt..... can't dodge it)
parry - 11%
fire - 18%
common – 47.5%
shadow - 18%
fear – 16.2%
wound - 10.1%
disease - 6.5%
poison - 6.5%

Hey Proator. You might wanna change some of your gear to get less fate and more agility on you. Your tactical crit is higher than melee, which is good for casters mostly. We need melee crit. Just a friendly suggestion.

Current Level -41
Current money - 767s 38c
Average repair cost - around 200s
Race - Dwarf
Morale – 2630
Power - 1151
Armour - 1452
Might - 212
Agility - 146
Vitality - 309
Will - 119
Fate - 75
melee eff - 188
ranged eff - 175
melee crit - 8.5%
ranged crit - 6.5%
Tactical crit – 6.3%
block - 15.4%
evade - 4.8%
parry - 10.5%
fire - 19.7%
common – 41.6%
shadow - 23.7%
fear – 5.6%
wound - 16.9%
disease - 7.1%
poison - 7.1%

Virtues
charity - 7
justice - 3
valour - 3
fidelity - 4
loyalty - 4

I guess I'm the only Guardain who really likes Agility. B/P/E total of 47% FTW

With Stone-biter I drop B/P/E to 45.7 while ICPR increases to 493 and Melee Eff increases to 226

Man reading through this thread shows me exactly how poorly i have created my Guardian so far, so much work needs to be done on my end.

I ain't even going to bother to post my stats up.

I know sithsinista these guardians make me feel the same way, but heck you can also look at it as "Wow i can be like that in the future" its also i great way to see how to build your guardian

Originally Posted by Cyberjazz

I guess I'm the only Guardain who really likes Agility. B/P/E total of 47% FTW

With Stone-biter I drop B/P/E to 45.7 while ICPR increases to 493 and Melee Eff increases to 226

I think you wanna be a champion, or burglar. Its a good template for soloing though, higher damage output, but when you are tanking you woudn't be as good of a tank as a guardian with the same eqipment but focused on pure tanking.

SOrry in thumbnails first time using imageshack, more to come soon..

Wow Fundin those are some great pictures! I think my favorite is the one with the troll.

What can i say, dwarfs just look so good with hammers and axes .

Man! you guys kick butt! I have around a level 23 dwarf Guardian and my gear sucks. Then agian I dont have alot of time to play. Props though, I have somthing to look forword too, that is if I come across gear as cool as yours!

That troll picture was better than the last! Don't get me wrong you other guys have great pictures to but if it was a contest fundin would win!(unless the judge was a troll :\ )

Originally Posted by Dwarven-Might

I think you wanna be a champion, or burglar. Its a good template for soloing though, higher damage output, but when you are tanking you woudn't be as good of a tank as a guardian with the same eqipment but focused on pure tanking.

I think Cyber's got a great tanking build there. He's worked his traits up & actually has more morale that I do with about 80 less vit. If you're comparing total damage avoidance, he's got 47, I have 45.8 total even though I have more blocking %. Plus, he has a sweet crit rate with 13.5% and with To The King equipped, that is really good. The more time the monster spends stunned from Overwhelm or the more conjuctions he opens with TTK, the less he's going to get hit. Tanking in LOTRO has always been about damage avoidance and he's got that down.

I'm curious what cloak he went with there, if he has the radiant cloak & hasn't added a fine radiant yet, he's going to push those stats up even further.

I would love to see Cyber's Gear. Awesome build. Curious how you got your Agility so high.

Originally Posted by Dwarven-Might

I think you wanna be a champion, or burglar.

"Don't think; it can only hurt the ball club" - Crash Davis

I wouldn't have spent the hours creating a viable Guardians sticky if that were true.

Originally Posted by Dwarven-Might

Its a good template for soloing though, higher damage output, but when you are tanking you woudn't be as good of a tank as a guardian with the same eqipment but focused on pure tanking.

I'm not sure how 47% B/E/P (52% in stance and 60%-61% with Guardians Ward) equates to not being as good a tank as others, but to each his own. When it comes to the content from the Shire to Thorog, I have no trouble being the MT and can tank with the best of them. IMO Avoidance>Vulnerabilty>Resitan ce>Mitigation. With that in mind I'm right where I want to be. I do change traits/gear like most people change underwear according to the situation but the build I showed was good enough to take down the Rogmul so I think it'll do just fine.

