A Leader of Men

Buffs, banners, heralds, off-tanking, DPS, and healing: the Captain class has many strong playstyle options and a broad range of abilities which allow him to be flexible when soloing and make him invaluable to fellowships.

For the Captain’s 50+ advancement, we’ve focused on 3 different aspects of the class: DPS & Off-tanking, Healing, and Utility & Pets. Because buffing is such a core component of the Captain class, it wasn’t limited to a single path but appears in different aspects of all 3 of the Captain’s Trait Sets.

Trait Sets

Lead the Charge

The Lead the Charge Trait Set focuses around dealing damage and strengthening the Captain’s abilities to generate threat while off-tanking. If you like to rock evil’s world with an enormous, Legendary, 2-handed halberd, this is the Trait Set for you!

Traits in the Set:

This Trait Set includes Captain’s Valour, Renewed Voice, and Expert Attacks. New entries such as Adherent of Elendil increase Blade of Elendil’s damage by 15%, giving you even more hurt to lead the charge with.

Trait Set Bonuses:

The bonuses from the Lead the Charge Trait Set reduce the amount of power your melee attacks cost and increase the amount of damage you deal in melee, enabling you to hit harder and better draw attention away from your softer allies (aka Rune-keepers).

Capstone Skill: Shadow’s Lament

This high-damage melee attack requires the Captain or his fellowship to have recently defeated an enemy. It draws a great deal of attention to the Captain in battle, giving you another tool to leverage for off-tanking.

Legendary Capstone Trait: Master of War

Equipping the Master of War Legendary Trait will greatly increase the amount of damage and threat dealt by Shadow’s Lament. In addition it will increase the amount of threat generated by Noble Mark over time*.

*In Moria, Noble Mark will also generate threat over time, in addition to the damage it currently does.