Globe of Norrath from Ironforge Exchange

[Galldora]

I just noticed there is now a globe of Norrath available from Ironforge (although it may have been there for awhile, I haven't checked for some time.)  Does someone know what rank you must be to purchase this?  As an envoy, my character can't buy it yet.  Also, what does it look like?

[Calthine]

I'll have to go buy one today <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Galldora]

Thanks, Calthine!  (How many times have I said that?  Too many to count!!)I'll be waiting to hear what you find out.  In the meantime, guess I'd better start cranking out writs...

[Calthine]

Kiana's Factor/Ally, so I'm still not sure what rank you can get this at, lol.  It's relatively new, so I'd guess Factor.<img src="http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a230/calthine/an_ornate_globe_of_Norrath.jpg" alt="" border="0" />

[Mystfit]

Thisitem is from someplace else, too? Cause I've had one forever but I've forgotten where.

[Domino]

<cite>Mystfit wrote:</cite><blockquote>Thisitem is from someplace else, too? Cause I've had one forever but I've forgotten where.</blockquote>It's available at ally faction from all tradeskill societies.There's a similar one available from the Qeynos scout (I think) faction but it's a different size.

[Galldora]

Ah, it's lovely! Thanks! I need to be an ally for this one, huh? Well, that's fair, it's pretty nice. In fact, it's just what I need to push me to attain ally faction. I've GOTTA HAVE that globe! Thanks for this very nice house item, Domino. /wipe sweat from brow /crank out another writ

[Captain_Xpendab]

I saw this on the Kelethin tradeskill merchant the other day. Thought it might be a recent addition because the only name I could read in the dressing room was "Kurnark", but then I turned my texture resolution up to maximum and saw that other places where identified too. It's a Pre-Shattering "EQLive" globe, I wonder if we'll ever get a Post-Shattering one.

[Tokam]

<p>You need 40k status</p><p>I dont know how long its been there (there is one in the coalition in freeport too!) but I dont remember seeing it when I was last buying some bone cages.</p><p>the one domino means is <a href="http://www.everseek.com/index.php?&name=Furniture&single=on&fid=745" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this</a> - from the qeynos TA @ 30k</p>

[Mystfit]

<p>Well, I'm sure glad ya'll mentioned this as I had dismissed it as being the same as the Q. scout one. I'm off to buy one today then.....</p>

[VolgaDark]

<p>Same here .... Thought it was the same as the one scouts sold me while back .... Will buy one as soon as I get home today. Thanks for pointing out the size difference! </p>

[Mystfit]

Ignore me.  Off to shop <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Cadori Seraphim]

This is indeed a nice item <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> One question though, it seems to me that raising faction is a bit too hard to do at this time (tradeskill faction of course). Is this intended? Is it just me?

[Krystara]

<cite>DominoDev wrote:</cite><blockquote>It's available at ally faction from all tradeskill societies.</blockquote><p>Ally?  *looks at her persona window* *looks at her supply of ingredients* *sighs heavily and trudges off to the isles*</p><p> I love the look of this item - I can't wait to get to it.  *sighs again*</p>

[Mystfit]

It is and I hope it stays that way. As with adventuring writs, the slog to get faction built up takes awhile and makes titles and goodies earned more unique. My main uses her prefix from faction with the priest guilds and I've yet to see anyone else with it (that and it suits her snotty high elf mentality). With the addition of AA prefixes, ttitles have lost some of their overall ooomph, so I hope these don't change (adventure or TS) and keep their sheen.

[Jesdyr]

This item has been in the game since late June .. I happened to get the server first on Unrest on Aug 27 so I guess not many people were interested in it <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> There are still 6 servers that have not discovered it.

