Traders of The Haven  

If you will registar with the Tradecommisioner and recieve the Amulet of the Haven, be sure to WEAR the Amulet when you sell, buy or do quests in the Shadowhaven.
Also for those that are trying to train here, if you can SNEAK and go BEHIND the trainer, they will train you.

did this with a friend the other day. He did it 3 or 4 times in about an hour; I only did it once. we were both playing rangers, me 33 and him 22. no sow (we didn't sow in bazaar) and no invis, and had no problems at all at any part. He did it by himself a bunch of times. Didn't get aggroed at all in echo or FG.

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I'm a barbarian shammy, and everyone was apprehensive to me. It says this quest takes an hour do do, I did it like 5 times in 45 mins and now some of the traders love me so much they want me to date their daughters.

This was a quick easy quest for me as a 35th rank ranger. Did it in less than 30 minutes and my faction went from apprehensive to amiable. Prior to doing the quest, I couldn't be trained by the ranger trainer.

For people going through the secret entrance from Shadowhaven and into Echo Caverns for the first time, just be aware of the jelly fish looking creatures on the ceiling, walls, and floating in the slimy knee deep water in parts of the cavern beyond the doors. You can not con them but they can attack you if you get close to them!

Good hunting!

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First off, her are the factions in Shadowhaven:

Traders of the Haven: most of the vendors around the lower level on your right as you come from Bazaar excluding the stout area mentioned below. A couple vendors in the Midst and Fordel areas including most who sell luclin-release class spells.

House of Fordel: Most vendors from the Bazaar zone to the Paldal zone and everything on that level including the bank and the cleric/paladin guild. An exception is the Midst area mentioned below.

House of Midst: The int caster and monk area which is reached from a bridge behind the Fordel bank, this includes the Midst bank, and all NPCs from the bridge on excluding a few vendors on Traders faction in this area.

House of Stout: Behind the building with the wis caster guilds is a teleporter to/from Nexus, the soulbinder and the zones to Echo Caverns; The visible Echo Cavern zones is reached by passing through the Stout area which starts at the two short race guards that can be seen from the teleporter. Most everything in the stout area is on stout faction.

Haven Defenders: This is, as far as I've seen, all the guard type NPCs in Shadowhaven except a few short race guards on stout faction. These guards are intermixed in all of the House sections and throught the zone.

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Now how to raise faction, I first tried running Steaon's Deliveries with Hardam's goods which is a slow but effortless way to raise faction. I suggest everyone do Traders of The Haven once, this will get you in good with the traders which is a crucial faction to shop in Shadowhaven. I've done the traders quest with a low 20s character with no sow or invisibility before so it can be done although having either of these will be helpful and knowing the way is good. The two delivery quests appear to give minor faction while the Traders quest doesn't even give faction until you go to Fungus Grove although running it once should get you to amiable with Traders (without having to wear the resulting amulet.)

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For the best methods to raise faction you need invisibility or a higher level (40+?) character to get through some of the zones for these:

House of Fordel/Haven Defenders: With invis you can run Mistala's Report but grab a sow if you can, this gives access to most vendors that Traders missed including food/water. Mistala gives the quest and it can be finished at dubious. Took 9 trips to get from dubious to amiable, thats 18 faction hits since you get ome each way. My sow lasted 8 trips since I gated to Mistala each time so be prepared.

House of Midst: The Pulsating Rock for Midst faction, this is mainly useful to monks and int casters who want all the vendors and trainers in Midst area although monks can sneak and luclin release spells are sold by Traders vendors so this isn't vital to have for anyone, this quest too can be run at dubious. I bound at Palomidiar and ran invis into Paldal to get the lore rocks, then gated back. Of note casting (lesser) evac anywhere in Paldal takes you to the area where these spawn. The rocks ONLY come off Mud Burrowers, there are tons of spawns for these near Shadeweaver's with muck diggers as possible PHs. You can probably find enough rocks to hit amiable and never have to kill a muck digger PH. It took me 12 runs to hit amiable from dubious.

House of Stout: I'm going to guess that Mining Operations gives the big faction for this one though I haven't actually done it, the other way would be to do Hardam's Goods a WHOLE LOT of times (run Steaon too if you do this.) From reading Mining Operations I'm guessing that you could actually skip the Katta run part and do just the Shadowhaven/Paldal parts since the steps can be skipped ie give rations to Daesorak then simply say, 'I can return a letter to your wife.' and run back to Shadowhaven.

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Quests like Hardam's goods and Steaon's Deliveries seem to give negligable faction hits of probably 1 point each while the quests like Mistala's Report or The Pulsating Rock and possibly Mining Operation obviously give a large faction adjustment. The amulet itself gives a minor adjustment to any of the Shadowhaven factions, about equal to one run from one of the big faction adjustment quests, so for an extra run of each of them you can ditch your amulet since it didn't raise me out of dubious until I had already done major faction work.

In summary, do Traders of the Haven once then chuck your amulet and do Mistala's report till she cons amiable and you will have good faction with anything important in SH, Stout is optional for anyone and Midst is only needed for int casters wanting a trainer since every other trainer is either on another faction or for a class who has sneak.

this quest is veary short u start in shadowhaven then u go to the bazzar then back to shadowhaven all u nead is some one who knows the how to get to fungusgrove thier is no real danger with invs. I mean the guy is in the 4th building in the ent to fungusgrove.only about 30 min tops

I completed the quest today in about 10 min, but didnt get the item, though factions were increased.
And i was curious how V had made this item more usefull as mentioned in their patch report :(

First, I have successfully completed this with my wood elf ranger and my halfling druid. Tonight I tried to complete it with my human monk and while I have the necklace, my luclin trainer will not even speak to me STILL. I petitioned and was told that yes the quest is broken, Verant is aware of it, blah blah blah. I then followed that up and asked if this meant as a human monk that I did not have a trainer in luclin, and the guide told me yes, unless I could figure some other way to increase faction.

Nice little gift from Verant. Monthly price increase, charge for Luclin, and human monks don't have a trainer in Luclin. I know, new software always has bugs, but this one doesn't seem like it should be too hard to fix.

Well this raise my faction with the merchants in the liabary so I can buy previously research only items, i am a dark elf mage

This quest isn't broken, and it's an excellent one. Worked great for my ranger last night. I've never been Ally to merchants before. It's going to do a lot for the price economy of my trade skill practice :-)

I won't go on at length because all the info you need about how the faction works is on Nytmare's post (18 December) if you scroll down a bit. Read it before complaining it doesn't work after 4 tries.

Basically, do it several times. The human merchants and trainers in northwest corner (i.e. where the spires are) are the first affected. Took three repetitions of quest to turn them from dubious to warm. The other NPC's are slower, but after 10 tries their faction started moving up from dubious through the ranks too (and the friendlier merchants were Ally by delivery 6). 15 times saw all the NPC's I had any reason to approach (and most of the others) at least amiable to me, and the trade stuff was all available from Ally ones. Good luck!