The Legendary Item system is getting a big update in time for the release of Fate of Gundabad, and we're here to tell you more about how it works and how to get started!
How do I get a Legendary Item or Weapon?
You will receive your first Legendary Weapon and Item around level 50 when you run through the Mines of Moria; alternatively, you can purchase Legendary Items with Ancient Script that you will receive throughout the game. Find Gobeth Teithian, The Archive of Traceries in The Last Homely House, to the left as you enter the building, on the second floor. The Archive is also where you can barter for Traceries and acquire higher rarity Traceries in exchange for Cracked and Shattered Traceries. You must have completed the quest Chapter 13: The Watcher in the Water in order to access The Archive.
(Note: These User Interface images are a work in progress and do not represent the final UI, just the UI as currently exists on Bullroarer. These images will be replaced in the near future.)
Once you have your Legendary item, you place Traceries into the item to increase its power. Drag the Legendary Item to the Socketed Equipment icon on your Character panel, located under your boots equipment slot, to get started. You will see various slots falling into four categories that you can place your Traceries into:
- Heraldric Tracery: This Tracery slot includes stat buffs along with the damage type of your weapons. Only one Heraldric Tracery can be slotted per item. (NOTE: Heraldric Traceries appear in the UI once the item has been initially Reforged.)
- Word of Power: These are specialized Traceries meant to fill various roles with your weapons and items, including damage and healing types like area of effect, single target, and healing/damage over time. These Traceries are also where you will get Avoidance, Incoming Damage reduction, Morale Increase, Induction speed, and more. Two Word of Power Traceries can be slotted per weapon, and three per class item (except for the Hunter’s Bow and Warden’s Javelin, which are slotted as class items rather than weapons).
- Word of Mastery: These Traceries are similar to the Legacies from the prior Legendary Item system, and provide various benefits of specific value to your class. You will unlock additional Words of Mastery Tracery slots over time, up to a current cap of six Words of Mastery Traceries.
- Word of Craft: These are general single stat increases that also provide various Set Bonuses. Over time players will be able to slot up to three Word of Craft Traceries.
Once you slot a Tracery into your Legendary Item or Weapon you can then apply Enhancement Runes to any of your Traceries to increase their level. Traceries and Enhancement Runes have a minimum and maximum level of usage, so you will apply these Runes to your Traceries to level them up and then eventually replace your Traceries with higher level Traceries. The primary bonuses of a Tracery increase with its rarity, while the secondary stat bonuses increase with its level. Additionally, rarer Traceries of the same type offer higher benefits than their more common counterparts. You can see the rarity of a Tracery by looking at the color of its icon:
Uncommon: Yellow
Rare: Purple
Incomparable: Teal
Legendary: Gold
Word of Power Traceries have their own coloration indicating the kind of benefit they provide:
Red: Offense
Green: Healing
Blue: Defense
Orange: General and Support
You place a Tracery into a slot by dragging the Tracery into the slot. Placing a Tracery into a slot that already contains a Tracery will overwrite the currently-slotted Tracery, although you can unslot your slotted Traceries using Mithril to return them to your inventory if you wish. Additionally, you can Unslot All Traceries using Mithril.
| Character Level | Reforged Item Level |
| 45 | 52 |
| 56 | 60 |
| 61 | 65 |
| 66 | 70 |
| 71 | 75 |
| 76 | 100 |
| 81 | 129 |
| 86 | 155 |
| 91 | 175 |
| 96 | 190 |
| 100 | 200 |
| 101 | 215 |
| 105 | 250 |
| 106 | 315 |
| 111 | 349 |
| 116 | 365 |
| 120 | 399 |
| 121 | 415 |
| 126 | 449 |
The Legendary Items Reward Track
The Legendary Items Reward Track is now available to all players starting at level 45! This track can be accessed through the Menu (Character → Reward Track). As you play the game and collect Item XP it'll progress the track throughout the season, and if you get all the way to the end there is a repeatable goal for more rewards! We'll refresh the track every season, and the frequency, drop rate, and kind of rewards will change over time. The Legendary Items Reward Track is Account-based, so all of your characters on each world will contribute to the Rewards track, and you can select the rewards on whatever character you prefer.
All of your characters that earn IXP will contribute to the Reward Track, and IXP is awarded in a way that players at all levels contribute equivalent progress to the track. The Legendary Items Reward Track is focused on your Legendary Items and currently includes rewards such as Enhancement Runes, Sealed Tracery boxes, Embers of Enchantment, Tracery Token boxes, Ancient Script, and more! The Legendary Items Reward Track has 101 levels, with 100 levels to achieve and then a 101st level that repeats until the following season's release.
The Legendary Item Reward Track scales based on the level of the character applying the IXP, and IXP runes have minimum levels. This means that a minimum level 45 IXP rune will provide more relative progress along the Reward Track when consumed by a level 45 character than it does when consumed by a level 140 character.
