Traders of The Haven  

This quest raises faction with only one group of merchants. They are the ones in the NW quadrent of town. The merchants in the east and in the short quarter are on stout faction,which is raised by other quests.

I did this quest with my LVL 1 (yes that says level one) Paladin all without lifting my sword. and got my amulet that doesnt work except for +2 charisma...wooooo. but anyways anybody can do this quest no matter what your level.

The enemies in echo caverns that aggro you--which, by the way, you can NOT target--are the very strange looking tentacle-plants growing on the ceiling and walls. One tends to think that, since you can't target them, they're just another cool environmental effect of Luclin.

WRONG! Pain! Root! More pain! These buggers will aggro you if you move close enough, and do a continuous root/drain for about 50 every tick or few. My level 22 paladin got roasted by a couple that aggroed him at the same time. They can't move, but the "spell" is instantly casted and can be cast at a range...Just avoid these guys like the DEVIL.

By the way--There are no dangers in fungus grove if you go in through echo caverns...Just a slosh through the muck and you're at the outpost.
-Vhailore

Amulet is nerfed. I was looking at it in my spare time, it no longer says that it gives a faction adjustment. It also no longer changes my faction. Prices are only affected by a few coppers, due to Cha. I guess Verant nerfed without telling us. Though, it might be just broken. At least the quest gives lots of faction... too bad it won't affect horse prices.

Btw, what's the deal with there only being two horse merchants? There should be merchants hidden all across Luclin, maybe with discounts or better horses! Let's all spam with petitions! >cough< Marnek's Dagger of Blood >cough<!

I think you all missunderstand the quest, its to rase faction with the people. The necklace adds to you CHA thus making you more friendly.
IE you may have to do some of the other faction quests too to get you faction up. As I already have a good CHA and AC necklace its worthless to me. Seems like the Steaon faction quest may be better.

Yep, I'm seeing the bug too. I get no benefit from the amulet at all. I'm a HUM/WAR/Agnostic.

See: http://www.ajs.com/~ajs/eq/haven.html

i did this quest with my agnostic erudite wiz 5 times today. Myobjective was to lower the prices for the horses so i could afford one. Here are some interesting things that happenned afterwards.

1. till the first three times i did the quest, it raised my faction to amiable. Lowered the price of the cheapest horse by about 2k pp from what it was before the quest

2. the 4th time i did hte quest i got to warmly and the price of the the cheapest horse had INCREASED buy about 1.5k pp from what it was before the quest.

3. i did the quest 5th time to see if it corrected the problem, it further raised the horse price about 1k pp (now 2.5k pp MORE than what it was before i started).

4 so i go damn turned off and petitioned. turned out that (quoting the gm on this) "while the faction bug was fixed for this quest so that it wont raise your faction with eeryone, some race/class/diety combinations got bugged and are now behaving erratically"

so basically its bad luck for me, i gotta wait till they fix it, (and then do it all over again) to get my horse cheap.

a very interesting fact to note here is that a DE cleric friend of mine who got to ally by doing this quest 6 times, has the most expensive horse (chain bridle) now sold to her for ONLY 28k, that coming down from around 113k (what it was for her before the quest. literally makes my cry =), coz i cant buy that horse yet ....... i dunno offcourse which class/race/diety combinations are fixed and which are bugged, but i hope someone out there has more luck in this regard than me =)


hope this helps someone.

The amount of Shadowhaven faction you get for this quest is A LOT, especially for such a simple errand quest. There are 4 legs to this delivery quest -- the first two legs give no factions; the third leg gives small faction increases; the fourth leg gives you the lion's share of faction increases -- so completing all 4 legs of the quest is necessary.

2000 faction points takes you from beginning faction to maximum faction. So repeating this quest 10 times would maximize your Traders faction. Repeating this quest 100 times would maximize your 3 House factions.

Here is how my Iksar fared repeating this quest 20 times. (I destroyed the necklace reward; don't need it now.) Your results should be similar.

Traders of the Haven, +200 points of faction per quest completion
begin: apprehensively
1: amiably
3: kindly
5: warmly
6: ally
10: ally, maximum faction

House of Fordel, House of Midst, House of Stout, +20 points of faction per quest completion
begin: dubiously
7: apprehensively
12: indifferently
17: amiably

Had never been to Fungus Grove before... ran through that passage with all the plants at 45, without Sow, and nothing aggroed on me except those boglings...

Unfortuately, the "fix" they did to this item seems to have been total. The Shadow Haven merchants's faction doesn't change whether it's on or off (they were already amiable from doing the "daily reports quest" five times), and the only difference in prices could easily be attributed to the 2 CHA on it.

None of the "Short" merchants will seel to me either - they're still dubious. Another odd thing- the Haven Defenders went from Amiable to Indifferent! Maybe I'm delusional...