Legendary Items (LIs) are special items which can be levelled up and modified to suit a players play-style. They are class specific and each character can only equip 2 LIs - a main-hand weapon and either a ranged weapon or a class item. Note that even if you play a class that can dual-wield only one of those weapons can be a LI, and it must be the weapon in your main-hand slot.
Every character has a Legendary Item Panel (shift-I) where LIs are slotted. There are up to 10 slots available, every character starts with 6 and 4 more are unlockable with TP.
Every LI slotted into the Legendary Item Panel will gain XP and level up whenever you kill a non-grey mob.
Each Legendary has Legacies attached to it, which are bonuses that improve one of your skills.
You can slot 4 Relics onto each Legendary which provide stat-boosts (e.g. increased Might, Will etc).
What is a Legacy?
A Legacy is a special bonus that is added to your Legendary which improves one of your class skills. For example, it might make the skill do more damage or cost less power to execute. Legacies only take effect when you equip a weapon on your character (i.e. if you have 6 weapons in your Legendary Item Panel you only gain the benefits from the 2 which are equipped when you play)
When a Legendary is identified it will always have 3 randomly selected Major Legacies. Each time the weapon is reforged at levels 10,20 and 30 you will get a choice of 2 randomly selected Major or Minor legacies to add to the weapon.
Legacies have Tiers and Ranks.
- The Rank indicates how much benefit the Legacy gives to the skill it improves. Increasing the Rank of a Legacy will increase the benefit you receive. The maximum rank can be between 4-9 depending on the legacy.
- The Tier determines how many Legacy Points it costs to upgrade to the next Rank - the higher the Tier, the less points required to advance to the next Rank. Each Legacy has a maximum Tier of 6
The tier of a Legacy can be increased using a Scroll of Empowerment, by increasing the tier you reduce the number of Legacy Points needed to increase the Rank of the Legacy and can thus have more higher-ranked Legacies on your LI. I would recommend only doing this at end-game as you will replace Legendaries quite quickly when levelling.
Changing Legacies
You are not stuck with whatever Legacy you receive with your LI - you can change them to suit your play-style. In order to change a Legacy you need a Legacy Replacement Scroll.
What is a Relic?
A Relic is
What is the difference between a Third Age, Second Age and First Age Legendary?
In short, First Age is better than Second Age which is better than Third Age! To be more specific, a First Age LI will have higher DPS, better bonuses and more available Legacy Points than a Second or Third Age LI.
What difference does the equip-level of my Legendary make?
Legendaries with a higher equip-level are better than those with a lower equip-level (just like regular weapons)
What happens when a Legendary Levels?
Legendaries earn iXP whenever they are slotted in your Legendary Item Panel (doesn't matter if they are actually equipped or not). As the Legendary accumulates iXP it levels up, just like your character does. Each time your Legendary levels up you gain points which can be used to improve its Legacies.
iXP is gained from killing non-grey mobs, completing quests that reward Legendary Experience and using Heritage Runes.
Every 10 levels your Legendary needs to be reforged at a Forge Master. The reforges at levels 10,20 and 30 each add an extra Legacy to your item. The reforges at levels 40,50 and 60 each allow you to improve the Tier one of two randomly selected Legacies already on your Legendary.
If you decide you don't want a LI to gain iXP you can disable this from the Legendary Item Panel. In general this is bad idea as you gain more total iXP when more LIs are equipped. The only time you might want to disable iXP is if you have a new LI which you really need to level fast
For example, if you have just 1 LI slotted that item received 100% iXP. If you have 2 LI's slotted then each LI received 60% iXP - each LI receives less individual iXP but in total you receive 120% iXP, which is better than 100%! If you have 6 LI's slotted then, overall you received 216% of the iXP you'd get if only 1 LI was slotted, but each individual LI is receiving just 36% of the iXP it would get if it was the only one.
How do I get my first Legendary?
