Riders of Rohan Developer Diary: Minstrel

By: Jonathan “RockX” Steady

Hey all, RockX again! Today’s diary is focused on the Minstrel changes for Riders of Rohan. There’s a decent amount going on in terms of quality of life improvements, but first:

Improved Skills

Level 77 – Tale of the Elements (Improved Tale of Frost and Flame)

• Replaces the Frost and Fire Mitigation buff of Tale of Frost and Flame with Tactical Mitigation.

Level 80 – Call of Eärendil (new skill!):

• Requires Harmony stance.
• Melee-range frontal Area of Effect attack.
• Maximum of 3 targets.
• Deals light-type damage and applies a tactical mitigation debuff to targets.

This skill will deal substantial light-type damage to targets in a cone directly in front of the Minstrel. Any targets hit will be given the same tactical mitigation debuff as from Call of Oromë.

Level 83 – Improved Gift of the Hammerhand:

• Adds a potent Heal over Time to the target.

The Heal over Time is applied at the same time as the bubble.

Skill Modifications

• All Minstrel attacks with a buff of some sort should now trigger the buff, even if the attack misses.
• Tales stay active while silenced.
• Tale of Battle’s Vitality buff has been brought up to the same strength as the Will buff from Tale of Heroism.
• Song of the Dead now affects the Dead, Ancient Evil and Unseen. It has been renamed to Song of Subdual.
• The strength of Anthem of Prowess has increased.

Item Advancement

• Call of Oromé Damage Legacy will affect Call of Eärendil as well.
• Song of the Dead Cooldown Legacy has been renamed to Song of Subdual Legacy.
• Anthem of War (melee damage) Legacy will increase both melee and ranged damage now.
• Anthem of War (ranged damage) Legacy is replaced with Minstrel Skill Bubble Strength Legacy.

Trait Modifications

• Battle-hymn increased in potency.

Legendary Trait Modifications

• Master of Tales now gives Tale of the Elements’ Battle (+Tactical Mitigation, Vitality, Resistance.)

As always, everything listed here is not final and is subject to change based on feedback and testing. Thanks for reading, and Forth Eorlingas!