Favored Enemy

Favored Enemy

• Usage: Passive
• Prerequisite: Ranger 1

Description

At first level a Ranger selects a type of creature from the favored enemy list. At 5th level and every 5 levels thereafter (10th, 15th, and 20th) the Ranger selects an additional creature type from the favored enemy list. When fighting a Favored Enemy, you gain +2 Damage for each Favored Enemy feat you have. If you have more than one Favored Enemy feat that applies to a particular Enemy, the damage applies for each type that matches a favored Enemy feat you have.

Notes

• If a creature is affected by two Favored Enemy selections (such as a Chaotic Evil Outsider attacked by a character with both FE: Chaotic Outsider and FE: Evil Outsider) then both effects stack (Source).

Examples:

• If a non-Ranger Gnome character has Undead as a Favored Enemy from the Vistani enhancement tree, and Reptilian from the Gnome Racial enhancement tree, they do +4 damage to both those Favored Enemies.
• If that same Gnome character was a Level 20 Ranger, they would also have their 5 base Favored enemies from 20 Ranger Levels, for +14 to all 7 Favored Enemies.
• That same Level 20(+) Gnome Ranger might also have 1 additional favored enemy from Deepwood Stalker enhancements, 1 from the Harper enhancement tree, 1 from the Falconry enhancement tree, plus 1 from the Shiradi Champion Epic Destiny tree, as well as the 7 from the previous example (Vistani & Gnome & Ranger 20), for a total of 11 Favored Enemies; that character then does +22 extra damage to all favored enemies.

• Dark Hunters, an archetype variant of Ranger, have a very limited selection of Favored Enemy types to choose from. These are, in total: Aberration, Animal, Elf, Human, Monstrous Humanoid, and Vermin. These otherwise work identically to a standard Ranger's Favored Enemies.

Related abilities

Additional sources of the feat

Racial:

(mutually exclusive)

• Aasimar Scourge free racial trait: Undead
• Deep Gnome enhancements, Tier IV: Goblinoid or Reptilian
• Gnome enhancements, Tier IV: Gnoll or Reptilian
• Shifter enhancement, Tier III: Animal / Fey / Magical Beast / Plant / Reptilian / Vermin
• Razorclaw Shifter enhancement, Tier III: Animal / Fey / Magical Beast / Plant / Reptilian / Vermin

Enhancement trees

• Deepwood Stalker, Tier V: Animal, Dragon, Dwarf, Elf, Giant, Gnoll, Goblinoid, Halfling, Human, Magical Beast, Monstrous Humanoid, Orc, Plant, Reptilian, or Vermin
• Falconry enhancement, Tier I: Animal
• Harper Agent enhancement, Tier III: Aberration / Construct / Dragon / Evil Outsider / Giant / Monstrous Humanoid / Undead
• Vistani Knife Fighter, Tier I: Undead
• Horizon Walker, Tier II: Evil Outsider
• Horizon Walker capstone gives "Favored Enemy: Marked Target". See DDO Forums.

Epic Destinies:

• Shiradi Champion: Fey

Additional effects:

• Deepwood Stalker enhancements include several effects that increase your defenses and damage versus your favored enemies

Monster types

Specific exceptions or examples are listed in parenthesis after the race. Click each race (or type) to go to its page, where you can find detailed descriptions and a list of all monsters of that race (or type).

Note that not all monster types are available for selection as a Ranger's Favored Enemy, nor are all found as Bane effects on weapons.

