Character Stats

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Basic Stats

Morale

Morale is the amount of damage you can take before being defeated in combat. It is the equivalent of "health" or "hit points" in other games. When your morale runs out you are "defeated". If that happens you have 600 seconds to be restored to life, or to "revive" the character, or to "retreat". When the timer expires, or if you use the retreat option, your character is brought to the nearest respawn area and given temporary dread. Reviving oneself in the field also gives temporary dread and has a cooldown that increases with your level, with two hours being the maximum amount.

Morale Improvement

• 1 point of Vitality = 3 point increase in Maximum Morale
• 1 point of Vitality = 5 point increase in Maximum Morale for tank classes (Guardians, Wardens).

Morale Regeneration

Lost morale can be recovered by some skills or by using consumable items such as Athelas potions and salves. Minstrels, Captains, Lore-masters and Rune-keepers can restore other characters' morale and most classes have skills enabling them to restore their own morale. However, morale also naturally regenerates over time. Morale regenerates different amounts every 60 seconds, depending on whether the character is in combat or out of combat. Some skills and consumable items (such as food or campfires) will increase the amount of morale/power that is recovered every 60 seconds.

Out-of-Combat Morale Regeneration (OOCMR)

Vitality increases your Out-of-Combat Morale Regeneration.

In-Combat Morale Regeneration (ICMR)

Fate increases your In-Combat Morale Regeneration.

Power

Power is your inner reserve. It is used by almost all skills.

• 1 point of Will = 3 point increase in Maximum Power

Power Regeneration

Lore-masters have a skill which restores power in other characters, and several classes have skills that can restore their own. In addition the character can drink Celebrant potions, eat certain food, or rest. Skills and potions are designed for In-Combat use, and work equally well In-Combat or Out-of-Combat; Food provides a higher regeneration Out-of-Combat.

Out-of-Combat Power Regeneration (OOCPR)

Will increases your Out-of-Combat Power Regeneration.

In-Combat Power Regeneration (ICPR)

Fate increases your In-Combat Power Regeneration.

Main Attributes

Armour

Armour reduces incoming damage from common damage sources. See the Armour article for more details.

• 1 point of Armour = 1 point increase in Common Mitigation
• 1 point of Armour = 0.2 point increase in Fire, Frost, Shadow, Lightning and Acid Mitigation

Might

Might increases your ability to block incoming attacks with a shield, parry incoming blows, or cause greater damage with a weapon. It also reduces incoming common damage.

• Might increases your Melee Offence Rating. The amount (between 1 and 10) depends on your class (see table in Melee Offence Rating)
• 1 point of Might = 2 points increase in Block Rating
• 1 point of Might = 1 point increase in Parry Rating
• 1 point of Might = 1 point increase in Common Mitigation

For Captains, Might also increases your Outgoing Healing Rating.

• 1 point of Might = 10 point increase in Outgoing Healing Rating

Agility

Agility increases your ability to evade and parry incoming blows, adds to the amount of ranged damage you deal, and increases your chance to critically hit a foe (ranged or melee). It also improved your Hit Chance.

• Agility increases your Ranged Offence Rating. The amount depends on your class:
  • Hunter and Warden: 1 point of Agility = 10 points increase in Ranged Offence Rating
  • Burglar, Champion and Guardian: 1 point of Agility = 4 points increase in Ranged Offence Rating
  • Other: 1 point of Agility = 1 point increase in Ranged Offence Rating
• 1 point of Agility = 2 points increase in Evade Rating
• 1 point of Agility = 1 point increase in Parry Rating
• 1 point of Agility = 2 points increase in Melee Critical Rating
• 1 point of Agility = 2 points increase in Ranged Critical Rating

Vitality

Vitality increases your maximum morale, your Out-of-Combat Morale Regeneration, resistances to Wound, Disease and Poison effects. It also reduces incoming damage from non-weapon sources like Fire, Frost, Lightning, Acid and Shadow.

• Vitality increases your Morale. The amount depends on your class:
  • Guardian and Warden: 1 point of Vitality = 5 point increase in maximum Morale
  • Other: 1 point of Vitality = 3 point increase in maximum Morale
• 1 point of Vitality = 2 point increase in Wound, Disease and Poison resist ratings.
• 1 point of Vitality = 1 point increase in Fire, Frost, Shadow, Lightning and Acid Mitigation.
• 1 point of Vitality = 7.2 points increase in Out-of-Combat Morale Regeneration.

