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[ripforareason]

It was under the assumption of taking loremaster, you would have lorekeeper, loremaster, concentration, bane, master hunter, keen senses.

Eye for detail is only for smithers, because an early-midgame false floor can completely derail your character, and it is very irritating to put it on a crown only to swap it out for fights.

My perception ability set would be, in mpa-sil 1.3:

Warrior or archer, no smithing:

Always:
Lorekeeper, Loremaster, Rauko-Bane, Concentration
Sometimes: Keen Senses

Warrior or archer with nontrivial smithing:
Always: Eye for Detail, Concentration, Rauko-Bane
Sometimes: Keen Senses
Never: Lore abilities

Stealth/Pacifist:
Never tried this one, but presumably you'd go for Listen.

In Vanilla I would probably drop Concentration, since it has an extra prerequisite in Vanilla making it much less attractive.

[wobbly]

Ah, it's much more reasonable without loremaster & of course on the Finarfin. Though you want to be pretty careful with master hunter as it throws off your sense of progression along the power-curve. You can be hammering dragons, see Smaug & suddenly you're 3 less melee then you think you are. Or you shift from werewolves to greater werewolves & the jump in difficulty is bigger till you down the 1st one.