LOTR: Classes: Lore-Master
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The Lore-master is a pet class, crowd-control expert, debuffer, buffer, power conduit for fellows, and a part-time healer. Their cc skills are unparalleled with their abilities to mez, slow, root, stun and otherwise occupy their foes for periods of time. Patterned after Lord Elrond and Gandalf, the Lore-master is also a hybrid melee and tactical skill class being able to do decent damage with their weapons and with their direct and AOE damage skills.
Tolkein's lore sets the backdrop for the Lore-Master class. Magic use is subtle and often employs the use of nature. A famous example in the books is the use of the Ford of Bruinen, where Elrond had commanded the waters to rise up and wash away the Nazgul. Only a very, very powerful Lore-Master like Gandalf or Elrond can do that! But the in-game variety of Lore-master utilizes similar forces. Races that can become Lore-Masters include Race of Man and Elf.
Lore-masters wear light armor and use staff as their weapon of choice. The light armor means that a Lore-Master tends to be more vulnerable to any type of damage than any other class. A staff is crucial to the class. In fact, a staff must be equipped in order to use the majority of skills. They also employ summoned pets to fight foes, distract a foe or to stun a foe, or to cause a foe to have less effectiveness for a certain attack ability. Pets serve different functions based on their own skillset. Pet choices include Raven, Bear and Lynx. At the highest levels, a Lore-master can also call a Lesser Giant Eagle to their aid when they attain a special legendary trait for it.
Lore-masters typically have lots of options in a fight and can handle several foes at the same time. They can also acheive great feats of valour, defeating foes other classes can only marvel at throught their use of stuns, mezzes, pets, self-heals and tactical damage skills. Due to the variety of skills that they offer, they are highly desired in both high-end raids and common fellowship groups at all levels.
[edit] Class Skill Types
The following paragraphs list the categories of skills. Under each category is a listing of the skills themselves. These skills are all purchased from a trainer. These include Accuracy, Parry-Chance, Evade-Chance and Melee Critical.
[edit] Cures from the Houses of Healing
This category includes curatives/preventatives for disease and wounds.
- Tend the Sick (Single-target cure/prevent disease) and
- Leechcraft (Single-target cure/prevent wounds).
[edit] Friend of the Animals
These are the Lore-master pet skills. There are both combat pets (discussed elsewhere on this page) and non-combat pets. Non-combat pets are pets gained through various means including a quest or for purchase after gaining reputation with a faction.
[edit] Fury of Nature
Various nature-based skills. AOE and single target. Most of them have either a slow, stun or root component.
- Burning Embers (Single-target fire damage and slow),
- Gust of Wind (AOE common damage, +miss-chance debuff),
- Light of the Rising Dawn (Single-target light damage and stun),
- Cracked Earth (AOE fire damage, slow and delayed root),
- Ents Go to War (AOE fire damage and stun), and
- Lightning Storm (AOE common damage, multiple rounds. mob must be debuffed successfuly by Ancient Craft first)
[edit] Healing and Motivation
Morale-boosting skills.
- Beacon of Hope (Single-target instant morale boost with short induction time) and
- Inner Flame (Pet and self morale over time, while casting)
[edit] Lore of the Third Age
Various "Lore skills" that we have available.
- Air-Lore (Single-target damage shield)
- Herb-Lore (AOE root)
- Fire-Lore (Single-target debuff for melee damage and miss-chance)
- Knowledge of the Lore-Master (Gathers general information about a foe, including resistances, mob-type and other information)
- Storm-Lore (AOE common damage and brief stun)
- Wind-Lore (Single-target attack-speed and rangde damage debuff)
[edit] Lost Knowledge
Kind of a catch-all for a bunch of miscellaneous skills.
- Ancient Craft (Single-target armor debuff, prerequisite skill for Lightning Storm)
- Ancient Wisdom (Self-buff to will)
- Back from the Brink (Single-target rez skill, requires shire sweet-leaf reagent)
- Bane Flare (AOE mez and damage spell for dead)
- Blinding Flash (Single-target mez for non-dead)
- Call to the Valar (Instantly resets cooldowns for many skills)
- Power of Knowledge (Sucks power out of a foe, transferring it to the Lore-Master over time)
- Share the Power (Transmits some of the Lore-Master's power to a single-target)
- Sticky Tar (AOE area slow and fire damage debuff)
- Test of Will (Single-target light damage and stun)
- Warding Knowledge: Creatures of Nature (Area debuff, increasing damage and miss-chance for "Creatures of Nature")
- Warding Knowledge: Drakes (Area debuff for "Drakes")
- Warding Knowledge: Dead (Area debuff for "Dead")
- Wisdom of the Council (Self-buff, instant boost of morale)
[edit] Melee Skills
We just have one specialized melee skill.
