Favor

Favor is gained with each quest a character completes, based on the highest difficulty ever completed for that quest. It measures how well respected your character is by one (or all) of different NPC patron factions within the game, the sponsors who are hiring your character to accomplish a given quest. By performing more quests for these different patrons (or the same quest at a higher difficulty), a character gains more Favor which then can unlock special access to different benefits for that character, and occasionally for your DDO account. Each character accumulates its own favor; most favor rewards will not apply to your other characters, but some will apply to future Characters on the same account on the same server.

Current favor, for any of the different Patrons and your Total Favor, can be viewed under the "Patrons" tab of the Adventure Compendium.

How it works
When your character completes a quest, it gains a pre-set amount of favor points for a specific patron, which is a measure of how much value that patron places on the completion of that quest at that difficulty level. Quests have a fixed "base favor" value, which will be worth increasing favor for each increasing level of difficulty of that quest (Casual, Normal, Hard, or Elite/Reaper). Only the highest difficulty level completed counts toward your favor total; repeating a quest on the same or lower difficulty will not increase your favor.


 * Note: Charts that list "total favor" are referring the favor amount you get for Elite completion (the total possible), so divide that by 3 to get the base amount for Normal, and double the Normal amount for Hard (2/3 of Elite value). Certain rare quests (listed here) can only be run on Solo difficulty; in this case, the base favor and the max favor are the same.

Favor for challenges is calculated a bit differently. Characters gain one star in a challenge for completing a challenge's main objective and up to four stars for completing four optional objectives; if all five stars are obtained in a single run on the challenge's highest level, an extra sixth star is added. Characters gain favor equal to the number of stars gained in their best ever run of a challenge; ergo, to earn all six favor for a particular challenge, a player must enter the challenge on its maximum level and complete the main objective and all four optionals in a single run.

Favor and favor rewards are not tied to experience points or level, but quests that provide favor will be of a specific level, and characters may be too low-level to enter a quest to gain that favor. There is no favor penalty for running a quest that is lower in level than a character, although there can be a significant experience penalty.

Occasionally a party advertising in Grouping will describe itself as "For favor only" or as a "Favor Run". The implication is that little, if any, XP will be rewarded or sought, and the quest(s) may be very low-level compared to the high level of characters in the party.

Note that with True Reincarnation (Heroic, Racial and Iconic - but not Epic), all Favor is lost - the Character must start from scratch and re-gain any/all desired personal Favor and re-unlock personal rewards. However, any account rewards previously gained from that character will not be lost. See the Reincarnation Summary Chart for more info.

Heroic vs. epic
Favor is calculated based on only the difficulty setting (Normal, Hard, or Elite) and ignores whether the quest is completed at Heroic or Epic levels. So, repeating a quest on Epic Normal or Epic Hard will not increase favor if the quest had previously been (best) completed at Heroic Hard; however, completing that quest on Elite (either Heroic or Epic) would increase favor.

Claiming Your Reward
It is not enough to simply earn the appropriate amount of favor - a character must also claim the reward offered to them. To do that, once reaching the required favor, you simply need to speak to the representative of the faction that is giving you the reward.

Whenever you reach a new favor tier with some patron, the patron representative will send you a mail telling you to speak to them. Find them*, click on them to speak to them, and the reward will automatically be applied. Simultaneously, the Patrons tab in your Adventure Compendium (default shortcut p) will be updated, and the next Favor goal will be listed.


 * (* Locations are listed below on this page, and also on the article for that NPC)

If enough favor for more than one reward has been acquired, you must speak to the Patron once for each reward to be claimed.

It is not uncommon for favor to not be updated immediately after finishing a quest. This will not prevent you from claiming your favor reward with a patron. It is occasionally necessary to log out and log back in for the current favor count to be accurately displayed in the Adventure Compendium, and speaking with a Patron and claiming a reward will also update your favor.

When new tiers of favor are added to the game, it is unfortunately fairly common that the reward, on release, does not grant properly. Characters who achieve the new tier of favor before the resultant hotfix sometimes never receive the reward, even after the bug is fixed. Fortunately, it is fairly easy to get the rewards reset for you by contacting support; it is also possible to reset the reward with a True Reincarnation and re-earn the favor, but if the favor reward is particularly difficult to obtain (such as 7500 total favor), this might not be a very attractive proposition.

DDO Points
For every 100 favor a character gets, 25 DDO Points are added to the account. There are also special one-time rewards for reaching 5, 25, 50, 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, and 7000 favor for the first time in a server with any character. Deleting or reincarnating the character that earned a DDO Point reward does not remove the DDO Points from your account. When you reincarnate a character and the favor is reset, each 100 favor you reacquire will again net you 25 DP.

Rewards by patron faction
This is a list of the rewards given by the different patrons. Note that the amount of favor needed to unlock "equivalent" tiers can vary from patron to patron. In-game, you can find specific information about quests completed and favor gained by hitting p (by default) and opening the Adventure Compendium.

Free players cannot get favor from all patrons due to the lack of free quests giving that type of favor. The amounts of free favor that can be achieved as well as the max favor for each patron are noted under each patron name. This doesn't mean that players need to become Premium or VIP to achieve higher favor tiers since adventure packs can be purchased by free players by grinding DDO Points (as mentioned above). Note that free players can access non-free challenges with universal tokens so challenge favor counts as free favor.

All account rewards only apply on the server of the character that got the reward. However, account rewards persist even if you delete or reincarnate the character. For example, to get the Warforged race available on every server, you would need to reach 400 total favor on every server and then you could delete those characters.

Below is a table with short reward descriptions for easy reference.

Quick reference table
* These tiers of Favor are achievable, but currently, no reward exists for them.

Total Favor

 * Drow Representative: Nyx Durandimion - Location:

Current maximum possible favor: Current maximum free possible favor:

"Total Favor" is the sum of your character's favor with all the Patron factions combined. It represents the favor you have gained from the allied drow tribes of Xen'Drik, your overall reputation in and around Stormreach.

Favor totals
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Total favor from challenges is 162
 * * Note: It is not possible to 6-star the heroic and epic Short Cuts challenges; Thus the actual challenge favor and total available favor is 4 less than what is displayed.