The Boreium Brotherhood.
Actually, the real name is the Thorium Brotherhood, but I'm working on a quest to gain 'faction' status of friendly with them, which has to be the most tedious and boring quest of the entire game so far.
Why do I bother with improving my faction status with them? Because if I attain 'friendly' status with them I can buy things from them which I otherwise could not. I have been told in general terms from my experienced guild members that gaining status with this group is highly desirable.
The problem is the quest to gain friendly status involves 'donating' goods a many as 120 times! Each donation must include a lump of coal (they must have a *lot* of naughty children -smile-), and can include a stack of heavy leather (10 items), or an herbs (4 items), or iron bars (4 items).
To go down the heavy leather path would require as many as 1200 pieces of heavy leather. I have heard of being into "heavy leather", but this is absurd.
The final piece of the puzzle is as many as 240 Incendosaur scales. These are found in a cave which has to be one of the more heavily farmed areas in the game. Must of the time is spent waiting for these creatures to respawn. It's a funny sight seeing multiple toons chasing after a mob hoping to be the one to strike the first blow.
In situations like this I wish I were a hunter. This class has the potential to strike as far a 100 yards away. My toon (with improvements) has a 36 yard range.
Once I gain 'friendly' status, I hope they have a recipes for "cure repetitive motion injury" and "cure extreme boredom". -smile-
How the game designers came up with such an uninteresting, repetitive, and BORING quest is anyone's guess. I most certainly hope there will be no more like it again.
Actually, the real name is the Thorium Brotherhood, but I'm working on a quest to gain 'faction' status of friendly with them, which has to be the most tedious and boring quest of the entire game so far.
Why do I bother with improving my faction status with them? Because if I attain 'friendly' status with them I can buy things from them which I otherwise could not. I have been told in general terms from my experienced guild members that gaining status with this group is highly desirable.
The problem is the quest to gain friendly status involves 'donating' goods a many as 120 times! Each donation must include a lump of coal (they must have a *lot* of naughty children -smile-), and can include a stack of heavy leather (10 items), or an herbs (4 items), or iron bars (4 items).
To go down the heavy leather path would require as many as 1200 pieces of heavy leather. I have heard of being into "heavy leather", but this is absurd.
The final piece of the puzzle is as many as 240 Incendosaur scales. These are found in a cave which has to be one of the more heavily farmed areas in the game. Must of the time is spent waiting for these creatures to respawn. It's a funny sight seeing multiple toons chasing after a mob hoping to be the one to strike the first blow.
In situations like this I wish I were a hunter. This class has the potential to strike as far a 100 yards away. My toon (with improvements) has a 36 yard range.
Once I gain 'friendly' status, I hope they have a recipes for "cure repetitive motion injury" and "cure extreme boredom". -smile-
How the game designers came up with such an uninteresting, repetitive, and BORING quest is anyone's guess. I most certainly hope there will be no more like it again.
posted by George | 2:51 PM
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I don't have an inherent problem with "faction grind", only with this particular faction grind "quest".
I have no problem with this being a way to gain status, but I do have a problem with it being the *only* way to do so.
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