Beryl Shards

I know there are a lot of people out there roaming around in Middle Earth searching for the mobs that drop beryl shards.  So, I thought I would do a little searching and share some information here.

First of all, beryl shards are a required item for a lot of single use recipes at the Master level.  There is an excellent source with locations of the rare spawn mobs scattered throughout the game at lotrolife.com, link is HERE.

As far as respawn rates for these rare monsters, I really have no idea.  It varies supposedly from anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours, and sometimes the rare spawn point is occupied by a normal monster, so you should know the exact location of the spawn point and keep it cleared.

I really had no idea there were so many rare spawns who actually dropped beryl shards before checking out the site.  It helps make it somewhat easier knowing ;loc also, maybe one of these days I will put together a path of travel for areas that can take me to the exact spawn points for each one with hopes of at least finding one of them and getting a shard out of it.

As far as finding the single use recipes, that is another endeavor altogether.  It can be assumed that since most of the humanoid type mobs drop recipes, you should go farm on level 47 plus mobs for the recipes.  But, once again this doesn’t guarantee you will get a single use recipe, they are random and meant to be rare, so time and luck once again will play major factors here.

As I said in my post about grand master crafting, it is almost easier to go buy the shards you need, of course if you have the gold to do it of course, if not, I hope this site will be of some help to you.

Happy hunting out there!