I’ve run into a surprising amount of people who don’t know about traits in LotRO. They’re an important part of the game and can make your life much easier.
Edit: I restructured this article to give a better idea of where you can find the deeds you need.
Traits are essentially statistical and ability boosts you can gain and apply to your character. Some are race and class specific, but most fall into a category known as Virtues (there is table of all of these in the Lorebook). Each virtue contains a few stat upgrades and can be raised as high as Rank 10. As you may imagine, a Rank 1 Virtue will be notably weaker than a Rank 10 Virtue. Of course, getting Virtues to Rank 10 is not an easy thing. Many people have Virtues all over the spectrum because of this.
Typically gaining these involves fulfilling specific deeds (you can quickly check your Deed Log by pressing Shift+L). Virtue deeds are location based (such as killing so many mobs in Bree-land) are divided into two parts: the first unlocks a title, while the second unlocks a Trait increase. So for example, killing 30 goblins might net you a title and killing 60 more would unlock the Trait. Others are unlocked by exploring; finding all of the local ruins, for example.
With enemy-based traits, many require what is seemingly a ridiculous amount of kills to unlock. Due to the more “grind” heavy nature of this, typically people will group up and take on a Trait together. As long as your in each other’s general vicinity, each kill your group makes will count. This will speed things up significantly.
Just remember that unlocking a Trait isn’t enough. A bard must apply it for you. Bards reside in every town of importance. Changing your Traits costs money, but it’s unlikely you’ll be doing it so often that it will bankrupt you. How many you can equip depends on your level, but even at Level 50 you have to make choices. Some will fit your class or race better than others.
This article will be the first of several detailing the Virtues in the game, which ones your class or race should use and how you unlock them. I hope people find them useful. Just keep in mind they won’t all have this super long introduction :).
Read on to find out more about the Valour Virtue.
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