Merchants: merchantsofhighhold faction issue

arturion · #1 05-02-2010, 12:09 PM

Spent all day grinding highhold faction - guards went from KOS glaring to Amiable. Every kill/handin also raised merchantsofhighhold faction.

Every merchant and the banker in both highhold pass and keep never moved from dubious from start to finish.

Whatever faction they are set to - it ain't merchantsofhighhold.

EQbestiary seems to list the faction as "Merchants of Highpass" - but i am 99% sure my gnoll/orc slaying, gnoll/orc/goblin bit handins by the dozen were all raising the faction i mentioned above, perhaps the issue - two different factions, one being raised, another they are all members of [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

LazyFuj · #2 05-03-2010, 01:06 AM

I have same issue.

**nilbog** · #3 05-03-2010, 02:54 AM

Okay so I went and killed gnolls and orcs. I got this faction hit. +MerchantsofHighpass.

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I killed an orc and got another +MerchantsofHighpass

I checked the Merchants in highpass and highkeep. They are on MerchantsofHighpass faction.

I checked the highpass turn in quests associated with this. They gave +MerchantsofHighpass faction.

So... I dunno.

girth · #4 05-03-2010, 10:23 PM

I turned in an ass load of scalps today. I ended up hitting caps with HighpassGuards, MerchantsofHighpass and CarsonMcCabe, they all said it could not be raised any further.

Guards conned 'kindly' to me, the banker and other merchants in highpass and highkeep were dubious to me. Is that the cap an Ogre SK can get? Should I never be able to sell here even with maxed out faction?

PearlJammzz · #5 05-04-2010, 09:03 AM

Could the factions points be messed up or it have a low cap on the MerchantsOfHighpass faction?

IIRC, you get so many + or - points to faction for each hit. Could the MerchantsOfHighpass be giving less points than the other faction hits?

arturion · #6 05-05-2010, 04:31 AM

yeah, i hammered the shit out of it a few more hours after seeing your reply nilbog - and finally got the merchants to indiff, when the guards got to kindly

merchants dubious to indiff was same as guards kos through to kindly - jsut a vastly smaller faction hit to merchants, all good, my mistake.

girth · #7 05-05-2010, 05:47 AM

That doesn't fix my issue, unless an ogre SK is NEVER supposed to be able to raise merchantsofhighpass above dubious. I should imo, guards are amiable or kindly or something.

girth · #8 05-09-2010, 07:41 AM

Somehow after capping my faction with HighpassGuards thru scalp turn-ins, I was able to kill raiders in NK and get +HighpassGuards rep and it didn't give me a cap message. I'm wondering if something is still screwy, and maybe that is why I still can't vendor in HPH or HHK after getting faction capped messages with MerchantsofHighpass.

Brut · #9 05-12-2010, 03:46 AM

Noticed the same. I was getting capped messages at apprehensively after turning in few stacks of scalps. Orc/gnoll kills give me +faction message still (not sayinc that I'm capped), and also the scalp turn-ins still raise HighpassGuards. Up to warmly now.

So I guess merchants can be the same, keep turning scalps despite capped message and you'll probably hit apprehensively at some point.

Kainzo · #10 05-12-2010, 05:50 PM

Seriously, what the hell is with these not really safe for work related pictures popping up?