This article is an advanced guide in using the Legendary Item system to its full potential, for a detailed beginners guide to LI’s visit the “Casual Stroll to Mordor’s” site before using this guide. In “Casual Stroll’s” guide you hear Merric & Goldenstar talk about how they are running out of runes & gems, because they switch weapons a lot. This can easily be remedied by only changing your weapons at reforge, if you find a weapon that is better than the one you are currently using, slot it in a different slot and continue using the weapon you have until reforge, the other weapon will still level up and you wont loose your runes, gems & settings. If you do not want to wait, or your weapon is above level 10, waiting till reforge can take a while, so keeping a good stock of gems, settings & runes is vital to using LI’s. This guide will show you step by step on how to keep a good stock of resources for your LI’s.
The Legendary Item System (or LI’s for short) can be very complicated if you don’t have someone experienced to help you out. This guide assumes you have a basic knowledge on LI’s and will teach you the more advanced aspect of the system.
The Auction House:
The Auction House (or AH for short) is your best friend when it comes to this system. You can find LI’s on the AH from 50-100 silver. You should keep an eye on the AH for deals and stash them away for future use, ALSO to limit cost, make sure to sell the LI’s that are not for your class on the AH for the same price. (Reminder: Always be sure to indentify every LI you get, some will be garbage, but some will be VERY nice and will be worth more than 50-100s)
Deconstruction:
Lets talk a bit about deconstruction (or decon for short). Decon is how your going to get your resources for your LI’s. Its very important to Decon at a specific time. The best time to decon an LI is at levels 2, 11, 21 ect ect.. if your just looking for some gems, settings & relics you can decon at level 1, but the good stuff comes at higher levels. Level 11 is the basic level I decon at, you get a good assortment of gems, runes & settings, you also get item experience runes as well (commonly 5000 & 7500xp runes, these i save for future LI’s) at level 21 you get everything that you get at level 11, but you also get Legendary Shards that can be sold on the AH, or used to reforge LI’s through the crafting system. Decon’ing at level 21 also gives you Item XP runes in the upwards of 60,000 iXP (Item XP) wich come in handy when you get a brand new LI that you want to equip.
You can level up to 6 LI’s at one time, and i suggest you keep 6 items leveling at all times. Doing so will keep you well stocked with gems, shards, settings & runes. ( and more with the SoM expansion ) 1st off slot 1 and 2 should be used for equipped LI’s only, these will be the weapons you use on an everyday basis. The rest of the slots will be used to keep you well stocked with Runes, Gems, Settings, ect ect. Below is a table on what I use the remaining slots in the LI interface, for.
Slot 3: This slot i use for 2 different purposes, 1st if i find an LI that is what i call, “promising” (has more than 1 awesome legacy) it will go here for leveling, But if thats not that case i will put a crap LI in this slot to collect experience for when i find a better LI than what i currently have in slot 1 & 2. Once you get an upgrade you will remove this weapon and deconstruct it, using the iXP runes to level the new LI faster. The LI in this slot will always be Decon’d at level 21, and never sooner.
Slot 4,5 & 6: These slots are used for mass production of Runes, Settings, Gems & iXP runes. I slot 3 crap LI’s into these slots and level them to 11, the LI’s in these slots are always decon’d at level 11. Each time you decon one of these LI’s you will get a good assortment of Runes, Settings & Gems along with 5,000-7500 iXP runes (on average, sometimes you will pop out a 10k iXP runes, but its rare) You have a slim chance of getting a Legendary Shard as well. Make sure to visit the relic master and convert all your relics to higher tiers when you get them, level 11 is an easy grind & before you know it you’ll be rolling in relics!
Some other important info you want to keep in mind while your leveling these LI’s for resources are:
- There is no need to distribute points.
- There is no need to slot Gems, Settings & Runes.
- Only use garbage LI’s and Sell the Promising LI’s on the AH or equip them.
Im looking forward to the changes coming in SoM Xpac, and will write an update soon after the release with my findings. I hope this guide helps you out, please keep in mind im only level 55 and havnt had a chance to do bounties yet, to see how they work into this system, nor have i leveled an LI beyond 29, so this is my experience so far, i will update this post as changes occur in the future.
If you have comments please post them, i appreciate ANY feedback you may have.. Thanks for reading Middle Earth Chronicles, And ill see you in Middle Earth!
ah well…. for those who are wondering, here is a screenshot of the cloak….eh… looks like a bed sheet!? not very happy about this, all the other special cloaks are quite nice… this one (in my opinion) is lacking…. 
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