The following items are on sale from September 21-27th. Below you will find the sale listings as well as our recommendation on purchasing.
Free Sample of the Week
This is for a single (not the five stack) mount speed boost. We’ve heard these are useful for free players in the Ettenmoors for quick getaways from pesky creeps. If they’re good for anything else, I am not aware of it but hey, it’s free! Pick it up for free with coupon code MSB912.
Limited Release: Helegrod Cosmetic Gear
Now until October 4th you can pick up Helegrod raid cosmetic armor in the LOTRO store.
These items are not actual armor, just cosmetic versions of these sets to allow you to get the look.
Pieces sell for 295 Turbine Points each or 1,295 Turbine Points for a full set (6 pieces) which ends up to be around a 27% discount. There is a set available for each class but you don’t have to stick to your specific class when purchasing.
I think it’s probably also good to note that you can earn this gear in game should you and your friends venture into the Helegrod dungeons and they are available for purchase from Skirmish vendors.
See all photos of the gear set on the LOTRO announcement.
Weekly Store Sale
Legendary Slot Unlock
Level up and unlock an additional Legendary Item Slot in your Legendary Item panel! 2 Unlocks available! Once an item is slotted, you can then further upgrade your Legendary Items by using Legendary Tier Upgrades, Legacies and more from the LOTRO Store!
Store Location: Character → Character Upgrades → Legendary Slots
Levels: 50+
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CSTM RECOMMENDATION: All characters get six slots to put legendary items in but sometimes you need more. Legendary Item slots 7 and 8 two extra you can purchase if you feel you need some more legendary items working at once. The unlock is per character, not account and is for characters level 50+.
Legacy Tier Upgrades
Get greater bonuses! Upgrade the Tier of any Legacy on a Legendary Item with this scroll.
Store Locations: Goods & Services → Legendary Items → Scrolls
Levels: 50+
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CSTM RECOMMENDATION: A Legacy Tier Upgrade will upgrade one legacy on your legendary item one tier. These items are per character and will only upgrade one legacy on one legendary item.
This is what in-game is called a Scroll of Empowerment. There are different varieties in game based on the level of your Legendary Item but they are all named similar. For example a level 75 legendary item simply needs a Scroll of Greater Empowerment. These items are available in game from skirmish camps and barter tokens if you prefer to get it via an in-game method.
+5,000 Enhanced Reputation Supply
Gain a bonus to all earned faction reputation until a total of 5,000 bonus reputation has been added. This bonus does not have a time limit, and only expires when the 5,000 bonus reputation points have been depleted.
Store Location: Buffs & Boosts → Advancement → Reputation
Levels: All
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CSTM RECOMMENDATION: These are one of those convenience items that gives you a shortcut without the grind. These get a meh simply because it’s not necessary. You can get through the normal in-game methods.
Read more about the Enhanced Reputation Supply item in Merric’s Store Explorer post!
September 20, 2012 at 11:31 pm
The extra legendary item slot unlock is more appealing than normal, since the RoR expansion is coming up with its new legendary bridle, which takes up an LI slot, unless they change their mind about that before release. Players that keep multiple LIs for swapping out will be feeling the pinch. I’m guessing some people will be taking advantage of this sale to prepare.
September 21, 2012 at 1:48 am
I shall be purchasing two LI slots for my Runekeeper, and one for my hunter. Probably some rep xp tomes too
September 21, 2012 at 5:01 am
The +5,000 Enhanced Reputation Supply is also available ingame at the skirmish camp..!
September 21, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Just tried the mount speed code and it gave me an error message ‘code not valid.Tried this several times to no avail.I use these allot as I like the extra speed when I have allot of travelling to do as it also make the stable steeds go faster too! (I think,although not confirmed !!) Just thought I’d let you know.
September 21, 2012 at 7:14 pm
The coupon only works for the single item (not the stack of five). Original cost should be 50 TP. I just tried it and it did successfully drop the price to 0.
September 22, 2012 at 1:46 pm
I think that the extra LI item slots are more important for some classes than for others. The more roles you might want to play in the game, the more you need room to store and grow legendary gear.
For example, my RK has a lightning set (satchel and stone), a fire set and a healing set. The basic six slots didn’t leave me any place to level up legendaries to harvest for their legacies, relics and ixp so Sigela bought two more slots and we’re happily growing our own relics. I anticipate that I’ll need extra slots when my champion turns pro with legendaries so that I can have a basic defensive set for off tanking, an AoE set, and a solo DPS set.
My minstrel just uses two sets. He could probably specialize his gear a bit more but that’s just not important to my play style so he’s got four pieces of gear active and still has two slots for farming LIs. Same on my hunter, my burglar, etc.