Landscape Difficulty

Landscape Difficulty is a set of quests currently available on all servers that are designed to make landscape encounters more difficult for players in exchange for granting bonus experience points and titles.

All landscape difficulty quests are bestowed by Hardened Traveller and are available once players complete the introduction.

The Hardened Traveller can be found at the following locations:

Coordinates	Directions / Description
[29.7S, 51.3W]	(Bree) The Prancing Pony
[32.1S, 76.5W]	(The Shire) Little Delving
[13.8S, 103.1W]	(Ered Luin) Thorin's Gates
[28.1S, 92.3W]	(Ered Luin) Celondim Across from the Stable-master
[25.4S, 48.7W]	(Bree-land) Archet
[60.4S, 34.6W]	(Swanfleet) Mossward
[5.9S, 105.1W]	(Zelem-melek) The Twenty-first Hall

Note that Landscape Difficulty only applies when in the open world and in solo/duo skirmishes and missions. Landscape Difficulty debuffs and effects are disabled inside of other instances, and Delvings (after accepting a quest from the delving stone).

Effect on Gameplay

When completing a Difficulty quest, the character will gain a Difficulty debuff. This debuff has the following effects on the character:

• Decreases outgoing damage
• Increases incoming damage
• Increases XP and Virtue XP gain
• Triggers additional effects on enemy targets

The higher the Difficulty selected, the more pronounced these effects will be.

Quests and Effects

Following is a list of Landscape Difficulty quests along with the effects that are applied both to the character and any enemy targets while at that difficulty.

Tier	Difficulty Quest	Character Debuff(s)	XP Gain	VXP Gain	Enemy Effects
0	Difficulty 0: Normal	None	None	None	None
1	Difficulty 1: Adventurous	Difficulty 1: Adventurous	+10%	+1%	None
2	Difficulty 2: Daring	Difficulty 2: Daring	+15%	+3%	None
3	Difficulty 3: Fearless	Difficulty 3: Fearless The Eye of Sauron	+20%	+5%	Enraged Effects
4	Difficulty 4: Fearless +1	Difficulty 4: Fearless +1 The Eye of Sauron	+20%	+5%	Enraged Effects
5	Difficulty 5: Fearless +2	Difficulty 5: Fearless +2 The Eye of Sauron	+20%	+5%	Enraged Effects
6	Difficulty 6: Fearless +3	Difficulty 6: Fearless +3 The Eye of Sauron	+20%	+5%	Enraged Effects
7	Difficulty 7: Heroic	Difficulty 7: Heroic The Eye of Sauron	+20%	+5%	Enraged Effects
8	Difficulty 8: Heroic +1	Difficulty 8: Heroic +1 The Eye of Sauron	+20%	+5%	Enraged Effects
9	Difficulty 9: Heroic +2	Difficulty 9: Heroic +2 The Eye of Sauron	+20%	+5%	Enraged Effects

Deeds and Titles

The appropriate Landscape Difficulty quest must be completed before the character reaches level 11 for the following deed(s) to be bestowed. Afterwards, setting the difficulty to lower than the minimum difficulty level required for a deed, will cancel it and block the character from ever completing it. Once completed, the bestowed title(s) are Account-wide, and can be used by any class.

Note: If you want to qualify for Fearless deeds, you cannot select a lower difficulty first! Completing the quest for Daring or below immediately and permanently disqualifies you from getting the Fearless deeds.

Class	Deed Level 50 Adventurous and higher	Deed Level 50 Fearless and higher	Deed Level 130 Adventurous and higher	Deed Level 130 Fearless and higher
Beorning	Apprentice of Claws	Disciple of Claws	Adept of Claws	Master of Claws
Brawler	Apprentice of Fists	Disciple of Fists	Adept of Fists	Master of Fists
Burglar	Apprentice of Shadows	Disciple of Shadows	Adept of Shadows	Master of Shadows
Captain	Apprentice of Banners	Disciple of Banners	Adept of Banners	Master of Banners
Champion	Novitiate of Blades	Disciple of Blades	Adept of Blades	Master of Blades
Guardian	Apprentice of Shields	Disciple of Shields	Adept of Shields	Master of Shields
Hunter	Apprentice of Bows	Disciple of Bows	Adept of Bows	Master of Bows
Lore-master	Apprentice of Scrolls	Disciple of Scrolls	Adept of Scrolls	Master of Scrolls
Mariner	Apprentice of Sword-play	Disciple of Sword-play	Adept of Sword-play	Master of Sword-play
Minstrel	Apprentice of Song	Disciple of Song	Adept of Song	Master of Song
Rune-keeper	Apprentice of Runes	Disciple of Runes	Adept of Runes	Master of Runes
Warden	Apprentice of Arms	Disciple of Arms	Adept of Arms	Master of Arms

Rewards

Defeating enemies while at Difficulty 3: Fearless or higher has a chance to drop Tokens of Heroism, which are Task items which can be turned in at the Hardened Traveller for weekly repeatable Task quests. The weekly repeatable Task quests also grant reputation for The Path of Valour faction and grant Hero's Marks which can be bartered for consumables and emotes.