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Developer Diary: SoM Crafting

New Legendary Weapon & Class Item Recipes

Crafting guilds continue to provide players with the means to produce the most sought-after weapons and items found in Middle-earth. New recipes to create powerful Legendary Items can be purchased from vendors located in crafting guild-halls. These give crafters the ability to make the best Third Age and reforged Second Age Legendary Weapons and class items available.

Third Age weapons and class items can be obtained from a variety of sources, including these new crafting recipes, as treasure drops, or chosen as rewards. Second Age weapons and class items (greater than level 60) cannot be found as treasure drops or chosen as rewards in Siege of Mirkwood, and thus crafting provides the only method of acquiring these truly awesome weapons. Note that creating a Reforged Second Age weapon or class item requires an ancient symbol - a special ingredient that can only be found in dangerous, dark places. Like most ingredients, symbols are not bound upon acquisition and can be freely traded.

Crafted Relic Recipes

A new level of customization for Legendary Weapons and class items arrives with the addition of a fourth relic slot. This fourth - crafted - relic slot, found on both existing and new legendary equipment, will only hold relics made by players.

Recipes can be purchased from vendors in all craft guild-halls to create unique items that guild leaders will accept in exchange for a sealed crafted relic. The recipes available for each guild allow crafters to produce two basic types of crafted relics: Normal and Legendary crafted relics.

Normal Crafted Relics can be slotted into Legendary Weapons and class items to provide a bonus to your agility, fate, might, vitality, will, morale, or power. Each craft guild has the ability to produce one type of Normal Crafted Relic. If a guild different from yours makes the type of crafted relic that you want, do not worry! While in their sealed form, Normal Crafted Relics are not bound and can be freely traded and used by all.

Legendary Crafted Relics can be slotted into Legendary Weapons and class items to provide bonuses to your melee, ranged, tactical, or healing abilities. Each craft guild has the ability to make all types of Legendary Crafted Relics. Note that both sealed and unsealed Legendary Crafted Relics are bound to the crafter, and can only be slotted by those who can make them.

Please note that most crafted relics have minimum item level requirements. For example, a crafted relic with a minimum item level requirement of 55 will require the legendary weapon or class item to be at least that level in order to slot the crafted relic.