DDO’s Favored Soul and Monk Detailed

Unless you’ve earned enough favor to unlock the Favored Soul and Monk classes in Dungeons & Dragons Online, you’re going to have to spend some Turbine points in order to gain access to them.  And to help you decide if the two classes are worth your money, Ten Ton Hammer has kicked up a detailed overview of them both:

Not to make you feel like you’re studying for your SAT’s again, but the Favored Soul is to Clerics what the Sorcerer is to Wizards. That is to say that like their Sorcerer counterparts, the Favored Soul has a more limited selection of spells than the Cleric, but can cast those spells far more often. In other words, it’s a perfect class for those players that enjoy the feel of a Cleric, but want their spell pool to last a while longer in the depths of a dungeon.

The Favored Soul class has access to powerful healing magics just like their fellow Clerics, but rather than spending inordinate amounts of time praying to their gods, they are directly connected to the divine, thus able to call upon its power at will. This is why they are able to cast more often from a more limited spell set. Another important difference to note is that Favored Souls can only change their spells once every few days, rather than every time they are in a tavern or at a rest shrine.

Like Clerics, both charisma and wisdom are important to the Favored Soul class. High charisma grants a Favored Soul access to higher level spells and gives him or her more spell points. Wisdom determines how difficult a favored soul’s spells are for enemies to resist.