Guide · November 10, 2026

Merchant's Favor and Waylaid Crates in WoW Forever Explained

Merchant's Favor is a currency that exists only in World of Warcraft: Forever (WoW Forever), and you earn it by filling Waylaid Crates with trade goods and handing them in to your faction's supply officer, which also raises your reputation with the Azeroth Commerce Authority (Alliance) or Durotar Supply and Logistics (Horde). Method's guide says a Waylaid Crate comes from world drops, chests or the Auction House, as of November 10, 2026.

Quick answer: Find a Waylaid Crate, right-click it, click materials from your bags to fill it, then turn it in to Marcy Baker (Alliance, Redridge Mountains) or Dokimi (Horde). You get reputation and Merchant's Favor, which buys recipes, a tabard, a pet, a toy, a title and a mount.

How Waylaid Crates become Merchant's Favor in WoW Forever: get a crate from a world drop, chest or the Auction House, right-click and fill it with one listed material type, hand it in to Marcy Baker or Dokimi, then spend the favor and reputation on rewards. — From crate to reward, per Method and the Warcraft Wiki, as of November 10, 2026.

Key facts

Currency: Merchant's Favor, added in patch 1.60.1 on November 4, 2026, per the Warcraft Wiki
Crates: ranks Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert and Artisan; higher ranks need better materials and pay slightly more favor (Method)
First hand-in: a Shipping Label starts a one-time quest worth 50 favor (Method)
Hubs: Azeroth Commerce Authority at Three Corners, Redridge Mountains; Durotar Supply and Logistics west of the Crossroads in the Barrens (Warcraft Wiki)

How do you get a Waylaid Crate?

Method says crates come from random world drops and chests, or from the Auction House, and they are not bound when looted. Blizzard's hotfix thread titled "WoW: Forever Hotfixes - November 10, 2026" has a post dated November 10, 2026 (UTC) that lists a fix for a bug that "prevented Waylaid Crates and Craftsman’s Writs from dropping inside dungeons". I did not confirm when it went live. See the Auction House guide.

How do you fill a Waylaid Crate?

Right-click the crate, then left-click the items in your bags. Method says you need only one of the listed material types, not all, and its tables cover seven kinds of crate: Ore, Ingots, Herbs, Parts, Textiles, Fabrics and Curiosities. Its example: an Apprentice Herbs crate takes 20 Peacebloom, 20 Silverleaf, 10 Earthroot, 10 Mageroyal or 10 Briarthorn. Its Apprentice Ore crate lists 20 Copper Ore or 20 Tin Ore. A partly filled crate updates its tooltip with what you still need. Whether a crate's cost beats its reward is your call, as Method puts it. Notebooks help here: you can tell Willo, a separate companion app that is free to start with 50 answers a day, "write down that I need ten linen cloth" and it lands in her Notebook tab; she can be wrong and is not official.

Where do you turn in a crate?

Method names Marcy Baker for the Alliance and Dokimi for the Horde, at their faction's hub. Method gives Marcy at 9.6, 71.0 in Redridge Mountains; the Warcraft Wiki lists her at 9.7, 70.9 and the Alliance camp at 10, 73. For Dokimi, Method gives 50.0, 29.2 in the Barrens, by the Crossroads, while the Warcraft Wiki puts the Horde camp at 42, 34, west of the Crossroads. These conflict, so check the map in game. See the Redridge Mountains and Barrens guides.

What does Merchant's Favor buy?

Method's table of non-recipe rewards, with the Warcraft Wiki agreeing on costs:

Advertising License Application (toy): 1,200 favor, Honored
Packmule Treat (pet): 1,500 favor, Revered
Faction tabard: 200 favor, Exalted
Reins of the Pack Kodo (mount): 6,000 favor, Exalted
Profession Certification (title): 1,000 favor, and the title needs 300 in that profession; Alchemy, Leatherworking, Enchanting, Blacksmithing, Tailoring and Engineering

Method also says profession patterns cost favor, some behind higher reputation. See the reputation guide and professions guide.

Is this the same as Season of Discovery supplies?

Similar, not identical. The Warcraft Wiki's Azeroth Commerce Authority page is a Season of Discovery page, with "Waylaid Supplies" and shipment quests, and the Merchant's Favor page says the system works like Season of Discovery. Forever uses Waylaid Crates, so do not copy that page's tables.

What is not confirmed yet

Horde coordinates: Method says 50.0, 29.2 and the wiki says 42, 34; unresolved
Hotfix timing: the dungeon-drop fix is listed under November 10; its live time is not confirmed
Reputation per crate: I found no Forever figure
Faction name: Method writes "Supplies", the wiki "Supply"

Frequently asked questions

What is Merchant's Favor in WoW Forever?

A Forever-only currency from handing in Waylaid Crates, per the Warcraft Wiki.

Where do Waylaid Crates drop?

World drops and chests, plus the Auction House, per Method.

Who takes Waylaid Crates?

Marcy Baker (Alliance) and Dokimi (Horde), per Method.

What does the first crate give?

Method says a Shipping Label quest worth 50 Merchant's Favor.

Can I trade Merchant's Favor for gold?

I found no source saying so.

Sources

Reviewed November 10, 2026. Lore Forever and Willo are fan-made and are not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.

Related guides: gold-making, Auction House, Willo how-to.