Reincarnation

Reincarnation enables players to leverage their existing progress with one of their current Player Characters, and allows players to change certain decisions made in that character's advancement, like a respec, in the case of Lesser and Greater Reincarnation, or to create an all-new more powerful hero, in the case of True Reincarnation.

All reincarnated characters will retain the name and items from the previous character incarnation. Characters go through the Character Creation Menu, as when they started, and then they go on to a flying ship. There they speak to a historian, and go through a menu for their changes. If they are changing their classes (Lesser Heart +1, etc.), they have to immediately make that selection as they level up, or else they are stuck with their previous classes. Then they can level up to their current status.

Note that any type of reincarnation will clear all buffs from a character (including Experience Boost Elixirs, Loot Gems, and Crafting Experience Boost Elixirs).

Lesser Reincarnation
Characters that undergo Lesser Reincarnation retain their race, gender, alignment and their Class Selections. They are permitted to re-spend their ability points, change their feats, reallocate skill points, redo their spell selection, etc., or are free to select a path. Unlike True Reincarnation, characters will retain all favor and experience, and reincarnate with the same number of build points of the current incarnation. If they have the Lesser Heart +1, +3 or +5, they can change one, three, or five of their Class Selections. The changes are made in two distinct phases: First you change your stats and other character attributes and irrevocably accept those changes then you rework the character level by level i.e. you are asked if you wish to change your class at level 1, then at level 2, until you have changed the number of levels you are allowed to by you particular lesser heart of wood.

If you Lesser Reincarnate, you must wait 1 week before Lesser Reincarnating again or Greater Reincarnating. You may, however, under go True Reincarnation immediately after Lesser Reincarnating, as True Reincarnation is on a timer separate from the timer for Lesser and Greater Reincarnation. (That is, of course, provided you have not also Truly Reincarnated within a week's time.)

Greater Reincarnation
Greater Reincarnation has the same benefits as Lesser Reincarnation, and additionally will upgrade a 28 point (non-drow) character into a 32 point build character.

If you Greater Reincarnate, you must wait 1 week before Greater Reincarnating again or Lesser Reincarnating. You may, however, under go True Reincarnation immediately after Greater Reincarnating, as True Reincarnation is on a timer separate from the timer for Lesser and Greater Reincarnation. (That is, of course, provided you have not also Truly Reincarnated within a week's time.)

True Reincarnation
A true reincarnation lets the player recreate a more powerful character and change anything about them (except for the name and gender), including their class and race. Tapping into memories of their former selves, true reincarnated characters will receive additional build points to spend in character generation as well as unique bonuses in the form of access to Past Life Feats. Each generation will also be physically larger than previous generations. True Reincarnation allows players to relive their journey through Stormreach. Characters will keep no experience or favor upon creation, will start at level 1, and require more experience to progress through each level. The first true reincarnation gives a 34 point build (30 for Drow), even if the character was initially created as a 28 points. The second and subsequent true reincarnations give a 36 point build (32 for Drow).

If you Truly Reincarnate, you must wait 1 week before Truly Reincarnating again. You may, however, under go Lesser Reincarnation or Greater Reincarnation immediately after Truly Reincarnating, as True Reincarnation is on a timer separate from the timer for Lesser and Greater Reincarnation. (That is, of course, provided that you have not also Lesser or Greatly Reincarnated within a week's time.)

Some notes about True Reincarnation:
 * 1) Your TR cache will be built. If you have any items in it from previous True Reincarnations it will not allow you to TR.
 * 2) Your mailbox is untouched; no need to empty it before True Reincarnation. The same is true of the Auction House.
 * 3) All of the contents of your backpack and bank are placed in a new bank window called the Reincarnation Cache (remove only). Order of items is not maintained, so don't bother sorting before you reincarnate.
 * 4) The remove-only restriction is not maintained if you are adding things to stacks of that item already in your TR cache, so remove stacks from bags before you TR, so you can use your TR cache to store more of those stacks. Examples include your Epic Tokens/Fragments, Portal Fragments, rare scrolls, etc. You do have to remove the whole stack from the TR cache when you actually need to use the item.
 * 5) Keep your Sigil of Dal Quor (flagged for Titan raid), Sigil Frame with additional pieces (partial flagging for Abbot raid), Phiarlan Pendant of Time (fast city travel), and go to the Silver Flame patron in the Marketplace and get a new Silver Flame Blessing token. All can be used in your new life without having to work for them.
 * 6) Stock up on potions/scrolls/low level gear if you have a better Haggle now than you will at the start of your new life.
 * 7) If you are a Paladin, cast a bunch of Holy Swords before True Reincarnating. They will be moved to your reincarnation cache and won't expire until you pull them out of the cache and log out. So, you can use one Holy Sword per gaming session in your next life. The Holy Swords are Minimum Level 10, Bound to Character, but not class-restricted.
 * 8) Because your Favor is reset, you will get the 25 bonus DDO Store points every 100 favor again in your new life.
 * 9) Your backpack resets to 3 bags, and bank to one bag (plus any DDO Store-bought personal backpack/bank bags).
 * 10) Your quest completions and timers are reset.
 * 11) Your Wizard's spellbook is wiped - you will have to re-inscribe all spells.
 * 12) All your comments on your friendslist are wiped off (so better export before Reincarnating, and import after)(*BUG*)

Quick summary
'Yes' indicates that item is reset by reincarnating.

* Note: Due to Drow racial inherent stat bonuses, reincarnations into Drow will only yield 30 point builds on first reincarnation (32 on 2nd or higher).

How To Reincarnate
In order to reincarnate, you'll need to speak with Kruz the Reincarnation trainer in House Jorasco. He can be found at the top of the stairs in the south west garden. Kruz requires an item known as a "heart of wood" in order to reincarnate you. Hearts of wood can be purchased in the DDO Store. True Hearts of Wood for True Reincarnation can also be earned by trading Epic quest tokens for a True Heart of wood.

Developer quote
by Eladrin, http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p=2471271&postcount=22


 * With Lesser (and Greater) Reincarnation, your tomes will gradually re-apply themselves as you increase in level, at the minimum levels tomes can be applied at.


 * If you ate a +3 strength tome, for instance, and then lesser reincarnated, you would get a +1 inherent bonus strength at level 3, +2 at level 7, and +3 at level 11.

by Tolero, http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p=2470555&postcount=5


 * True Reincarnation characters keep their equipment (even bound to character equipment), get taller, and increase in base stat points. They do not retain favor, XP (you start over again at level 1), or bonuses from previously used ("eaten") tomes.