Great Club Skins Collection, Part 1

Great Clubs are also one of the weapons I seldom use. If anything, I use them on my Beorning. As such, I don't have the most extensive collection. I do, however have almost all of the recipes and a handful of looted two-handed clubs, most of which share the same skins as their crafted cousins. As I quest or repeatedly clear some of LOTRO's older instances, I plan on adding to this category. In the meantime, this is the first half of the Great Club collection.

As usual, if there is another way of obtaining anything below, please let me know in the comments.

Black Ash Great Club - Crafted from the Black Ash Great Club recipe

Smooth Black Ash Great Club of Combat - Crafted from the Smooth Black Ash Great Club recipe

Rune-keeper Satchel Skins Collection

Unfortunately, Rune-keeper stones won't be appearing on this blog. Given how they're held, taking screenshots of them is an almost impossible task. I've tried. While stationary or in the Dressing Room panel, the stones are held in a hand hanging beside the hip, with the stone facing inward. Quite often, that stone clips into the hip. I've tried combat screenshots, which provided an unobstructed view of the stone...but my monitor is too small to collect a clear and detailed picture. That being said, I decided to offer our Rune-keepers a bone and provide pictures of the rune-satchel skins found in LOTRO. There weren't very many, sadly. Ten total, although it could be argued there were only nine on a technicality. These can also be dyed through the wardrobe and wardrobe alone.

Basic Rune-satchel of Nestad or Thalas - Purchased from the Rune-keeper Class trainers in any major hub

Student's Rune-satchel of Dagor, Thalas, or Nestad - Crafted from the respective Tailor recipe of the same name Basic Rune-satchel of Dagor - Purchased from the Rune-keeper Class trainer found in any major hub Rune-keeper's Rune-satchel of the Third Age, level 53 - Bartered from any of the Legendary Item Traders found in Bree, 21st Hall, Lothlorien, or The Great Delving

Alliance Vanguard

This was the first outfit I'd made for my High Elf Captain, Gwaimallin. Ironically, it's also the one that's taken me the longest to share. As much as I've loved the outfit itself, I've never been satisfied with the screenshot location. Honestly, it blended in with much more landscape and instanced scenery than anticipated. Each time, I'd get halfway through a photo session before scrapping it entirely. I told myself this would be the last attempt and that if I didn't share it soon, I should remove the outfit and not bother at all. I was glad to finally get this completed, and even though the screenshots aren't the best, I'm satisfied with the final product!

Club Skins Collection, Part 2

This is the second installment of the one-handed Clubs collection. There is something noteworthy about this particular weapon class. Starting with the supreme tier, the crafted clubs, both Legendary Items and standard clubs, all share the same skins with several maces. I don't have an answer as to why that was done, but this is why some of these skins are going to look very familiar. To be honest, I almost omitted them, but the collection feels more complete with them.

As usual, if you see another method of obtaining a particular appearance, please let me know in the comments!

Beorning's/Burglar's/Captain's/Champion's/Guardian's/Minstrel's Club of the Third Age, level 59 - Bartered from the Legendary Item Traders found in Bree, 21st Hall, Lothlorien, and The Great Delving

Beorning's/Burglar's/Captain's/Champion's/Guardian's/Minstrel's Club of the First Age, level 60 - Bartered from the Legendary Item Traders found in Bree, 21st Hall, Lothlorien, and The Great Delving

Club Skins Collection, Part 1

Clubs...one of the few weapon classes I didn't actively, despite having passively collected almost all of the recipes. It wasn't until I started playing a Beorning, which has gone untouched for a year, that I pursued clubs to compliment the racial bonus. Although the bonus technically covers axes and clubs, I'd been through the axe phase with my Champions. I figured I'd try something different. I did collect many world and dungeon drops while playing other classes and most of them made it into storage. It wasn't until I started this that I'd realized how many of them shared appearances with crafted and bartered skins. To make it easiest to collect anything featured below, I've listed the recipes instead of the numerous similar word drops. Of course, there were some unique clubs I'd acquired as well.

Enjoy this collection and, as usual, let me know if there's another way to obtain any of these appearances.

Ash Club - Crafted from the Ash Club recipe Heavy Ash Club of Vitality - Crafted from the Heavy Ash Club recipe

Black Ash Club - Crafted from the Black Ash Club recipe Smooth Black Ash Club of Combat - Crafted from the Smooth Black Ash Club recipe

Legion of Thrang - Draig-lûth Forgemaster

This will be most likely my final Thrang-themed outfit. Like I described in my previous entry, the limited pool of cosmetics that work with these glowing and sparking weapons made outfitting truly a struggle. This particular look of a Draig-lûth (Dragon-clan) Forgemaster took almost a week. I'm highly satisfied with how far I've been able to explore using these weapon skins. In fact, I wasn't expecting to make more than one, but I think we all know how I get when new shinies are dangled in my face! Of all the Thrang outfits, I'd declare this one to be my favorite...although I've swapped out the two-handed axe for the two-handed sword at this point. As fun as it was the use the axe, it didn't glow as much as the sword! (That and my Champ's LIs are swords!)

Crossbow Skins Collection, Part 2

Here's the second installment of Crossbow skins. As usual, if there is another way of obtaining any of the skins featured below, please let me know in the comments!

Crafted Hunter's Crossbow of the Third Age, level 85 - Crafted from  the recipe of the same name

Crafted Hunter's Crossbow of the Third Age, level 75 - Crafted  from the recipe of the same name Reforged Hunter's Crossbow of the Second Age, level 75 - Crafted  from the recipe of the same name