Will

Will increases your maximum power pool, your Out-of-Combat Power Regeneration, and how much you resist Fear effects, including cowering from Dread. It also contributes to increases in your Outgoing Healing Rating and Tactical Offence Rating.

• Will increases your Tactical Offence Rating. The amount depends on your class:
  • Minstrel, Lore-master and Rune-keeper: 1 point of Will = 10 point increase in Tactical Offence Rating
  • Warden: 1 point of Will = 4 point increase in Tactical Offence Rating
  • Other: 1 point of Will = 1 point increase in Tactical Offence Rating
• 1 point of Will = 3 point increase in maximum Power
• 1 point of Will = 2 point increase in Fear Resistance rating
• 1 point of Will = 12 points increase in Out-of-Combat Power Regeneration.
• If you're not a Captain, Will also increases your Outgoing Healing Rating. The amount depends on your class:
  • Minstrel, Lore-master and Rune-keeper: 1 point of Will = 10 point increase in Outgoing Healing Rating
  • Warden: 1 point of Will = 4 point increase in Outgoing Healing Rating
  • Other: 1 point of Will = 1 point increase in Outgoing Healing Rating

Fate

Fate increases your In-Combat Power Regeneration and In-Combat Morale Regeneration. Fate also increases the chance and magnitude of Criticals on Tactical skills (healing and damage spells).

• 1 point of Fate = 2 points of Tactical Critical Rating
• 1 point of Fate = 1.5 points of In-Combat Morale Regeneration
• Fate increases your In-Combat Power Regeneration according to this equation:
  • In-Combat Power Regeneration increase due to Fate = 30 * SQRT(Fate)
  • For a current value of Fate, the next point of Fate will provide roughly 15/SQRT(Fate) points of In-Combat Power Regeneration

Damage Dealt

Offence

Offence involves the three main means of damaging an opponent: Melee, Ranged, and Tactical.

• See also Offence rating

Melee Offence

Amount of damage dealt with Melee weapons and abilities. Improved with Might and the Melee Offence Rating.

• See also Melee Offence Rating

Ranged Offence

Amount of damage dealt with Ranged weapons and abilities. Improved with Agility and Ranged Offence Rating.

• See also Ranged Offence Rating

Tactical Offence

Amount of damage dealt with Tactical abilities like those of the Lore-master, Minstrel, and Runekeeper. Improved with Will and Tactical Offence Rating.

• See also Tactical Offence Rating

Critical Hits

• See also Critical Rating

Melee Critical Chance

Your chance to score a critical hit with Melee weapons and abilities. Improved with Agility and Melee Critical Rating.

Ranged Critical Chance

Your chance to score a critical hit with Ranged weapons and abilities. Improved with Agility and Ranged Critical Rating.

Tactical Critical Chance

Your chance to score a critical hit with healing or Tactical damage skills. Improved with Fate and Tactical Critical Rating.

Damage Reduction

Mitigation

Common

Reduces the Common damage you take by a certain percentage.

• Common mitigation rating = Armour + Might

Fire

Reduces the Fire damage you take by a certain percentage.

• Fire mitigation rating = (Armour/5) + Vitality

Frost

Reduces the Frost damage you take by a certain percentage.

• Frost mitigation rating = (Armour/5) + Vitality

Shadow

Reduces the Shadow damage you take by a certain percentage.

• Shadow mitigation rating = (Armour/5) + Vitality

Acid

Reduces the Acid damage you take by a certain percentage.

• Acid mitigation rating = (Armour/5) + Vitality

Lightning

Reduces the Lightning damage you take by a certain percentage.

• Lightning mitigation rating = (Armour/5) + Vitality

Defence

Melee Defence

Reduces the Melee damage you take by a certain percentage.

Ranged Defence

Reduces the Ranged damage you take by a certain percentage.

Tactical Defence

Reduces the Tactical damage you take by a certain percentage.

Resistances

Fear

Increases your chance of resisting Fear effects.

• Fear resist rating = Will * 2

Wound

Increases your chance of resisting Wound effects.

• Wound resist rating = Vitality * 2

Disease

Increases your chance of resisting Disease effects.

• Disease resist rating = Vitality * 2

Poison

Increases your chance of resisting Poison effects.

