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My quest darters were caught in Aughaire, Angmar, right there in town, from levels 112 to 131. My quest sturgeons were caught in Eregion, from Sad Rechu to Fordirith, in the ponds along the dried up river bed, from levels 149 to 165.
Finding Scholar artifacts in LotroS o, you’ve decided to take the path of the Scholar in Lotro. Be aware that this is one of the more difficult crafting professions. Not because it is hard to craft stuff or acquiring scholar crafting rec ipes. No, the probl em is that the stuff you have to find is hard to obtain. As a scholar you are looking for artifacts, like an archeologist.
You are looking for old pitchers, ancient vases, urns, old texts and hidden coffers and lockers. Which may contain ancient materials you need for your scholarly research. Well, if you know something about old artifacts, I think you get the picture where you have to look for them. Right, in ruins!The difficulty is that ruins are not so common in the world of Middle Earth as you may think. At least not so common as forests, shrubs and hills with wood and ore. So you have to discover them and investigate their occupants. The other problem is, that most of the ruins are infested with enemy forces, poisonous spiders or some other evil or fierce enemies.
In this perspective the Scholar is perhaps the hardest crafting profession there is. Elves, hobbits and burglars may be better off as a scholar, since they can sneak in stealth into those dangerous ruins. But a brute force of hack and slash, or a magic daze or root can be very handy too.
If you like danger, hunting enemies for scholar artifacts (goblins, orcs, trolls, thieves and brigands can drop now and then artifacts too) or looting ruins, the Scholar crafting profession is the thing for you!In the table below you can see which artifacts belong to each scholar tier.As you can see, each artifact contains a special kind of resource. Sometimes you can find also a byproduct, like a special candle. A very rare resource, like a s hard!With these resources found in the artifacts you can make materials to create all kinds of interesting stuff.
Like power and morale pots,crafting buffs and buffs for shooting arrows, defense and attacks. Just look in your crafting menu and pick one of your choices.For crafting, you have to go to your scholars study-table, of course. In a crafting area. N ote: choose processing on the crafting menu to create the materials which are needed for the various recipes! Making dyes in LotroMost scholar s are looking for artifacts, so they have to search in ruins and - mostly - have to kill a lot of evil creatures or man.
This kind of scholar specialization can be called an archeologist. But if you don't like such an aggressive way to become a scholar, and you are more of the docile type, you can always become a gardener or a botanist. Because with these specializations you can make colorful dyes, which sell well on the Auction Hall, and which give you some points for crafting experience too. Making dyes can be done by looking for rare plant-species (the way of the botanist) or making dye ingredients by harvesting crops on a farm field (the way of the gardener).Both ways are explained on a separate page, to access them:The way of the archeologist: searching for artifactsThe most common way to level yourproficiency as a scholar, is searching for artifacts. As said, the can be found mostly in ruins. Sometimes you have to look in enemy camps or in mines.Tier 1 – Apprentice: Shattered Pitcher. Aged Scraps of Text- Early Third Age Relics- Worn Tablet Fragments.Shattered pitchers can be found in the starter areas of Bree-land, Ered Luin andthe Shire.Probably the best place to look for ti er 1 scholar arti facts is Bree-land, where shattered pitchers can be found in the wide s urroundings around the Midgewater Mires (see map).
Some places there are eas y to loot, but most are in ruins guarded by many mobs. So be carefu l!Ered Luin is also OK for gathering Shattered pitchers, and like Bree-land most pitchers are located in ruins.Not surprisingly, in the Shire scholar arti facts seems rare. This reg ion is hardly known for ancient Elv en occupation and big ruins are rare here.
So, if you see one from a distance, it is wo rthwhile to explore that ruin. Until now, I have found 3 spots only: 2 in ruins and 1 around a abandoned farm-house.Fo r all known locations of Shattered pit chers (at least known to me), see the maps below. I have recently checked them and ommited old records where I couldn't find scholar arti facts. Antique vases can be found in ruins throughout TheLone-lands, The North Downs and Evendim In Bree-land they can be found in barrows in the Barrow-Downs (see maps above).Bree-lands (see maps above)In Bree-land antique vases can be found in thebarrows of the Northern and Southern Barrow Downs. They are reported from Haud Taenthond, Haudh Methernil., Haudh Nogbenn and The Barrow of Ringdor.
in the northern Barrow Downs. These relatively sm all barrows are less dan gerous than the big ones in the southern Barrow Downs.The biggest barrows in the S outhern Barrow Downs are the most dangerous ones and quite leth al if you enter them solo, at least at a low level. I found vases in The Great Barrow and Haufh Iarchith, b oth are instances. Two smaller barrows in the NE corner of the southern Barrow Downs has also antique vases: Goetham and Gwantham. The North Downs (see map below)In the North-downs all scholar artifacts are to be found in ruins. I haven't found any artifacts in e nemy camps, like Dol Dinen. I skipped the remote Nan Wathr en, since I d on 't expect to find any artifacts here on basis of the stated observation.
