I feel like this is a matchmaking issue more than anything. People who can't afford the cheaper good favor items have only played a few games, and I shouldn't be playing with them at all, short of custom games.

Also, one of my concerns with your suggestion, line0042, is that favor items that were only available at higher war ranks would have to be ridiculously good to compete. Economically speaking, a small benefit now has to be counterbalanced by a large benefit later, and this is exacerbated by how much of an advantage an early kill is.

I'd suggest that the favor items should be balanced so that you pick them because of your personal play style, not because one is better than the others. And I think that isn't as far away as one might think.

They start with 150 I believe. I wouldn't mind if it was more per se, but the Charm of Life is actually an excellent beginner favor item, because it increases survivability and reduces the death penalty, and newer players will and should die, as it takes a little while to learn when to run, when to chase, how much damage a certain demigod can do in 3 seconds, etc.

Failure is part of the learning process, which is why an item that reduces death penalties is an excellent choice for beginners. In fact, if anything, I'd start newer players with 0 favor, but with that item unlocked automatically.

uh no your not, your trying to suggest what YOU think would be fun for everyone and not listening to those with other opinions.

Favor items are as they should be. the only problem with them is that the favor system itself(gaining favor) is broken.

if someone has favor items and you dont its unbalancing and ruins gameplay.

so host your own games until they get fixxed and just disable them in options. 

Besides that experiment with favor items in singleplayer mode so you know which ones you prefer so you dont end up wasting favor buying all of them for every character.

That's not a bad idea, but I feel like it kinda is a waste of favor points that people might not want to make. I don't know why people are so opposed to this.

Look at favor items like powerful artifacts, which they basically are. You can't play with them at the start of the game, because it would be silly and unbalanced.

Imagine if somone on the other team started with mage slayer, or ashkandor, before you had any chance to buy a similar weapon. Would you have fun? No.

Restricting certain favor items to a certain war rank is no different than having artifacts be really expensive; by the time the game has progressed about halfway through, you can use really powerful items.

Perhaps all favor items could start out weaker and gain bonuses as your war rank goes up?

Example:

Swift Anklet = 10% ms bonus + 1% per war rank

This mitigates the early game problem as well as giving more flexibility to favor item power (some could be better early game and some could have big bonuses unlock late game)

This could also fix the weakness in many favor items that don't scale (Who cares about 40 damage late game?)

No, you cannot preclude proper answers to your own false dilemma by calling those who would provide the answer 'retards' in order to arbitrarily dismiss the proper answer and thus give the false impression that you are making a good case.

You darn well can go ahead and unlock them yourself in order to not get owned by them.

Favor items are supposed to be POWERFUL achievements, that's what the back of the box says.  That is why they are fun. 

Your suggestion to nerf them just because you are too lazy to earn them for yourself would make the game unfun if it was implemented.

Favor items should never, ever be nerfed.

What's really funny is that none of the favour items are even comparable to those two artifacts. Not to mention that you can get some of the best favour items with less then 3 games worth of favour.

With that mindset, why don't we remove favour altogether?

Also, no one seems to be understanding that many favor items are probably still fair at lower levels. Just not the really, really powerful ones.

line0042 I'm not sure the stick-up-your-ass approach is furthering your position very well. You may want to try something else.

No, he said something that wasn't true, assuming that I don't have favor items, which is a big point people make when trying to argue against me, which is wrong, and a logical fallacy as far as the argument goes. And Shadow, eat my dick, I don't care what you think about my approach. I started off polite.