For those still on Middle-Earth, here is a summary of the class quests for hunters:

Level 15

The Hunter’s Path is your first class quest. You will be asked to find Gytha Lainey at Adso’s Camp who will take you into a solo instance of the forest. Use tracking to find Yellowfang. Kill the other wolves wandering about to keep them from helping him (and to get pelts) and make your way to Yellowfang and kill him. There is a detailed quest write-up here:
http://www.thebrasse.com/lotro/quest/355

Level 26

Wilderness by Ost Guruth is an additional class quests for Hunters which rewards the ability to port your group to Ost Guruth. You need to speak to Gaellant in Esteldin in the North Downs. He will send you to speak to Trumswith in Ost Guruth, who will give you a quest to find his sister. Talk to Unni and follow the directions to find the sister. There is a detailed quest write-up here:
http://www.thebrasse.com/lotro/quest/702

Level 30

A Hunter’s Charge continues on your initial class quest storyline. You will be sent to speak to Gytha Lainey at Adso’s Camp again. She will send you to a solo instance of the Shire to intercept a party of Wargs. Head north and wait for the wargs to gather. Kill Laugzok first and then take out the other four wargs one by one, keeping them from ever reaching Gytha Lainey. There is a full quest write-up here:
http://www.thebrasse.com/lotro/quest/558

Level 36

Tracks through Evendim is an additional class quest for Hunters which rewards the ability to port your group to Evendim. Speak to Torogethir in Tinnudir in Evendim who will send you to speak to Horace who will send you to find an arrow-head that he has hidden. Follow his instructions and the trail until you find the arrow-head.
Full directions and locations are given here:
http://www.thebrasse.com/lotro/quest/709

Level 45

Articles of Discovery and Implements of the Hunt: Speak to Fenton Marshley outside the Hunting Lodge east of Archet and collect the components.

• Zorrgolug’s Matted Hide – Named in Fasach-falroid (Angmar)
• 5 Brimstone tinged Tarkrip helmets - Goblins in Western Malenhad (Angmar)
• 10 Glossy Cave Claw Skins - Cave Claws in Nan Gurth (Angmar) and in Isendeep Mine
• 15 Corroded Neekerbreeker horns - Neekerbreekers/Borbolg’s in Western Malenhad (Angmar)
• Rune of Winged Dominance – Mormoz or Azgoth in the Carn Dum instance (Angmar)
• Insignia of Battle – Sorkrank or Burzfil in in Urugarth Instance (Angmar)
• Driftclaw’s Razor-sharp Claw – named bear roams around 30.4S 3.6E in the Giant Halls (Misty Mountain)
• 5 Corroded Iron Crown Staves – Angmarians (Evil Men) in Western Malenhad and Fasach-falroid
• 20 Clouded Worm-Eyes – Fire worms in Malenhad (Angmar)
• 5 Venomous Dread Turtle Beaks - Dread Turtles in Malenhad (Angmar)
• 5 Putrid Fingernails – Crawling Arms in Imlad Balchorth and Nan Gurth and the Carn Dum instance (Angmar)
• Medallion of Passage – Urro, Uruk Hai boss in Carn Dum Instance (Angmar)
• Putrid Slime of Helchgam - named watcher in Carn Dum instance (Angmar)

Level 50

A Lesson from Legolas is straight-forward. Travel to Rivendell to speak to Legolas. This requires you to have completed the level 45 epic quests. Legolas will reward you with the ‘Bow of the Righteous’ Legendary Trait, which returns 10.9-14.9 power on every successful bow/crossbow hit (not including auto attack).

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At level 29 every race on Middle-Earth gets a deed which will allow them to return to their racial home - very useful for fast travel!

This deed is always the second in a set, so you must complete the initial deed (slaying 50 of the same monsters) before you will see the deed appear in your deed journal.

You will have to kill 150 of a specific monster, as listed below. You can kill these monsters in any zone in the game and they can be any level. So you may wish to rush through the quest by choosing the lowest level monsters you can find - or increase your experience rate by choosing the highest level monsters that you can take on.

The other issue to take into consideration is whether you can complete a virtue deed at the same time. [More...]

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Keystrokes in LotRO that I couldn’t live without

[Backspace] to target nearest the NPC. If you use [Tab], you get the NPC closest to your current target, not the NPC closest to you. That makes it easy to tab out of the encounter accidentally. [Backspace] will always give the NPC closest to you. If you are already targeted on the NPC closest to you, it will leave your target alone.

[Delete] to target the nearest object. [More...]

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There is a special winter quest in Lord of the Rings Online to get a Yule-tree that you can place in your garden. It’s a fast and easy run-around quest but it will only be available until Christmas, so don’t miss your chance.

Speak to Hal Hornblower at the Hobbiton Stables. He’ll tell you the terrible news that Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is in charge of the Hobbiton Yule-feast and offer you [More...]

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It’s terrible, going around with nothing in my pocketses. It just seems all wrong. This is partly because there aren’t crafted baubles, so it’s an easy slot to miss. My main has an age-old item that desperately needs upgrading and most of my alts don’t have anything at all!

In order to keep organised, I’ve made this list of pocket items, ordered by level. [More...]

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LotRO has a great system where you can assign text and actions to specific keys using the alias and shortcut functions. There are a lot of uses for these but the most critical one is to get ;loc into a sensible channel and on a hotkey.

Typing ;loc will give you your coordinates in the game, however it sends the coordinates to the default channel, which is less than optimal. A better option is to send the coordinates as a tell to yourself to avoid spamming strangers. To do this, you want to make a command that will send you a tell with the coordinates. You can do this with the following alias:

/alias ;myloc /tell <charactername> ;loc

So for example, my alias says

/alias ;myloc /tell Taymar ;loc

Now when I type ;myloc it sends me a tell with my current location so that I don’t spam other channels. This is an improvement but ;myloc is a little bit long to type. I could make the alias shorter but it would be more useful to add it as a hotkey.

What you want to do is to make a shortcut (hotkey), assign it to your lovely alias (;myloc) and tell it which key it should be in (48 which equates to shift=).

You can do this with the following command:

/alias shortcut ;myloc 48

Now you will find a hotkey for your ;myloc alias in the final hotkey on your shift bar (that is, shift=). From there, you can pick it up and drop it into whatever slot you want.

I always leave the final slot on the shift set available. I do this so that I can always create shortcuts into 48 rather than working out the correct number. It’s much easier to simply drag the hotkey from there and drop it into the slot where you want it rather than work out which number you need.

Want to know more?

This particular one is a bit odd but because you are adding a hotkey of an alias which calls a different function. Usually you would use /shortcut 48 <command> to add a hotkey.

I found this explanation of aliases and quick slot shortcuts very useful and recommend you read that for more uses of aliases and shortcuts.

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