The
high end relics cost quite a bit of shards to be able to meld them. However,
with a solid plan, you will have more shards than you could use for melding.
Useful
relics and their costs:
Let’s
look at some of the relics and their costs. I included some utility service
stuff in the table as well.
Requirements to make certain Relics:
Relic
|
Melds
|
Shard cost
|
Tier 9
|
1 tier 9 relic
|
512
|
Eastemnet
|
3 specific tier 9 relics
|
4,992
|
True Eastemnet
|
4 tier 9 relics (any of them)
|
9,984
|
Basic Mounted
|
3 tier 4 relics (any of them)
|
192
|
Unique Mounted
|
3 specific tier 8 relics
|
2,496
|
Singular Mounted
|
3 specific tier 9 relics
|
4,992
|
Stat Legacy
|
~
|
1,886
|
Riddermark Scroll of Delving
|
~
|
9,750
|
Riddermark Scroll of Empowerment
|
~
|
14,220
|
So,
if the optimized solution for the best relics for you happens to be “True
Eastemnet” relics for all three slots of Setting, Gem, and Rune, you will need
nearly 30k shards for one LI. Hehe. That is a lot, but not nearly as much as
it seems.
Dana,
where did you get your shards?
Tomrica Relic Maneuver & Scrolls of
Combination
I
started with what was lying around. Tomrica wrote an article about how to turn
your rusty dwarf tools, khuzdul tablets, and Bright Emblems of Nimrodel into
relics.
So,
I did that first. Each of those Fused Bronze relics from the rusty dwarf tools yielded around 10 tier 1
relics; and clearly I had a gob leftover from Moria. I will Combine them up to
be something good. I had some additional relics hanging around because I often don’t
bother to Combine them unless I have a goal and a plan.
Also,
from a lottery, I had won several “Scroll of Combination”. I really like that
item. It increases your Critical Success chance to 25% while combining relics
at the relic forge. I shopped it on the lotro store and realized how much it
cost. It is 795 TP for one scroll. Wowsers. I have also noted that it drops from some of the high end Raid loot, though I have not personally gotten one. It works really well, but you would
have to really want it and be ready to use it for 15 minutes straight for
increased relics and shards.
After
doing the Tomrica Relic Maneuver along with the Scrolls of Combination, I had a
worthy stockpile of relics and shards. Here is a table of how many relics of a
certain tier are required to combine together to make relic(s) of the next
level. I also included how many relics I had at each tier before and after
Combine to show the effect of all these advancing toward T9 as well as the
shard payout.
Unless
I am specifically trying to keep a relic for some reason, I always use Auto
Combine. Its critical chance is exactly the same as not-Auto Combine.
Note
that even without a good critical Combine, it is still common to get
more than one relic on a Combine. I won’t bother trying to do math on what my
critical effect was… math is hard. ;)
Update: First feedback from a friend is that I need to point out that combining relics can get expensive. I think that one combine at T8 is mebbe 400s or so. Doing what I did in the table below could probably run in the tens of gold but I didn't track cost, sorry.
Relics Required per Combine:
# of relics required
per Combine
|
Dana’s Combo Start
|
Dana’s Combo End
|
||
Tier 1
|
5
|
3,935
|
0
|
|
Tier 2
|
4
|
517
|
1
|
|
Tier 3
|
4
|
428
|
1
|
|
Tier 4
|
3
|
154
|
2
|
|
Tier 5
|
3
|
50
|
2
|
|
Tier 6
|
3
|
12
|
1
|
|
Tier 7
|
3
|
5
|
0
|
|
Tier 8
|
3
|
15
|
1
|
|
Tier 9
|
0
|
20
|
||
Shards
|
8,426
|
32,076
|
Crafted Relics
Where I really get most of my shards is from crafted relics! I
have a whole team of Crafters on my payroll. Other than going to festival and
hanging out around the house, crafting relics is primarily what the lildanas do! (meet the lil-danas)
Five of them are crafters; they go from the vault where I deliver supplies, to the
nearest crafting facility, and primarily just make crafted relics. When I rode
to Rohan, they kept the wheels in motion by leveling up in their
professions as I came across mats for them. rohan-begins-crafting-and-virtues-at-16
I cannot stress enough how low
maintenance and high return the crafting team is. They are worth their
big house on the river, draigoch-statue-lil-danas-moving-day,
but don’t tell them that. I don’t want them to get too cocky and strike for better cosmetics or store horses or something.
What
are these Crafted Relics worth?
I
reviewed Crafted relics before Rohan. update-6-relics-and-virtues
It
has changed slightly on the Device and there are two new crafted relics with
the Eastemnet tier of Crafting. Here is an updated table of how many shards you
can get per crafted relic.
Table of Crafted Relics:
Cooldown
to make
|
Shards
obtained on Refine
|
Crafter
only?
|
||
Minor
symbol
|
+10
stat
|
18h
|
64
|
|
Symbol
Compendium
I
|
+20
stat
|
2d
18h
|
158
|
|
Device
|
+30
stat
|
2d
18h
|
258
|
|
Emblem
|
+40
stat
|
2d
18h
|
358
|
|
Symbol
of (Tactics)
Compendium
II
|
+390
Critical,
+390
Mastery
|
6d
18h
|
384
|
Bound
|
Device
of (Tactics)
Compendium
III
|
+20
stat,
+540
Critical,
+540
Mastery
|
6d
18h
|
768
|
Bound
|
Emblem
of (Tactics) Compendium IV
|
+30
stat,
+640
Critical,
+640
Mastery
|
6d
18h
|
1074
|
Bound
|
Even my highest
level lildana cannot handle the Bound crafted relics (because
she cannot talk to the Relic-master and get them Refined). However, given a few
minutes each day, they are quite adept at taking the mats I find off dead orcs
and turning them into crafted relics which I turn into shards.
Before
long, you too will be cranking out more shards than you need for melding. I don’t
necessarily see myself spending 15k shards for a Riddermark Scroll of
Empowerment when I could get one for a decent mark price at the skirmish guy,
but you never know… let the crafters roll long enough and shards will seem a
low-cost commodity.
