The Developer Diary for Lord of the Rings Online brings us word of changes to the crafting system coming in tomorrow’s release of the Siege of Mirkwood Expansion.

Multi-output Recipes

You will be able to craft some items that are slightly different based on the same recipe using the new “Multi-output” option in the crafting panel. An example of this is given as a Malledhrim Sword of Striking being crafted as the Malledhrim Sword of Warding. The DPS of the sword remains the same, but the damage type and stats change from +20 fate, +85 maximum power, +95 maximum morale, +128 melee critical rating to +20 agility, +49.2 in-combat power regen, +95 maximum regen, +128 parry rating. This will certainly lead to more opportunities to sell your wares to different classes.

Second Age Legendary Weapons and Class Items

Recipes will be available to create these items. You cannot find these items through treasure drops and they cannot be chosen as rewards. You can only get these through crafting. Each item will require an ancient symbol, which is only found in “dangerous, dark places.” The ancient symbols are tradeable.

Fourth “Crafted” Relic Slot

Legendary weapons and class items will now have a fourth relic slot. This slot can only hold relics made by players. There are two types of relics: normal and legendary. The normal relics provide a bonus to your agility, fate, might, vitality, will, morale, or power. Normal relics are tradeable. Legendary relics provide bonuses to melee, ranged, tactical, or healing abilities. Legendary relics are bound to the crafter who makes them so they cannot be traded. It will be interesting to see if alternates can pick them up through the new shared storage system also being introduced tomorrow. Most relics will have a minimum item level requirement.

Guild Reputation Items

Guild reputation items can be traded up for the next larger size. You can trade in seven small guild reputation items for one medium guild reputation item. And three medium guild reputation items can be traded in for one large guild reputation item.

Existing Recipes and Craft Experience Updated

Many of the recipes that require “components” have had the quantity of components required reduced. Auto-granted recipes no longer use any components crafted by other professions One-shot recipes are now the most difficult and use the most resources and components from other professions. Crafting experience has been increased and coincides with the difficulty of the recipe. Auto-granted recipes will award 6 points while one-shot recipes will award 12 points of experience.

Check it out in the developer diary.

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