v1.2.4 Documentation | Deed Tracker

Welcome to the documentation for the LOTRO plugin Deed Tracker v1.2.4! For the most recent version, please click here.

Introduction

Deed Tracker is designed to help you keep track of your completed deeds. (Or, if you’re like me, which deeds you haven’t done yet.)

Unlike the in-game Deed Log, Deed Tracker will show you every deed for every tab on every page, whether you’ve started it or not. No more wondering if an area has hidden deeds! Deeds are presented in a hierarchical tree, and a built-in search bar makes finding a specific deed very fast.

Each time you complete something, Deed Tracker checks to see if it was a deed. If it was, it checks it off for you!

Deed Tracker provides a quick way to see where you can find more LOTRO Points and Virtue XP, and gives progress at the tab, page, and overall level.Ever complete multiple deeds at once and get frustrated that the game only remembers the last deed you completed? The Deed Tracker Completion Window tracks them as long as you want, and provides a convenient output to the Standard chat channel for easy bragging.

Want a way to see which deeds your other characters have completed? Deed Tracker lets you see Deed Tracker status for each of your characters on that server with a handy character selection dropdown.

Due to limitations in the LOTRO scripting interface, Deed Tracker cannot tell which deeds you have already completed. Don’t let that stop you, though! By default, when you complete a deed (for example, Slayer of Bree-land), Deed Tracker will automatically mark all prerequisite deeds complete. This works when you manually check deeds off, too!

Notes:

Unlike the in-game Deed Log, Deed Tracker cannot tell how far along you are on a deed. Deed Tracker is meant to be a companion to the in-game Deed Log, to serve as an easy way to guide your deeding.
There are numerous, identically-named deeds in LOTRO (for instance: warg-slayer). When you complete one of these, Deed Tracker will try to determine which one it was. If it cannot, it will display a window asking you to select the correct one.
Currently only English is supported.

Installation

You can download Deed Tracker from lotrointerface.com at https://www.lotrointerface.com/downloads/info1139-DeedTracker.html, or with the Plugin Compendium.

Getting Started

When you go to load the Deed Tracker plugin, you should see something like this in your Plugin Manager:

The LOTRO Plugin Manager showing Deed Tracker version 1.1.3 on the left, and the welcome text on the right.

If you do, that means Deed Tracker is installed properly! Press the Load button to begin, and set Automatically Load For if you want it to load automatically each time you log in.

When you first Load the plugin, the main Deed Tracker window will appear on-screen, and the Deed Tracker button will appear in the middle of your screen:

The starting Deed Tracker window and Deed Tracker icon, in the middle of the screen.

You can open and close the Deed Tracker window by pressing the button. You should click & drag the button to a more useful location for you.

If the plugin encounters a serious error, it will spit out a message to your General tab. If it just wants to report normal activity, that goes to your Standard channel. (Most people see Standard messages in their General tab.)

Using the Deed Tracker

The Deed Tracker window looks like this:

Main window of the Deed Tracker with Shire expanded.

The structure is similar to the in-game Deed Log, but deeds are organized hierarchically instead of alphabetically by type. You can manually check off deeds that you’ve already done (or that Deed Tracker missed), but as long as the Deed Tracker plugin is loaded, it will automatically check off deeds that you complete as you complete them.

Main Window Features

Top Row

You can see a few options by clicking on the gear icon in the upper-left.

If you want to see what deeds you’ve completed recently, you can click the lore symbol next to the gears to open up the completion window. (If there are none, this button is grayed out and won’t do anything.)

You can use the character selection box in the top-middle to look at the progress of other characters on this server. (You must first load the Deed Tracker while logged in with another character to see them listed here.)

You can see how many deeds you’ve completed overall and for this tab in the upper-right.

Second Row

There are two rows of buttons, each representing a page in the in-game Deed Log . The differently-coloured button is your currently selected page. Click a different button to change pages.

To the left are the Expand All and Collapse All buttons, which cause the all tabs below to expand or collapse.

To the right is the search box. Type text here to show only deeds that contain the text you type. (For example, type slayer to only see deeds with the text “slayer” in the name.)

Main Area

This is where the deeds are displayed. In the in-game Deed Log, each page (top button) has some number of tabs (bottom buttons). For example, the Skirmish page has two tabs, Skirmish Instances and Skirmish Lieutenant.

In Deed Tracker, each tab has its own Expand / Collapse ( [+]/[-] ) button, and under that each deed is listed hierarchically.

The LOTRO Point and Virtue XP rewards (if any) of each deed are shown left of the deed name. The reputation reward (if any) is shown right of the deed name.

You can manually complete (or un-complete) a deed by checking the box on the far right. This is only necessary for deeds you completed before using Deed Tracker. Any newly completed deeds will be marked off automatically.

Deed Tooltips

You can hover over a deed to get more details about it:

A tooltip for the deed The Sights of the Shire showing a summary and the deed Lore.

If you have turned on all-objectives (Experimental) in the options, you’ll get a more complete list of objectives. If you also have the Waypoint plugin installed, you will see an arrow next to each location-based objective. Click the arrow to set that as your Waypoint target:

A tooltip for the deed The Sights of the Shire showing the deed lore; and the name, location, and lore for each objective.

