Wow, way more responses than I expected
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First off, as Velerin understood, I was just trying to provide data to anyone interested, not trying to advocate for doing what I did.
On the question of "why not just do the quest the right way?": I already did it that way on live, so I didn't feel bad about "cheating" here, and the Hole is annoying. But mostly I just don't like bothering people. As it is I still need guild help for Black Dire and Lord Rak, but at least I don't have to bug them for the Hole and Ghiosk.
As for the elephant in the room, there were two reasons I didn't do CoM:
- I'm genuinely curious about how much faction each step provides. If I report back the Bondl + shield turn-ins approach and Yumyum reports the Bondl-only approach, and someone else reports the ... well at the end of the day with enough of those reports and some multi-variable algebra we can actually determine the relative faction each step gives. And if we had that info, everyone could make a well-informed decision for themselves which steps make the most sense.
- To be honest though, at first I was going to do CoM (laziness > curiosity). On live (where I had the same shaman), I spent a LOT of time in CoM, and I was really looking forward to going back to that nice empty shaman play ground.
However P99 CoM is very different from live CoM: its completely packed. Most times I went I literally couldn't find a single mob to kill. Real life concerns kept me from trying to join a group, and there was just no room for a soloing shaman there (sadly).
That just leaves the question of running around, which really wasn't
that bad. I was bound in Feerrott (killing spectres and guards), and I'd frequently check Rathe to see if Glaron/Tabien were up. If they were I killed them and did a quick WK run and then gated back. So while I did have 25 trips from Feerot to WK, they were one-way at Scale of Wolf speed, and so weren't too rough (and they were cheaper than hiring a cleric or other helper to do Bondl turn-ins).
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Originally Posted by Sarius
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If you want to do the faction quickly, I reccommend repeating the Freeport to Eruds Crossing gem turn in. This will not yield sow boots or shield of falsehood though
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I don't understand how this is fast; as you can see I did do that step 4 times, but only because I was doing Bondl a bunch, and then I happened to be in Qeynos with a gem after. Even if you could reliably port between FP and Toxx, you'd still have to wait for the boat, and you'd still have go kill in some other zone to get the gem to give to Bondl.