Reasons to try out hauberks:1. Low cost
Several hauberks are available at Outfitters for less than 20 silver. Others can be purchased inexpensively by watching the auction hall offerings.
2. Less complicated
one-piece, so don't have to match shirt with leggings
3. Still interesting
Most hauberks dye well in multiple colors for very different looks. Add accessories for an outfit all your own, and adjust them for combat or for a concert.
For example, in the picture above, Gelmirian is wearing the Leather Hauberk dyed violet along with a violet cloak. The cloak dyed in sienna also looks lovely, and the gloves and footwear can be adjusted to match the occasion. Some hauberks are offered only in one region. Celebrate a character's arriving in Bree by picking up this hauberk!
In the next case Luivia is modeling the Sherriff's hauberk, which can be purchased from the Michel Delving Outfitter for 19 silver and 32 bronze. The hauberk is paired here with my favorite low-level helm, Torchar (optional quest reward from "Payment in Full" which can be done as early as level 12).Below, Gelmirian wears the Dwarf-Make Hauberk dyed gold with gold-dyed cloak, gloves, and shoes. This ensemble is quite fitting for questing in Ered Luin or wherever dwarves are found.
Other examples of my use of hauberks can be seen in the posts Spring Festival Mount Outfit and A Tribute to Evandim. A full pictorial of all the hauberks available in LOTRO can be found here; note that the dyable parts are grey.
Definitely second your opinion on the usefulness of hauberks.
ReplyDeleteI use that Leather Hauberk dyed in blue as my elf warden's normal combat outfit, with the warden backpack also dyed blue on his back. I can't think of the helm name at the moment and don't have access to the game, but it's one of the scrollworked elven ones with the really tall plate at the front crown. I think my hobbit burglar actually filched the helm with his pickpocket skill from a bandit outside bree, but it might have been a drop from killing one instead.
My dwarf runekeeper used the dwarf-make hauberk in violet with a violet plain hooded cloak for quite some time. It reminded me of the traveling outfits of Thorin and his companions from The Hobbit.
And my human captain spent much of his first 20-odd levels with the Cavalry Hauberk and the Fall Festival's Raven Cloak and Helm in blue and gold. That's still his secondary outfit, but his current one is a different hauberk in gray. Can't think of the name of it at the moment.