Favor Grinding - Truly, F2P

For the DDO player, who's allergic to bills.

Speed

Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO) is a free-to-play game. DDO uses "Turbine points" as premium currency. As you guessed there's premium content, characters, quests, that cost money and you want it. Welcome to favor running.

Favor running is about doing 100 favor worth of quests on a mule character as fast as possible. When you complete quests, you get favor. Generally the larger, the longer the quest, the more favor you get. When you earn 100 favor you get 25 "Turbine points". How many you need is up to you. If you aren't familiar with the quests, just follow along, most of the quests are go/???/profit. If you're constantly looking to resupply, sell, you know play the game? Then favor running isn't for you. Remember you get 25 favor points? Quest packs start around 250. So there's a point on speed.

Making it possible

When you're favor running you have to have a character that can either kill, or KILL. There is no time to "gear up" or build stats. When you're done favor running, you'll be about level 2 or 3.

Free to play players have two character slots, usually one for the main and one for the mule.

If you have a server you haven't played on, pick that first. You get one time perks.

Make a NEW character, CON maxed, killing ability maxed, and the rest who cares.

Korthos Island

Do the first quest, "The Grotto" kill the Sahuagin and get your noob gear. If you don't do this one, you'll have to do a quest on normal and hope you get something for your class.

When you bust out into Korthos Island, immediately open up social and look for groups doing favor runs. If they're all dark go to Stormreach then immeadiately head right back. The dark lfm's should now be clickable. Still no groups? Post a quick LFM for favor running, usually someone bites. If not get a hireling after the first quest, it's going to be a long night. (You'll be doing each quest 3 times).

Start with the Storehouse Secret, sell the junk reward, buy a cleric hire, and then do the Cannith Crystal. Finish up Korthos Village, and head out to Korthos Island, and do all BUT Misery's Peak. It takes forever, even just doing the walking takes like 7 minutes.

Head to Stormreach.

The Harbor

Still no group?
Arachnophobia as fast as possible, kill 20 bugs, only one difficulty.
The Miller's debt, just run LEFT, then to the end.
Do the solo quests, get it?

Clean up the quests at the bottom of the harbor, then the rest up top. Avoid doing the Cerulean Hills quests until last.

Head to the Marketplace if you still need favor, do the 2 low levels.

You're done. Hopefully you had someone with elite. If done right, it should have taken 40 minutes. And if you think about it, you just worked at sub 3rd world wages.

See the mail icon saying you got 25 points? Log, delete, create, repeat.

[ShellGhost101]

Just a note for those reading this in 2020 (it's still right up top of the community pages in the library): Replaying the same quest 3 times is a mug's game these days. Hotbox a 2nd account with a single "opener" toon that has the quests you need done on elite. So you only do the quests 3 times once on a another account so he can open elite for your favor mules and cut their workload to 1/3. Don't forget to actually play at least one toon on each server for the one time bonus points but you only need one server to make.run/delete favor mules on.

[Vault Dweller Paxall]

Hello all, and excuse this being a little off topic from the thread, but do many play?

[Peanutch]

you get 125 TP for reaching 100 favor the first time on each server. It's 1k Tp if you do all 8.

[NaCL]

I know I'm 2 years late... but 2020 new fastest favor farming - hardcore league - VIP ONLY however, 90% of the people in this highly populated server are going for 5k favor/life :D

[bill is ill]

@Rommell8 This guide is super outdated, I stopped playing. If you like replaying the same 3 levels over and over and waiting for timers because waiting is an aspect of a game, go ahead. Otherwise just move along, 12 MMOs came out in the time you read this.

[Rommell8]

the problem w favor grinding, is you need to be VIP to get access to all the dungeons on elite

or>>> have a character that has past lives..multiple past lives unlock elite on free accounts

but, most the content to really lvl from 12 and up are pay areas

* best way to get favor is just farm dungeons and complete the past life... in good groups its faster than just runnin the Harbor & market over and over w alts

GL .this game sux p bad to repeat after a few runs through it

[§Ratrone§]

Ahh. Ok.

[bill is ill]

Free players don't have access to enough content to do that. So you have to roll charcters as needed.

[§Ratrone§]

Basically, you get 25 TP once after the one time bonuses.
Then you get the 100 favour for the 25 Turbine Points.

Wouldn't it be easier just to mega grind a single character, so you get the 32 point builds etc?

[bill is ill]

On a normal character, you would get 25 Turbine points, for every 100 favor earned. If you have NEVER played on a server before, you get ONE time bonuses. These virgin servers still add favor to your account. After the one time favor bonuses are used up, it doesn't matter what server you grind on- the Turbine points go to the same account.