Most ruins will contain antique vas es and these places are guarded by enemies, of course. The only easy places to loot are the two ruins with Broken urns, NE of Threstlebridge. Curiously, I couldn't find any scholar artifact within one of the bigg est ruin of Middle Earth, the enormous castle of Fornost.
I entered this huge complex of walls and towers, and even the northern - instance - parts. But alas, I din 't found anything but zillions of mobs. However, they drop a lot of raw scholar materials, so they must have looted all the artifacts here. Evendim is rich in ruins and also rich in scholar artifacts. Almost every big ruin inhabited by enemy forces or aggressive animals - like wolves, bats and salamanders - contain at least 1 artifact. Most of them are antique vases, but a some (more dangerous) places you will find forgotten texts.
Be aware of these texts, because they can stay a long time hi dden in plain sight. When you reach almost the place where the text will be, it will appear like magic.
Probably all these text are enchanted and hidden for the unaided eyes of strangers!In the Map be low you will see all the places I have visited in Evendim and wether you can find a scholar artifact or not. T he two ruins east of Parth Aduial are actually in the Northdowns, adjacent to th e border of Evendim.
These ruins are named Glirost and Tham Lorn. TrollshawsTrollshaws is the best region to find forgotten texts.
However, most places with scholar artifacts are infested with lots of m onsters, like trolls and wights. Except Ost D urgonn, most places are very da ngerous at level 35. So, my best advise is to loot them in a fellowship, or go back when y ou are some levels higher. After lvl 50+ it is an easy area. Thieves and elves may sneak - unseen - behind the trolls, snap the text, and flee away. But if the trolls are some levels higher then you, they will undoubtedly sniff you out.
Even if you are in sylvan shadows. Worn Elf-carvingAncientvases, can be found in ruins throughout The Misty Mountains, Forochel, Angmar andEregion.Ancient vases at The Lonesome Stones - in Forochel - are easy to lootAngmarDespite the many ruins and old forgotten towns in Angmar, ancient vases are very rare in this grim place. I have ch ecked Carn Dum, T he Rift, Barad Gularan, Ram Duath and Ongbishuk, but all these places seems to be empty. Probablymost vases are stolen or destroyed bythe high amount of enemy forces which can be found in th ese areas. You can, of course, slay monsters in the above mentioned grim places. Monsters will definitive drop some raw materials from the stolen vases. The only place where I fount vases, was at Rhunendin, east of Himbar.
This places is so heavily infested with angmarin priests and trolls, its not worthwhile to bother it for ancient vases. Just skip this depressing place and head for the easy to loot frosty ruins of the Lonesome Stones in Forochel!Misty MountainsLike Angmar, M isty Mountains seems not a good place for ancient vases. I only found one spot with 2 locations of them, near the ruins of Gabalizan (see map). Even in Goblin town or the stone houses of the giants - in Giant Halls - there are no scholar artifacts to be found. Hope somebody will find a new spot in this region.
Tell me if you do! ForochelAncient vases are a bit scarce in Forochel. Maybe some ruins are now blanketed by thick ice-layers and vanished until warmer times appear. I have found, until now 3 locations. Three are situated in ruins named Kibilzahar, The Lonesome Stones and The Ironspan. With some care Kibilzahar and especially The Lonesome Stones can be looted fairly easy. In both places there are only two spots where you can find ancient vases.
Just kill some enemies and wait until they reappear. Kibilzahar is a small ruin and the vases will reappear at the same spots. The Lonesome stones are much bigger, so the 2 vases have 4 spots where they can appear. Luckily the place is fairly empty of enemies and it is the safest spot to loot you valuable The Ironspan however is heavilyguarded by lots of Angmarin, so take care when you try to loot thevases at that place. Don't go there when you are several levels lowerthan the Angmarin at this place!The ancient vases near Zigilzund are hidden by sight and you have to enter the Icereave Mines to find them.
At first sight you only see 1 vase, but if you pull a lever downstairs a hidden passage will appear. In that passage 2 other vases can be found.
