Character

Character Topics: Getting Started, Character Stats, Races, Classes, Skills, Traits

Subscribers are limited to five characters per server per account. The Mines of Moria expansion increases this to seven characters. Premium players are limited to three characters per server per account, and Free to Play players are limited to two characters per server per account. You may also purchase as many as 10 additional character slots from the LOTRO Store, which increases the maximum possible number of character slots to 17.

Levels

Level represents the experience and strength of characters, including player characters and most non-player characters, both friendly and enemy. The maximum level (or "level cap") is 75 since the release of Rise of Isengard. Each level begins and ends at fixed amount of experience points, regardless of race or class.

Statistics

Character statistics are values that determine how effective your character is at dealing and defending against damage, resisting negative effects, healing, and much more. Stats are influenced by level, equipment, traits, buffs and debuffs.

See Character Stats for more details

Starting Stats

See Starting Stats

Equipment Slots

All characters have the same equipment slots, but due to proficiency limitations may not be able to use them all.

Bio

This is a tab on the Character Journal page in game. It allows you to set up a biography about your character, including a description and a family tree.

To create a familial relation, you can target another player character and use the /adopt command. This makes them your offspring, assuming your generation is a higher number than theirs. Being in a familial relation grants both character a new title. For example: Mother of (name) & Son of (name).

The War

This is a tab on the Character Journal page in game. These are your character's statistics in Monster Play, also known as PvMP. The following stats are tracked on this page:

• Rank
• Rating
• Total Renown
• Progress to Next Rank
• Kills
• Deaths
• Kills/Deaths
• Killing Blows
• Kills above Rating
• Kills below Rating
• Highest Rating Defeated

Destiny Points

Destiny Points are a type of game "currency" that can be used to buy temporary buffs or to enhance a monster play character. Points can be earned by completing quests or defeating Monster Players in the Ettenmoors PvP region.

You also earn 200 destiny points for every level your character gains after level 9.

Destiny points may only be spent by VIP accounts.

Character Levels and Experience Points

A character's level is determined by the total amount of Experience Points (abbreviated XP) which that character has gained over his or her lifetime. XP is granted for defeating enemies and for completing quests, according to the difficulty of the task that was completed, relative to the current level of the character. XP granted from kills you initiate on your own but not if another character dealt damage before you, no matter who dealt the most damage; hence, nice players competing for the same creatures usually overcome this issue by forming a fellowship.

Enemies have a designated level (which can be seen by clicking on the enemy). This level determines their health and strength, and helps the player recognize enemies that are appropriate opponents for him. A more detailed explanation of enemy levels and the challenges they present can be found here. Enemies who are nine or more levels beneath you will not grant any XP, even if they are Elite or Master Elite enemies.

Similarly, quests have designated levels (seen in the Quest Log) which indicate to the player how difficult they will be for his character to complete. For example, a level 10 character will receive a great deal of XP for completing a level 15 quest (if indeed he can manage to do so), while the same character, upon completing a level 5 quest, will receive barely any XP at all.

The following chart illustrates the point at which the character will gain each level and the increase in XP needed from the previous level to achieve this. For instance, the character will gain level 5 at 1,700 XP, which is a gain of 850 XP from when she hit level 4.

Level Total XP to Achieve XP Increase from Previous 1 0 0 2 100 100 3 275 175 4 550 275 5 950 400 6 1,543 593 7 2,395 852 8 3,575 1,180 9 5,150 1,575 10 7,188 2,038 11 9,798 2,610 12 13,090 3,292 13 17,175 4,085 14 22,163 4,988 15 28,163 6,000 16 35,328 7,165 17 43,810 8,482 18 53,763 9,953 19 65,338 11,575 20 78,688 13,350 21 94,008 15,320 22 111,493 17,485 23 131,338 19,845 24 153,738 22,400 25 178,888 25,150

Level Total XP to Achieve XP Increase from Previous 26 207,025 28,137 27 238,388 31,363 28 273,213 34,825 29 311,738 38,525 30 354,200 42,462 31 400,880 46,680 32 452,058 51,178 33 508,013 55,955 34 569,025 61,012 35 635,375 66,350 36 707,385 72,010 37 785,378 77,993 38 869,675 84,297 39 960,600 90,925 40 1,058,475 97,875 41 1,163,665 105,190 42 1,276,535 112,870 43 1,397,450 120,915 44 1,526,775 129,325 45 1,664,875 138,100 46 1,812,158 147,283 47 1,969,030 156,872 48 2,135,900 166,870 49 2,313,175 177,275 50 2,501,263 188,088

Level Total XP to Achieve XP Increase from Previous 51 2,700,613 199,350 52 2,911,675 211,062 53 3,134,900 223,225 54 3,370,738 235,838 55 3,619,638 248,900 56 3,882,093 262,455 57 4,158,595 276,502 58 4,449,638 291,043 59 4,755,713 306,075 60 5,077,313 321,600 61 5,415,226 337,913 62 5,770,277 355,051 63 6,143,336 373,059 64 6,535,316 391,980 65 6,947,176 411,860 66 7,379,926 432,750 67 7,834,624 454,698 68 69 70 9,341,823 71 9,896,024 554,201 72 73 11,090,176 74 11,733,051 642,875 75 12,408,532 675,481