- Staff-strike (Mighty staff blow. When pet "Flanks" a foe: does increased damage.
[edit] Signs of Ancient Magics
Buffs and debuffs, mostly.
- Sign of Power: Command (Single-target debuff for attack-speed and parry-chance)
- Sign of Power: Righteousness (Single-target buff that is a cure/preventative for silence, knockdown and knock-out effects)
- Sign of Power: Vigilance (Single-target buff that adds to stealth detection)
- Sign of Power: Wizardry (Single-target damage over time. When pet "Flanks" a foe: provides a morale boost)
- Sign of the Wild: Protection (Pet buff. Increases a pet's parry-chance and lowers their vulnerability to damage)
- Sign of the Wild: Rage (Pet buff. Increases a pet's aggro and slightly slows pet attacks)
[edit] Passive Skills
These skills are simply incremental upgrades in our physical melee and defensive capabilities. All classes get these, but some classes can go to a higher level in them than the max level for Lore-Masters.
- Accuracy (Levels 1 to 3)
- Melee Critical (Levels 1 to 4)
- Evade-Chance (Levels 1 to 3)
- Parry-Chance (Levels 1 to 3)
[edit] Pets
Pets provide support for a Lore-Master's tactics and effectiveness. They function as damage dealers, methods of distraction, buffers, and debuffers. The three purchased pets are Raven, Bear and Lynx. Lesser Giant Eagle is a legendary pet, available through completing a special class quest. Each of these pets is fully controllable, and can be ordered to be in offensive, passive or 'guard' modes. They can be ordered to attack, follow, or stay. Assist is also a toggle that can be combined with any of the modes. Each pet also does common melee damage and has its own suite of unique skills.
Pets have the ability to flank a foe, when it happens a small icon appears under the mob's icon and there is a visual of two arrows flashing near the mob itself that indicates that mob has been "Flanked!" The "Flanked!" condition lasts for 7 seconds, so a Lore-master has to keep aware of when it is happening to take advantage. Flanked! is a debuff on a mob that opens up a couple of opportunities for the Lore-master. Sign of Power: Wizardry on a Flanked! mob provides a morale boost to the Lore-Master. Staff-strike on a Flanked! mob provides a damage bonus.
Lastly, pets have reactive abilities, functioning similar to Flanked!, that debuff or damage a mob. These are also indicated by a small icon under the mob's icon. One of them, 'Harried' is universal to all pets. Harried mobs get a 25% reduction in run speed for a duration of seven seconds. The Raven and Lynx have unique reactives, discussed below.
[edit] Raven
- Attainable from a trainer at Level 4
- +15 Shadow Resistance to Lore-Master and any fellows
- Good dodge amount, poor armor.
- Small damage, but fast attack speed. Flanks almost as much as the Lesser Giant Eagle Pet.
- Benediction of the Raven: clickable skill, Raven lowers a foe's resistance to fire by 10 percent
- Distraction: clickable skill, Raven decreases a foe's ranged offensive damage by 50 percent and raises their chance to miss by 10 percent.
- Evasion: clickable skill, buffs Raven to provide 50 percent to evade chance, add 20 percent to common damage mitigation and add 30 percent to Shadow mitigation.
- The Raven is primarily helpful at providing shadow damage resistance in groups, distracting foes, debuffing a missle foe and at increasing a Lore-master's fire damage attacks.
- Reactive: Dizzy. Does extra damage upon proc, and debuffs a mob with a 15% miss chance for 15 seconds.
[edit] Bear
- Attainable from a trainer at Level 14
- Poor dodge amount, good armor.
- Good damage, but slow attack speed. Hardly flanks at all.
- Roaring Challenge: A clickable taunt that forces a mob to face the Bear pet for six seconds.
- Shatter Arms: A clickable skill that causes the Bear to debuff a foe, adding 8 percent to their melee and ranged vulnerability.
- Bear Hug: A clickable skill that causes damage to a foe, often stunning them for a short time in the process. This is a nice skill to have as its an extra stun. I usually keep it on toggle so it fires automatically.
- The Bear is primarily helpful in situations where you absolutely, positively have to get a foe off of your Lore-master. But at most levels this buys you an extra two seconds or so. Not all that helpful. Also the bear gets stuck in doorways and other landscape features sometimes, more than with the other pets.
