Crafting Guild

Crafting Guilds provide additional advancement for each crafting profession. There are no guilds for the Gathering professions (Farmer, Prospector, or Forester).

Characters may join a crafting guild once they have reached Expert level in a crafting profession. Players may join as many crafting guilds as they are eligible.

Switching a profession will abandon all guild recipes and reputation gained from the current guild.

Joining a Crafting Guild

Master of Crafting Guilds may be found in various crafting halls and locations throughout Middle-earth. Often they are found near a Master or Mistress of Apprentices

Speak with the Master of Crafting Guilds to choose a guild from the list of available guilds.

Crafting Guild Advancement

Once you have joined a crafting guild, you can track your progress within the guild by opening the Character Journal and selecting the Reputation tab, where you will find a progress bar displaying your current standing within the guild. Note that Free and Premium players will have to unlock the guild reputation with LOTRO Points in order to advance past Apprentice of the Guild status.

Table 1: Crafting Guild Ranks

To achieve this Reputation Level	You need this many Points	a Total of Points	Recipe Tier
Guild Initiate	0	0	None
Apprentice of the Guild	10,000	10,000	Expert (T3)
Journeyman of the Guild	20,000	30,000	Artisan (T4)
Expert of the Guild	25,000	55,000	Master (T5)
Artisan of the Guild	30,000	85,000	Supreme (T6)
Master of the Guild	45,000	130,000	Westfold (T7)
Eastemnet Master of the Guild	60,000	190,000	Eastemnet (T8)
Westemnet Master of the Guild	90,000	280,000	Westemnet (T9)
Honoured (Minas Ithil) Master of the Guild	200,000	480,000	Minas Ithil (T13)
Umbar Master of the Guild	10,000	490,000	Umbar (T15)

Reputation items are consumed for gaining increased standing with the guild or as a component in improved guild recipes. They exist for the Expert through Westemnet crafting tiers and their recipes are available from the guild's reputation items recipe vendor. There are three different sizes of guild reputation items: small, medium and large. Medium and large reputation items require a higher number of crafting materials and have a longer cooldown to craft, but also provide more reputation points. No large reputation item exists for the Expert and Artisan crafting tiers.

All crafting guilds have a reputation item trader which barters a stack of smaller reputation items in exchange for one larger item. This way a character may obtain larger items a lot quicker. This is particularly useful for amassing items while crafting a complete set of, for example, jewellery or armour using the larger items that have a 7 day cooldown.

Below is a list of the different tiers and sizes of crafting guild reputation items, along with the number of reputation points they grant and the length of their cooldown. To go from Apprentice to Westemnet Master of the Guild takes a little less than a month if you craft all reputation items as often as their cooldowns allow.

Table 2: Guild Reputation Items

Size / Tier	Points Granted	Cooldown
Small Expert (T3)	300	18h
Medium Expert	900	2d 18h
Small Artisan (T4)	400	18h
Medium Artisan	1,200	2d 18h
Small Master (T5)	500	18h
Medium Master	1,500	2d 18h
Large Master	3,000	6d 18h
Small Supreme (T6)	600	18h
Medium Supreme	1,800	2d 18h
Large Supreme	3,600	6d 18h
Small Westfold (T7)	700	18h
Medium Westfold	2,100	2d 18h
Large Westfold	4,200	6d 18h
Small Eastemnet (T8)	800	18h
Medium Eastemnet	2,400	2d 18h
Large Eastemnet	4,800	6d 18h
Small Westemnet (T9)	900	18h
Medium Westemnet	2,700	2d 18h
Large Westemnet	5,400	6d 18h

There are two other ways to increase your standing with a crafting guild:

• The wrapper quests On a Mission (Weekly) and its level-scaled version have the  Missions: Bonus Crafting Materials box as an optional reward. In it, there is a  Minor Crafting Guild Token of Esteem box, which contains an item that awards 10,000 points for one crafting guild. The boxes are bound to account, so they can be mailed to other characters.
• If you have the Minas Morgul Expansion, you can pick up a quest from your crafting guild leader and gain 200,000 points by completing the quest chain. See Crafting Guild: Minas Morgul Quests for an overview of the quests.
  • NOTE: you need to be Westemnet Master of the Guild to be able to pick the quest.

Crafting Guild Rewards

As you increase your standing within the guild, you can purchase and use the Improved and Legendary recipes sold by the guild's vendors respectively. Some of those recipes allow you to craft a stack of items for a fraction of the normal ingredients needed, while other recipes provide a fool-proof method to craft a critical success item.

The highest tier of crafting guild recipes allow crafters to produce class items, as well as items that can augment the accrual of item advancement experience points.

Umbar Crafting Guilds

After attaining Umbar reputation with a crafting guild, the player unlocks access to its corresponding Umbar crafting guild. These guilds function similarly to the Eriador crafting guilds in that each level of reputation unlocks new recipes. Reputation is gained by completing daily and weekly crafting quests found in the Swain's Guild-hall of Umbar Baharbêl.^{[21.3S, 97.3W]}

Table 3: Umbar Crafting Guild Ranks

To achieve this reputation level	You need this many points	a total of points
Guild Initiate	0	0
Apprentice	10,000	10,000
Journeyman	20,000	30,000

Each crafting guild has set of items which it can upgrade. These recipes use ingredients created with Luck-stones. The items can also be traded with special recipes and Umbar Writs of Trade.

Table 4: Umbar Crafting Guilds

Guild	Crafted items	Upgradeable items
Umbar Cook's Guild		Fellowship-wide buffet table buff
Umbar Jeweller's Guild	Earrings	Necklace
Umbar Metalsmith's Guild	Gloves, Boots	Helmet (Heavy)
Umbar Scholar's Guild		Incoming healing potion
Umbar Tailor's Guild	Gloves, Boots	Helmet (Medium/Light)
Umbar Weaponsmith's Guild		Outgoing damage buff
Umbar Woodworker's Guild		Pocket

Guild Hall Locations

In each crafting guild hall you will find the crafting guild leader, the guild's reputation items recipe recipe vendor, the guild's reputation item trader, and the guild's recipe vendors. Near each guild hall is usually found a Mistress or Master of Crafting Guilds.

Crafting Guild Halls can be found at different locations around Middle-earth.

Guild Name	Location	Region
Cook's Guild	Michel Delving's Craft-fair	The Shire
Weaponsmith's Guild	Thorin's Hall - The Forging Hall	Ered Luin
Metalsmith's Guild	Thorin's Hall - The Forging Hall	Ered Luin
Scholar's Guild	The Last Homely House in Rivendell	Trollshaws
Tailor's Guild	Craft-hall of Esteldín	North Downs
Jeweller's Guild	Craft-hall of Esteldín	North Downs
Woodworker's Guild	Craft-hall of Esteldín	North Downs
All crafting guilds	Galtrev	Dunland
All crafting guilds	Snowbourn	Sutcrofts
All crafting guilds	Aldburg	West Rohan
All crafting guilds	Dol Amroth	Western Gondor
All crafting guilds	Minas Tirith	Old Anórien
All crafting guilds	Minas Tirith (After-battle)	Anórien (After Battle)
All crafting guilds	Minas Tirith (Midsummer)	Anórien (After Battle)
All crafting guilds	Dale	Eryn Lasgalen and the Dale-lands
All crafting guilds	Estolad Lân	Morgul Vale
All crafting guilds	Dol Amroth	King's Gondor
All crafting guilds	Umbar Baharbêl	Cape of Umbar

See also

• Umbar Craft Guilds dev diary