[Illmarr]

<cite>Cadori Seraphim wrote:</cite><blockquote>This is indeed a nice item <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" /> One question though, it seems to me that raising faction is a bit too hard to do at this time (tradeskill faction of course). Is this intended? Is it just me?</blockquote>Not sure I understand. Do you mean too hard in relation to Adventure Guild factions? Personally I raise them all (Though I admit once hitting 70 on my tradeskills, I have not ground writs, but I'll be getting back to it for that globe  <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />). I do adventure writs in Bonemire and harvest along the way, so I have plenty of materials to do tradeskill writs when I want to. Works really well for me at least

[Cadori Seraphim]

I understand not wanting to make it easy, but it seems insanely hard atm. Perhaps its just me lol

[Calthine]

<cite>Cadori Seraphim wrote:</cite><blockquote>I understand not wanting to make it easy, but it seems insanely hard atm. Perhaps its just me lol</blockquote>Used to be a lot harder <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  At some point they doubled what you earn from writs.

[Cadori Seraphim]

wow!lol guess its just me <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Will continue the grind no matter what they do but I was just curious if it seemed insanely hard to anyone else <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Oakum]

<cite>Cadori Seraphim wrote:</cite><blockquote>This is indeed a nice item <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" /> One question though, it seems to me that raising faction is a bit too hard to do at this time (tradeskill faction of course). Is this intended? Is it just me?</blockquote>Hmm, not sure. I leveled an armorer up in aboput 3 weeks with writs and first time pristines and was ally by the time I hit 70.  That was a whole lot of t-6 and below writs too, especially when I ran out of vitality. Of course it wasnt straight working on my armorer. There was harvesting and some raids/normal adventuring in there too.

[Qandor]

<cite>DominoDev wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Mystfit wrote:</cite><blockquote>Thisitem is from someplace else, too? Cause I've had one forever but I've forgotten where.</blockquote>It's available at ally faction from all tradeskill societies.There's a similar one available from the Qeynos scout (I think) faction but it's a different size.</blockquote>Not to be too picky but isn't it a shame that the best we can do for an ALLY Iron Forge faction reward is resize another factions reward that has been in the game forever?

[Jesdyr]

<cite>Oakum wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cadori Seraphim wrote:</cite><blockquote>This is indeed a nice item <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img mce_tsrc=" />" width="15" height="15" /> One question though, it seems to me that raising faction is a bit too hard to do at this time (tradeskill faction of course). Is this intended? Is it just me?</blockquote>Hmm, not sure. I leveled an armorer up in aboput 3 weeks with writs and first time pristines and was ally by the time I hit 70.  That was a whole lot of t-6 and below writs too, especially when I ran out of vitality. Of course it wasnt straight working on my armorer. There was harvesting and some raids/normal adventuring in there too. </blockquote> My tailor is mostly leveling off of rush orders since lvl 30. She is 42 now with ~9300 faction. Considering the amount of bonus XP you get at high levels, I dont think I will hit 70 before I hit the 40k mark.Getting faction is not hard. It is easy it just takes ALOT of time. (I estimated about 24hrs of TS time to hit 40k on rush orders)

[Prrasha]

<cite>Cadori Seraphim wrote:</cite><blockquote>wow!lol guess its just me <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /> Will continue the grind no matter what they do but I was just curious if it seemed insanely hard to anyone else <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></blockquote>I have both a Factor and a Racketeer in my stable of crafters (40,000 faction each), so I guess I don't think it's insanely hard. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> (And both did 90%+ of their writs after hitting level 70... and the Factor was old enough that he started from negative tradeskill faction, from the days when doing a writ for Faction One gave you a faction hit to Factions Two through Five...)

[Cadori Seraphim]

Well thats a little comforting to know <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> As I have been leveling up my prov with writs as I want to be able to get the nifty items and maybe titles <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Tokam]

<cite>Calthine wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cadori Seraphim wrote:</cite><blockquote>I understand not wanting to make it easy, but it seems insanely hard atm. Perhaps its just me lol</blockquote>Used to be a lot harder <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src=" width="15" height="15" />" width="15" height="15">  At some point they doubled what you earn from writs.</blockquote><p>I like it the way it is, if not harder. Would be nice to see some 60 and 70k items/titles added to the game with RoK too.</p><p>edit: to the above post thats deffo the way to do it matey. I think just grinding writs my alchemist got to 34k faction or so with is plenty to get some cool titles / items <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[greenmantle]

