Has anyone ever maxed out reputation with a group?

[Rhalius]

Maybe I am missing something, in my first playthrough I focused mainly on the circle of something, the one who gives magic armour and that guy at the snow dwarf embassy with magic items.
Always went to see them first to deliver what I could, did most quests too, only side quests I didn't do where some at level 10 that didn't offer any worthwhile reward which where like 2 quests.

[Acadiantri]

I maxed rep (living legend) with Antiquarians for the stat books. I kept saying I missed the Tower rep's smiling face to build rep with the Tower to get the recipe for potion of greater healing. Got rep with Arcaneum to the level where I could buy the primed longbow. I got the rep up with the Circle too to buy the sweet plate armor. Towards the last few chapters, you get a lot of encrypted spellbooks that only the Circle wants.

[JimmysTheBestCop]

Think I was brotherhood for everyone. Read after game was finished it's more like a puzzle.

The early game felt like it had way more artifacts then later.

You gotta say certain, pass certain skill checks and then give certain artifacts to certain groups for max relations.

[Default]

If you save all the artifacts until end game, you can effectively dump them on each faction one after the other, loading in between, to get the four achievements for being "Legendary" with them without wasting your time or replaying.

Having done that, I found that only three of them are really worth bothering with, and ended up getting Antiquarians to Legend (for... just all sorts of things), Dannatar to Brotherhood (for Shield + 2), Arcaneum to brotherhood (for most of the primed items, and crafting) and didn't even bother with Tower of Knowledge, beyond giving them artifacts that only they would take (with only one spellcaster, they were just pretty irrelevant).

Some items you can only give to one particular faction, and it's useful to know the levels. If I recall correctly, brotherhood is 50 to 79, and legend is 80+? Don't quote me on those numbers - but something like that.

So you can effectively just do the maths to figure out how to maximise your rep on the factions you want.

[gradualsmith]

I got 100% for the city and the scavengers, but of course that doesn't do very much. For the four loot providing factions I got a couple of Brotherhoods and a couple of Alliances. The only reason I got the Tower Of Knowledge to Alliance was because I wanted to see if you got the Superior Health Potion recipe, but sadly Alliance wasn't good enough for that, so I did waste a couple Tomes on them.

I was a bit disappointed that the Morningstar +2 was reserved for Living Legend at Danatar, even though you could get other +2 items at a lesser rep.

The biggy at the Antiquarians for Living Legend is the Belt of 25 Strength, but weirdly you can get a Cloak of Protection at a much lower rep than the Ring of Protection, even though they're basically the same thing.

The Tomes at the Antiquarians are good for min/max'ing but otherwise quite ignorable given their cost per reward, you can boost most of the important primary stats with cheaper equipment.

I'd say other then achievement hunting, Brotherhood is probably as far as you 'need' for any one faction that has the kind of stuff you're interested in and don't worry too much about the ones that have stuff you don't fancy much.

[Stormfrenzy88]

It's a good idea in theory that you have to choose which factions to level up with but the implementation is just bad. It requires some serious spread-sheeting to figure out what items to give to which factions or your going to miss out on a lot of stuff.

I don't know why people are overrating the tomes so much. They are a lot more expensive than items and often the items give you a bigger boost or are at least equal. Unless you already have 3 good items for every character they don't seem worth it.

[Rhalius]

I never found any tomes in my first playthrough.

I think they could ask a few more chances to increase faction reputation, since the game could also use more skill challenges out of combat, that could be a good combination.

XP we get plenty so no need for stuff added that gives more XP, just more faction reputation. And maybe gold, a little more would not hurt balance.

[Tyler Durden]

Yes, I maxed the elf guy from the green faction (Don't remember the name, sorry!) and was pleased with his loot offerings. Worth it.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by Rhalius:

I never found any tomes in my first playthrough.

I think they could ask a few more chances to increase faction reputation, since the game could also use more skill challenges out of combat, that could be a good combination.

XP we get plenty so no need for stuff added that gives more XP, just more faction reputation. And maybe gold, a little more would not hurt balance.

I didn't either. And I thought I combed through everywhere, everything.

[Cervando]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Originally posted by Rhalius:

I never found any tomes in my first playthrough.

I think they could ask a few more chances to increase faction reputation, since the game could also use more skill challenges out of combat, that could be a good combination.

XP we get plenty so no need for stuff added that gives more XP, just more faction reputation. And maybe gold, a little more would not hurt balance.

I didn't either. And I thought I combed through everywhere, everything.

Apart from the ones available from contacts depending on reputation, there is one you can get at the Dark Castle, depending on whether you kill or persuade the owner. However. the tome is currently bugged and only good for selling.