LotRO - Hunter Sets

Today, I want to take a look at the high-end hunter armour-sets.

There are two kind of sets, the class-sets and the non-class-sets.

The class-sets can only be worn by the class it has been made for. The non-class-sets can be worn by those class, which can use that type of armour. There are three types of armour: Heavy, Medium and Light.

An other factor is Radiance. Even though Radiance will be removed, it still does pay some importance i.e., to be able to do some instances, you need a certain amount of Radience.

Most of the class-armour-sets do have special, class-related bonuses.

There is no perfect armour, some sets are better in some aspect than others.

The Far-Arrow-Set has the highest Radiance at the moment, which is 180. You can get this set by killing the bosses in Barad Guldur, the Tower of the Lieutenant.

Each of the three boss-encounters has usually one (max two) Dark Emblems which can be bartered for a piece of the set. You get the chest-piece for Durchest Hard-Mode, the boots for Durchest Easy-Mode, The gloves for the Twins Hard-Mode and the helm for the Twins Easy-Mode. The Leggins drop from the Lieutenant Easy-Mode and last but not least (and hardest to get) shoulders you get from Lieutenant Hard-Mode.

The bonuses are not that great.

For two pieces, you get +20 Vitality, for 3/6: +126 Ranged Offence Rating and +183 Morale, 4/6 give you +756 Frost Defence and +756 Shadow Defence and 5/6 gives you a 5% chance to apply a ranged defence debuff to target with Swift Bow and +252 Ranged Offence Rating.

The better set for a hunter, at least in my opinion, is the Armor of the Aurochs. You can get all the pieces for 2'370 Skirmish Marks (SM), two Helegrod Marks and five Superior Third Marks (S3M).

Each piece has got 25 Radiance and the stats are superior to the Far-Arrows-Set. Where the Helegrod-set really shines, is the bonus for several parts.

For 2/6 we get +23 Agility, for 4/6 the Swift Bow recovery time is reduced by 2.5 seconds (form 10 s to 7.5 s) and for 6/6 you can use Penetrating Shot at 1.5 s instead of 3 s.

The Armour of the Lady's Dicerment is the set you can win parts from Dar Narbugud. They have +20 Radiance. Stats are worse than the other two.

The Armour of the Great Bow you can get with Medallions of Moria, the last two pieces drop only from the watcher. I have done that fight loads of times, but never won a single piece. To be fair, I forgot to roll for the pieces the first few runs. The stats and bonuses are not that special.

The Nenuial's Armour can be bartered with 1'896 Skirmish Marks, one Annuminas Mark and three Superior Third Marks. The set has +25 Radiance and is very easy to get. There are no Hunter-specific Bonuses, the stats are ok though.

Last thing, looks. Hm, the sest are not that great looking, I haven't seen one, I realy need to get. I don't like the look of the new Armour of the Aurochs. It is too blue. At least the old one looked as if it was made of Aurochs-Hides. I am running on the Far-Arrow-Set at the moment. I got five parts and would be happy if I get the last one tonight.