Friday, January 28, 2011

Favor and what it's used for

Favor is defined as how well liked you are by certain individuals or groups (called patrons) within the game. You earn favor by completing quests (big and small) that are assigned a specific number of Favor points for completing that are then applied to a specific patron(s). Favor is not based on level, so if you passed by a dungeon on your way up, you can always go back and do it for favor only later.

A famous patron group is the Coin Lords. By increasing in favor with them, you are given your 4th bag, then 5th bag and so on.

See DDOWIKI for a comprehensive list of  patrons and their rewards.

WARNING!!
Favor is not stackable!! What does that mean? I've seen a lot of questers out there who run for Favor and will rerun the same quest many times. This doesn't help. Favor is allotted from the highest level of completion from that dungeon. So if you go and complete the dungeon on Normal, then complete it on Elite, your Elite favor points will override your Normal favor points for that dungeon and you won't get any more. Favor increases with each difficulty level. (Casual x0.5, Normal x1, Hard x2, Elite x3)
TenTonHammer has a great article explaining this in depth.



You also gain certain advantages from combined favor. See Nyx Durandimion in the harbor to get these.

0 Favor : No Rewards


400 Favor : Unlocks the Drow race on that particular server.


1,000 Favor : Future characters created on the server on which you gained 1000 can start at level 4. A list of the automatic starter items you receive when creating a Veteran Status character can be found at Veteran Award Starter Items


1,750 Favor : Receive a +2 Attribute Tome of your choice (Bound to Character) and unlocks 32-Points build for new non-Drow characters on that particular server.


2,500 Favor : Unlocks the Favored Soul class on that particular server.

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