Ten Ton Hammer's All-New Warden Class Guide for the Lord of the Rings Online - Skills Overview

by Nicole163 on Dec 03, 2010

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Javelin Skills, Stances and Stuff

These are the fight-starters: huck a javelin from range, run
in and start laying down Gambits. Javelin range is 25 meters, shorter
than bows or crossbows.

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Wardens
take Conservation (stance) very seriously.

Javelin-Toss - A
nothing-special hurling of a pointed stick that does moderate damage.

Hampering Javelin - A modest
ranged attack that applies a slowing debuff to the target.

Shield Piercer - A modest
ranged attack
that significantly decreases the target's block rating.

Wages of Fear - A strong
ranged attack that does extra damage when used from behind the target.

Javelin of Deadly Force - A
legendary skill attainable at level 39 by collecting book pages. This
is a strong attack with a slightly increased range over regular javelin
attacks, and is an area-effect attack, capable of hitting up to 10
enemies at once.

Ambush - A strong attack that
knocks the enemy out for 5 seconds. During that 5 seconds, the Warden's
run speed is increased by 50%, allowing him to rush in and beat on his
opponent while he's down. When used on its own, this skill has a rather
lengthy induction of almost 5 seconds. Engaging the stealth skill
Careful Step allows the Warden to sneak in closer and fire off the
ambush instantly.

Critical Strike - After
landing a successful ambush, this skill does big damage. It can be used
on any dazed target (for example, targets dazed by The Boot). This
skill has a high critical rate and payout. This skill is improved with
the trait Find Weakness, giving it an even higher chance to score a
critical hit.

Stance: Conservation - A
toggled skill that significantly increases in-combat power
regeneration, evade rating and block rating. Very useful during long,
protracted battles when power consumption is an issue. Only one stance
can be active at a time.

Stance: Determination - A
toggled skill that greatly increases in-combat morale regeneration.
Useful when fighting hard-hitting elites for shorter battles when power
is not an issue. Only one stance can be active at a time.

Stance: Recklessness - A
toggled skill that increases melee damage and reduces attack duration
at the cost of block and evade rating. Useful for fighting trash mobs
and under-level opponents when speed is preferred over defense. Only
one stance can be active at a time.

Stance: Way of the Warden - A
legendary skill attainable at level 45 by completing both class quests.
This stance combines the good parts of the other stances - decreased
attack duration, increased damage, increased in-combat power
regeneration, increased in-combat morale regeneration. This stance has
a 15-minute cooldown once it is de-toggled.

Careful Step - A 20-second
stealth skill with a 5-second induction. The duration of this skill can
be increased by legendary item legacies.

Forced March - A toggled skill
that increases run speed by 25%, allowing the Warden to run as fast as
some horses. This skill reduces the Warden's maximum power by 80% and
de-toggles when the Warden enters combat, potentially leaving him quite
drained and in dire straits.

Mustering skills - These are
quick-travel skills similar to the Hunter's Wayfaring skills, but
affect the Warden only. Some are trainable skills purchased from a
class trainer, some are earned through quests and some are purchased
from reputation vendors.

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Tidbits

These are the basic Gambits and core skills used to build all
other Gambits.

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Kicking
butt, one fist gambit at a time.

Quick Thrust - The basic Spear
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Warden's Taunt -The basic Fist
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to the Gambit panel. This skill has a 10 meter
range.

Shield-Bash - The basic Shield
Gambit. Does minor damage and has a 15% chance per use to apply a
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Gambit Default - For those
times when you can't resist button-mashing and are unable to string
together a viable Gambit sequence, using the default Gambit does
slightly more damage than a Quick Thrust. This skill automatically
updates itself as Gambits are built.

Recovery - This skill resets
the Gambit panel, removing all icons from the bar. If you need to
quickly switch tactics while in the middle of building a long Gambit,
this is the skill to use.

Quick Recovery - This skill
removes the last Gambit icon. For those times when button-mashing
seemed to be the way to go, and then you realized otherwise.

Rather than dividing the rest of the Gambits into the standard
Spear/Shield/Fist groups, this guide will categorize them according to
effect. Traditional grouping is dictated by the first Gambit used in
the sequence, and not all Gambits of the same type have the same type
of effects. Knowing that Fierce Resolve is a Fist Gambit is not all that
helpful in determining when and where it should be used, but knowing that it is a self-heal and area-effect DOT is.

