Need help in becoming the friendly Iksar

[bounky37]

I'm a level 23 Iksar necromancer, and at this point in the game, i'm hated by everyone. My goal is to possibly become atleast non-kos with all the cities in the game. Now I never actually got past level 3 in classic, so I have no idea where to start or what to do to increase it. I was hoping to start with the troll and ogre city and make my way up from there. Any suggestions?

[Pillow Armadillo]

Neriak is a good place to start. You can get faction with guards and merchants with the following quest for under 100pp: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=159

[Lavahorn]

Blackburrow, kill stuff.

[Curmudgen]

Going to see ifthis link works.....

http://web.archive.org/web/20030620154038/http://amusso.albano.org/anezka/Factions.html

This was an iksar faction guide. Very good

[Rogean]

Ah I remember killing gnolls for qeynos faction back in the day. Good times...

[Slave]

Killing a bunch of orcs in EC makes it fairly easy to travel about Freeport.

[Tewaz]

I killed the two guards at the toll booth in WC to become non-kos in NFP I think. You are still KoS at the gates, but at least you can bank.

[BrandeX]

Any suggestions?
Give up on Grobb. You can get non-kos to some of Oggok. I did this on live during Velious, some cities you just can't get un-kos too enough to be viable unless you fd flop through town every time you pass someone from a fac group that has no +hits in game.

[Kope]

Give up on Grobb. You can get non-kos to some of Oggok. I did this on live during Velious, some cities you just can't get un-kos too enough to be viable unless you fd flop through town every time you pass someone from a fac group that has no +hits in game.

I think there are 2 mobs in the game that give you Basher (troll guard) faction when you kill them. I know 1's in steamfont.

[Gamkek]

I saw an Iksar necromancer in Grobb last night. I was so amazed to see an iksar there that I sent him a tell and asked him how he did it. He told me he didn't do anything! He was around level 30 and had never done any faction work of any kind. His faction was dubious to Grobb when he got there. He couldn't sell to any of the merchants, but he could bank and bind and roam freely around the town. This is a Cazic worshipping necro, obviously, as that's the only deity they can choose.

I was in disbelief as this wasn't what I remembered from live at all. He then went on to tell me that he had an Iksar Monk friend (also Cazic worshipper) who was KoS to Grobb guards. It makes no sense.

He even went on to tell me that he can travel in Oggok, too, no problem...and sell! My Innoruuk worshipping Troll Shaman couldn't even sell to Oggok merchants. I didn't see him do that, though, so I can't say if it was true. I definitely saw him standing right next to Grobb guards and banking without any problems, though.

p1999: Got faction problems?

[Goraxx]

Best part about being an iksar is that you are hated everywhere. Can pretty much go and hunt in any city you want. Im friends with the Dwarves of Kaladim for now, until they have served their purpose.

Then they will die.

[Lavahorn]

Thanks for the info on that wine quest, I had forgotten about it. Just a note 1 bottle of wine at a time seems like on this server, can't turn in stacked items and no faction hits for 4 unstacked bottles, just 1.

[Randy]

p1999: Got faction problems?

I think its pretty accurate but if you go ahead and research it. I'm sure they'd make any corrections needed. I mean, developers have limited time and making faction exactly perfect probably isn't as high on the list as other things.

[Lavahorn]

turned 40 stacks tonight, amiably to some guards, dubious to others, maxed warmly with the merchants. good quest I would have turned in more but my audiobook ran out

[BrandeX]

Not sure how far off the basic peq faction settings p1999 is, but the standard peq faction bases are not completely live accurate.

[Hottbiscuits Dreadmuffin]

Freeport Guards are on two factions; "The Freeport Militia" and "The Coalition of Tradefolk Underground"

If you kill orcs in High Pass Hold until your faction is good enough to turn in scalps to Ashlan, the scalp turn ins will give you faction with "The Freeport Militia"

Many people claim the scalp quest is broken because of the massive amounts of scalps they turn in and the little faction boosts they see with the guards. It's not broken; the guards are on two factions, and "The Coalition of Tradefolk Underground" seem to hate everyone. The quests you do to improve this faction give you negative to Priests of Marr and Knights of Truth, and when you try to up those factions, most quests give you negative to The Freeport Militia (excluding the Fabian gold quest I've described below)

If you want to get in good with Bards of Antonica, once you're non-KoS with Freeport, go to East Freeport and find the grub & whatever tavern near the docks. Fabian is a human with a lute standing on a table. Give him one gold at a time, and he'll increase your faction with the Bards plus the Knights of Truth and some others. Fabian is low enough level where even if you're KoS you can still turn in gold to him. (Bring about 800 gold)

After that, I'd recommend going to Qeynos and doing the same gold type quest with Mr. Novashine, a half elf who wanders around the courtyard. He also takes bone chips, but gold is much easier. (Same thing as with Fabian. You'll probably be KoS, but if he's green, you can turn in the gold)

[Gamkek]

I think its pretty accurate but if you go ahead and research it. I'm sure they'd make any corrections needed. I mean, developers have limited time and making faction exactly perfect probably isn't as high on the list as other things.

Well, I went ahead and researched it in various places; old posts on Alla's site, old forum posts on various websites. It's just really difficult to find anything saying definitively "Iksar faction with Grobb is X" but all the anecdotal evidence I was reading while browsing through those threads from 2001 seemed to point to the conclusion that Iksar were KoS in Grobb and Oggok (and in every city on Norrath except Cabilis and Neriak Foreign Quarter). I'm going to keep searching and post a bug report when I find something really definitive that can't be shot down.

It seems like a pretty huge oversight, unless those faction settings were just copied directly from another server/PEQ without any vouching process. I don't think there's anyone that would argue that a Troll Shaman shouldn't be able to sell in Oggok while an Iksar walks around like he owns the place. Everyone I've talked to seems surprised to find out that Iksar are not KoS in Troll/Ogre towns! I know I was.