These are the deeds through which characters earn most of their class traits. Most of the time you'll have to use a skill a certain amount of times. Every class deed has a cap, about 15 to 20% a day.

However legendary deeds are different. There are seven legendary deeds. Two are earned by doing the level 45 and 58 class quests. One is done by completing books 1 through 6 for volume 2. One is earned by gaining kindred with the The Guards of Moria faction and buying you class book for several gold, then reading it to acqire the trait. The other three are done by finding a book first, then finding its pages through humanoids in the Angmar and Misty Mountains regions. One legendary trait's pages can be bought of the Auction House, the rest you'll have to find by killing mobs.