Looking for more Turbine Points, without spending real life money? In this article we’ll look at the specific ways to earn TP in-game, how much you can earn in the free “starter” zones and what you can do if you need more.

The Great TP Search

In LOTRO Free-to-Play, Turbine Points are awarded for several achievements, most commonly from deeds. Here’s what these are currently paying in Beta:

Earning Enough for the First Quest Pack

One common concern is earning enough for your first quest pack, when the free content runs dry around level 25. Below is a list of TP that is possible (although challenging) to earn in the free “starter” zones with a level 25 character. As you can see, this will give you enough for the Lone-lands Quest Pack (350 TP), but not enough for North Downs (595 TP). Remember, Beta prices are subject to change before launch.

More Ways to Get More

Doing all the deeds available to level 25 is just one way to earn TP. Here are some others:

• Subscribe for a month. This may seems counter to the Play-for-Free philosophy, but subscribing for a month lets you keep many per-character unlocks that’d you otherwise finding yourself grinding TP for, like inventory bags, trait slots, auction house slots, gold cap removal, and the quested Basic Riding skill. When your subscription lapses you keep these on all characters that unlocked them while you were a subscriber. Your account will be downgraded to Premium status, so take note: new characters created after the downgrade will subject to Premium limits. As an added benefit, subscribers get 500 TP per month in addition to what they earn in-game.
• Buy some TP in the LOTRO Store. If you are on a Free account, your first purchase will upgrade you to a Premium account. Zing! You now have 3 character slots, 5 auction house sell slots, a higher gold limit and a higher login priority. Plus some annoying chat, mail and trade limits are gone.
• Level an alt. The TP on your account is shared between characters, so the TP you earn on your alt can be used by your main character. If you are short on character slots, you can earn TP with a character on another server. Note that while this seems possible based on Turbine statements, it can’t be verified in Beta.
• Higher level players will want to stare at their deed logs for low-hanging TP fruit just waiting to be plucked, especially low-level or nearly-complete deeds.
• While there are no retroactive points granted for deeds completed prior to F2P launch, there are some new reputation deeds have been added. If you’ve already met the reputation requirements the new deeds autocomplete when you log in your characters after F2P launch and you’ll receive any rewards, including TP, automatically.

• Free
• Eriador
• Moria
• Mirkwood
• Zone Quick List

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