The place is infested with dourhand dwarves and peikko-snowbeasts, but they drop a lot of loot. Don't go in if you are some levels lower as the mobs since they will surely overrun you!
Come back when you are a higher level, or loot in a group of 2-3. Like For ochel, the ancient vases are also rare in Eregion. I have found unti l now only 3 places. First place to go are the ruins at Pembar, with lots of worms and half-orcs.
You will find 2 spots with vases there. In the west I found 2 spots in Barad Morlas, another ruin with lots of half-orcs. You can combine b oth places with quests, especially Barad Morlas. Sout h of Barad Morlas there is a small ruin with 2 other spots of ancient vases. Both spots are fairly easy to loot. If you circle around in Barad Morlas, you can kill half -orcs and their wolf-guar ds, do a lot of quests and looting at least 4 spots with ancient vas es, until they reappear.Curiously enough, I haven't found any vases in the well known ruins of Tham Mirdain, like the School and the Library. Also the orc-camps near the Red Horn Pass (Thar Stag) and the Angmarin and Dunleding-camp s in Emyn Naer don't contain any vases.
So, like Misty Mountains and Forochel, the Ancient Vase is a rare scholar artifact indeed. 0-2 (90%)Read the table as follows: a Sage's lockbox has a 100% drop rate (100%) for at least 1 Tattered Khuzdul Parchment, although sometimes 2 or 3 can drop (1-3). A Sage's Casket drops most of the time (90%) a Relic of Khazad-dum (0-1). In a Sage's Locker you will always find at least 1 Etching of Moria, 1 Relic of Khazad-dum and 1 Rune-carved Tablet. Up to 3 of these relics can be found in a Locker (1-3).
However, the Echtching of Moria droprate of a Sage's Casket is only 25% and only 1 will drop (0-1). The same amount of such a relic can be found in a Lockbox, although the chance to find one is twice as high as in a Casket (50%).You can find all these tier 8 artifacts in Lothlorien, Moria, Enedwaithand/or Mirkwood. Sage's Lockers can be found in Moria and Mirkwood.Sage's Caskets can be found in the lower depths of Moria, starting in theRedhorn Lodes. Sage's Lockboxes can be found inLothlorien, Mirkwood and Enedwaith.
MoriaThere are lots of places to find Sage's caskets and Sage's lockers in the Mines of Moria.As an elf, I don't like the depressing environment of narrow, dark and countless maze-like paths beneath the earth. I map ped all the places in Moria where I found artifacts, and below you see my final resu lts. Print them out, or use a sec ond screen like I do (they are easy to access these days at a 2nd hand shop).The Moria maps I have used are the detailed real travel maps, from which you will see a small portion in your radar. The named locations are the points of interest which will appe ar as flagged objects on the radar. You see them also on the overview ma p as flags (whe n pressing the M-key). For you convenience I have marked th e s tables (purple dots) and on most maps also the stable-routes You only have to trave l some p art of a route, by foot or goat, and wind your way in the dark caverns and halls of Moria. Yellow dots: sage lockers, yellow lines: stable routes,stables: purple dots, triangles: special placesSilvertine lodesSilvertine lodes lies sout h o f Deep Descent and can be considered as a sub-lower l e vel.
This zone contains some spots with Sage's lockers, but it is not a very rich place. I found 3 spots in the central part, near the spiral wooden platform of Menem-berej. The Old Si lvertine City and the goblin infested caves south of Gamil Filik offers also some spots. If you desperately need some lockers, the upper l ev els of Moria are richer and more eas ier to loot.Silvertine lodes: Yellow dots: sage lockers, yellow lines: stable routes,triangles: special places, purple dotted lines: boundary21-st HallSouth of the 21-st Hall is a big hall complex with the same dark brown tiles, called the Great Hall of Durin. You can enter it by the 21-Hall West Arch, and by following the stable route you wil find 3 spots of lockers.
The hall has several sublevels connected with stairs. In total you can find 7 spots with lockers in the brown tiled halls. Two places are dangerous and heavily guarded by orcs, Bult-kar and gazata-ru. The other locations are not a very big problem, as long as you are the same level as the orcs in this zone. Zelem-Melek Northern partZelem-Melek is a big hall complex with many s eparated small halls and orc infested areas. I t has several Sage's lockers, but they are a b it scattered throughout Zelem-Melek. South of the Hall of Flowing Water this zone seem s to be a bit empty, but this will change when you are entering the southern part of Zelem-Melek (see entry below).
This part of Moria can be entered from the 21 Ha ll in the NE or the Great Delving in the West. In the far NE y ou will entering the Redhorn Lodes.A curious gorge is running north-south and bordering Zelem-Melek from the Great Delving.
