LOTRO Crafting Guide: The Prospector Profession2009-08-17This article is originated from www.brighthub.com.
Weapons, Heavy Armour, and Jewelery are all made out of metal. Getting the ore and turning it into usable ingots is the job of LOTRO’s Prospector Crafting Profession. Here’s what you need to know to get that metal. Get That Ore!
Wee already covered how to find and harvest Crafting resource nodes. Now, we will get a bit more specific as to what ores the Prospector deals with, and what Ingots they can produce from them. We first divide the resources into their Crafting Tier Levels (explained here).
We can then, generally, divide the metals into those used for strength, which go into weapons and armour, and those which are used for aesthetics, which go into jewelry. Of course, in terms of game mechanics terms, jewelry gives a lot of buffs, so it isn just about looking good.
Prospectors also turn up a lot of Gemstones used in jewelry, so we will mentio...