[edit] Lynx
- Attained from a trainer at level 30
- Great damage output, but vulnerable to damage. Flanks more than the Bear, but still not very much.
- Stealth: The lynx defaults to stealth mode, once it is idle. It can attack from stealth mode, after which it pops out of the mode, and it travels in stealh mode.
- Surprise Attack - This skill can only be done if the Lynx is in stealth mode. It attacks a mob with a sneak attack for alot of damage
- Feral Strike - Damage attack, single target. Very nice damage and a short cooldown.
- Slashing Claws - AOE attack on up to 5 targets, and does good damage. Great for tough situations where multiple adds need to be taken down quickly.
- Our best dps pet, but also the most fragile. Great pet for taking normal mobs down quickly but is weaker in protracted battles against elite/master elite/nemesis mobs and highly vulnerable to mobs with AE attacks such as trolls.
- Reactive: Savage Bleed. Upon proc, inflicts a DOT that does 46 common damage every five seconds for 10 seconds.
[edit] Lesser Giant Eagle
- Attainable as a Legendary Trait, by completing the two class quests at Level 45
- Provides a +1 power regen buff in combat for the Lore-Master and any fellows
- Decent dodge amount, decent armor. Interrupts caster mobs, which is ~very~ nice to have. Plus the Lesser Giant Eagle is one level lower than you, meaning its one level higher than all your other pets when summoned.
- Good damage, fast attack speed, flanks more than any other pet we have
- Fan the Flames: Works in conjunction with Burning Embers. A clickable skill that fears mobs and increases fire damage on a mob that has Burning Embers active on it.
- Beak Rend: A clickable skill that deals AOE damage to a group of foes, and heals the eagle pet. Doesn't heal the Lore-master, as has been suggested sometimes (or wished for anyways!)
- Sacrifice: If you get defeated and the Lesser Giant Eagle pet is still alive, this skill causes an auto resurrection. The Eagle sacrifices itself and revives you with around 30% health and no power. It works well most of the time, but for it to work your eagle pet has to be 1) alive and 2) in combat.
- Our most powerful pet all around. Once you get it, you won't even have to bother with the other pets.
[edit] Class Traits
Each class/race combination has certain common traits that can be had by completion of various deeds. Only five can be slotted at any given time. These deeds are often tied to completing a task or a feat within a specific geographic region of the world, or by killing numbers of a certain type of foe across many parts of the world. Class traits can be had by performing various skills unique to your class or by completion of class-specific quests. The following list provides each class trait for the Lore-master class, along with a brief explanation.
[edit] Awareness of Body
- Gained by using the skill, Wisdom of the Council 100 times
- Reduces morale costs by 40 percent for the skills Cracked Earth, Gust of Wind, Test of Will and Light of the Rising Dawn
- Adds 2 percent to Fire mitigation
[edit] Beast Lore
- Gained by using the skill, Sign of the Wild: Rage 300 times
- Increases the combat stats of all of your pets
[edit] Deep Lore
- Gained by using the skills, Fire-Lore, Wind-Lore and Herb-Lore 500 times cumulatively
- AOE lore skills hit five more targets
- In-combat morale regen increased by 0.3
[edit] Dunedain Learning
- Gained by using Signs of Power skills 500 times
- Increases duration and effectiveness of Sign of Command: Righteousness and Sign of Command: Vigilance
- All sign skills power cost decreased by 3%
[edit] Flame of Anor
- Gained by completing the level 30 class quest
- Increases damage of fire-based skills by 10%
- Increases disease and wound resistance by 1%
[edit] Hardy Bear
- Gained by completing the level 15 class quest
- Bear effectiveness increased
- All sign skills power cost decreased by 3%
[edit] Harmony with Nature
- Gained by using the skill Cracked Earth 400 times
- Reduces power costs and casting time for Cracked Earth, Gust of Wind, Test of Will, Light of the Rising Dawn, and Ents Go to War
- Adds 2% to Fire mitigation
[edit] Healer
- Gained by using the skill Leechcraft 250 times
- Lowers power cost and induction time for healing and restorative skills
- Increases "healing" effectiveness by 10% for Share the Power and Beacon of Hope
- Increases disease and wound resistance by 1%
[edit] Knowledge of the past
- Gained by using the skill Ancient Wisdom 300 times
- Adds a chance to restore some power while using skills
- In-combat morale regen increased by 0.3
[edit] Light of Hope
- Gained by using the skill Beacon of Hope 600 times
- Lowers morale cost, casting time and recovery time for Beacon of Hope
- In-combat morale regen increased by 0.3
[edit] Master of beasts
- Gained by using the skill Sign of the Wild: Protection 500 times
- Lowers power costs and increases duration of Signs of the Wild skills
- All sign skills power cost decreased by 3%
[edit] Master of the Staff
- Gained by using the skill Staff Strike 600 times
- Staff-strike does bonus damage and can stun foes
- Morale increased by 5%
- Adds 2% to Fire mitigation
[edit] Power and Wisdom
- Gained by using the skill Power of Knowledge 250 times
- Increases power of Ancient Wisdom skill
- Increases duration and power-sucking magnitude of Power of Knowledge skill
[edit] Proof Against All Ills
- Gained by using the skill Tend the Sick 300 times
- Makes Leechcraft and Tend the Sick into AOE skills
- Allows use of Leechcraft during combat
- Increases disease and wound resistance by 1%
[edit] Subtlety of Wisdom
- Gained by using the skill Blinding Flash 400 times
- Decreases threat when using skills
- Adds 2% to Fire mitigation
[edit] Tactically Adept
- Gained by using the skill Share the Power 750 times
- Power costs of tactical skills reduced by 3%
- In-combat morale regen increased by 0.3
[edit] Legendary Traits
These are special traits that can only be gained through questing from level 39 plus. You can only slot a maximum of two of these skills.