You can follow this gorge right to the Flaming Depths. There is much ore to be found in this underwa y tunnel, but no scholar artifacts.Zelem-Melek, northern part: Yellow dots: sage lockers, yellow lines: stable routes,stables: purple dots, triangles: special placesZelem-Melek Southern partThe South part of Zelem-Melek is much alike the north part with lots of Sage's lockers. All are concentrated in orc infested rooms, so be a bit prepared t o hit and run if th ere are too much orcs attack you. Since there are many dead ends, its advi sable to app r oach every room cautiously. This hall-like zone changes after you pass the Orc-Watch in the east, when you enter the big cavern o f the Redhorn Lodes.
This is a lower zone of Moria, with Sage's caskets.In the south is the stable of Anazarmekhem, and at that place you enter the Flaming Depths, a dangerous lower zone of Mora, w ith Sage's cas kets.Zelem-Melek, southern part: Yellow dots: sage lockers, yellow lines: stable routes,stables: purple dots, triangles: special places, blue dots: Sage's casketsThe WaterworksThe Waterworks is one of the coolest places to be in the Mines of Moria. It is a world on its own, with strange q uiet pools an d interesting chambers to explo re. For a lower level area it is not a very dangerous one, in most parts. The Globsnaga orc place - the red room bordering the Chamber of Dark Waters - is one of the more dangerous places. An interesting place to explore is T he Lost Palace wit h beautiful translucent spiders.The Waterworks is a fun place to discover and you will find several scattered places with sage's lockers. Surprising ly, in this lowest level of Moria, there are no caskets to be found and you will find only sage's lockers. The western part, south of Narag-kheleb didn't contain any scholar art if acts.
I chec ked all the places there, but couldn't find anything.The Waterworks, southern part: yellow dots = sage's lockers, yellow line = stable route. Nud-MelekA bi g part of Nud- Melek is the gigantic Second Hall with huge stone columns, shaped like ancient trees. This area - the 2nd Hall - has 4 spots of sage's caskets, and you can circle it by emptying the caskets and slaying the numerous orcs and nasty big glowworms.From Khurjezer to the First Hall I only found 3 locations and west of the 21 Hall, in the lava-rich stone-bridge area only 1 spot.Don't go in the passage north of Khurjezer for scholar artifacts, since there are none to be found. This passage is a nuisance anyway, because after slaying countless and countless orcs you pass Balin's Camp and will encounter a non-passable roadblock, guarded. You have to fight the whole way back, since there isn't any passage to the 21st-Hall (although the map and mini-radar suggest it.).Sage's caskets (blue dots) in Nud-melek. The yellow line it the stable route. Sage's caskets (blue dots) in Redhorn Lodes.
The yellow line it the stable route.Flaming DeepsThe Flaming deeps is an interesting place to be, with lots of lava pools and heat-loving critters. There are several spots with sage's caskets to be found, most of them in the near vicinity of the stable route. If you are careful, they are not very difficult to loot, but this place seems to be a bit more dangerous then the Redhorn Lodes.Sage's caskets (blue dots) in the Flaming Deeps. The yellow line is the stable routeFoundation of StoneIn this gruesome place, with indescribable horrors, totally none scholar artifacts where found.Lothlorien. Compared to Enedwaith and e specially the golden forest of Lothlorien, Mirkwood is a grim place to be.
But if you are careful it's not such a pain as the numeral deep crevices of Moria. You have to ve nture far to reach the ruins with artifacts (Sage's lockboxes) and they seem to be concentrated in the orc and ghost infested ruins of the Ashenlades. I have marked six ruins where lots of lockboxes can be found. Most places have 3 lockboxes, and the two ruins at Sad Doldur contain a total of 6 boxes.
If you circle around here, yo u will encounter 20 locations with lockboxes, and this is one of the highest density places with scholar artifacts to be found in a small are a. If you want to do some slayer-deed, like orc-sla ying, or want to do some ruin discoveries, the Ashenlades is certainly the place to be!I didn't found any other places with Sage lockboxes in other ruins, like th e Mirk-eaves in the western part of Mirkwood, Emyn-lum and Taur-morvitch. Even the huge ruin complexes in Dol Guldur and Gathburz seems te be empty (probably all stolen by evil man). The tower of Minas Gil is a lso not worth a visit for artifacts, altho ugh you can slay a lot of sorcerers there (slayer -deed).
