Item:Commendation of Valor

Commendation of Valor

 * Introduced in Update 20
 * Bound to Character
 * Often abbreviated CoV

Drop locations
End rewards for epic quests offer Commendations of Valor as one of the reward options. You must not have a Quest ransack XP penalty when completing the quest. The amount depends on the difficulty of the quest (see below).
 * Epic quests on difficulty higher than Casual

Usage
Doubleclicking a Commendation of Valor brings up a Barter UI with the following options:

As of Update 20 Patch 1, Heart Seed option has been implemented. 42 of these can be traded in for Iconic or Epic Heart of Wood. In the other words, players are now able to accumulate their Heart Seeds account-wide, towards the Heart they want. See DDO Forums CoV Dev Update.

Crafting
CoV are also used as a incredient to create Thunder-Forged items.

Amount per quest level and difficulty
The amount of CoV rewarded upon completion depend on the quest level (modified by the choice of difficulty) and the difficulty the quest was run on. The amount is given by


 * Multiplier*(QuestLevel - 17)
 * Multiplier is 2 for Epic Normal, 3 for Epic Hard and 5 for Epic Elite.

The graph below shows the amount of commendations of Valor given based on base quest level. It is also valid for raids that can be ran on epic difficulty.



As of Update 21, The XP bonus found on Experience Elixirs, VIP bonuses, Guild Airship amenities and items now also increases the Commendation of Valor return found in End Reward lists.

Bonus Days and sever-side parameter
https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/432929-DDO-Bonus-Days-Commendations-of-Valor-Bonus!

DDO Bonus Days event can increase the amount given per a reward list. This means that above number is not hard-coded and can be changed by sever-side parameter.

As of Update 21 (2014 May 8th bonus days), 100 CoV limit on reward list has been removed and it should now return the calculated amount of CoV.