You can detach these tooltips using the Detach Tooltip key (default H), to move them around and scroll through longer content.

Completion Window

The completion window will pop up automatically when you complete a deed.

If you complete multiple deeds at the same time (e.g. The Farms of the Shire and Explorer of the Shire), they will all show up in the completion window, helping to clarify what just happened.

To share the completion in chat, press the Chat Bubble icon. An automated message will be sent to the channel you have selected at the bottom of the Completion Window.

Chat window showing the player completed two deeds.

Press the X button to remove a single entry from the completion window, or Clear List to remove them all. (This only clears its presence on the Recent Completions window, it does not change the completed status in the Deed Tracker window.)

Press Show In Tracker to find the deed in the Deed Tracker Window. This opens the window, changes to the correct page, and expands the relevant tab. Due to limitations, it can’t scroll to a specific spot in the window, but it does highlight the background of the deed with a different colour.

The main window with Explorer of the Shire highlighted.

(Press the X on the left of the highlighted row to clear the highlight.)

Press Summary to write a summary of your recently completed deeds to the Standard chat channel.

(Deed Tracker remembers when you checked off a deed. There is no way to programmatically get this for deeds you completed before installing Deed Tracker, so the earliest date/time value will be when you started using Deed Tracker.)

Disambiguation Window

LOTRO has many identically-named deeds. For instance, there are 7 deeds named Warg-slayer, as well as a quest in The North Downs.

If you complete an ambiguously named deed, you’ll see the Which Deed window, which will ask you to confirm which deed it actually was. If it could have been a quest, that will also be presented as an option:

The "Which Deed" disambiguation window, asking the player to select which deed was completed. The current location is North Downs, so the North Downs version is suggested.

Eventually, deeds started getting more specific (for example: Brigand-slayer of the Eastemnet), so this is less of a problem as you progress through the world.

Currently, Deed Tracker does not know which landscape region instances are in. (For example: Defeated enemies in Carn Dûm count toward Angmar slayer deeds.) If you complete a deed and you’re not anywhere near the zone (usually because you’re in an instance), the disambiguation window doesn’t highlight the mostly likely deed, and it instead looks like:

The "Which Deed" disambiguation window, asking the player to select which deed was completed. The current location is "an Instance", so there is no suggestion.

Options

There are many options to configure your experience!

[ ] This is a legendary server – LUA doesn’t let us know if a server is legendary or not. If you want to see Legendary deeds (mostly under Race & Social), check this.

Current level cap on legendary servers: [ ] and
Current level cap on standard servers: [ ] – LUA doesn’t let us know what the max level is for a server. Deed Tracker includes a default, but you can change it here if the cap has changed recently. (Some deeds require you to run content at cap level to get credit. This lets Deed Tracker know what level that is.)

[ ] Hide completed progress bars – By default, completed progress bars turn blue. If you would rather they disappear to reduce visual clutter, turn on this option

[ ] Do not include deeds above character level in summary counts – Most deeds have a minimum level that you must be at before you can achieve it. Turn on this option to exclude too-high deeds from your completion statistics, and to show what level they unlock at.

[ ] Hide deeds that can no longer be completed because the character is too high level (e.g. The Undying) – There are five survival deeds that unlock at levels 5, 10, 14, 17, and 20 if you have not been defeated. Once you are level 20, you either have these or you don’t, and if you don’t there is no way to get them. Check this box to not count their absence against your completion %.

[ ] Hide completed deeds – When loading the contents of a page, skips any completed deeds. This makes it much easier to find those few deeds that you need to complete, and is my preferred way to play.

[ ] When completing a deed, mark all prerequisite deeds completed – For instance, if you complete Brigand-slayer (Advanced), with this option turned on Deed Tracker will automatically mark Brigand-slayer complete too. This is very useful for characters that already have a lot of deeds complete, because it also applies when you manually check something off, like Deeds of the Shire.

[ ] Do not open the completion window automatically when a deed is completed. – The Completion Window currently does not wait for you to be out of combat before showing up. If that’s a problem, or if you just do not want a real-time notice of deed completion, check this box.

[ ] Do not open the completion window during combat. – Slayer Deeds especially are often completed in combat, and a window popping up can be distracting! While this option is on, the combat window will hide while you are in combat.

[ ] Show each tab’s content in its own scrolled area. – There are a lot of deeds in LOTRO, and this can be a way to make it easier to scroll through them.

[ ] Deed Tooltips: Show all objectives, not just summary. (Experimental) – Turn this on to see more details about the deed objectives. Sometimes this is just a list of other deeds, but for things like Flowers of the Old Forest you will see the lore for each flower, and the coordinates if it is a coordinate-based objective.

[ ] Deed Tooltips: Show coordinates for deed objectives. – Want to see the objective details, but don’t want coordinate spoilers? Uncheck this option.

[ ] Require Shift key to move the icon – If you accidentally click & drag the icon when trying to click it to open the window, turn on this option.

[ ] Turn on verbose logging (useful for testing) – Provides helpful information for tracking down problems. Adds extra output to your Standard chat channel, so not recommended if everything is working fine.