When do you do your deeds? Follow

When you first get them, to get the best exp possible? This means you may end up killing another 50-100 during your normal course of being in that zone as well as questing on them (eg, spiders!). I met a few people like this, who grinded out something like orcs then come to find out, they still had to kill plenty of them for some quest line in the zone anyway. They always have that tone of regret of using their time up even if they got much good loot in the process.

Or when the targets you need to kill are kind of green but still give a little exp? So you can kill them fast, but too many of them and you still could die. 50 of one mob doesn’t feel so bad when you can kill them easily. Or maybe when they’re grey but just barely.

Or do you tend to wait till you’re really high up there and decide you want to work on some traits, so you go back to the zones that are now lowbie to you and you mindlessly kill till you finish the deed because a swarm of them could still barely hurt you?

I tend to find and acquire all the quests I can for a zone when I first arrive. Then get any traits/deeds I can find and work through it all at once. I don't stay focused on any particular mob but rather focus on working through the quest chains and let the mob count come as a bonus.

The only exception to this is when I have had to go back and pick up a trait/deed tat involved gray mobs. At those times I just find a good spot to stand and grind it out!

BTW - sweet spot on both quest XP and mob XP is yellow/orange. Completing red or purple quests is counter productive and lesser colors also net less XP.

If you find that you are near a shift in color, (about to ding) what you can do is kill the mobs and then wait to turn in the quest till it changes color.

For me it all depends on what the trait is. I have plenty of "lowbie" traits that still are not done, but thats because I know I will never equip them. Since they dont give me any reward, I have no incentive to do them.

I should qualify that with saying that I've nearly completed all the traits that I use.

I didn't mean that Ive nearly done all the traits.

That would be rather pointless.

I've been doing most of them while in a zone. Im that guy that has to do everything in one area before he moves on. I also have this compulsive need to gather everything I see, worthless or not.

I think it is a testament to the way the game is designed that I have fun cleaning up the leftover deeds in a zone, rather then feeling the need to just get it done and go where the leveling is.

To me, a compulsive non-leveler, it truly makes the game much more enjoyable.

That's my favorite way of doing them too.

As for not completing traits you're sure you'll never use; I'm doing ones I don't expect to equip because now I'm trying to tweak around my stats and this gives me more options. Well, I'm compulsive too.

Get them well underway by first getting the quests in an area. Keep getting new quests as they become available. You'll end up with a chunk of the required kills already well underway before you have to mob grind. Going back and grinding trait deeds on grey mobs isn't all that much fun.