all evidence points to people MQing this staff for the past 15 years utilizing invis or sneak turn ins. Many rogues and rangers are mentioned as well as clear directions of how to properly 'invis turn in' quests for MQing.
There is not one time the words "warmly" or "ally" faction are in any of the 5 pages of comments over the 15 years of data collection on the Zam page for the Staff of the Four
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...9&p=1#comments
the logic is right in front of us - if the wizard epic quest only results in the wizard achieving indifferent faction solely through the means of the quest - why would Wizard epic then expect that sorcerer to randomly continue to raise his faction utilizing other classes epics to just complete his own
that makes zero sense and there is absolutely no evidence of the contrary that a faction higher than indifferent indeed is what is suppose to be intended to complete the Arantir turn in.
Several mention apprehensive is too low but indifferent via invis or sneak should work.