LotRO has a system for customising characters which is quite powerful but not as intuitive as it could be: traits. The simplest and most customizable of these traits are virtue traits, which you gain by doing virtue deeds.

A virtue deed is simply a quest in a different journal. These quests come in four types: slayer, explorer, reputation and lore. Each virtue deed is tied to a specific location and is added into your deed journal (shift-L) automatically. For example, if there is a deed to kill ten wolves in the Shire, the deed will appear in your journal the first time you kill a wolf in the Shire. [More...]

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The racial deeds in LotRO can be easy to overlook but the cumulative rewards make it very worthwhile to do the deeds as they come up, getting maximum experience for the deed and the kills and making sure you have the best traits available to you as the slots become free.

All racial deeds are slayer deeds. When you gain the level needed for the deed, you simply need to kill one mob of the type needed and the deed will be added to your journal. You must do the deed series sequentially, that is, at level 19 you can’t start the Enmity of the Goblins II deed until you have completed Enmity of the Goblins I.

You receive a total of five racial trait slots which open up at levels 13, 19, 25, 31 and 37.

The racial deeds, sorted by level: [More...]

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