Starting a Favored Soul

Overview
Favoured Souls are capable of fulfilling some or all four of the MMO archetypes:
 * Healing - With Clerics the primary healing class of DDO. Only Clerics have access to as powerful healing spells and enhancements as.
 * DPS - Favoured Souls are middle-of the road for DPS. Fighters and their sub-classes will be better melee fighters, and arcane casters can do more damage with offensive spells.  But, Favoured Souls are able to do both melee and offensive casting effectively.
 * Crowd Control - Favoured Souls are probably one of the weakest of the CC classes in DDO, but given that there are only 5 classes of the 10 in DDO that can do CC, they are still very effective in this role.
 * Damage Mitigation / Support - Favoured Souls can rank third or fourth for support, depending on mission requirements. They can carry lines of buffs common to many classes as well as several others they share only with Clerics.