Iksar factionFollow

I have my DE Necro and my Vah Shir Beasty able to travel around Cabilis at will. Now, I want my Iksar Monk to be able to do the same in Freeport and Qeynos. I have never done this before. How difficult will this be compared to getting Cabilis faction? OR, any other suggestions to make getting his Epic 1.0 easier.

It's doable.

Once upon a time there was an Iksar player legendary for doing all the faction work. This was in Kunark era of the live game. His name was very iksar-ish (Ssnakes, or something like that). He made a guide... and would email it to people that contacted him. I know this as I got the guide from him shortly after TSS went live and he was amazed people still wanted it (as he hadn't played EQ in years at that point).

Then like a dummy I didn't save that guide or info.

If anyone has it... they should put it on the wiki and give the guy credit. What he did was amazing in the context of the game at the time.


Qeynos factions you kill gnolls by the thousands. There are quests too... but if you are high enough level to just annihilate Blackburrow it might be more worthwhile to just put in your days there.

Look up stuff on the faction pages in the beastiary though, where you can search by faction. Example: Corrupt Qeynos Guards

Some people like to let their merc kill a small set of faction mobs for days... this bends the original intent of AFK, but on the official boards they've repeatable basically said "afk merc killing isn't an exploit. we have bigger fish to fry". On the O-boards the threads usually come up from someone doing it in a desirable spot for xp rather than an out-of the way goblin camp in Warslik's for faction though.

If you are above level 50 you can use the evil eye shroud that has charm as an ability to "cheat" some quests requiring a hand in. Works for the worker sledgemallet for example. Puppet strings was the older way of trying this. One of the original appeals of the enchanter class...

If you want to act like an enchanter without the charming and make a faction like you more you can dabble with ornate velium pendant . Since they broke the alliance line of spells sometime around omens of war... this cool item is only useful doing content that predates that change. [which is home city faction and epic 1.0 as you talk of]

Also remember to look up quests in the cities you want faction in. Most of the time there is something like the red wine quest for Neriak, or bone chip for Cabilis that lets you power up a lot of factions "faster". What was nice about the guide I mentioned at the top is this guy had figured out the order to do these things in to avoid repeat effort (as some old factions intertwine).

Good luck and have fun.

Its nice to still see some folks wanting to do things the old way, and keep playing in the old zones I love it. I did a little searching, while i couldnt find the guide Snailish was talking about, I skimmed through this one and it seems decent. Good luck!!

http://mentalized.net/journal/2003/07/30/the_iksar_handbook_of_infiltration/

Anezka's Faction Guide
Or How the Turkey got some lovin'...

I was going to reference this. Rukkuss beat me. I have it in my "Favorites" list and I love it. (Pictures show the iksar Inezka cozying up to citizens in various cities.) In checking, I see that access from my saved link is only by the Wayback Machine now. Rukkuss' link goes directly to the Wayback.

Edited, Aug 2nd 2014 6:31am by Grove

Edited, Aug 2nd 2014 6:32am by Grove

I'm getting ready to take that route with my DE SK for Greenmist -- any advice other than Tylenol for my wrist and beer for my patience?

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Hrm...400 a pop. Awesome!

I did it before they changed that. So 4 at a time, unstacked. Rinse and repeat 2000 times.

Same here. My Drakkin Necro killed the bandit lord camp enough times to be able to do the bone chip hand ins while Iksar illusioned. This was not an evening's work by any means.

As a necro I had the advantage of the skullcap questline which quickly (in comparison) raises the necro guild faction (not on the bone chip quest faction table).

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We can purchase bone chips now?

Yeah. Necro "meat to bone" AA was one workaround to this. Pretty sure I used vendor meat from Thurgadin by the stackful. That wasn't that fast either...

Oopsie. Duplicate post. Sorry.

Edited, Sep 24th 2014 8:56pm by amastropolo