LOTRO's Buried Treasure rewards

In my guide to Lord of the Rings Online's Buried Treasure event, or Treasure Hunt, I promised to post some pictures of the rewards. Shortly after, I got carried away taking pictures (no surprise there), so I reckoned I could just as well post them in a new article.

So here is all the stuff I dug up, as well as some thoughts on their visual appeal, bugs, BoA and RNG. You will see that the event has some great items for role-players and fashionistas, especially for dwarves, burglars and jewellers. Why then does lore-master Ravanel look so depressed on the picture above? Scroll down to find out.

The first special item I dug up was this not so fashionable jeweller's helm, here worn by my "chief jeweller", minstrel Ravenwë. I don't know how you feel about it, but man, Karagga's helmet looks like haute couture compared to it (sorry, wrong game)! Perhaps it looks better on dorf characters. Nevertheless, it is a very suitable piece for role-players.

There are also cute rewards, though, such as this treasure chest that goes on a small hook. You can both dig it up or barter for it with tokens. The same goes for the dig-site decoration that you can put in your garden.

The item I was most excited about was the Treasure Hunter's Satchel. Luckily you can just barter it for tokens, so it wasn't long before it was on its way by mail to my burglar, Laceleaf. She loved it! At least, at first. But then she got off her horse...

That clipping! When standing still, the left hand of human (and, presumably, elf and beorning) characters go right through the coin bag. I wouldn't have minded it as much if it would plain have disappeared in it: that would've been funny, as if you're just grabbing some coins. Currently, though, it looks obviously broken. I was disappointed, because I was really looking forward to using it on her.

As the Treasure Hunt is a dwarf themed event, it seems likely that the developers designed the money pouch for a dwarf character and forgot to test it on other races.

Unfortunately, the item seems bugged in another way as well: you cannot dye it through the wardrobe, like rune-keeper satchels. This means you'll need multiple ones if you want it in different colours for various outfits.

Laceleaf was heartbroken. Luckily I had the /coinflip emote for her as a consolation prize.

The pouch found a home with my other burglar, the hobbit Ravil, which uses it in her civilian "off the job" outfit that I made for the occasion. If you think about it, it is only logical for people in Middle-earth to carry around some money during their daily dealings. This makes it a great role-play item for any race and class. I would love to use the pouch on more characters - elves, men and beorning - so I hope the clipping will be fixed some day.

I also had the emote /dowse drop, which I taught to my jeweller, elf minstrel Ravenwë. Not so much because she is a treasure hunter, but because she's the perfectionist type that would spend time swinging a gem from left to right, carefully monitoring how the light bends through it at different angles.

F.l.t.r: Treasure-laden goat, Treasure-laden steed and the Harvest-brew goat. Source: Lotro-wiki

Perhaps the main attraction on the event, though, are the rare mounts. These you can only get through random drops from a huge treasure cache. Three different mounts have a chance to drop, among which the Treasure-laden goat and the Treasure-laden steed (see above)...

...of course I ended up with the ridiculous Cave-claw masked horse instead. The sad thing is that it really doesn't fit my always-so-serious lore-master at all, but it is bound to character when it drops, so I had no choice other than to consume it and learn the skill. I'm happy that most Buried Treasure items are bound to account rather than to character, but I so wish I would've be able to send the mount to another character instead!

Edit: As the sharp-eyed NotACat pointed out, I forgot to mention the purpose of the Domesticated Cave-claw you can buy with tokens at the barter dorf. This isn't a pet that you can summon and release as you please, but rather a temporary pet that disappears after a minute. Consuming the item grants you one random out of six different types of cave-claws. Select your cave-claw and type /hug. If you hug all types, you'll get the title Cave-claw Wrangler. Note that this can be a bit of a grind, because you never know which cave-claw you'll get. I personally skipped it altogether, because I don't have a character I'd like to use the title on.

Conclusions

Overall, I got almost everything I was after, without much effort or grind involved. I would love to have a treasure-laden goat or steed, but I don't think I'll be making an active effort, since the chance to get them is so low and they're bound to character, not account. If the event returns, I will definitely save up tokens for that gorgeous Harvest-brew goat, though.

What treasures did you dig up? Any favourites?

More on the Buried Treasure event:

• Guide to LOTRO's Treasure Hunt event