Now that you have mastered the basics of mounted combat and delved into the

intricacies of your mount's build, it's time to have a look at the final

piece of the puzzle, and the only piece of equipment your war-steed can

equip: the Legendary Bridle.

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The bridle is a Legendary Item for your horse, and it follows the same

rules as any other LI: it can only be used by a specific class (or weight,

in this case), and it must be slotted in the LI panel in order to gain

fractional XP (the same as all your other LIs) and to be equippable on your

mount. There is no special LI panel for legendary bridles. It uses a slot on

the same panel you've been using since Moria, so if you're running

gear-heavy and your LI panel is constantly full, you'll either need to start

deconstructing or buy new slots. The LI panel has been expanded by two

slots for this feature, but keep in mind that there are 3 bridle weights -

you will need to economize if you want to have one bridle for each weight.

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The base stat for all bridle weights is Fury Bonus Contribution Rating. As

the name would suggest, this affects the amount of bonus damage that the

Fury combat stat contributes to damage from mounted attacks. Obviously, a

higher rating means more damage, but this will have a varying effect since

your Fury meter is constantly emptying and refilling as you fight. When the

Fury bar is full, this base stat will have a greater effect, and when it is

nearly empty it will have almost no effect. Higher-level bridles will have a

greater maximum rating.

As you might expect, these new LIs draw from Major and Minor legacy pools,

the same as regular LIs - they start with three Major legacies, and gain a

new Minor with each of the first three reforges, with a small chance of

gaining a new Major. In the case of bridles, Major legacies are tied to the

bridle's weight - Heavy bridles will have only Heavy War-steed Major

legacies that will affect skills in the Heavy skill tree, Medium will have

only Medium War-steed legacies, and Light will have only Light. The Minor

legacies are common across all 3 weights, and affect the stances and base

combat stats like evade and parry ratings.

Third Age bridles of varying levels can be found as random corpse loot, the

same as any other LI, or you can earn a Level 75 Third Age bridle of the

weight of your choice by doing the mounted combat introduction instance in

Harwick. Additionally, guilded Tailors can craft Third and Second Age

bridles of all types for level 85.

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Legendary bridles differ from other LIs in one key way: relics. The bridles

use different sets of relics than standard LIs, and these can't be found in

the usual ways. Bridle relics will occasionally be found randomly in the

gift boxes from warband quest turn-ins, but the only reliable way to get

them is to bank up a ton of shards and meld them at your friendly

neighborhood Relic-master.

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There are two tiers of bridle relics - the "meh" ones that require any 3

Tier 4 relics and 194 shards to make, and the decent ones that require 3

specific Tier 8 relics and 2496 shards to make. These relics provide much

smaller bonuses to the war-steed than regular relics provide to characters,

but smaller bonuses make a slightly bigger difference to the war-steed.

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As with standard LIs, players will be able to buy Legendary Bridle

upgrades, relics and legacies from the LotRO Store. The store has a new

heading for war-steeds in the main menu, and offers everything from trait

set and cosmetic slot unlocks, cosmetic accessories, colour packs and bridle

bits. Prices and selection were not set at the time of this writing, but we

can likely expect costs to be in line with equivalent items elsewhere.