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Direct Damage and Damage-Over-Time Gambits

These Gambits are mostly Spear Gambits. Direct damage Gambits
do large damage initially, and Damage-Over-Time (DOT) Gambits do
smaller amounts of damage
in pulses over the span of a few seconds. Spear-based DOTs generally do
Common damage and Fist-based DOTs generally do Light damage.

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Frickin'.
Ouch. Good thing he's wearing a long skirt, because now he's a lady.

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A solid blow that
deals moderate direct damage. This one executes quickly and works best
against low-level trash mobs.

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A quick kick to
the nu... er, to a "sensitive area" that interrupts
inductions. This skill has a 25% chance to apply a 5-second daze,
setting the target up for a Critical Strike.

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Three moderate
attacks in quick succession. This skill interrupts inductions.

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No direct damage,
but decent Light DOT. This skill also slightly increases
threat on a single target.

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Power Attack style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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A single, strong
attack, followed by a moderate DOT bleed. This attack is
difficult to block.

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A short and sweet
combo move that does modest damage and removes 1 corruption from the
target.

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A single strong
attack that has a high chance of scoring a critical hit. A critical hit
will daze the target.

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A strong blow
that is difficult to parry or evade, followed by a good DOT bleed.

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single blow that is very difficult to block, parry or evade, followed
by a good DOT bleed.

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Desolation style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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src="http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/92041"> An area-effect
Light DOT that can affect up to 3 targets at once.
Additionally, this skill has a 25% chance of applying a 2-second fear
on each affected target once ever 4 seconds for 16 seconds.

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Defensive and Buffing Gambits

These are primarily Shield Gambits. Some of these Gambits have
additional effects (healing, damage-over-time, etc), but their primary
usefulness is the buffs.

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"He's
not respoinding to our hails!"

"Raise shields."

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A quick, weak
attack that bolsters the Warden's block rating for 20 seconds.

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A defensive
bubble that increases block, parry and evade ratings for 30 seconds.

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A triple-strike
that does decent damage and increases parry rating.

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An excellent
opener Gambit that significantly increases block, parry and evade
ratings for 1 minute.

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A deft combo that
does modest damage and reduces attack duration by 20% for 20 seconds.

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Healing Gambits

These come in a variety of flavours, including Fist, Shield
and Spear Gambits. Most Warden healing Gambits are heals-over-time
(HOT), and some are "leech" heals that drain morale from the target as
they heal the Warden (and/or his fellowship). These HOTs can be
stacked, and the number of pulses can be increased by slotting the
Perseverance and Never Say Die traits from the Way of the Shield line.

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The
green smoke indicates a healing Gambit. Unfortunately, the enemies here
are hardcore straight-edge.

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This is a
triple-effect skill: it applies a small Light DOT to up to 10 targets,
slightly increases threat and slightly increases threat over time, and
applies a small self-HOT.

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A flashy display
of weapon prowess. Initially does modest Light damage followed by a
small Light DOT, and applies a small self-HOT.

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A quick and easy
Gambit that does moderate damage and applies a decent self-HOT.

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An area-effect
attack that can affect up to 8 targets within 6 meters. This is a
leech-style HOT, draining attackers' morale and restoring it to the
Warden.

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Safeguard style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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A single-target
attack that does weak initial damage and applies a decent
self-HOT - a slightly stronger version of Persevere.

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Resolution style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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An area-effect
attack that can hit up to 10 enemies within 6 meters. This is a
leech-style HOT that drains the morale of the targets and restores the
Warden. This is a more powerful version of Fierce Resolve.

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Celebration of Skill style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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A bit of
showmanship never hurt anybody, unless it was from this Gambit. Does
moderate damage and applies a decent self-HOT. This is a more powerful
version of Safeguard.

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Restoration style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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src="http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/92042"> A more advanced
version of Safeguard and Celebration of Skill; does moderate damage and
applies a good self-HOT.

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Exultation of Battle style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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src="http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/92042"> A area-effect
skill that can affect up to 10 enemies within 6 meters, this is a
moderate leeching-style self-HOT coupled with a slight increase to
threat over time.

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Conviction style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
src="http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/92042"> style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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src="http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/92042"> One of the
ultimate tanking Gambits. This skill is a triple-threat; in applies a
good self-HOT, leeches threat from each member of the fellowship and
transfers it to the Warden, and applies a HOT to the entire group.

