Something that's very important to know about Lore-master combat pets is that when they are summoned they will always appear with full health, full power, and all skills off cooldown and ready to use. That means if your pet has just used all its powerful abilities, you can dismiss it and resummon it and then it can use all of its abilities again, immediately. Similarly, if your pet is defeated you can resummon it and it will appear 100% ready to go. This is useful not only in long or difficult battles but also while just casually questing along: Kill a mob, dismiss your pet, resummon it, go right to the next mob with your pet and its abilities all at 100% and ready to use instead of waiting around for its skills to come off cooldown or having to tackle the next mob with your pet unable to use some or all of its skills. (Note that the exception to this is the Spirit of Nature, the healing pet, which has a 3-minute cooldown on the ability to summon it.) Also, when in a group, it is very effective to cycle through all (or most) of your combat pets quickly in order to keep all of the different buffs and debuffs active. When in a group doing challenging content, just as Zollin described early in this video, your job as Lore-master is SUPPORT: Buffing, debuffing, crowd control, and helping a bit with heals and power restores. Your pets - all or nearly all of them, not just your one favorite that you use while soloing - is an important part of this job. So being able to dismiss your combat pet quickly and easily while in combat, without fumbling around with clicking on its portrait and selecting the correct option in a drop-down menu, is fairly important for efficient function and a pleasant play experience. To do this, create a "/pet dismiss" skill button. It's easy to do: First, move whatever skill is in your #1 skill button (the one at the bottom-left of all your skill bars) somewhere else temporarily. Then type this into your chat box: /shortcut 1 /pet release Now you can hit a keybind or just left-click on that button to dismiss your pet, making it easier to summon a replacement pet quickly. Once that skill button is created, you can move it to any other slot on your skill bars and move whatever you had in your #1 skill button back where it belongs. You can also drag buttons from your pet control bar to one of the slots of your regular skill bars. Doing so will not remove the button from the pet control bar, it will duplicate that button. This is useful because you can assign keybinds to slots on your regular skill bars but if a pet command or pet skill is only on the pet control bar, you can activate that command or pet skill only by clicking it - there is no ability to set a keybind for a slot on the pet control bar. One of the most useful commands to be able to activate with a keybind rather than a mouse click is the very basic Attack command, allowing you to change your pet's target easily without fumbling for the correct button to click with your mouse. Another is the Follow command which will allow you to pull your pet off its target and run back to you, useful if you don't want it breaking a crowd control effect (pets will usually automatically stop attacking CCed targets, but only usually - it's best to pull it off manually to be sure when playing challenging group content).

Your enthusiasm and apparent love of the game just earned you a sub brotha. Downloading the game right now, ill be watching several of these guides. Thank you.

Zollin, I enjoyed last night's stream where you played your Lore-master. It was especially interesting to see you tackle more challenging content because most of your videos are full of you romping your toon through easy content that is no challenge for you and that character at all. That said, there were two reasons why it took you a long time to kill things during that stream and you ended up getting defeated a lot: 1- You are using "old" Legendary Items. You should take your Lore-master to Gobeth Tethian, the traceries room at The Last Homely House in Rivendell, get a bunch of Ancient Script by appraising all of his current "old" LIs, and then purchasing a pair of "new" LIs, equipping and then reforging them, and then purchasing traceries to fill the slots of those LIs. This will make a huge difference in your combat power! 2- As one levels through LOTRO, the experience of going from one zone to the next or a mob of Level X to a mob of Level X+1 is pretty smooth. The next zone or the mob that's just one level higher will be a little tougher, but only a little. However, in some cases, the next zone or the mobs just one level higher are a quantum level harder to deal with. This is because, in most cases, major expansions purposely introduced much higher levels of damage and morale and gear stats, in order to encourage players to ditch their old gear and get the new gear available in what was then that new expansion. This is most apparent at Level 95, Level 100, Level 105, Level 120, and Level 130. Your character is Level 116/117 and was fighting mobs that were Level 120/121 in a zone that is essentially one expansion higher than your character's level. Normally, mobs 3 or 4 levels higher than your character might be a bit of a challenge because of resistances and chances to-hit and other math reasons, but in this specific case your character was basically a full quantum level below the mobs it was fighting both in terms of the base damage output of the character's skills and the damage output and morale of the mobs your character was fighting.

Thank you for being the least pretentious person I’ve watched so far on KZfaq when looking for gaming guides.

Thank you, Zollin, for this video. Great work.

Comedic & Informative, your entertaining tutorial videos are the best tools for every player, new & old! Thank you very much and sharing to our kin's discord!

Great video man! I love ur content. Keep up the good work🔥

Great video. This is definitely one class that I have very little experience with. Which is something I need to change soon.

Thank you so so much for this!!! I am going to be using this guide for the "Echos of Agmar" Private Server when the open beta comes out!!!(The server may not have all if this but it is still useful for sure!!) Once again thanks a bunch!!

Its great class 2023+ with a pet damage buff now you can deal much more damage with the pet making it better to hold agro for you or kill faster using sometimes Wizars fire and keep running. The BogGuardian (ranged attaks) will finish them ;)

Minor Correction ahead. 5:05 *DPS* = _Damage Per Second._ *DOT* = _Damage Over Time._ The former is instant, and the Latter is continuous over a set period of Time. 😉

When I was playing lotro was a mostly pet based lore master(blue tree) had the set from the town u rebuild in Rohan I quit shortly before west Gondor was added(edit)

I love ur pets ui setup in screen, How did You move the lines that , like to place them where you have them now , I've not long returned from 5-6 yrs ago n forgotten a lot of things ^^ o.O ??

for the blue line what virtual traits must take?love your videos

Hi just wanna ask does LM have lots of aoe skills like RK coz i love kiting mobs and killing them all at once. Tq in advance

I gonna start a Hobbit Lore-Master! I really want to play a Willow-like character in Middle-Earth!

u can teach me how virtues up for the red line mage? i'm a new player, lv 20

I would suggest that you make a single video which describes the types of skills you covered early. You touched on VERY common game terminologies for a long time. Just make a video which describes those, and put a link to it. Save some FF time.

Flank is side, but maybe not in lotro. I'm new to the game, so I'm not an expert.

11:25 false information. Flanking in this game has nothing to do with positioning. Flanking happens randomly when a pet attacks an enemy.

Is the l.m worth in 2022?