About killing Ashen Monks for faction..

MisguidedAngel · 12-03-2005, 08:24 AM

Anybody know how many points you get on your faction bar for killing Ashen Monks? Is it a real miniscule amount of points? I'm not at the right level to even consider trying to fight any of those grouped monks, but I was just curious. I'm at the "Proving Grounds" series of quests (I need to complete this same quest roughly 40 freaking times to get Kindly to get it back to the "normal" task-like quests, and the mobs it asks me to kill make the quest, for me, span about 1-2 hours for completion SMILEY

.) I thought maybe there was a way to speed things up a bit.

Vorham · 12-03-2005, 01:03 PM

each monk is a good chunk of faction... after doing all the quests and murdering harpies for exp i was only low ally... so I found groups of 3 or 4 solo monks linked together and would kill them... maybe 20 monks later faction was max ally

Stroicthe · 12-03-2005, 03:23 PM

Hmm, I can't say I've ever seen a solo ashen monk, where abouts do they spawn?

Sanamien · 12-03-2005, 10:05 PM

Get a 58+ conjuror who knows how to play and has Elemental Vestment and go duo the epic monk groups SMILEY

I can solo the lvl 55 16x disciple groups, but I need a partner for higher lvls and/or the 29x mob groups. So maybe a conj and a wiz/warlock/another conj SMILEY

Thail · 12-04-2005, 12:10 AM

I know this haprpies only give 1 point of faction per kill. I will check Monks later tonight.

MisguidedAngel · 12-04-2005, 03:56 AM

Thanks for the info. I'll definitely need to enlist some help to kill the monks, but I'm sure that'll be easier than repeating this quest a million times.. oi. I hear over on the monk boards that they can just assist the harpies in killing disciples, which I guess makes things easier for them. Boooooo! Hissss!

Bladewind · 12-05-2005, 09:11 PM

Harpies only give 1 faction per kill. I pm'd a designer about this to see if it was as intended, and he said he passed it along to the person who is in charge of PoF design. As a monk, I am killing disciples instead of monks, but they give 100 monk faction each as a comparison. I'd guess you would get the same 100 disciple faction from killing monks.

Bladewind · 12-08-2005, 08:34 PM

They adjusted it in yesterday's patch SMILEY

Harpies now give 50 Disciple faction. Disciples now give 50 Order and remove 50 disciple. I'd assume monks do the opposite now, but I do not kill them. You guys have it very easy as you can kill solo harpies to get your faction maxed out rather quickly. I killed a bunch just to be non KOS with Disciples again.

12-03-2005, 08:24 AM	#1
MisguidedAngel Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 52	Anybody know how many points you get on your faction bar for killing Ashen Monks? Is it a real miniscule amount of points? I'm not at the right level to even consider trying to fight any of those grouped monks, but I was just curious. I'm at the "Proving Grounds" series of quests (I need to complete this same quest roughly 40 freaking times to get Kindly to get it back to the "normal" task-like quests, and the mobs it asks me to kill make the quest, for me, span about 1-2 hours for completion .) I thought maybe there was a way to speed things up a bit.

12-03-2005, 03:23 PM	#3
Stroicthe Loremaster Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 47	Hmm, I can't say I've ever seen a solo ashen monk, where abouts do they spawn? __________________ __________________________________________ Your suffering is my insperation. Every tear a song, every scream a symphony. General Syric the Exiled, 80 Dirge of Venekor Officer of Den of Madness

12-03-2005, 10:05 PM	#4
Sanamien Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Denmark Posts: 124	Get a 58+ conjuror who knows how to play and has Elemental Vestment and go duo the epic monk groups I can solo the lvl 55 16x disciple groups, but I need a partner for higher lvls and/or the 29x mob groups. So maybe a conj and a wiz/warlock/another conj __________________ Bellany 71 Swashbuckler

12-04-2005, 12:10 AM	#5
Thail Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 181	I know this haprpies only give 1 point of faction per kill. I will check Monks later tonight. __________________

12-05-2005, 09:11 PM	#7
Bladewind Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 783	Harpies only give 1 faction per kill. I pm'd a designer about this to see if it was as intended, and he said he passed it along to the person who is in charge of PoF design. As a monk, I am killing disciples instead of monks, but they give 100 monk faction each as a comparison. I'd guess you would get the same 100 disciple faction from killing monks. __________________

12-03-2005, 01:03 PM	#2
Vorham Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Freeport Posts: 176	each monk is a good chunk of faction... after doing all the quests and murdering harpies for exp i was only low ally... so I found groups of 3 or 4 solo monks linked together and would kill them... maybe 20 monks later faction was max ally

12-04-2005, 03:56 AM	#6
MisguidedAngel Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 52	Thanks for the info. I'll definitely need to enlist some help to kill the monks, but I'm sure that'll be easier than repeating this quest a million times.. oi. I hear over on the monk boards that they can just assist the harpies in killing disciples, which I guess makes things easier for them. Boooooo! Hissss!

12-08-2005, 08:34 PM	#8
Bladewind Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 783	They adjusted it in yesterday's patch Harpies now give 50 Disciple faction. Disciples now give 50 Order and remove 50 disciple. I'd assume monks do the opposite now, but I do not kill them. You guys have it very easy as you can kill solo harpies to get your faction maxed out rather quickly. I killed a bunch just to be non KOS with Disciples again. __________________