• Poison resist rating = Vitality * 2

Avoidance

Block

Your chance to block or partially block an incoming Melee or Ranged hit. A Shield must be equipped in order to block, and your attacker must be in front of you.

• Block rating = Might * 2

Evade

Your chance to evade or partially evade an incoming Melee or Ranged hit. You can evade a hit from any direction.

• Evade rating = Agility * 2

Parry

Your chance to parry or partially parry an incoming Melee or Ranged hit. A Weapon must be equipped in order to parry, and your attacker must be in front of you.

• Parry rating = Might + Agility

Critical Defence

Melee Critical Defence

Reduces an opponents chance to score a critical hit with Melee weapons and abilities.

Ranged Critical Defence

Reduces an opponents chance to score a critical hit with Ranged weapons and abilities.

Tactical Critical Defence

Reduces an opponents chance to score a critical hit with Tactical damage skills.

Stat caps

The following is a list of character stat caps (base character stat + slotted traits + equipment bonuses). Note that character stats, traits and bonuses affect the rating for chance skills, rather than increasing the chance directly.
There is a benefit for exceeding the caps if you are fighting mobs of a higher level than yourself: your stat disadvantage will not be deducted from the cap, but from your nominal higher rating (then reduced to the cap, if necessary).
Note that Buffs, such as the Elf +75% Parry chance for 10 seconds, can cause a character to exceed these caps.

• Vitality, Will, Fate, Might, Agility: No caps
• Melee, Ranged, Tactical Offense: No caps
• Melee, Ranged, Tactical Critical chance: 25%
• Devastating Critical chance: 10%
• Melee, Ranged, Tactical Defence: 15%
• Block, Evade, Parry chance: 25%
• Partial Avoidance chance: 10%
• All Resistances: 50%
• Mitigation caps:

• Light Armour rating: max. 40% Mitigation
• Medium Armour rating: max. 50% Mitigation
• Heavy Armour rating: max. 70% Mitigation

For the armour related caps, it isn't important what you are wearing, just what you can wear.

• Incoming Healing: 25%
• Outgoing Healing: 50%

Stat Summary

	Will	Vitality	Might	Agility	Fate
Morale		3 for 1 *
Power	3 for 1 *
OOCMR		•
OOCPR	•
ICMR					•
ICPR					•
Armour
Melee Offence Rating			•
Ranged Offence Rating				•
Hit chance				•
Melee/Ranged Critical Rating				•
Tactical Critical Rating					•
Block			•
Evade				•
Parry			•	•
Common Mitigation			•
Fire Mitigation		•
Frost Mitigation		•
Shadow Mitigation		•
Lightning Mitigation		•
Acid Mitigation		•
Wound resistance		•
Disease resistance		•
Poison resistance		•
Fear resistance	•
Outgoing Healing Rating	•

* 3 for 1 means that you gain three points of Morale / Power for every one point of Vitality / Will.

Proficiencies

Weapons

Weapon Proficiencies													Bonus
Battle-gauntlets		•											Chance to lower target's ability to score a critical hit
Bows	•				L:7	L:7	•						+% Critical Hit Chance to ranged auto-attacks
Crossbows	•				L:7	L:7	L:7						Ranged auto-attacks are 5% tougher to Block.
Daggers	•		•	•	•	•	•		•	•		•	+% Auto-attack Critical Hit Chance
Dual Wielding	•		•		•		•		•				--
Halberd				L:15									+% Auto-attack Critical Hit Chance
Javelins												•	Ranged auto-attacks are 5% tougher to Block.
One-handed Axes	•			•	•	•	•		Stout-axe	Dwarf	Dwarf	•	Chance to lower target's armour
One-handed Clubs	•		L:25	•	•	•	L:15			•		•	Chance to slow target's attack speed
One-handed Hammers				•	•	•	L:15						Chance to lower target's ability to evade
One-handed Maces			•	•	•	•	L:15			•		•	Chance of slowing the target's movement speed
One-handed Swords			•	•	•	•	•	L:40	•	•		•	Parry-chance is slightly increased
Rune-stones											•		Sets rune-keeper affinity
Spear	•			L:10	L:10	•	L:20					•	Chance to add damage over time
Two-handed Axes	•			•	L:10	•							Chance to lower target's armour
Two-handed Clubs	•			•		•							Chance to slow target's attack speed
Two-handed Hammers				•	L:10	•							Chance to lower target's ability to evade
Two-handed Staves								•					None
Two-handed Swords				•	L:10	•							Parry-chance is slightly increased

Legend

Character	Meaning
•	Proficient at level 1
L:##	Level at which proficiency is gained

Armour

Light Armour	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Medium Armour	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		•			•
Heavy Armour	•	•		•	•	•
Shields				L:15		•				L:20		•
Heavy Shields						L:15
Warden's Shields												•

Legend

Character	Meaning
•	Proficient at level 1
L:##	Level at which proficiency is gained

Starting Stats

• Starting stats for Level 1 Characters on entering Middle-earth.

