Merchant's Favor in WoW Forever: crates, recipes, and reputation

It is a currency that did not exist in original Classic. Spend it at your company's vendors on recipes for seven professions, title certificates, a pet, a tabard, and a pack kodo.

Your company has two separate progression tracks, and they are easy to confuse. Crate turn-ins award Favor; work orders award reputation. Many recipes require both: without Friendly reputation, vendors will not sell them to you, however much currency you have.

There is a one-time bonus per character. If a Shipping Label appears in your bags, take it to the camp: the quest of the same name awards 50 Favor and 2000 reputation. You only get that once; an ordinary crate gives 5–30.

Horde. The Durotar Supply and Logistics camp is just outside the Crossroads' western gate in the Barrens. Dokimi accepts crates (50.1, 29.3).

Alliance. The Azeroth Commerce Authority camp is in southwestern Redridge Mountains, at the junction where the roads lead to Elwynn Forest and Duskwood. Marcy Baker accepts crates (9.7, 71).

The same camp has recipe vendors, a scribe, a rewards vendor, and an auctioneer. See the vendors section below for their locations.

• Reach level 10: you cannot open a crate before then.
• Find a Waylaid crate. They turn up while playing, and are also sold on the Auction House.
• Read the crate tooltip for the list of material sets. You need any one set, such as 20 Copper Ore or 20 Tin Ore, not everything listed.
• Gather or buy that set and fill the crate. You do not need a profession; ready-made materials work.
• Take the sealed crate to your company's turn-in NPC. You receive Favor and a little silver immediately.
• Find your profession's vendor and choose a recipe. Before buying, check its skill and reputation requirements.

The crate's rank and contents determine the payout. Raw-material crates—herbs, ore, cloth and leather, dust and shards—are white-quality and award less. Crates of bars, bolts of cloth, cured hides, and engineering parts are green-quality and award twice as much.

An empty crate costs very little on the Auction House, so look at the total cost: the crate plus one set of materials. Divide that by the Favor awarded to find your cost per Favor.

An example using made-up prices: a white Apprentice crate for 3 silver plus materials for 27 costs 30 silver for 5 Favor, or 6 silver each. A green Journeyman crate for 12 silver plus materials for 68 costs 80 silver for 20 Favor, or 4 silver each. The second costs more overall, but its Favor is cheaper. Prices on your realm will be different.

Calculate the cost of the entire set, not just the first listing. The cheapest materials often cover only one crate; the next 20 items cost more.

Materials already in your bags are not free either: you could have sold them. Work out whether filling a crate or listing the materials on the Auction House is the better deal.

Work orders, such as Sealed Journeyman's Writ, award reputation. Open the envelope and read which item is needed and who wants it. Craft or buy the item and deliver it to the customer. The customer is somewhere in the world, not at the camp. You do not need the profession yourself, and you must keep the order in your bags until you turn it in.

Each specific order can be turned in once a day, while different orders have no shared limit. Do not buy a stack of identical orders. An order may have a timer: plan the trip before opening the envelope.

The camp has one vendor for each profession with recipes. Mining, Herbalism, Skinning, Fishing, and First Aid do not have their own vendors.

Choose a recipe for your profession that improves a weak gear slot. Many new rare items from these recipes bind when crafted: you can make them for yourself, but not to sell. Check the reagents before buying too: some recipes are cheap, while the finished item is expensive to make.

The examples below are not the full inventory. A dash in the reputation column means the recipe has no separate reputation requirement.

Profession	Recipe	Skill	Favor	Reputation
Alchemy	Recipe: Lesser Mageblood Elixir	75	45	-
Alchemy	Recipe: Elixir of Greater Spirit	165	120	Friendly
Blacksmithing	Plans: Veteran's Silvered Chain Helm	95	30	-
Blacksmithing	Plans: Justicar's Gauntlet	175	60	Friendly
Cooking	Recipe: Venomous Smoothie	25	30	-
Cooking	Recipe: Calcified Smoothie	180	60	Friendly
Enchanting	Formula: Mystic Mushroom	130	45	-
Enchanting	Formula: Enchant Weapon - Revelation	140	45	-
Engineering	Schematic: Satchel of Copper Bombs	85	45	-
Engineering	Schematic: Ultralight Goblin Glider	300	360	Honored
Leatherworking	Pattern: Brawler's Leather Hood	100	30	-
Leatherworking	Pattern: Forceful Thick Armor Kit	185	60	Friendly
Tailoring	Pattern: Pristine Circlet	100	30	-
Tailoring	Pattern: Mageweave Reagent Bag	190	60	Friendly

The kodo is a long-term goal: besides 6000 Favor, you need level 60 and the second riding rank. Certificates are available for six professions: Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, and Tailoring. The title unlocks for all your characters, but only one with the profession at skill 300 can use it.

Reward	Favor	Requirements
Reins of the Pack Kodo	6000	Exalted, level 60, and Journeyman Riding. The mount is account-wide
Packmule Treat	1500	Revered. Awards the mini mule pet
Advertising License Application (Horde) or Advertising License Application (Alliance)	1200	Honored. Grants a profession advertising sign through a quest
Durotar Supply and Logistics Tabard (Horde) or Azeroth Commerce Authority Tabard (Alliance)	200	Exalted. Alliance players have seen an additional price of 5 gold
Profession certificates, such as Alchemy Certification	1000	Profession skill 300. Unlocks an account-wide title

Each row lists alternative sets: provide any one of them. Quantities mean individual items, not stacks. Contents were checked against Wowhead crate tooltips on October 16.

