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LotRO's Corsairs Of Umbar Crafting Guilds Have Arrived While Combe Preps For Its Forester Event, Again
14.12.2023 - 22:57 / mmorpg.com
The Lord of the Rings Online's Crafting Guilds have made it to its latest expansion,Corsairs of Umbar, in a patch this week. Meanwhile, the residents of Combe are prepping for its latest attempt at its Forester crafting event.
Crafting Guilds have been in the Lord of the Rings Online for some time now, but they've jumped down the Belfalas to Umbar with the latest patch this week. While the much broader crafting overhaul the team was hoping for isn't necessarily possible thanks to the legacy code of the 16-year-old MMO, Crafting Guilds are still an important part of the end game for anyone running around Umbar and Harad looking to make the best gear.
You'll need to be an Honoured Master of a crafting guild with enough earned reputation to earn the right to join the Corsairs of Umbar Crafting Guild, but once you've done so, you'll have access to guild recipes that can create some incredibly powerful items. There are also daily quests to complete to hone your crafting skills, as well as unlock recipes only available to Umbar guild crafters.
Umbar's Crafting Guilds also bring some changes to standard crafting in the form of upgradeable items, which allow the crafter to upgrade a version of a baseline crafted item, provided they have the mats required.
«For example: If I have an upgradable helmet that is currently tier 1, I would need the tier 2 upgrade item and a recipe to forge the tier 2 version of the helmet. The 1-shot recipe for upgrading the helmet is a consumable that requires that you have an output profession. Each recipe is an apprentice-level processing recipe that goes into the recipe's profession tab of the crafting UI. Finally, after gathering the materials and learning the recipe, the player executes the recipe and makes their new upgraded item. The new version of the item, if it is better than the baseline item, is now bound to the account.»
LotRO content creator Bludborn has a great video showcasing the Crafting Guilds of Umbar, which we've embedded below.
In other Middle-earth crafting news, the Combe Forester event is kicking off again, despite being canceled a few times over this year. The event, which takes place in the Breeland hamlet of Combe, is running now through December 22nd. In other LotRO events, theannual winter Yuletide festival is now live in the MMO, bringing Yule cheer to all corners of Middle-earth.
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