You will receive your first Legendary when you complete Volume 2, Book 1, Chapter 9: A Weapon of the Elder Days and your second Legendary when you complete Volume 2, Book 1, Chapter 14: Khazad-dum At Last!. These Legendaries are 'starter' legendaries and have 2 key differences to every other legendar you will ever encounter - they can only be levelled to level 40 and they only gain iXP when they are equipped. For this reason I suggest replacing them with 'proper' legendaries as soon as you can.
How do I get more Legendaries?
In short, LI's with equip levels up to level 64 can be obtained from drops from mobs & chests. Third Age LI's above this level can be obtained by bartering. First & Second Age LI's with equip levels above level 64 can only be obtained from Crafters who have high standing with their respective Crafting Guilds (via the auction-house or in-person trades)
From Quests
You will get a level 64 Second Age Legendary Item as a reward fro Volume 3, Book 3, Chapter 4: Ergothorn Elf-Friend
You will get a level 85 Second Age Bridle Legendary Item as a reward from Volume 3, Book 9, Chapter 9: The Dividing Line.
From Drops
- Mobs above level 51, and chests in instances/skirmishes above level 51, can drop random Third Age LIs.
- Mobs between Level 51-65 and chests in instances/skirmishes between Level 51-65 can drop random Second Age LI's with an equip level of 51-64.
From Barter
- When questing in Moria and Lothlorien:
- Humanoid mobs between levels 51-55 can drop Rusted Dwarf Tools which can be exchanged for equip-level 53 or 55 Third Age LIs
- Humanoid Mobs level 56+ can drop Khuzdul Tablets which can be exchanged for equip-level 57 or 59 Third Age LIs
- Some Moria Raid Bosses drop Bright Emblems of Nimrodel which can be exchanged for level 59/60 First Age LIs
- Barter NPCs in Mirkwood will exchange Malledhrim Bronze Feathers for level 61-64 Third Age LIs
- Barter NPC's in Endewaith will exchange Silver & Gold Tokens of the Wilds for level 65/65 Third Age LIs
- Barter NPC's in The Great River will exchange Silver & Gold Tokens of the Anduin for level 75 Third Age Items
- Relic Masters will exchange Shards for level 55,60,75 or 85 Third Age LIs for your class
- Legendary Item Vendors in Skirmish Camps will exchange Marks for level 75 or 85 Third Age LIs
Crafting
- Crafters who have Artisan standing with their guild can craft Third, Second and First age LIs with equip-levels of 60-65
- Crafters who have Master standing with their guild can craft Third, Second and First age LIs with equip-levels of 75
- Crafters who have Grand Master standing with their guild can craft Third, Second and First age LIs with equip-levels of 85
How to I Identify a Legendary?
When you first receive a Legendary it is unidentified, meaning that you do not know what Legacies it has.
To Identify a Legendary you need to take it to a Forge-Master (list of locations from LOTRO-Wiki) and open the Identify Tab. Select the Legendary you want to identify and press Identify. You can pay the fee in coins or in Shards - I suggest always paying in coins.
Once the Legendary is identified you can either equip it or, if it is no use to you, deconstruct it (see below)
What do I do with extra Legendaries?
Third Age Legendary, not for your class
Identify it and deconstruct it to receive a T1 Relic
First / Second Age Legendary, not for your class
Either deconstruct as above or consider selling on the auction house if you think someone else might want it
Legendary for your class
Whilst levelling Below Level 75: slot your legendaries until you have used all 6 slots. When you get a 7th deconstruct the highest level legendary and repeat indefinitely.
Whilst levelling Above Level 75: Keep an eye on the equip-levels of your Legendaries, those with level 75+ will give Exchange Scrolls that can be used on level 85 Legendaries - if you find a LI with a desirable Legacy get it to at least level 30 before you deconstruct and save the Scroll until you are ready to build your end-game weapons.
At Level Cap:
- Levelling Legendaries to level 60, then deconstructing gives the best Relic returns
- Levelling Legendaries to level 30+, then deconstructing gives the chance to receivebest Scroll returns
- Levelling Legendaries to level 11+, then deconstructing gives the chance to receive a Heritage Rune, the maximum available Rune increases every 10 levels thereafter
- Levelling Legendaries to level 2 gives better Relic returns than just deconstructing straight away
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