chardok faction / new droga

[EZ_kollo27]

does anyone have any information about when the revamp is going live or what they are doing involving the faction? (ie- increasing the faction per kill)

Any information at all would be helpful...haven't been able to find much.

-Kollo, 60 Assassin
-VallonZek

[EZ_sioscan]

mobs hit for 175 to 250
15 to 25k hp



faction doesnt seem to have changed at all
we did 1000 plus kills in 6 days and we were all still dubious.

[EZ_sioscan]

PS : The loot is nice .though .

[EZ_kollo27]

ok...thank you very much sioscan...i gues its back to rush to get my faction up b4 the change.

[EZ_Lias]

What's the other side of the coin like? Is it finally possible to build good factionwith the goblins? I am thinking that there should be Droga quests to balance those in Chardok. I have killed Sarnaks by the thousand and really should be a goblin ally by now. All those Sarnak kills have still left me kOS to goblins... I am just hoping that this will change under the revamp.

Lias Roxx
62 SK
Vallon Zek Edited by: Lias at: 6/26/03 9:04 am

[Maht Stohlit]

ugh...I was really hoping to hold off factioning until I could get exp there, but if they didn't up the faction per mob I guess I better start farming faction.

[EZ_Flacked]

There is a larg camp of goblins in FM that contain many of the old favorates from the original Droga. These mobs still give faction and still drop skins and salts. They are just as easy to kill as before and there are enough of them to keep at least one person busy before they re-pop.

And yes, the drops in the new Droga are pretty darn nice. I have yet to meet a named there, including King Droga, that I could not easily solo as a 65 Necro. Tiny agro raidus, none summon, none see invis, most are dark blue at 65, many named and they seem to pop from their PHs about 1 in 5 times. All in all a very nice upgrade to the zone. Highest mob level I have seen is 61.

[EZ_Ddarr]

I don't see what the justification would be for adding more faction. Be happy you will be able to get exp or AA now while you work on Chardok faction, as well as loot.

Killing around 4K green as grass goblins solo is not fun. I wish I coulda got exp doin' it.

[EZ_Crii]

Is the angry goblin still stashed away deep in Droga after the revamp? If so, it could make that part of the quest a lot harder.

Killing 4k greens really isn't much of a downer for me. A little boring, but eh, what you expect.

However, what made droga/nurg so much of a pain is how much garentee'd dmg you took from these pansy greens, due to HTs and a few other really hard to resist spells/roamers backstab.

With the HTs and occasional backstab, these mobs have crazy dmg frontloading.

It takes me 15sec to kill gobo A. In that time, he does 50dmg melee, if that, but 99.9% of the time gets off a 200+ dmg HT.

Unlike other silly green camps, unless you're a petclass or have hefty lifetaps/regen spells/heals, you will have downtime similar to if you were soloing a much higher green/lblue dungeon.

And that really killed your KPH (kills per hour), which made it seem far more boring and sucky than it should have been.

And those once in a while times when you get a great double backstab, the mob turns to you, HTs you, and then dies from your first round of attacks? Man, gota love that 200ish DPS from a lvl 30s mob.... :P Edited by: Vagabond at: 6/27/03 12:46 pm

[AirvhanTheRogue]

I am ally to chardok from doing the nurga/droga runs and I wasn't slowed down much. Just one thing. Make sure you get finishing blow level 1, and a Mrylokar BP if your a rogue. Thats how I got through it.

[EZ_Drakkon19]

Unless it was fixed recently, when i pulled a HT mob with a dagger they would blow there HT while i was out of range. coulda been a bug at the time.

[EZ_Lias]

Ddarr, I stated the reason for wanting Goblin faction in my original post... quests.

It's all about balance. Chardok vs Droga. The same balance that we see in Katta vs Sanctus Seru or ToV vs Kael.

Lias Roxx
62 Troll SK
Vallon Zek

[EZ_Ddarr]

Lias, my post was not directed at you. I was saying there is no reason to up faction on goblins in Droga just cause they got harder.

I do think it would be nice if there was a goblin series of quests for those people who want to continue to stomp on Sarnaks.

As it is, eventually everyone (well, almost) gets good Chardok faction. Kinda boring to have no alternative route.