Crate	Lvl.	Choose one material set	Favor
Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Herbs	10	20 × Peacebloom or 20 × Silverleaf or 10 × Earthroot or 10 × Mageroyal or 10 × Briarthorn	5
Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Ore	10	20 × Copper Ore or 20 × Tin Ore	5
Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Textiles	10	40 × Linen Cloth or 20 × Light Leather	5
Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Curiosities	10	20 × Strange Dust or 4 × Greater Magic Essence or 6 × Small Glimmering Shard or 2 × Large Glimmering Shard	5
Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Fabrics	10	2 × Cured Light Hide or 20 × Bolt of Linen Cloth	10
Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Ingots	10	20 × Copper Bar or 20 × Tin Bar or 10 × Bronze Bar	10
Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Parts	10	16 × Handful of Copper Bolts or 16 × Copper Tube or 4 × Copper Modulator	10
Waylaid Crate: Journeyman Herbs	10	10 × Stranglekelp or 10 × Bruiseweed or 10 × Wild Steelbloom or 10 × Grave Moss or 10 × Kingsblood	10
Waylaid Crate: Journeyman Ore	10	10 × Silver Ore or 20 × Iron Ore	10
Waylaid Crate: Journeyman Textiles	10	20 × Wool Cloth or 40 × Silk Cloth or 20 × Medium Leather	10
Waylaid Crate: Journeyman Curiosities	10	20 × Soul Dust or 4 × Greater Astral Essence or 6 × Small Glowing Shard or 2 × Large Glowing Shard	10
Waylaid Crate: Journeyman Fabrics	10	6 × Bolt of Woolen Cloth or 10 × Bolt of Silk Cloth or 2 × Cured Medium Hide	20
Waylaid Crate: Journeyman Ingots	10	10 × Silver Bar or 20 × Iron Bar	20
Waylaid Crate: Journeyman Parts	10	8 × Bronze Tube or 7 × Whirring Bronze Gizmo or 4 × Bronze Framework or 45 × Gold Power Core	20
Waylaid Crate: Earthly Expert Herbs	20	20 × Liferoot or 10 × Fadeleaf or 10 × Goldthorn or 10 × Khadgar's Whisker	15
Waylaid Crate: Flowering Expert Herbs	20	10 × Wintersbite or 10 × Firebloom or 20 × Purple Lotus or 10 × Arthas' Tears	15
Waylaid Crate: Expert Ore	20	10 × Gold Ore or 20 × Mithril Ore	15
Waylaid Crate: Expert Textiles	20	40 × Mageweave Cloth or 20 × Heavy Leather	15
Waylaid Crate: Expert Curiosities	20	20 × Vision Dust or 4 × Greater Mystic Essence or 6 × Small Radiant Shard or 2 × Large Radiant Shard	15
Waylaid Crate: Expert Fabrics	20	8 × Bolt of Mageweave or 2 × Cured Heavy Hide	30
Waylaid Crate: Expert Ingots	20	20 × Mithril Bar or 15 × Steel Bar or 10 × Gold Bar	30
Waylaid Crate: Expert Parts	20	8 × Iron Strut or 5 × Mithril Tube or 12 × Unstable Trigger or 5 × Mithril Casing	30
Waylaid Crate: Earthly Artisan Herbs	35	10 × Golden Sansam or 20 × Sungrass or 10 × Blindweed or 10 × Ghost Mushroom or 10 × Gromsblood	?
Waylaid Crate: Flowering Artisan Herbs	35	20 × Dreamfoil or 20 × Mountain Silversage or 20 × Plaguebloom or 20 × Icecap	?
Waylaid Crate: Artisan Ore	35	10 × Truesilver Ore or 20 × Thorium Ore or 20 × Dark Iron Ore	?
Waylaid Crate: Artisan Textiles	35	40 × Runecloth or 20 × Thick Leather or 20 × Rugged Leather	?
Waylaid Crate: Artisan Curiosities	35	20 × Dream Dust or 4 × Greater Nether Essence or 6 × Small Brilliant Shard or 2 × Large Brilliant Shard	?
Waylaid Crate: Artisan Fabrics	35	8 × Bolt of Runecloth or 2 × Cured Thick Hide	?
Waylaid Crate: Artisan Ingots	35	2 × Dark Iron Bar or 10 × Truesilver Bar or 20 × Thorium Bar	?
Waylaid Crate: Artisan Parts	35	5 × Thorium Widget or 5 × Truesilver Transformer or 2 × Thorium Tube	?

If a crate will not accept the correct material, combine it into one stack and check the exact name. During the beta, Blizzard acknowledged bugs with quantities larger than a stack and with an Apprentice curiosities crate incorrectly accepting magic essence.

• Treating the 50 Favor from Shipping Label as the reward for every crate. It is a one-time bonus.
• Saving currency for a recipe and forgetting its reputation requirement.
• Buying a cheap crate without checking the cost of its contents.
• Confusing ore with bars, cloth with bolts, or leather with cured hides.
• Putting everything from the list into a crate: you only need one set.
• Buying a recipe to sell the crafted items without checking whether they bind on pickup.
• Treating the Legacy doubling bonus as guaranteed.
• Buying identical orders in bulk: each specific order can be turned in once a day.