[edit] Eagle Friend
- Gained by completion of both of the level 50 class quests and then by talking with Elrond.
- Allows you to summon a Lesser Giant Eagle to your aid. See the pet section for a description. Eagles are pretty badass pets.
[edit] March of the Ents
- Gained by collecting the "Of Leaf and Twig" book and all of its missing pages. All of them are random world drops from lvl 39+ mobs. The book and pages are tradeable, so the Auction House is a good way to get them. Talk to Elrond to get the quest/deed started. Page collection works in the same way as deed completion, the pages get credited towards the deed upon pickup and do not persist in inventory.
- Powerful AOE damage and stun skill. Great to have, and fire-based.
[edit] Noble Savage
- Gained by collection of the "Book of Beasts" first and then seeing Elrond. The book is a world drop but is tradeable so can be picked up at the Auction House. Elrond instructs you then collect eight missing pages. Pages drop off of Evil Men, Evil Dwarves, Ancient Evil creatures, Giant-kind, Orc-kind, Troll-kind, or Wights. Four pages drop in Angmar and four pages drop in the Misty Mountains. These pages are not tradeable and must be collected in person by the LM. Page collection works in the same way as deed completion, the pages get credited towards the deed upon pickup and do not persist in inventory.
- Raises the power of your pets significantly making them into a "Signature" pet.
- Gives pets increased morale, attack, critical chances, stealth, stealth detection, and defenses.
[edit] Sword and Staff
- Gained by collection of the "Lore of the Blade" book first and then talking with Gandalf. The book is a world drop and can be traded so can be found in the Auction House. Gandalf instructs you to collect eight missing pages that drop off of Evil Men, Evil Dwarves, Ancient Evil creatures, Giant-kind, Orc-kind, Troll-kind, or Wights. Four pages drop in Angmar and four pages drop in the Misty Mountains. These pages are not tradeable and must be collected in person by the LM. Page collection works in the same way as deed completion, the pages get credited towards the deed upon pickup and do not persist in inventory.
- Turns you into Gandalf! No, not really. But it allows you to slot a sword in your secondary slot, giving more dps and stats.
- Adds 300 to morale, 2% to parry chance, 2% to evade chance and 15% to melee damage
[edit] Class Quests
There are four class quests that can be completed and provide a Lore-master with specific skills and items.
[edit] A Well-Ordered Mind
- Available from the Lore-master trainer at level 15
- Provides the skill Hardy Bear, celebrant salve and a nice robe.
[edit] A Lore-Master's Will
- Available from the Lore-master trainer at level 30
- Provides the skill Flame of Anor, celebrant salve and a choice of items
[edit] Friend of the Wild
- Available from Radagast at level 24
- Provides the ability to summon a non-combat hare pet
- Provides title "Friend of the Wild"
- Allows Lore-master to have other non-combat pets
[edit] The Wisest Way is Contemplation
- Available from the Lore-master trainer at level 45
- Winds up being split into two quests: Articles of Mastery and Implements of Knowledge
- Completion of Articles of Mastery provides a choice of teal jewelry
- Completion Implements of Knowledge provides a choice of teal staff or a teal sword
- Completion of both quests provides the legendary trait: Eagle-Friend
