Waylaid Crates Guide: Turn-in and Merchant's Favor (WoW Forever)

Waylaid Crates are WoW Forever’s supply crates. You loot an empty crate, fill it with one bundle of gathered or crafted goods and hand it in at your faction’s trading camp for Merchant’s Favor. Favor buys profession recipes, a pack mount, a pet, a toy and more. The system is close to Waylaid Supplies from Season of Discovery.

Quick facts

Step by step

1. Get an empty crate. They drop at a low rate from open-world and dungeon mobs and from chests. They are not bound when looted, so you can buy them on the Auction House or send them to an alt.
2. Check the type. Each crate is named after its tier and family, for example Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Herbs or Waylaid Crate: Journeyman Parts. Families are Ore, Ingots, Herbs, Parts, Textiles, Fabrics and Curiosities; Expert and Artisan herbs are split into Earthly and Flowering.
3. Fill it with one bundle. Right-click the crate, then click matching materials in your bags. Each crate lists several options and you need only one. Examples from Method:
   • Apprentice Herbs: 20 Peacebloom, 20 Silverleaf, 10 Earthroot, 10 Mageroyal or 10 Briarthorn
   • Apprentice Fabrics: 2 Cured Light Hide or 20 Bolt of Linen Cloth
   • Apprentice Curiosities: 20 Strange Dust, 4 Greater Magic Essence, 6 Small Glimmering Shard or 2 Large Glimmering Shard
   • Journeyman Parts: 8 Bronze Tube, 7 Whirring Bronze Gizmo, 4 Bronze Framework or 45 Gold Power Core
4. The crate turns into a sealed crate (for example Sealed Apprentice Crate). It is soulbound from now on.
5. Hand it in to Marcy Baker or Dokimi.
6. First crate only: you get a Shipping Label that starts a one-time quest with a bonus.

Rewards

Merchant’s Favor per crate (Conquest Capped; Method and Zockify give no numbers):

Shipping Label quest: sources disagree. Method lists 50 Merchant’s Favor, Zockify lists 2,000 reputation, and Conquest Capped lists both plus 660 XP. Either way, do it as soon as you get it.

What Favor buys (Method and Conquest Capped agree):

• Profession recipes, from about 30 to 360 Favor each. Many need reputation too: roughly Friendly for mid-level recipes and Honored for the top ones.
• Profession Certification titles at skill 300: 1,000 Favor each
• Advertising License Application (toy): 1,200 Favor, Honored
• Packmule Treat (Minimule pet): 1,500 Favor, Revered
• Faction tabard: 200 Favor, Exalted
• Reins of the Pack Kodo (mount): 6,000 Favor, Exalted

See Profession changes for the recipe vendors and example plans.

Tips / common problems

• Crates do not give reputation. Zockify and Conquest Capped say normal turn-ins pay Favor only; reputation comes from Craftsman’s Writs and the Shipping Label. Method says turn-ins give both. Watch your reputation bar on your first few turn-ins.
• Green crates pay double. Conquest Capped says green crates, filled with crafted goods, give twice the Favor of white ones at the same tier.
• Bring everything with you. Conquest Capped notes the camps have no reliable mailbox, so fill crates before you travel.
• Performance Bonus. A Legacy perk gives up to a 15% chance of double Favor per crate. See the Legacy system.
• Dokimi’s exact spot. Sources describe the Horde camp as by or west of the Crossroads, with different coordinates. Ride out from the Crossroads and look for the trading camp.

Related

• Profession changes in WoW Forever: Merchant’s Favor recipes
• Camping guide
• All professions
• Leveling guide 1–60