Landscape Difficulty
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Landscape Difficulty is a set of quests currently available on on the Legendary Servers Treebeard and Shadowfax. These quests 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 Berthadan (Hardened Traveller) in Celondim, Bree, Archet, Thorin's Gate, and Little Delving and are available once players complete the introduction.
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.
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)[1] | XP Gain[2] | VXP Gain | Enemy Effects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Difficulty: Normal | None | None | None | None |
| 1 | Difficulty: Hard | Difficulty: Hard | +10% | +1% | None |
| 2 | Difficulty: Dangerous | Difficulty: Dangerous | +15% | +3% | None |
| 3 | Difficulty: Deadly | Difficulty: Deadly The Eye of Sauron[3] |
+20% | +5% | Enraged Effects |
| 4 | Difficulty: Deadly +1 | Difficulty: Deadly +1 The Eye of Sauron[3] |
+20% | +5% | Enraged Effects |
| 5 | Difficulty: Deadly +2 | Difficulty: Deadly +2 The Eye of Sauron[3] |
+20% | +5% | Enraged Effects |
| 6 | Difficulty: Deadly +3 | Difficulty: Deadly +3 The Eye of Sauron[3] |
+20% | +5% | Enraged Effects |
| 7 | Difficulty: Deadly +4 | Difficulty: Deadly +4 The Eye of Sauron[3] |
+20% | +5% | Enraged Effects |
| 8 | Difficulty: Deadly +5 | Difficulty: Deadly +5 The Eye of Sauron[3] |
+20% | +5% | Enraged Effects |
| 9 | Difficulty: Deadly +6 | Difficulty: Deadly +6 The Eye of Sauron[3] |
+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 difficutly level required for a deed, will cancel it and block the character from ever completing it.
Note: Players have reported that if you want to qualify for Deadly deeds, you cannot select a lower difficulty first. Completing the quest for Dangerous or below immediately and permanently disqualifies you from getting the Deadly deeds.