How good are the Exterminator quests for raising faction?

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<nouma@msn.com> wrote:
> For fun, I'm trying to raise faction by using the Exterminator quests. I'm
> non-KOS to half the guards and the shopkeepers, but KOS to everyone else. I
> did several turn-ins, but didn't seem to make much leeway.
>
> Does anyone have any direct experience with how good the Exterminator quests
> are at raising faction? Are we talking hundreds of turn-ins? Thousands?

It kinda sounds like you're talking about EQ, and it's in an EQ newsgroup...
but I have no clue what you're talking about.

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<jh@3gcomm.fr> wrote:
>
> "Faned" <faned@wyld.qx.net> a écrit dans le message de
> news:slrnda8pt9.76m.faned@wyld.qx.net...
> > <nouma@msn.com> wrote:
> > > For fun, I'm trying to raise faction by using the Exterminator quests.
> I'm
> > > non-KOS to half the guards and the shopkeepers, but KOS to everyone
> else. I
> > > did several turn-ins, but didn't seem to make much leeway.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any direct experience with how good the Exterminator
> quests
> > > are at raising faction? Are we talking hundreds of turn-ins?
> Thousands?
> >
> > It kinda sounds like you're talking about EQ, and it's in an EQ
> newsgroup...
> > but I have no clue what you're talking about.
>
> That is the 2nd stupid post you have made today Good Job !!

Seems I'm ahead of you, who have made only one stupid post so far today.
Keep trying. =P

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"Richard Lawson" <nouma@msn.com> wrote in message
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> For fun, I'm trying to raise faction by using the Exterminator quests.
> I'm non-KOS to half the guards and the shopkeepers, but KOS to everyone
> else. I did several turn-ins, but didn't seem to make much leeway.
>
> Does anyone have any direct experience with how good the Exterminator
> quests are at raising faction? Are we talking hundreds of turn-ins?
> Thousands?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> -Richard
>
> Monual Lifegiver
> Prelate of Rodcet Nife
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>
We have done them in a couple of cities. We have not noticed that the
faction changed much, but then we did not do them more than, say, 10 times.
Depending on the city, there may be other quests that give faster results.
But, I am also thinking that those other guys may be on a different
faction...

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<nouma@msn.com> wrote:
> "Faned" wrote:
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any direct experience with how good
> >> the Exterminator quests are at raising faction? Are
> >> we talking hundreds of turn-ins? Thousands?
> >
> > It kinda sounds like you're talking about EQ, and it's
> > in an EQ newsgroup... but I have no clue what you're
> > talking about.
>
> Well, that would answer the question about whether or not you have
> experience with this quest, wouldn't it? =)
>
> http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db [...] quest=2465

Surprisingly, it wouldn't. It would, however, tell you just how long ago as
an iksar monk I became non-KOS in Qeynos (and Freeport), and how unlikely it
would seem for a high level cleric to be concerned with same. =)

As it's been nearly five years since I did that faction work, things may
have changed. I do know that there's an insta-respawn point in the Qeynos
newbie yard that should help, to the right of the path facing out from the
gate.

And I ended up skipping the part of the epic quest that required
Qeynos/Freeport factions, go figure.

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"Richard Lawson" <nouma@msn.com> writes:
> For fun, I'm trying to raise faction by using the Exterminator quests. I'm
> non-KOS to half the guards and the shopkeepers, but KOS to everyone else. I
> did several turn-ins, but didn't seem to make much leeway.
>
> Does anyone have any direct experience with how good the Exterminator quests
> are at raising faction? Are we talking hundreds of turn-ins? Thousands?

Not sure whether you mean just in Qeynos (per the quest number you
posted later), or the Exterminator quests in ALL the starting cities.
If you're already non-KOS to the honest guards and merchants in Qeynos,
then yeah, doing turn-ins in Qeynos won't help with the other factions
in that city.

I've done a lot of faction work with my Iksar, and am non-KOS in most
of the so-called Good cities, though there are still factions here and
there that hate me (esp cleric guilds). I used the Exterminator quests
a little, but I suspect they give only a minimal faction boost, so I'd
expect it to require several hundred turn-ins to go from KOS to maxed.

Usually there are other quests or mobs that give faster boosts to the
same factions. E.g., for Qeynos I just waded through Blackburrow a
while, either when it was empty or helping lower level PCs to mooch
the faction hits. For the Corrupt Qeynos Guards you can use the orc
and gnoll scalp quests in Highpass, or get a chanter to make you non-KOS
to the corrupt guard in North Karana near the bridge to EK, who sells
Blackburrow Stout (but then you'll have to repair your faction with the
honest guards).

I recently inherited a cleric (a friend was retiring his second account),
and was mildly annoyed to find I'm KOS to the corrupt Qeynos guards, as
it causes problems if I try to mem a spell in my home city. (The guards
are green, but will attack when I sit to mem. Not sure if the honest
guards will then join in; there didn't happen to be any around at the
time.)

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Don Woods <don-ns@iCynic.com> wrote in
news:7wr7ffp13s.fsf@ca.icynic.com:

> "Richard Lawson" <nouma@msn.com> writes:
>> For fun, I'm trying to raise faction by using the Exterminator
>> quests. I'm non-KOS to half the guards and the shopkeepers, but KOS
>> to everyone else. I did several turn-ins, but didn't seem to make
>> much leeway.
>>
>> Does anyone have any direct experience with how good the Exterminator
>> quests are at raising faction? Are we talking hundreds of turn-ins?
>> Thousands?
>
> Not sure whether you mean just in Qeynos (per the quest number you
> posted later), or the Exterminator quests in ALL the starting cities.
> If you're already non-KOS to the honest guards and merchants in
> Qeynos, then yeah, doing turn-ins in Qeynos won't help with the other
> factions in that city.
>
> I've done a lot of faction work with my Iksar, and am non-KOS in most
> of the so-called Good cities, though there are still factions here and
> there that hate me (esp cleric guilds). I used the Exterminator
> quests a little, but I suspect they give only a minimal faction boost,
> so I'd expect it to require several hundred turn-ins to go from KOS to
> maxed.

I would expect something in the thousands actually, it's likely a one
point faction boost.

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