Erudite enchanter of Quellios. Illusion:Dark Elf and still KOS in Neriak. Benevolence did not affect faction at all with the guards. Avoid the see-invis guards in the gatehouse by swiming round the back as others have suggested and this isn't hard. Just pray invis does not drop!
I don't know how Quellious affects faction, however Erudites are not KoS in Neriak as a race. My Sol Ro worshiping wiz is not KoS in Neriak...even after slaughtering a lot of CB orcs. If you spent more time there than she did, you may have actually just damaged your faction to the point that illusions won't help you. I had a High Elf Tunare worshiper con dubious to the guards in Dark Elf form (she spent very little time in Crush).
As for Benevolence, it does not raise you to non KoS (as far as I have been able to tell). Colaboration will.
The spell to use if you are KoS is INVISIBILITY. Get to know the area with a non-KoS alt if you are nervous about it popping off. The area that the coin is in is MoB-free, so grab and gate!
For those of you who are not Dark Elves and need to get to Neriak 3rd Gate familiarize yourself with the place first...either explore as an alt or check out the maps at EQAtlas: http://www.eqatlas.com/neriak.html If you go to the right upon entering Neriak Foreign Quarter go to the building up on the hill...I keep going through the mid-air graffiti and hang an immediate left (building 12 on Atlas map) you'll see a Quest NPC Troll with an empty bedroom off of the room she's in. Go into the bedroom and through the drawing on the wall. This secret passageway can take you all the way to Neriak 3rd Gate--and a few extra seconds to recast the spells that dissapear when you zone.
Can anyone tell me if the actual Scroll is No Drop?
My Gnome Enchanter of Brell Serilis (diety, not server), has really rotten faction in Neriak, and I'm terrified to go in there. Not only do the Dark Elves hate me for my diety, I trashed my faction there when I leveled in Crushbone from about 6 til 16. When I went in for the coin in Neriak Commons, my invis came off and the next thing I know, i have 3 guards coming for me - I barely managed to pull off Gate and escape.
Only 2 ways am I going to get the scroll - Make another Agnostic Enchanter and level it to level 4 (for invis and some good race illusions), do the quest and then transfer the scroll to my main - or if its no drop, somehow raise my faction in Neriak without trashing it elsewhere.. :|
I am not to sure how your diety will effect things if you illusion DE but your killing of orcs in Crush bone only effects DE warrior faction. I may be wrong but its worth a shot to try illusion DE still.
Otherwise summon up the courage and go in there again with invis. I had to collect a rod piece from the same spot as the coin for my wizard and I was as nevous as heck when I did it. I created a DE just to checkout the zone and workout a good rout to take to grap the rod. In the end I liked my DE and am now leveling him up. BTW he is an enchanter so by the time I get to doing this quest I will have your problem 10 fold so relax, your got the easy end of the stick. Good luck!
Yes, it is no drop. Now that they've changed how illusion affects kos check what illusion dark elf does to ya. I personally havent played around with the illusions after the faction change, so I'm not quite sure. I believe slaughtering the halflings in nektulos will raise neriak faction, and then theres something of a "bandage quest"(I beleive you turn in bandages) for RV faction. In your place I would just brave the run =\
I just got done doing this quest with my enchanter, at level 49. A little late, but he's a secondary toon anyway. Here are the locs i found all the coins at.
I havent been able to finish the quest yet, due to a problem with Solusk Ro. Cant zone in for some reason. It only took me about 45 minutes to get all 10 of the coins together though, since i had a druid with me the whole time. after Sol Ro comes back up, i think i can have it done in less than an hour. Hope this helps some. GL to you all.