Update 11: Wildemore legendary pocket items

I will spend a few articles reflecting on the changes for Update 11. Quick notes were given at update-11-summarized-notes.

 This article will focus in on the section called “Warbands”, specifically Wildemore pocket items. Much like Rohan had its special rings that could be upgraded, u10-rohan-rings-complete-hytbold-in-15-days, Wildemore has some gear offerings but specializes in legendary quality pocket items.

Ok, Wildemore has two factions for Reputation. Those two are called “People of Wildemore” and “Survivors of Wildemore”. The People faction involves all the quests of Wildemore, versus the Survivors will be a set of dailies that will unlock after all the Wildemore quests are completed. I have not finished all of the People quests yet (festival and life and summer and family and work and such slowed things down a bit). So, here I sit with People at Kindred (after about 70% quests done) and Survivors at zero rep. Let’s see how that plays into the loot.

People of Wildemore Pocket Items: There are some decent barterable things from the People of Wildemore, such as necklaces, but the legendary focus is on the pocket items. First, you will need to get a Teal pocket item. They cost 50 Silver Tokens of Wildemore each. Here are the four of them. The Curio of Resolve is a Runekeeper’s pocket item. These teal ones are very easy to get if you like them.

Survivors of Wildemore Legendary Pocket Items: Similar to the Rohan Ring designs, the legendary pocket items come in four basic flavors, plus two healer ones.

The cost for these pocket items requires four things: Kindred with Survivor’s of Wildemore, 225 Golden Tokens of Wildemore, 30 Warband tokens of Wildemore, and the Curio from the People mentioned above. The Runekeeper ones, Sage’s and Healer’s, both use the Curio of Resolve you picked up from the People of Wildemore.

Ok, the Golden Tokens of Wildemore come from the daily quests which are unlocked after all the Wildemore quests are complete. I’ve seen mention in passing that it will take a minimum 25 days to get Kindred, presumably during that time, you will be gathering up all those 225 Golden tokens.

The 30 Warband tokens are the rare drops from Warband boxes, aka “(colored) Box of Wildemore Spoils”.  The better the box, the better the loot and more likely you will be to get a Warband token.

The Warband boxes are color-coded to match the difficulty: Raid = Silver, Fellowship = Green, Small Fellowship = Red, Solo = Blue. As far as I recall, the warband tokens I have received so far have all come from Silver and Green boxes, but I believe there is a chance for them to drop from any of the boxes.

Where are the Warbands? If you want to know where to find all the Wildemore Warbands, visit the map at StarandShadow’s place at StarandShadow: wildermore-warbands-locations.

Steed of Rhun

Yay! June Steed is here. There is no mistaking the trend that lotro has a new steed coming out each month. Here are some previous ones...

May: obsidian steed

April: steed of dagorlad

March: steed of nightwood

February: steed of khundolar

As always, every steed in lotro can be found at All the Steeds.

June steed is called Steed of Rhun. 

The first thing I will mention is that I recognized the pattern of the Rhun horse outfit because I had seen it before. The Rhun cosmetics were (and mebbe still are) a rare drop from the *corrected* Riddermark lootboxes. I don't know many details of it, but I do know that over the past year I have gotten 2 of the Rhun pieces (hence my recognizing the pattern). When I made my purchase of the horse, the other 2 cosmetic pieces showed up in my inventory. If you have never gotten any Rhun pieces, your purchase of the Steed of Rhun will come with the four pieces seen here: Halter, Caparison, Leggings, Saddle.

On to the pictures!

Steed of Rhun: Here is the basic horse. He is a brown horse with orange outfit.

Warsteed of Rhun - default appearance.

I was initially thrown by all the orangey look of the barding. How would these steed cosmetics dye? The more different looks I see on it, the less I notice the orange. The red and brown hides tend to deemphasize the orange also. By the way, this orange is not in the color palette for barding... it is a dark orange I will call "Rhun orange".

Warsteed of Rhun - Crimson and White:

Here is the Crimson cosmetic with white hide.

Warsteed of Rhun - Ered Luin and Charcoal:

Warsteed of Rhun - Yellow and Red Roan:

Warsteed of Rhun - Sea Green and Dark Grey:

Warsteed of Rhun - Crimson and Black Chestnut:

Warsteed of Rhun - Crimson and Black Chestnut: Leggings!

Yes, the Warsteed comes with Leggings. I notice that most of my pictures chop off the leggings.Here is a shot of leggings to show that they do dye correctly.