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Guide · updated 2026-11-04

Merchant's Favor and Waylaid Crates

Waylaid Crates drop as ordinary loot from level 10. Read the label, fill the crate with one of its listed bundles, hand it to your faction's merchants, and you get Favor instead of vendor silver.

Crates

Thirty crates in four tiers: Apprentice (level 10+), Journeyman (10+), Expert (20+) and Artisan (35+). Each tier has crafting crates (fabrics, ingots, parts, which need the matching profession) and gathering crates (herbs, ore, textiles, curiosities, raw materials only). Example: a Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Ingots takes 20 Copper Bar, or 20 Tin Bar, or 10 Bronze Bar. Known beta bugs: crates refusing stacks smaller than the requested amount, and an Apprentice Curiosities crate asking for the wrong essence; Blizzard listed both as fixed.

What Favor buys

  • About 320 items priced from 30 to 1,500 Favor: profession recipes (mostly bind-on-pickup gear), rare crafted gear for Tailoring and Blacksmithing, Enchanting totems, librams and idols, new Alchemy potions and elixirs, a tabard, profession supply packs, a toy quest item and a mount.
  • Six crafting Certifications at 1,000 Favor each, unlocking about 33 recipes in total.
  • Craftsman's Writs: 150 crafting orders in four tiers usable from level 10, a buyer outside the auction house.

Before you vendor anything

Check whether a crate wants it. Copper and tin bars, light leather, linen and early herbs are worth more as Favor than as silver. Gathering crates need no profession, so even a pure crafter can fill them with auction-house materials when prices dip.

Legacy perks

Performance Bonus (Professions tree) gives a chance of extra Favor per hand-in; Bountiful Harvest raises the chance of scarce materials from gathering; Master Chef improves cooking output. See the Professions tree.

Questions players ask

Where do I hand in Waylaid Crates?
Horde: Durotar Supply and Logistics, a camp reported just west of the Crossroads in the Barrens. Alliance: the Azeroth Commerce Authority at Three Crossroads in the Redridge Mountains (seen in the BlizzCon demo).
How much Favor does a crate pay?
Not in the client files and not published. Testers report that recipes cost 30 to 1,500 Favor and Certifications 1,000 each, so plan on many crates per recipe.
Are Favor recipes tradable?
The strong ones are reported bind-on-pickup, so the profession has to sit on the character who will wear the gear. The Performance Bonus Legacy perk gives a chance of extra Favor per hand-in.