Type	Specific Races	Ranger Favored Enemy	Other Favored Enemy	Weapon Bane Type	Alternate Weapon Bane Type
Aberration	Beholder, Dream Reaver, Drider, Drow Scorpion, Evil Eye, Eye Horror, Mimic, Mind Flayer, Rust Monster, Taken, Will o' Wisp	Yes	Harper Tier III	Aberration bane
Air Outsider	Chaotic Neutral Outsiders: Djinn	Yes1	-	none	Chaotic outsider bane
	Mephit	No1	-		none
Animal	Bat, Bear, Dog, Hyena, Lion, Rat, Wolf	Yes	DWS Tier V, Falconry Tier I	Animal bane
Construct	Animated Object, Golem, Inanimate Object, Inevitable, Iron Defender, Warforged Titan	Yes	Harper Tier III	Construct bane
Dragon	Black Dragon, Blue Dragon, Green Dragon, Red Dragon, White Dragon	Yes	DWS Tier V, Harper Tier III	Dragon bane
Dwarf	Duergar, Dwarf	Yes	DWS Tier V	Dwarf bane
Earth Outsider	Mephit	No1	-	none
Elemental	Air Elemental, Earth Elemental, Fire Elemental, Invisible Stalker, Muckman, Water Elemental	Yes	-	Elemental bane
Elf	Drow Elf, Elf	Yes	DWS Tier V	Elf bane
Evil Outsider	Chaotic Evil Outsiders: Demon (Tanar'ri)	Yes1	Harper Tier III, Horizon Walker Tier II	Evil Outsider bane	Chaotic Outsider bane
	Lawful Evil Outsiders: Devil (Baatezu), Reaper	Yes1			Lawful Outsider bane
	Miscellaneous Evil Outsiders: Daelkyr, Efreeti, Hag (Green Hags and Night Hags only), Hellhound, Rakshasa, Quori, Salamander, Scorpion (Spawn of Vulkoor and Wrathspawn only), Tiefling, Yugoloth	Yes1			Lawful or Chaotic Outsider bane, depending upon alignment
Fey	Dryad, Satyr	Yes	Shiradi Tier IV	none
Fire Outsider	Mephit	No1	-	none
Giant	Giant , Ogre, Ogre Magi, Troll	Yes	DWS Tier V, Harper Tier III	Giant bane
Gnoll	Gnoll	Yes	DWS Tier V, Gnome	Gnoll bane
Goblinoid	Bugbear, Hobgoblin	Yes	DWS Tier V, Deep Gnome	Goblinoid bane
Good Outsider	Chaotic Good Outsiders: Bralani Eladrin, Ghaele Eladrin	Yes1	-	none	Chaotic Outsider bane
Halfling	Halfling	Yes	DWS Tier V	Halfling bane
Human	Human	Yes	DWS Tier V	Human bane
Lawful Outsider	Devil, Efreeti, Hellhound, Rakshasa, Reaper	Yes1	-	Lawful Outsider bane
Living Construct	Warforged	No	-	Construct bane
Magical Beast	Bat (Fiendish Bats, etc.), Fiendish Scorpion, Fiendish Spider, Hyena (Messenger of Prairies only), Lion, Manticore, Panther, Purple Worm, Razor Cat, Spider (Crimson Foot Spiders, Phase Spiders, Whisperdoom, etc.), Wolf (Worgs and Winter Wolves only)	Yes	DWS Tier V	Magical Beast bane
Monstrous Humanoid	Gargoyle, Hag (Forest Hags only), Medusa, Minotaur, Sahuagin, Werewolf, Wildman, Yuan-ti	Yes	DWS Tier V, Harper Tier III	Monstrous Humanoid bane
Native Outsider	Native Evil Outsiders: Tiefling	Yes1	-	Evil Outsider bane	Lawful or Chaotic Outsider bane, depending upon alignment
Ooze	Arcane Ooze, Black Pudding, Gelatinous Cube, Gray Ooze, Ochre Jelly, Spell, Violet Slime	Yes	-	Ooze bane
Orc	Half-Orc, Orc	Yes	DWS Tier V	Orc bane
Plant	Kelpie, Plant Creature, Shambling Mound, Vine Stalker, Wood Woad, Twig Blight, Vine Blight, Needle Blight	Yes	DWS Tier V	Plant bane
Reptilian	Kobold, Lizardfolk, Troglodyte	Yes	DWS Tier V, Gnome, Deep Gnome	Reptilian bane
Undead	Beholder (Doomspheres only), Blue Dragon (Auraxyllon and Eternity only), Fire Elemental (Cinderspawn only), Human (Death Knights only), Ghast, Ghoul, Lich, Mummy, Quell, Rat, Shadow, Skeleton, Spectre, Vampire, Wheep, Wight, Wraith, Zombie	Yes	Harper Tier III, Vistani Tier I	Undead bane
Vermin	Scorpion, Spider	Yes	DWS Tier V	Vermin bane

Notes re Ranger's Favored Enemies:

1) For Outsiders, a Ranger may select "Chaotic Outsider", "Evil Outsider", and/or "Lawful Outsider" (each separately). The "Race" category of the monster does not distinguish by alignment, so these Favored Enemies tend to overlap some Outsiders and miss others. Mephits are "True Neutral", not Chaotic, Evil or Lawful, and so are not covered by any of a Ranger's possible choices.

Note also that...

• Humanoid bane covers many of the above types. From the Hold Person spell, it includes Kobolds, Goblinoids, Troglodytes, all Player Races (except Warforged), "...and more." It is only found on randomly-generated weapons, and is not a possible choice for a Ranger's Favored Enemy.
• Incorporeal creatures fit multiple types above (e.g. Evil Outsider, Undead). Both Lesser and Greater Incorporeal Bane exist in game, on the Phase Hammer, Assassin's Kiss, and Epic Assassin's Kiss and on randomly generated Cannith Crafted weapons. Note that Incorporeal Bane does not imply Ghost touch.
• Natural bane, a designation found only on historic randomly-generated and historic Cannith Crafted weapons, covers all of Animals, Vermin, Magical Beasts, Plants and Fey.
• Unnatural bane, a designation found on Hunter's Slayer, randomly-generated weapons, and Cannith Crafted weapons, covers all of Monstrous Humanoids, Aberrations, and Undead.
• Ooze bane does not make a weapon immune to breakage or splitting. (See Everbright)
• Note that several races are listed under multiple types. This is unavoidable, as certain factors cause monsters of the same race to fall under different types. For example, most blue dragons are Dragon type, but Auraxyllon and Eternity are undead, and so fall under the Undead type. The same goes for undead beholders, humans, and rats. Similarly, "Evil Outsiders" may or may not also be "Lawful Outsiders" or "Chaotic Outsiders", and so on.
• Note on choosing a bane weapon: The general rule of thumb is to choose the bane type that corresponds to that particular monster's type, not race. In the example above, Auraxyllon is affected by undead bane, but not by dragon bane, even though it is a blue dragon. Likewise, Death Knights are affected by undead bane, but not human bane. The exception to this rule is that monsters of any of the various outsider types can also be affected by lawful outsider bane or chaotic outsider bane if those monsters are lawful or chaotic, respectively.

For more information on Dungeons & Dragons monsters, you can visit the D20 SRD: Monster page.