Call to the Valar
- Fast
- Melee Skill
- You call upon the wisdom of the Valar, recovering some of your skills and providing a temporary immunity to induction set back from damage.
- Immune to induction setback from damage
- Duration: 10s
- Cost: (Level × 2) Power
- Cooldown: 5m
General Information
Class: Lore-master
Level: 34
Interactions
Equipping three or more pieces of the Armour of the Iordúr set or five or more pieces of The Ancient Master's Armour set reduces the cooldown of this skill by 60s.
Tactical Information
Call to the Valar is a so called "long cooldown skill" which serves two purposes:
Firstly, it resets the cooldown timers of the following skills:
- Bane Flare
- Blinding Flash
- Burning Embers
- Cracked Earth
- Dispel Corruption
- Gust of Wind
- Herb-lore
- Inner Flame
- Light of the Rising Dawn
- Power of Knowledge
- Staff-strike
- Test of Will
- Warding Knowledge / Improved Warding Knowledge / Advanced Warding Knowledge
- Wind-lore
It does not reset the cooldowns of other skills, including Ancient Craft, Lightning-storm, Wisdom of the Council, Ents go to War, Staff-sweep and all racial skills, such as Strength of Morale.
Call to the Valar can be deliberately planned to use in specific situations, or can be used as a solution to emergency cases. The first is mainly the case with crowd-control. Think of situations in which you want to use Blinding Flash to daze two targets at once, want to have a group locked down with Bane Flare for a longer period, or want to root multiple targets with an Anger buff through Herb-lore. Emergency cases can be when unforeseen you really need healing ({{:[Inner Flame|mode=imlink}}), power ( Power of Knowledge) or crowd-control ( Blinding Flash, Herb-lore etc).
Secondly, the skill makes the Lore-master immune to all induction setbacks for a duration of ten seconds. This feature is especially worthwhile in the Ettenmoors, where creeps will not be able to interrupt you while using big damage skills like Ents go to War and Lightning-storm, or while pulling power in a raid setting.
There is a significant delay of two seconds right after the skill is activated, during which the Lore-master is unable to use any skills.
References
- Call to the Valar: A reference guide - Thread on the LotRO forums containing a list of what skills are influenced by this skill plus the typical uses of it
- Lore-mastery: Using lore-master cooldown skills - An extended guide on how and when to use this skill