Like all humanoids th ey will certainly drop some raw material of the stolen scholar artifacts. Not e that the orc-camps with tents an d wooden palisades(western part of Mirkwood) and the barrows at the Shrine of the Ancient One (far eastern Scuttle dells) didn't contain any artifacts either. The North of Dunland seems to be full of banded coffers, even more then in the Great River area. Especially the wight infested Bonevales offers much for a scholar. I have found 10 locations with banded coffers! I noticed also some Indigo plants in this place, but didn't map them.
Other good places in this part of Dunland are the dragon clan settlement (north and south) and the adjacent Rooks hut.In the center of Dunland lies the strange winged tower of Flam-cadlus. Its is heavily guarded by lvl 68 dunleding riders, but there are many rewards here! I have found 5 spots with normal banded coffers and 2 spots with heavy banded coffers (1 dropped a Cracked Rhi Helvarch Sigil). The other tower, Hen Turrau, lying SE of this tower, has 3 lightly guarded spots with banded coffers. One of them is of the heavy type, so it may drop a Cracked Rhi Sigil.Other places in central Dunland give only 1 or 2 coffers, but the Tree of Tribute maybe an interesting spot. One of the coffers here can be a heavy one (special drop!). The warg panels, north of the Howling caverns - in Pren Gwydh - are also a good place for looting coffers, but beware all these lvl 67 wargs with their goblin trainers.
If you are careful, this place can be looted by a solo caracter of lvl 65+.To the southwest, Lhan Covarn (in the NW point of the Dunbog) is an interesting place. Four coffers can be found, but this place is literally swarmed with malevolent orcs. Don't go there if you are low level, or go in a group. However, at level 75+ it is an easy place to loot.To the far south are the Withered Stones. This is an ancient ruin in a swamp, with lots of strange Dun Avanc (lvl 71): a kind of reptilian which looks like a small stegosaurus. Don't underestimate them, they are fierce creatures!The Tal Methedras settlement, in the NE of Dunlaind doenst contain any banded coffers. Nan CurunirNan Curunir is Saruman's place, with the forbidden Black tower of Orthanc permanently in sight.
It is a gruesome and very malevolent zone, and not the place to be for gathering banded coffers. I only found one location, with 2 spots: in the Blackmarch Fort, which is literally swarming with lvl 75 Shak-Hai Archers, Warriors and Woodcutters.
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The name woodcutter sounds like a normal woodcutter, bit these beasts are Saruman's creatures, so Uruk-Hai. They have cut down the lovely forest here. I can imagine a better place for looting Banded coffers, like the Bonevales in NW Dunland!Nevertheless, for the bold adventurer it is fun to steal artifacts right under the nose of Saruman. His tower is outside the wall guarded by lvl 75 warg-rides and half-orc sentries. Inside you will find - of course - a host of lvl 75 enemies, like Isenguard warriors, Isen Warg Riders, Shak-Hai Warriors, signature Shak-Hai Overseers and the elite 76692 morale War-Troll (immune to root and stun). Some humans can also be found here, a kind of sorceres called Apprentice of Saruman.Outside the gate I found only 1 spot with a banded coffer, but inside is a ring of 10 or more coffers.
Two are heavy banded coffers and may (not will.) contain a cracked rhi sigil.The Gate is guarded by 2 arch-nemesis trolls, called Ufdragh and Barashal. They are immune to stun and root. Both trolls are 751700 morale and extremely dangerous. Ride your horse and sprint through, in a straight line to the black tower of Orthanc! Hopefully they don't hit you with a devastating hit! They can do each 4044 Common damage with a critical hit, or 1333 normal shadow damage. Normally only 1 troll will hit you, but sometimes - that is a stated fact - two.
If you run far enough, they will stop and retreat to their watchpost at the gate.Inside you have only to avoid - or slay - the swarms of mobs there. Its pretty easy when you are lvl 84, since no one - except Ufdragh and Barashal - will attack you. The only thing you have to be careful at, is the escape route. If you hit that place, you enter a one-way sewer tube to the outside and cannot go back. Anyway, have a lot of fun at Saruman's dwellings.
Sadly enough, you cannot visit him to drink a cup of green tea. The door of the black tower is firmly closed. I am Elannah a level 100+ Loremaster on the European Evernight server. I hope you like my blog and feel free to react or comment.PS: I recently started Pieternella and Pernilla, a Loremistress (LM) and a Minstrel on the American Brandywhine server. These toons will fill some new blog pages, probably about quick-leveling, character classes and interesting instances.You can find my characters in various parts of the Lotro world, making maps and pictures in the most interesting zones of Lotro's Middle Earth.