Guardian starts out equipped with a shield.

	Beorning	Burglar		Captain	Champion			Guardian				Hunter				Lore-master		Minstrel
	Beorning	Hobbit	Man	Man	Dwarf	Elf	Man	Dwarf	Elf	Hobbit	Man	Dwarf	Elf	Hobbit	Man	Elf	Man	Dwarf	Elf	Hobbit	Man
Basic Stats
Morale	263	248	175	192	255	189	207	285	214	316	232	219	159	244	177	159	177	219	159	244	177
Power	100 (Wrath)	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	65	65	65	65	65	65
Armour	0	4	4	5	3	3	3	32	32	32	32	5	5	5	5	51	51	3	3	3	3
Might	29	7	29	29	29	14	29	29	14	7	29	23	8	1	23	8	23	26	11	4	26
Agility	8	14	14	8	7	29	14	3	25	10	10	7	29	14	14	26	11	1	23	8	8
Vitality	25	23	8	10	20	10	10	24	14	29	14	20	10	25	10	10	10	20	10	25	10
Will	11	11	4	4	8	8	1	11	11	11	4	14	14	14	7	14	7	14	14	14	7
Fate	7	10	25	29	4	4	26	1	1	8	23	4	4	11	26	7	29	7	7	14	29
Offence
Critical Rating	54	39	81	81	17	39	79	6	28	30	68	17	39	42	79	44	84	19	41	43	81
Finesse	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical Mastery	129	92	92	122	122	92	122	122	92	78	122	71	122	92	92	78	71	78	78	78	71
Tactical Mastery	135	89	82	122	101	86	94	104	89	82	97	85	107	92	85	92	78	92	92	92	78
Defence
Light of Eärendil	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Resistance	43	55	24	28	40	30	38	47	37	59	45	52	42	64	50	45	53	55	45	67	53
Critical Defence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	10	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Incoming Healing	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Avoidance
Block Rating	59	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	89	44	23	89	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Parry Rating	87	42	86	74	101	100	115	64	78	34	78	60	74	30	74	68	68	54	68	24	68
Evade Rating	56	42	42	24	21	87	42	9	75	30	30	21	87	42	42	78	33	3	69	24	24
Mitigations
Damage Source
Melee	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ranged	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tactical	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Damage Type
Physical Mitigation	0	4	4	5	3	3	3	32	32	32	32	5	5	5	5	51	51	3	3	3	3
Tactical Mitigation	25	22	30	34	13	13	28	18	18	25	33	39	29	51	44	41	56	42	32	54	47

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Warden starts out equipped with a shield.

	Rune-keeper			Warden
	Dwarf	Elf		Elf	Hobbit	Man
Basic Stats
Morale	136	86		131	232	150
Power	65	65		50	50	50
Armour	4	4		8	8	8
Might	23	8		14	7	29
Agility	4	26		29	14	14
Vitality	20	10		10	25	10
Will	14	14		8	8	1
Fate	7	7		4	11	26
Offence
Critical Rating	22	44		39	42	79
Finesse	0	0		0	0	0
Physical Mastery	141	141		431	211	431
Tactical Mastery	141	141		216	106	216
Defence
Resistance	68	48		36	66	22
Critical Defence	0	0		32	32	32
Incoming Healing	0	0		0	0	0
Avoidance
Block Rating	N/A	N/A		58	30	118
Parry Rating	54	68		86	42	86
Evade Rating	16	104		116	56	56
Mitigations
Damage Source
Melee	0	0		0	0	0
Ranged	0	0		0	0	0
Tactical	0	0		0	0	0
Damage Type
Physical Mitigation	90	40		56	72	86
Tactical Mitigation	109	69		58	118	44

Sources

• LOTRO Manual