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The Dark Before the Dawn style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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src="http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/92043"> This Gambit is
only usable when the Warden is below 50% morale. In an act of
desperation, the Warden unleashes two powerful attacks and restores a
big chunk of power.

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Threat-Building Gambits

These are the Gambits that grab the enemy's attention. Almost
all of the Warden's threat-building skills build threat over time
rather than generating large, instant bursts of threat like Guardians,
Champions or Captains, and aggressive Hunter DPS can disrupt a Warden's
tanking farily easily if it is not kept in check early on in the fight.
Most of these are Fist Gambits.

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Even
though he was at first distracted by the pretty clouds, the Warden's
shouts quickly caught his attention...

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Goad style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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A quick and
usually effective area-effect attack that can hit up to 3 targets
within 6 meters. This skill moderately increases threat and slightly
increases threat over time, as well as applying moderate Light damage
and a small Light DOT. This is a good tanking opener, as it can be
built up and used very quickly.

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Precise Blow style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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A good, quick,
single-target threat-builder that does moderate damage. The initial
increase in threat is high, and the threat-over-time increase is
moderate.

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Offensive Strike style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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A decent
single-target double-attack that does moderate damage and slightly
increases threat.

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Piercing Strike style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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A single-target
double-strike that does moderate damage and moderately increases threat.

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A solid hit with
the shield that leeches a small amount of threat off of fellowship
members and transfers it to the Warden.

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Combination Strike style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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A quick
double-tap that does good damage and slightly increases threat.

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Surety of Death style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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A triple-bill
Gambit. This one does good main-hand damage plus a modest Light damage,
applies a modest Light DOT and moderately increases threat.

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A solid attack
that bypasses enemy armor and does moderate damage, and increases
threat. This skill costs morale in addition to power to use.

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Dance of War style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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Applies a large
20-second buff to evade rating, and leeches a moderate amount of threat
off of fellowship members, transferring it to the Warden.

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Defiant Challenge style="height: 25px; width: 25px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"> style="width: 26px; height: 25px;" alt=""
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src="http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/92041"> A legendary skill
attainable at level 39 by collecting book pages. This is the Warden's
sole forced-aggro skill, forcing up to 10 enemies within 10 meters to
attack the Warden for 5 seconds. This skill generates
additional threat, and reflects a small amount of damage on any Common,
Fire or Shadow damage.

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Class Tools

Wardens get an impressive selection of class tools and toys,
some of which are used by other classes.

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The
javelin and notched shield are class-specific. Ambushing from very
short grass cover is Hobbit-specific.

Carvings - These items can be
purchased from the Warden class trainer, or better versions can be
crafted by woodworkers, and they go in the class slot on the equipment
panel. Carvings reduce power costs for specific Gambit types - Fist,
Spear or Shield - and higher level carvings have a number of aditional
benefits.

Oils - These are the same oils used by
Hunters, but are applied to javelins instead of bows. Light oil changes
javelin damage to Light damage and has a chance of blinding the enemy
on a critical hit, and Fire oil changes javelins' damge type to Fire
and has a chance of applying a fire DOT on a critical hit. Oils can be
crafted by scholars and removed with Oil Wash, which can be purchased
from any Warden class trainer.

Shield Spikes - These are the
same shield spikes used by Guardians, and apply the same effects to
Warden shields. They have a variety of effects, from changing the
damage type done by shield attacks to increasing the critical chance.
Shield spikes can be crafted by weaponsmiths and removed by removal
kits, purchasable from Warden class trainers.

Javelins - The Hunter has his
bow and the Warden has his javelin. These weapons are unique to the
Warden and cannot be used by any other class. They go in the
ranged weapon slot on the equipment panel. Javelins can be crafted by
woodworkers, and high-level Wardens can use legendary javelins.

Warden Shields - These shields
are unique to Wardens and cannot be used by any other class. Armour
rating-wise, they fall somewhere between light and heavy shields, and
are distinguished by the trademark spear notch in the upper right
corner. This reflects the Warden's preference for spears - the notched
corner allows for powerful spear thrusts without unduly compromising
defense, as the Warden does not need to lower his shield to attack.
Warden shields can be crafted by metalsmiths and usually have light and
heavy counterparts with similar stats and legacies.

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Last Updated: Mar 13, 2016