Paineel Guard - No Faction Hits

[arsenalpow]

Skeleton guards in paineel do not give a faction hit. On live it was possible farm these guards for positive Deepwater Knight faction hits. All of the other NPCs in the zone that aren't undead give faction hits like so:

[Sun Aug 31 21:53:26 2014] Elia Athrex has been slain by Chest!
[Sun Aug 31 21:53:26 2014] Your faction standing with Craftkeepers got better.
[Sun Aug 31 21:53:26 2014] Your faction standing with CrimsonHands got better.
[Sun Aug 31 21:53:26 2014] Your faction standing with DeepwaterKnights got better.
[Sun Aug 31 21:53:26 2014] Your faction standing with GateCallers got better.
[Sun Aug 31 21:53:26 2014] Your faction standing with Heretics got worse.

[Kender]

they originally didnt give faction hits

[Kender]

some posts that indicate this.

http://www.graffe.com/forums/showthread.php?5801-Paineel-Guards - August 2002
http://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-2378.html - Feb 2003
http://www.monkly-business.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8720 - September 2002


They did add faction at some stage though, just not sure if they will have faction hits on this server. These posts indicate it may have been added after Luclin was released. maybe in PoP

[Vega]

Yeah, seems like this has been discussed here before sometimes, in posts like the following:

Paineel guards don't give negative faction [until Luclin] when you kill them, there is no pos or neg factio nwhen killing them. They always drop a brass [I think brass? im drunk] shield and sword and up to 3 plat 5 gold. So about 10-13 plat per kill. If you have + faction with them you can farm them and vendor/sell non stop. They start as low level as 18ish - 30ish??

Haven't personally done the research (like Kender did), but always sounded like it was classic.