Regard­less of your class, every char­ac­ter will have the oppor­tu­nity to com­plete class quests at Lev­els 15, 30 and 45 (avail­able from your class trainer). The rewards of your first class trait, some decent armor or a weapon, as well as the excite­ment of pro­gress­ing your char­ac­ter in a solo-mission designed specif­i­cally for your class, is more than enough to ensure the major­ity will com­plete the L15 and L30 quests… the same, how­ever, can­not be said for the L45 class quests! This tip-time install­ment is here to pro­vide you with the rea­sons why you should squeeze this set of class quests into your Mid­dle Earth expe­ri­ence, and pro­vide some assis­tance in get­ting your char­ac­ter some of the best leg­endary traits available…

The L45 class quest is started by speak­ing to your class trainer at level 45 (big sur­prise there huh?), where you will be sent in the direc­tion of an expert in your field — these NPCs are typ­i­cally located in low-level areas of the game such as Bree­land and Ered Luin. Upon speak­ing to these experts, you will recieve two class quest­lines (nor­mally one for a weapon, and the other for armor or jew­ellery).  This is where the quest­line can become a turn-off: firstly, there is no longer a solo instance to com­plete, this time you have a series of quests in which you must col­lect enemy drops from across Mid­dle Earth, and sec­ondly, in the wake of leg­endary items (also attain­able at level 45), much of the good­ies for com­plet­ing the quest may seem pretty… uh… rub­bish!? BUT, what you are not told, is that if you com­plete BOTH class quest­lines, you will then be asked to speak to one of Mid­dle Earth’s more renowned NPCs (think Boromir, Lego­las e.t.c.) at which point you will receive an awe­some leg­endary trait! (Yes, that’s right… no col­lect­ing book pages for this leg­endary trait!):

• BURGLAR: Stick and Move (evad­ing starts crit­i­cal response chain)
• CAPTAIN: In Defence Of Mid­dle Earth (+50 vital­ity, agility, might, will, fate buff)
• CHAMPION: Con­trolled Burn (bet­ter power + attack)
• GUARDIAN: To The King (pow­er­ful attack with knockdown)
• HUNTER: Bow of the Right­eous (power recov­er­ing with attacks)
• LOREMASTER: Eagle-Friend (sum­mon Eagles with in-combat power restore)
• MINSTREL: Fel­low­ships’ Heart (pow­er­ful group heal-over-time + fear remove)
• RUNE-KEEPER: That Which Does Not Kill Us (group heal-over-time with +40% defense)
• WARDEN: Way of the War­den (com­bined stance for power/morale/defence)

Each line of the class quests involve three stages of item col­lec­tion includ­ing: find­ing and killing sig­na­ture elites and stan­dard mobs for non-tradeable items, col­lect­ing tradeable-items from ene­mies (or auc­tion hall)… and the one that most will strug­gle with: col­lect­ing trade­ables from uber-elites in Carn Dum and Uru­gath. Say­ing this, if you have a sup­port­ive kin or net­work of in-game friends, get­ting a group together to head to Uru or CD to down a mob like Helchgam (see pic­ture above) shouldn’t be too hard, and a Level 60 or two in your group should make light work of any foes in these large instances. Going your­self will cer­tainly save you some cash too (CD/Uru items on the Gilrain server can be pricey!).

My final tip is to make use of excel­lent online resources such as Lotro Wiki when attempt­ing these class quests. This page all about where to find class items is par­tic­ualy use­ful (e.g. go farm hounds from the Bar­rows rather than head to Fornost for rot­ted bargh­est paws)!

Happy hunt­ing!
Isy

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