Are you flummoxed by the festival dances? Here's the
cheater's smart festival-goer's way to get all of the race dance emotes!
First, you need to locate Quickslot Bar #5. You can figure out which bar that is by going into options (Ctrl+O), then clicking Quickslots on the sidebar, and scrolling down to the bottom, where you'll see a checkbox marked "Always Show Bar 5." If it's unclicked, click it- it will pop it up on your screen, through you won't be able to see it until you slot something there. (If you already have something slotted there, just be sure to make note of what it is, so you can put it back after you're done with the dances) You can do this in any of the quickslot bars, but I'm using #5, just for convenience.
Second, you need to type the following into your chat bar:
/shortcut 61 /dance_1
and hit enter. This will make a weird little black box with the letters "/DAN" appear in the first quickslot of that bar. Then enter into the chat bar the two following commands:
/shortcut 62 /dance_2
/shortcut 63 /dance_3
This will make the "/dance_1" emote be tied to the box either furthest to the top or the left depending on the positon of your bar, horizontal or vertical. The next is "/dance_2" and the last is "/dance_3." (You can do this with any emote, actually...)
After that, it's just a matter of not leaving the dance area, and waiting for the leader to start the dance. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE DANCE LEADER TARGETED!! Otherwise your dance moves won't count! Just click the corresponding /dance_# button as the instructor calls out the steps. And don't jump the gun on the dance moves- if you're too QUICK, it ALSO won't register them, I've found! Give it just a second after they call out the dance step- there's a countdown timer in your quest log, just be sure to complete the step before that runs out.
It helps a LOT to know the dance steps for each race are the same! The sequence is as follows: 1,2,3 (rest) then 2,2,3 (rest) then 3,1,3 (the numbers correspond to /dance1, /dance2, and /dance3- you don't have to do an emote or anything during the rests, just don't leave the dance area).
That's it! You should be quick-stepping with all the fancy race dances in no time!
(The info on setting the emotes to the quickslots was taken from
http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Adder%E2%80%99s_/Mood_y_Emote_Compendium and the dance steps sequence info was taken from
http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Dance_of_the_Races)