By: Elliot “Avon” Gilman

Wardrobe System

Volume III, Book 2 will introduce the Wardrobe System, a system guaranteed to take your hoarding habit to the next level. If you‘re like me, your shared storage and vault are busting at the seams with items, many of which are cosmetic outfits or have an appearance too nice to part with. The Wardrobe system is designed to store the appearances of these items and includes some unique features not seen with shared storage or the vault.

Using the Wardrobe

A major difference between the wardrobe and other types of storage is that an item moved into the wardrobe is copied; the original item will remain whereever it originated. The wardrobe will copy key information, such as the item’s name, appearance, description, and color, leaving the original untouched. What you decide to do with the original item is up to you and has no impact on its doppelganger in the wardrobe. You may decide to delete or sell the original to free up storage space elsewhere, or if the item is not bound to you, you can give it away to a friend. In a lot of ways this functionality is similar to how the outfit system works. You are never really moving clothing to an outfit slot but rather the outfit system copies the appearance to that slot.

Unlike real-world closets, this wardrobe can only store clothing and initially is limited to 20 items. Additional space can be purchased in the LOTRO Store in increments of 10, up to a total of 50.

It’s important to note that the wardrobe does not copy an item’s stats. Gear moved to wardrobe will look like the original but it can only be cosmetically worn, giving no benefit aside from making you look fabulous.

The wardrobe can be accessed by talking to any of the Vault-keepers. Clothing already stored in your vault and shared storage will have to be moved to your pack prior to being placed in the wardrobe. A simple drag-and-drop from your pack to the wardrobe will copy the item’s appearance and information to it.

The wardrobe has the usual sorting and filtering features you’re already familiar with, along with a new filtering option, “Colour,” which allows you to show only outfits of a specific color.

You can also search for items by name, a feature that has been added to shared storage and the vault as well.