Advice for faction grinding on Shaman epic

[Rastignac]

1) Can anyone direct me to a good guide explaining how to do the quest through faction? Most of the ones I've found are confusing.

2) Is it possible/advisable to grind in CoM at this point? Or will I just get murdered constantly (I'm level 40)

basically trying to get a head start on this since I'm guildless and probs can't do the quest in the traditional way.

[Platexchange]

You can completely skip all faction parts and just get tear. This requires you doing the very first part over and over again about 100 times.

[Ipman_Wingchun]

I'd advise grinding com and turning in books. Check out the wiki. Doing the first part over and over again is a long process where as doing the book turn ins from CoM will let you get xp there while doing your epic. You can even let other groups in the zone know you are doin the epic and ask them to loot the pieces from their mobs. Most people are cool and will let you know a piece dropped and you can go grab it.

[daasgoot]

agree with ipman

do the quest from start to COM books

then just grind COM books while exping at the same time

should take about 6-7 book turn in's if you have done the rest of the epic quests up to that point.

[Rastignac]

Thanks for the advice guys, but doesn't even the early part of the quest require a lot of support from other players?

[HippoNipple]

I paid a druid to do the first part in BB for me for an hour. For some reason you need to charm the spirit wolf the first time you do it. I did that quest enough times until I could get the NPC in EJ to allow me to do CoM quests. CoM quests when leveling from 39-51 and I think that about did it.

I wouldn't skip the faction grinding and just do tear MQ unless you can confirm that you can also get the sow boots without faction.

[FaithlessKR]

Thanks for the advice guys, but doesn't even the early part of the quest require a lot of support from other players?

The only part that requires any help at all would be the black dire

[Tune]

i always wanted to try stacking a bunch of rings from the first step on corpses then getting rezs back and forth

[HippoNipple]

i always wanted to try stacking a bunch of rings from the first step on corpses then getting rezs back and forth

If you bind in freeport and have a druid friend you can just have them port you to BB over and over.

[Vanquisher]

or bind and make a body at turn in, cleric buddy revives u in over and over, did that for andains shaman epic

[iruinedyourday]

Thanks for the advice guys, but doesn't even the early part of the quest require a lot of support from other players?

Nah you can do it all solo up to black dire. But you can do pages in CoM without having done black dire, so you can grind the faction, get xp, all while you figure out how to get someone to help you get your sow boots.

[Rastignac]

This some good advice. Thanks all.

[Farzo]

i always wanted to try stacking a bunch of rings from the first step on corpses then getting rezs back and forth

It's how they do it on blue. But with the Freeport gem guy. Bind next 2 him Then rez u to the turn in guy 30-45x times /duel kill you

Takes about 2 hrs 2 max faction it.

[Rastignac]

Finally realized that I need to do the Black Dire Stage before I can hand in CoM books. Now all the Need Help With Black Dire posts make sense lol.

[Drakaris]

If you bind in freeport and have a druid friend you can just have them port you to BB over and over.

This method is the best. Druid ports, gates and meds. Both porter and shaman bind in fp.

Takes maybe 3-6 hours?

[iruinedyourday]

Finally realized that I need to do the Black Dire Stage before I can hand in CoM books. Now all the Need Help With Black Dire posts make sense lol.

holy shit im sorry I didnt tell you that.

I turned in 2 sets of books before black dire, one that I thought I was invisible for the turnin and thats why I didnt get the faction...

The second, to test if I did infact need more faction, and that I wasnt invis.

I still collected pages while in Com (and corpsed them! Shh.. i know blue you get in all kinds of trouble corpsing items, I dont think its a insue here though)

then when you are ready you can loot pieces off your corpse library and it saves you a lot of time.

I tottally forgot about the black dire requirement.. well it should be said that, to do each step in the shaman Epic quest, you MUST do the steps leading up to it, to have faction and sucessful turnins.. you can force it, and skip steps by grinding something you already get faction from.

Man, cant believe I forgot that.

PS for black dire, I was able to duo it in my 50's with only my superior healing spell and shit mana pool, with a 60 monk.. Thanks Gnarly! But that should give you a idea of how difficult that fight is. Its not.

[HippoNipple]

Finally realized that I need to do the Black Dire Stage before I can hand in CoM books. Now all the Need Help With Black Dire posts make sense lol.

You don't need to do the black dire before you can do CoM quest. You just need to reach a certain faction before the spirit in EJ will talk to you. Not sure if it is kindly or what.

The black dire does give you a lot of faction and if you do all the parts leading up to CoM quests you will have the faction needed.

If you want a shortcut you should get a druid or cleric and do one of the methods described with the first BB/Freeport gem turn in quest. Do that until you have the faction to do the CoM quest. I did it in 1.5 hours I think. I just paid a random druid 1k/hour to help me and it was worth it to him.

[Rastignac]

Hmm. Maybe I should just farm plat to hire a Druid then.

I had thought that you needed to complete the Black Dire component in order to obtain the item that lets you combine the six quest drops from CoM so that they can be turned in.

[Vega]

You don't need to do the black dire before you can do CoM quest. You just need to reach a certain faction before the spirit in EJ will talk to you. Not sure if it is kindly or what.

This is close but not quite true. You can get the spirit to give you the combine book by just doing everything but the Black Dire. However, if you give him the combined book back without first having kindly faction (either from completing Black Dire, or faction grinding a little bit) he will eat it and say you have failed.

[Rastignac]

Ah, the plot thickens! So he gives the combine book based on faction, not on the Black Dire pelt. So it looks like I need to get my faction up by hook or by crook, so that I can continue happily grinding in the CoM stables.

Maybe I can sell enough SoW pots to hire some mercenaries for black dire, or the druid for the porting trick.


