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I. What Are Conjunctions?
Conjunctions are a special mechanic in LOTRO that arise when in a group of two or more players. They can do anything from massively damage a single enemy to restoring both your morale and power to full. Conjunctions can turn the tide of battle are are especially important against powerful foes. Knowing how to set up conjunctions and organize fellowship members into coordinating on conjunctions will enable you to best troublesome bosses and save your group from a certain death.
Burglars are the primary inductors of conjunctions, and conjunctions may only be used once every minute on a monster.
II. The Color Wheel
The Color Wheel forms the foundation of conjunctions and knowing how it works will allow you to formulate the type of conjunction best suited to your situation.
When a player initiates a conjunction a four color wheel will appear in the lower right hand portion of the screen for each member in the fellowship. Every player gets to contribute a color of their choice to the conjunction. Both the color and order of selection affect the resulting conjunction.
Here are the four conjunction colors:
Red: Ent's Strength. This color represents direct damage.
Yellow: Spider's Guile. This color represents damage over time.
Blue: Stallion's Spirit. This color represent power restoration.
Green: Eagle's Cry. This color represents morale restoration.
Organizing your fellowship members around performing a certain conjunction will help maximize the effect and achieve signature conjunctions. The types of conjunctions you can perform are based on group size. One notable change is with fellowships of five and six you can begin to do AoE conjunctions.
2 Members: You are rather limited in options here. Your best choice is to match a pair such as Red-Red (called Clash of Arms) for a damage burst or Green-Green (Rallying Cry) to regenerate much morale over time. Matching is usually best here as the whole tends to be greater than the sum of its parts.
3 Members: There are more directions to go in now. You can pick three of the same color to get a powerful single effect conjunction such as Red-Red-Red doing massive damage, or Blue-Blue-Blue to regenerate a lot of power. You can also do three color conjunctions like Red-Blue-Yellow (Sinister Plan) giving a DoT, direct damage, and a power buff. Performing two of the same color follower by another color will just give you the two person conjunction plus that other effect. For example Red-Red-Yellow will give you Clash of Arms (Red-Red) and a DoT. If you choose to do a conjunction involving multiple colors I would strongly suggest that you assign people a color and order so you pull off the correct conjunction. Teamwork is key.