Factions

[Deltharien]

I'd like to see factions returned to the way they were at release. I hated it, because it slowed me down as a crafter, but when they "fixed" factions, being able to waltz into any town felt wrong. Having to kill a metric crap ton of mobs outside of Halgarad & Dahknarg just so I could get a practice mast mount for the Thestran sloop quest - yeah, that felt right, as annoying as it was.

I would appreciate one consideration. During early beta diplomacy was intended as a way to gain faction, as well it should, but that never materialized. The only faction gains from diplomacy were the random +1 gains from bartenders. If factions are fixed, then we'll need options for earning status besides killing 8000 low level mobs.

[ArtofWar]

lol Shadow mount quest faction grind, and invising through Martok to talk to the quest giver due to being KoS, Loved it. as mentioned in the race/class restrictions forum, the who hates me chart was indispensable

[Kilsin]

Yeah I would love to see this return and done properly as well.

[ArtofWar]

I found my old Launch Faction Chart I made, showing Cities and races KOS / ALLY / NEUTRAL
Im going to attach it to this post, who knows maybe this will help when and if we you guys decide to reimplment the Original Faction system

I converted it to Open Office Format in case people don't have Excel

[ArtofWar]

Whoops sorry, didn't realise the file didn't get added, I zipped it and re uploaded, enjoy!

[Deltharien]

Gnomes were hated in about half the cities. The only races that were hated in more places were the dark/evil races (dark elf, gnome, orc). The hate for the dark races is understandable, but gnomes? I know gnome punting is fun, but why all the hate? I

Just pondering, don't need a response.

Edited to say thanks for the spreadsheet.

[Koralith]

[quote="Deltharien"]Gnomes were hated in about half the cities. The only races that were hated in more places were the dark/evil races (dark elf, gnome, orc). The hate for the dark races is understandable, but gnomes? I know gnome punting is fun, but why all the hate? I

Just pondering, don't need a response.

Edited to say thanks for the spreadsheet.[/quote]

I'd say Kamelot is cause enough to hate gnomes. Was certainly a good reason why I hated 'em.

[John Adams]

Gnomes are a blight on the world. Like a Pox. Maybe a gnome could tinker an A-bomb and blow Kamelott off the map once and for all.

[Makar40]

In the Gnominomicon it clearly states, "......and the time will come to pass when all the lesser races of Telon will quake in fear, and their tears shall be as the oceans. The lands will shake and the rivers will run red with the blood of the enemies of The People. The Not-People will be the slaves of The People. They will spend their godless lives doing our bidding for the benefit of The People, and when the guttering candle-flames of their worthless lives are utterly spent, they will be consigned to the endless depths of oblivion as The People rise up in righteous glory to finally reclaim the rightful place that is their birthright. So is The Prophecy laid out in The Necrognomicon........"

[Kilsin]

[quote="John Adams"]Gnomes are a blight on the world. Like a Pox. Maybe a gnome could tinker an A-bomb and blow Kamelott off the map once and for all.[/quote]

but, but...how else will we spend hundreds of hours of our lives gaining ridiculously slow experience rates, drop rates and faction rates?

Edit: I actually liked SoD, call me crazy but I had some of the best time with my guild and friends doing named run s and collects, even harvesting and kiting lol