<cite>Jesdyr@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Oakum wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cadori Seraphim wrote:</cite><blockquote>This is indeed a nice item <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img mce_tsrc=" width="15" height="15" />" width="15" height="15" /> One question though, it seems to me that raising faction is a bit too hard to do at this time (tradeskill faction of course). Is this intended? Is it just me?</blockquote>Hmm, not sure. I leveled an armorer up in aboput 3 weeks with writs and first time pristines and was ally by the time I hit 70.  That was a whole lot of t-6 and below writs too, especially when I ran out of vitality. Of course it wasnt straight working on my armorer. There was harvesting and some raids/normal adventuring in there too. </blockquote> My tailor is mostly leveling off of rush orders since lvl 30. She is 42 now with ~9300 faction. Considering the amount of bonus XP you get at high levels, I dont think I will hit 70 before I hit the 40k mark.Getting faction is not hard. It is easy it just takes ALOT of time. (I estimated about 24hrs of TS time to hit 40k on rush orders)</blockquote>40k faction at 150 per writ  = 267 rush orders allowing say 4 writs an hour to give time to chat , eat and pee that gives 66 hours crafting time  if you have to harvest your own ingredients  expect to spend a week ingame to get there at a couple of hours crafting a few nights a week yes that does end up being a long time. Not perhaps hard  but time consuming.

[Mystfit]

Not to disrepect anyone's eating and peeing time, but a rush order writ can take 5-6 minutes each, so I bet you can get more then 4 done an hour.

[Vonotar]

With the TS Writ changes it often makes more sense to grind writs than pristines when levelling.I suspect we will see more people gaining the required faction in future.

[Jesdyr]

<cite>Mystfit wrote:</cite><blockquote>Not to disrepect anyone's eating and peeing time, but a rush order writ can take 5-6 minutes each, so I bet you can get more then 4 done an hour.</blockquote>I estimated ~26-27hrs of pure tradeskill time in my other post figuring an avg of 6 min. My avg is normally close to 5min if I am focused. That is unless the RNG is hating me like it has been.

[Terron]

Not one of my crafters is near 10k faction (including my level 67 jeweler). Grinding in any form is just too boring. It would be nice if there were alternate ways to earn faction, such as TS quests.

[Calthine]

<cite>Terron@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Not one of my crafters is near 10k faction (including my level 67 jeweler). Grinding in any form is just too boring. It would be nice if there were alternate ways to earn faction, such as TS quests.</blockquote>Um, that's what writs are <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> 

[Cadori Seraphim]

<cite>Calthine wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Terron@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Not one of my crafters is near 10k faction (including my level 67 jeweler). Grinding in any form is just too boring. It would be nice if there were alternate ways to earn faction, such as TS quests.</blockquote>Um, that's what writs are <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" />  </blockquote>I think that is what they were talking about grinding? You cant get faction otherwise.. can you? lol

[Terron]

OK tradeskill writs are quests, but they very boring for quests, especially to repeat. There isn't even as much variation as adventuring writs since the scenery and difficulty does not vary. Once you have done one rush order and one work order there isn't any real variety. They are better than the old tradeskill writs, but I didn't do many of those either.

[Calthine]

Well, IMO Adventure Writs aren't that much more exciting, lol.  Less travel time for TS Writs, too.

[Eueadan]

<cite>Calthine wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Terron@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>Not one of my crafters is near 10k faction (including my level 67 jeweler).Grinding in any form is just too boring.It would be nice if there were alternate ways to earn faction, such as TS quests.</blockquote>Um, that's what writs are <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" />  </blockquote><p>QFE</p><p>I absolutely LOVE tradeskill writs.  You run around and harvest some materials, you pick up a quest (writ), and you make three different items.  From that, you get status, faction, and BONUS xp.</p><p>What's not to love about that?  IMO its just as fun, if not more, than any other quest in the game.</p>