Originally Posted by Xeroproject

I think Cyber's got a great tanking build there. He's worked his traits up & actually has more morale that I do with about 80 less vit. If you're comparing total damage avoidance, he's got 47, I have 45.8 total even though I have more blocking %. Plus, he has a sweet crit rate with 13.5% and with To The King equipped, that is really good. The more time the monster spends stunned from Overwhelm or the more conjuctions he opens with TTK, the less he's going to get hit. Tanking in LOTRO has always been about damage avoidance and he's got that down.i

Thanks Xero. Nice to see someone got what I was going after and knows that it's right in line with what a tank can be. The crit rate really does have me stunning /opening Conjunctions a TON; a skill that will become even more valuable once the patch hits and To the King becomes a 7 second Cj instead of 3s next week.

Originally Posted by Xeroproject

I'm curious what cloak he went with there, if he has the radiant cloak & hasn't added a fine radiant yet, he's going to push those stats up even further.

The screenshot has me in Shadow-wrap but I also can be seen wearing a Fine Radiant Cloak and a Narchol according to the task at hand.

Originally Posted by Vultan

I would love to see Cyber's Gear. Awesome build. Curious how you got your Agility so high.

Armour:Complete Mirrored Ancient set substituting Berghelm. I'll also wear the Burnished Ancient leggings if there's no healing present
Shield: Stonhelm (pictured) or Hardened Heavy Ancient Shield
Weapons:Hausdrepa (pictured) and Stone-biter for Sword & Board. Mirrored Ancient Steel Greatsword for 2H.
Bows: Flightsong (pictured) or Fortified Black Ash Bow
Earrings: Baihdril & Laerdan's Earring (pictured) normally but I sub Erscin's Savior and/or Edhelharloch situationally
Bracelets: Aressechor & Mirechor (pictured) along with Dirdre's Bracelet, Candur and Silivrengil (this gets me up to 47.7 B/E/P but the loss in Power regen is too mcuh IMO without a captain around)
Rings: Ring of Fortitude and the Etched Beryl Ring
Pocket: Ancient Arrowhead (pictured), Ancient Iron Token or Phial of Swirling Waters according to the situation

As to the agility, like I wrote in the sticky, I recommend and collected Jewelry over armour as I leveled knowing I would GM Armourer and craft the gear I wanted. But to be clear, i pushed agility for avoidance. The side benefit was rarely ever missing and more crits, which helps me hold aggro like you wouldn't believe.

Here is Khulak.

I currently have 1 Baidhril and I'm using Edhelharloch as my other earring so I could get 1% more critical and 15 might for 15 will and .7 moral regen with another one. My necklace is an Etched beryl one, not the reward from Zaudru, but I don't mind the 15 agility instead of the 15 might that much. I could get a bit more agility with the burnished plate and a bit more might with a fine galadhrim helm, but the only mirrored piece that isn't really worth it is the mirrored leggings vs the burnished ones for the 2 points of morale regen. My bracelets are not the best ones as I didn't pick the best reward when leveling, but it'll be fixed once we get etched bracelets.

With Hausdrepa :




With the Spear of Battle :




With my Hill Defender :

Don't make fun, I like my Elf Guardian



Traits:
Virtues:
Charity - 5
Compassion - 5
Justice - 1
Valor - 2
Wisdom - 4

Race:
Elf Bow Dmg
Friend of Man
Return to Rivendell
Tactics & Conviction
Sylvan Shados

Class:
Defense Expertise
Quickness
Controlled Breathing
Reactive Block
To The Rescue

Legendary:
Working on Best Defense pages.

