Reincarnation

Reincarnation enables players to leverage their existing progress with one of their current characters in the game and allows players to revisit certain decisions made in that characters advancement (ie 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 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 the are stuck with their previous classes. Then they can level up to their current status.

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 feat selection, 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, but reincarnate with the same number of build points of the current incarnation. If they have the Lesser Heart +1, they can change one of their Class Selections.

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.

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. True reincarnation grants 2 bonus build points for every true reincarnation, and are always base 32 points, even if the character was initially created as a 28 points.

You can only gain the additional build points for two True Reincarnations per character, for a total of 36 points. Further True Reincarnations will not increase your build point total.

Some notes about True Reincarnation:
 * 1) Your mailbox is untouched; no need to empty it before True Reincarnation. I'm not sure if the same is true of the Auction House.
 * 2) All of the contents of your backpack and bank is 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.
 * 3) Keep your Sigil of Dal Quor (flagged for Titan 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.
 * 4) 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.
 * 5) There is currently a bug that will not allow you to access your Bank (personal, shared, or reincarnation?) if you had purchased extra personal bank bags from the DDO Store before reincarnation. If you are affected by this bug, place a help ticket to get it fixed.
 * 6) Because your Favor is reset, you will get the 25 bonus every 100 favor again in your new life.
 * 7) Your backpack resets to 3 bags, bank to 2 bags (plus any DDO Store-bought personal bank bags).
 * 8) Your quest completions and timers are reset.

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.