JP animal faction for a shaman. Can it be done?

[Calabar]

Before I switched to my shaman as my main, I was happily soloing in JP with my druid and finishing up the evening with baking combines. He’s at 226 baking now and the combination of plant shoots, griffon meat and anaconda meat were great for working on my baking skill. And the xp wasn’t bad either.

Now I’m playing my shaman. He’s a 250 brewer and working on getting most of his other skills to 200. But at some point I’d like to raise his baking to 250 as well. Is there any way for me to raise his animal faction in JP? The merchants like him and the treeants will tolerate him, but the animals can’t stand him for some reason. And no, bear form has no effect on faction, darn it. I’ve seen the poacher camp in the zone, but I’ve never fought them. If I were able to get my shaman to that camp, would killing the poachers change his animal faction? And would I be able to solo there with a 52 shaman with Wal-Mart quality gear?

[Delfontes]

Nope, as much as anyone tells you it is simply not possible to improve the faction with the animals there.

When you kill them it will lower faction with the townsfolk, but they are just annoyingly KOS to any non-druid/ranger basically.

The only thing you can do to hunt there in safety is ask a local druid for shared wolf form... then you wont get any adds at all, and it becomes quite an interesting hunting ground.

[EnfinitiStarr8]

Yes, as a Human I get adds from other Griffs but Wolf form I can fight and kill a Griff i the middle of 10 others and no problems. For me, even when I killed a Panther once I found I was max KOS with animals faction wise but they still /coned ambily to me :?: Must be becaues of the Ranger animal faction mod.

[Lilosh]

Any chance that these are the animals on the QRGProtected Animals faction?

I know of two easy quests for people who can Bind, and arent KoS to Druids.


-Lilosh

[Ravenstorm]

hi all. not sure if this is helpful. theres a name npc in east karana that wonders here and there. he carries a fine steel dagger and think short short or long sword i forget. when i was hunting there for silks and tea leaves (off merchants) i would see this guy and he was threatning to me. so i killed him. got good faction with the folks of jaggerpine and bad factions with the pirates of jaggerpine. he has two factions for jaggerpine not sure if this info will help. he is a rogue class so watch your back.
ravenstorm
stormraven (FV server)

[Delfontes]

That is a JP druid glove quest guy, somewhat annoying because he can't be snared.

Probably didn't drop the quest gloves because you were out of his level range on FV.

Also they aren't on the SFG animal faction, I think the ranger has it right, they are Max kos to everyone, but faction modifiers by class affect their con.

[ChaseFV]

The faction

The animals (wolves, bears, cats) in Jaggedpine Forest are on a faction called CrittersofJaggepine. One kill sends you to KoS. There is no documented way to improve this faction that I have discovered.

[Delfontes]

I don't think it is as simple as 'one kill sends you to max kos', it is more than likely that you start max kos without the need to actually kill them.

The ranger above was still amiable to them, and I'm threatening, not scowling... even though I too have accidentially... well not accidentially but I killed a panther, and got the max kos message.

[Calabar]

Thanks for the responses. I did a search of all the quests in Jaggedpine and I didn’t find any that changed the Critters of Jaggedpine faction. It makes sense since animals wouldn’t be smart enough to appreciate someone killing off the poachers, for example. But it’s a shame because it’s such a nice zone to hunt in if your trying to become a 250 baker. I guess I’ll just have to enjoy it when I play my druid and my ranger.

[Cigarskunk]

While we're on the subject, what's the other spread of factions in JP. Through hunting poachers (and I guess BB gnolls) I'm now at dubious to some but still KOS to others in JP and KOS to all of SFG with my troll SK.

[Raamil]

The Critters of Jaggedpine faction cannot be increased. It is bugged in that it will give you the max-kos message when you kill one even though your are not. You can become kos by killing many of them from what I have read though, just the message is not correct.

[Calabar]

I’m not sure if it’s a complete list, but here are the factions I found listed for Jaggedpine:

Jaggedpine Treefolk
Protectors of Pine
Residents of Jaggedpine

I’ve looked these factions up on Allakhazam and two out of the three seem to have been added to already existing factions.

Jaggedpine Treefolk seems to be part of The Druids of Surefall Glades.
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/qsearch.html?faction=121

Protectors of Pine seems to be part of the Ranger's Guild.
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/qsearch.html?faction=122

Residents of Jaggedpine seems to be the only JP faction that was actually added to the game.
http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/faction.html?faction=291

[Lilosh]

It's funny, I was in Jaggedpine the other day, talking with my friends (The animals) about this.

They laughed about the whole thing, and a good time was had by all.


It was annoying how they kept running off for a moment to kill a stray Wizard, or Dark Elf.


-Lilosh

[Delfontes]

I pity the animals there now... picking a fight with me is no longer in their best interest.

[Aandaie]

Critters of Jaggedpine is not a bugged faction, its a frozen one.

If its frozen you'll always get that message that you can't get anyworse if you get a hit to it, as well as you can't get any better if you get a plus to it. It is the total opposite of a "bug" since, well, you CAN'T

Frozen factions are just somewhat new, they started when they froze beta neutral I think but this is the first one people see in action.

Its only a rumor, but I heard a dark elf necro say that when he raise QRG protected animals to non kos he later checked and the critters of jaggedpine creatures mirrored that con. Was trying to test this with my Dark elf cleric since I was raising surefall factions anyway, but got bored after Jaggedpine treefolk (druids) had been allied and Protectors of the Pine (Rangers) had been dubious, forever and a day. QRG animals still con threaten even with many raises so far.

If there was a mirroring with the con from one faction to another, it would be the first I'ver ever heard of such a thing. So I kind of took it with a grain of salt but the person had no reason to fib and as a dark elf necro in his normal form he'd certainly always be threaten to critters of jaggedpine, at default.