Grinding for favors

[theboci]

When you are grinding for favors is it best to start with casual level of quests?

[Zirun]

If all you want is as much favor as fast as possible, running on Casual is only hurting your cause most of the time.

The exception that I can think of is if you're only a few points away from an important reward and running a quest on Casual would give that to you.

[Hokiewa]

Favor is not added as you complete the quest on each difficulty.

I would assume your goal is to gain favor as fast as possible. Running Casual is the opposite of what you want to do. You want to run elite, as that offers you the max favor for each particular quest.

Now, if you are new to the game, I would advise against this for a multitude of reasons.

[theboci]

Why would you advise against this?

[cardmj1]

Max favor for each quest is on elite, you do not get an additive favor for the other difficulty settings. For example, Fake Test Quest is worth 24 Free Agent Favor. This would break down as follows:

Casual: 3
Normal: 6
Hard: 12
Elite: 24

You only receive the max favor for the highest difficulty of completion and not the total difficulty of completions.

Advising against running quests on Elite as a new player is for several reasons.

1. If you are still getting xp for a quest, you get bonuses for first time completing on each difficulty setting.
2. Some quests are nigh impossible on elite without quest knowledge and player experience. There are some very hard lessons that have been learned by people jumping in on elite without quest knowledge.
3. The sheer enjoyment of discovery and dungeon crawling for the first time in a quest you don't know. The devs put alot of work into them, enjoy them.
4. DDO is a game where knowledge wins, not money, not gear, not character builds. A player in DDO with a great knowledge of the game can take just about any toon with crappy gear and beat a quest. However, a player with little quest knowledge, epic gear, and the uberest build will often fail. Learn the quest, beat the game.

[learst]

Max favor for each quest is on elite, you do not get an additive favor for the other difficulty settings. For example, Fake Test Quest is worth 24 Free Agent Favor. This would break down as follows:

Casual: 3
Normal: 6
Hard: 12
Elite: 24

You only receive the max favor for the highest difficulty of completion and not the total difficulty of completions.

Erm, if Fake Test Quest is worth 24 Free Agent favour, wouldn't the breakdown be more like:
Normal:8
Hard:16
Elite:24

I thought the scaling was Normal=X, Hard=2X, Elite=3X? Not sure what is the scaling for casual.

[cardmj1]

Erm, if Fake Test Quest is worth 24 Free Agent favour, wouldn't the breakdown be more like:
Normal:8
Hard:16
Elite:24

I thought the scaling was Normal=X, Hard=2X, Elite=3X? Not sure what is the scaling for casual.

Sorry, don't run casual. Silly me assumed you would get some favor for casual.

[theboci]

Ok I see what you all are saying and I thank you for the advice.
I had not planed on just running on elite but working my way up to it and I had not planed on missing out on any of the game. I just didn't want to short myself out of points, but now I see that I wont be.