Burglar

Overview

Burglars are the stealth and melee crowd control class of LOTRO.  They excel at stealth operations:  coming close to an unaware opponent then incapacitating it till it is dead.  These are the most deadly of the classes to meet solo and they are extremely difficult to deal with in a raid situation.  It is very rare to kill a burglar given their vast array of escape/evade abilities.  If cover isn't near, meeting a solo burg will likely mean a trip to the rez circle.

Tactics

• Burglars have multiple 30s evade skills, one that can be fired at any time and another that can be fired when the burglar is stunned.  Additionally they can reset their skills.  Many of these skills are on a 5 minute timer, so if at all possible, re-engage the burglar within 5 minutes so they are without their cooldowns
• In general, do not stun burglars unless you know exactly why you're doing it.  The best reason to stun a burglar is to try to get it to burn its evade so that you can come back later and kill it.  Smarter burglars will hold it until they critically need it.
• Every 10 minutes the burglar can go into improved stealth in combat (Hide in Plain Sight, HiPS).  Damage will not bring them out of this state for at least 10 seconds but they move slowly so don't expect them to go far.
• Burglar riddle will usually have a stun attached to the beginning, so don't remove the stun with a pot if you want to remove the riddle component that hits later.
• Wargs can track hobbit burglars while Uruks can track man burglars, but they will be notified that you're tracking them.  Try to get them in combat as fast as possible and keep them in combat to avoid the out of combat stealth
• Burglars can use a traited Enrage to disable you from using ranged skills, but autoattack will still work
• Always be prepared for a burglar to come out of nowhere