A profession is an area of crafting expertise. Professions cannot be chosen. Instead you choose a vocation, which is a collection of 3 professions. This is a unique and fun aspect of LOTRO as it allows you to enjoy seperate tasks underneath a larger goal.
There are two roles of professions: gathering and producing.
- Proficiency levels
- Crafting professions
There are various skill levels that you can reach in the professions. They are listed by title and skill level required:
Profession Level |
Skill Needed |
Apprentice |
200 |
Master Apprentice |
400 |
Journeyman |
280 |
Master Journeyman |
560 |
Expert |
360 |
Master Expert |
720 |
Artisan |
440 |
Master Artisan |
880 |
Master |
520 |
Grand Master |
1040 |
A long march can be made all the easier with the promise of a good meal at the end. While it may seem a mundane talent, a good cook is every adventurer's best friend.
- Associated vocations
- Tinker
- Yeoman
- Crafting locations
- Cooked food - oven
- Trail food - campfire
- Ingredients - anywhere
- Required tool
- Bronze cooking supplies
Everything from cereal crops to flax must be carefully tended by the Farmers of Middle Earth, it is these talented individuals who are able to maximize the fruits of harvest.
- Associated vocations
- Historian
- Woodsman
- Yeoman
- Crafting locations
- Workbench
- Grain field
- Pipeweed field
- Vegetable field
- Superior grain field
- Superior pipeweed field
- Superior vegetable field
- Required tool
- Bronze famring tools
Not all trees are created equal, it takes a trained Forester to locate and gather the wood necessary for everything from fuel to weapons. Gathers and treates wood for the woodworker, and boils animal-dropped hides for the tailor.
- Associated vocations
- Explorer
- Woodsman
- Crafting location
- Workbench
- Required tool
- Bronze Forester's Axe
Simple adornments and objects of beauty are the heart of the jeweller's trade. However, exceptional adornments can go far to increasing the stature and confidence of an adventurer, and a skilled jeweller can produce true works of art. Basic adornments and objects of beauty are the heart of the jeweller's trade. However, exceptional adornments can go far to increasing the stature and confidence of an adventurer, and a skilled jeweller can produce true works of art. They are well known for creating single-use flasks of Hope, called Tokens, for use in difficult battles.
- Associated vocations
- Tinker
- Crafting locations
- Workbench
- Superior Workbench
- Required tool
- Bronze Jeweler's Tools
Metal armors and sturdy shields are the metalsmith's domain. Though their initial products may be of simple make, eventually their skills will allow them to work finer materials and greater designs.
- Associated vocations
- Armorer
- Crafting locations
- Forge
- Superior Forge
- Required tool
- Bronze Smithing Hammmer
Metal, ores and gems are not mere rocks existing on the surface. It takes a skilled Prospector to identify usable materials from the ground and bring them to the surface. Gathers and smelts metal for the Metalsmith, Weaponsmith, and Jeweler.
- Associated vocations
- Armorer
- Armsman
- Explorer
- Tinker
- Crafting location
- Forge
- Superior Forge
- Required tool
- Bronze Mining Pick
Perhaps the most mysterious of the professions, the Scholar collects fragments of lost lore, and attempts to interpret their secrets. In doing so, he can produce scrolls that other craftsmen can read to improve their chances of producing a superior product. Other practical applications include lore by which specific enemies (orcs, trolls, the dead) might be best combated, or cures for various maladies.
- Associated vocations
- Historian
- Crafting location
- anywhere
- Required tool
- Bronze Scholar's Glass
A skilled tailor can make simple clothing from common cloth, but with time and practice can create garments of great beauty that provide significant protection to their wearer. The Tailor can also work with tanned hides to produce leather armor – light, tough and suitable for travel.
- Associated vocations
- Armorer
- Explorer
- Yeoman
- Crafting locations
- Workbench
- Superior Workbench
- Required Tool
- Bronze Tailor's Tools
As expected, the Weaponsmith is the primary source of melee weapons. Swords, daggers, and axes of all varieties are the Weaponsmith's purview, ranging from bronze training gear to weapons of ancient design and great renown.
- Associated vocations
- Historian
- Crafting location
- Forge
- Superior Forge
- Required tool
- Bronze Smithing Hammer
As any archer will tell you, it takes more than a stick and a string to make a worthy weapon. The woodworker is an expert bowyer, but expands his trade to include staves, spears, and other hafted weapons. A master Woodworker can produce weapons that even an Elven hero would be proud to wield on the battlefield.
- Associated vocations
- Armsman
- Woodsman
- Crafting Location
- Workbench
- Superior Workbench
- Required tool
- Bronze woodworking tools
