Neriak faction
 

I'm looking for ways to raise my faction here, particularly with the int casters and the merchants in the cleric guild. What factions are these dark elves on, and will the red wine quest cover them? My gnome would like to buy cleric spells but the merchants (and the cleric GMs, but they don't matter) are all dubious. And for some reason, the int casters are all kos :/

It's not easy being gnome :(

Red Wine will not help you with any guilds in Neriak, it only boosts dreadguard outer and inner (guards inside and outside Neriak) and dark bargainers, which are the generic merchants.

I'll try the wine quest in a sec to see if it helps, but does anyone know if this sort of merchant:

http://wiki.project1999.org/Friz_Punox

is on Dark Bargainer faction, or not?

And why is the guard Kszan Punox threateningly when all the other guards are dubious or better? He keeps trying to kill me as I make my way to the library for wine quest :P

Wine helped with the merchants that already sold to me, doh :P

And the guards don't seem to have changed, which is weird.

Did you max all 3 factions? On my bard I maxed Dark Bargainers well before either dreadguard.

Just maxed Dark Bargainers. The others are just guards, right? Guards already non-kos, and until faction assist for pvp is implemented I don't think i need that any higher.

guards will take quite a bit more red wine turn ins, but it will raise, slowly but surely. Guilds however are a different story. Not so easy.

Mainly all you'll be able to raise is guards/merchants, turn in like 8 bags worth after youre warmly to merchants to get good with dread guard

He might be on Indigo Brotherhood (warrior guild) faction (turfed by killing CB orcs). One of the Warrior GMs has the last name Punox but a different first name...

I'm pretty sure the guards in third gate are on a different faction than dreadguard. It's either the cleric guild or the necro guild.