Legendary Items (LotRO)  

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Contents [hide] Re-forging Deconstruction Legacies Relics Relic Forging Settings Gems Runes Crafted Relics by Tier

Legendary Items, or LIs as they are frequently called, were introduced with the Mines of Moria expansion and cannot be used or even identified until you have gained access to Moria. This is physical access to the place, not just having purchased the expansion although that is also required. In addition, you cannot use LIs until you have completed Volume 2, Book 1, Chapter 10: The Forgotten Lineage.

Before a Legendary Item can be used it must first be identified by a Forge-master to reveal the item's hidden potential. Once you equip or Slot the weapon it will earn levels and Legendary Points (LP) that you can use to further improve it's Legacies. Note that you can use and/or slot up to six LIs. Slotted LIs, whether they are equipped or not, will gain ItemXP and, thereby, levels. This means you can use your extra slots to "raise" additional weapons, for use or just for Deconstructing.

Shift-I opens the Legendary Items window. You will see that you cannot have more than a total of 6 Legendary Items equipped at any one time. Slotted LIs gain experience, both from killing mobs and from quests that specify they give Item Experience. LIs that are in your Inventory but are not slotted do not gain ItemXP.

Note: Only one Melee LI may be equipped. It can be Main-Hand or Off-Hand but you cannot equip both. You can equip a Melee LI and a Ranged or Class-slot LI.

Re-forging

When a LI reaches a level that is a multiple of 10 the item stops gaining experience and must be Re-forged by visiting a Forge-master. There are 3 checkboxes below the custom Name field that control whether Legacies, Relics and Name are reset when reforged. This allows you to keep what you have configured or redo it all. The Legendary Points you have spent and Relics you have slotted are not destroyed when removed during reforging. They are returned to your control so you can redistribute them. The default is to remove LP and Relics, but reset name defaults to un-checked, so if you want to keep it the way it is be sure to un-check them!

Deconstruction

A Relic-master can take LIs you do not need or want, and break them down into Relics you can use to improve the LIs you are using. The most common relic to result from Deconstruction is Tier 1 Settings. To get higher Relics you can select five Relics of the same type and Combine them into a Relic of the same type but the next higher tier.

It is commonly known that if you Deconstruct a leveled-up LI it yields better Relics. Many will slot an inferior LI of their class even though they have no intention of ever equipping it just to level it up so they can break it. Level 11 is believed to be the minimum to get the better Relics. You are advised to always level these LIs to a reforge-level +1, so 11, 21, 31, etc, for the best results.

Legacies

Legacies are just like traits or skills, except that they affect your LIs and you spend Legendary Points to raise the rank of the Legacy. New Legacies can be gained whenever the LI is Re-forged.

Relics

Relic Forging

A Relic-master can also combine 5 relics of one tier into one or more new relics, at least one of which will be of the next higher tier. Critical Success results can produce more relics of various tiers.

To get a single tier 9 relic would require 5⁹ (1,953,125) tier 1 relics if all you ever get are tier 1 relics. Thankfully, you get more relics of higher tiers when you break higher-level and higher-leveled LIs so you are never going to actually need to use only tier 1 relics.

Settings

Gems

Runes

Crafted

Relics by Tier

Each tier consists of six relics. Below will eventually be a complete table, by tier, of all the relics.

Tier	Type	Relic	Attributes
1	Setting	Bronze Setting of Warding	+10 Might, +2.5% Partial Block Mitigation
1	Setting	Bronze Setting of Might	+10 Might, +10 Vitality
1	Setting	Bronze Setting of Deflection	+10 Agility, +2.5% Partial Parry Mitigation
1	Setting	Bronze Setting of Deftness	+10 Agility, +10 Might
1	Setting	Bronze Setting of Fleetness	+10 Vitality, +2.5% Partial Evade Mitigation
1	Setting	Bronze Setting of Endurance	+10 Vitality, +10 Agility
2	Setting	Copper Setting of Whelming	+204 Melee Critical Rating, +10 Vitality
2	Setting	Copper Setting of the Enduring Hand	+204 Ranged Critical Rating, +10 Vitality
2	Setting	Copper Setting of the Deft Hand	+204 Ranged Critical Rating, +10 Agility
2	Gem	Agate Gem of the Fateful Word	+480 Tactical Offence Rating, +10 Fate
2	Setting	Copper Setting of Rage	+204 Melee Critical Rating, +10 Might
2	Gem	Agate Gem of the Willful Word	+480 Tactical Offence Rating, +10 Will
3	Setting	Iron Setting of the Stout Ward	+208 Melee Critical Rating, +2.5% Partial Block Mitigation
3	Gem	Amethyst Gem of Destiny	+10 Fate, +10 Will
3	Setting	Iron Setting of Stout Deflection	+208 Melee Critical Rating, +2.5% Partial Parry Mitigation
3	Gem	Amethyst Gem of Determined Fate	+60 in-Combat Power Regen, +10 Fate
3	Setting	Iron Setting of the Fleet hand	+208 Ranged Critical Rating, +2.5% Partial Evade Mitigation
3	Gem	Amethyst Gem of the Determined Mind	+60 in-Combat Power Regen, +10 Will
4	Setting	Steel Setting of Great Might	+3% Partial Block Mitigation, +3% Partial Parry Mitigation
4	Gem	Garnet Gem of the Mindful Touch	+600 Incoming Healing Rating, +12 Will
4	Setting	Steel Setting of Great Rage	+212 Melee Critical Rating, +12 Agility
4	Rune	Early Rune of the Heart	+75 Maximum Morale, -2% Attack Duration
4	Gem	Garnet Gem of the Fateful Touch	+600 Incoming Healing Rating, +12 Fate
4	Rune	Early Rune of the Spirit	+75 Maximum Power, -2% Attack Duration