So I thought VS rep was useless!
 

So I thought the rep with Venril Sathir was worthless and that trashing it by killing ogres in TD wouldn't be such a bad thing, I hunted them for about a leven and a half. I invited some friends to group up over there, and one of them mentions that now we couldn't get the OT hammer easily, or at least because of this rep being low now, that we would die after using OT hammer. I'm an Iksar Monk, and I was looking forward to having that little port weapon available to me at some point, did I screw myself? Is this really the rep I need? Are there ways to mend the rep without throwing away another important rep?

And as a side note, are there any other reps I should keep in mind not to screw with if I want to get some cool things in the game? I'm always nervous killing new stuff, I haven't killed any sarnaks yet, or many goblins, just because I haven't researched those reps yet!

I always had the OT hammer as a Brell Serilis worshipping Dwarf Pally in live. You won't die- especially in your mid 50s up. You just hit the ground running and don't look back =)

Prior to PoK stones I had a hot key for landing. "Good guy ported in and must train please MOVE" or somesuch.

Oh- the bitch was having to use puppet strings for the turn in.

1. Yes Venril Sathir is the faction you need to get the port hammer. You need amiable to get it.
2. Yes you can get Venril Sathir faction without ruining another faction but it's long as balls
3. No you don't necessarily NEED the faction to get the hammer, just 5k (still the price?) and luck on breaks.
4. No you won't die with a bad Venril Sathir faction when you hammer into OT. You appear on a boat in a safe spot, the skeletons around the boats, when you jump down, are chumps.

Any class that can charm can get it without faction. Rogues and bards can use DE illusion mask to boost faction, and bards can boost it further with faction song.

Any class can use puppet strings, but you better debuff the hell out of him before you waste a charge.

Only 136 braids! Assuming you are starting from the base apprehensive standing and haven't done anything to make it worse.

I think most raid guilds offer a charge of puppet strings to their apps for a small fee (certainly less than 5k) since the OT hammer is so useful for mobilization.

It can be many more than this. I got the hammer on my Iksar SK via the turn in quest. I had done nothing to loose faction when I got to OT but found that my faction was so low (as an Iksar and possibly also because of my SKness) that I could not even turn in braids. I discovered however, that I could turn in braids in wolf form, so I spent many days hunting Berzerkers (which are good exp on top of the good exp for turn ins) and paying Druids for Greater Wolf Form. I think the total number of braids I turned in was somewhat in excess of 200.

Why didn't you just turn in the jade in wolf form too?

because you need amiable faction for the hammer quest, wolf form as i understand it will only get you to indiff