Favor

Favor is gained with each quest a character completes, based on the highest difficulty completed for each 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.

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). For quests in this wiki that are only available in the Solo/Casual difficulty, the base favor and the max favor are the same.

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.

If you first complete a quest on epic difficulty (for example Epic Hard) and then complete on Heroic Elite for maximum favor, it is occasionally necessary to log out and log back in for the favor count to update.

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 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. 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. Note that free players can access non-free challenges with universal tokens so challenge favor counts as free favor.

In-game, you can find specific information about quests completed and favor gained by hitting p (by default) and opening the Adventure Compendium.

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

Rewards table

 * These Tiers of Favor are achievable, but a reward for them has only been promised "In the future."

Total Favor
"Total Favor" refers to the total on any one character. Rewards that affect your account are based off your character with the highest Total Favor, combined from any/all Patron factions, and only affect characters on that server. Note that earning the amount of Favor is not enough - the character who earned that favor must also speak w/ an in-game NPC, Nyx Durandimion, to formally unlock the reward for your account on that server.

Once a reward is unlocked, the character that earned that favor may be deleted or reincarnated without losing any reward(s) they have earned.


 *  0 Favor: Starting Account
 * No Rewards
 *  400 Favor: Drow
 * Unlocks the Drow race on that particular server.
 *  1,000 Favor: Veteran Status I (Level 4)
 * Unlocks Veteran Status I for future characters created on that particular server.
 *  1,750 Favor: Champion*
 * Unlocks 32-Point builds for new (non-Drow) characters on that particular server.
 * This Character (only) receives a +2 Ability tome of your choice.
 *  2,500 Favor: Favored Soul*
 * Unlocks the Favored Soul class on that particular server.
 *  3,000 Favor: Veteran Status II (Level 7)*
 * Unlocks Veteran Status II for future characters created on that particular server.
 * 5,000 Favor: Revered*
 * This Character (only) receives a +5 Ability tome of your choice.

Maximum total favor is: Maximum total free favor is:
 * * Note that Free-to-Play quests do not provide enough favor to achieve Tier 1 rewards for Agents of Argonnessen (0 free favor), The Gatekeepers (0), The Harpers (32), Keepers of the Feather (0), The Twelve (18 until Lvl 32), Purple Dragon Knights (60), and The Yugoloth (0). To achieve more favor, Free to Play accounts must acquire an Adventure Pack that rewards the corresponding favor. Free-to-Play accounts do not have to become Premium Free To Play (by paying real money) because the pack(s) could be purchased via grinding favor for DDO Points.


 * Since available free content awards exceed 1,000 Total Favor (1346 Favor), Veteran Award is achievable for F2P players, but there is not enough "free favor" to earn Champion for 32-point builds (or higher) without purchasing Adventure Packs.

Total available
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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.