Can't thank all of you enough. They say these forums are just full of bickering but look at this, tons of good advice.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Ah, the plot thickens! So he gives the combine book based on faction, not on the Black Dire pelt. So it looks like I need to get my faction up by hook or by crook, so that I can continue happily grinding in the CoM stables.

Maybe I can sell enough SoW pots to hire some mercenaries for black dire, or the druid for the porting trick.


Can't thank all of you enough. They say these forums are just full of bickering but look at this, tons of good advice.

stfu

[Rastignac]

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[Rastignac]

If any lower-level enchanters in the Gfay area see this, and want to make a few plat, send me a PM. Need to charm Lesser Spirit in BB to start this quest.

[SamwiseRed]

you dont need a chanter...

just do the damn quest up until black dire. from there do a combination of the first quest and the weapons collection in rathe mountains until you can turn in com book. by the time you are done leveling in com you'll have max faction. later nerd.

[daasgoot]

you dont need a chanter...

just do the damn quest up until black dire. from there do a combination of the first quest and the weapons collection in rathe mountains until you can turn in com book. by the time you are done leveling in com you'll have max faction. later nerd.

i had to charm the first quest mob twice before i had faction to do it on my own.. shm epic faction is fuked up.

[SamwiseRed]

they fixed that shit awhile back. unless they broke it again, i didnt charm shit on my shaman 5-6 months ago. ogre shaman rallos zek

[Rastignac]

Yeah. I decided last night to do quest line up until black dire on my own. Went to BB, killed pegleg, Lesser Spirit wouldn't talk to me.

Killed three more times just to make sure it wasn't bugged. Last time had no pet, no buffs, still conned indifferent and wouldn't reply to hail.

[SamwiseRed]

ah i did the lesser spirit in west karana, i mean it shouldnt matter but hell maybe it does.

[daasgoot]

ah i did the lesser spirit in west karana, i mean it shouldnt matter but hell maybe it does.

i did the spirit in RM and in BB, both wouldn't talk to me without being charmed when i did mine.

[Rastignac]

I could try the Karana guy, but he wanders right? No tracking available to me, so I figured I'd go for the static spawn.

[loramin]

You don't need charm, you just need patience. Sometimes when the mob first spawns there's a bug that prevents him from responding, but if you just sit there for a minute and keep hailing him eventually he will respond.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

I could try the Karana guy, but he wanders right? No tracking available to me, so I figured I'd go for the static spawn.

Wk one wanders but you'll commonly see him around the guard house cited on the wiki.

[Rastignac]

Thanks for both those pieces of advice. I will try hailing for a longer period, and if it doesn't work will try WK.

[Slathar]

have u tried doing tailoring

[Rastignac]

No, it never interested me very much. Do you recommend tailoring?

[Slathar]

No, it never interested me very much. Do you recommend tailoring?

yes


but then again i recommend fucking urself too

[Rastignac]

wait so you recommended tailoring as a type of insult or something? This is really confusing!

How did I piss you off?

And why would tailoring insult me? Seems more boring than insulting.

[Slathar]

wait so you recommended tailoring as a type of insult or something? This is really confusing!

How did I piss you off?

And why would tailoring insult me? Seems more boring than insulting.

frig off ricky

[Rastignac]

NO YOU FRIG OFF MR LAHEY

[Vokhine]

HAVE YOU TRIED HNNNNG:confused::confused::confused: HAVE YOU TRIED EATING FREEZING COLD SHIT!???

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[Rastignac]

I am an innocent good lil kish kish who don't know noffing and all they being so mean to me Mr. Blue Pie.

[Wrench]

yes


but then again i recommend fucking urself too

lol classic slathar


big fan but no clue why your not up to slathar21 by now

[Vokhine]

Just tell me what level you are and what zone you are in. I'm not going to hurt ya or burn ya or rip ya or pierce ya or cook ya or slash ya or slice ya or remove your lips and or crunch ya.

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[Rastignac]

oh thaaaank you Mr. Blue Pie! But first you have to proof me yr a nice pie man and burn mean ole' mr. slathar and bury him in the sea okey dokey? Ok? hurt him bad ok :) ???

[Rastignac]

(hurt him real bad ok?)

[Vokhine]

You can't kill a dead man you fooooook!

[daasgoot]

thread got weird.

[Nirgon]

frig off barb


what did you say to me?

I said FRIG OFF

[Rastignac]

Talked with the Lesser Spirit. It worked tonight. Not sure what I did wrong yesterday but now it's on like Donkey Kong.

thanks.

[BardPop]

Give slathar some slack I mean he lives with his grandma, probably just angst in general

[Clark]

oops edit

[Twainz]

If you need someone to do Black Dire hit me up on the forums. I have soloed it multiple times on my bard for people.

[Rastignac]

If you need someone to do Black Dire hit me up on the forums. I have soloed it multiple times on my bard for people.
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[Rastignac]

You around at all this weekend Twainz?

[Casey VII]

You need to stand closer to the mob, talked to me with no faction on my troll shm.

[Rastignac]

You're right. I was doing it wrong before. Was able to do whole quest up to Black Dire on my own after I got it right, including receiving the CoM compendium.

Side note: how the fuck did people figure these quests out on the original servers? Were they announced? Or did people suss them out through trial and error?

[iruinedyourday]

You're right. I was doing it wrong before. Was able to do whole quest up to Black Dire on my own after I got it right, including receiving the CoM compendium.

Side note: how the fuck did people figure these quests out on the original servers? Were they announced? Or did people suss them out through trial and error?

Right? Shaman quest in particular... All those ghosts literally trying to make you fail... And in the most fucked up locations to return too, had they succeeded.

I think about that everytime I do the shaman epic.

[jeffd]

aspy nerds just figured em out

[Rastignac]

pras sperglords then. hard enough following the wiki.