[Schortt]

There are tons of quest to do in Velious that don't require serious faction grinding, especially if you can sneak. Things like pathing, mob location, and respawn time also don't really require grinding - you can grab a few dudes and crawl through a dungeon to check this stuff without having to spend hours killing the same set of mobs.

That said, getting kindly (let alone max ally) with any of the factions without the raid mobs around to provide big hits is going to be a pretty big effort. Checking the quests that require this level of faction will take awhile unless we get some artificial faction setting NPCs or mobs to kill that provide bigger hits.