Quest Issue: 10th ring bug/question?

[Daldaen]

I can't imagine it would require high Dain faction.

Raising Dain faction is a huge pita. Basically you have to grind quests or farm King Tormax/His Guards.

Not everyone who did 9th Ring was farming Giants. At least not those specific ones and not enough to hit max/warmly. It takes like 2-3 Tormax hits or like 100~ Tormax guard hits to get up there.

I looked through the monk/rogue/cleric boards and allakhazam and couldn't find any talk of faction pre-2002. But I doubt this is something that would've been retroactively reduced.