Current Level - 50
Current money - 6 g 670s 28c
Average repair cost - 300 silver a trip
Race - Dwarf
Morale - 3,290
Power - 1,691
Armour - 1,977
Might - 258
Agility - 157
Vitality - 312
Will - 204
Fate - 209
melee eff - 215
ranged eff - 212
melee crit - 8.7%
ranged crit - 6.7%
Tactical crit - 9.9%
block - 22.3%
evade - 6/0%
parry - 12%
fire - 19.8%
common - 48.0%
shadow - 19.8%
fear - 11.2%
wound - 11.9%
disease - 10.1%
poison - 10.1%

Traits

Virtues
Justice(5)
Valour(4)
Loyalty(6)
Determination(5)
Idealism(7)

Race
Fateful Dwarf
Guile and Might bonus
Dwarf Endurance
Shield Brawler
Endurance of Stone

Class
Defence Expertise
Gaurdian's Ward
Grim Challenge
Stoic
Strong lungs

Legendary
Shield-Smash
Guardian's threat

PVP
Rank: 4-Man at Arms
Rating:932-blah
Renown: 9,157
kills: 2,920
Deaths: 136- Its a gaurdians Job to die, so what?
Kills/death: 21.5
Killingblows: 116 - Gaurdians were never meant to deal death blows...
Above rating: 841
Below Rating: 2,079
Highest Rating Defeated: 1,758

Well that's Dhregin. its hillarious when I activate my 3 invulnerbility skills and sit there for 40 seconds with 40 mosnters in pvp wailing on me and doing about 50 damadge every 10 seconds...course once it wears off im screwed...

Ok here is my Guardian, like i said still a work in progress, but i am workin' first on the levelin' up.
When i was around 35 i had my Fate as my highest followed by Agility and Might, it was a real work of horror. Since then i have worked hard to reverse it so that my 3 main critical stats are Might, Vitality and Agility.
It's not easy building Agility on a dwarf though, i am reading through the lore-book to try decide which Armours will best suit the stats that i want.
Once i hit around 45 i will head back and chop through the traits quick as i can. I currently have the following traits equipped:

Valour: 3
Justice: 4
Compassion: 6
Mercy: 3
Loyalty: 5

As soon as u get my discilpine up i will slot that it in place of Mercy.

I have to say though, that this is my first ever MMORPG and i am loving it, i am especially loving being the tank, it doesn't matter what game i am playing whenever it is a free flowing battle system like this one i love just being in the middle of the fray and the tank is without a doubt the best way to go about being public enemy no.1 in the middle of a mob.
I was running around with a lv.50 Champion (a mate of mine) in Gabilizan and i was pulling Aggro off of him!

Yeah, This is my first mmo as a Tank and usually I hate being a tank but I love my Dwarf Gaurdian, he's the man, man!

Originally Posted by sithsinista1

Ok here is my Guardian, like i said still a work in progress, but i am workin' first on the levelin' up.
When i was around 35 i had my Fate as my highest followed by Agility and Might, it was a real work of horror. Since then i have worked hard to reverse it so that my 3 main critical stats are Might, Vitality and Agility.
It's not easy building Agility on a dwarf though, i am reading through the lore-book to try decide which Armours will best suit the stats that i want.
Once i hit around 45 i will head back and chop through the traits quick as i can. I currently have the following traits equipped:

Valour: 3
Justice: 4
Compassion: 6
Mercy: 3
Loyalty: 5

As soon as u get my discilpine up i will slot that it in place of Mercy.

I have to say though, that this is my first ever MMORPG and i am loving it, i am especially loving being the tank, it doesn't matter what game i am playing whenever it is a free flowing battle system like this one i love just being in the middle of the fray and the tank is without a doubt the best way to go about being public enemy no.1 in the middle of a mob.
I was running around with a lv.50 Champion (a mate of mine) in Gabilizan and i was pulling Aggro off of him!

that was my favorite helmet ever, I was so sad when I finally had to replace it because it just wasn't practical to keep it and suffer a -45 morale, -30 vit, -30will penalty from not taking other higher level helmets. I was very sad there wasn't a higher level helmet that had a similar appearance. We need more full face covering helms.

I love my guard =)

Originally Posted by Shhade

I love my guard =)

What mob in Fornost Dropped Guardian's Ward?

Originally Posted by Janusnibbs

What mob in Fornost Dropped Guardian's Ward?

The hilt boss with Troll Statues that come alive.